Sunday, May 28 at 2:30 – 4:30 PM

2nd floor Portage Place units 229 or 233 – 393 Portage Ave. 

Marianne Cerilli had the good fortune of being raised by labour leader Al Cerilli. She recently reviewed his personal papers gleaning lessons from history on how they organized to win the 40-hour work week and other milestones. We can learn from Al’s example how to live the adage – don’t agonize organize -which he practiced from the beginning of his career in the labour movement as the chair of the political action committee as a CN dining car worker, to retiring as the VP of the CBRT&GW. And after retirement founding the Canadian Congress of Union Retirees, the first UM Labour Studies Scholar in residence, and other activism. Marianne will share some lessons from history and strategies on organizing and politicizing workers to act on their own interests based on their lived experience.

www.mariannecerilli.ca

Sunday, May 28, 2023 from 1:00-2:00 PM

River & Osborne

Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee invites you to participate in a Rally Against the U.S. Blockade of Cuba on Sunday, May 28 from 1-2 p.m. at the corner of River & Osborne. This is part of the world-wide rallies and car caravans on the last Sunday of the month initiated by Bridges of Love, puentes de amor, started in Miami in the Spring of 2021 and now in cities all over North America and many countries in the world. We will also call for Cuba to be taken off the U.S. list of states sponsoring terrorism as it is completely untrue and is causing Cuba great harm in addition to the damage caused by the 60+ years of the Blockade. 

Saturday & Sunday, May 27 – 28, 2023

Once again the the Ukrainian Labour Temple will be open during Doors Open in our newly renovated building.  Renovations included the installation of an elevator, so we are now accessible.  Guided tours, as well as Entertainment and Ukrainian food is planned.

heritagewinnipeg.com/event/doors-open-winnipeg-2023

Dave Barber Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street

Sunday, May 14, 2023 at 3:00 PM

$10 / 97 minutes

Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee presents a special screening of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), in partnership with Winnipeg Film Group and as part of MayWorks Festival of Labour and the Arts. Based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes, Gutiérrez’s fifth and best-known film portrays a listless intellectual and his vexed allegiances in the wake of revolution, and is widely regarded as a classic of Cuban cinema and experimental film. Net proceeds from the screening will go towards the purchase of essential medical supplies to benefit the people of Cuba as they endure the effects of the illegal US blockade.

The Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee was founded in 1991 as an expression of the support of the people of Manitoba for the right of Cuba to independence and sovereignty, and the right of the Cuban people to choose their own economic, political and social system. The aim of the Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee is to promote friendship and solidarity between the people of Canada and the people of Cuba.