DEBT TRAP (2008, Dir. David Adkin, Canada, 35’) examines why the average Canadian is sinking deeper in hock, by looking at the stories of several individuals and families who are struggling with debt. Sobering, ironic, and enlightening, the film probes the reasons why more and more of us are struggling to keep afloat, and what…
From mortgages to payday loans to student debt to moral obligations, how does debt shape our lives and our society? And how can we overcome it? Join us for provocative films, followed by moderated discussion. A collaboration between The Radical Imagination Project and the Cinema Politica Network and the Halifax Public Libraries. More information: http://radicalimagination.org/debt-our-common-problem/ Check out…
THE PROMISE OF THE COMMONS, THE INJUSTICE OF DEBT, TODAY’S GLOBAL UPRISINGS Silvia Federici is a world-renowned feminist scholar, writer and activist. A veteran of the international Wages For Housework campaign and anti-nuclear struggles, she is author of Caliban and the Witch: Women the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Autonomedia 2005) and Revolution at Point Zero:…
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012 – 6:30pm Auditorium (HA19) of the Dalhousie Architecture School 5410 Spring Garden Road, Halifax Free and open to the public Co-sponsored by: Solidarity Halifax (http://solidarityhalifax.ca/) The Halifax Media Co-Op (http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/) It’s been one year since Occupy Wall Street (OWS) dramatically shifted the conversation about wealth, inequality, capitalism and the fate of…
