Peace and Environment News

Burmese students call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese leader currently held under house arrest by the Burmese military government. The rally on July 19 was organized by the Canadian Friends of Burma to mark the fifth anniversary of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest. Photo: Morgan Duchesney.

• Coalition Report
  Article by Darrell Rankin
• Hello Volunteer!
  Gaela Pink by Estelle Taylor
• New From Octopus
  Becoming an Ally Reviewed by Mike Kaulbars
• Compost Corner
  Back to School with Composting by Marion King
• 5 R's Update (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair, Reject)
  Article by Sharon Boddy
• Coalition Seeks Regional Ban on Pesticides Use by Judy Spence
• Region Approves Plan for Greener, More Liveable Downtown by Robert Smythe
• New PERC Project Stresses "Power of the Pen"
• Ottawa Input Needed in Algonquin Park Plan
• Agricultural Biodiversity Subject of Talk
• Letter from Haiti: The Flame is Getting Hotter by Kathy Kelly and Lena Seigers
• Brower to Speak on Sustainability
• Friends of PERC Library
• Campaigning to Ban Landmines by Celina Tuttle
• Re*Store Sponsors Design Competition
• Inventory of Nuclear Waste in Canada to be Ready Soon by Jillian Skeet

Participants in PERC's Summer Leadership Camp enjoy a field trip to Mud Lake.

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This month's feature: Environment and Health

• Activist's Notebook
  Finding Our Real Power by Mike Kaulbars
• The Organic Gardener
  The Organic Garden Harvest by Ann Cleary
• Pesticides and Human Health: Some Answers by Ken Toews
• Alternatives for Your Lawn
• Breast Cancer and the Chlorine Connection by Mei-Lin Stichbury
• Risk Assessment: Is It Really Safe? by Marti Mussell
• Air Quality in Our Schools: How to Advocate for Change by Elizabeth Stutt and Leslirae Rotor
• Nuclear Radiation and Human Health: Corrupting the Gene Pool by Jillian Skeet
• Chronology of an Arrest: June 14, 1994 by Alan Dixon
• The Threat of Justice by Alan Dixon
• Brazilian Natives Threaten Mass Suicide
• Further reading on lawn care:
  How to Get Your Lawn and Garden Off Drugs C. Rubin, (1989).
• Supplementary articles unpublished in the hard copy of this PEN issue:
  • BST Update by Ann Cleary
  • Interview with Evelyne St.Onge member of the Coalition for Nitassinan
  • Canada's Legal System vs. the Coalition For Nitassinan

Thanks
As the PEN comes back from the summer break, we would like to express our thanks to the Friends of the Environment Foundation (Canada Trust) for their generous support over the past year.

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