Hey Toronto! Fri Oct 10th, 7pm, launching Squat the City! with a stellar lineup of community activists also! It's free but you need to get tickets. www.facebook.com/events/32466... www.eventbrite.ca/e/squat-the-... #torontolife #bookstagram #artistic #activist #housing #tenantrights #solidarity

Sis Viv & I released a new non-trad drums & violin CD, Thrunkit! A benefit album for the grassroots Solidarity Collectives in Ukraine. On Bandcamp. normannawrocki.bandcamp.com/album/the-na... #solidarity #ukraine #postrock #drums #violin #experimentalmusic #improvisedmusic #indiemusician

"A brilliant organizer’s handbook" — rabble.ca Available @ better bookshops or from: leftwingbooks.net/products/squ... Upcoming book launches: Victoria Anarchist Bookfair 21.9.25 www.facebook.com/events/32466... #HousingForAll #tenantrights #arts #activist #solidarity #communityorganising #cabaret

Check out my interview with @normannawrocki.bsky.social, a long-time activist and prolific musician and writer in Montreal. He talks about housing struggles, strengthening movements through the arts, being inspired by Zapatistas and Palestinian youth, and his new book. mediacoop.ca/node/119300

Our new daring drums & violin album coming! Sister & brother housingcleaning music. Infectious. Original. Raw. Explosive. Online listening party launch Mon July 7 on BANDCAMP. But 1st sign up for a fan account. normannawrocki.bandcamp.com/merch/the-na... #postrock, #postpunk, #indie, #ukrainian

Tune in to CKUT 90.3 FM, 5pm on Thurs June 26 to hear "Radio Renovictions" interview about my new book, ‘Squat the City! How to use the arts for housing justice.’ Pic: Rhythm Activism (Sylvain Côté & myself) playing our song, 'Condo Vampire', from our housing rights cabaret. ckut.ca/playlists/RN

My latest books now also @ Iron Dog Books, 2671 E Hastings St., Vancouver and Massy Books, 229 E Georgia St, Vancouver. For Montreal, Kersplebedeb Books does FREE LOCAL DELIVERY if you order it from their website: leftwingbooks.net/products/squ... #housing #art #activist #bookstagram #books

Heads up: July 7, 2025, The Nawrockis (sis Viv & I) launch a new full length album online. Experimental. Epic. Exciting. Fun. Like us. Polish/Ukrainian roots, eh. www.facebook.com/TheNawrockis #drums #violin #duo #indiemusic #experimentalmusic #soundscape #ambientmusic

My recent interview about my Squat the City! book with CBC Radio’s ever sharp & wonderful "On The Coast" host, Gloria Macarenko. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #vancouver #HousingForAll #tenantrights #thearts #Activism

With the ever genial proprietor of Vancouver's beloved MacLeod's Books, Don Stewart, selling my Squat the City! How to use the arts for housing justice. MacLeod’s is one of Canada's top used & antiquarian bookstores, 455 W. Pender. #HousingForAll #thearts #tenantrights #macleodsbook #activism

Re-stocking cool East End indie bookstores with my new "Squat the City! How to use the arts for housing justice." Spartacus Books, 101 - 1983 Commercial Drive; People's Co-op Bookstore, 1391 Commercial Dr & with Nena of Cross & Crows Books, 2836 Commercial Drive. leftwingbooks.net/collections/...

"Squat the City: How to use the arts for housing justice”, launching Sat May 24, 7pm @ Vancouver's Spartacus Books. With film, music & speakers. Fun! www.facebook.com/events/98963... Book trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCwn... leftwingbooks.net/collections/... #tenantrights #thearts #activism

Music, poetry, art, theatre, cassettes, protest, history/lessons/strategies to fight for tenants' and housing rights for all. leftwingbooks.net/products/squ... #tenantsrights, #housingrights, #squattingmovement, #music, #poetry, #theatre, #protest, #resistance, #montreal, #rentstrike

My exciting new book, Squat The City! How To Use The Arts For Housing Justice. Non-fiction. Mtl launch 15/4/25, BMP, 5-7pm Book trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCwn... www.facebook.com/events/54131... Distributed by Leftwingbooks ISBN 978-1-989701-41-6 leftwingbooks.net/collections/...

We had a great run, 18 years long, but here’s my article about the end of the Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival. Get yer copy of the ever-fab Detroit-based Fifth Estate, Spring 2025 www.fifthestate.org/archive/416-... More info: www.anarchistetheatrefestival.com/en/about

Thanks to all who came to our POETS FOR THE MONTREAL TENANTS' UNION benefit reading! (SLAM-MATU). And to the amazing poets who shared their work! The power & magic of poetry to help tenants organize and defend their rights. linktr.ee/slam.matu #poetry #tenantsunion #tenantsrights #montreal #poets

Tomorrow / Demain! Thurs / jeudi March 6 mars, 12 hot poets / 12 poétes chaud! Reading in solidarity with Montreal Tenants’ Union SLAM-MATU / Une bénéfice bilingue en solidaritié avec le Syndicat des locataires autonomes de Mtl. 7pm/19h, Bar Milton Parc Co-op. www.facebook.com/events/13799...

4 more of Montreal's finest reading to help the Montréal Tenants' Union, SLAM,defend tenants' rights, 6.03.25, BMP Co-op, 7pm. 12 poets in a night of solidarity poetry! Kelly Norah Drukker, Hubert Gendron-Blais, Marilou Craft & Nawrocki. www.facebook.com/events/13799... #poet #poetry #tenantsrights

In solidarity with the Montreal Autonomous Tenants' Union. With/avec: Ahmad Al-khatat Alex Sadeum Bryan Sentes Darby Minott Bradford Deanna Radford George Slobodzian Hubert Gendron-Blais Kelly Norah Drukker Laura Doyle Péan Marilou Craft Norman Nawrocki DJ Swan (CKUT's Free Kick Radio Show) plus +!

www.westmountmag.ca/fundraiser-t... 12 Montreal poets joining the battle for tenants rights! Squat the city, eh! #tenants, #tenantsunion, #tenantsrights, #poetry, #poets, #Montreal, #union, #solidarity, #noevictions, #rentstrike

www.facebook.com/events/13799... A benefit night of poetry & music for the Montreal Autonomous Tenants' Union / Syndicat des locataries Mtl (SLAM-MATU). Une soirée de poésie et de musique au profit du Montreal Autonomous Tenants' Union / Syndicat des locataries Mtl (SLAM-MATU). linktr.ee/slam.matu

Our new re-written trad Uke song full of meaning for the resistance today—everywhere! Marks year 3 of continued Ukrainian resistance to the russian invasion. A benefit for the group, Solidarity Collectives in Ukraine. Please donate. www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jozQ...

Not even a 50 vehicle pile up on Highway 10 yesterday could stop ‘Big Mouth’ from delivering copies of his book & speaking to high school English lit classes east of Montreal. Part of the 'Culture in the Schools' Quebec program. Teaches can invite me. Snowstorm or not.

Once we were the 'illegals,' spoken word/music from my Displaced/Misplaced CD for Solidarity Across Borders & The Immigrant Workers Centre. normannawrocki.bandcamp.com/.../displace... #illegals #immigrants #refugeerights #noborders, #solidarity #HumanRights #migrants www.youtube.com/watch?v=48sV...

Hey now– it’s out! We’re Meant to Work With Our Hands: an interview in conversation with my editor Robert Colman, featured in The Miramichi Reader. A great conversation– thanks Rob! miramichireader.ca/2025/01/were...

Wrote, recorded & released this song in 1993 to support Leonard Peltier. He’s finally free! Yay! 'Leonard Peltier,' by Rhythm Activism off our five track EP, Tumbleweed. Whole album: normannawrocki.bandcamp.com/album/tumble... #LeonardPeltier, #Lakota, #firstnations www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqQ4...