Title: Stop Shop
Location: Students’ Union Building Foyer
Description: Stop Shop for Buy Nothing Day

LPIRG will be hosting a “Stop Shop” in the Students’ Union Building foyer
from Wednesday, November 23 to Friday, November 25. The concept of the “Stop Shop” is similar to that of a “Free Store” which allows people to exchange goods and services outside of a money-based economy.

Participation can be through donating, trading, borrowing, or taking.

The “Stop Shop” is a tribute to Buy Nothing Day (on Nov. 25), which is a global holiday from consumerism. Buy Nothing Day is not about protesting spending, capitalism, or even political economic policies. The focus is on over-spending and over-consumption. We live in a society where it is norm to spend all the way up to, and far beyond our capacities. The more you drive your car, and the harder you work it, the more quickly it will break down. Buy Nothing Day is about preserving the system and preventing the breakdown.

The success of the Stop Shop is dependent on donations (books, school supplies, household items, etc). Donations are now being accepted in the LPIRG office – SU 242 – behind the food court in Galileo’s Gallery in the Students’ Union Building.

Please visit the Stop Shop in the SUB foyer from Nov. 23rd to Nov. 25th and show your support for Buy Nothing Day by donating or browsing through the items you may wish to borrow, trade, or take.

For more information on the Stop Shop, please contact pirg@uleth.ca.

Start Date: 2011-11-23
Start Time: 10:00
End Date: 2011-11-25
End Time: 15:00

Title: Poster Design Workshop
Location: TH141
Link out: Click here
Description: Poster Design Workshop

Where: TH 141
When: Nov.22nd, 4pm
Easy, pretty, and free!!!

Do you want to improve your skills for poster making?

… Do you want to learn about free programs for poster making?

Posters are an important part to have a successful event; it needs to capture people’s attention and transmit a fair amount of information. Making a poster for any kind of event can sometimes seem overwhelming. This workshop is directed to all students who want to learn the essentials to have a beautiful poster in a short period of time.

Carol (a master in poster making!!!), a graduated multimedia student from the U of L, will share some of the basics to have a beautiful and simple poster. She will touch some of the essentials for the use of colours, of letters, and of the pictures in posters. She will also present some free programs for Mac and PC, so bring your laptops with you so you can practice!

Refreshments will be provided!

Limited space registration is required. To register, please email pirg@uleth.ca by Nov. 21
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2011-11-22
End Time: 18:00

Title: Cinema Politica – The American Ruling Class
Location: Galileo’s Gallery, Students’ Union Building
Link out: Click here
Description: The American Ruling Class, the world’s first “dramatic-documentary-musical”, explores our country’s most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic. This feature-length satire stars Lewis Lapham, the renowned essayist and author, and a heavy-weight ensemble cast that includes former cabinet secretaries, corporate mandarins, media magnates, and at least one journalist working as a waitress. The …film follows Lapham and two recent Yale graduates as they make the rounds of Pentagon briefings, the World Economic Forum, philanthropic foundations, law firms, corporations banks, and New York society dinners as they attempt to answer the question, “Who rules America?”

The narrative portion of the film, interwoven throughout, tells the story of two representative graduates, “one rich and one poor” as they seek direction in their lives. Does America have a ruling class? If so, of what is it made, and how does it co-exist with our democracy? How does one join it: should one even want to? The real life luminaries become characters in a story about power and its responsibilities, and by the film’s end, the young men must decide: do they wish to rule the world…or save it?

http://www.cinemapolitica.org/screening/lethbridge/american-ruling-class
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2011-11-29