Unist'ot'en Resistance Solidarity Dinner: Brett Rhyno

Mondragon Bookstore & Coffee House, 91 Albert St.

January 21, 5:00 pm

Phone (204) 946-5241

The Unist'ot'en Camp is a resistance community whose purpose is to protect sovereign Wet'suwet'en territory from proposed pipelines from the Tar Sands Gigaproject and shale gas from Hydraulic Fracturing Projects in the Peace River Region.

The camp is located at the shore of the Wedzin Kwah and mouth of the Gosnell Creek. These are all tributary to the the Skeena, Bulkley, and Babine Rivers. The proposed pipelines from Enbridge Northern Gateway and Pacific Trails seek to cross the rivers where the resistance camp is on the Unis’tot’en Territory of Talbits Kwah.

The Unist'ot'en along with other allies will stop this destructive path, for the future generations, for the biodiversity, and for solidarity with our neighbours living amidst the heavy impacts in the Tar Sands Affected areas in Northern Alberta, and regions heavily affected by Fracking Natural Gas and Shale Oil.

SWAP NOT SHOP II

Rocker Center (above Mondragon)

March 4, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Admission is by donation

Bring your gently used clothing down and swap them for awesome new stuff that you'll actually wear!

- Come with any and all clothes/shoes/bags/accessories/hats etc.

- Ensure clothes that you bring are gently used and in good, wearable condition.  

- Each person lays out their clothes, and everyone goes from pile to pile, taking what they want. This is not a one-to-one swap - everything laid out is considered up for grabs. 

- The general feel is a friendly first-come first-serve. Should two people want the exact same item of clothing, disputes can be settled by a friendly match of rock paper scissors. 

- At the end of the day anything left behind will be donated. 

Please, invite your friends and family!

SWAP, not shop!

Words Allowed: Daa, Mayor, Schnitzer, Slobogian & Worth

Mondragon Cafe, 1-91 Albert Street

Saturday, January 21, 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Words Allowed brings together a mix of emerging and established authors for an intimate night of literary readings and performance poetry.

Drek Daa is an award winning poet, songwriter, CBC columnist, arts organizer, academic, and psychotherapist. "Drek Daa's audio file is brilliant, funny and stunningly skillful.... He's really good." – Leonard Cohen 

Chandra Mayor is the award winning author of August Witch, Cherry, and All the Pretty Girls. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and Chandra has appeared in writers' festivals and reading series. 

Deborah Schnitzer is the winner of the 2010 Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction for her book An Unexpected Break in the Weather. "Just as Mordecai Richler did with St. Urbain Street in Montreal, University of Winnipeg English professor Deborah Schnitzer brings life and story to our own Corydon Avenue." - Winnipeg Free Press

Courtney Slobogian is an emerging writer who was born in Winnipeg. She co-hosts a radio show on CKUW called Tiger Lilies are Poisonous. 

Liz Worth is a Toronto-based author. Her new book, Amphetamine Heart, is a surreal collection of poetry inspired by punk rock, strange dreams, heavy metal, and late, late nights. Her first book, Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto was recently re-issued by ECW Press.  

Mondragon's Open Mic: Jupiter Storm

Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 91 Albert Street

Tuesday, January 10

Open Mic is starting up again in the new year with a new twist. 

Every week there will be a different headlining band to round out the night with some 

great tunes to get you pumped for the rest of your week.

Can't wait to see you in the new year and then every week following to see each and 

every headlining band.

Lite Winnipeg: Pancake Breakfast

Everyone, please come to the LITE pancake breakfast on Nov. 4!

Do you have your tickets?? 

If not, why?? Come on, buy 'em! All the cool kids will be there!! 

Dont believe me?? Just ask Fred Penner. 

He's gonna be there and who's cooler than Fred Penner? 

Tickets now available at the LITE office (call 942-8578) or swing by 

Viva Mondragon - they have them too!!!

Mondragon: Open Mike Night

Come and show your daring at Open Mike Nights at the Mondragon. 

Every Tuesday night from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm you can come down and show off 

your musical, poetic, or comedic talents.

Winnipeg 2011 Radical Bookfair & DIY Festival

September 23 at 8:00 pm to September 25 at 4:00 pm

Mondragon - 91 Albert Street

Parking: lot @ Albert/Bannatyne & various locations in the Exchange District

DIY WORKSHOPS and INFO SESSIONS

They update frequently!!

Check the Winnipeg Book Fair website!! 

*Panel and Keynote - 91 Albert Street

*Exhibitors: the parking lot @ Albert and Bannatyne

*Workshops: various locations in the Exchange District.

Among other events:

Saturday, September 24 - after David McNally's keynote

FUNDRAISING SHOW for the A-Zone Co-op @ The Regal Beagle, 331 Smith Street

Featuring: Hugo Torres-Cereceda, Nathan, and the Rastamils!

Tickets $10.00 at Mondragon

Sunday, September 25 - brunch at the 'Dragon!

10 am - 3 pm $15/plate

Check out the latest in radical and progressive publishing and info!

When: Saturday Sept 24 (11:00-5:00); Sunday Sept 25 (12:00-4:00)

Where: parking lot @ Albert and Bannatyne

Rain venue: the Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne, near Albert

Exhibitors:

Mondragon Bookstore; Fernwood Publishing; Copwatch; Canadian Dimension; Herizons; Kustom Kulture; Loon Publishing; CCPA-MB; Manitoba Eco-Network; Ragpickers; 

New Socialist Group; Molly Mew Publications; Junto Library, the Green Action Centre, 

the Winnipeg-Haiti Solidarity Movement; GEEZ Magazine; War On Music; CanPalNet; IWW; TaylorMade Pottery; LexComix

FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES:

Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm and 3 pm, Radical Story Times along with a table full of great craft activities! 

Childcare will be available for the parents wanting to attend workshops.

BANNED BOOKS READINGS

Saturday and Sunday, alongside the exhibitors' tables.

Erik Olin Wright

Envisioning Real Utopias 

Wednesday, July 27 · 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm

Mondragon Bookstore

Join us for a discussion and book launch with activist and professor Erik Olin Wright. 

Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. 

Erik Olin Wright’s major new work is a comprehensive assault on contemporary social theory. A systematic reconstruction of the core values and feasible goals for Left theorists and political actors, Envisioning Real Utopias lays the foundations for a set of concrete, emancipatory alternatives to the capitalist system. 

Copwatch Conference

The International Copwatch Conference will take place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 

on July 22, 23 and 24.

A kick off to the 2nd International Copwatching Conference:

Documentary Screening: Kanehsetake: 270 Years of Resistance

Wednesday, July 20 · 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

2nd Floor, 91 Albert St. 

This documentary by Alanis Obomsawin about Mohawk resistance to neo-colonialism in Quebec is a classic. 

The cost is sliding scale ($5 recommended) 

We also have popcorn, candy and pop for sale. 

Money raised goes toward the organizing costs.

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Launch of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation

by Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile

Mondragon Cafe and Bookstore, 91 Albert St.

Thursday, July 21 · 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Gary Kinsman will also be giving two presentations during the conference.

Selected for the 2011 Over the Rainbow Book List, The Canadian War on Queers explores how from the 1950s to the late 1990s, the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada. 

Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile disclose forms of resistance that raise questions about just whose security was being protected. 

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Unless otherwise noted, the event will take place at

University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave. 

Friday, July 22

Keynote Address by Leslie Spillet: An examination of policing as an instrument to advance the colonial project

9:00 am

Dance Party and Art Auction

Negative Space 253 Princess St. 10:00 pm

Saturday, July 23

Keynote Address by Kristian Williams: Making Copwatch Matter

9:00 am - 10:30 am

Panel Discussions and Workshops

10:45 am - 6:15 pm 

Sunday, July 24

Keynote Address by Andrea Ritchie: Resisting Racialized Policing of Gender and Sex

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm

Panel Discussions and Workshops

9:00 am - 12:15 pm & 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm 

For many people who have experienced police misconduct and violence, the presence of law enforcement officials will make it an inaccessible event. 

For this reason this conference is open to anyone except law enforcement officials.

SMUT SLAM

You know what a poetry slam is. 

Now it’s time for Winnipeg’s first-ever SMUT SLAM, a fast-paced night of storytelling based on real life, real lust, real sex. 

Mondragon Bookstore, 91 Albert St.

Tuesday, July 12

Doors open at 6:30 pm

the slam starts at 7:00 pm 

Admission is $7 at the door, or $5 for students 18 and over!

The theme for this SMUT SLAM is, naturally, “Fringe...” 

It's a perfect, perverse kick-off to your Winnipeg Fringe!

SMUT SLAMMERS sign up on the night to tell a 5-minute piece, based on Fringe hook-ups, experiences out on the edge, fringe on a scarf... 

and a lucky eight to ten names will be drawn. 

There will be a team of judges.

Prizes provided by Winnipeg's own Love Nest!

At intermission, slammers and audience alike have the opportunity to challenge Cameryn Moore in a lightning-fast IRON SMUT ROUND (participants receive two words or phrases and then must use those in a two-minute smut fictional narratives).

SMUT SLAM host Cameryn Moore is the award-winning creator and performer of Phone Whore and a new one-woman show slut (r)evolution. 

In addition to writing and performing, Cameryn is a comedian, sex educator, and phone sex operator. Cameryn blogs about her “day job”. 

Co-host Heather Witherden is Winnipeg's favourite wisecracking Mom. 

After a titillating 2010 Fringe debut (Breast Friends, Tazzy's Angels), she's returning to Tazzy's Angels 2011 at the Gas Station Theatre. 

Heather is also the popular comic MC of Moonlight Madness Burlesque, bringing a cheekiness and wit that has the audience gasping for air.

NOT A SMUT SLAMMER? Don’t worry. Sit back and enjoy. 

All we ask is: - No interrupting. - No heckling. - No necking.

Mondragon: Benjamin Isitt

Wednesday, June 29 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm

The Mondragon, 91 Albert Street

Join Ben Isitt for the launch of two new books on the social history of Canada.

Benjamin Isitt is a former Winnipegger, a current University of British Columbia historian and a specialist on social movements in twentieth-century Canada and the world.  

From Victoria to Vladivostok highlights Canadian responses to the Russian Revolution – sympathy from the labour movement alongside the deployment of 4,000 troops to Siberia to fight the Bolsheviks. 

Militant Minority moves into the Cold War period, examining changes in British Columbia's left during the bleak days of McCarthyism and the tumultuous 1960s, culminating in the election of BC's first NDP government. 

Taken together, these books tell important stories that have been left out of popular memory. The evening will include an engaging multi-media presentation.

Feminism FOR REAL / NYSHN Northern Health

Join us on Tuesday June 28, from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm, at Mondragon, 91 Albert Street, to celebrate the Winnipeg book launch of Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism, edited by Jessica Yee.

With a traditional Indigenous opening, the evening will feature presentations and round table discussions from the editor and several of the book’s contributors.

Light refreshments will be served. 

We regret that the venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Proceeds from the evening will go to support the 

Native Youth Sexual Health Network Northern Health Initiative.

For more information about Feminism FOR REAL, contact Erika Shaker at the 

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. 

Faye Blais, Franklin Fernando & J Riley Hill

Folk performer Faye Blais is back at 91 Albert Street, with a sound that melds 

Ani DiFranco & Feist. 

Opening acts on Friday, June 10 at 8:00 pm, are J Riley Hill and Mondragon's own 

Franklin Fernando!

David Lester: The Listener

Arbeiter Ring Publishers & CKUW Present:

The Listener

Book Launch by David Lester & Performance by Matador Records artists Mecca Normal 

at Mondragon, 91 Albert St, on Wednesday, June 8, from 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm 

The Listener, a graphic novel, reveals a tragic act of spin doctoring that changed the course of history. Complacency, art and murder collide in Hitler's terrible rise to power in 1933, and in the artist Louise Shearing's search for meaning in the art of Europe.

David Lester is a painter, graphic designer, cartoonist, and the guitarist in the rock duo Mecca Normal. His book, The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism, has been required reading in a university English course. 

He has created the poster series “Inspired Agitators,” and designed the popular t-shirt “Actually, I like crap.” 

Lester also does a weekly illustration, with text by bandmate Jean Smith, for Magnet Magazine. His art has been published in DrippyTown #4, Warburger (Slovenia), MungBeing, Z Magazine, Reproduce & Revolt: A Graphic Toolbox for the 21st Century Activist, Celebrate People’s History, and The San Diego Reader.

Jean Smith is the author of two published novels and a two-time recipient of Canada Council for the Arts awards (creative fiction). Her writings on culture have appeared in Village Voice, NPR online, the American Book Award winning anthology Sounding Off!: Music as Resistance / Rebellion / Revolution, The Globe & Mail, the New York Foundation of Arts' Current Magazine, Rolling Stone, Review of Contemporary Fiction, McSweeney's, and 3:AM Literary Magazine.

Sacco & Vanzetti Organic Green Grocer

Sacco & Vanzetti's Organic Green Grocer is located inside the Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse. 

We offer you a fully Vegan, Organic and as often as possible Local grocery store. 

Fresh produce is delivered throughout the week and inspected for quality daily. 

We have a great local and organic tea section and bulk dry goods. Our aisles are jam packed with milk alternatives, organic nut butters, canned goods and sauce as well as cleaning supplies and everything else your kitchen could need. 

We are dedicated to providing you with fresh and ethical foods for your home the same as we do in our cafe. The Deli also has many of the dressings and dips from our cafe. 

Our super-friendly staff would love to provide you with recipes and advice on how to do everything up right.

A-Zone Co-op Festival

The 24 Hour A-Zone Co-op Festival, begins 3:00 pm, Saturday, May 14 

and ends 3:00 pm, Sunday, May 15.  It's an initiative to support 

the A-Zone’s effort to purchase their building at 91 Albert Street. 

On-site admission is by donation. 

Donations accepted in person or on-line A-Zone Co-op Festival. 

The festival features multi-genre music, poetry, comedy, and includes a fantastic vegan brunch on Sunday morning. 

Out of towners can enjoy the festival online 24 Hour A-Zone Co-op Festival.

The festival takes place live at the Mondragon Café and Bookstore, 91 Albert. 

Supporting presenter, CKUW will also broadcast some of the festival. In the tradition of TV telethons, our MCs will pitch our cause to the audience and introduce local performers. Donations will be gratefully accepted throughout the 24-hour festival.

Performers at the Full Festival include Fred Penner, Dan Frechette, The Bushtits, the 1919 Insurrectionary Orchestra, The Slow Dancers, Ian La Rue, TWIN, Taylor Young, Süss, J.R. Hill, Katie Murphy, Hugo Torres-Cereceda, Wanda Wilson, The Flaming Trolleys and many more.

The A-Zone is a hub for radical activism, participatory democracy, and worker cooperatives. Our building is home to Natural Cycle, Mondragon, the Boreal Forest Network, Junto Library, Winnipeg Copwatch, the Emma Goldman Grassroots Centre, 

and other groups and businesses. 

As a coalition of worker cooperatives, social organizations and political groups, we aim to raise the down-payment to buy and sustain our 4-level heritage building at 91 Albert St., in Winnipeg’s Exchange District. 

Mother's Day Brunch

Treat your Mom or Moms to a cruelty-free, organic and fair-trade brunch this Mother's Day at Mondragon, 91 Albert Street, on Sunday, May 8, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.

$15 + t&t

Reservations preferred, Seating is limited. 

For information or to make a reservation please call 946-5241.

Menu Options:

1) Farmer's Breakfast

Fresh baked tofu scramble, a house-made seitan sausage, and served with toast.

2) The Harris Family Quiche

Savory mixed veggie quiche with a butter-flakey crust.

3) Reil Good Flapjacks

Two large soy and gluten free buckwheat pancakes with sunflower seeds and goji berries baked right in and topped with either a warm banana berry sauce or real maple syrup.

*options come with 

oven roasted potatoes

steamed greens or organic fruit salad

coffee or tea 

Fresh Fruit Juices, Mimosas and a great selection of deserts and gift baskets available.

Canadian Labour in Crisis

Please join Fernwood Publishing in celebrating the release of David Camfield's Canadian Labour in Crisis: Reinventing the Workers' Movement, on Thursday, May 5, at 8:00 pm 

at Mondragon Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 91 Albert Street.  

Tasty vegan food, beverages and ambiance will be provided.  

David Camfield, an associate professor in labour studies at the University of Manitoba, 

will deliver a short talk on the state of Canadian labour and will have copies of his book available for purchase.  

Does Canada have a working-class movement? 

Though many of us think of ourselves as middle class, most of us are, in fact, working class: we work for a wage. And though many of us are members of unions, the most significant organizations of the working-class movement in Canada, most people do not understand themselves to be part of this movement.   

Canadian Labour in Crisis asks why this is so. 

Humanizing the Economy

Come to the launch of Humanizing the Economy: Co-ops in the Age of Capital on Wednesday, May 4, at Mondragon, 91 Albert Street.

Join us for a discussion, from 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm, with John Restakis, author and executive director of the BC Co-operative Association, on the history and future of the 

co-operatives and how they are changing our economy. 

Avi Lewis writes, "Humanizing the Economy connects the dots among far-flung sites of co-operation and resistance, tracing the outlines of a humane alternative to the deadly business of business as usual."

The Great Fryday Brunch

You've got Friday, April 22 off! 

You're hungry and everything's closed! 

Come join us at the Mondragon, 91 Albert Street, from 10:30 am to 3:00 pm, for a great vegan brunch!

Menu Options:

1) the Anti-Continental Breakfast:  Tofu & Veggie Scramble, Home-style Roasted Potatoes, Steamed Greens and Local Tall Grass Toast plus Coffee or Tea.

2) Wildcat Flapjacks:  Gluten Free and Soy Free Pancakes, stacked 3 high, served with either a Fresh Fruit Sauce or Real Maple Syrup plus Roasted Potatoes and Coffee or Tea.

As always we will have a selection of Fresh Organic Juices and options for the kids!

$10 + t&t

Reservations not necessary but seating is limited so call for reservations!