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Carleton Cinema Politica presents:
BURMA VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
WHEN: Wednesday, November 11 at 7:00 PM WHERE: 180 Unicentre - Carleton Campus COST: Admission by Donation INFO/TRAILER: www.cinemapolitica.org/carleton Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country. Armed with small handycams the Burma VJs stop at nothing to make their reportages from the streets of Rangoon. Their material is smuggled out of the country and broadcast back into Burma via satellite and offered as free usage for international media. The whole world has witnessed single event clips made by the VJs, but for the very first time, their individual images have been carefully put together and at once, they tell a much bigger story. The film offers a unique insight into high-risk journalism and dissidence in a police state, while at the same time providing a thorough documentation of the historical and dramatic days of September 2007, when the Buddhist monks started marching. | ||
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11 / 16
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What: Launch of What is Stephen Harper Reading? by Yann Martel When: Monday November 16, 7-9 pm, doors open at 6.30pm. Where: Patrick Gordon Framing, 160 Elm St (Elm St/City Centre Drive, via Albert). patrickgordonframing.ca In March 2007, Yann Martel had had enough. He was frustrated with continuous art funding cuts by Stephen Harper's government and he decided to do something. For an author a natural reaction was to trust the old saying "the pen is mightier than the sword"; and Martel started to send books to the prime minister. Since then, every two weeks Martel has been mailing a carefully chosen book, accompanied with a letter, to Stephen Harper. Two and half years later, Martel has mailed 65 books and received five answers, and Stephen Harper sings a song at the NAC. Maybe his performance was a result of Martel’s adamancy; maybe Harper has realized that art matters. Or maybe he is only after votes. In any case, one Beatles song doesn't change the fact that art funding has been cut and the future of Canadian art is endangered. To keep the art going, please join us for an evening of Canadian art: launch of Martel’s new book What Is Stephen Harper Reading? is accompanied with 29 pieces of art, with a theme Message to the Government, by 29 local artists. The MC of the evening is Peter Honeywell, the Executive Director of the Council for the Arts in Ottawa. | ||
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11 / 21
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The 6th annual Child Friendly City Day in Ottawa will be celebrated at the Centennial Flame, Parliament Hill at 1:00p.m. Saturday, November 21, 2009; and then at Library and Archives Canada
The event will be hosted by Children for One Another. CONTACT: Every Child is Sacred & Children for One Another: junegirvan@rogers.com
Child Friendly City Day in Ottawa 2009, marks the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (ratified by the General Assembly on November 20, 1989) and Canada's 16th national Child Day (Canada Child Day Act - Assented to May 6, 1993). Canada's Child Day, November 20, is the result of a private Members Bill put by Senator Mac Harb.
Child Friendly City Day in Ottawa 2009 will be a historic day in the life of the children of our city. We officially embark on the journey toward Ottawa as a UNICEF Child Friendly City. Mayor Larry O'Brien will commit to serving in friendship as the “Children’s Mayor”, championing the principles of UNICEF’S Child Friendly Cities initiative for children living throughout the City of Ottawa. Mr. Nigel Fisher, CEO and President of UNICEF will be in Ottawa to witness the Mayor's signature.
For Child Friendly City Day in Ottawa, on Saturday, Mr. Irwin Elman, Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth has accepted the Children's invitation to be in Ottawa to walk with them.
Please come. Please support the children. | ||
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11 / 24
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Amnesty International's Ottawa Gender Rights Network:
16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence
Launch Event
Tuesday, November 24th, 7:00pm
Amnesty International Office - 312 Laurier Avenue East
Join Amnesty International’s newly formed Ottawa Gender Rights Network as we launch the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence, which runs from November 25 (International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women) to December 10 (Human Rights Day) 2009. Find out how you can get involved in taking a stand against gender violence throughout the 16 Days and beyond!
This is an evening that will help us all to get connected and support one another’s work in ending gender violence. Organizations holding events throughout the 16 Days of Gender Violence will be invited to announce their events during the evening. We will also provide a table for organizations to display their event flyers.
Light refreshments provided.
For further information or if you have any questions, please contact: Denise Glasbeek, dglasbeek@amnesty.ca, 613-744-7667, ext. 249. | ||
11 / 25
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The OPIRG Carleton Fall Colloquium presents
TWO SPIRIT AND QUEER LIBERATION MOVEMENTS From Radical Revolt to Freedom Fighting Justice With presentations by: Jessica Yee, Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network Gary Kinsman, co-author of "The Canadian War on Queers" Ashley Fortier, Q-Team Zaheen, Agitate! Ottawa Wednesday Nov 25th 7-9 pm Montgomery Legion Hall, 330 Kent Street near Somerset Ave (wheelchair accessible) Suggested donation $5-10, no one turned away Advance tickets available at OPIRG Carleton (326 UniCentre), OPIRG-GRIPO (631 King Edward Ave, 3rd floor) Venus Envy Ottawa (320 Lisgar St), and Octopus Books (116 Third Ave) Endorsed by the CUSA GLBTQ Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity, the CUSA Womyn's Centre, the CUSA Aboriginal Service Centre, the Carleton Centre for Aboriginal Culture and Education, Agitate! Ottawa, Queer fAction, Q-Team, the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, PTS LBTTQ Women's Health and Sexuality Program, Students Against Israeli Apartheid-Carleton, After Stonewall, Venus Envy Ottawa, and Octopus Books. Brought to you by OPIRG Carleton . . . research, education and action on social and environmental justice issues, since 1980. For more info, contact opirg@carleton.ca or 613 520 2757. On facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173859452283&ref=nf Start: 19:00
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Carleton Cinema Politica presents: THE GARDEN
When: Wednesday, November 25 at 7:00 PM Where: 210 Tory Building (TB) - Carleton Campus Cost: Admission by Donation Info/Trailer: www.cinemapolitica.org/carleton The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis. The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants from Latin America, from countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand answers. | ||
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Malalai Joya in Ottawa
Thursday November 26 Centretown United Church (507 Bank St) 7pm $10, $5 for students and unwaged. Advance tickets are on sale at Octopus Books. More information: Ottawa Peace Assembly http://ottawapeace.blogspot.com/ and ottawa.peace.assembly@gmail.com. Canadian Peace Alliance http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/ReinstateMalalai.htm Afghan MP Malalai Joya, who the BBC called the bravest woman in Afghanistan, will speak to audiences across Canada from November 14 to 28th. Join us to hear from this remarkable woman who speaks out against the violence and corruption brought on by decades of war and foreign occupation. Start: 19:30
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National Farmers Union and the Working Group on Canadian Science and Technology Policy presents
Beyond Hunger and Profit: Grassroots Solutions to the Global Food Crisis
Thursday November 26, 7:30 – 9:30 pm Travelodge Ottawa Hotel & Conference Centre (Centennial Ballroom) 1376 Carling Ave. Ottawa, (from downtown, take Bus 14 or 85) The food system is at a crossroads. What food future will we choose? Hear from farmers, farm movement leaders, and global thinkers from Canada and the global South. Featuring: Pat Mooney, ETC Group, Canada Luisa Gomez, farmer and community leader, Honduras Sarojeni Regnam, People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty Asia, Malaysia Nettie Wiebe, National Farmers Union, Canada (Chair) Free admission. Presented jointly by the National Farmers Union (as part of the NFU’s 40th Annual National Convention) and the Working Group on Canadian Science and Technology Policy. For more information, visit opens in a new browser window www.nfu.ca or opens in a new browser window www.nfuontario.ca Or contact Terry Pugh, NFU Executive-Secretary (306) 652-9465 or pugh@nfu.ca Or Sarah Mohan (613) 234-6827 (Extension 230) or smohan@usc-canada.org | ||
11 / 27
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In the countdown to the Copenhagen negotiations, international pressure is building to discourage further expansion of Canada’s tar sands, and....
H2Oil premieres in Ottawa!
When: Friday November 27 - Monday November 30, 2009 @ 7pm
Where: Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street (just south of the Glebe)
Canada has become the biggest oil supplier to the United States, is impeding international efforts to recognize the urgency of the global climate crisis and is ripping apart pristine forests on unceded Indigenous territory. With the controversial developments of the Athabasca tar sands, multinational corporations are moving into Alberta to extract crude oil from the tarry bitumen sands using a process so toxic it has become an international cause for concern. Four barrels of glacier-fed spring water are used to process each barrel of oil, then are dumped, laden with carcinogens, into leaky tailings ponds so huge they can be seen from space. Downstream, the people of Fort Chipewyan are already paying the price for what will be one of the largest industrial projects in history. When a local doctor raises the alarm about clusters of rare cancers, evidence mounts for industry and government cover-ups. In a time when wars are fought over oil and a crisis looms over access to clean fresh water, which resource is more precious? And what price are we willing to pay? | ||
11 / 28
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Octopus Books is thrilled to host an evening of fabulous female fiction with Elise Moser and Zoe Whittall, and to celebrate their new novels "Because I Have Loved and Hidden It" and "Holding Still For As Long As Possible".
The event takes place on Saturday November 28 at 7.00 pm at the store, 116 Third Ave. Elise Moser is the author of the novel "Because I Have Loved and Hidden It". Her short stories "Malke's Baby" and "Advanced Pilates Tickle Trunk” have won the CBC/QWF Short Story Competition in 2004 and 2006 respectively. After many years working as a buyer at Paragraphe Bookstore in Montreal, Elise is now familiar to many stores across the country as a sales rep with Lexa Publishers' Representatives. She is also the Literary Editor of The Rover, an electronic independent review of arts and culture. Zoe Whittall is the author of two novels – “Holding Still For As Long As Possible”, and “Bottle Rocket Hearts”, named one of top 100 books of 2007 in the Globe and Mail and top 15 books in Quill & Quire magazine. She won emerging author of the year in Now Magazine, and the Dayne Ogilvie Award for Best Emerging Gay Writer in Canada. Her poetry books include The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life (McG, 01) and The Emily Valentine Poems (Snare, 06) and Precordial Thump (Exile, 08). Start: 20:30
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WRC: FEMINIST OPEN MIC NIGHT!
On Saturday Nov 28th the Women’s Resource Center will be hosting an Open Mic night at the Café Nostalgica. This event will be open to everyone, but only folks who identify as feminist will be open to perform.
This event is leading up to Worlds AIDS Day, on December 1 and is to raise awareness and money for HIV/AIDS programs locally and abroad. The money raised will go to our Stephen Lewis Foundation Dare, to raise money for grassroots HIV/AIDS programs in Africa, and for Aids Committee of Ottawa, for local sex-positive, harm-reduction HIV/AIDS programs in Ottawa.
The fun part is: if the Women’s Resource Centre raises over $500 the 4 coordinators; Amanda, Amy, Emilie and Nicole will sing at the Open Mike Night, song to be determined.
We are asking for a suggested donation of $2 at the door.
Sign-up for the Open Mic will start at 7:30 pm, when doors open, and the show will start at 8:30 pm.
If you are interested in getting involved please email Amy or Amanda at wrc@sfuo.ca , call us at (613) 562-5755, or come visit us between 10-5 on weekdays in room 220 in the UCU.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
The event on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=180176678035&ref=ts | ||
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12 / 1
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The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network Expert Lecture Series presents:
Unsafe Genetically Modified Corn? Canada's lack of assessment for Monsanto's "SmartStax" GM corn
Tuesday, December 1st 7:00 – 9:00 PM Saint Paul University Amphitheatre, Ottawa 223 Main Street (side door off parking lot) Suggested Donation $10. Everyone Welcome. Wheelchair Accessible. For more information: Lucy Sharratt 613 241 2267 ext. 6 or eamil info@cban.ca, www.cban.ca/corn Come and hear what the experts have to say about the problems with Canada's regulation of GM foods. Featuring preeminent scientists: Dr. Michael Hansen, Consumers Union, US Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher, Federation of German Scientists with Dr. Peter Andree, Carleton University, on Canadian regulation Moderator: Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network * There is stark disagreement on how to assess the safety of Monsanto’s new eight-trait GM corn called "SmartStax”. * Health Canada did not assess “SmartStax” corn for human health safety because it does not classify “SmartStax” as a “Novel Food” - this is because they have already approved the eight GM traits individually in separate crops. * Does Health Canada need to assess the safety of this stacked trait GM food? Is Health Canada contradicting the UN international Codex food safety guideline? | ||
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What: Launch of "Of Hockey and Hijab" by Sheema Khan & Panel discussion with Sheema Khan, Kerry Pither, Farhat Rehman and Keith Neuman When: Monday December 7 at 6 pm Where: Auditorium, Main Library, 120 Metcalfe Octopus Books is excited to organize the launch of Sheema Khan’s Of Hockey and Hijab on Monday, December 7. Of Hockey and Hijab is a collection of Sheema Khan's Globe & Mail columns. She gives her own pointed insights on the condition of being a modern and liberal, yet practising Muslim, especially in Canada. Tackling a host of issues, such as terrorism, human rights, Islamic law, women’s rights, and the meaning of hijab, she explains Islam to the greater public while calling for mutual understanding and tolerance. Her essays will be used as a spring board when discussing women’s rights, integration and cultural understanding, and finding the balance between security and civil rights. Other panelists are: * Kerry Pither on security/civil rights. Kerry is human rights advocate and the author of the Dark Days - The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in The Name of Fighting Terror. * Farhat Rehman on women's rights. She is a longtime community grassroots activist who has worked extensively with women, and she's also been active within Canadian Council of Muslim Women, Ottawa Chapter since 1990. * Keith Neuman from Environics Research Group on integration/multiculturalism. A link to one of the research that has been conducted by them: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/02/12/muslim-poll.html | ||
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Carleton Cinema Politica presents:
THE SARI SOLDIERS
When: Wednesday, December 9 at 7:00 PM Where: Loeb C264 - Carleton Campus Cost: Admission by Donation Info/Trailer: www.cinemapolitica.org/carleton Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in Nepal’s modern history, The Sari Soldiers is an extraordinary story of six women’s courageous efforts to shape Nepal’s future in the midst of an escalating civil war against Maoist insurgents, and the King’s crackdown on civil liberties. When Devi, mother of a 15-year-old girl, witnesses her niece being tortured and murdered by the Royal Nepal Army, she speaks publicly about the atrocity. The army abducts her daughter in retaliation, and Devi embarks on a three-year struggle to uncover her daughter’s fate and see justice done. The Sari Soldiers follows her and five other brave women: Maoist Commander Kranti; Royal Nepal Army Officer Rajani; Krishna, a monarchist from a rural community who leads a rebellion against the Maoists; Mandira, a human rights lawyer; and Ram Kumari, a young student activist shaping the protests to reclaim democracy. The Sari Soldiers delves into the extraordinary journey of these women on opposing sides of the conflict and the democratic revolution reshaping their country’s future. | ||
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