Toronto Video Activist Collective

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Number of things:
– [Hananah] Check out the a really funny McDonalds Application

– UTMAC is selling $20 tickets for the Raptors vs 76ers for the 19th of November (Wednesday evening). They might be sold out though. I’m definately going.

– [Breakdown email]

Hey Breakdown!

There are some movies playing at the Bloor Street Cinema that are worth checking out…

Rides will be provided; and its $3 per movie…pick a time and movie and email me back and let me know which one you wanna go see and when.

Tear Gas Holiday: Quebec City Summit 2001 at 9:15 on Wednesday October 8th

The Toronto Activist Collective invites you to the premiere screening of Tear Gas Holiday: Quebec City Summit 2001. this fast-paced documentary tells the inside story of the activists who travelled to Quebec City to protest at the summit of the Americas and it captures the spirit of the political movement that shook the foundations of global capitalism. it features striking footage from the streets of Quebec, and interviews with Jaggi Singh, Naomi Klein and Maude Barlow and many others. Tear Gas Holiday is a must see for anyone who cares about the future of civil rights and democracy in the Americas. “a powerful account of a transformative moment in Canadian history, told through the tear gas filled eyes of those who were on the front lines” - Naomi Klein.

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times at 4:30 on Thursday October 23rd

Power and Terror chronicles a series of talks that Chomsky gave in California and New York in the spring of 2002, combined with a long interview at his office in Cambridge. As he has done countless times since 9-11, he places the terrorist attacks in the context of American foreign intervention throughout the postwar decades in Vietnam, Central America, the Middle East, and elsewhere.

The Weather Underground on Wed Oct 22 at 7:00 & 9:30; Thurs Oct 23 at 9:00; Fri Oct 24 at 4:30 & 7:00 & 9:00; Sat Oct 25 at 4:30 & 7:00 & 9:00; Sun Oct 26 at 2:00 & 4:00 & 7:00 & 9:00

Fuelled by outrage over racism and the Vietnam War, the Weather Underground, a group of young American radicals, waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s–bombing targets across the country that they considered emblematic of the real violence that the U.S. was wreaking throughout the world. Ultimately, the group’s carefully organized clandestine network managed to successfully evade one of the largest manhunts in FBI history, yet the group’s members would re-emerge to life in a country that was dramatically different than the one they had hoped their efforts would inspire. Extensive archival material, including, photographs, film footage and FBI documents are interwoven with modern-day interviews to trace the group’s path, from its pitched battles with police on Chicago’s streets, to its bombing of the U.S. Capitol, to itssuccessful endeavour breaking acid-guru Timothy Leary out of prison. The film explores the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time and features interviews with former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Panthers. It also examines the U.S. government’s suppression of dissent in the 1960s and 1970s.

Sole Ronco: sole_ronco@yahoo.com

Tutoring with Fulfilling Dreams

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“To all of you who are interested,
This project is a tutoring project at the downtown campus that is designed to help high-school students who are are financially limited but need a tutor in math, sciences, and English. The time commitment required is only 1 hour a week form Oct-June. Unfortunately we only got this information today and the deadline is Sept 30. For more information check out http://assu.sa.utoronto.ca and click on Project: Universal Mind. Hours for this project will count as volunteer hours for the year.

UTM Fulfilling Dreams
www.utmfulfillingdreams.vze.com
utmfulfillingdreams@hotmail.com
3359 Mississauga Rd
Missisauga ON
L5L 1C6
Student Center, room 220″

AdAware

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Downloaded AdAware yesterday. Apparently I had around over a 100 spyware files on my computer when I ran the removal tool. Eek.

Also was requested to put up Cold - Stupid Girl for upload. Right click and click “Save Target As”. Otherwise you’ll end up waiting for ages for it to upload through your browser and it’ll prob. hang.

Computer Magazines

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Computer Magazines. Am considering subscribing to a tech. magazine or two. Any suggestions? I figure Discover has some pretty good all round stuff. I used to subscribe to Spider back home. At that point I guess was pretty ok stuff. I’d say good for pre-teen kids. Quality has gone down though. But I guess those were the begining years so they were all into it. Byte and IEEE seem pretty interesting too. Maybe I’ll just to web based reading… but somehow too much of it gives one a headache.

No Sex Please We’re British

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Friend of mine, Kat is acting in the following. Seems fairly interesting. Am cutting and pasting bits and pieces from her email:

“Show (No Sex Please We’re British) runs on october 9, 10, 11,
15, 16, 17, 18. The shows are at the Oakville centre for the performing
arts at 130 Navy St. curtain time is 8pm…

Tickets are limited now as the group sold alot of subscriptions so it might
be hard to get seats…

So call the box office at 905-815-2021 for info and to reserve tickets. It
is open from noon till 5 on most days.,”

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