Justin Podur: Israel-Palestine & Canadian Foreign Policy: It Takes the Whole World to Starve a People

“It Takes the Whole World to Starve a People:
Israel-Palestine and Canadian Foreign Policy”

Venue for Talk #1: Mondragon Bookstore (91 Albert St.)

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.

Talk #2 (U of Manitoba):

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.”

Talk #3 (Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre):

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