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Our Next Event!
October 20th
Organ Harvesting in China
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The
Slaughter:
Mass
Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its
Dissident Problem
How should Canada
respond?
Monday, October
20, 2014, 7:00 PM
Library & Archives Canada, Main Auditorium, 395 Wellington,
Ottawa
Admission: $10 ($5 for students)
Tickets available at the door
The
Slaughter, a new book
by veteran China analyst Ethan Gutmann,investigates the
Chinese state's secret program to eliminate dissidents-Falun Gong,
Tibetans, and Uyghurs-while profiting from the sale of their organs.
Based on interviews with top-ranking police officials and doctors who
have killed prisoners on the operating table, Gutmann has
produced an insider's account that critics have characterized
as "gripping, horrifying, infuriating-and utterly
compelling."
Panel Discussion
and Q&A:
An expert panel
will discuss the latest findings on the live organ harvesting of
prisoners of conscience. Why would the Chinese leadership
risk perpetuating such a barbaric perversion of its medical system?
What is the scale of the atrocity? How does harvesting connect with the
current political struggles in the upper echelons of China? Can basic
medical ethics be restored-not only in China, but also throughout an
increasingly compromised international medical system?
Mr. Ethan Gutmann will
reveal key findings from his new book, The Slaughter.
Dr. Damon Noto will
present research by Doctors against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) and
the response from the global medical community.
Matthew Robertson will
speak on how China's recent leadership purges relate to organ
harvesting and the political context in which it takes place.
David Matas will
propose Canadian and international legal, political, and medical ethics
responses to forced organ harvesting in China.
Moderator: Rabbi Dr. Reuven P. Bulka, C.M., Rabbi of Congregation Machzikei Hadas, chairs
Trillium Gift of Life Network and is a board member of
Canadian Blood Services, two agencies deeply involved in organ and
tissue donation.
A short film, Killed
for Organs: China's Secret State Transplant Business, will be shown
before the panel discussion.
A reception and
book signing by Ethan Gutmann will take place following the panel
discussion.
Guest Speakers:
Ethan Gutmann is an
award-winning China analyst and human rights investigator.
A contributor to top media publications such as the Wall
Street Journal Asia and Investor's Business Daily, he has provided
briefings to the U.S. Congress, the CIA, the EU, the
U.N., and parliaments across the world. Formerly a foreign policy
analyst at the Brookings Institution, Gutmann has appeared on CNN, PBS,
CNBC, and BBC. He is the author of Losing the New China.
http://ethan-gutmann.com/
Dr. Damon Noto is a spokesperson for
DAFOH, a non-profit organization founded by medical doctors. Working
with doctors around the world, DAFOH does research on
and monitors the unethical organ procurement situation
globally, with a special focus on the transplant abuse in China, and informs
society and medical communities. Noto testified before
the U.S. Congress in September 2012 on unethical organ harvesting
practices in China. http://www.dafoh.org/
Matthew Robertson reports
on China for Epoch Times, a newspaper that has received awards in
both Canada and the U.S. for its China news coverage.
The Chinese edition is popular for its in-depth and uncensored
reporting on Chinese political events, particularly the recent
leadership transition, during which traffic surged to 6 million hits a
day. In 2013, Robertson received the Society of Professional
Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence in
Journalism. He is fluent in Chinese.
David
Matas is
an international human rights lawyer, an Order of Canada recipient, and
senior legal counsel for Amnesty International in Canada. He also co-authored Bloody
Harvest:
the Killing of Falun Gong for their Organs and State Organs: Transplant
Abuse. Along with David Kilgour, Matas was a Nobel Peace Prize
nominee for his work combating forced organ harvesting in China. Matas has
received many awards in Canada and other countries for his work in law
and human rights.http://organharvestinvestigation.net/
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Body and Soul: The
State of the Jewish Nation
Canadian
Premiere - November 2, 2014, 7 PM
Library & Archives, Main Auditorium
395 Wellington, Ottawa
Admission:
$20 ($10 for students)
Tickets
available at the door. Tickets will also be available at Compact
Music (206 Bank, 785 Bank) on Thursday.
You can also buy
tickets online for the Ottawa showing here.
Toronto
Premiere - November 12, 2014, 7:30 PM
Odeon
Cineplex Empress Walk Theatre, 5095 Yonge St., North York
Sponsored by the Speakers Action Group and the Free
Thinking Film Society.
Body and Soul - The State of the Jewish Nation presents a comprehensive examination of the broad
and deep connections between the Jewish People and the Land of
Israel. World-renowned historians, archaeologists, political
scientists, religious leaders, and international law and media
experts trace the evocative evolution of the relationship between
the Jewish People and their homeland that is over 3,000 years
old.
"Jewish identity is born in a journey to the
Land of Israel", declares Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks of the
United Kingdom. That journey moves through the First and Second
Temple periods and the Middle Ages, then to modernity, where the
development of political Zionism catalyzed the blossoming of a
new Jewish spirit. That renewal of Jewish spirit resulted in the
rebirth of Jewish sovereignty in the Land, an event that Harvard
University Professor Ruth Wisse declares "a miracle of truly
Biblical proportions."
This powerful documentary, produced and directed by
award-winning Gloria Z. Greenfield, conveys eloquent messages of
determination, focus, and calls to action.
Film maker Gloria Greenfield
will be in attendance to answer questions.
Reception after the film, and Q&A with Gloria.
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Trailer - Body and Soul - The State of the Jewish
Nation
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Featured Commentators (In order of appearance):
Ruth Wisse, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Robert Wistrich, Israel
Finkelstein, Aren Maeir, Isaiah Gafni, Israel Bartal, James
Snyder, Shalom Paul, Victor Davis Hanson, Rabbi Jeffrey Woolf,
Rabbi Elie Abadie, Shmuel Trigano, Yoram Hazony, Einat Wilf,
Anita Shapira, Yossi Klein Halevi, Rev. DeeDee Coleman, Rick
Richman, Hillel Halkin, Benny Morris, Jonathan Sarna, Jeffrey
Herf, Mark Kramer, Emanuel Ottolenghi, Alan Baker, Eugene
Kontorovich, Irwin Cotler. Alan Dershowitz, Yisrael Medad, Itamar
Marcus, Manfred Gerstenfeld, Luba Mayekiso, Shimon Samuels, Yosef
Kuperwasser, Bret Stephens
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