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Promoting Harmony Through Knowledge and Better Understanding
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Program - Monday, March 21st, 2005
March 21st, 2005
8:30 am - 9:00 pm
Kitchener City Hall
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Cross Cultures Magazine & The City of Kitchener and our entire diverse community
join together to commemorate the UN International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination
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| 8:30 am |
Informal Mingling Session |
9:00 am |
Native Elder Prayer |
| 9:10 am |
O'Canada & Opening Remarks - Cross Cultures editor: Gehan Sabry |
| 9:15 am |
Welcome - Mayor Carl Zehr, Mayor of Kitchener
& Dignitaries bringing Greetings |
| 9:30 am |
Dignitaries & Students - Interact, Browse Booths & Mingle |
| 10:00 am |
American Genocide - Aris Babikian,American National Committee of Canada |
| 11:00 am |
Video re: Armenian Genocide Genocides, Wars, Atrocities - St. Mary's High School Students
"There will be more Peace, Fairness and Freedom" - Sunnyside Public School |
| NOON |
Bring Your Own Lunch/ Browse & Mingle
| | Rap Song: "The Reason" - Afshin Jafari, Brandon Norris Lue, Michael Odhiambo |
| | Poem: "The Same Inside" - Afshin Jafari, Brandon Norris-Lue, Michael Odhiambo |
| | Mandippal Jandu - Jacob Hespeler Secondary School |
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| 1:00 pm |
Waterloo Regional Police Services
| | Recruitment - by Kelly Gibson & Sgt. Greg Fiss |
| | Police & Public - by Const. Rob Davis, Community Relations, Waterloo Regional Police |
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| 2:00 pm |
Reverse Job Fair - New Canadian Program |
| 3:00 pm |
Holocaust Survivor Story - Mania Kay |
| 5:00 pm |
Early Canada Days - Judy Greenwood-Speers |
| 5:15 pm |
Zonta's Global Efforts - Joan Westcott |
| 5:30 pm |
| - | Eid Norooz - Baha'is on Racism - Badi Woldemariam |
| - | Flowers of One Garden
- flowers: Shilan Woldemariam, Sama Allah_Karam, Hanan Jaberi, Anna Jaberi, Sanam Rezaei, Sarina Sabet
gardeners: Soran Sabet, Aaron Morgulis |
| - | Short Story: "How easily we can compromise" - Unita Ahdifard |
| - | Poem on Racism - Shilan Woldemeriam |
| - | Songs on Tsunami - Video Presentations |
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| 6:30 pm |
Gender & Sexuality Across the Cultures - Prof. Harriett Lyons & Barbara Pressman |
| 7:30 pm |
Immigrant Women Empowerment - Saadiya Gassim & Fartun Kanyare |
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