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
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
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