The Marquis Project
Organization profile published 1982 (May)
http://www.marquisproject.com/
Year Published: 1982
Resource Type: Organization
Cx Number: CX2542
Abstract:
Connexions has published numerous abstracts on the Marquis Project.
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This abstract was published in Connexions Digest in 1982:
The Marquis Preoject is a non-profit educational organization based in Western Manitoba; its aim is to foster local understanding of world development issues. Among the global issues with which it has dealt are food, energy, human rights,economic development, foreign aid, militarism, media coverage, the struggles of indigenous peoples and women, and the nature of the links between Third World peoples and Canadians.
As part of its educational activities on Central and South America, the group has helped sponsor talks by members of the Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Latin America and the Caribbean, and has co-hosted the visit of a priest who spent 19 years in Nicaragua. The group has recently produced an information/action sheet on human rights and Latin America that includes bibliographic materials for loan or sale.
The Marquis Project group will be offering an opportunity for interested individuals to participate in a group visit to the Centre for Inter-Cultural Dialogue on Development (CCIDD) in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in December 1982. Sessions at CCIDD will combine presentations from leaders of peasant and labour organizations, academics, liberation theologians, exiles from Latin America, and others, with tours of various settlements and projects. The Marquis Project will provide orientation beforehand and a follow-up.
For further details, contact the Project at the above address.
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This abstract was published in Connexions Digest in 1982:
THE MARQUIS PROJECT was established in 1979 by people active in the Brandon Interchurch Committee for World Development Education who desired an ongoing, year-round vehicle for educational programming. The Project's philosophy is implied by its name. Marquis wheat was developed in Canada from wheat helped to establish the Canadian Prairies as a source of food for people around the world. The Marquis Project explores such links between Western Manitoba and the Third World.
Through Assiniboine Community College and Brandon University, MARQUIS offers a series of non-credit evening courses. It has recently established a series of evening courses at the high school in Killarney, Manitoba. The "Marquis Report", a weekly cable TV programme is in its second season and the group has produced two half-hour slide-tape programmes with accompanying study guides on"The Global Marketplace- third world trade and development and goods we buy" and "The Story of Famine - a comparison of past responses to famine with food aid today." Latin America is an important focus for MARQUIS. It has organized a study tour to Cuernavaca, Mexico (Centre for Intercultural Dialogue and has conduced a Central America Informaiton Project).
Membership in the MARQUIS PROJECT are available at $3 for individuals (supporting memberships at $10 or more) and $25 for institutions.
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This abstract was published in Connexions Digest in 1988:
The Marquis Project was listed with an incorrect address in the Spring issue of Connexions (SC 3196). The correct address is above.
