[antiwar-van] Anti-Olympics Extravaganza/ DTES Storytelling/ Resistance Without Reservation

[Harsha W.]

Hi friends, i know i've sent out notices for soooo many events in October,
but please mark your calenders for these three upcoming events in
particular you may not want to miss!

- please forward to your lists and contacts -


1) Fri Oct 23: Anti Olympics Extravaganza! Performances, speakers corner,
treasure hunt, and more fun at Rhizome (317 e. broadway) at 6:30 pm.

2) Sat Oct 24: In our Own Voices, an evening of powerful storytelling with
DTES Power of Women Group at Rhizome (317 e. broadway) at 7 pm.

3) Thurs Oct 29: Resistance without Reservation! Part of Indigenous
Sovereignty Week, event beings with food at 6 pm at 706 Clarke Drive.


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*ANTI-OLYMPICS EXTRAVAGANZA!**

The Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Winter Olympics are just around the corner,
it’s time to take some action!

**Where: * Rhizome Café 317 East Broadway
**When: * Friday October 23, 2009 6:30 pm*
**What:**

1) Get informed: Sudbury-based sociologist and author GARY KINSMAN speaks
on national security and queer resistance to the Olympics, LINDSAY
BOMBERRY (Onondaga Nation, Eel clan of the Haudenosaune Confederacy League
of Peace) will talk about Indigenous opposition to the Olympics.

2) Get inspired: Local multi-talented Nuxalk and Cayuga emcee JB THE FIRST
LADY and others share their skills and get you pumped for resistance.

3) Get expressive: Share your thoughts about the Olympics and its effects
at the Anti-Olympics Speaker’s Corner. The Olympic Resistance Network
Media Committee and the Vancouver Media Co-op will be recording your
opinions, rants, and ideas.

4) Get to action: Take part in the Anti-Olympics treasure hunt. Grab a bag
full of materials and head to the streets to document and express your
opposition to the games.

5) Share your actions: Come to Rhizome for a followup event(details to
come soon!) to collect prizes from the treasure hunt, make a collage of
your actions and watch the video from the anti-olympics speaker's corner.

The Olympics are not going away. The devastating effects are here. But we
can still very loudly say: *No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!*

For more information, email noii-van at resist.ca or call 778-833-4484. Our
website is www.nooneisillegal.org

Facebook RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140937948340


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IN OUR OWN VOICES

Join the Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group in an uplifting evening of
storytelling, poetry, reflection, and resistance

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Saturday October 24th at 7 pm
Rhizome Café
317 East Broadway (corner Kingsway)
All welcome! By donation $0-20
On facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135705868281
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The Power of Women Group is a group at the Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Women's Centre, located in the DTES of Vancouver (the poorest off-reserve
postal code in Canada). We are a group of women from all walks of life who
are either on social assistance, working poor, or homeless; but we are all
living in extreme poverty. Many of us are single mothers or have had our
children apprehended due to poverty; most of us have chronic physical or
mental health issues for example HIV and Hepatitis C; many have drug or
alcohol addictions; and a majority have experienced and survived sexual
violence and mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional abuse. For
indigenous women, we are affected by a legacy of the effects of
residential schools and a history of colonization and racism.

We hope you will join us and we hope you will hear us about our struggles
with poverty, homelessness, child apprehension, violence, police, the
Olympics, social assistance systems and more. For information email
project at dewc.ca or call 604-681-8480 x 234.


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RESISTANCE WITHOUT RESERVATION!

As part of Indigenous Sovereignty Week and building resistance to the
Olympic Torch Relay, join us in an evening of powerful films, dignified
food, inspiring speakers, and rebel performers...

On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133963917949

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Thursday Oct 29. Free!
Doors and food served @ 6 pm
Event begins @ 6:30 pm

706 Clarke Drive (3 blocks south of Hastings)
Bus route #22, 10, 16, 20
Child-friendly. Bus tickets available
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* Coast Salish Opening by Kat Norris: founder of Indigenous Action
Movement and survivor of the Kuper Island Residential School. Kat joined
the American Indian Movement and has been a social activist since. Most
recently, she has been organizing against police abuses and her biggest
success is the Frank Paul Inquiry.

* Carol Martin: Nisga'a/Gitanyow and member of Downtown Eastside Elders
Council, Sweetgrass All Nations Healing Centre, and Feb 14th Memorial
March Committee. Carol is a long-time advocate and grassroots voice for
Indigenous peoples and for women and men in the DTES, especially in the
lead up to the Olympic Games.

* Dustin Rivers: a young and outspoken Skwxwú7mesh-Kwakwaka’wakw activist,
artist, and writer.He's had an obsession with history from a early age,
but also raised in a time of cultural re-generation, he uses his ancestors
legacy of political uprising to accomplish his vision of decolonization.

* Writing the Land (7 mins, Kevin Lee Burton): This 2007 film meticulously
combines film language with Hunkamenum words to recreate Musqueam elder
Larry Grant’s experience of rediscovering his language and cultural
traditions.

* Resist 2010 (15 mins, Burning Fist Media with no2010): A short,
fast-paced documentary focusing on the negative impacts of the 2010 Games
and the ongoing resistance by Indigenous & other social movements.


Defenders of the Land, a cross-Canada network of First Nations in land
struggle and fighting for Indigenous rights, has issued a call to organize
a cross-Canada week of educational events on Indigenous Rights and
Indigenous struggles from October 25-31, 2009. The purpose of this week is
to disseminate ideas of Indigenism and to contribute to building a
cross-Canada movement for Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and justice that
is led by Indigenous communities with a broad base of informed support.

As non-native multiracial supporters, we are allies of frontline
Indigenous communities who organize in defense of their land, freedom, and
autonomy. As a grassroots anti-racist and anti-imperialist migrant justice
group rising to liberation, No One Is Illegal strongly believes that our
movement must always be in active solidarity with self-determination
struggles of Indigenous communities who struggle across Turtle Island
against centuries of imposed racist, sexist, criminalizing, impoverishing,
and genocidal policies.

Our event is organized in this spirit of respect with the diverse
realities of Indigenous peoples to survive and resist, especially in the
face of our society's apathy, the normalization of colonialism, and
increasing state repression. We hope you will join us and we encourage
others to organize additional events and actions during Indigenous
Sovereignty Week. No Justice on Stolen Land!

Organized by No One Is Illegal-Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. For
more information, email noii-van at resist.ca or call 778-833-4484 Visit
http://noii-van.resist.ca

To read the full callout for Indigenous Sovereignty Week:
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/56724027.html

To read the basis of Unity for Defenders of the Land Network:
http://www.defendersoftheland.org/content/who_we_are

To read an article about the first Defenders of the Land gathering:
http://www.rabble.ca/news/defenders-land-take-action-across-country