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02 / 26
Start: 18:30
End: 21:00
Children for One Another, in the spirit of the Golden Rule and in friendship with children of Haiti, is presenting Colours of Hope for the Children of Haiti, a fund raising concert by children of Ottawa.
The concert will feature First Nations hoop dancing and many, many more performances by young people.
Please help us to have a full house at Library and Archives Canada, on February 26, 2010 at 6.30 pm. Tickets $15 adult, $8 student, $35 family (2 adults + 2kids)
Bring your family. Bring friends. Bring love. We promise you an evening of enjoyment.
For further information please contact: Children for One Another - Weikai Chen, chen.w.93@gmail.com or June Girvan, junegirvan@rogers.com | ||
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03 / 8
Start: 16:00
Jaggi Singh is a social justice no borders, Migrant and Indigenous solidarity organizer and Grassroots thinker based in Montreal. He is currently active with NO ONE IS ILLEGAL-Montreal, Solidarity Across Borders and is the Action Groups Coordinator at QPIRG-Concordia.
A Public Lecture by Jaggi Singh at 5050 Minto Centre
Contact: marsal@connect.carleton.ca | ||
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03 / 10
Start: 19:00
Octopus Books is thrilled to organize the launch of Harvest Pilgrims: Mexican and Caribbean Migrant Farm Workers in Canada by award-winning photographer and social activist Vincenzo Pietropaolo.
The launch will take place on Wednesday, March 10, in the auditorium of the Main Library (120 Metcalfe) at 7 pm.
As usual, there is no admission fee. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Pietropaolo has been photographing migrant agriculture workers and recording their stories since 1984. He has travelled to forty locations throughout Ontario and visited the workers’ homes in Mexico, Jamaica, and Montserrat.
Pietropaolo has borne witness to these “harvest pilgrims”: the tens of thousands of migrant workers who arrive in the spring and leave in the fall. They are the backbone of the agricultural industry in Canada and, yet, continue to be denied many of the basic workplace rights that protect other workers in Canada.
Vincenzo Pietropaolo is an award-winning photographer whose work has been widely published in Canada and abroad. An Italian-Canadian, he and his family immigrated to Canada in 1959. | ||
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03 / 12
Start: 17:00
End: 19:00
National Filmboard or Canada, Cinema Politica and McGill-QUeen's University Press cordially invites you to join Thomas Waughn, Michael Baker and Ezra Winton for the launch of Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada
Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada, published by McGill-Queen's University Press, is a 600-page volume of essays and articles edited by Cinema Politica founder and programmer Ezra Winton, along with Thomas Waugh and Michael Brendan Baker. Three years in the making, this collection brings together for the first time historical and contemporary literature and research on one of the National Film Board of Canada's most (in)famous initiatives to date.
Friday, March 12, 5 - 7 PM
Reader's Digest Resource Library, 346 St. Patrick's Building, Carleton University For more information: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/challenge-for-change | ||
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03 / 15
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Fair Trade Carleton and Carleton Cinema Politica present... BLACK GOLD
When: Monday, March 15 at 7:00 PM Where: Unicentre (UC) 378 Cost: Admission by Donation Info/Trailer: www.cinemapolitica.org/carleton Synopsis: Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields. Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price. Against the backdrop of Tadesse's journey to London and Seattle, the enormous power of the multinational players that dominate the world's coffee trade becomes apparent. New York commodity traders, the international coffee exchanges, and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal the many challenges Tadesse faces in his quest for a long term solution for his farmers. | ||
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03 / 18
Start: 19:00
We are excited to host the launch of Revolutionary Traveller, by John S. Saul at the store on Thursday, March 18 at 7 pm.
No admission fee, wheelchair accessible.
In Revolutionary Traveller, John S. Saul draws on a series of his own occasional articles written over a span of forty years which, together with a linking narrative, serve to trace not only his own career as an anti-apartheid and liberation support movement activist in both Canada and southern Africa but also help recount the history of the various struggles in both venues in which he has been directly involved. He thus shapes a unique memoir, capped by some longer summary pieces on the global processes of empire and decolonization that he has witnessed and on the reading, listening, playing and family pleasures that have enlivened his life’s passage. | ||
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