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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 / 9
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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 / 11
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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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03 / 20
Start: 14:00
End: 16:00
We are excited to organize the launch of You Don't Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James edited by David Austin.
The event will take place in the auditorium, Main Library (120 Metcalfe) on Saturday, March 20 at 2:00 p.m.
No admission, wheelchair accessible.
Revolution is a serious business, and C.L.R. James knew more than most. Our brand-new collection presents eight never-before-published lectures by the celebrated Marxist cultural critic, delivered during his stay in Montreal in 1967 and 1968. Ranging in topic from Marx and Lenin to Shakespeare and Rousseau to Caribbean history and the Haitian Revolution, these lectures demonstrate the staggering breadth and clarity of James' knowledge and interest.
Strikingly little information exists today about the period of time James spent working with West Indian intellectuals and students in Canada in the late 1960s, but the research of editor David Austin demonstrates the critical role these encounters played in the development of James' more mature critical theory. Readers just beginning to delve into James work will find this collection accessible and engaging, an ideal introduction to a complex and multi-faceted body of scholarship. Also included are two seminal interviews produced with James during his stay in Canada, selected correspondence from the time period, and an appendix of essays on James' work, which includes the seminal Marty Glaberman essay, "C.L.R. James: The Man and His Work.".
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03 / 22
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
Carleton Cinema Politica presents... H2OIL
When: Monday, March 22 at 7:00 PM
Where: Azrieli Theatre (AT) 301
Cost: Admission by Donation
Info/Trailer: www.cinemapolitica.org/carleton
Synopsis:
Ever wonder where American gets most of its oil? If you thought it was Saudi Arabia or Iraq you are wrong. America’s biggest oil supplier has quickly become Canada’s oil sands. Located under Alberta’s pristine boreal forests, the process of oil sands extraction uses up to 4 barrels of fresh water to produce only one barrel of crude oil.
It goes without saying that water — its depletion, exploitation, privatization and contamination — has become the most important issue to face humanity in this century. At the same time, the war for oil is well underway across the globe. A struggle is increasingly being fought between water and oil, not only over them.
Alberta’s oil sands are at the centre of this tension. As the province rushes towards a large-scale extraction, the social, ecological and human impacts are hitting a crisis point. In only a few short years the continent will be a crisscross of pipelines, reaching from the arctic all the way to the southern US, leaving toxic water basins the size of Lake Ontario, and surface-mines as large as Florida.
H2Oil follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against tar sands expansion.
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03 / 23
Start: 17:30
End: 19:00
Join the Polaris Institute as they launch Canada's first Tar Sands video game - TarNation!
@ D'arcy McGee's (44 Spark St)
March 23rd 2010
5:30 - 7 pm
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00
We are thrilled to host the launch of The Global Fight for Climate Justice Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction edited by Ian Angus.
The event takes place at the store, on Tuesday March 23 at 7 pm.
No admission fee, wheelchair accessible.
As capitalism continues with business as usual, climate change is fast expanding the gap between rich and poor, and between and within nations, as well imposing unparalleled suffering on those least able to protect themselves. In The Global Fight for Climate Justice, anti-capitalist activists from five continents offer radical answers to the most important questions of our time: Why is capitalism destroying the conditions that make life on Earth possible? How can we stop the destruction before it is too late? In essays on topics ranging from the food crisis and carbon trading to perspectives from Indigenous peoples, the authors make a compelling case that saving the world from climate catastrophe will require much more than tinkering with technology or taxes. Only radical social change can prevent irreversible damage to the earth and civilization.
Ian Angus is one of the world’s best-known ecosocialist activists. He edits the online journal Climate and Capitalism (http://climateandcapitalism.com/?page_id=264), which has been described as “the most reliable single source of information and strategic insights for climate justice.” Ian is also an editor of Socialist Voice, director of ReadingfromtheLeft.com and a founding member of the Ecosocialist International Network.
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03 / 25
Start: 09:00
End: 11:00
MPs Paul Dewar (NDP) and John Mckay (Liberal) to address Mining in Africa
Join a distinguished panel of politicians and prminent voices from civil society to disucss the matter of Corporate Social Responsibility in the cotnext of the extactive industry in sub-Saharan Africa.
Addtional Panelists Include:
- Eric Shiller, a retired UofO prof and water engineer that has been to Africa forty times with various projects and now is heavily engqaged in humaan rights inititatives in eastern Demovcratic Repuiblic of Congo.
- Jamie Keen of Mining Watch Canada
@ Carleton University
Thursday, March 25
9:00 - 11:00 am
Southam Hall 624
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30
Public Meeting about the park.
Meet with City staff.
@ Glebe Community Center (175 Third Avenue)
Email: save.sylvia.holden.park@gmail.com
Blog: savesylviaholdenpark.blogspot.com
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03 / 26
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03 / 27
Start: 13:00
End: 15:00
PUBLIC RALLY AGAINST SECRET TRIALS IN CANADA
ABOLISH SECURITY CERTIFICATES
The weekend before the closing arguments, and with months expected to pass before a crucial decision on the reasonableness of Mohamed Harkat’s Security Certificate is forthcoming, the Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee will hold an important last public rally Saturday as follows:
Date: Saturday, March 27th, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM
Place: Human Rights Monument (Elgin at Lisgar)
Line-up of speakers:
- Sophie Harkat, wife of Mohamed Harkat
- Paul Dewar, MP, Ottawa Centre
- Imam Khan
- Denis Lemelin, President, CUPW (Canadian Union of Postal Workers)
- Ihsaan Gardee, Executive Director, CAIR-CAN
(Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations)
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Start: 19:00
- Learn about the different prenatal care options abailable to you, inlcuding midwives, doulas, family physicians and obstetricians.
- Learn about the range of support services available to Ottawa families, from prenatal services to school age.
- Be empowered to stay informed, and in charge of your birth experience.
- Learn how to access breastfeedeing support BEFORE you deliever.
$10 Donation Fee
All proceeds going to Mothercraft Birthing Companion Program
@ Arbour Environmental Shoppe
800 Bank St @ Third Ave.
613-567-3168
March 30th, 2010
7 - 9 pm
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