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Screening: The Wanted 18
The Radical Imagination Project and partners are pleased to host a screening of The Wanted 18 on January 13, 6pm at the Central Public Library, followed by a discussion with director Paul Cowan and guests. Through animation, interviews and reenactments, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel." In response to the…
Find out more »Screening: Occupy, Resist, Produce
Join us for a screening and discussion of two films about grassroots factory occupations in Italy and Greece, where workers are reclaiming their workplaces and reimagining politics and solidarity from the shop floor in defiance of austerity.
Find out more »Fundraising workshop (Trade for Change)
All left wing and radical organizations need money and in this seminar you will learn about how to get money, how to fundraise and how to grow money for your cause.
Find out more »Austerity and After: Learning from Greece, pt.1
The first of a two-part report-back on austerity and grassroots movements in Greece by Larry Haiven and Max Haiven, who recently visited the country to meet with organizers and activists developing the solidarity economy. This first session provides background, context and analysis of the current state of affairs, including an introduction to the nation's recent history and the European context, the birth and monstrous life of "the crisis," the recent cycles of social movements, the rise (and fall?) of the left-wing…
Find out more »Grassroots Struggles for a New Economy: Learning from Greece, pt.2
The second of a two-part report-back on austerity and grassroots movements in Greece by Larry Haiven and Max Haiven, who recently visited the country to meet with organizers and activists developing the solidarity economy. This presentation explores a number of grassroots movements that are seeking to reinvent economic and social life in Greece. From factory occupations to social centres to solidarity clinics to local economic networks to refugee solidarity initiatives, Greece is not only a laboratory of austerity, it is also…
Find out more »Screening: Sí, Se Puede: Seven Days at PAH Barcelona
‘SÍ SE PUEDE. Seven days at PAH Barcelona' is a daily account of Barcelona‘s Platform of People Affected by Mortgage in what could be a week of its tireless activity. Departing from the concrete and the everyday, the documentary tries to explain the complexity and diversity of a movement that has spread throughout the state and has been a real challenge for civil society to government policies and financial institutions after the economic and human disaster which marked the bursting…
Find out more »(Workshop) Beyond Trigger Warnings: Trauma, Healing and Social Justice
The Trade for Change workshop series is a collaboartion between The Radical Imagination Project and Trade School Halifax aimed at offering a venue for activists and organizers to share critical skills and knowledge for radical social transformation. This workshop responds to mounting pressure for 'trigger-warnings' in classrooms, community groups, workplaces and during cultural events. In many ways, trigger warnings can help to validate and draw attention to the complexities of life after traumatic experience. However, un-critical use of the practice…
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