With one of Canada’s most respected antiquarian book dealers, Don Stewart in Vancouver's beloved McLeod’s Books. 2 floors crammed with treasure like Mao’s little Red Book & my newest, The East End Rules, An East Van Memoir. Support indie bookshops like Don’s. www.instagram.com/macleodsbooks/

Tonight, Vancouver, 7pm, Spartacus Books, 'The East End Rules, An East Van Memoir' with videos & stories about the rad rad East End in the 1960s & '70s. Working class kids rocking the school & the streets. With Marcy Toms, ex-Templeton teacher. Free, eh. #SFU #eastvan #radical #protest #solidarity

Hear about the years that rocked a generation of Templeton & SFU students from 1967 to 1971, protest to graduation. With former Temp teacher, Marcy Toms. Plus videos! Then read my book, 'The East End Rules, An East Van Memoir.' Sunday March 15, 7pm @ Spartacus Books, 1983 Commercial Dr. Free!

BECAUSE OF POPULAR DEMAND, THE 2PM SESSION IS SOLD OUT! A SECOND SESSION HAS BEEN ADDED FOR THE SAME DAY, SAT MAR 7TH FOR 3:15PM . Free, but pre-registration required. With videos and disucssion about the 'hood in the 1960s & '70s & what politicised me! vpl.bibliocommons.com/.../699f93e5...

Catch you at one of 4 Vancouver launch events! Or in Toronto! #memoir #activism #EastVan #history #Vancouver #radical #anarchist #solidarity #communityorganizing #yippies #workingclass #fiction #blackrosebooks #normannawrocki utpdistribution.com/978155164834...

Join us in Victoria for a fun multi-media booklaunch & discussion Tues March 3rd, Camas Books, 7pm, free! www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4BE... #thoreau #camasbooks #victoria #anarchism #EastVan #vancouver #activism #SFU #hastingssunrise #anarchists #rebels #radicals #communityorganising #greenpeace

Snippit from an interview. The events, people, influences in East Van that molded & formed me. Thanks to Irwin Rapoport, Westmountmag. My birthday party / book launch / ‘60s & ‘’70s dance party @ the Casa, Sun Feb 15, 5pm. Free! www.facebook.com/events/86913... www.westmountmag.ca/norman-nawro...

My newest book out now from University of Toronto Press Distribution. Canada book tour, eh. Order now: utpdistribution.com/978155164834... #memoir #EastVan #EastEnd #Vancouver #history #fiction #anarchy #communityorganising #workingclass #studentpower #SFU #Thoreau #Greenpeace #Unions #MacLeodsBooks

1960s & '70s East Van/East End Vancouver. Working class heroes, hippies, Yippies, anarchists, rad students & more . . . #EastVan #EastEnd #Vancouver #1960s #1970s #SFU #protest #revolt #antiwar #Greenpeace #studentrights #studentpower #freespeech #freedom #rebels #blackrosebooks #riots

Celebrate Solstice with 6 amazing non-Xmas music playing indie acts! Sun Dec 21 @ Casa del Popolo, Mtl, 7pm doors, 8pm show! Crazy, wild, enchanting, experimental, some Ukrainian folk, piano, harp, violin, drums, guitars, electronica! #harp, #piano Tix: : tickets.venuepilot.com/e/norman-naw...

"A guide for the ways in which everyone can use whatever talents & interests they might have in order to make meaningful change." Tx Ashton Diduck, Montreal Review of Books! #housing #HousingForAll #HousingIsAHumanRight #housingcrisis #HousingJustice #montreal leftwingbooks.net/products/squ...

In Oct 1985 I started my stage career & released albums as a spoken word artist with Rhythm Activism, my first band, co-founded with guitar meister Sylvain Côté. With sis Viv, The Nawrockis will soon release our first spoken word single. #drums #violin #experimentalmusic #spokenword #ClimateAction

Sis Viv & I after recording a hot new climate crisis spoken word & music single as The Nawrockis. Launch date coming soon. Meanwhile, hear our last album, ‘Thrunkit!’ on Bandcamp. normannawrocki.bandcamp.com/music www.facebook.com/TheNawrockis #climatecrisis, #climatejustice #ClimateAction

Thanks to all who came to our 'Squat the City! Toronto booklaunch with inspirational speakers from the York South-Weston Tenants Union, Parkdale Housing Justice Network, High Park Tenants’ Association, Parkdale-High Park for Palestine, Davenport for Palestine. leftwingbooks.net/.../squat-th....

If ya open yer eyes, you’ll find re-stocked Squat The City! @ Montreal’s Librairie Insoumise, 2033, boul. St-Laurent. Otherwise, see ya in TORONTO 10.10.25, 7pm, for an amazing book launch event @ Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Ave, with 6 local activists! www.facebook.com/events/32466...

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...