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CTV: Supporting Migrants
 A recent story on CFCF (CTV's Montreal affiliate) from the Immigrant Workers Center's recent Coffee House, organized in collaboration with Solidarity Across Borders (SAB). The event served as an opening for the SAB Photo Exhibit.
You can access the video of the news story HERE.
SAB is a working group of QPIRG-Concordia.
The Link: Open Door Books makes the case for prison literacy
[From the Literary Arts section of the November 4, 2008 edition of The Link]
Reading a book, any book, can be a good way to pass seven hours on a plane, or seven minutes on the way to the next metro stop. It can also be a good way to keep sane during a seven-year prison sentence. But what if the prison library is closed for six months of the year? That’s three and a half years in solitary confinement with only your thoughts.
Open Door Books, an organization partnered with the Quebec Public Interest Research Group of Concordia, has made it their mission to put books in the hands of prisoners. Because if their wardens won’t, who will?
Read the full article HERE
How NGOs contribute to imperialism: The Case of Haiti
part of the QPIRG-Concordia Educational series

Monday, November 10, 7pm
1500 de Maisonneuve West, #204
metro Guy-Concordia
wheelchair accessible;
free childcare available on request (please phone 514-848-7585 to request by November 7);
présentation en anglais, avec traduction chuchotée disponible vers le français
Join Haiti Action Montréal and QPIRG-Concordia for a workshop and audiovisual presentation on the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Haiti.
Let Freedom Ring!: calendar launch / book launch / vernissage
In celebration of the struggle to free political prisoners
Join us for an evening of art & literature in celebration of the struggle to free political prisoners
November 10th 2008
7-10pm
Le Cagibi
5490 St Laurent (corner St Viateur)
NEW! QPIRG's 2008-2009 Working Groups
This year, QPIRG-Concordia has 19 working groups, as well as 5 affiliate and solidarity groups!
Our new Working Groups:
Centre Social Autogéré de Pointe-Saint-Charles; Committee to Support Abdelkader Belaouni; Common Front; Independent Media Center-Montreal; Indigenous Solidarity Committee of the People's Global Action (PGA) Bloc; Prisoner Correspondence Project; Project X; Tadamon! Montreal
Our returning Working Groups:
Block the Empire-Montreal; Certain Days Political Prisoner Calendar Committee; Childcare Collective; Haiti Action Montreal; Montreal Sound Team; Open Door Books; Q-Team; Re-Con; Solidarity Across Borders; Ste-Emilie Skillshare; TAPthirst
Our Solidarity & Affiliate Groups:
Right to Move; Montreal Anarchist Bookfair Collective, LCP Focus Group; Kanehsatake Garden Project; Ethnoculture
For more details, or to get involved, visit our Working Groups page
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