[IPSM] IPSM joins qPIRG's 2005 REVOLUTIONARY FEBRUARY FILM FEST!!!

[Devin Butler Burke]

(Join IPSM on Wednesday March 2, 7 pm for MINING, LAND & INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES' RESISTANCE ACROSS THE GLOBE...more info below)


!!  qPIRG's REVOLUTIONARY FEBRUARY FILM FEST is BACK!!

Get out of the cold...and into a warm room...sit back, CHILLAX and get 
ready for some *!REVOLUTIONARY FILMS!* throughout the frigid month 
February.  All films are being show at McGill University's downtown 
campus.  If you need more information or directions to get to the films 
give us a call at 398.7432.

Film co-presentations by CKUT, trans/gender alliance, The Alfie
Roberts' Institute, the Black Students' Network, Alcan't in India, 
Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement and Mexico-Montreal...

ALL ARE WELCOME....for more info check out ssmu.mcgill.ca/qpirg.


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Wednesday February 2, 7 pm**
@ Cultural Studies Building, 3475 Peel St.

:::SOUTHERN COMFORT:::
A feature-length documentary about the life of Robert Eads, a
52-year-old female to male transsexual who lives in the back hills of 
Georgia. He was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, then turned away by more 
than two dozen doctors who feared that taking on a transgendered
patient might harm their practice. SOUTHERN COMFORT follows the final 
year of Robert Eads' life. Presented by the trans/gender alliance  working
group.


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Tuesday February 8, 7 pm**
@ Leacock Building Room 26, 855 Sherbrooke St. W.

:::THE CONTROL ROOM:::
A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international
perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al-Jazeera, the Arab world's  most
popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and  Pentagon
officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly  condemned for
frequently airing civilian casualties as well as footage  of American
POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the  world)
everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did  not want
it to see.  Presented in collaboration with the Community News  Collective
at CKUT Radio in Montreal.


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Tuesday February 15, 7 pm**
@ Leacock Building Room 26, 855 Sherbrooke St. W.

:::LIFE & DEBT:::
Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of 
individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of 
day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign 
economic agendas.  At present Jamaica owes over $4.5 billion to the 
International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) yet the meaningful development 
that these loans have "promised" has yet to manifest. Life & Debt aims  to
clarify the impact that these economic policies have on the
day-to-day lives of the people they are said to benefit.  Presented by 
The Alfie Roberts Institute of Montreal in celebration of Black History 
Month 2005.


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Wednesday February 16, 7 pm**
@ Cultural Studies Building, 3475 Peel St.

:::THE HURRICANE:::
Based on a true story about Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, the film follows 
Hurricane’s tragically unjust persecution and incarceration and his  rise
out of prison through the help of a black boy and his white
friends and mentors.  Presented in collaboration with the Black
Students' Network at McGill in celebration of Black History Month 2005.


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Wednesday March 2, 7 pm**
@ McConnell Building, Room 204, 3480 University St.

:::MINING, LAND & INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' RESISTANCE ACROSS THE GLOBE::: An
evening of grassroots films and reflection on the effects of mining  and
"development" projects on Indigenous communities in Canada, Mexico  and
India.  Presented by QPIRG working groups Mexico-Montreal, Alcan't  In
India and the Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement.





QPIRG-McGill
3647 University Ave., 3rd floor
Montreal, Quebec
Tel: 514.398.7432
Fax:514.398.8976
Email: qpirg at ssmu.mcgill.ca