January 26th to February 1st

Thursday, January 26th

Siafu Launch Party To celebrate the release of Montreal’s newest critical news magazine. Hosted by Ana Key and featuring guest DJs and drink specials. At the Green Room, 5386 boul. St-Laurent. Starts at 9pm or after the hockey game. For more: www.siafu.ca

Friday, January 27th

Fetish School Part of the monthly Fetish4Play series. Presented by attitudes.cc and Productions FS.

10pm, Inferno, 1592 St-Catherine East, $10 in advance (at Northbound, 1323 St-Catherine East)

Monday, January 30th

CinemaPolitica presents Wal-Town Short and Czech Dream

Wal-Town Short: This ten minute short is a selection of clips from the upcoming film entitled WAL-TOWN by Sergeo Kirby, to be released in the summer of 2006 by the NFB. The film follows a group of activists from Montreal as they make their way across Canada, visiting small communities with Wal-Marts to protest the US company's business practices from Human Rights violations domestically and abroad to the detrimental effect the big box has on small communities from coast to coast.

Czech Dream: This film documents the largest consumer hoax the Czech Republic has ever seen. Filip Remunda and Vit Klusak, two of Eastern Europe's most promising young documentary filmmakers, set out to explore the psychological and manipulative powers of consumerism by creating an ad campaign for something that didn't exist. For more, click here.

7:30pm, Concordia University, 1455 deMaisonneuve West, room H-110 For more: www.cinemapolitica.org

Tuesday, January 31st

Lil'Buck will be performing (for the first time) selections from their latest untitled, unfinanced and unreleased "new" CD.......(and, of course........beer will be served). Barfly, 4062A St-Laurent.

January 19th to 25th

Saturday, January 21st

Hadley with Soma at El Salon (4388 St-Laurent)

Circle K Media Collective presents KrazyFest - a video/film/music thingy featuring Code Pie, Lake of Stew, Eric Hanson and The People's Anti-Tourist Army and TeLeFauna. At The Pound (1377 Richmond), 8pm sharp, $6. www.circlekproductions.com for more.

Little Birdie and The Jimmy Riggers at Grumpy's (1242 Bishop)

Monday, January 25th

8am to 8pm - Election day - VOTE !!!

Cinema Politica presents Culture Jam: Hijacking Commercial Culture

This film by Jill Sharpe follows three outlandish jammers: media tigress Carly Stasko, Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping, and Jack Napier with the Billboard Liberation Front and asks: Is Culture Jamming civil disobedience? Senseless vandalism? The only form of self-defense left? For more, please visit: www.culturejamthefilm.com

7:30pm, Concordia University (1455 deMaisonneuve West), room H-110

überculture and UniteTheRight.ca Election Night Party

Join us to discover which of Corporate Canada's darlings will take Parliament, and just how many corrupt cabinet ministers will get the boot by disgruntled Montrealers.

As election results pour in on the big screen, we'll all be on hand to boo and jeer (and perhaps the occasional cheer) while savouring cheap pints of überbrü, our Hemp Amber Ale.

UniteTheRight.ca will be blogging live on the floor, and rumour has it that Paul Martin himself might dare show his face for the corporate fiends in the crowd. There will also be an Seat Projection Pool, with prizes to be won for those who excel in punditry, stats, or dumb luck.

The fun starts at 9pm at the Bishop Street Pub (1222 Bishop St.) The event is free of charge, and all are welcome. For more info email info@uberculture.org or call 514.655.6837.

Tuesday, January 24th

The Slaters and Little Birdie at the Green Room (5386 St-Laurent), 9:30pm

January 12th to 18th

Thursday, January 12th

PROTESTS, POETRY & PROJECTIONS....With a Performance from David Rovics & Film Screenings

Join us for a night of music, films & discussion on political art and alternative media movements organized by CKUT's Community News Collective and the uberculture Collective. With a performance from well-know U.S. folk singer DAVID ROVICS, who's music is known throughout the world by those who love the art of using song to voice political and social dissent.

This event will feature a presentation from Kasim Tirmizey of CKUT's Community News Collective, who recently returned from a trip to Argentina and will report on grassroots social movements in Buenos Aires and the massive demonstrations in November against the Free Trade Area of the Americas [FTAA].

Also this event will include the projection of two independent films from Argentina, 'FOR A 6 HOUR WORKDAY' that examines the grassroots labour organizing of transit workers in Argentina, which in 2003 lead to a victory for a six-hour workday and 'Zanon - Constructing Resistance', a film which focuses on the organizing of workers at Latin America's largest ceramics plant which has lead to the workers collective control over the factory.

Doors, 7:30pm - Donation $5-7. Cafe Esperanza, 5490 St.Laurent, corner of St. Viateur

Sunday, January 15th

The Vote Your Heart NDP Fundraiser featuring Mission District, Hexes & Ohs and Dead Messenger. With Didier Boutin, Alexis O’Hara and NDP representatives Léo-Paul Lauzon and François Grégoire.

La Sala Rossa, 4848 St-Laurent, 8 p.m., $10

Monday, January 16th

Cinema Politica presents… Let them Stay and Operation: Dreamland

"Let Them Stay" features exclusive one-on-one interviews with U.S. war resisters in Canada, documenting their life-changing experiences in Iraq and the hidden realities of U.S. military recruitment and warfare.

It also documents the War Resisters Support Campaign, a pan-Canadian coalition of labour, faith and peace groups, Vietnam war resisters, and individuals who are working with these war resisters to put pressure on the current federal government to let them stay. For more on the campaing, please visit www.resisters.ca

Occupation: Dreamland is an unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraq city of Falluja during the winter of 2004.

A collective study of the soldiers unfolds as they patrol an environment of low-intensity conflict creeping steadily towards catastrophe. Through the squads activities Occupation: Dreamland provides a vital glimpse into the last days of Falluja. The film documents the citys waning stability before a final series of military assaults began in the spring of 2004 that effectively destroyed it.

Filmmakers Garrett Scott and Ian Olds were given access to all operations of the Army’s 82nd Airborne. They lived with the unit 24/7, giving voice to soldiers held under a strict code of authority as they cope with an ambiguous, often lethal environment. The result is a revealing, sometimes surprising look at Army life, operations and the complexity of American war in the 21st century. For more: www.occupationdreamland.com

January 5th to 11th

Monday, January 9th

$4 billion cut - enough is enough! Rally for a Reinvestment!

Over the past 20 years, the federal government has cut annual funding for higher education by $4 billion, from an historical high of $8 billion. These cuts, most of which were carried out since the mid-nineties, has led to a funding crisis for universities and colleges/CEGEPS across Canada.

The federal government has seen record surpluses over the past few years; there is more than enough money to reinvest in education and ensure there is a dedicated federal transfer of $8 billion for education every year.

The federal party leaders will be in Montreal for the next televised leadership debate. Come out and make sure they hear our voices and recognize that education funding is a priority in Canada!

7:30pm Maison Radio-Canada, 1400 Rene-Levesque East Corner Panet (near Beaudry Metro)

To find out more about the issues, visit: http://www.studentvoter.ca This rally is an inititative of the Coalition of Student Voters. For moreinformation call 514-931-2377 or e-mail studentvoter@education-action.net