[Org4j-announce] List of upcoming events

[Organizing 4Justice]

Here is a list of upcoming events
(when no link is given, full details follow list)


~~ LOCAL EVENTS ~~


Sat Jan 8, 1:00pm
*Save Beaver Pond Forest Rally *
meet at All Saints HS parking lot, 5115 Kanata Ave, then march 1/2 block to
Urbandale Sales Office

Tues Jan 11, 6:30pm
*POWER letter writing pizza eating social*
at Venus Envy, 320 Lisgar St

Wed Jan 12, 7:00pm
*Public Lecture: Canadian Mining Operations in Central America*
Crossborder organizing and human rights violations
http://www.dirtygoldtour.com/2010/12/canadian-mining-operations-in-central.html

Thus Jan 13, 7-9pm
*'Facilitating Group Learning' book launch with George Lakey*
at PSAC, 233 Gilmour St

Thurs Jan 13, 8:00pm
*Divergence Movie Night: 'Fag Hags'*
http://divergencemovienight.com/

Sat Jan 15, 9am-4:30pm
*Workshop with George Lakey on popular education*
* RSVP required by Jan 7: GeorgeLakeyOttawa2011 at gmail.com

Jan 18-22
*Aboriginal Awareness Week, at Carleton University*
http://www2.carleton.ca/aboriginal/ccms/wp-content/ccms-files/AAW_2011_Poster.pdf

Fri Jan 21, 9:30pm
*Rebels Without a Pause*
Hip hop / live music / book launch / fundraiser
at Atomic Rooster, 303 Bank St

Mon Jan 24, 6:00-9:00pm
*Ottawa Workers Assembly*
at PSAC, 233 Gilmour St

*OPIRG Week - **Tools for Change*
Jan 24 - Feb 6
Full week+ of workshops and more
www.opirg-gripo.ca for full details, venues, etc
* Jan 25, 7pm - *Jail Solidarity, Prisoner and Court Support*
* Jan 26, 7pm - *Becoming an Ally: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression*
* Jan 27, 7pm - *Activist Campaigns: NOII-Toronto and the Sanctuary City*
* Jan 27, 10pm - *Live music and party, featuring Three Little Birds*
* Jan 30, 1pm - *Caring For Ourselves: Self-Care and Support for Everyone*
* Feb 2, 7pm - *Organizing Demonstrations: Strategy and Tactics*
* Feb 3, 7pm - *Direct Actions and Security Culture*
* Feb 4, 7pm - *Undergrad Blues: How to Apply to Post-Graduate Programs
*
Thurs Jan 27, 7:00pm
*It Gets Better Lecture Series*
at Carleton University (no further details at this time!?)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148087625242107

Jan 29, and ongoing:
*VENUS ENVY!*
Sat Jan 29: *10th Anniversary Sale and Party!!*
11:00am-7:00pm at Venus Envy Ottawa, 320 Lisgar Street
http://venusenvy.ca/events/venus-envys-10th-anniversary-sale-and-party-2011-01-29
9:30pm-2:00am at Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St.
19+, tickets $5-15 (available Jan 15 on, at Venus Envy)
Performances at 10:30, Dance Party til 2
...and...
Jan 10 - Mar 15: *Venus Envy Winter Workshop Schuedule *
http://venusenvy.ca/schedule/workshops/ottawa



~~ OUT OF TOWN EVENTS ~~


January 14-16, Toronto
*North American Anarchist Studies Network conference 2011*
http://naasn.org/
For coordinating transporation from Ottawa: caspernova at riseup.net


January 29-30, Toronto
*BUILDING THE WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT*
http://www.workersassembly.ca/callout2011/
rides: bedgecombe at cupe.ca or 613-237-1590ext.236


February 4-6, Montreal
*People's Commission Network Popular Forum*
WHOSE SECURITY? OUR SECURITY!
Countering the National Security Agenda
http://www.peoplescommission.org/en/forum/



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EVENT DETAILS:



Sat Jan 8, 1:00pm
*Save Beaver Pond Forest Rally*

GOAL
This is a rally to invite Urbandale/KNL to halt all cutting and blasting of
the Beaver Pond Forest at least until spring. This is for ecological,
archaeological, cultural and humane reasons. The City could halt development
based on new evidence that the archaeological assessment needs to be redone.
But the City refuses to put its foot down. The City... isn’t taking
responsibility. The province isn’t taking responsibility. The NCC isn’t
taking responsibility. So we are going directly to the company that owns the
land. We need to convince them it is better for everyone that they spare the
most ecologically sensitive part of Ottawa. We need to prove it is more
profitable to do the right thing.

PLAN
- Assemble in All Saints Parking lot at 1pm (5115 Kanata Avenue)
- Bring your own signs, we also have dozens made, including some which will
be used in a subsequent Activist Art show
- March to Urbandale Sales Office (503 Remnor Avenue, half block away)
- Be loud (bring instruments & noisemakers!)
- Main Message to Urbandale: Do the Right Thing or Lose our Business

MORE INFO
Google map link:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=45.322173%2C-75.927628&spn=0.004813%2C0.013797&z=16
on the Forest: http://www.ottawasgreatforest.com/
http://www.southmarchhighlands.ca/
Details on inadequate environmental assessment & storm waster management
plans: http://renaud.ca/wordpress
community voices:http://the5thc.blogspot.com/
http://candle4kindness.wordpress.com/
Petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Do-Not-Cut-Beaver-Pond-Forest-or-SMH/


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Tues Jan 11, 6:30-8:30pm
*
Letter writing - Pizza eating - POWER social!*
at Venus Envy (320 Lisgar St, near Bank)

Calling on all sex workers, their friends, their allies!
POWER needs your help!

On December 2nd POWER asked the Ontario Human Rights Commission to inquire
into the Ottawa Police Service Treatment of Ottawa area sex workers

JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF LETTER WRITING AND COMMUNITY BUILDING:

•Let’s remind the commission of our determination to see this happen
•Let’s eat pizza and hang out
•Let’s meet new people who are interested in fighting for sex workers'
rights and let's share stories

Tuesday night! Come and join us! There shall be pizza!

If You can't make it, please spread the word and contact POWER (over our fb
page) if you want to send a letter to the Commission too!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181906745161515
http://www.powerottawa.ca/


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Thus Jan 13, 7-9pm
*
'Facilitating Group Learning' Book launch with George Lakey*
at PSAC, 233 Gilmour St

Activist and educator George Lakey has published a new book, Facilitating
Group Learning. George will share stories about what he has learned from his
extensive experience facilitating groups to bring about social change.

To ensure we have enough books and refreshments at the launch, you can RSVP
by sending an e-mail to: LakeyBookLaunch at gmail.com
Or, confirm on this FaceBook event: George Lakey Ottawa Book Launch


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Sat Jan 15, 9am-4:30pm
* RSVP required by Jan 7: GeorgeLakeyOttawa2011 at gmail.com

*Workshop with George Lakey on popular education*
at PSAC, 233 Gilmour

George will share tools to intensify the power of popular education.
Participants will discover the value of making the most of their diversity
and explore how workshops can be made more empowering for people.
Advance registration required.

Space is limited. Workshop participants MUST register in advance. There's no
fee, but we will encourage you to buy the book.
To register for the workshop, please send an e-mail to this address by
January 7: GeorgeLakeyOttawa2011 at gmail.com

George Lakey is visiting professor and research fellow for the Lang Center
for Civic and Social Responsibility at Swarthmore College. He began his
career as a trainer at the Martin Luther King School for Social Change. A
founder of Training for Change, George has run courses for coal miners,
therapists, homeless people, prisoners, Russian lesbians and gays, Sri
Lankan monks, South African activists, Burmese guerrilla soldiers, striking
steel workers - and Canadian social justice activists.

These events are being organized by Ottawa union activists with the
assistance of Octopus Books, 116 Third Avenue.


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Sat Jan 21, 9:30pm-3:00am

*REBELS WITHOUT A PAUSE*
at Atomic Rooster, 303 Bank St

5-15$

Three reasons to come to this event:
1- REVOLUTIONARY HIP HOP AND LIVE MUSIC!!!
2- BOOK LAUNCH OF POLITICAL PRISONER KEVIN RASHID JOHNSON!
3- FUNDRAISER FOR CARLETON SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTRE!

Featuring Music by:
- Rebel Diaz (NEW YORK CITY)
- The Mosquitoes (OTTAWA)
- Hyfidelik and Prufrock (OTTAWA)
- Test their Logik (LONDON AND OTTAWA)

AND: Book Launch of "Defying the Tomb" by Kevin "Rashid" Johnson

More about Defying the Tomb:
"Follow the author's [Kevin "Rashid" Johnson] odyssey from...drug dealer to
prisoner, to revolutionary New Afrikan, a teacher and mentor, one of a new
generation rising of prison intellectuals. This book consists primarily of
letters between Rashid and Outlaw, another revolutionary New Afrikan
prisoner, smuggled between the segregation wing and general population over
a period of months. These comrades educate themselves - and us as well - on
Marxism and Maoism, the Five-Percenters, Dialectical Materialism, Dead Prez,
Capitalism, Racism, Imperialism, Class Struggle, Revolutionary Nationalism,
New Afrikan Independence, Psychology, and a host of other subjects, as they
grapple with how to promote revolutionary consciousness in the most hostile
of environments."
https://secure.leftwingbooks.net/index.php?l=product_detail&p=653

More about Rebel Diaz:
Based in the South Bronx by way of Chicago, Rebel Diaz's music is on blast
amongst the freedom fighter set. From welcoming Hugo Chavez in the BX, to
opening for Rage Against The Machine in a migrant farmworkers action,
they've been the pulse of the movement in the last year. Fronted by the
Afro-Boricua songstress/mc Lah Tere and Chilean brothers RodStarz and G1,
this group prepares to be true "periodistas de la esquina/street
journalists"; reporting from the trenches on life, love, the streets and the
struggle.
http://rebeldiazmedia.blogspot.com/


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Mon Jan 24, 6-9pm

*The next meeting of the Ottawa Workers Assembly*
at PSAC – 233 Gilmour Street

Participants at OWA meetings highlighted the need to establish common ground
among progressive movements; to devise new ways of working; to build our
collective capacities and to develop concrete alternatives to the status
quo.

To start this process we propose to have several “conversations” with
activists from a range of progressive movements’ beginning January 24th with
a panel of activists working around anti-poverty and housing issues. This
will help inform small group discussions on next steps for building the OWA.

Please help spread the word about the Assembly – get folks from your
networks out to take part in these exciting conversations!

Contact: ottawaworkersassembly at live.com




~~~~ OUT OF TOWN EVENTS ~~~~



JANUARY 29-30, TORONTO

*BUILDING THE WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT*
http://www.workersassembly.ca/callout2011/

Following suggestions from the November Assembly meeting, we are hoping to
organize a delegation of folks from Ottawa to participate in a conference
being organized by the Labour Committee of the Greater Toronto Workers
Assembly.  The conference callout and tentative agenda are at the link above
– it promises many opportunities for good discussion and concrete planning.
We would like to encourage and support local participation.  More
information about the Greater Toronto Workers Assemble and the conference
can be found on their website at http://www.workersassembly.ca and
registration for the conference is online through this website as well.

If you are interested in participating or have already planned to do so,
please let us know.  Get in touch with Brian Edgecombe by e-mail at
bedgecombe at cupe.ca or by phone at (613) 237-1590 ext. 236 (work number).  We
would like to organize car pooling and try to arrange billeting.  And, we
propose to ‘pass the hat’ at the January Assembly meeting to defray costs.

This is an excellent opportunity to connect with assembly work underway in
Toronto, and to continue the process of building our own assembly.

In Solidarity,
The January Meeting Planning Group - Ottawa Workers Assembly

ADDENDUM:
A couple of people have mentioned that there is a Rally in Hamilton in the
afternoon of Saturday Jan. 29 for striking Steelworkers – prior to the
Conference which starts that evening.  Brian is aware of this and if people
who want to attend both let him know, he will do what he can to accommodate
them in arranging car pools.
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