INTERNATIONAL LABOUR IRAN:

ANOTHER ATTACK ON BUS WORKERS UNIONISTS IN TEHRAN:

The following story originally came from the International Transport Workers Federation. It came to Molly's attention via the Justice For Iranian Workers website.

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Another attack on Vahed Syndicate members

5 November 2010

The ITF has received news of yet another thuggish assault and detention of Vahed Syndicate members by Iranian police/security forces.

According to the ITF the attack took place on Wednesday in a Karaj internet café. Saeed Torabian, publicity director of the bus workers’ union – who has previously been arrested and then released following international protests – was with fellow trade unionist Gholamreza Gholamhosseini. Gholamhosseini was released on bail from Evin Prison two years ago, after being arrested while attending a Women’s Day event.

Shortly after their arrival six men entered and beat them up, yelling that they were thieves. They were then dragged out and taken to prison. After being interrogated, threatened and roughed up, Saeed Torabian was released on bail, but as yet nothing is known about Gholamreza Gholamhosseini – except that he is still being held.

The ITF considers these ‘arrests’ to be the latest in an ongoing campaign to break the Vahed union and notes that once again trumped up charges, threats and violence have been used to stifle normal, lawful trade union activity.


ENDS

For more information contact ITF press officer, Sam Dawson.
Direct line: + 44 (0)20 7940 9260.
Email: dawson_sam@itf.org.uk

International Transport Workers' Federation - ITF:
HEAD OFFICE
ITF House, 49 - 60 Borough Road, London SE1 1DS
Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7403 2733
Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7375 7871
Email: mail@itf.org.uk
Web: www.itfglobal.org

CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO:

SUPPORT RYAN RAINVILLE:

The fallout from the recent G20 police riot in Toronto continues to come down. More charges have been dropped, and more investigations are being set up to investigate police conduct during those days. Some people, however, continue to be prosecuted even though it is doubtful that even one single rioter involved in the riot that police allowed to happen will ever be charged with any real crime. One of these who was arrested elsewhere on flimsy evidence is Ryan Rainville, a native activist. Here is an appeal for support for him in his latest upcoming court appearance. From the Community Solidarity Network in Toronto...

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Court Support for Ryan Rainville--Tuesday, Nov. 9
Ryan Rainville has had a court adjournment for his bail hearing from Thursday Nov 4th to Tuesday November 9th. Ryan will reappear on Tuesday November 9th at 9:30am at Superior Court of Justice, 361 University Avenue in Toronto, for his bail review. Please join his family, friends and supporters in the courthouse to show support to Ryan, who has been in jail since his arrest on August 5th 2010.

Ryan has been targeted as an Indigenous Sovereigntist from the Sakimay Nation, and charged with allegations stemming from June demonstrations against the G20 in Toronto. Ryan was denied bail in early August, and is being held at Maplehurst Correctional Complex.

His supporters would like to request that friends and allies come to the
Superior Court of Justice (361 University Ave) in Toronto to show their
support. Please note this is not a demonstration but a call for appropriate court support.

- For information on Ryan, please visit:
http://www.facebook.com/l/5cef0jy_PSpufkqD-uNlbBAEZQQ;g20.torontomobilize.org/node/596

- To donate to his legal defence fund, you can mail cheques to:
No One Is Illegal-Toronto
90C Beverley Street, Toronto ON M5T 1Y1
Please be sure to indicate “Ryan Rainville” in the memo.

You can also make a secure donation online through Paypal on the No One Is Illegal-Toronto website (http://www.facebook.com/l/5cef0B7j6F7_CNGh1pS_pEyBcKg;toronto.nooneisillegal.org ). Please be sure to send an email to nooneisillegal@riseup.net and let us know you have donated and what amount.

- For more information please contact:
thesheelephant@yahoo.com or mcorbiere@hotmail.com or hwalia8@gmail.com

http://www.facebook.com/l/5cef0U2umxKF6KIYLYD-lWKfhpw;torontomobilize.org/node/628

AMATEUR ASTRONOMY:
JOVIAN SHADOWS:

Coming up in our night sky this weekend which, miraculously enough, is predicted to have clear nights skies.... With only a small low power telescope you'll be able to witness a rather unique event as all four of the Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter casts shadows that will be visible on the planet's surface. Jupiter can be easily spotted in the next few nights as it rises in the southeast and gradually makes its transit across the sky to the southwest as dawn approaches. It is quite bright ( -2.7 magnitude), and is in the constellation of Aquarius near to Pisces.

Tonight is also the peak night of the Taurid meteor shower, in Taurus of course. While not as spectacular as the Leonid meteor shower due to arrive later this month it has the advantage at least in Winnipeg of having good viewing conditions and relatively clement weather conditions.

Here's more on the upcoming "shadow transits" from the Space.com site.
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Jupiter's Moons to Perform Weekend Show for Skywatchers
By Geoff Gaherty

This weekend, a remarkable series of events will take place on Jupiter: The planet's four big moons will cast shadows on the gas giant planet that can be seen from Earth using a small telescope.

The planetary shadow play, which begins Saturday night (Nov. 6) and runs through early Sunday, will be primarily visible from the western coast of the United States. [Illustration: Moon shadows on Jupiter]

The four bright moons of Jupiter are known as the Galilean moons after their discoverer Galileo Galilei. As they revolve around Jupiter, they sometimes pass across the face of the planet as seen from Earth, as well as behind the planet and in its shadow.

How to see Jupiter's moon shadows

First, a word of caution: The overnight between Saturday and Sunday is when we switch back from daylight saving time to standard time, so be careful you get the correct time for your location.

Because the complete sequence of events is only observable from the U.S. West Coast, we will use Pacific Time here to discuss the best viewing times. Observers further east will miss the later events, and should add the appropriate number of hours to the times depending on their location and time zone.

The show begins at 8:53 p.m. PDT (11:53 p.m. EDT) on Saturday (Nov. 6), when Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede begins to cross the planet's face.

Because Ganymede has a relatively dark surface, it appears bright against the limb of Jupiter — but quickly appears to change to a dark gray against the bright central parts of Jupiter's disk. This can be seen with telescopes that have as small as a 5-inch aperture.

At 9:47 p.m. PDT, a second moon — Europa — follows Ganymede across Jupiter's face.

Because Europa's surface is icy, it reflects a much more light than Ganymede, and closely matches Jupiter's cloud belts behind it. As a result, it vanishes in all but the largest telescopes, perfectly camouflaged.

At 10:24 p.m. PDT, yet another moon — the volcanic Io — begins to disappear behind the opposite side of Jupiter.

At 11:52 p.m. PDT, Europa's shadow starts to take a notch out of the western limb of Jupiter. This can be seen with telescopes that have as small as a 3-inch aperture. Two minutes later, Ganymede moves off the disk of Jupiter and is once again a bright spot in the sky.

But wait, there's more — the Jupiter moon show isn't over just yet. Here's a rundown of the movements of Jupiter's moons to watch for on Sunday:

At 12:31 a.m. PDT, Europa leaves the disk of Jupiter.
At 1:12 a.m. PDT, a second shadow, that of Europa, puts the bite on the west limb of Jupiter. We now have two shadows creeping across the face of Jupiter, while the moons casting them are off to the right, a wonderfully three-dimensional effect.
At 1:41 a.m. PDT, Io emerges from Jupiter's shadow, ending its eclipse.
At 2:00 a.m. PDT, Daylight saving time officially comes to an end, and you should move your clock back to 1 a.m.
Now, at 1:34 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, Europa's shadow moves off Jupiter's disk. Finally, at 3:08 a.m. PST, Ganymede's shadow also moves off the disk.
You may be puzzled by the fact that Ganymede leads Europa across Jupiter's disk, but Europa's shadow precedes Ganymede's all the way across.

That's because Europa orbits much closer to Jupiter than Ganymede, so that the angular distance between Ganymede and its shadow is much greater than the angular distance between Europa and its shadow.

Gallery: Photos of Jupiter and its Moons

CANADIAN LABOUR:

CANADIANS WANT PENSIONS INCREASED:

We live in interesting times. Corporations and the governments that represent them across the "developed world" are frantically trying to pare back the gains that working people have made over many decades. Some of this is an attempt to reduce labour costs to maintain competitiveness in the face of rising industrial producers such as India, China and Brazil. It is also partly an attempt to redistribute the social surplus that flows through government from ordinary people to those corporations that might be said to be "national" (though governments are generally pretty poor judges of such things) once more because of foreign competition. It is also, however, a genuine fiscal crisis of the state that has been building for a long time and has been exasperated by the recent stimulus spending that many governments have engaged in.

Many things, excluding corporate giveaways of course, are being cut back, but pensions have proven to be a particularly sore point as recent events in Greece, Spain and especially France have shown. It seems that the population of many countries have been willing to (sullenly) accept such things as long term stagnant wages and the virtual end of good chances for the social mobility of their children. As I said, sullenly, as resentment over such loses for ordinary people has led to a revival of class based politics in many places, despite its premature obituary pronounced by many pundits left and right.

The attack on pensions across the world seems to be the straw that broke the camel's back. To date the gradually growing realization that things aren't going to get any better has been tempered with an assurance that they wouldn't get significantly worse. If, however, the 'promise" of at least some comfort on retirement is withdrawn it is little wonder that open rebellion has broken out in many countries. Here in Canada where everybody except right wing "think"(sic) tanks agrees that the federal pension system is financially sound the mood of the general population is actually that pension benefits should be increased not reduced. Such a mood will provide a great barrier to the federal government following the European model of cutbacks no matter how much the neocons now in power there would dearly love to do so.

Here's an article from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) about a recent survey of what Canadians think should be done about our pension system.

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Western Canadians support increase in Canada Pension Plan benefits
Nov 4, 2010 09:02 AM


More than three quarters of western Canadians support increasing Canada Pension Plan benefits, according to a new national survey. Eighty percent also support increasing federal payments to senior citizens and four in ten believe the government is moving too slowly in reforming Canada’s pension system.

The Future of Pensions poll was completed by Environics Research Group in late August for the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the Public Service Alliance of Canada. The national poll surveyed 2,020 Canadians and has a margin of error of +/-2.2 per cent 19 times out of 20. Responses from British Columbia have a margin of error of +/-6.2 per cent 19 times out of 20, and responses from the Prairies have a margin of error of +/-4.4 per cent 19 times out of 20.

“From coast to coast, Canadians support higher CPP benefits," said CUPE National president Paul Moist. “Western Canadians are sending a clear message to federal and provincial politicians who are currently studying ways to improve the CPP."

The survey asked western Canadians their views on saving and their expectations for retirement. While many have set up a Retirement Savings Plan or a Tax-Free Savings Account, 35 per cent in British Columbia and 30 per cent on the Prairies acknowledge that they are not saving for retirement—mostly because they cannot afford to.

Only one in four western Canadians is fully confident that they will be able to save enough to live comfortably in retirement, and three in 10 believe they won’t have enough to live comfortably, with lower income being the most pessimistic.

“Western Canadians are concerned with their capacity to retire in comfort,” said John Gordon, National President of PSAC. “If action is not taken now, poverty will become a dire reality for more and more elderly Canadians.”

Poll respondents also overwhelmingly support increasing Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplements for those living below the poverty line. OAS and GIS payments amount to only $11,000 per year.

The survey also asked respondents for their preference on different types of pension plans. Despite the economic downturn, those currently part of workplace pension plans believe their pension benefits are safe. But more than 70 per cent prefer a defined benefit plan, which guarantees a fixed amount of benefit when you retire, to a defined contribution plan, where the benefits paid out depend on the performance of the investments in the fund.

Together, CUPE and PSAC represent more than 800,000 public sector workers across Canada. Both organizations have been advocating for retirement security for all Canadians.


Read The Future of Pensions Poll


For more information, please contact:

British Columbia
Barry O’Neill, president, CUPE BC 604-340-6768 (cell)
Patrick Bragg, PSAC Communications, 778-889-3486
Clay Suddaby, CUPE Communications 604-313-1138 (mobile)

Alberta
Jeffrey Vallis, PSAC Communications, 204-391-3067
Lou Arab, CUPE Communications, 780-271-2722

Saskatchewan
Jeffrey Vallis, PSAC Communications, 204-391-3067
Tom Graham, president CUPE Saskatchewan, 306-229-8171

Manitoba
Jeffrey Vallis, PSAC Communications, 204-391-3067
Mike Skaftfeld, president CUPE Manitoba, 204-470-1313

AMERICAN LABOUR MINNEAPOLIS:

JIMMY JOHNS WORKERS UNION TO FILE UNFAIR LABOUR PRACTICES SUIT:

After recently narrowly (87 to 85) losing the Labour Board election to represent fast food workers at the Jimmy Johns outlets in the Twin Cities the Jimmy Johns Workers Union has filed a detailed unfair labour practices suit against management of the locations involved. One manager in particular engaged in a vicious anti-union campaign. The Union is also continuing to press for its demands in the workplaces despite having lost the election. Here's the story from the website of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

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Alleging Rampant Labor Rights Violations at Jimmy Johns, Workers Call on NLRB to Take Action on Manipulated Union Election
October 22, 2010 - Sandwich Workers to Continue to Press for Improved Working Conditions.

MINNEAPOLIS – The Jimmy John's Workers Union has filed a 12-page Objection to the October 22 NLRB election at 10 Minneapolis sandwich shops, outlining a pattern of pervasive and systemic labor rights violations that prevented the possibility of a free and fair vote. The union election, a first in fast food in the US, was as close as they come, with 85 votes in favor of the union, 87 against, and 2 challenged ballots.

"Franchise owner Mike Mulligan decided to go beyond the pale. His managers asked workers to wear anti-union pins, fired pro-union workers, threatened a mass firing, implemented an illegal wage freeze, tightened policies and retaliated against union members, offered bribes, and pressured workers to vote no. He broke the law repeatedly in order to win, and he just barely won. That's not right. We are calling on the NLRB to set aside the results of this election," said worker and union member Emily Przybylsky.

In response to his employee's union campaign, franchise owner Mike Mulligan hired a third-party anti-union consulting firm, Labor Relations Inc., to prevent employees from winning an NLRB Union election. According to documents obtained from the Department of Labor, Mulligan spent over $84,500 on an anti-union campaign intended to prevent workers from unionizing.

Tim Louris, of Minneapolis labor firm Miller O'Brien Cummins, is assisting the union pro-bono in navigating the tricky waters of labor law. Union spokespeople say the written objection to the election results will be available to the public within a few days.

While filing with the NLRB to have the election results nullified, the workers also plan to mount a campaign to win their demands without union recognition.

"85 yes votes, in spite of 6 weeks of vicious union-busting, is a mandate for change," said "There are a thousand ways we can put pressure on Jimmy John's to win our demands for fair wages, sick days, consistent hours, and respect. We're fired up, this fight is just beginning," said Ayo Collins, another worker and union member.

The Jimmy Johns Workers Union, open to employees at the company nationwide, is the first fast food union in the nation, and is affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World labor union. Gaining prominence in recent years for organizing Starbucks workers, the IWW is a global union founded over a century ago for all working people.

Related Links
•Restaurant, Hotel, and Building Service Workers Industrial Union 640
•Jimmy Johns Workers Union
•Twin Cities IWW
•IWW Starbucks Workers Union

CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO:
NO MORE WORKPLACE DEATHS:

Following the recent deaths of two migrant agricultural workers in Ontario people are organizing to demand an end to such tragedies. Tonight there will be a public meeting in Toronto to educate and organize opposition to unsafe workplaces. Here's the info from No One Is Illegal Toronto.
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No More Deaths: People's Resistance to Undocumented and Precarious Work
Start: Nov/04/2010 - 6:00 pm
End: Nov/04/2010 - 8:00 pm
please participate in a Community-Labour discussion hosted by No One Is Illegal – Toronto

November 4, 2010
6:00pm – 8:00pm
OPSEU Union Hall, 31 Wellesley Street
(across from Wellesley Subway Station)

supported by: Justicia for Migrant Workers, Industrial Accident Victims Group of Ontario, OPSEU Workers of Color, Caregiver Action Centre, Labor Education Centre, Workers Action Centre, Health for All, Latin American Trade Unionist Coalition

speakers:

FRANCA IACOVETTA is Professor of History and author of “Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto” that focused on the Hoggs Hollow disaster.

TZAZNA MIRANDA LEAL is an organizer with Justicia for Migrant Workers

MOHAN MISHRA is an organizer with No One Is Illegal – Toronto

also remarks by Cosmo Mannella (Director of The Labourers International Union of North America (LIUNA) Canadian Tri-Fund); Elizabeth Ha (OPSEU Workers of Colour & OFL VP Workers of Colour); Jessica Ponting (Community legal worker with Industrial Accident Victims Group of Ontario); Pura Velasco (Caregiver Action Centre); Jojo Geronimo (Executive Director, Labor Education Centre) and members of the Workers Action Centre

on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159718884061029

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On September 10, 2010 two migrant workers Ralston White and Paul Roach died after inhaling toxic fumes at Filsinger's Organic Foods appleorchard and processing facility near Owen Sound, Ontario. On December 24, 2009, Alexander Bondorev, Aleksey Blumberg, Fayzullo Fazilov, Vladimir Korostin, migrant workers without full status, fell to their deaths when the scaffolding they were working on collapsed in half. Though these deaths made the mainstream news, migrant workers and undocumented workers continue to be hurt, to get ill and to die both in Canada or upon being deported to countries they have citizenship in. This injustice must end.

50 years ago, five Italian construction workers, Pasquale Allegrezza, Giovanni Correglio, Giovanni Fusillo, and Alessandro and Guido Mantella, died while working in a dangerous tunnel near Yonge Street in Toronto, remembered as the Hoggs Hollow disaster. Knowing
that workers without full status were facing flagrant workplace violations, negligent employers and little legislative protection from occupational hazards, workers across the city rose up, and carried out a series of actions and strikes in a fight to organize the
building trades.

Today as migrant workers continue to die, labour activists and community groups must gather together, to reignite a new fight. A fight that creates far-reaching changes and challenges the very root of people's inability to access real safety – immigration status and racism.

Join community groups and labour activist to discuss and demand:

** Moratorium on deportations for all workers with WSIB claims and MOL complaints
** Access to Health and Safety without Fear
** Status for injured workers and their families
** Status for All!

Please email nooneisillegal@riseup.net to endorse.

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For background

** Criminal charges not enough, more needs to be done to ensure migrant workers come home alive, say community organizations:
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/490 (Oct 19, 2010)

** Stop the killing of migrant workers, end exploitative temporary work programs: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/483 (Sep 16, 2010)

** Hundreds mourn migrant worker deaths: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/391 (Jan 8, 2010)

** Justice for migrant workers killed at work: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/397 (Jan 7, 2010)

ANARCHIST MUSIC:
JOEY ONLY FALL TOUR:


Here's the schedule for the ever active anarchist musician Joey Only. Catch some of the upcoming if you can.
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Joey Only Eastern Tour and CBC Radio 3 Award Nomination‏
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nov.3rd 2010
--for immediate release
1.EAST COAST TRANSGRESSION TRAIL TOUR
2.CBC RADIO 3 BUCKY AWARDS NOMINATION - Most Canadian Song
3.REQUEST TRANSGRESSION TRAIL ON YOUR LOCAL RADIO
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EAST COAST TRANSGRESSION TRAIL TOUR
Joey Only has taken his act out across the prairies to Ontario with a throw together band of Outlaws such as Bad Bong Water Dave, Scotty Dunbar - One Man Band, celebrated drummer Pat Philips and Jim Bob on the upright bass. It's the last bout of long distance touring for Joey Only for a while so catch us while you can on the Transgression Trail...our reality and the name of our newest album.
-OCT:29: CALGARY ALBERTA: The Palomino Happy Hour.
-OCT:30: BRANDON MANITOBA: Spooky Cabaret and Bleeding Cowboys@ Brandon Folk Music and Art Society Studios, 924 9Ave, 8pm. With Ingrid Gatin. Organized by the good people from Brandon Folk Fest this Halloween party threatens to get wilder as the night goes on.
-OCT:31: THUNDER BAY ONTARIO: The Appollo Halloween.
-NOV:4: PETERBOROUGH ONTARIO: The Spill Coffee House, 414 George Street. (705) 748-6167. With Scott Dunbar the One Man Band opening.
-NOV:5: TRENTON ONTARIO: Celtic Pub, 58 King Street, (613) 392-2788. The Outlaws unite with Kingston Ontario’s best rockabilly country band LIQOURBOX!! With Scott Dunbar the One Man Band opening.
-NOV:11: ELMIRA ONTARIO: Elmira Central Tavern with Scotty Dunbar and the Bad Bong Water Boys.
-NOV:12: GUELPH ONTARIO: location to be announced by the Labour Show which broadcasts out of Guelph University. With Scott Dunbar the One Man Band opening.
-NOV:13: KITCHENER ONTARIO: The Boathouse, Jubilee Drive, (519) 741-2488‎. With the Bad Bong Water Boys. With Scott Dunbar the One Man Band opening.
-NOV:15: PETERBOROUGH ONTARIO: The Pigs Ear Tavern with Knifehammer and Scotty Dunbar.
-NOV:16: CAMBRIDGE ONTARIO: The Groove Kitchen, 656 King Street East, $6, 8pm. Some open jamming will be happening later in the show. With Scott Dunbar the One Man Band opening.
-NOV:17: TORONTO ONTARIO: Hard Luck Bar, 812 Dundas Street. www.hardluckbar.com . With Scott Dunbar the One Man Band opening.
-NOV:18: OTTAWA ONTARIO: Rainbow Bistro, 76 Murray Street,(613) 241-5123. With the Mudplots doing an acoustic show. With Scott Dunbar the One Man Band opening.
-NOV:19: STE. HYACINTHE QUEBEC: Bar Le Trash, with Joel Kaiser and the Devils Own and Liqourbox. www.myspace.com ). With ScottDunbar the One Man Band opening.
-NOV:20: MONTREAL QUEBEC: Le Hemisphere Gauche, 221 Beaubien East, (514) 278-6693. , with Joel Kaiser and the Devils Own and Liqourbox. With Scott Dunbar the One Man Band opening.
-NOV:25: QUEBEC CITY QUEBEC: Bar Le Scanner with Joel Kaiser and Scotty Dunbar.
-NOV:26: MONCTON NEW BRUNSWSICK: Manhattan Bar and Grill, 134 Westmoreland Street, with Hub City Stranglers. With Scott Dunbar the One Man Band opening.
-NOV:27: HALIFAX NOVAS SCOTIA: Reflections Cabaret, 5184 Sackville Street. With Scott Dunbar the One Man Band opening.
-NOV:28: CHARLOTTETOWN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Baba’s Bar and Grill, With Scott Dunbar the One Man Band opening.
-NOV:30: HALIFAX NOVA SCOTIA: Gus’s Pub, 2605 Agricola St. With Scott Dunbar the One Man Band opening.
-DEC:3: THUNDER BAY ONTARIO: The Appollo
-DEC:4: WINNIPEG MANITOBA: Times Changed High and Lonesome
-DEC:5: FORT FRANCES ONTARIO: Little Beaver Cultural Center.
-DEC:6: KENORA ONTARIO: TBA
-DEC:8: EDMONTON ALBERTA: The Blackdog Freehouse on Whyte Avenue.
-DEC:10: CALGARY ALBERTA: The Palomino Bar and Grill on 7th Avenue, Happy Hour, 4-8pm.
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2.JOEY ONLY nominated for Most Canadian Song on the Bucky Awards
The Joey Only Outlaw Band's song "Greyhoundin Guitar Man" has been nominated for a 2010 CBC Radio 3 Bucky Award in the category of Most Canadian Song!

During the week of November 1, 2010, long-list voting on CBC Radio3.com will determine which artists will make it to the 5-artist short list. Voting closes at midnight ET on Sunday, November 7th. Please vote for me, I need the help!

To cast a ballot, please visit http://cbcradio3.com/buckyawards The final awards will be announced on Grant Lawrence Live at 11:00amPT/ 2:00pm ET on December 8th, 2010.
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3.REQUEST TRANSGRESSION TRAIL ON YOUR LOCAL RADIO
Another way you can help us is to get the radio stations playing our new album. That gets us on the charts and sometimes can reward a band a little for all the hard travelin we do...thanx a tonne, till next time take it easy but take it...joey
CJSF – Burnaby, BC: 604.291.5797
CJSW -Calgary, AB: 403.220.3991
CJSR -Edmonton, AB: 780.492.2577
CHSR -Fredericton, NB: 506.453.4979
CFRU – Guelph, ON: 519.837.2378
CKDU – Halifax, NS: 902.494.2487
CFMU – Hamilton, ON: 905.528.9888
CFBX – Kamloops, BC: 250.377.3988
CKXU – Lethbridge, AB: 403.329.5189
CHRW – London, ON: 519.661.3600
CFRE – Mississauga, ON: 905.828.5411
CISM – Montreal, QC: 514.343.2476
CJLO – Montreal, QC: 514.848.7471
CKUT – Montreal, QC: 514.398.4616
CHRY – North York, ON: 416.736.5656
CHUO – Ottawa, ON: 613.562.5967
CKCU – Ottawa, ON: 613.520.2528
CFMH – Saint John, NB: 506.648.5925
CFCR – Saskatoon, SK: 306.242.5002
CSCR – Scarborough, ON: 416.287.7049
CIUT – Toronto, ON: 416.978.0909 - Vancouver, BC: 604.822.2487
CFUV – Victoria, BC: 250.721.8700
CJAM – Windsor, ON: 519.971.3630
CJUM – Winnipeg, MB: 204.269.8636
CKUW – Winnipeg, MB: 204.774.6877
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/xjoeyonlyx
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DAILY BLOG: www.joeyonly.wordpress.com www.JOEYONLY.com

FOUND TREASURES:

THE ANARCHA LIBRARY:

The theme of this part of the blog is "found treasures on the internet", and our first item is the Anarcha Library, a relatively new online library of anarcha feminist writings. I have to admit that I haven't finished fully exploring this site, but what I have found so far impresses me. There are literally hundreds of items from across the world on a wide variety of themes from 'Ableism' (5 items) to 'Zine' (89 items). From what I read the two most prominent tags are 'sexism' (131 items) and 'queer' (95 items). A world of reading to explore. Here's a brief sample from an Croatian site.

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What is anarcha-feminism? (2007)
http://www.zamirnet.hr/anfema/fest/about_anarcha_feminism.php

Difficult question: That's why it's the best to start from the beginning. In the beginning of the story of anarcho feminism, anarchism and feminism were basically different expressions, although they were always a tight connection between them. (E.g. one of the oldest anarchist newspapers of the world "freedom", was founded by the woman and feminist Charlotte Wilson among others). In the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century feminist and anarchist were very active and noticed, for example Mary Wollstonecraft, Lucy Parsons, Voltairine de Clayre and Emma Goldman, who made the connection between anarchism and feminism a very popular idea. Maybe they could even be called the pioneers of the fight for the freedom for women and by that for the society in general. In the 20th century the idea and the movement developed their ways of organising, especially independent groups. They are masked by decentralism, non-structure, non-dogmatism, refusing of one ideology or line and complete despise towards hierarchy as a structure inside the group but also inside the whole society.

Such a way organising & acting stayed until today. Why were the anarchist ideas always so important for the feminist movement?

Anarchism is fighting in its bases with every kind of authorities and their authoritarian systems, also against the authority of the man over the woman and against patriarchy. Authoritarian systems consider the family as a base for their existence. This is what children, and especially female children, in this kind of system learn, from the father to the leader, from the boss to god, is to OBEY. Feminism is fighting against those dogmas of the patriarchy that has always been there, against the systematical domination of the man over the woman within all the structures of the society, against the culture of rape and against all the stereotypes of the woman life as a saint, mother or whore, woman as a sexual object or as a passive individual.

Feminism is fighting for the equal rights of women and men, complete realisation of male and female potentials, and it's aiming to change the "man's world" towards a "world for all people", without caring about gender, age, race, sexual choice. Anarchism gives this opportunity to feminism. And this is the point where anarchism and feminism connect themselves to anarchafeminism. Anarchafeminism recognises patriarchy as the essential weapon of modern capitalistic and hierarchical society, which decides about human everyday life through institutions and family as one of the institutions. That is why I consider that anarchafeminism is a more complete solution than feminism alone, because it doesn't focus on changing situation for only women, but on changing for all people in society, like a total change in society. The problem of women as second (third?) citizens in society is not a separate problem but is part of the whole problematic society of non-equality and authority. And non-equality among people, same as among women and men will exist as long as the relation of superior and inferior is rolled out. The system that still holds this fetish of female inferiority does this because most of all it hates when its authority is touched, when it is provoked. That characterises for all authorities, regardless if it is authority of masters over their slaves or men over women. Anyway the people escape from their cages with big free steps.

Anarchafeminism is a challenge to this system for both women and men, but also a personal challenge in itself, after all the first necessary change is in oneself, and then around oneself. Human passion and need of freedom exists from the very beginning of human kind and the thing is not just in emancipation of women but in emancipation of society, all people. We don't want to be able to do the same as men we want all together to be able to do much more.

And when we succeed, Anarchafeminism will reach its goal. It'll be free to erase itself.

PERSONAL:

HALLOWEEN AT THE MOLLY HOUSE:

Halloween here at Molly's Haunted House of Horrors was a great success, better than last year. Over 150 kids dropped by. As usual I went whole pig on the yard decorations, and both kids and adults got a great kick out of it. I say adults because almost all kids were accompanied by one or two adults. This seems to be a trend that increases year by year. As usual there were the carloads of kids who were driven around town looking for houses with decorations. This was even more prominent this time around because many people from the North End simply didn't feel safe having their kids do trick or treating in their own neighbourhood because of the recent night of three shootings ( 2 separate deaths and one where the gunman opened up on a group of kids for no perceptible reason, almost fatally injuring one girl). Word is that not own my own East Kildonan but also St. Boniface and Hippy Town (Wolseley) had a great increase in kids this year. I guess that people didn't want to drive too far (no reports of such increases out in the suburbs) , but they still wanted to avoid the shooting gallery. Talking to people in the North End, and they said that in their case all kids were accompanied by at least two adults, unlike in past years. The Indian and Métis Friendship Centre held an alternative Halloween party in the North End for people who were too nervous to let their kids out onto the streets at all. Reality can be scarier than fantasy.

Too bad such a night of fun has to be spoiled by such anxiety. For me at least it was great fun even if I didn't have time to put everything up. New decorations this year, people taking pictures of the yard, the usual for what I consider the best holiday of the year. Nothing to do from now until the New Year except accounting and slouching my way towards Christmas.

CANADIAN POLITICS MONTRÉAL:

SOLIDARITY WITHOUT BORDERS OPEN MEETING:

The following notice of an open meeting with Solidarity Without Borders next Monday in Montréal comes from No One Is Illegal/Personne n'est pas illégal Montréal.

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Solidarité sans frontières: Réunion Ouverte/Open Meeting/Encuentro Abierto
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Monday, November 8 · 6:30pm - 8:30pm

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Location

1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, #204
Montreal, QC

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Created By No One Is Illegal Personne n'est illégal MONTRÉAL

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Solidarité sans frontières - Réunion Ouverte
Solidarity Across Borders - Open Meeting
Solidaridad sin Fronteras – Encuentro Abierto

[English below / español abajo]
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Lundi 8 novembre 2010
18h30 à 20h30
1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, #204
(métro Guy-Concordia)

Vous êtes invitées à venir découvrir Solidarité Sans Frontières et comment vous impliquer dans les luttes en faveur de la justice pour les immigrantes à Montréal

-> Léger goûter et rafraichissements seront servis
-> Service de garde disponible (S.V.P., confirmer 24 heures d'avance)
-> Traduction vers le français et l'espagnol offerte
-> Accessible aux fauteuils roulants

Depuis 2004, Solidarité Sans Frontières lutte pour la justice et la dignité des immigrantes arrivant et vivant au Canada. Nous revendiquons activement la fin des déportations, l'arrêt des détentions, et la régularisation de toutes et tous les immigrantes sans-papiers. Venez découvrir et participer aux différentes campagnes et autres projets qui nous unissent :

* Cité Sans Frontières (une campagne pour assurer un accès sécuritaire à tous les services publics, incluant le système de santé, l'éducation et la possibilité de gagner sa vie en dignité, pour tous et toutes les sans statut)
* Travail de soutien individuel pour personnes sans statut
* Actions exigeant un «Statut pour Toutes et Tous» couronnées par la marche annuelle de Solidarité Sans Frontières en mai 2011
* Les luttes que nous supportons, en autre, la lutte contre la brutalité policière, la lutte contre le profilage racial, la lutte contre les certificats de sécurités et mesures de « sécurité » en matière d'immigration.

Si vous avez des questions ou désirez plus d'information, S.V.P. contacter : 514-848-7583 or solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com

À propos de Solidarité Sans Frontières:
Solidarité Sans Frontières est un réseau et un collectif montréalais luttant pour la justice et la dignité des immigrantes et des réfugiées. Nous sommes des émigrantes, immigrantes, réfugiées et alliées combattant sans cese les lois discriminatoires et inhumaines des gouvernments pour exiger: un Statut pour Toutes et Tous!, la fin des déportation et l'arrêt des détentions. Certaines d'entre nous portent enocre les cicatrices de ce système d'immigration raciste; d'autres encore sont issuEs de familles d'immigrantes. Nous luttons collectivement pour la justice et la dignité. Pour nous, il n'y a pas de personnes « illégales », seulement des lois injustes et des gouvernements illégitimes. Nous n'organisons pas cela par charité ou par pitié, mais pour l'entraide mutuelle et la solidarité.

Solidarité sans frontières est un groupe de travail du GRIPQ à Concordia.
www.solidaritesansfrontieres.org


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Solidarity Across Borders - Open Meeting
Monday, November 8th 2010
6:30-8:30pm
1500 de Maisonneuve ouest, #204
(métro Guy-Concordia)

Come find out about Solidarity Across Borders and how to get involved in migrant justice organizing in Montreal

-> Light food and beverages provided
-> Childcare available (Please confirm 24 hours in advance)
-> Translation available in French and Spanish
-> Wheelchair accessible

Since 2004, Solidarity Across Borders has been organizing for justice and dignity for migrant people living in Canada. Our main demands are: An end to deportations and detentions, and status for all undocumented migrants. Come find out about the campaigns and work we do, including:

* Solidarity City (A campaign to ensure safe access for non-status people to work, education, and services, while building networks of mutual aid and solidarity)
* Individual support work for non-status people
* Status for All actions in May 2011
* Struggles that we support, such as issues around police brutality, racial profiling, security certificates, and "immigration security" measures

For questions and other information, please get in touch:
514-848-7583 or solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com

About Solidarity Across Borders:
Solidarity Across Borders is a Montreal-based network engaged in the struggle for justice and dignity of immigrants and refugees. We are comprised of migrants, immigrants, refugees and allies, and come together in support of our main demands: the regularization of all non-status people (Status for All!), an end to deportations and detentions. Some of us have direct experiences with the immigration and refugee system; some of us come from immigrant backgrounds; all of us organize as part of a collective struggle for justice and dignity. For us, there is no such thing as “illegal” human beings, only unjust laws and illegitimate governments. We organize not on the basis of pity or charity, but rather solidarity and mutual aid.

Solidarity Across Borders is a working group of QPIRG Concordia.
www.solidarityacrossborders.org


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Solidaridad sin Fronteras – Encuentro Abierto
Lunes, el 8 de Noviembre 2010
De 6:30 a 8:30 de la tarde
1500 de Maisonneuve oeste, #204
(métro Guy-Concordia)

Estan invitadas a un encuentro abierto de Solidaridad sin Fronteras, aquí podrán enterarse sobre cómo involucarse en la lucha por la justicia de las migrantes montrealenses.

-> Comida y bebidas para todas
-> Guardería disponible (por favor confirmar 24 horas antes)
-> Traducción disponible al francés, ingles y español.

Desde el 2004, Solidaridad sin Fronteras ha estado luchando por la justicia y dignidad de las personas migrantes que viven en Canadá. Nuestras demandas principales son: el fin a las deportaciones y las detenciones, y el estatus para todos los que están sin papeles. Vengan a entérese de las campañas y trabajo que hacemos, lo cual incluye:

* La Ciudad Solidaria (une campaña para asegurar el acceso a todos los servicios públicos incluyendo la salud, la educación, y el trabajo digno para todas las personas sin documentos).
* Trabajo de apoyo para las personas sin documentos.
* Acciones llamando el Papeles para Todas en mayo del 2011.
* El trabajo que apoyamos, como la lucha contra la violencia policiaca, el racismo, y las medidas de "seguridad de inmigración".

Por cualquier duda u otra información, comuníquese al :
514-848-7583 o solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com

Acerca de Solidaridad sin Fronteras:
Solidaridad sin Fronteras es una red Montrealense que lucha por la justicia y la dignidad de las inmigrantes y las refugiadas. Somos un grupo de emigrantes, inmigrantes, refugiadas y aliadas que se reúnen bajo las demandas: la regularización de todas las personas sin papeles (¡Papeles para Todas!), y el fin a las deportaciones y las detenciones. Algunas de nosostras tenemos experiencias directas con el sistema de inmigración y refugio; algunas venimos de familias inmigrantes; todas organizamos la lucha colectiva para la justicia y la dignidad. Nosotras creemos que no hay seres humanos "ilegales", las leyes son injustas y los gobiernos ilegítimos. Nosotras organizamos por la solidaridad y el apoyo mutuo, y no por la compasión ni la caridad.


www.solidarityacrossborders.org
514-848-7583
solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com

LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG:
MEET THE ARTIST-BARBARA KOENEN- AT THE WAG:


Coming up tomorrow, November 3, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery 300 Memorial Blvd... meet with artist Barbara Koenen. Here's the promo.
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Meet the Artist: Barbara Koenen
Time
Wednesday, November 3 · 12:00pm - 1:00pm

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Location Winnipeg Art Gallery
300 Memorial Blvd.
Winnipeg, MB

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Join us tomorrow at 12:10pm for a special artist talk by Chicago-based artist Barbara Koenen. Admission to the talk is $5.

Since 2001 Koenen's work has involved recreating Afghani war rugs in public performances. The rugs were created out of spices and seeds using a technique similar to that of sand mandalas created by Buddhist monks.

Koenen is in Winnipeg to participate in the conference My City's Still Breathing organized by the Winnipeg Arts Council where she will be speaking about the role of art in city-making. Her talk at the WAG will focus on her own art practice.

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR VIETNAM:
APPEAL FROM THE FAMILIES:

Last October 21 Molly blogged about the case of three Vietnamese workers who have now been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for the "crime" of organizing their fellow workers during a strike. The following item from the Committee To Protect Vietnamese Workers adds more information to this case. It is basically an appeal from the family of two of the prisoners. please go to the website of the Committee to see how you can help these worker activists.
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HELP!
Jailed advocates’ families asks overseas unions, organisations to help

PLEA FOR HELP

Ho Chi Minh City, 26.10.2010

To: Leaders of democratic nations,

Human rights organisations,

Social justice organisations, and

Unions around the world

We, the undersigned,:

- Đỗ Ty, domiciled at Di Linh, Lâm Đồng, father of Đỗ Thị Minh Hạnh

-Nguyễn Kim Hoàng, at 14/12 Bến Chương Dương, P. Cầu Kho, Quận 1, Hồ Chí Minh City, father of Nguyễn Hoàng Quốc Hùng,

- Chiêm Thị Tường Mạnh, domicied at Trà Vinh, wife of Đoàn Huy Chương

We ask that you use your power and influence to help save our daughter, son, and husband, Đỗ Thị Minh Hạnh 25 years old, Nguyễn Hoàng Quốc Hùng 29 years, and Đoàn Huy Chương 25 tuổi, to be free from the harsh conviction which the Vietnamese authorities have declared, accusing them of disrupting national security and trying to overthrow the regime, and sentencing them 7, 9, and 7 years in prison.

They are innocent and the conviction is unjust.


PHOTO Doan Huy Chuong in court 26 Oct 2010, flanked by police
They are youths who are patriotic and humane who, for many years, have quietly helped poor people, people whose properties who have been forcibly taken, and workers who have been exploited and mistreated by employers. Those actions are the right thing to do and are not illegal.

But, instead of encouraging such actions which benefit society, eliminate injustice, build a fair society, our loved ones have been arrested by the police and accused under Clause 89 of the criminal act.

Đoàn Huy Chương was arrested on 13.02.2010, Đỗ Thị Minh Hạnh on 23.02.2010, and Nguyễn Hoàng Quốc Hùng on 24.02.2010.

During the 8 months of imprisonment without charges, our loved ones were held in isolation and incommunicado, were forcibly questioned, and treated like common criminals. During this whole time, Nguyễn Hoàng Quốc Hùng was not allowed any visit by us, he was beaten and we were not allowed to send in provisions for him. From a strong and healthy young man, Hung was physically beaten into a sick and weak man

At the trial on 26.10.2010 at Tra Vinh, the court violated its own trial procedures. Our loved ones decided to defend themselves but the judge did not allow them to speak. The trial was over very quickly and the sentences had been decided beforehand.

When allowed to say their last words, Nguyễn Hoàng Quốc Hùng, Đỗ Thị Minh Hạnh and Đoàn Huy Chương strongly denied any wrongdoing and asserted that the court was wrong.

All they have is their love for the country, in their hands they have no weapon, how can they be accused of harming national security?


PHOTO The couple Hung and Hanh, about late 2009
This is a most unjust conviction. Our loved ones are unjustly tried.

After their arrests, we were heartbroken but maintained some hope in justice because they had done nothing wrong. But the court of this regime has caused us pain, we are disappointed in the regime’s justice system.

We cannot find justice in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

We plead for your help, please help end our loved ones’ days in jail.

Respectfully and gratefully yours

Đỗ Ty

Nguyễn Kim Hoàng.

Chiêm Thị Tường Mạnh

LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG:
THE WATER OF LIFE BENEFIT:

Coming up on Friday, November 19, at the Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre, Third Floor 91 Albert St.. A Benefit for the Boreal Action Project so they can raise money for their share of the A-Zone Co-op. Yes, that is the project to purchase the premises at 91 Albert Street via a member owned cooperative.

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The Water of Life Benefit
Time
Friday, November 19 at 5:00pm - November 21 at 6:00pm

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Location
The Rocker
91 Albert St.
3rd Floor
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Created By The Boreal Action Project

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Join us for art; music; speakers and more and help us raise money for a member share in the A-Zone collective, home of our new office! Confirmed artists are: James Hogaboam, paintings and photos of Lake Winnipeg; Thomas Fricke, photographs from Lake Winnipeg, Hecla and more. His work is in last month's Canadian Geographic, has been in the Globe and Mail and the New York Times; Roger Rempel- aerial photos of the east side of Lake Winnipeg running up to Poplar River, taken from a float plane in June and have never been shown publicly: soap stone carvings by Michael ManyEagles: Music by Twin, with Dave Fort and company speaking on their floating armada last summer and the upcoming California armada; Speakers Dave Nickarz of the Sea Shepards. invited guests include Beth Martens for kirtan and the Council of Canadians. More to be announced: BorealKids activities Sunday afternoon. Watch for schedule details. Admission by donation...sliding scale. Hope to see you there!

HUMOUR:

HALLOWEEN FUNNY CANDY PART 7:

Politighouls maybe ?

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