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QPIRG Upcoming Events
Nov. 12 - 21

For more information call QPIRG at 848-7585

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Thursday Nov. 12

-Speaker: Return to Sender: Reporting the Middle East
Robert Fisk (Middle East Correspondent, The Independent (London),
Recipient of 1998 Amnesty International UK Press Award) will be speaking
about arms manufacturers and the Middle East.  7pm @ McGill University,
Stewart Biology Bldg., 1205 Dr. Penfield, Room s1/4.  Admission is free.
Donations at the door.

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Sunday Nov. 15

-Workshop: Tools for Change - Music & Revolution
Calling all poets, singers/songwriters, writers, musicians, dancers,
actors, artists, composers, radical riff raff, creative anarchists and
general malcontents who love music and want to know more.  How can we use
music as a tool for radical social change, and have a good time doing it,
too?  What's the connection?  Is this a new thing?  Slaves did it before.
Who plays those dissident chords of freedom, sings or raps the songs of
protest today?  Can you dance to this stuff?  Will the neighbors complain?
Can anybody do it? Will your Mom like it?  Is it cool, too?  Come to a
workshop and find out. Learn about the history, the practitioners, the way
music can help shape our world into a better place and how you can plug
in, tune up and belt it out.

Bring your ideas, your creativity, your ears and voices, your musical
instruments (un-plugged), sheet music, songs, poems, note-paper and pens,
tape recorders, etc. A hands-on workshop.

Norman Nawrocki is a Montral-based author/actor/anarchist, and the
vocalist/violinist for the 'rebel news orchestra' RHYTHM ACTIVISM (RA),
the 'weddings & divorces' band THE FLAMING PEROGIES, and the violin duo
VOLTAGE VIOLINZ. As an activist-performer, Norman has given thousands of
shows and appeared in demonstrations, on stages, radio & TV, across North
America & Europe since 1986.

To register call QPIRG at 848-7585

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Monday Nov. 16

-Event: Amnesty International Letter Writing Campaign
Amnesty International at Concordia University is having its first ever
Letter Writing Campaign.  The event will take place on the 2nd floor of
the Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve west, November 16th, from 9:30 am
to 5:00 pm.  Come by and sign petitions on specific cases, like Mumia
Abu-Jamal and Stanley Faulder (who is scheduled to be executed on
International Human Rights Day).  We will also be providing information on
Amnesty Int'l in general, and on our upcoming campaign on human rights
violations in the United States.  Other groups that will have tables at
the event will be A Just Coffee and The Anti-Colonial Working Group, both
from QPIRG Concordia.

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Wednesday Nov. 18

-Workshop: Santropol Roulant: Living with Loss of Autonomy
You are invited to a workshop on the reality of living with a loss of
autonomy, to be given by Lucie Desgroseilliers, a community worker from
CLSC NDG/Montreal West.  Come and find out about the daily difficulties
our clients face, the way in which the healthcare system functions to help
those living with loss of autonomy, how meals on wheels services such as
Santropol Roulant play an important role, and what services are offered in
the city for those living with a loss of autonomy.

To be held at 7pm at the Cooper Building (3981 St. Laurent, 5th floor).
Please call Bronwen or Genevieve at  282-0245 if you would like to attend.

-Meeting: Work In Progress Street Circus Organizing Meeting
All those interested in using street theatre as a form of creative
intervention on social and political issues, come attend!  7:30 pm @ 2130
Mackay

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Thursday Nov. 19

-Video: Tools for Change - Beyond McWorld
>From teach-ins to sit-ins, students and youth are working with others to
target and expose the corporate players behind government cutbacks and the
private take-over of our public institutions and social programs.  Based
on the Global Teach-In held in Toronto in November 1997, the video Beyond
McWorld portrays the growing momentum of the global resistance of citizens
in confronting global capitalism.

Writer and activist Jaggi Singh of the APEC Hearings will talk about his
experiences organizing to resist globalization.  Jaggi was actively
involved in organizing the resistance to APEC in Vancouver last fall, and
was arrested the day before the leader's summit for his efforts.  As well,
he was involved in the Operation Salami campaign against the MAI in
Montreal last May.

1455 de Maisonneuve W. Room 507 @ 8:30pm.  Suggested donation 2 to 5$

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Saturday Nov. 21

-Film and Workshop: Students Against Sweatshops
Students at universities across Canada and the United States are asking
questions about the conditions under which our clothes are made, and what
role our schools play in supporting the use of sweatshop labor in the
garment industry.  The Maquila Solidarity Network will present a workshop
and film on sweatshops and the garment industry in Canada and abroad,
followed by a discussion.  1395 Rene-Levesque West, room 114 @ 7pm.
Organized by Indigenous Peoples International in collaboration with
Amnesty International Concordia and CKUT.  Info: 848-7443


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