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Democracy and the Commons (lecture w. Dario Azzellini)

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DEMOCRACY AND THE COMMONS: How communities around the world are taking control of their work, their neighbourhoods and their lives. https://www.facebook.com/events/1194771910546091/ A Free public talk by Dario Azzellini: Scholar, author, film-maker, political activist and assistant professor, Johannes Kepler University, Austria. (http://www.azzellini.net/) (co)Author of: * THEY CAN’T REPRESENT US: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (w….

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Screening: Gulabi Gang

Screening: Gulabi Gang Dir. Nishtha Jain, 2012, 96m March 21, 6:30pm – Paul O’Regan Hall Enter the badlands of Bundelkhand in central India and you have entered a place of desolation, dust and despair. And yet it is hope that we discover as we follow the pink sari-clad women of Gulabi Gang. These women travel…

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Austerity and After: Learning from Greece, pt.1

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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…

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Screening: Cultures of Resistance

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The Radical Imagination Project is delighted to be once again partnering withCinema Politica and the Central Branch of the Halifax Public Library to curate a series of provocative documentary films to Halifax from September to December 2015. These films focus on key contemporary issues and will be followed by moderated discussions. All films are free and…

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Screening: This Changes Everything

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Special event: A collaboration between The Radical Imagination Project, the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group and the Ecology Action Centre. Monday, December 14, 6:30pm – Central Branch Library, Room 301 Cultures of Resistance (2015) Directed by Avi Lewis and produced in conjunction with Lewis’ partner Naomi Klein’s bestselling book of the same name, This Changes Everything…

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Election Night Special Screening: Riots Reframed

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The Radical Imagination Project is delighted to be once again partnering withCinema Politica and the Central Branch of the Halifax Public Library to curate a series of provocative documentary films to Halifax from September to December 2015. These films focus on key contemporary issues and will be followed by moderated discussions. All films are free and…

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Canada in Africa book launch

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Join the Radical Imagination Project and the International Development Studies department at SMU for the launch of Yves Engler’s newest book Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation.

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