Just as this year's NoN Expo programming was being finalized, we learned former U.S. president (non-elect) G.W. Bush would be coming to Edmonton! A week of 'emergency re-arranging' of our schedule followed, and so, on Oct. 20 we commemorate Bush's visit with the following (mostly fun but some serious) film programming, and we're also dusting off some of the pieces from our 2005 "Bush Sucks" poster exhibit to commemorate the day.
Protestors are welcome to drop-in to the Edmonton Room (free admission) ahead of time to catch some inspiration, make some placards or buttons, or just relax between heckling sessions at the Shaw Conference Centre just 2 blocks away.For more info about the anti-Bush rally/demonstration (4-7pm @ Shaw Conference centre, 98 St & Jasper Ave.), join the facebook group page here:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=160453824921&ref=nf
As noted by Ani Difranco in her glorious anti-war anthem "Self Evident":
Number 1: George W. Bush IS NOT PRESIDENT
Number 2: AMERICA - is not a true democracy
Number 3: The MEDIA - is not fooling me..."
LISTEN TO SELF EVIDENT, LOUDLY:
http://www.righteousbabe.com/self_evident.mp3
Lyrics:http://www.righteousbabe.com/ani/l_self_evident.asp
* Buy Ani's excellent albums at http://www.righteousbabe.com

Playing in the Edmonton Room
- several performances by cheeky folk musician David Rovics, a.k.a. "the musical voice of the progressive movement in the US"
- spoken word/poet & rap artist Drew Dellinger, author of "Love Letter to the Milky Way"
- comedian Bill Santiago, former journalist for the Washington Post and the Miami Herald
- "Bush Not a Nazi" flash movie revealing the Bush family's ties to Nazism, by Take Back The Media
- comedian Will Durst, who by 2004 had received 7 consecutive nominations for the American Comedy Awards Stand Up of the Year.
* Get your own copy of "Behind Every Terrorist There is a Bush" at http://www.peaceproject.com/books/dvd60.htm
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David Rovics' Website -http://www.davidrovics.com/

Playing in the Edmonton Room
Mark Fiore, who the Wall Street Journal recently called "the undisputed guru of the form," creates animated political cartoons from an undisclosed location somewhere in San Francisco. His work appears regularly in a wide variety of online news web sites and is seen by millions, probably even scrillions.
After a short stint at the San Jose Mercury News as their staff cartoonist creating traditional political cartoons in a terribly stifling fluorescent windowless office, Fiore happily fled the print world in 2001 to devote all of his energies to creating animated work. Mark Fiore was awarded a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and has also received an Online Journalism Award from the Online News Association and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. With two awards from the National Cartoonists Society for his work in new media under his belt, Fiore also seems to excel at writing in the third person.Get your own commemorative copies of Mark's videos at http://www.markfiore.com

Playing in the Edmonton Room
Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth is a non-partisan association of architects, engineers, and affiliates, who are dedicated to exposing the falsehoods and to revealing truths about the destruction of all three WTC high-rises on 9/11/2001. They believe that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that the World Trade Center buildings #1 (North Tower), #2 (South Tower), and #7 (the 47 story high-rise across Vesey St.) were destroyed not by jet impact and fires but by controlled demolition with explosives. The film documents a live presentation by Richard Gage, a San Francisco Bay Area architect, a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and the founding member of AE911Truth. He has been a practicing architect for over 20 years and has worked on most types of building construction, including numerous fire-proofed steel-framed buildings. Most recently he worked on the construction documents for a $400M mixed-use urban project with 1.2 million square feet of retail, parking structure, and 320,000 square feet of mid-rise office space--altogether about with 1,200 tons of steel framing.
Does the official 9/11 Commission create "reasonable doubt"? Are "9/11 Truthers" wingnuts, or do they have reasonable arguments to support an independent inquiry into 9/11? Come, watch, and judge for yourselves! More info on AE911Truth at http://www.ae911truth.org
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YouTube Trailer -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isTGuaaln9A&eurl