CANADIAN POLITICS:
FURTHER CROSS COUNTRY EVENTS ON THE G20 FALLOUT:


The repercussions of the police riot during last summer's G20 summit in Toronto continue to echo, as do the issues raised by the demonstrators there. The following is a compilation of upcoming events in Toronto and elsewhere relevant to this issue. It comes from the Toronto Community Solidarity Network.
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A Call for Court Support + Upcoming G20 Legal Defence Fundraisers & Community Solidarity Network Endorsed Events

A: Call for Court Support in Toronto:

November 30-December 2 - G20 “conspiracy” bail challenge - Jaggi Singh

B: G20 Legal Defence Fundraisers:

Toronto:

November 30 -PWYC DOCUMENTARY DOUBLE FEATURE NIGHTS. @ SOYBOMB!
December 3 - Radical Movie Night
December 18 - AntiCapitalist Holiday Bash!

Saskatchewan:

November 29 - Regina: Lessons from the G20 Protests and State Repression
December 3 - Saskatoon: Building Movements of Resistance: Lessons from the G8/G20 Organizing
Radical Cookbook Callout - Your Recipes Needed!

C: Community Solidarity Network Endorsed Events in Toronto:

December 1 - Give Rob Ford the Welcome He Deserves!
December 4 - People’s Assembly on Climate Justice

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A: Call for Court Support in Toronto:

-G20 “conspiracy” bail challenge continues at Ontario Superior Court
-Defendant to ask that all bail conditions are rescinded, including ban on demonstrations

When: Tuesday, November 30, 10am
Where: Ontario Superior Court at 361 University Avenue
between Dundas & Queen Street
(for exact courtroom location, look for “Singh, Jaggi” on the court roll)

If you oppose the restrictive bail conditions imposed on all G20 “conspiracy” defendants – ban on demonstrations, house arrest, non-association, ban on passports and cellphones, and more -- we ask that you attend court in large numbers this TUESDAY.

The bail review might continue on Wednesday and Thursday, but we’ll provide more details after the Tuesday hearing, which this time is expected to last most of the day. We are hoping as many people as possible can attend the beginning of the hearings on Tuesday from 10am to 1pm (approx) and then again from 2pm-4:30pm (approx).

BACKGROUND:

This week, starting on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, one of the 19 remaining co-accused in the G20 conspiracy case will be challenging all bail conditions imposed as conditions of release from prison.

These restrictive and onerous conditions include house arrest, non-association with various individuals and groups, the inability to possess a passport or to use a cell phone, and more. Other co-accused face even more restrictive curfews and house arrest conditions. In sum, the bail conditions are meant to keep defendants isolated and marginalized from their communities of support.

The conditions themselves constitute punishment of fellow community organizers before they’ve even had a trial.

Significantly, the bail conditions include a ban on participating, organizing or attending “any public demonstration.” These restrictive conditions have been used to jail co-accused Alex Hundert for simply speaking at a university panel. Alex remains in detention, and is expected to remain in detention until at least January/February 2011.

Jaggi Singh, a member of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC) and No One Is Illegal-Montreal, and a co-accused in the G20 conspiracy case, has been under house arrest conditions for four months. This Tuesday, with the support of Toronto lawyer Peter Rosenthal as well as other allies, he will ask that all conditions be rescinded.

Jaggi’s court application is supported by various witnesses and affidavits. Part of the application includes an extended affidavit by Bryan Palmer, an historian of labour and social movements.

PEN Canada will also be intervening in the case in support of rescinding the “no demonstration” condition. In their words: “Preventing someone from participating in a public demonstration does nothing to ensure the safety of a single Canadian.”

The Ligue des droits et libertés from Québec also issued a public statement in support of Jaggi’s challenge. They describe the bail conditions as "draconian" and "an abusive interpretation" of the Charter, "contrary to the presumption of innocence.”

We strongly encourage you to “demonstrate” (pardon the word) in court and to the public that there is a community of support that rejects the bail conditions that have been imposed on our friends and allies. So, if you can, please attend court this TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, whether for 30 minutes, or the whole day.

[NOTE: There is a compulsory search before entering the Court building; the search includes emptying your pockets, going through a metal detector, as well as a x-ray scan of any bag or package you’re bringing into the building.]

TO STAY IN TOUCH, and for updates:
La Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes, CLAC (Montreal): blocampmontreal@gmail.com - www.clac2010.net
Community Solidarity Network (Toronto): community.mobilize@resist.ca - http://g20.torontomobilize.org/

SUPPORTERS AND MEDIA can get updates about what’s happening at court by phoning Jessica Denyer (Community Solidarity Network) at 416-708-3195, Craig Fortier (No One Is Illegal-Toronto) at 416-735-0409, or Blandine Juchs (La Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes, CLAC) at 438-838-8498.

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B: G20 Legal Defence Fundraisers:

TORONTO:

PWYC DOCUMENTARY DOUBLE FEATURE NIGHTS. @ SOYBOMB!

Date: November 30
Time: 8:30-11:30pm EST
Location: SOYBOMB! (156 Bathurst St., Toronto ON)

Exploring Forgotten Urban Spaces
This week we look into forgotten urban spaces, the people who explore them for fun, and the people who live in them.

Dark Days (2000)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235327/
"A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City. "

Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness (2007)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1249189 /
"A documentary about abandoned, neglected, or otherwise "off limits" places...and the people who explore them."

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This is a pay-what-you-can series of documentary screenings every Tuesday @ Soybomb, and all the proceeds will be donated to the G20 Legal Defence Fund. for more info check: http://g20.torontomobilize.org/support

FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126316160763227
FB Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117635874952714

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Radical Movie Night

Date: December 3
Time: 7pm-midnight EST
Location: Bike Pirates (1292 Bloor St W., Toronto ON)

On Friday December 3rd we will be hosting a radical movie night to raise funds for our friends and allies facing G20 related legal charges.

Come join us for an amazing night of movies, drinks, board games, snacks, hanging out, and all around rockin good times.

Newly designed G20 Legal Defence Tshirts & patches will also be for sale.

7pm – 9pm: Land and Freedom (Tierra y Libertad)

Directed by Ken Loach, this 1995 film narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who decides to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. A heart wrenching portrayal of the attempt by ordinary people to build an anarchist society, and its subsequent betrayal. The movie won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

10:30-midnight: What to do in Case of Fire (Was tun, wenn’s brennt?)

Directed by Gregor Schnitzler, this 2002 film tells the humorous and touching story of six anarchist friends living as squatters in Berlin in the 80s, when they leave a handcrafted bomb in a mansion. Only thirteen years later the bomb explodes, wounding two people, forcing the group to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated years ago.

Free popcorn!

Pay what you can (suggested $5-10). Come for one or both movies.
All proceeds go to the G20 Legal Defence Fund.

FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118997408162612

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AntiCapitalist Holiday Bash!

Date: December 18
Time: 6:30pm-1am EST
Location: U of T Grad Students' Union Gym (16 Bancroft Ave., Toronto ON)

Does the hyper-consumer craziness of the holiday season have you feeling down? Amidst the twinkle lights and the insidious calls to shop, shop and shop some more, are you spending your spare moments plotting the eventual demise of capitalism?

If so, you should join us for the Anti-Capitalist Holiday Bash! On Saturday, December 18th the Community Solidarity Network Fundraising Committee will be throwing the anti-capitalist event of the season to fundraise for our friends and allies facing G20 related charges.

Join us for a community dinner (vegan and vegetarian options will be served), followed by an evening of low key musical performances, workshops, games, prison letter writing, and a ‘really really free market’ exchange.

Tickets: $10-15 sliding scale, or PWYC (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)

All proceeds go to the G20 Legal Defence Fund.

If you have anything to donate for the free exchange, would be interested in helping with food preparation, or would like to help out in any other way please email us at events.g20solidarity@gmail.com .

Hope to see you there!

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SASKATCHEWAN:

Regina: Lessons from the G20 Protests and State Repression

Date: November 29

Time: 7:30-10:30pm CST
Location: The Hookah Lounge (2115 Broad St.,Regina SK)

This past June, the world's attention was drawn to the streets of Toronto, where thousands of demonstrators protesting the G20 summit were met with violent repression and the largest mass arrest in Canadian history. While the media frenzy has now subsided, activists continue to be targeted by police, and scores of community organizers have been shackled with far-reaching bail conditions and the prospect of extensive jail time. The need for support and solidarity in the face of this ongoing repression continues, as does the responsibility to carry on the work of building movements of resistance to the G20 agenda.

Sharmeen Khan, a spokesperson for the Toronto Community Mobilization Network, will be speaking in Regina on the lessons learned from organizing in the lead-up to the G20 protests, as well as the criminalization of dissent surrounding the Summit. Khan will discuss the broad-based opposition to the G20 and the reasons why thousands of demonstrators came together in Toronto this past June, as well as the aftermath of police repression and ongoing legal battles.

Admission to this event is free, though we are asking participants to donate what they can to go toward the G20 Legal Defense Fund, which is seeking to raise $500,000 to go toward the legal expenses of those facing charges from the protests. For those who wish to donate, but cannot attend, please go to G20.torontomobilize.org for details on how to make a contribution.

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Sharmeen Khan grew up and became politicized in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she contributed to Briarpatch Magazine and the Prairie Dog. She was active in the women's movement in Victoria and Vancouver before moving to Toronto to complete her MA in Communications. Sharmeen now works for the Ontario Public Interest Research Group at York University, and is also an editor with Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory of Action.

FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176713215675033

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Saskatoon: Building Movements of Resistance: Lessons from the G8/G20 Organizing and the Repression of Dissent

Date: December 3
Time: 7:30-9:30pm CST
Location: Grace Westminster United Church (505 10th St E., Saskatoon SK)

2010 SASKATOON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR KEYNOTE ADDRESS

In this talk, Toronto-based community organizer and independent media activist Sharmeen Khan will speak about her experiences and insights into the resistance to the G8/G20 summits which took place in Toronto in June of 2010.

The summits are now infamous for the massive scale of the security operation which cost Canadian taxpayers nearly $1 billion as well as the size and violence of the police crackdown on dissent. By the end of the weekend, nearly 1100 arrests had been made (the largest mass arrests in Canadian history) and stories began to emerge of widespread abuse of arrestees and the trampling of civil liberties.

In the talk, Sharmeen will cover a range of topics related to the G8/G20 protests including:

- the broad-based organizing efforts that took place in the lead-up to the summits (which built links between diverse communities and strove to empower people living in marginalized communities to speak with their own voices about the issues facing them in their day-to-day lives),

- the police repression targeting key community organizers and the sweeping arrests which saw thousands of police round up protesters, bystanders, journalists and legal observers alike,

- the ongoing legal support of the 100 or so people still facing charges,

- and the overall impact that the event and its aftermath have had on organizing efforts for grassroots social change.

Please join us to listen and discuss this timely and important issue in the struggle to build a more just and sustainable world.

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Sharmeen Khan was a media spokesperson for the Toronto Community Mobilization Network, the main network organizing the resistance against the G20. She now works at the Ontario Public Interest Research Group at York University.

FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129482140443512

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Radical Cookbook Callout!

Deadline: January 1st 2011

Calling all radical cooks and activist bakers- we need your help!

The Community Solidarity Network's Fundraising committee is in the process of putting together a cookbook to sell as a fundraiser for the G20 legal defence fund, and are seeking recipe submissions.

From dinner dishes to desserts, and everything in between we want your recipes!

To submit a recipe, or if you have any questions email us at:
g20cookbook [at] gmail.com

FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168121463200994
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C: Community Solidarity Network Endorsed Events in Toronto:

Give Rob Ford the Welcome He Deserves!

Date: December 1

Time:12pm EST
Location:Toronto City Hall (100 Queen St W., Toronto ON)

Mayor Ford: Respect People!

On December 1, Rob Ford becomes Mayor of Toronto. In his campaign speeches and his public statements, Ford has called for cuts to fair wages, a dismantling of the already inaccessible public transit system, supported Toronto's police brutality during the G20, and repeatedly expressed racist anti-immigrant sentiments and outright hatred for poor people.

While claiming to speak on behalf of the 'majority', Ford actually believes in a Toronto for the few. He believes in a Toronto divided into suburbs and the downtown. A Toronto divided into streetcar riders, bikers and drivers. A Toronto divided into immigrants, refugees and citizens. A Toronto where the homeless are driven out of sight as social housing is sold off to developers. A Toronto where police budgets grow and cops act with impunity. A Toronto that is open for business, but closed for the public.

This is not our Toronto. Our Toronto is about justice, dignity, and respect for immigrants, precarious workers, poor people and unions.

On December 1, at 12noon, a public, family friendly demonstration is being called outside City Hall as Rob Ford becomes Mayor to remind him what the people of this city need, expect and demand.

Please invite all your friends. Keep visiting http://ocap.ca/ and http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/ for updates.

FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136768189707239

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People’s Assembly on Climate Justice

Date: December 4
Time: 9:30am-5pm EST
Location: Sidney Smith Hall - rm 2118 (100 St George St., Toronto ON)

On June 23rd 2010, in advance of the G20, Toronto held its first People’s Assembly in community response to the climate crisis. Now on December 4th, 2010, activists, groups, community organizers and neighbourhood participants will gather for the second Toronto People’s Assembly on Climate Justice.

Faced with the illegitimate and false solutions promoted through the UN climate talks, La Via Campesina has called for the creation of a thousand Cancuns to counter the next round of negotiations in Mexico from Nov. 29th to Dec. 11th. For Dec. 4th, the Global Climate Campaign has initiated an international day of action, and the national call-out by the Council of Canadians to hold countrywide assemblies on the same day has been answered by communities across Canada. The second Assembly, as a manifestation of these calls to resistance, will serve as the launching point for a series of regular Assemblies in an effort to build a united movement for Climate Justice in Toronto.

The challenge of the climate crisis can only be met with a coordinated response that will bring forth our power in numbers. It also requires that we confront the root causes of the crisis and not just the symptoms. Through a horizontal people’s process, the Assembly will seek to create a space where we can work together to share experience, knowledge, and resources in order to build a local response to a global crisis. The Assembly hopes to work towards this objective through channels of collective dialogue and community empowerment.

Our goal is to generate new possibilities and new hopes in order to bridge the gap from separately operating groups, communities, and individuals, to converge into one diverse, united movement. We must equip ourselves with the tools we need to fulfill our potential as an effective Social and Climate Justice community.

For More information:
The Toronto People’s Assembly on Climate Justice
http://www.torontopeoplesassembly.wordpress.com/
peoplesassembly.toronto@gmail.com
647-869-6496

Sponsors: Council of Canadians, Greenpeace, OPIRG-Toronto, Toronto Climate Campaign, Toronto Bolivia Solidarity

Endorsers: Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, Canadian Animal Liberation Movement, Community Solidarity Network, Community Solidarity Response Toronto, Earth Rangers, ecoSanity, Environmental Justice Toronto, Indigenous Environment Network, Kairos-Toronto, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, Polaris Institute, Science For Peace, Toronto Vegetarian Association

FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107327446002085

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Support all those still facing charges. Donate to the G20 Legal Defence Fund:

http://g20.torontomobilize.org/

LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG:
DIGGING THE KLONDIKE:


Here's one for all you Canadian history buffs. Next Wednesday, November 3, Charlotte Gray, author of 'Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich In The Klondike' will be speaking on the history of the town of Dawson in the Yukon. So get out your gold nuggets for this interesting lecture sponsored by Canada's History Magazine.
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Charlotte Gray, Author of Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike
Time
Wednesday, November 3 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm

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Location
Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall, University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB

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Created By Canada's History Magazine - Formerly known as The Beaver

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More Info
Charlotte Gray, author of the critically-acclaimed Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike, will be taking us on a visual journey to the Yukon frontier town of Dawson City. Charlotte spent three months there as a Writer-in-Residence at Berton House, the childhood home of Canada's beloved author, Pierre Berton.

Charlotte will share with us the history of the town, as well as images and stories of the eccentric characters she met there.

How to register: Sign up at our online Event Registration page: http://canadashistory.ca/Community/Calendar-of-Events/Lectures.aspx .

All students can attend for free (must show ID).

General audience: To secure your seat, please pay in advance. Space is limited. Tickets are $15 per person, or $30 for the remaining three lectures in the series.

ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS:

TWENTY YEARS SINCE OKA:

It's been 20 years since the 'Oka Crisis' where the Canadian army was called in to supress an occuption of native lands in and around the town of Oka. The occupiers had previously forced the Sureté de Québec (the Québec provincial police) to withdraw from the area. Where does the struggle for native self government stand today 20 years after this event ? As part of the Montréal Festival of Anarchy speakers from the various first nations involved will be holding a public meeting next Wednesday May 12. Here's the details.

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20 Years Since Oka: Kanienkehaka Communities in Resistance
Informational Meeting
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: de Sève Cinema
Street: 1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest
City/Town: Montreal, QC
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20 Years Since Oka: Kanienkehaka Communities in Resistance
with speakers from Kanehsatake, Kahnawake, Akwesasne, Tyendinaga & Six Nations

WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 7pm
de Sève Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest
(métro Guy-Concordia)

Free. Wheelchair accessible.
Presentations in English with whisper translation available into French.
If you need childcare, please contact 514-848-7583 48 hours in advance.
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Speakers include:

-> RUBY MONTOUR: Ruby is a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, Mohawk nation, Turtle Clan. She faces a multi-million dollar lawsuit for her actions to reclaim her land and stop illegal development that annexes un-ceded Indigenous territory.

-> SHAWN BRANT: Shawn is a member of the Tyendinaga Mohawk Community, active in the defense of the land and rights of his people, for which he has been targeted for arrest and prison, as well as a lawsuit by CN Rail.

-> JOE DEOM: Joe is a member of the Bear Clan and a member of the Longhouse in Kahnawake. He was a negotiator on behalf of Mohawks during the events of 1990.

-> CLIFTON ARIHWAKEHTE: Clifton is a member of the Kanehsatake Mohawk Community and a participant in the events of 1990.

[Speaker from Akwesasne to be confirmed shortly.]
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Twenty years ago this July, the people of Kanehsatake and Kahnawake rose up in defense of their ancestral lands, facing off against government officials, the police, and the Canadian Army. Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) communities have been on the forefront of resistance to colonialism in Canada. The events at Kanehsatake and Kahnawake were a crucial landmark in the history of Indigenous resistance to colonialism, and in the assertion of Indigenous self-determination.

This event brings together community members from Kanehsatake, Kahnawake, Akwesasne, Tyendinaga and Six Nations. The panelists will reflect together about the impact of the events of 1990 as well as current struggles for justice in their communities.

Presented by the Indigenous Solidarity Committee & No One Is Illegal-Montréal.
Part of the Festival of Anarchy during the month of May in Montreal.
Co-sponsored by the Quebec Public Interest Research Groups (QPIRG) at Concordia & McGill.
The Indigenous Solidarity Committee is a working group of QPIRG Concordia.

INFO:
indigenoussolidaritymontreal@gmail.com
514-848-7583


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20 ans après Oka : les communautés Kanienkehaka en résistance
Avec des conférenciers de Kanehsatake, Kahnawake, Akwesasne, Tyendinaga et de Six Nations.

MERCREDI, 12 MAI, 19h
Cinéma de Sève, 1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest
(métro Guy-Concordia)

Accessible aux chaises roulantes. Gratuit.
Présentations en anglais avec traduction chuchotée vers le français.
Si vous avez besoin d’un service de garde, svp contactez-nous 48h avant l’événement au 514-848-7583.
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Les conférenciers incluent :

-> RUBY MONTOUR : Ruby est membre du Clan de la Tortue de la nation Mohawk du territoire des Six Nations. Elle fait face à une poursuite de plusieurs millions de dollars suite à ses actions de réclamation de sa terre et de blocage d’un développement illégal annexant un territoire autochtone non cédé.

-> SHAWN BRANT : Shawn est un membre de la communauté Mohawk de Tyendinaga. Il est actif dans la défense du territoire et des droits de son peuple, raisons pour lesquelles il a été arrêté et incarcéré ainsi que poursuit par CN Rail.

-> JOE DEOM : Joe est un membre du Clan de l’Ours et de la Maison longue de Kahnawake. Il a agi en tant que négociateur pour les Mohawks lors des événements de 1990.

-> CLIFTON ARIHWAKEHTE : Clifton est un membre de la communauté Mohawk de Kanehsatake et un participant aux événements de 1990.

[Un conférencier d’Akwesasne sera confirmé sous peu.]
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Il y a aura 20 ans ce mois de juillet, les peuples de Kanehsatake et de Kahnawake se soulevaient pour défendre leurs territoires ancestraux, affrontant ainsi les fonctionnaires, la police et l’armée canadienne. Les communautés Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) ont été au front de la résistance contre le colonialisme au Canada. Les événements de Kanehsatake et de Kahnawake furent des jalons cruciaux dans l’histoire de la résistance autochtone au colonialisme et de l’affirmation de l’autodétermination autochtone.

Cet événement rassemblera des membres des communautés de Kanehsatake, Kahnawake, Akwesasne, Tyendinaga et de Six Nations. Les panélistes réfléchiront collectivement sur les impacts des événements de 1990 ainsi que sur les luttes actuelles de leurs communautés.

Présenté par le Comité de Solidarité Autochtone et Personne n’est illégal – Montréal.
Cet événement s’inscrit dans le Festival de l’anarchie tenu au mois de mai à Montréal.
Endossé par le Groupes de recherche d'intérêt publique (GRIP) à Concordia et à McGill.
Le Comité de Solidarité Autochtone est un groupe de travail du GRIP à Concordia.

INFO :
indigenoussolidaritymontreal@gmail.com
514-848-7583

LOCAL EVENTS- WINNIPEG

STARBUCKS UNION SPEAKER:

Coming up next Saturday May 8 a representative of the IWW's Starbucks Union will be speaking at the downtown library. The Starbucks Union has been fighting for years to unionize the workers on whose backs the trendy Starbucks chain is built. Come out and hear all about it. Here's the details.

SUSUSUSUSUSUSUSU
Starbucks Workers Union Speaking Tour
Type: Informational Meeting
Date: Saturday, May 8, 2010
Time: 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: 2nd Floor Millenium Library (Anhang Room) - 251 Donald Street, Winnipeg MB

Description.

Come out and learn more about the experiences of Starbucks workers across North America who are organizing unions in their workplaces. Erik Forman of the Twin Cities General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World and Starbucks Workers Union will be speaking.
This public event is FREE but donations towards the SWU are greatly appreciated.

LOCAL EVENTS-WINNIPEG:

BOOK LAUNCH-'THE TYRANNY OF RIGHTS':

This just in from the Viva Mondragon facebook page...A book launch for 'The Tyranny of Rights' down at our local infoshop/restaurant/grocery store Mondragon, 91 Albert St., Winnipeg, MB.

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Brewster Kneen "Tyranny of Rights" Book Launch:
Date:
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Time:
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
Mondragon

91 Albert St.

Winnipeg, MB
Description
Brewster Kneen, author of the food security classic Farmageddon, is back! Join us for the launch of his latest book The Tyranny of Rights. In this provocative book, Brewster Kneen asks why the demand for rights – human rights, intellectual property rights, the right to save seed, the right to food – has become such a dominant strategy of movements for social and economic justice. As he discusses this question, he uncovers ways in which concept and language of rights imposes the individualistic and legalistic approach on other civilizations and ways of thinking. Kneen intends to spark dialogue and debate about the concept of ‘rights’ and the best ways to achieve genuine justice and equity among people and the Creation we inhabit.

IMMIGRANTS/HEALTH CARE:

FAIR HEALTH CARE FOR IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES:

The following notice of a public meeting on the issue of health care for immigrants and refugees this Thursday comes from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). catch it if you're down Toronto way.

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Crossing the Borders:

Creating a Just Health Care System for Immigrants and Refugees:‏
~Please forward widely~

Crossing the Borders:

Creating a Just Health Care System for Immigrants and Refugees

* Presented by "Health for All"

Thursday November 26th

6:30pm

55 Gould Street, Student Campus Centre, Room 115

Ryerson University

*An Evening Panel & Discussion Featuring:*

*Paul Caulford, MD, Scarborough Urban Health Outreach Centre (Clinic for the Uninsured) will discuss the reasons for and workings of the SUHOC, a health clinic that serves a large population of undocumented/uninsured persons.

* Bob Gardner, PhD, The Wellesley Institute will speak about the health care system and structural issues of equity

* Nell T.will speak about her first-hand experience of attempting to access care as a person with precarious status

*MacDonald Scott, LLCL will speak, as Nell's legal representation, from a legal perspective, outlining her unprecedented case in attempting to access Interim Federal Health, without status.

* Health is a fundamental human right. One that is being denied to hundreds of thousands of people living in Toronto. Increasingly conservative immigration policies are leading to high rates of rejection of refugee and permanent resident applications. Such policies leave many migrants with no access to health insurance. It is well established that immigrants tend to arrive healthier than the general Canadian population, but with the stresses associated with migration,migrant health deteriorates and the need to access health care inevitably arises.

The 200,000 undocumented migrants estimated to live in Toronto are forced to live in chronic fear of becoming ill, and to abandon their medical needs until they become too dire to ignore. Many die without ever having accessed care due to fear of being reported to immigration enforcement and the looming threat of deportation. Afraid of being targeted by immigration enforcement, people are forced to choose between deportation or a healthy life.

Every day in our cities, hundreds of thousands are denied justice at the doors of health care facilities throughout Toronto, and forced to pay impossible fees to access basic medical care. There is a growing consciousness around the GTA that we, as health administrators, front line staff, doctors, nurses, social workers, students, and health professionals, must be able to provide services to all people, irrespective of immigration status, and must work together to create a just health care system that recognizes health as a fundamental human right.

We are coming together to create meaningful and accessible services for all people. We invite you to an evening of discussion that will focus on the question: What would a just health care system in Canada look like?

This participatory evening will bring together people who are doing migrant research, front line health care professionals, as well as administrators and staff to discuss the current challenges and innovations in expanding services, and routes of entry into the health care system for persons without insurance and status. This forum will bring together a number of people who are already engaged with these issues - but also bring in students and those who are seeking to learn more about health issues for undocumented peoples living in Toronto, and across Canada.

*We want proposals, we want questions, we want to hear your experiences and know what you think the answers are. Please join us for this very important event.

* *Join our "Health for All" facebook group to stay updated:**http://www.facebook.com/group.**php?gid=180071088303&ref=ts*<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=180071088303&ref=ts>

*Endorsed by*:

Health Is Political

Health Providers Against Poverty

Medical Reform Group

No-One Is Illegal, Toronto

Nursing Students of Ontario Public Health Interest Group,

U of T Medicine

Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario

Residents without Borders,

University of Toronto

Students for Medicare

The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:

MORE AND MORE ANTI-OLYMPICS EVENTS:

The time for the 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Winter Olympics is drawing nearer and nearer, and, as yet, their is no corporate team favourite in the public money toilet flushing event. Still, there is a lot going on in opposition to the spectacle. Here's a roundup from the Olympic Resistance Network out vancouver way, but, as the following shows the resistance is not just BC based but is now national even international.

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Get involved and upcoming meetings and events:‏
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GET INVOLVED IN ORN!

* ORN General Meeting (open to all!) Sunday Nov 22, ORN General Meeting 6pm @ Spartacus Books, 684 E. Hastings

* If you are unable to come to General Meetings but want to support specific tasks, we will be having regular postering and flyering times.This week join us for flyering; we will have flyers and want to spread information about the Feb convergence to as many people as possible, so please join us!

- Friday November 20 from 3:30 - 5:00 pm at Waterfront Skytrain Station. Meet 3:30 pm at front doors - or if late look for people flyering.

- Tuesday November 24 from 4:30 - 6 pm: flyering at Broadway/Commercial Skytrain Station. Meet 4:30 pm outside Blenz coffeeshop - or if late lookfor people flyering.

- Friday November 27 from from 3:30 - 5:00 pm at Waterfront Skytrain Station. Meet 3:30 pm at front doors - or if late look for people flyering.

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Upcoming Anti-Olympics Events and Meetings:

1) Call for Cross Canada Mobilizing: Extinguish the Torch!

2) Nov 18-21: Installation on Surveilling Public Space

3) Nov 19: Olympics and Freedom of Speech

4) Nov 19: Launch of Dominion's special Olympics issue

5) Nov 19-Nov 20: The Coming Insurrection, Solidarity Means Attack

6) Nov 23: Housing, Homelessness and the 2010 Olympics

7) Nov 26: Security, Civil Liberties and the 2010 Olympics

8) Nov 26: The Right to Adequate Housing with Miloon Kothari

9) Nov 27-28: Youth Resistance through Art

10) Nov 28-29: ORN Weekend of Training and Workshops

11) Nov 29: Community Policing: History and Resistance

12) Nov 30: Understanding the Olympics as part of corporate culture

13) Toronto: 2010: Year of Resistance by our Indigenous Nations

14) Kingston: Olympic Awareness Week organized by Resist 2010 Kingston

15) Portland: 2010 Olympic Resistance Awareness Event

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CALL FOR CROSS-CANADA MOBILIZING:

EXTINGUISH THE OLYMPIC TORCH!

* Route details below *

From October 31 2009 - February 12 2010, the Olympic Torch Relay “A Path of Northern Lights” will be traveling across Canada. The Olympic Resistance Network, based in Vancouver Unceded Coast Salish Territories, is calling on and encouraging our allies to coordinate efforts in over 2000 communities to oppose and resist the Torch Relay.

The origins of the Torch Relay lie in the dark history of the 1936 Games in Berlin, where it was devised as a means to spread Nazi fascism and to promote the Third Reich. The Royal Bank of Canada and Coca Cola are the main sponsors of the 2010 Torch relay. RBC is the top financier of the environmentally devastating Alberta Tar Sands, while Coca Cola has been responsible for health degradation as part of the junk food industry, massive depletion of groundwater and toxic waste pollution in India, and involved in hiring paramilitary groups to violently repress union organizers in Colombia.

It is becoming increasingly evident that far from being simply about sport, the 2010 Olympics is rooted in displacement, corporate greed, militarization, and repression. While Olympic corporate sponsors are getting bailed out, Indigenous lands are being stolen, more people are becoming homeless, thousands are losing their jobs and access to public services, the environment is being destroyed, and civil liberties are being eroded as over a billion dollars are being sunk into security and surveillance measures.

This Torch Relay will be the longest in-country relay in Olympic history, giving us the chance to make some anti-Olympic history!

No Olympics onStolen Native Land!

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If you are organizing an event or action in your city, town, or community please email us the details at olympicresistance@riseup.net so we can compile the information and build strength and unity in our efforts by having this information available on our website. Basic route details (see links below for full information) are as follows:

Nov 16 - Nov 28, 2009: through Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Islands, and New Brunswick: Sydney, Whycocomagh, Port Hawkesbury, Truro, Paq’tnkek, Antigonish, Halifax, Bear River FN, Lunenburg, Charlottetown, Moncton, Sussex, Saint John, Fredericton, Esgenoôpetitj, Grand Falls, and others.

Nov 29 - Dec 11, 2009: through Quebec: Rimouski, Baie-Comeau, Les Escoumins,Saguenay, Lévis, Saint-Georges, Black Lake, Victoriaville,Sherbrooke, Drummondville, Trois-Rivières, Longueuil, Kahnawá:ke, Beaconsfield, Mont-Tremblant, Montréal, Laval, Gatineau, and others Dec 12, 2009 - Jan 4, 2010: through Ontario: Ottawa, Pikwàkanagàn, Akwesasne, Kingston, Tyendinaga, Peterborough, Toronto, Hamilton, St.Catharines, Six Nations, Brantford, Oneida, Leamington, Windsor, Sarnia, London, Stratford, Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, Barrie, Huntsville, Temiskaming, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Red Rock FN, Kenora, and others.

Jan 5 - Jan 20, 2010: through Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta: Winnipeg, Sioux Valley Dakota, Regina, Moose Jaw, Swift Current, Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Moosomin FN, Edmonton, Wetaskiwin, Red Deer,Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Calgary, Canada Olympic Park, Stoney Nation, and more.

Jan 21 - Feb 11, 2010: through BC: Golden, Cranbrook, Nelson, Trail, Osoyoos FN, Penticton, Kelowna, Vernon, Revelstoke, Salmon Arm, Kamloops, 100 Mile House, Williams Lake, Prince George, Smithers, Gitanmaax, Fort St. John, Terrace, Bella Bella, Powell River, Sechelt, Squamish, Whistler, Lil’wat, Merritt, Fraser Valley, Lower Mainland and others.

* Full route information: Complete listing by day:

http://www.vancouver2010.com/dl/00/68/42/-/68420/prop=data/119u8t6/68420.pdf Interactive Map:

http://www.vancouver2010.com/en/torch-relays/olympic-torch-relay/the-route/interactive-map/-/58040/17ckajb/index.html

Provincial and Territorial Routes:

http://www.vancouver2010.com/en/torch-relays/olympic-torch-relay/the-route/provincial-and-territorial-routes/-/58046/wk4d42/index.html

* About the Olympic Resistance Network:

http://web.resist.ca/~orn/blog/?page_id=2

Why we Oppose the 2010 Games:

http://web.resist.ca/~orn/blog/?page_id=6

Video at: http://no2010.com/node/1003

Contact us at olympicresistance@riseup.net

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Surveilling Public Space:

Perspectives on Spectacle The Installation

"...our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance"

Surveilling Public Space: Perspectives on Spectacle

18 - 21 November, 2009 (Wed - Sat)

Interurban Gallery (1 E Hastings Street, Vancouver BC)

Opening with Special Presentation: 18 November, 2009 (Wed) 7:00 PM

Presented and Curated by Simon Fraser University Communication and the Vancouver Public Space Network. Free admission.

What does video surveillance in public space mean to you? Come share your thoughts with artists and scholars from Vancouver, Canada, and around the globe.

"... our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance." Despite Foucault’s famous assertion, it is becoming increasingly clearthat in contemporary society, it is impossible to separate the notion of surveillance from that of spectacle. Technological advances have allowed the surveillance of our cities to become all but invisible, yet at the same time policing and security have become deliberately spectacular. Particularly, the upcoming securitization of Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics will forge a link between spectacle and surveillance on an unprecedented scale.

Surveilling Public Space looks to comment on the increasing normalization of surveillance cameras in contemporary society. Surveillance cameras are not merely functional but are also full of social meaning. The show will portray a variety of perspectives on the act of video surveillance in public space and its social, political, and economic implications. This exhibition posits to create a visceral or experiential understanding of the meaning of video surveillance in our society.

http://www.sfu.ca/~ckh3/surveillance/

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The Chapman Discussion Series Presents:

THE OLYMPICS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH

The Chapman Learning Commons in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre cordially invites you to a panel discussion on the upcoming Winter 2010 Olympics, and what this means for Freedom of Speech in Vancouver during the Olympics period. Topics will include the proposed Safe Assembly Areas, recent legislation and by-laws, and how these will influence reporting of the Olympics in the media and internationally.

Speakers will be Daniel W. Burnett from the UBC Graduate School of Journalism and media lawyer, Margot Young from the Faculty of Law andco-author of Poverty: Human Rights, Social Citizenship and Legal Activism,and Robert Diab, from Capilano College and author of Guantanamo North. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions of our guests.

The discussion will be held on Thursday November 19th, from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM, in the Dodson Room of the Chapman Learning Commons of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Dante Abbey Chapman Learning Commons Assistant

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Launch event for the Dominion's special issue on the 2010 Olympics

Thursday, November 19, 7:00pm

Rhizome Café,

317 E Broadway

Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory

Accessible space, childcare available.

THE LAUNCH: The Vancouver Media Co-operative in collaboration with The Dominion will be hosting a launch event in Vancouver to celebrate the publication of the special issue on The Olympics. Join us in an informal setting where we will discuss strengthening grassroots media and distributing the new special issue! Speakers on the 2010 Olympics TBA. For more information please email: olympics@mediacoop.ca or call: 604-630-6864 Please visit http://www.dominionpaper.ca/ for more details.

THE SPECIAL ISSUE "In Canada, you will find a nation that works every day towards creating the conditions of the Olympic ideal." --Jean Chrétien

The "Olympic Ideal" is part of one of the world’s most successful marketing campaigns, built around concepts that almost everyone can agree upon: world-class amateur sport and peaceful competition. But a rising chorus of critical voices say that the Olympics are deeply implicated in the expropriation of land, money and resources. From movements demanding "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land" to angry business owners, resistance to the Olympics economic and social agenda is growing.The Olympics budget includes a billion dollars for security. A billion dollars each will be spent on a new convention centre, a larger highway to Whistler, and SNC Lavalin's rail link from the Vancouver airport to downtown. In the political and economic manoeuvres leading up to the 2010 Olympics, a different "ideal" has been revealed – one of exclusive contracts, sponsorship deals, displacement, social cleansing, and corruption.

At times, sport seems like an afterthought. Many of the real stories behind the Olympics remain to be told. In the Dominion's special issue on the Olympics, dozens of activists and journalists from across the country tell some of these stories. Thousands of copies of the Olympic special issue will be printed and distributed through grassroots networks across Turtle Island in November 2009.

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/

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~THE COMING INSURRECTION~

agit-gallery

16 E. hastings

Coast Salish Territory

a gallery showing of insurrectionary theory through art, film, freeschool & theater opens NOV. 5th-20th every Wed, Thur, Friartshow & reading room 6-9 show & happenings: http://artandanarchy.wordpress.com/

insurrection as presupposition and experiment. sharing of a sensibility and elaboration of sharing. the uncovering of what is common and the building of a force. insurrection as the matrix of a meticulous, audacious assault on domination. as a call and as a name for all worlds resisting imperial pacification, all solidarity's irreducible to the reign of commodities, all friendships assuming the necessities of war.insurrection. (Molly Note-I would even bother to try and edit the above "paragraph" I betcha you can't memorize it. The string of random words or numbers that the human memory can store is strictly limited. )

> SOLIDARITY MEANS ATTACK films

Thurs Nov. 19th @ 7:30

The Potentiality of Storming Heaven:

a film about the 2008 Greek social insurrection, featuring our friends from the Greek surrealist group And the War Has Only Just Begun: documenting many combative theory's behind The Coming Insurrection, in the detourment style of the situationist film, Society of the Spectacle

> the CALL

Fri Nov 20 @ 7

youth are waiting, day after day. they wait for their time, as do the workers, even the old. they all wait, those who are discontented and who reflect. they are waiting for a force to arise, something they they will be part of a kind of new international that will not make the same mistakes as the previous ones. they wait for a chance to get rid of the past once and for all- for something new to begin. We have begun. an insurrectional surge may be nothing more than a multiplication of communes, their coming into contact and forming ties. but least we forget that nothing exists outside the Totality of the Global Civil War; we cannot abandon to the death of civilisation our Prisoners of War. Sara Falconer, abolitionist with 4Struggle & Anarchist Black Cross, onliberation, armed joy and total freedom Ron Sakolsky, author and musician, on anarchy, surrealism and pirate radio launch of prisoner calender Certain days ( With that we take our leave of this entertaining diversion and return to regular English language programming-Molly )

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The Right to the City:

Housing, Homelessness and the 2010 Olympics

Monday, November 23rd, 7-9pm,

Fletcher Challenge Theater,

SFU Harbour Centre

A Public Forum Hosted by the Impact on Communities Coalition

Reverend Ric Matthews, First United Church

Christine Ackermann, West End Residents Association

Wendy Pederson, Carnegie Community Action Project

Nathan Edelson, Former Senior Planner, City of Vancouver

Martha Lewis, Tenants Resource Advisory Centre

Am Johal, Impact on Communities Coalition

David Dennis, United Native Nations

Monte Paulson, Investigative Editor, The Tyee

Christine Smith-Parnell, Vancouver Aboriginal Transformative Justice Society

Moderated by Stefanie Ratjen, Board Member, Impact on Communities Coalition

When the Olympic bid process was underway, the Inner City Inclusive Commitment was signed in 2003 and included commitments around a housing legacy and protection from Olympic related evictions. This panel will lookat the impacts of the 2010 Olympics on housing and other urbanization processes underway in Vancouver including the crisis of affordability, the proliferation of homelessness and loopholes in tenancy legislation which are resulting in evictions (7)(7)(7)(7)(7)(7)

Security, Civil Liberties and the 2010 Olympics

Thursday, 26 November 2009

19:00 - 21:00

Fletcher Challenge Theater,

SFU Harbour Centre

Security, Civil Liberties and the 2010 Olympics: A Public Forum Hosted bythe Impact on Communities Coalition

David Eby, BC Civil Liberties Association

Stefanie Ratjen, Impact on Communities Coalition

Laura Track, Pivot Legal Society

Alissa Westergaard-Thorpe, Olympic critic

Representative from the Integrated Security Unit

Geoff Meggs, Vancouver City Councillor

Steve Sweeney, Vancouver Police Department

Margaret Dixon, VANOC

Moderated by Am Johal, Impact on Communities Coalition

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The Right to Adequate Housing:

Global Issues, Local Actions

with Miloon Kothari A public lecture by the former UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing,

Commission on Human Rights Liu Institute for Global Issues,

Multipurpose Room

6476 NW Marine Drive,

UBC, Vancouver

Parking at Rose Garden Parkade off NW Marine Drive, or, Fraser Parkade, Memorial Drive off Marine Drive Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 5:30pm Sponsored by United Nations Association in Canada, World Federalist Movement of Canada, UBC’s School of Social Work, Liu Institute for Global Issues, and Habitat Exchange. The Dr. Richard B. Splane LectureFor further information, please contact: (604) 732 0448 or unacvancouver@gmail.com

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Youth **Resistance through Art: How Will the Olympics Affect You?

A Special 2-Day Workshop on Art & Silkscreening*

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*Are you worried about changes in your city due to the 2010 Olympics?

*Are you concerned about threats to the environment, arts & education and your rights as a young person in Vancouver?

*What do you feel most strongly about?

This two-part workshop will be an opportunity to share your concerns, ideas, and visions of change, and to express yourself through collective art-making. You will also learn how to silkscreen, so you can print your artwork by hand onto T-shirts, patches, and posters! Absolutely NO previous art experience necessary.

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When: November 27th & 28th, 2009

Where: The Purple Thistle Centre 975 Vernon Drive, Room 260 Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory

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Day 1: Friday, Nov. 27th 5 - 7 pm: Designing a Silkscreen

Day 2: Saturday, Nov. 28th12 - 3 pm: Printing the Silkscreens

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Getting here (by bus) :Eastbound: Take the #22 to Venables @ Vernon Dr. Westbound: Take the #22 to Venables @ Clark Dr

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This workshop is free -- but please register, as space is limited! We welcome the participation of youth of all ages. Dinner, lunch, bus fare, and supplies will all be provided. Unfortunately, the space is not wheelchair accessible. Please be in touch with any questions, concerns, or special requirements. Registration and contact info: orn.youth[at]gmail.com, or 604 347 8786. Organized by the Purple Thistle and Teaching 2010 Resistance

>>>purplethistle.ca

>>>teach2010.org

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The Olympic Resistance Network presents

A WEEKEND OF WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING

November 28th - 29th

10am – 6pm

Centre for Socialist Education

(706 Clark Dr, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories)

In preparation for the convergence in February of 2010 the Olympic Resistance Network will be hosting a weekend of workshops on practical and important aspects of demonstrations and resistance. The workshops are free, food will be served and childcare will be provided. The space is not wheelchair accessible.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH

10am – 12 noon

Media

A hands on crash course in answering tough questions by unfriendly media hounds. Learn how to keep your cool and how to stay on message. Manipulate the media before it manipulates you

12:30pm - 2pm

Surveillance & Counter surveillance

A workshop on surveillance & counter-insurgency methods used by state security forces to repress social movements, and how to counter them.

2pm - 4pm

Know Your Rights

Basic legal information and advice on citizen rights when interacting with the police.

4pm – 6pm

Street Tactics

An overview of the different strategies used by protesters to protect themselves and meet their strategic goals. A rough overview of manoeuvres used by anti-globalization protesters to overcome security forces.

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH

10am - 2pm

Anti-Oppression

This is an open workshop for everyone interested in developing skills and tactics to understand and deal with oppression and domination. This workshop will specifically aim to help us improve our decision making practices, group power dynamics, and on the ground support and solidarity from an anti-oppression perspective. Come and gain these important skills as they will in many respects determine the strength and success of the 2010 convergence!

2pm - 6pm

- Medic

Introduction to Street medic training and basic first aid including: What to bring, primary survey and scene assessment, working in pairs, chemical weapons and emotional response to stress. For more info call 604-764-5103 or email orn-logistics@resist.ca

http://www.olympicresistance.net/

http://www.no2010.com/

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Sunday November 29th @ 5 pm

Address: 1284 East 12th Avenue

"Community Policing": Presentation on the history/current face ofCommunity Policing. And the legacy of resistance to the GrandviewWoodlands Policing Centre.

Info:

http://12thandclark.wordpress.com/

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"THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN MYTH AND REALITY"

FREE speakers series of Olympic critics and organisers ongoing most Mondays, 5pm, from Sept. 14 - Dec. 7.

Hosted by UBC's Green College.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133767310558&ref=ts

The speakers begin at 5pm with time for questions (FREE, open to all, no reservations). Optional dinner with speaker at Green College starts at 6:30pm ($12 for students and $16 for non-students; reserve a spot by noon Sundays at 604-822-0912). (Molly Note-As mentioned earlier on this blog Molly found out that the RCMP were googling this phone number, the number of the kitchen. For whatever reason is beyond me. Musta been a slow day down in Ottawa. In any case it sort of gives a whole new shade of meaning to something like, "waiter, there's a bug in my soup". )

Located in the Green College Coach House at 6201 Cecil Green Park Road (north of NW Marine Drive).

MAP at www.maps.ubc.ca/?412 . For more info email alissawt@shaw.ca

- Monday, Nov. 30: "Understanding the Olympics as part of corporate culture." Garth Mullins. Mullins is a Vancouver-based social justice activist and member of the Olympic Resistance Network.

- Dec. 7: IOC Corruption: Would you take these people home to meet your loved ones?" Andrew Jennings. Mr. Jennings is the author of three books onthe IOC.

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2010: YEAR OF RESISTANCE BY OUR INDIGENOUS NATIONS!

For the Right to Exist, Resist & Overcome Ideological, Cultural & Territorial Plunder!

Saturday, December 5, 2009

7:00pm - 11:00pm

Birge Carnegie Reading Room (Victoria College at the University of Toronto)

95 Charles Street West (Just East of Museum Station)

Toronto, ON

*In Memory of Our Mapuche Brother ALEX LEMUN & All Our Fallen Warriors

* A Night of Solidarity in Support of the Struggle by the West Coast Salish, Secwepemc, St’at’imc Nations together with the Mapuche Nation & Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. Featuring the Exclusive Premier Screening of the Documentary:“Native Youth Movement - Secwepemc Chapter - Boycott Sunpeaks Resort."

PLUS: Speakers Directly from Six Nations, Mapuche Documentaries, Live Music & Much More... CANADA: NO OLYMPICS ON STOLEN NATIVE LAND!CHILE: SHAME THE BICENTENARY ON MAPUCHE TERRITORY!

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Olympic Awareness Week

Intro & Launch of The Dominion Olympic Issue

Organized by Resist 2010 (Kingston)

Monday, November 16, 2009

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Queen's University International Centre (QUIC)

87 Union Street,

Kingston, ON

The opening event of Resist 2010's Olympic Awareness Week features a short presentation by Resist 2010 members on why we are resisting the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, with a short film clip. It will be paired with the Kingston, ON launch of The Dominion's Special Issue on the Olympics. To be followed by a discussion/question & answer period.

FREE

coffee and tea, plus some baked goods!

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Fauxlympics in Skeleton park 2.0

Organized by Resist 2010 (Kingston)

Saturday, November 21, 2009

2:00pm - 4:00pm

McBurney Park (Skeleton Park)

Come join Resist 2010, Queens University student and members of the Kingston community in Skeleton park for a family friendly afternoon of world class athletics. Come curl, come build your very own sea-to-sky highway, come tug-of-war with olympic issues. There will be entertainment, games, hot chocolate and a great chance to engage with, and learn about,Olympics in an open, safe, family friendly environment.

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2010 Olympic Resistance Awareness Event

January 3rd @ the Portland State University

Native American Resource Center,

Portland, Oregon Speakers: Native Youth Mvmnt. Cornel Pewewardy (Head of the Native American Studies Department, Anti-Indian Mascot activist)Lakoda Robideau (nephew of Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier Defense Committee)

"Setting the record straight"

CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-BRITISH COLUMBIA:

MORE OLYMPICS RESISTANCE NEWS:



Here's the latest news about events and articles concerning the ongoing resistance to the upcoming Vancouver/Whistler Winter Olympics from the Olympic Resistance Network.
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Updates and Events:‏
Reminder, ORN General Meeting (open to all!)
Sunday Nov 8,
ORN General Meeting 6pm @ Spartacus Books, 684 E. Hastings
*** Upcoming Anti-Olympics Events and Meetings:
1) No2010 Victoria: Anti-Olympic Festival disrupts Torch Relay
2) Call for Cross Canada Mobilizing: Extinguish the Torch!
3) Nov 2: Olympic security with David Eby. UBC free speaker series.
4) Nov 5: 2010 Welcoming Committee planning meeting
5) Nov 19: Launch of Dominion's special Olympics issue
6) November - Sunday evening film series at Spartacus
7) York University: Submissions For Our Upcoming Issue “2010"
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Anti-Olympic Festival and March disrupt Torch Relay send-off in Victoria:
No2010 Victoria calls event "a victory for rights and justice"
Victoria, Coast Salish Territories, November 1, 2009 - Over 400 people gathered to oppose the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Victoria on Friday, October 30th at an "Anti-Olympics Festival" and "Zombie March" organized by No2010 Victoria. The march succeeded in disrupting the relay, and security personnel were forced to extinguish the torch, load it in a van,and reroute it in order to reach the Legislature. ("Funny" how little this was reported in the mainstream media-Molly )




"Our events were a victory for rights and justice," said No2010 spokesperson Zoe Blunt. "We took a strong strand on respecting indigenous rights to land, defending civil rights, and ending poverty, and people across the country are thanking us for our dedication."




The day of action against Torch Relay celebrations began with a "Five Ring Circus" featuring speakers, performance art, puppets and satirical competitions such as the "Binners' Olympics," the "Tour de Misplaced Finance" and "Queer Wrestling."




"It was a lot of fun!" said Bitey the Bed Bug, one of the anti-Olympics mascots. Later in the afternoon, a "Zombie March" replete with stilt walkers, a marching band and a giant "Ghost Salmon" puppet wove through city streets and blocked a major intersection outside an RBC bank for over 30 minutes.




RBC is one of the Vancouver Winter Olympics' most important sponsors and a major investor in the tar sands, the most environmentally destructive project in Canada.




"We wanted to expose the empty rhetoric of a Green Games," said No2010 organizer Kim Croswell. "Parading a giant Ghost Salmon was our way of pointing out how wrong-headed government priorities are in the midst of global warming and the collapse of salmon runs on the West Coast."




Continuing along the relay route, hundreds of marchers braving rain and cold weather cheered loudly when it was announced that the Torch had been diverted in order avoid the procession. Marchers ended at the site of the corporate-sponsored Torch Relay Celebration, where they infiltrated the crowd chanting "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land" and "Homes Before Games."




"Disrupting the Torch sends a strong message that blowing $6 billion on a sports extravaganza is far from popular," said No2010 Victoria spokesperson Tamara Herman. "The people profiting from the Olympics are not the people most affected by cuts to sectors such as welfare, affordable housing, harm reduction, health care, education, the arts and-ironically-amateur sports."




"The day of action was a day of solidarity uniting a broach spectrum of people," added No2010 spokesperson Danielle Hagel. "It sent a strong message that the Olympic Torch Relay will face opposition right across the country."




"This action demonstrates how effective we can be when we act together, even in the face of police aggression and unwarranted surveillance", said Blunt. "The group was strong, and showed remarkable self-control andcommitment to the cause. We want to congratulate everyone who joined in."
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no2010.com Report on Torch Relay:
2010 Olympic Torch Relay Starts Off Disgraced, Delayed, and Disrupted
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The 2010 Olympic Torch Relay sparked controversy after its official lighting in Greece on October 22, 2009, when it was revealed that one of the runners in a seven day relay around the country was disgraced Olympian Fani Halkia. Ms. Halkia was disqualified during the 2004 Greece Olympics after winning gold in the 400 meter hurdles, only to later test positive for steroids. She had been banned by the IOC for two years. IOC, Vanoc andGreece officials brushed off the controversy, but Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson called it a 'disappointment' for the broader 'Olympic movement.'




The official Canadian 2010 Olympic Torch Relay also got off to a rough start on Friday, October 30, 2009, arriving 90 minutes late at Victoria International Airport due to bad weather. After it was flown in onboard a Canadian military Polaris jumbo jet, it was transferred to local Indian Act band chiefs. The flame, still carried in a miner's lantern which was lit in Greece (very symbolic considering BC's multi-billion dollar mining industry), was then paddled in a band council canoe into Victoria's inner harbour. From here it was used to light a cauldron and one of the 12,000 official torches made by Bombardier (shaped like a giant marijuana joint; Bombardier is the second largest military manufacturer in Canada).




Thetorch was then ran around the city for the rest of the day by celebrity athletes, corporate employees, and citizens specially selected to run one leg of the relay. Meanwhile, some 150-200 people gathered at Spirit Square (formerly Centennial Square) at 2 pm for the Anti-Olympic Festival of Resistance.This event was organized by No2010 Victoria, a coalition of grassroots community groups in the city. The festival featured speakers, singers, performers, puppets, banners, a marching band, and many in costume. Speakers represented groups from local Native tribes, university students, anti-poverty & homeless rights advocates, needle exchange workers, seniors groups, environmentalists, and others.




Around the square were as many as 30 cops in total, standing around in groups of 4-6. In three buildings overlooking the square (one of which was City Hall) more cops could be seen in the lobbies and moving up and downstairs. On one building, two black-suited cops stood on the roof observing the crowd with binoculars. At 4:30 pm the Zombie March Against the Olympics began. At this time, there were probably 40-50 cops, from both the Victoria Police Department & Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) assembled in the square, all wearing yellow rain jackets. These police followed the march on the sides and to the rear, at times mingling in the crowd (along with undercover cops).




As the protesters moved through the downtown area, there were additional groups of police, including seven cops on horses from the Vancouver Police Department, who then also attached themselves to the demonstration. Overhead, an RCMP helicopter circled for the duration of the protest. Altogether, several hundred police were involved in security operations at both the protest as well as the Provincial Legislature building (where the big concert-type event was to occur in the early evening).




The protesters followed a designated flag and a large red banner with 'No Olympics on Stolen Native Land' emblazoned around the 5 rings. Medics were dispersed throughout the crowd, with arm bands and kit bags. Legal observers from the BC Civil Liberties Associations, decked out in bright orange shirts & carrying clipboards, as well as some video cameras, were also spread around the crowd. The assembled ghouls & zombies, which quickly grew to some 400, along with the pigs and spooks, 'snake marched' throughout the downtown streets, snarling traffic for over two hours during rush hour.




The main city intersection outside the Royal Bank of Canada on Douglas street was blocked for 30 minutes, with buses being turned around the street (RBC being one of the main financiers of the Tar Sands in northern Alberta and sponsor of the Torch Relay & Olympics). The group also made stops outside the Hudson's Bay Company department store (the first colonial government of the colony, from 1849-59, and now a corporate sponsor for 2010), as well as Bastion Square (where many Native chiefs & warriors were hanged by the government in the past).




As the sky darkened and it began to rain, the march worked its way downside residential streets, which turned out to be part of the Torch Relay route. A thin, sporadic crowd of spectators lined the route, some of whom cheered the protesters. The main slogans used in chants were 'No Olympics on Stolen Native Land', 'Homes Not Games', 'Whose Streets? Our Streets!', and the crowd's favourite '1,2,3, 4... Fuck the Olympics!'.




To help communicate information throughout the crowd, 'call & response' was used, in which those who can hear the speaker repeat short statement she/she makes by shouting them, so that those in the rear can hear the message. Frequent warnings were given for the crowd to stay together. A few more intersections were blocked for 10-15 minutes as the march continued, until organizers informed the crowd that the torch had been rerouted and that sections of it had been cancelled because of the protests. From here, the march began another long trek to the Legislature buildings (Victoria is the provincial capital of 'British Columbia').




Asit neared to within 1 block, another 50 or so police could be seen blocking an intersection. Some 25-30 of these then moved towards the crowd, which had stopped. At this point, some organizers directed the crowd to turn around, but some refused and began to chant 'Whose Streets? Our Streets!' After a couple of minutes the police line dissolved into the march, which then continued on towards the Legislature. The steady drizzle had by now turned into heavy rain. When the protesters reached the Legislature buildings, they were routed through crowd control fencing and into the soggy, muddy, lawn area where the small, thinned out pro-Olympic spectators were gathered.




Here there were even more cops. The protesters then worked their way forward until the red banner was to the left of the main stage. A large 'Poverty Olympic' flame prop carried by the protesters was tall enough to block one of stage lights, which helped illuminate it. As the protesters arrived, the concert had a local Native performer doing pop songs and trying to hype the crowd, with a loud powerful sound system and fireworks (along with a flaming cauldron that would periodically erupt into a huge fireball). Although the Olympic sound system was loud, the combination of the protester's marching band and chants succeeded in disrupting the event,with some citizens later complaining their 'once-in-a-life-time' experience had been ruined because of the protest (as well as those ofs ome of the torch relay runners).




When the last peformer had finished, the emcee rushed through his final remarks while the crowd chanted even louder: 'No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!' After a few minutes of reorganizing, the march withdrew from the Legislature lawn and walked back several blocks to Spirit Square, followed by 20-30 cops. After reaching the square, having marched for over 4.5 hours and rallying for seven, the protest dispersed in small groups. There were no reported arrests.




One media account stated that marbles had been used at one point in the march to restrict the movement of the horse mounted cops. Despite the police, government & corporate media hype about 'violent protesters', and the heavy police presence, the cops were clearly under orders to act in a restrained manner and to avoid provoking a major confrontation. Protesters also showed restraint, with no acts of vandalism or direct action other than blocking the streets and making noise at the concert (both of which were effective).




For the anti-Olympic movement, the Victoria torch relay disruption was a victory, and it is hoped that this action will inspire other communities to carry out similar protests against the Olympic Torch Relay as it passes through their area.
Mobilize Against the Olympic Torch Relay!
RBC Out of the Tar Sands!
Stop Coca Cola's Human Rights & Environmental Violations!
No Olympic Police State!
No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!
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CALL FOR CROSS-CANADA MOBILIZING:EXTINGUISH THE OLYMPIC TORCH!:
* Route details below *
From October 31 2009 - February 12 2010, the Olympic Torch Relay “A Path of Northern Lights” will be traveling across Canada. The Olympic Resistance Network, based in Vancouver Unceded Coast Salish Territories, is calling on and encouraging our allies to coordinate efforts in over 2000 communities to oppose and resist the Torch Relay. The origins of the Torch Relay lie in the dark history of the 1936 Games in Berlin, where it was devised as a means to spread Nazi fascism and to promote the Third Reich. The Royal Bank of Canada and Coca Cola are the main sponsors of the 2010 Torch relay. RBC is the top financier of the environmentally devastating Alberta Tar Sands, while Coca Cola has been responsible for health degradation as part of the junk food industry, massive depletion of groundwater and toxic waste pollution in India, and involved in hiring paramilitary groups to violently repress union organizers in Colombia.




It is becoming increasingly evident that far from being simply about sport, the 2010 Olympics is rooted in displacement, corporate greed, militarization, and repression. While Olympic corporate sponsors are getting bailed out, Indigenous lands are being stolen, more people are becoming homeless, thousands are losing their jobs and access to public services, the environment is being destroyed, and civil liberties are being eroded as over a billion dollars are being sunk into security and surveillance measures.




This Torch Relay will be the longest in-country relay in Olympic history, giving us the chance to make some anti-Olympic history!
No Olympics onStolen Native Land! ==>
If you are organizing an event or action in your city, town, or community please email us the details at olympicresistance@riseup.net so we can compile the information and build strength and unity in our efforts by having this information available on our website. Basic route details (see links below for full information) are as follows:
Oct 30 - Nov 5, 2009: through BC, Yukon, and Northwest Territories:Victoria, Duncan, Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Snuneymuxw, Esquimalt First Nations, Tla-o-qui-aht, Qualicum, Courtney, Campbell River, Whitehorse,Taku River Tlingit, Dawson City, Kugluktuk, Yellowknife, and others.
Nov 6 - Nov 15, 2009: through Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavut, Quebec, and New Foundland: Fort McMurray, Cold Lake, La Ronge, Thompson,Qausuittuq, Iqaluit, Kuujjuaq, Gaspé, Labrador, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Sheshatshiu, St. John’s, St. Anthony, Grand Falls-Windsor, and others.
Nov 16 - Nov 28, 2009: through Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Islands, and New Brunswick: Sydney, Whycocomagh, Port Hawkesbury, Truro, Paq’tnkek, Antigonish, Halifax, Bear River FN, Lunenburg, Charlottetown, Moncton, Sussex, Saint John, Fredericton, Esgenoôpetitj, Grand Falls, and others.
Nov 29 - Dec 11, 2009: through Quebec: Rimouski, Baie-Comeau, Les Escoumins,Saguenay, Lévis, Saint-Georges, Black Lake, Victoriaville, Sherbrooke, Drummondville, Trois-Rivières, Longueuil, Kahnawá:ke, Beaconsfield, Mont-Tremblant, Montréal, Laval, Gatineau, and others Dec 12, 2009 - Jan 4, 2010: through Ontario: Ottawa, Pikwàkanagàn, Akwesasne, Kingston, Tyendinaga, Peterborough, Toronto, Hamilton, St.Catharines, Six Nations, Brantford, Oneida, Leamington, Windsor, Sarnia, London, Stratford, Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, Barrie, Huntsville, Temiskaming, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Red Rock FN, Kenora, and others.
Jan 5 - Jan 20, 2010: through Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta: Winnipeg, Sioux Valley Dakota, Regina, Moose Jaw, Swift Current,Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Moosomin FN, Edmonton, Wetaskiwin, Red Deer,Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Calgary, Canada Olympic Park, Stoney Nation, andmore.
Jan 21 - Feb 11, 2010: through BC: Golden, Cranbrook, Nelson, Trail, Osoyoos FN, Penticton, Kelowna, Vernon, Revelstoke, Salmon Arm, Kamloops,100 Mile House, Williams Lake, Prince George, Smithers, Gitanmaax, Fort St. John, Terrace, Bella Bella, Powell River, Sechelt, Squamish, Whistler, Lil’wat, Merritt, Fraser Valley, Lower Mainland and others.
* Full route information: Complete listing by day:
http://www.vancouver2010.com/dl/00/68/42/-/68420/prop=data/119u8t6/68420.pdf Interactive Map:
http://www.vancouver2010.com/en/torch-relays/olympic-torch-relay/the-route/interactive-map/-/58040/17ckajb/index.html
Provincial and Territorial Routes:
http://www.vancouver2010.com/en/torch-relays/olympic-torch-relay/the-route/provincial-and-territorial-routes/-/58046/wk4d42/index.html
* About the Olympic Resistance Network:
http://web.resist.ca/~orn/blog/?page_id=2
Why we Oppose the 2010 Games:
http://web.resist.ca/~orn/blog/?page_id=6
Video at:
http://no2010.com/node/1003
Contact us at olympicresistance@riseup.net
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Teaching 2010 Resistance responds to “heavy-handed” allegations by Solicitor General
October 26, 2009 – Funding cuts to B.C. schools, totaling over $118 million, coincided with the September launch of the controversial “Spirit School” curriculum, an Olympic propaganda campaign with a budget four times the size of the axed B.C. School Sports. Community-based Teaching 2010 Resistance recently reignited debate with the release of an alternative curriculum exploring social and environmental concerns associated with the Olympics.




The mention of a critical teaching curriculum has raised the spectre of dissent for government officials and Olympic bigwigs. Solicitor General Kash Heed, Premier Gordon Campbell and top Olympic cop Bud Mercer have urged teachers to reject the project’s “critically-minded” teaching resources, which educators have the chance to preview this Wednesday.




“It’s a bit ludicrous to have people like [Solicitor General] Kash Heed accusing you of inciting criminal activity just for bringing a critical perspective to young people,” observes Marla Renn of Teaching 2010 Resistance. Last week, Heed was quoted in The Province saying that the group intends to “use the classroom to recruit kids to break the law [and] to commit acts of vandalism.”




Says Renn: “That’s a pretty heavy-handed accusation. If Heed had looked, he would have seen that all our materials are open-ended and discussion-based. We present a critical argument, but we’re not there to make kids agree with everything we say. If a teacher has a problem with any of the content, they are welcome to modify it before presenting it to their classes.”




Premier Gordon Campbell expressed concern that the initiative forces youth into the midst of a political debate which will “take away” from children’s “enthusiasm.” Community organizer Nat Marshik responds, “Youth have been excluded from practically all critical debate over the Olympics – it seems they are only welcome if they’re celebrating. But today’s youth will inherit all the Olympic legacies – including environmental degradation, impoverished social and educational services, restricted civil liberties, and government debt. Whether we like it or not, youth are directly impacted by the Olympics, and they have a right to be included in an honest discussion of its costs.” More i
nformation: contact orn.youth@gmail.com ; http://teach2010.org
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"THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN MYTH AND REALITY"
FREE speakers series of Olympic critics and organisers ongoing most Mondays, 5pm, from Sept. 14 - Dec. 7. Hosted by UBC's Green College.
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133767310558&ref=ts
The speakers begin at 5pm with time for questions (FREE, open to all, no reservations). Optional dinner with speaker at Green College starts at 6:30pm ($12 for students and $16 for non-students; reserve a spot by noon Sundays at 604-822-0912).
Located in the Green College Coach House at 6201 Cecil Green Park Road (north of NW Marine Drive). MAP at www.maps.ubc.ca/?412 .
For more info email alissawt@shaw.ca -
Monday, Nov. 2: "Olympic security and civil liberties: A lasting legacy." David Eby. Eby is the Acting Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association.
- Monday, Nov. 16: "The myth of the Green Games." Harjap Grewal and Dustin Johnson. Grewal, Council of Canadians, is a member of No One is Illegal,and the Olympic Resistance Network. Johnson is an Indigenous activist.
- Monday, Nov. 30: "Understanding the Olympics as part of corporate culture." Garth Mullins. Mullins is a Vancouver-based social justice activist and member of the Olympic Resistance Network.
- Dec. 7: IOC Corruption: Would you take these people home to meet your loved ones?" Andrew Jennings. Mr. Jennings is the author of three books on the IOC.
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WELCOME THE OLYMPIC TORCH AND OPENING CEREMONIES WITH A MASS DEMONSTRATION!
Help build the 2010 Welcoming Committee!
(* Post Widely.)
Meeting to plan a public mobilization for the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics (on February 12, 2010):
** Thursday, Nov. 5, 7 - 9pm
SFU - Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St., Rroom 2245
Vancouver BC - Coast Salish Territory
The Olympic Resistance Network, StopWar.ca, Vancouver Status of Women, Anti-Poverty Committee, No One Is Illegal - Vancouver, Work Less Party, Social Justice Centre - UBC, Pink Resistance, Student Christian Movement -UBC, and Streams of Justice have endorsed the 2010 Welcoming Committee and a mass demonstration to coincide with the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and the arrival of the Olympic torch from its RBC sponsored cross-country relay.
The 2010 Welcoming Committee invites you/your group to join in organizing this event. Other than the date and general location (Feb. 12 and close to the opening ceremonies at BC Place Stadium), the messaging, event plan,and specifics are up to those who choose to participate in the planning.
The goal is to include a wide range of activist, Indigenous, social justice, environmental, anti-poverty, labour, civil libertarian, anti-globalization, community, anti-war, women's and other groups and individuals to build a broad and accessible protest presence. This group is united by a social justice critique of the 2010 Olympics.
As the Winter Olympics begin, we need to show the world that there is opposition and to articulate the negative impact it has on our communities and environment. The very act of demonstrating and marching in the downtown core has become a defiant act as many of the streets and sites have been specially purposed for the Games with bylaws that restrict speech, protest, mobility, and assembly.
The agenda is open to public input and determined by who participates, but includes further outreach, brainstorming ways of creative resistance and protest, and gathering feedback and input about how the 2010 WelcomingCommittee could help develop an inclusive, accessible and vocal public mobilization.
** Thursday, Nov. 5, 7 - 9pm
SFU - Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St., Room 2245
Vancouver BC - Coast Salish Territory Contact:
2010welcoming@resist.ca




If you are unable to attend but are interested in being involved, please email us your contact information so we can add you to the organizing list.
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Launch event for the Dominion's special issue on the 2010 Olympics
Thursday, November 19, 7:00pm
Rhizome Café, 317 E Broadway
Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory
Accessible space, childcare available.
THE LAUNCH:
The Vancouver Media Co-operative in collaboration with The Dominion will be hosting a launch event in Vancouver to celebrate the publication of the special issue on The Olympics. Join us in an informal setting where we will discuss strengthening grassroots media and distributing the new special issue!
Speakers on the 2010 Olympics TBA.
For more information please email:
olympics@mediacoop.ca or call: 604 6306864
Please visit
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/ for more details.
THE SPECIAL ISSUE
"In Canada, you will find a nation that works every day towards creating the conditions of the Olympic ideal." --Jean Chrétien
The "Olympic Ideal" is part of one of the world’s most successful marketing campaigns, built around concepts that almost everyone can agree upon: world-class amateur sport and peaceful competition. But a rising chorus of critical voices say that the Olympics are deeply implicated in the expropriation of land, money and resources. From movements demanding "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land" to angry business owners, resistance to the Olympics economic and social agenda is growing.




The Olympics budget includes a billion dollars for security. A billion dollars each will be spent on a new convention centre, a larger highway to Whistler, and SNC Lavalin's rail link from the Vancouver airport to downtown. In the political and economic manoeuvres leading up to the 2010 Olympics, a different "ideal" has been revealed – one of exclusive contracts, sponsorship deals, displacement, social cleansing, and corruption. At times, sport seems like an afterthought. Many of the real stories behind the Olympics remain to be told.




In the Dominion's special issue on the Olympics, dozens of activists and journalists from across the country tell some of these stories. Thousands of copies of the Olympic special issue will be printed and distributed through grassroots networks across Turtle Island in November 2009.
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/
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November Schedule of Movies at Spartacus
Every Sunday in November at 684 East Hastings at 8:30 pm
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1ST : “anti-olympics” OpPOsition to Olympic Torch Relays, a few Short inspiring films/footage captured in the last decade (Sydney, Turin, Beijing...)
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8TH : “ecological destruction”“h2oil” and “tar sands and water, fort mckay, fort chip”. Impacts of the Tar Sands development in northern Alberta and the defenders of the(ir )land who are standing up against it.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15TH : “native struggles”Gustafsen Lake Standoff in 1995, A few short films documenting The three month standoff on secwepemc territory.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22TH : “local struggles” MOVIE POTLUCK: BRING AND SHARE HOMEMADE AND/OR LOCAL SHORT FILMS OR FEATURES
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 29TH : “women’s struggles”“Some American Feminists” Documenting one of the most significative Movements in the 1960’s & early 70’s, second wave feminism Inspirational interviews with Ti-Grace Atkinson, Rita Mae Brown, Bettty Freiden, Margo Jefferson, Leila Carb and Kate Millet.
Write to us at vanrad@hotmail.com for more info
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The York University Free Press is Now Accepting Submissions For Our Upcoming Issue, “2010”
Our second installment will focus on various social and political events that will be taking place in Canada, particularly the Vancouver winter Olympics, G8 summit in Huntsville, Ontario, and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America. Our “2010” issue aims to raise awareness about, and mobilize our readers in, addressing future political decisions that have the potential to perpetuate continued systems of oppression and exploitation in Canada and throughout the world.




Below is a list of topics which we would like to cover in our “2010” issue:
-Vancouver: A stolen land
-The Olympics as a tactic to legitimize colonial activities
-Social and ecological impacts of the Olympics
-Indigenous resistance to the 2010 Olympics
-Corporate activities and exploitation of Indigenous land
-G8 member countries and the global economic system
- Queers against G8
-Transnational feminist perspectives on G8
-Third world debt
-The People’s Summit
-Critical perspectives on the Make Poverty History campaign
- Security and Prosperity Partnership
- How does maintaining optimism or pessimism in the future affect social mobilization on a group level of analysis?
-How can we explain the disjuncture which often occurs between social movement goals and outcomes?
-To what exent should activists/social movements place expectations on their future outcomes and what should happen when these goals are met or not met?
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Please note that you are not bound to follow our chosen themes, feel free to submit pieces that are important to you! As well, please send us letters to the editor(s), campus & community events, photos (w/ proper credit), and drawings or designs. The deadline for the 2010” issue is November 13, 2009.
Please submit allarticles, photos, community event notices, and art to info@yufreepress.org




However, it is never too early to send in your submissions. All general inquiries and submissions can be sent to: info@yufreepress.org
Suggested word counts:
News: 50 to 750 words
Features: max 2000 words
Comments: max 1200 words
Arts: max 1500 words
Our past issues have been a great success, and we continue to garner more support and interest as our membership grows. For that, we thank our readers, writers, and for all those who have helped the YU Free Press in our quest to cultivate a space for the critical assessment of the politics around us.
We look forward to receiving your submission(s),
YUFP Editorial Collective