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Here are some photos of the launching of the book Tenir Parole! And the CD Rêver logique:  12 songs for a Quebec without poverty, held February 12^th in Montreal.

The CD Rêver logique is a project created by an artist to support the actions of the Collective.  Paul Cargnello is the organizer of this initiative where many different artists came together to sing the logical dream of a society without poverty.

The other artists appearing on this compilation are CEA, La Loi Des Cactus and Marco Calliari, Caracol, Ève Cournoyer, Tricot Machine, Olivier Brousseau, Nicolas Jobin, Matt Lipscombe, L’Orosité, and Paule-Andrée Cassidy.

Independent of all government funding, the Collective must find other sources of funding its fight against poverty.  This musical compilation is one of their methods.  The Collective wishes to thank the artists for their solidarity.

The CD Rêver logique is available at all music stores.

Source: Collective for a Quebec Without Poverty

Photos : Louis Turcotte

Under the direction of Marie-Claude Rose, Johanne Chagnon, Vivian Labrie, Micheline Bélisle, Sophie Dupéré, Élisabeth German, France Fournier, Michel O’ Neill, and Ian Renaud-Lauzé TENIR PAROLE ! gathers the speech acts of 155 people, each of whom tells of their participation (however proximate or distant) in the citizens movement that led the Quebec parliament to set a precedent in December 2002 by adopting a law ‘tending towards Quebec without poverty.’

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COMMON MISSION: Building a Poverty-Free Quebec is a new campaign intended to demonstrate our common desire to make Quebec into a poverty-free society and to get the Quebec National Assembly to commit itself, in the name of human rights, to act here and now against poverty.

The COMMON MISSION Campaign: Building a Poverty-Free Quebec proposes three principles:

• everyone must have access to quality public services for all;

• full time work at the minimum salary must raise one from poverty;

• social programs must guarantee an income ensuring people’s dignity and health.

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