LOCAL EVENTS-WINNIPEG:

JUSTIN PODUR ON CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY AND THE ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN CONFLICT:

Coming soon at our local infoshop, the Mondragon,... Z-Net editor Justin Podur will speak on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and Canadian foreign policy towards it. Here's the ad.

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Justin Podur: Israel-Palestine and Canadian Foreign Policy:

It Takes the Whole World to Starve a People
Event Info
Host:
Canada Palestine Support Network (Winnipeg)
Time and Place
Date:
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Time:
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Location:
Mondragon Bookstore & Coffee House
91 Albert Street
City/Town:
Winnipeg, MB

Description
"It Takes the Whole World to Starve a People:

Israel-Palestine and Canadian Foreign Policy"

Justin Podur is a writer and editor for ZNet (www.zmag.org ), part of Z Communications, an alternative media organization dedicated to political analysis and support for movements for social change. He has reported from Pakistan, India, Haiti, Venezuela, Columbia, Argentina, Brazil, Israel-Palestine, and Mexico, and writes on North America as well. He has written for Z Magazine, Frontline (India), New Politics, New Left Review, rabble.ca, and other publications, and is part of the Pueblos en Camino collective (www.en-camino.org ). He runs a blog (www.killingtrain.com ) and is based in Toronto.

Event organized by Mondragon, and sponsored by CKUW 95.9 FM, the Uniter, CanPalNet-Winnipeg, U of W Political Studies Department, and U of M Labour Studies Program.

Suggested donation: $5.00

All proceeds to CKUW FunDrive 2009, celebrating 10 years of community radio in downtown Winnipeg.

Justin Podur will also be doing an afternoon talk on Thursday, Feb. 12th at 1:30pm at the U of Manitoba (307 Tier Building) entitled "Economic Crisis, Economic Alternatives, and Political Strategy."

On Thursday evening (Feb. 12) at the Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre (3rd floor, 91 Albert), Justin will be doing another talk on "Real Utopias: Imagining a Better World While the SH** is Hitting the Fan." This evening talk will start at 7:30 pm.

For further info:

Mondragon: http://www.mondragon.ca

Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre: http://www.rocker.cc

See Justin Podur's Blog at: http://www.killingtrain.com