SAVE THE ANIMALS YOU ANUMALS!!!! (sic)
Hello, Eveyone!!
It's Me, the Rod, once again!
Today I have to tell you about a few great things going on in our city. first of all, however, i will say that on September 23rd Me and Hannah are going on a METAL PILGRIMAGE!!! Where to? I ain't telling! What for? Oh hold my tongue!!
In other news check out the Animal Watch Manitoba film festival entitled ANIMALS LKE US. It is playing for the next few weeks at the Park Theater here in Winnipeg (South Osbourne Street)!! I went last Sunday. It was truly excellent. The movies are great! I left feeling a desperate need to do more to help my buddies the animals!!!! Check out Animalwatch.ca for details. See Ya there!!!! I'm the guy with the broken Godamn back.
Also Jordy Boy Horkoff and the Canadian Haiti Action Network are helping to bring former Haitian Minister and Political Rights activist Patrick Elie to speak at the U of W on the 27th and 28th. Here are some details of that!
Date and Time: Monday, March 27, 2006 Location: University of Winnipeg, Room 1L12, 545 Portage Ave., Winnipeg; MB @ 7pm Featuring Patrick Elie, former Haitian Cabinet Minister Admission:Free (donations accepted) Patrick Elie, a Haiti-based political rights activist and former Minister of the first government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (1991-96), willbe in Winnipeg from March 27th to 28th, 2006, as part of a Canada-wide speaking tour. His main speaking event in Winnipeg will be at the University of Winnipeg, room 1L12, at 7 pm on March 27th 2006. In an interview upon arriving in Canada, Elie described the purpose of his speaking tour: "Haiti's history and its social and political realities are systematically misrepresented in much of the mainstream press and by the majority of politicians and so-called experts," he said. "The objective of this speaking tour is to deploy a people-to-people diplomacy and to cut through the web of lies and half-truths. If Canadians are correctly informed about Haiti, it will be more difficult for the government of Canada to engage in policies that constitute a violation of Haiti's hard won sovereignty and of the will of the Haitian people." Since February 2004, the social and human rights situation in Haiti has been disastrous. A series of high-profile reports and commentaries, including from the United Nations own spokespeople for human rights, indicate that conditions in Haiti are "catastrophic" (UN official) and getting worse. Canada is a major player in the coup and its aftermath. The Winnipeg portion of Patrick Elie's tour is being organized by Winnipeg-CHAN (Canada Haiti Action Network) a local activist group which formed to give attention to Canada's intervention in Haiti. In addition to the main event, student groups are endorsing a Monday afternoon event at the Fireside Lounge at the University of Manitoba Student Union building at 2 pm and Tuesday afternoon at the University of Winnipeg, room 1L12 at 4pm. The six-week tour begins in Montreal in mid-February and visit 18 cities. It is sponsored by the Canada Haiti Action Network. Patrick Elie is available for media interviews. He is fluent in English, French and Creole. To arrange an interview while he is in Winnipeg, please contact Jord @ 783-I LOVE BEANS. Jord promises not to leave stinkys in room 1L12.