CULTURE & DISSENT: June 2010

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

CONFÉRENCE | PUBLIC LECTURE by Carlos Perez - What is Che?

CONFÉRENCE | PUBLIC LECTURE

The School of Political Studies, Territorio Libre and the Salvadorian Canadian Association of Ottawa

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Conference and Discussion

What is Che?

Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Demarais Hall (DMS), room 1110

55 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa

Invited speaker: Carlos Perez, Poet / Activist

This public lecture will be presented in English. Translation to French will be available. A short documentary may be presented to facilitate the discussion.
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June 14, 2010 marked the 82th birth anniversary of one of the most controversial figures in contemporary history, Ernesto Guevara, better known as Che. His image has become ubiquitous, but the true meaning behind the icon remains unknown to most. To his detractors, at best Che represents the non-pacific way to confront oppression and change the world order. To others, Che is a revolutionary symbol, an inspirational example of internationalist solidarity and the epitome of the “new human”, the selfless individual of the XXI century he envisioned as the agent of genuine change. What is the true Che? Are Che’s deeds and vision relevant to contemporary efforts to build a new society? This panel invites you to debate these and other important related topics.

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This public lecture is free and open to the public. It is not required to register. For further information, please contact massicot@uottawa.ca Parking is available on campus.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Cuando pienso en el Che

El testimonio del Comandante Fidel Castro concedida al periodista italiano Gianni Mina.

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Mi padre el Che

Ernestico, como lo llaman en Cuba, el quinto hijo del CHE, emprende un viaje tras los pasos de su padre, para buscar al hombre detrás del mito.
Así recorre su lucha, desde sus comienzos, reconstruyendo historias que vivió Ernesto Guevara, mientras se convertía en el comandante CHE Guevara.

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Mi hijo el Che

"Mi hijo el Che. Un retrato de familia de Don Ernesto Guevara" del año 1985, emitido por Canal Encuentro (www.encuentro.gov.ar).

El realizador Fernando Birri, por medio de una entrevista a Don Ernesto Guevara, se nutre de imágenes fílmicas y fotografías que retratan la infancia de Ernestito, para luego recorrer su viaje en motocicleta por Latinoamérica, el encuentro con Fidel Castro, la guerrilla en Sierra Maestra y el triunfo de la revolución cubana, hasta su muerte el 9 de octubre de 1967.

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Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine

Naomi Klein talks about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

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Speaking at a benefit event for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a social justice research institute.

The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

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Monday, June 7, 2010

Africans in America

The Terrible Transformation (1450-1750)

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Revolution (1750-1805)

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Brotherly Love (1791-1831)

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Judgment Day (1831-1865)

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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Noam Chomsky - The Center Cannot Hold

Democracy NOW! - DN! 1/6 "Rekindling the Radical Imagination" - This Memorial Day special with the world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of over a hundred books. He spoke recently here in New York addressing more than a thousand people at the Left Forum. Published with written permission from democracynow.org. http://www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license. All credits for this video belongs to democracynow.org, an independent non-profit user funded news media, recognized and broadcast world wide. (3rd part video may be included under Fair Use)

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Corruption in America's Banks

It was more than greed and incompetence that brought down the U.S. financial sector and plunged the economy in recession — it was fraud. William K. Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, has seen pretty much everything.

Now an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, William K. Black tells Bill Moyers on the JOURNAL that the tool at the very center of mortgage collapse, creating triple-A rated bonds out of "liars' loans" — loans issued without verifying income, assets or employment — was a fraud, and the banks knew it. They involve deceit, which is the essence of fraud.

And while there is no law against liars' loans, Black points out that there are, many laws against fraud, and liars' loans are fraudulent. A few of the names implicated are Henry Paulson & Timothy Geithner,

Only the scale of the scandal is new. A single bank, IndyMac, lost more money than the entire Savings and Loan Crisis. The difference between now and then, explains Black, is a drastic reduction in regulation and oversight, "We now know what happens when you destroy regulation. You get the biggest financial calamity of anybody under the age of 80."

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Vandana Shiva - Planting the Seeds for Change

Cochabamba Water Wars - Democracy NOW!

Democracy NOW! - DN! 1/2 Ten years ago this month the Bolivian city of Cochabamba was at the center of an epic fight over one of the citys most vital natural resourcesits own water. The Water Wars occurred just months after the Battle of Seattle. The uprising against Bechtel on the streets of Cochabamba was seen as the embodiment of the international struggle against corporate globalization. Published with written permission from democracynow.org. http://www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license. All credits for this video belong to democracynow.org, an independent user funded news media, recognized and broadcast world wide.

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Noam Chomsky: History of US Imperialism

Noam Chomsky - arguably the most famous Western intellectual and dissident alive today - interprets former President Bush's foreign policy actions (such as the Iraq war) in the long history of American Imperialism. He points out how the US was founded as an Empire -contrary to popular perception - and has been driven since inception again, contrary to popular perception - by an "expansion is the path to security" strategy. This lecture was delivered at Boston University in the United States on April 24th, 2008 under the title of "Modern-Day American Imperialism: Middle East and Beyond".

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THE MAN AND THE MOVEMENT

AN INTERVIEW WITH WORLD'S LARGEST non-violent people's movement SARVODAYA Sri Lanka. Dr. A T Ariyaratne is a three times Noble Peace nominee.

István Mészáros: The New Crisis of Capitalism

Tough Guise - Violence Media and the Crisis in Masculinity

Jackson Katz argues that widespread violence in American society, including the tragic school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and elsewhere, needs to be understood as part of an ongoing crisis in masculinity. Tough Guise is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century.