[Indigsol] March 15: Beats Beat The Police: Commemorating March 15 International Day to End Police Brutality and March 31: Uncovering “Canada Park”: A Dispossessed Palestinian Speaks Out

Sun Mar 13 13:16:59 PDT 2016

2 upcoming events:

1) Beats Beat The Police: Commemorating March 15 International Day to End
Police Brutality
2) Uncovering “Canada Park”: A Dispossessed Palestinian Speaks Out

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Beats Beat The Police:
Commemorating March 15 International Day to End Police Brutality

Feast and concert featuring spoken word from King Kimbit and hip-hop by
Testament from Test Their Logik, Hyfidelik the Gypsy Sun, Mother Tareka,
and Lee Reed and the launch of issue 25 of Critical Resistance's
newspaper, "The Abolitionist"

Emcee: John Akpata
Speakers: Proshanto Smith (Ottawa Panhandler’s Union), Emily Munro
(POWER), Bridget Tolley (Justice For Gladys Tolley and FSIS), A member of
Critical Resistance

We acknowledge that Ottawa, and the entire Ottawa river watershed is the
traditional territory of the Algonquin nation.

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Tuesday, March 15 at 6:30pm - Midnight
SAW Gallery, 67 Nicholas St.
Wheelchair Accessible
All Ages
Pay-What-You-Can
(Suggested donation 5$ - $10)
No One Turned Away

http://www.endpolicing.wordpress.com
endpolicing at gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/1647032698896594/
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In collaboration with Critical Resistance, the Ottawa Panhandler’s Union,
Prostitutes of Ottawa/Gatineau Work Educate and Resist (POWER), Justice
For Gladys Tolley, OPIRG-Ottawa, CKCU 93.1 and CHUO 89.1FM.

Schedule:
6:30pm : Start and Feast
7:30pm : a member of Critical Resistance and Emily Munro from POWER :::
Prostitutes of Ottawa / Gatineau Work Educate & Resist
7:50pm : King Kimbit
8:20pm : Bridget Tolley from Justice for Gladys Tolley and Proshanto Smith
from the Ottawa Panhlandler's Union
9:00pm : Hyfidelik the Gypsy Sun
9:40pm : Lee Reed
10:20pm : Mother Tareka
11:00pm : Test Their Logik
11:30pm : Closing

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Beats Beat The Police

Join us on March 15 for a feast and spoken word and hip-hop concert!

We will also be commemorating the work being done to end police brutality
and to celebrate the people, groups and movements working for a world
without the violence of policing.

It will also be a launch for issue 25 of "The Abolitionist". This issue is
on POLICING. The Abolitionist is written mostly by prisoners, former
prisoners, and community advocates, and is a paper that discusses and
analyzes the prison industrial complex, in order to figure out what it
will take for us to realize a world without cages.
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"Sergio Guerra aka "Hyf the GypsySun" is a Salvadorian-born writer,
poet/MC and producer currently living in Ottawa, Canada. Exploring themes
of migration, the biosphere, indigenous reclamation, spirituality, and the
convergence of traditions in our Canadian landscape through spoken word
and hip-hop, Sergio extracts the stories hidden in his blood and in the
same effort, inspiring us to do the same. His galvanizing performances
invoke spirit, the darkest part of the night and the mercy of the sunrise.

Part of Canada's only Hip Hop Spoken Word group "Missing LinX' and founder
of the music label, "Nationless Minds", he seeks to focus on the
importance of blood memory and highlighting the limitations of
nationalistic identities in working towards a harmonious existence on
earth. Hyf adds to his resume as a music producer and film maker,
currently completing his full length album entitled "The Mayan in Mecca"
and set to begin work on his first short film entitled "Little Sister".

You can follow Hyf the GypsySun on Twitter @HyfGypsySun
or on Instagram @nationlessmind
Find his music on Soundcloud at
https://soundcloud.com/nationlessmindrecords

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King Kimbit

Born as Thu Anh Nguyen in the nation’s capital, King Kimbit takes great
pride in her roots and heritage while recognizing that her home is here in
Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin territory. King Kimbit is the daughter of a
Vietnamese school teacher and a Vietnamese artist, both of whom escaped
Viet Nam by boat after the war. With her inherited artistic abilities,
King Kimbit has made a name for herself as a spoken word artist across the
country as well as in the United States. In 2012, King Kimbit was crowned
Champion of Urban Legends Poetry Slam as the first woman to have won the
series, and with that, went on to compete with the Urban Legends team in
the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (the national level completion for
team poetry slam). In the same year, she was part of the Ottawa Youth
Poetry Slam project, who won provincials. Since then, King has been
featured in the Ottawa Versefest Women’s Showcase, and various shows
around the city. King Kimbit has also featured at the Union of North
American Vietnamese Students Association's Tenth Annual Conference in
Anaheim, CA and the 11th conference in Dallas, TX. King Kimbit is
passionate about working with youth and has facilitated poetry workshops
for youth in Ottawa, Vancouver, and Washington, DC. Aside from poetry,
King Kimbit also expresses her art through music. King Kimbit has been
singing since she was able to speak and grew up performing at events for
the Vietnamese community in Ottawa.

King Kimbit VERSeFEST 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6FYkz3kK9U
King Kimbit on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kingkimbit
and on Facebook: https://soundcloud.com/kingkimbit

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Mother Tareka

Sax blasting, direct acting, flute tooting, pedal pumping MC Mother Tareka
is an adopted Hamilton son. 1 part activist, 1 part musician, all parts
amazing.. Tarek is musically best known as the frontman for the Hamilton
Hip-Hop-fusion outfit Mother Tareka & The Greezy Steez. Made for
anti-racism, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, anti-sexism, anarchist,
and environmentalist movements!

Mother Tareka on Soundcloud: https://mothertareka.bandcamp.com/

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Test Their Logik is a revolutionary anti-authoritarian hip-hop duo that
have been making music together since 2007. Their first music video “Crash
The Meeting” led to their arrest during the police repression that took
place for the 2010 G8/G20 meetings in Toronto. Since then they have put
out a second album, “Arrested Development”.

Crash The Meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ninV5yx7FW4
Democracy’s Bankrupt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxNeeNztto
To check out and download (free) their two Albums, “A” and “Arrested
Development”: http://www.testtheirlogik.com/#

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LEE REED is a Hamilton O.G. and a veteran of the Kanadian Indie music
scene. For 20 years he's been stomping stages and studios, spewing his
unique brand of fiery, anti-capitalist rant-hop. From mouthpiece for the
legendary Warsawpack, through to his solo work REED has left a dark krylon
tag across the landscape of the nation's Indie HipHop scene, and a jumbo
fuel tanker on the fire of revolutionary music worldwide. REED's most
recent release, 2015's "The Butcher, The Banker, The Bitumen Tanker" spent
14 weeks on the National Campus Top 10 HipHop charts, with 2 weeks in the
#1 spot. Hide your bankers! Hide your cops!

Bazooka Rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpZsTnT__O0
This Microphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGvRbHY2W8s
For Lee Reed’s new album, “The Butcher, The Banker, The Bitumen Tanker”:
https://leereed.bandcamp.com/album/the-butcher-the-banker-the-bitumen-tanker-2

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Our collaborators:

Justice For Gladys Tolley:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/169936953175061/?fref=ts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9VJmkTPVnU

Critical Resistance:

http://criticalresistance.org/

POWER:

http://www.powerottawa.ca/
Challenges: Challenges: Ottawa area sex workers speak out:
http://www.powerottawa.ca/POWER_Report_Challenges.pdf

Ottawa Panhandler’s Union:

This channel is a document of encounters with Ottawa police:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7OL9DzIFT_7WnjXjX3nnGA

CKCU 93.1

http://www.ckcufm.com/

CHUO 89.1 FM:

http://chuo.fm/

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2) Uncovering “Canada Park”: A Dispossessed Palestinian Speaks Out

The Israeli army expelled Heidar Abu Ghosh from his hometown of Imwas in
1967. It was subsequently demolished along with two other villages, and
covered over by "Canada Park". Heidar is touring Canada to uncover this
crime for Canadians, and suggesting a path towards justice and peace.

Thursday, March 31, 2016
Doors open @ 6:30PM, event starts @ 7PM
Centretown United Church, 507 Bank St.
FREE, donations are welcome

Introduction by Indigenous elder Barbara Hill

Q & A to be moderated by best-selling author Michael Harris

National organizer: Independent Jewish Voices Canada
National sponsor: Canadian Union of Postal Workers

Co-sponsored by:

Independent Jewish Voices – Ottawa, Association of Palestinian Arab
Canadians – National Capital Region, Graduate Students Association –
Carleton, Department of Sociology & Anthropology – Carleton, Ottawa CUPE
District Council, CUPE 2424, CUPE 1979, Indigenous Peoples Solidarity
Movement Ottawa

All proceeds will go towards the campaign to challenge the charitable
status of the Jewish National Fund of Canada (JNF Canada). JNF Canada is
responsible for using tax-deductible donations to cover over the ruins of
depopulated and demolished Palestinian villages, erasing them from space
and consciousness.

Please invite your contacts through our Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/801934696579069/

Brief Bio of Heidar Abu Ghosh

Heidar Abu Ghosh holds a Master’s degree in Public Health, and serves as
the director of a program for the prevention and management of
non-communicable diseases with the Palestinian Medical Relief Society. He
is based in Ramallah, Palestine. In his spare time, he speaks to
delegations at Canada Park to keep alive the memory of the villages that
once stood.

Mr. Abu Ghosh is excited to speak in Canada, which he sees as an
opportunity to raise the case of the destroyed villages, and the role that
Canadians and the federal government continue to play in covering up the
crimes committed against the villagers. He is looking forward, in his own
words, to “building a relationship of cooperation and liaising with
Canadian organizations and individuals for the sake of peace and justice
in the Holy Land. A real and just peace is the only solution for
individual and state security, not state power and increasing
militarization.”

Resources on Canada Park and the Jewish National Fund:

CBC’s “Canada Park: A Park with no Peace”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rZmzIqK6Fc

Jesse Rosenfeld’s “Grass Stains on Canada’s Hands”:
https://nowtoronto.com/news/grass-stains-on-canadas-hands/

Al-Haq’s “Where Villages Stood”:
http://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres10/Latrun.pdf

What is the Jewish National Fund?: http://ijvcanada.org/what-is-the-jnf/

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