Defender of climate justice in Africa and in Europe, central figure in the fight against multinational oil corporations, Nnimmo BASSEY has most notably succeeded in rendering illegal gas flaring* in...>>>
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The Festival of Solidarity is a festive event:
a place for exchanging and sharing issues concerning social solidarity.
The workshops and activities will address the...>>>
Alternatives is proud to be a part of Montreal's second edition of the Haitian Diaspora Day Event!See event details on the Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/events/548199641868097/?ref=22Press...>>>
Dear FriendsDue to the very high response to the call-out for the General Assembly launching the Peoples' Social Forum, we have had to move the event to a bigger venue. Please note that the General...>>>
The World Social Forum (WSF) Free Palestine is a global public space and distinguished gathering for international civil society that aims to:Highlight, strengthen and deepen the global movement in...>>>
JOIN THE DELEGATION!A 7 day stay in Tunis to take part in the 2013 World Social Forum!Estimated cost of participation: $2000 per person, including: flight, lodging, pre-departure training3 pre-...>>>
The event « À l’école des communs » (School of the commons) will be held on November 2 and 3, 2012. Organized by Communautique and Remix the commons, in collaboration with the Nycole Turmel...>>>
October 22, 2012. Remember this date, it is an important one.On this day, one of the biggest civil disobedience acts in Canadian history will take place in Western Canada. Thousands of citizens are...>>>
The Alternatives Board has selected October 20 as the date for the 2012 Members General Assembly. The purpose of the meeting is to decide upon the organization’s major areas of intervention for next...>>>
On 22 September 2012,
an unprecedented global protest against natural gas exploration – Global
Frackdown – took place around the world. Alternatives joined forces with other
groups from Quebec,...>>>
From Indignation To Mobilization“AFTER THE QUEBEC SPRING: MERGING THE STRUGGLES”Festival of Solidarity 2012Saturday June 9, 2012 from 11am to 11pmÉcole Le Plateau, 3710 Calixa-Lavallée, Parc...>>>
A day long greening event to inaugurate the garden seasonHorticulture advice and tips for growing in the cityHeritage seeds and seedlings, compost, soil, and Alternative's Self-watering garden...>>>
Earth Day, April 22nd, is a citizens’ environmental and social initiative, and Alternatives is a proud member of the organizing committee.Join us for the largest environmental rally in the history of...>>>
Join us for a movement
building conference with Québec, First Nations and Canadian organizations! Alternatives, the Council of
Canadians and a number of Québec and First Nations...>>>
The CIVICUS World Assembly Is Back This September! CIVICUS is
a unique opportunity to come together in order to find innovative ways to
strengthen civil society!
The
assembly will...>>>
Location: Camp Papillon de St-Alphonse de Rodriguez situated in the Lanaudière region. (View the map)
Back for a 17th year!
Since 1994, the Alternatives' Days have been an...>>>
WHAT HAPPENED IN DAKAR AT THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM?Come join us for the discussions in the auditorium of the Atwater Library(1200 Atwater Avenue x
St.Catherine West - Atwater subway)Where...>>>
Location: University of Quebec at Montreal, J.A. DeSève Pavillion, local DS-R510; 320 St-Catherine Street East, Montreal
Organized by: Alternatives and Canadian Dimension magazine
Watch and listen to...>>>
Location: Offices of Alternatives, 3720 Ave. du Parc, 2nd floor (Bus 80 north from Metro Place-des-Arts)Information: 514 982 6606 x2294Hosted by: The coalitions Pas de démocratie sans voix! and...>>>
Moving Forward: an inter-community discussionWhat is the University’s role in supporting the sustainable food movement in Montreal?With Alternatives urban agriculture and food secrurity expert...>>>
We regret that this event will take place uniquely in French, and no translation is available. Journée de travail pour l’élaboration d’un plan d’action collectif
"Au pouvoir...>>>
The anti-war coalition Collectif Échec à la guerre is organizing a People’s Summit Against War and Militarism on November 19 -21, 2010, and invites civil society organizations in Québec, as well as...>>>
On November 18th, Alternatives was present at the Montreal International Film Festival (RIDM) to show our support and solidarity with the vision of the film "Aisheen - Still Alive in Gaza". We also...>>>
The time to mobilize is now! 20 countries cannot decide the future of the entire world. To change the system and and "business as usual" and to create another world, civilians cannot continue...>>>
NOVEMBER is synonymous for international solidarity in Quebec. Every year, various quebecois organizations mobilize themselves during this period of the end of the year to inform and mobilze the...>>>
Alternatives welcomes you to the 16th edition of Alternatives’ Days to participate with hundreds of other activists in debates, discussions and activities grouped this year under the title:...>>>
The Alternatives Rooftop Garden Project, Greening Duluth and the Université de la Terre present Know it and Grow it! – a block party promoting the greening of Montreal.Join us for the inauguration of...>>>
In order to mark the participation of one thousand interns of international solidarity within our organization, Alternatives is hosting a series of events from May 11th to 15th. The purpose is to...>>>
This April 14th, Alternatives, the Institute of International Studies of Montreal of UQAM, Quebec Women’s Federation and the Coordination du Quebec de la Marche mondiale des femmes (CQMMF) invite you...>>>
From October 8th to 12th in 2007, Alternatives held its annual Alternatives Days, but this year it was in conjunction with the Quebec Social Forum. The events brought together an impressive array of...>>>
Alternatives took to the streets on Saturday to call for the withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan as part of a nationwide anti-war protest on October 27th 2007. The protest, which drew more...>>>
The 13th edition of Alternatives’ Days took place from the 23rd to the 26th of August at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Several hundred people participated in workshops and seminars which...>>>
MONTREAL, Canada — The NGO Alternatives revealed the first independent feasibility study on the implementation of a vast infrastructure the size of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at the...>>>
With Mustafa Barghouti, former presidential candidate of the Palestinian Authority, Muchel Warschawski, Israeli journalist, Phyllis Bennis, militant, write and American researcher. And many other...>>>
The Cabaret is the closing event of the New Brazil Seminar on June 6th and 7th at UQAM, presented by Alternatives and the Perseo Abramo Foundation from Brazil, in collaboration with the...>>>
Alternatives, and Brazil's Fundação Perseu Abramo,in collaboration with the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) and the Centre de recherches et d'études sur le Brésil (CERB),
are sponsoring a...>>>
Organized by Alternatives and Fundação Perseu AbramoContext: New challenges await the new Brazil: the fight against hunger, land reform and the struggle for land, the battle for the Amazon and Brazil...>>>
From Kabul to Baghdad, Washington conquers the worldMrs. Phyllis Bennis and M. Pierre-Jean Luizard are in Montreal to participate in a public conference organised by Alternatives, a non-...>>>
In collaboration with Carrefour Tiers-Monde
Context:
Since 1996, every autumn, Quebec Days of International Solidarity offer with
the support of the Department of International Relations...>>>
In 2002 Alternatives organized a weekend long event to raise
awareness about the extent and range of effects the United States’ imperialist
tendencies are having on the entire world, especially...>>>
Context: The Algerian people has lived for 10 years in a "dirty war" that is 150 000-200 000 deaths. No fewer than 7,200 disappearances, tens of thousands of people were tortured, raped, abducted,...>>>
Context: Algeria
erupted into brutal civil conflict in 1992 after the army cancelled elections
in order to prevent an increasingly popular Islamist political party from
taking power. Islamist...>>>
in collaboration with the Café des Arts (Québec).Music, poetry
and song from Arab, Native-American, African, Caribbean and Latin-American cultures
at the Café des Arts, located at 870 Ave. Salaberry...>>>
Between January 31st and Febuary 5th, 2002, a global conference was held in Porto Allegre, Brazil, that sought to assess the devastating societal effects brought on by gloablization. It was the...>>>
Organized by Alternatives and the Caravan of Quatar-Quebec Common Front
against the WTO.
Context:
Coalition Operation Quebec Spring 2001 (COQ) in Quebec City benefits
from the Caravan...>>>
Context:
In connection with the military response announced by the United States
following the terrorist acts of September 11, several groups in the region of
Quebec came together to organize...>>>
Context:
This year we want to broaden
the discussion of resistance and alternatives to neoliberalism in the entire
world, making the link between the mobilizations of last spring and those to...>>>
Context:
The Free Trade Area of the
Americas (FTAA) was a proposed extension of NAFTA in which trade barriers among
all countries in North and South America (excluding Cuba) would be reduced or...>>>
Context:
Between 1978 and
2000, with the introduction of the capitalist economic system, China’s economy
grew substantially. The emergence of the market economy required a change in
the roles of...>>>
In collaboration with South Asia Partnership, Council of Canadians and Coalition Solidarité Santé (which includes 24 organizations) Context: What health problems here are they similar to those...>>>
Context: In 1982, General Efrain Rios Montt accomplishes a coup and set up a repressive regime to suppress the guerrillas. He does not hesitate to use the tactic of scorched earth, razing 440...>>>
From Weapons to Art is a unique collection of sculpture that is presented in Montreal as part of a national tour.Fourteen sculptures made of welded fragments of weapons will be exposed to in Montreal...>>>
In collaboration with the Carrefour
Tiers-Monde and the Museum of Civilization:
Date: Sunday, November 5th 2000
Location: Museum of Civilization
10h-16h30
Information
kioks of the...>>>
In
collaboration with Carrefour Tiers-Monde :
Context:
Each
fall since 1996, Quebec Days of International Solidarity offer international
solidarity with the support of the Department of...>>>
Context:
Over 120 booths of organizations, institutions, businesses and community
organizations, dozens of arts and cultural activities and many exchanges on the
quality of life in the inner city...>>>
Context:
In previous years, Alternatives has successfully organized "study
days" that allowed us to discuss key policy issues and special that
face us. This meeting was primarily aimed at...>>>
The desert can be beautiful and grand like a silence imposed upon us: life hides inside of it. But desertification is like reducing someone to silence : a way to sentence to death what is...>>>
In April 2000 Alternatives, in association with Radio Basse-Ville and Café L'Abraham-Martin, organized an evening concert
featuring genres of music and dance from around the world. Attendees enjoyed...>>>
The Agora popular youth forum was a meeting held for young adults between the ages of 18 and 35 from all backgrounds to discuss the exclusion of youth from politics, a trend being observed around the...>>>
Context
Since it gained its independence from Portugal in 1975, Angola has been
plunged into a devastative civil war principally opposing two former liberation
movements, the People's Movement for...>>>
Context
Burundi has gone through
several cycles of instability and violence since its independence on July 1st, 1962. After violent
ethnic killings in August 1988 in the communes of Ntega and...>>>
Context: The war against Yugoslavia led by NATO represents a formidable backstep to all those who care about peace and democracy in this region and more widely in the world. Instead of...>>>
Context: As part of the extension of stay for international guests of the Agora Youth. Activity: Meeting with representatives of popular movements: • Gloria Marivil, indigenous Mapuche (Chile); •...>>>
in collaboration with Regroupement
de solidarité avec les Autochtones.
The Agora
populaire des Jeunes, the culminant point of the Intercultural Youth
Parliament, organized by Alternatives, was...>>>
Context:
After
instituting various pro-western modernization policies, the Shah of Iran was
overthrown in 1979 and replaced by a strict theocratic regime. The overwhelming majority of...>>>
in collaboration with Radio Basse-Ville
(Québec) and Tam-Tam Café (Québec)
Prior to the international meeting project Agora populaire des Jeunes held in Montreal from April 30 to May 2, the Forum...>>>
In January of 1999 Alternatives organized a public
round-table conference-style evening where four lively and critically acclaimed
writers from around the world shared their thoughts and experiences...>>>
Cultural days Images du Monde Arabe aim to improve understanding of Arab culture through the arts in Montreal public and change the often negative and stereotypical
perceptions of the Arab world....>>>
In collaboration with Antitube. Museum of Civilizations, Radio Basse-Ville and Alliance Maroc. Context:
Images of the
Arab World will by held in Quebec city for the first year and intends to...>>>
In collaboration with Antitube
Context:
The fourth annual Cultural Days: Image of the Arab World will be held
often the theme of memory. It offers Montrealers special moments with an...>>>
Organized under the theme of the encounter, the cultural days Images du Monde Arabe are a special time bringing different perspectives
on a culture with many facets. They offer the Montreal public,...>>>
Context:In March of 1995 the largest amount of leaders at that time convened in Copenhagen at the UN Summit for Social Development. The summit pledged that their main objectives of development would...>>>
As part
of International Development Week, Alternatives organized a serie of free
activities at the Centre Strathearn (3680 Jeanne-Mance) which treated of
various international development issues...>>>
Organized by Alternatives, the conference Women and Democracy in the Middle East
was held on Saturday, September 25th,
1993, at Concordia University in
Montreal. About 150 people, mostly women,...>>>
Context:This event is intended as an attempt to facilitate a moment of reflection in the experience of the recent and far behind past of Native peoples. At the same time, it will be a moment of...>>>
The CEAD (Centre d’Études arabes pour le Développement) invites you to a symposium: The reconstruction of Lebanon. Context: The threat of renewed war is lurking behind every ruin. Rebuilding...>>>
Since
many years, the situation of human rights remains worrying in the Arab world. The
arrival to power of Ben Ali in Tunisia in 1987 was marked by a resurgence of massive
political repression and...>>>
The Centre
d’études arabes pour le développement (CEAD) invites you to a lecture by Ms. Faika Medjahed (militant Algerian women's movement) Location: Hotel Maritime, Beaupre Hall Date: May 18, 1992...>>>
Context:
The crisis in the Gulf is the most serious in that region since 1967. On one side, the largest western military buildup since Vietnam is now entrenched in the Gulf. Since the invasion of...>>>
Context:
The seminar Maghreb: Women and
Development, held as part of Intercultural Week, will include four workshops, a
plenary and screenings of two films that will be followed by a debate...>>>
Context: The Education Department of the multicultural and multiracial Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal (PSBGM) has set up for the fall of 1990, five major workshops, including two for...>>>
A conference organized by the Centre
d’études arabes pour le développement (CEAD) and the Ligue des droits et libertésContext: The conference will address the struggle for democracy in Arab countries...>>>
Context: The Centre arabe pour le developpement invites you to a presentation of four films (two from Lebanon, one from Palestine and a Israeli production). There is an animation of discussions after...>>>
