International Women's Day events

In Toronto:

1) March 8 - Rally and March from OISE
Time and Place Date: Saturday, March 8, 2008
Time: 11:00am - 4:00pm
Location: OISE
Street: Bloor W (at St. George Subway)
City/Town: Toronto, ON

2) March 9 (?)

3) And in Ottawa - this looks really cool.International Women's Day Art Show

Corrective Lenses:
Challenging Representations of Women of Colour in Art

International women’s day art show and panel discussion

Featuring subversive reproductions of Gauguin, Michelangelo, Gerome, Metzel, Carr and others by women of colour artists from Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Turkiye.

Corrective Lenses:
Challenging Representations of Women of Colour in Art

International women’s day art show featuring subversive reproductions of Gauguin, Michelangelo, Gerome, Metzel, Carr and others by women of colour artists from Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Turkiye.

March 8, 4pm
Vernissage and panel discussion featuring:

Charmaine Nelson: McGill University Art History professor and author of Racism eh? A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race in the Canadian Context
Rosalie Favell: Award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in more than a dozen solo exhibitions and more than twenty group exhibitions around the world
Dipna Horra: a multi-media artist and visual arts reviewer with CBC
radio’s Ottawa Morning
Joanne St. Lewis: University of Ottawa Law professor and recipient of the 2008 Dreamkeepers Award conferred by the Martin Luther King Day Coalition.

Art exhibition March 8 –15 featuring the works of:
Sundus Abdul Hadi, Ilknur Demirkoparan, Rosalie Favell, Dipna Horra, Radha Jhappan, Meera Karunananthan, Joanne St. Lewis and Helina Tadesse

Location:
Jock Turcot University Centre, University of Ottawa

For more information, contact Meera Karunananthan: correctivelenses@gmail.com

Corrective Lenses is sponsored by the following University of Ottawa institutions: The Institute of Women’s Studies, Community Life Services, The University of Ottawa Women’s Resource Centre,The Social Justice Group, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law and the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa.

Link Round-up: Canadian Perspectives on the Venezuelan Referendum

I'm not a fan of link-round ups, but I haven't been writing anything much lately.... and I'm not as bright as these folks, plus these blog posts were sooooo good.

Red Jenny:
Greg Palast on the anti-Chavez Hysteria

DJN at if there is hope...:
Chavez concedes defeat on referendum
Do check out the lectures by Mike Gonazlez in this entry.

Paulitics:
Canada should implement many of the reforms proposed by Chavez