CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:
TWO FUND RAISERS FOR OCAP:
Two parties at one time ! The mind boggles. Seems like the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) will be having two fundraisers this coming Friday evening. If you live down Toronto way try to make one. The second one seems to be tied to an academic conference, so I guess it's a costume party. Go dressed as a "discourse".
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There are 2 OCAP fundraisers this Friday, March 13th.:
Please come out to one of them, have fun, and help raise money for OCAP.
1. 'If I Can't Dance, Is It Still My Revolution?'
Website Launch and Dance Party
Featuring Eli Clare Raging Spoon
761 Queen Street West
8:00 onwards
2. 'Shaking up the Discourse'
The Closing Event of the Conference
Lumpen-City: Discourses of Marginality/Marginalizing Discourses
The Toronto Free Gallery
1277 Bloor Street West, east of Lansdowne
7:30 onwards
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'If I Can't Dance, Is It Still My Revolution?':
Website Launch and Dance Party
8pm Friday March 13th
Raging Spoon
761 Queen W.
$10 or Pay What You Can (at the door)
Tickets at Toronto Women's Bookstore and Come As You Are Cheap Drinks.
Wheelchair accessible
.Live captioning.
A fundraiser for OCAP and DAMN 2025
Eli Clare - Author of Exile and Pride and The Marrow’s Telling.
Eli Clare, who is championed as having written the best radical book about disability ever, weaves hope, critical analysis, and compassionate storytelling together in his work on disability and queerness, insisting on the twine of race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability.
A.J. Withers - Author of the Still My Revolution zine series and website;He is a long time and passionate community organizer in Toronto and a co-founder of DAMN 2025.
Performances by: Rafeef Ziadah, Richard Laviolette, Griffin Epstein, and Jes Sachse
"If I can't dance it ain't my revolution" is as true today as it ever was. If you can't dance, you aren't allowed to participate equally in the fight for justice. If you dance cautiously because you are in pain, or "strangely" it isn't your revolution. If you aren't dancing because you have been forcibly restrained it isn't your revolution. If you dance alone because you have been excluded from society because you have an intellectual disability, are psychiatrized, deaf or physically disabled it isn't your revolution.
If you don't dance you aren't allowed to participate equally in the struggle, it isn't your revolution. If you don't fight, if you don't organize, it won't be your revolution and changes implemented will not reflect the diverse needs and perspectives of disabled people. We all dance in our own ways. We all fight in our own ways. We need to create the space for that to be recognized and we need to fight for change together.
for more information contact:
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'Shaking up the Discourse' :
The Closing Event of the Conference
Lumpen-City: Discourses of Marginality/Marginalizing Discourses
Friday March 13th, 2009
The Toronto Free Gallery
1277 Bloor Street West, east of Lansdowne
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7:30 - 9:30pm
*Prospects of Activist Research - A panel discussion with:*
Ashanti Alston, National Jericho Movement
Viviane Saleh-Hanna, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
Rinaldo Walcott, OISE, University of Toronto
David Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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10pm - 1am
*Arts of Resistance - Music, Poetry and Dance*
with performances by:
Por Amor DJ Nik Redman DJ Syrus Ware
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Art Work:
"Voices from Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex."
In connection with the historic Critical Resistance 10th anniversary conference
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Cover: $5 or pay-what-you-can
Proceeds toward the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
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