[IPSM] QPIRG-C: Your campus-community link for grassroots social change (updates and news)

[Jaggi Singh]

From: QPIRG Concordia <qpirgsprouts at gmail.com>

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Updates and news from QPIRG-Concordia: your campus-community link for
grassroots social change; organizing for social and ecological justice

Included below:
1) Tonite: IN THIS WORLD (free film showing)
2) Workshop on Investigative Research on the Web (January 31)
3) New Arrivals in the QPIRG-C Resource Library
4) Study in Action: Callout to undergrads and community groups
5) Community-University Research Exchange (CURE)
6) Anxiety Zine#2: Ste-Emilie Skillshare Callout
7) Solidarity Across Borders Community Dinner (February 13)
8) Upcoming Films: Subversive Cinema Series
9) QPIRG-Concordia Working Groups
10) Staying in touch


-> For up-to-date info from QPIRG-C, get on our announcements list! Just
e-mail qpirgsprouts at gmail.com and ask to be subscribed.

-> Also, check us out on facebook; just search for QPIRG-Concordia and add
us as a friend! Our profile is here:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=868450091&ref=ts


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TONITE: 7pm in H-110 of the Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest, metro
Guy-Concordia)

KEEPING IT REEL!
QPIRG-Concordia's Subversive Cinema Series

1st feature film: IN THIS WORLD
by Michael Winterbottom
(director of "The Road to Guantanamo" and the upcoming "The Shock Doctrine")

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 7pm
1455 de Maisonneuve West, H-110
(metro Guy-Concordia)

-> facebook announcement:
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=45441750913&ref=mf>
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=45441750913&ref=mf
-> web announcement:
http://www.qpirgconcordia.org/Article70.phtml

(join us for this special film!)

IN THIS WORLD follows the hazardous journey of two Afghan boys as they
travel from Pakistan through Iran, Turkey, Italy, France and the UK in
search of refuge in London. A moving and dramatic story that reveals the
desperate measures people take to escape persecution and the
life-threatening conditions they find themselves in along the way. (2003; 88
minutes; subtitles in English).

The feature film will be preceded by a short film about local migrant
justice struggles in Montreal, and followed by a discussion period involving
local migrant justice groups.

Welcome to all. FREE. Wheelchair accessible.


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Investigative research on the web
Skills for activists and independent media

Deep-digging research can be highly useful for both activists and
independent media. Tap into the skills and tools that investigative
journalists, private eyes and hackers put to use for doing in-depth internet
research. We will cover how to master the art of crafting a good search,
getting valuable information to come to you, and accessing hidden
information that Google can't find, through both the deep-web and internet
forensics. This workshop is jammed packed from edge to edge, even an expert
researcher will learn a lot!

Presented by the INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER
2035 St-Laurent 2nd floor
514.843.2018
www.cmi-imc.info
Bring some food to share and bring your slippers

The Independent Media Center (IMC) is a working group of QPIRG-Concordia.


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QPIRG Resource Library (New Arrivals, January 2009)

"Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex"; "A 
Patch of Eden: America's Inner-City Gardeners"; "Orgasms of History: 3000 
Years of Spontaneous Insurrection"; "A Girl Among the Anarchists"; 
"Primed: The Back Pocket Guide for Transmen & the Men Who Dig Them"; and 
more.

-> Read about these and more new arrivals here:
http://qpirgconcordia.org/Article71.phtml

The QPIRG-Concordia Resource Library is part of Alternative Libraries, with
QPIRG-McGill, the 2110 Center for Gender Advocacy, the Union for Gender
Empowerment, and soon, the DIRA Anarchist Library. Alternative Libraries has
an online searchable database; check it out:
http://alternativelibraries.org/


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STUDY IN ACTION
A student-led conference linking campuses with community activism (March
11-15, 2009)

Study in Action is a yearly conference organized by the Quebec Public
Interest Research Group at Concordia (QPIRG-Concordia). The conference's
purpose is to offer a space for dialogue and cross-pollination where
undergraduate students as well as community organizers and frontline
activists can present their organizing, work and research related to social
and ecological justice.

-> Call for submissions and more info:
http://www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction/


NOTE: We are seeking submissions from both undergraduate students (from any
college or university) AND community groups. Submissions deadline is
February 13, 2009.


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COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH EXCHANGE

The Community-University Research Exchange (CURE) was created out of the
desire to channel the resources and privilege of the University into local
efforts working towards social change. CURE consists of an online database
of research requests submitted by community and activist groups. CURE
operates on the principle that the University is an institution that
maintains systems of privilege and oppression around race, class, and
neocolonialism. By redirecting University resources to groups and
individuals in need of theory, information, and the energy to supply them,
CURE encourages students to acknowledge their institutional advantage, and
convert it into a useful tool for political action. We hope that by allowing
students both to engage in anti-oppressive academic research, and to work
with local movements for social change, CURE will begin to make rubble of
the walls that enclose academic privilege. CURE is a joint project with
QPIRG-McGill.

-> For more information: www.qpirgconcordia.org/cure


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ANXIETY ZINE #2

A message from the Ste-Emilie Skillshare (a working group of
QPIRG-Concordia):

"dear friends -- we're back, and anxious as ever! this is the
long-time-coming call-out for anxiety zine number two!!! we had a lot of fun
making the last zine and we got overwhelmingly nice feedback from lots of
anxious heroes, so we wanna keep sharing our struggles and supporting each
other with stories, comics, drawings, poems, photos, articles -- however you
want to express it. ..."

-> Read more here: http://qpirgconcordia.org/Article72.phtml


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SOLIDARITY ACROSS BORDERS COMMUNITY DINNER

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13

Dinner is served at 6pm (sharp!)

Dance party follows at 9pm.

At the Maison d'amitié, 120 Duluth East

(east of St-Laurent, west of St-Denis, north of Pine, south of Rachel; near
Sherbrooke or St-Laurent metros; if you need a ride to the dinner, please
get in touch by phone: 514-848-7583!)


-> Bring your kids! Kids activities planned on-site.

-> FREE!

-> Welcome to all friends, allies and supporters of Solidarity Across
Borders & migrant justice struggles in Montreal.

-> Our community dinner will include a menu of tasty foods (both meat and
vegetarian) prepared by members and supporters of Solidarity Across Borders.
Don't hesitate to bring food to share.

-> Presentations include "A Short History of Solidarity Across Borders
(2003-2008)" & "Solidarity City"

info: http://www.solidarityacrossborders.org
Solidarity Across Borders is a working group of QPIRG-Concordia.


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Upcoming films in KEEPING IT REEL: QPIRG Concordia's Subversive Cinema
Series:

-> February 12: FLOW: For the Love of Water (2008 award-winning documentary)

-> March 18: P4W: Prison for Women (NFB classic film);
followed by special guest speaker Anne Hansen (former inmate at the Kingston
Prison for Women)

-> April 15: AMERICAN OUTRAGE (2008 award-winning film about indigenous
sovereignty)

All showings at 1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest, H-110 at 7pm.
Feature films are preceded by a short film.


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QPIRG WORKING GROUPS

The heart of QPIRG is our close to 20 working groups who are groups of
volunteers who organize around specific issues, projects, or campaigns.

Our working groups include: the Autonomous Social Center, Block the Empire,
Certain Days Political Prisoner Calendar Committee, the Committee to Support
Kader Belaouni, Common Front, Haiti Action Montreal, Independent Media
Center, Montreal Childcare Network, Montreal Sound Team, Open Door Books,
People's Global Action Indigenous Solidarity Committee, Prisoner
Correspondence Project, Project X, Q-Team, Re-Con, Solidarity Across
Borders, Ste-Emilie Skillshare, Tadamon, & Tapthirst. Solidarity groups
include: Ethnoculture, Kanehsatake Garden, LCP Focus Group, Montreal
Anarchist Bookfair and Right to Move.

-> Learn all about our working groups here:
http://qpirgconcordia.org/Sections-article5-p1.phtml


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TO STAY IN TOUCH

-> Get on our announcements list! Just e-mail qpirgsprouts at gmail.com and ask
to be subscribed.

-> Also, check us out on facebook; just search for QPIRG-Concordia and add
us as a friend! Our profile is here:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=868450091&ref=ts

E-mail: info at qpirgconcordia.org
Tel: 514-848-7585
Office Hours: Monday to Thursdays: 1-6pm
Location: 1500 de Maisonneuve West, #204 (metro Guy-Concordia)
our space is wheelchair accessible and scent-free
Web: www.qpirgconcordia.org


QPIRG-Concordia: your campus-community link for grassroots social change;
organizing for social and ecological justice.