[Stopwar-l] events update
StopWar
stopwar-l at lists.resist.ca
Fri May 21 07:42:44 PDT 2010
1. The People's Street Summit! Bringing their Summit to the Ground!
Join
us for a rally in opposition to the G8 University Summit.
Friday, May
21st
Vancouver Art Gallery 3PM
March down Burrard
Canada Place
4PM
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories
call 778.322.5349 if you
need to know where the march is when you come.
2. SAVE THE HEALTH CONTACT
CENTRE, THE CONTACT CENTRE SAVES LIVES!
* ALL OUT FOR A MASSIVE
PROTEST!
SATURDAY MAY 22ND
4:30 pm, meet outside DEWC
(302 Columbia, corner
Cordova)
3. Rally and March to Stop Harper's War Now!
Saturday,May 29 ,
1pm
Vancouver Art Gallery
4. LEFT FILM NIGHT
>From Wharf Rats to Lords
of the Docks: The Life and Times of Harry Bridges
Sunday, May 30, 2010, 7
pm
Centre for Socialist Education, 706 Clark Drive, Vancouver
(corner of
Clark ">7. The Vancouver Media Co-op is Seeking Sustainers!
8. Celebrate
Membership Month! Join the Dominion Media Co-op!
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THE PEOPLE'S STREET SUMMIT! BRINGING THEIR
SUMMIT TO THE GROUND!
Join us for a rally in opposition to the G8
University Summit.
Friday, May 21st
Vancouver Art Gallery 3PM
March down
Burrard
Canada Place 4PM
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories
call 778.322.5349 if you need to know where the march is when you come.
Endorsed by:
Anti-Povert Committee, Check Your Head, City Wide Housing
Coalition, Comuna of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca (CIPO),
Delta/Richmond Chapter of The Council of Canadians, East Vancouver
Abolitionists, Food Not Bombs, GatewaySucks.org, Impact on Communities
Coalition, Justicia for Migrant Workers, No One Is Illegal -Vancouver, No
One is Illegal-Toronto, Oil Sands Truth, Organizing Centre for Social and
Economic Justice, Pink Resistance, Purple Thistle Centre, The Rational on
Coop Radio, Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group, Siraat Collective,
Social Justice Centre - UBC, Solidarity with Anti-Olympic Convergence
Arrestees, Streams of Justice, Student Environment Centre - UBC, Teaching
Support Staff Union - SFU, Toronto Community Mobilization Network,
Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group, VANACT, UBC
Colour-Connected Against Racism, Vancouver Seattle Womyn's Action Network,
Vancouver Status for Women.
From May 20th to the 22nd Vancouver will be
hosting the G8 University Summit ahead of the G8 & G20 meetings in Ontario
this June. Like the G8 & G20 meetings the summit is an opportunity for
closed door, unaccountable meeting to further economic and social agendas
that promote exploitation, profit, environmental degradation and
colonization of the worlds resources. Universities increasingly are
promoting the same agenda and continue to operate under their own
unaccountalbe, top-down institutional structures. During their meeting we
expect government, corporate and university officials to talk about the
continued corporatization of the university and the role of academia in
supporting corporate "greenwashing" campaigns while it continues to be the
laboratory for the oil and pharmaceutical industries
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On
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126546530693493">SAVE THE
HEALTH CONTACT CENTRE, THE CONTACT CENTRE SAVES LIVES!
* ALL OUT FOR A
MASSIVE PROTEST!
SATURDAY MAY 22ND
4:30 pm, meet outside DEWC
(302
Columbia, corner Cordova)
Bring drums, regalia, signs and your whole
family!
For more information, email project at dewc.ca [2] or call 604 681
8480 x 234
* SIGN OUR PETITION:
http://www.petitiononline.com/dtesctre/petition.html [3]
We are hoping to
collect several thousand in the next week so please sign!
Over the past
week, hundreds have rallied in the Downtown Eastside (DTES)
to protest the
closure of the Health Contact Centre. Stopping rush hour
traffic for
several hours, DTES residents and concerned supporters have
been demanding
that the Contact Centre be re-opened as many have recounted
how the Centre
saved their lives.
It may take some time and energy, but we will continue
to rally to get the
Health Contact Centre re-opened! We demand that VCHA
re-open Health
Contact Centre, stop cutting funding to essential public
health services
(there are two more rumoured cuts forthcoming), and take
leadership from
DTES residents about our own health care
needs.
BACKGROUND:
On May 3, the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
(VCHA) closed down the
Downtown Eastside Health Contact Centre without any
public notice or
consultation.
VCHA claims the Contact Centre was a
misallocation of funds. As DTES
residents, we say that the Contact Centre
has been a widely used service
in the neighbourhood, providing direct
access to basic health care with
health care workers and nurses, as well a
community drop-in.
VCHA claims that the Centre was closed down to
'duplication in services'
citing the existence of other health services
such as the community
clinics and Insite. We say: the other clinics do not
operate through the
night and Insite is for injection users, it is not a
drop-in intended for
all DTES residents.
VCHA claims they will save
$500,000 - $750,000. But health care will still
be needed and costs in
ambulances and emergency rooms will add up. The
Health Contact Centre
saves lives.
We demand that VCHA re-open Health Contact Centre, stop
cutting funding to
essential public health services (there are two more
rumoured cuts
forthcoming), and take leadership from DTES residents about
our own health
care needs.
Some recent media coverage:
1) Downtown
Eastside resident says centre 'kept me alive' last
winter
http://www2.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=6f108afb-c8fd-4bc1-abd8-50a69a9871e2#ixzz0nkBH5G5d
[4]
2) Closure of critical health centre hits Downtown Eastside
hard
http://www.theprovince.com/health/Closure+critical+health+centre+hits+Downtown+Eastside+hard/3015014/story.html#ixzz0nkBaem7z
[5]
3) DTES health centre closure leaves gap in late-night
services
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Health/2010/05/11/HealthCentreGap/
[6]
4) Contact Centre closure a real
loss
http://www2.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/opinion/story.html?id=eb25394c-0e4d-49a3-a1e7-19649fe1e222
[7]
5) Group to protest closure of health centre again
today
http://www.straight.com/article-323456/vancouver/downtown-eastside-womens-group-protest-closure-health-centre-again-today
[8]
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3.
*PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY*
RALLY AND MARCH TO STOP HARPER'S WAR
NOW!
SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1PM
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY (NORTH LAWN, HOWE
">HEADWATER, the acclaimed local folk quartet (http://headwater.ca/
[9])
And performances by the SOLIDARITY NOTES LABOUR CHOIR and JOAQUIN
ERNESTO
Followed by a roving protest through downtown Vancouver. Speakers
include Gail Davidson of Lawyers Against War on the torture scandal ... and
look out for the Harper Monster making his first ever appearance!
Organized by StopWar.ca [10], a Lower Mainland coalition with over 160
endorsers, and a member of the Canadian Peace Alliance. To get involved, or
for more information, email stopwar at resist.ca [11].
WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO
DEMONSTRATE NOW
Please join us for a mass demonstration against Canada's
continued involvement in the war in Afghanistan. With pressure being ramped
up for an extension of Canada's military role in the NATO occupation beyond
2011, and with a massive new military offensive planned for June in
Kandahar, it's more important than ever to show our opposition to this war.
Organize your family, friends and community to participate in this rally
now.
REAL AID, NOT BOMBS
_"Today the soil of Afghanistan is full of land
mines, bullets, and bombs when what we really need is an invasion of
hospitals, clinics, and schools for boys and girls."_ -Malalai Joya
The
war in Afghanistan has killed many thousands of Afghan civilians, and over
140 Canadians. The total cost to Canadian taxpayers is projected to reach
$22 billion. Canada's annual military budget is over $18 billion. At the
same time, governments across Canada are cutting funds for education,
health care, and low-income housing. It's time to bring the troops home.
Military spending must be redirected towards genuine humanitarian aid for
the people of Afghanistan, and urgent social priorities in Canada!
MORE
INFORMATION
Canadian Peace Alliance Resource Page on Afghanistan:
http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/AfghanistanResources.htm [12]
StopWar.ca [13]
Blog: http://stopwarblog.blogspot.com/ [14]
Malalai Joya's Defense
Committee: http://malalaijoya.com/dcmj/
[15]
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4. LEFT FILM NIGHT
_FROM WHARF RATS TO LORDS OF THE DOCKS: THE LIFE
AND TIMES OF HARRY BRIDGES_
Directed by Haskell Wexler, 2007, 82
minutes
Sunday, May 30, 2010, 7 pm
Centre for Socialist Education, 706
Clark Drive, Vancouver
(corner of Clark DONATIONS WELCOME. COFFEE AND
REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE. LEFT FILM NIGHTS ARE PRESENTED BY THE CENTRE FOR
SOCIALIST EDUCATION, YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE, AND THE VANCOUVER EAST AND
MONTIVERO CLUBS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA. CALL 604-255-2041 OR
EMAIL FOR FURTHER INFORMATION._
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5.
DUKOT FILM FESTIVAL
The Canada-Philippines Solidarity for Human
Rights is a local solidarity organization committed to the promotion and
defense of human rights in the Philippines. Together with Migrante B.C.,
BAYAN Canada, and the Victoria- Philippines Solidarity Group, we are
bringing to Vancouver, for its premiere showing, the award-winning film
DUKOT (DESAPARECIDOS) during the first week of June 2010.
DUKOT is a
winner of the 2010 _Gawad Tanglaw_ Award for Best Story and Movie
Screenplay. DUKOT is based on true stories, with all incidents in it having
actually happened. It had its world premiere at the Montreal Film Festival
where it earned positive acclaim for its "great storytelling, thematic
urgency, technical competence and tour de force performance of lead
actors."
DUKOT brings back the political film genre, which was made
popular by great Filipino directors like Lino Brocka and Mike De Leon.
Palanca awardee Bonifacio P. Ilagan, who wrote the film directed by Joel C.
Lamangan, says it "could very well be the first full-length film to deal
squarely with the current phenomenon of human rights violations in the
Philippines."
Vancouver will be the last stop of the Canada-wide DUKOT
film tour. It will have been shown in Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and
Ottawa. In Vancouver, the film screenings will be at:
UBC ROBSON SQUARE
(Theatre)
800 Robson St., Vancouver, B.C.
Thursday, June 3, 2010 (6:30pm)
and
Friday, June 4, 2010 (6:30pm)
Vancouver Public Library
ALMA VANDUSEN
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The Canada tour of the DUKOT film aims to bring public
awareness of the political killings in the Philippines. Since 2001, over
200 cases of enforced disappearances and more than 1,000 cases of
extrajudicial killings have been documented in the Philippines. The labour
movement has lost many of its leaders to this State-sponsored violence.
Last November 2009, the Philippines made headlines worldwide with the
massacre of 57 people, including 30 journalists, prior to the Maguindanao
provincial election. There is also the case of the Morong 43, doctors and
community health workers who were illegally arrested, detained, were
tortured, and are still languishing in a military camp. We wish to ensure
atrocities like these no longer continue. All funds raised from the
screenings will go to support the Philippine human rights alliance,
Karapatan and the organization of the families and relatives of the
disappeared, Desaparecidos in the Philippines as well as our educational
and advocacy programs in British Columbia.
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6.
STOPWAR AGM
Saturday June 12th, 11am -4pm
Maritime Labour
Centre, Vancouver
Lunch is provided, and all are welcome!
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7.
THE VANCOUVER MEDIA CO-OP IS SEEKING SUSTAINERS!
On Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122694007753464 and daily accounts
from the Urban Women's Anti-Violence Strategy week of events.
* Video
coverage of local events including march against police brutality,
environmentalists actions against Enbridge pipeline; build a better BC
rally; and protests against shelter closures.
The VMC also produces a
fortnightly print broadsheet called Balaclava!;
hosts journalism, video
and graphic design trainings; provides media
skills workshops upon request
for communities and groups such as youth at
the Purple Thistle Centre; and
organizes social events and film
screenings. These have all proven to be
hugely beneficial to grassroots
groups, youth, and DTES residents seeking
to empower themselves to create
their own media!
The VMC is a local of a
national Media Co-op network which is formally
organized as a solidarity
cooperative. The Media Co-op also has locals in
Halifax and Toronto, and
produces the Dominion magazine, which has
released special issues on
Canadian Foreign Policy, Canada's Mining
Industry, Tar Sands, 2010
Olympics, and a current issue on the G8/G20.
All this operates on a shoe
string budget and needs you! Still not sure?
* Can you name any other
independent media that provided daily coverage of
the Olympics?
* Can you
name any other media that prominently features your group's
event or your
personal contribution regardless of whether you are trained
as a
journalist or writer?
* Can you name any other media that regularly and on
request will attend
your organization's event to provide coverage that
will benefit you?
Join as a sustainer today to support the Vancouver
Media Co-op because the
Vancouver Media Co-op will sustain your faith in
progressive and
democratic news publishing.
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
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Questions about how to sustain email
vmcsustainer at gmail.com [21]
Visit us at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca
[22] | vmc at mediacoop dot ca | 604
630 6864
Collective meetings are
Wednesdays at 6:30pm, 459 E Hastings (please email
to check if it is your
first time, sometimes we skip weeks).
Or, join our low traffic announce
list:
https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vmc-announce [23]
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8.
CELEBRATE MEMBERSHIP MONTH! JOIN THE DOMINION MEDIA CO-OP!
_"Whether it's the Alberta tar sands or our role in Haiti, _The Dominion_
has the guts to look at Canada without the fairytales about our national
virtues that comfort and blind us. Our country is at a crucial turning
point and we need the brave writers at _The Dominion to tell us the truth
about where we are heading. Only readers like you can keep this crucial
voice alive and growing louder. Please, pitch in!"
- Naomi Klein
Dear
Dominion and Media Co-op supporters and contributors,
New media has taken
root in Canada, and we invite you to help it grow!
MAY IS MEMBERSHIP
MONTH [24] for the Dominion and Media Co-op, and we would like you to
celebrate with us! We have excellent prizes for new May members and gifts
for current sustainers! Read on!
At a time when the corporate media
monopolies are going broke, folding and downsizing, _The Dominion_ [25] and
Media Co-op [26] are growing. For seven years,_ The Dominion_ and Media
Co-op have been reporting on critical Canadian stories in a monthly print
publication and on the web. Our 2008 issue on the impact of the tar sands
[27] came before its discussion in the mainstream press, and our
on-the-ground 2010 Olympic Winter Games [28] reporting was recognized
internationally.
To those who have been a part of that growth, thank you
for your commitment and support! In celebration of Membership Month - and
to show our appreciation to our sustaining members - we will be mailing you
a surprise limited edition gift created by one of our talented
contributors.
TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOT YET JOINED THE CO-OP, THIS MONTH WE
ARE ASKING YOU TO by becoming a sustaining member of the Dominion and
Media Co-op with a monthly pledge of $20.
IF YOU SIGN UP THIS MONTH, YOU
RECEIVE:
- a copy of Yves Engler's new book, _Building Apartheid_
- a fair
trade "Own Your Media" t-shirt
- three complementary community
subscriptions to_ The Dominion_ which will be sent to organizations or
individuals of your choice
- a surprise Membership Month gift
You will
also be entered in THIS WEEK'S DRAW to win a gift basket from Just Us! [29]
coffee roasters! The basket includes:
- a 12oz bag of Fair Trade Organic
Ethiopian Harar single-origin coffee
- a box of Fair Trade Organic Maritime
Breakfast tea
- a 100g bar of Fair Trade Organic Dark Chocolate
a 12oz Just
Us! Travel Mug
LAST YEAR DURING MEMBERSHIP MONTH, WE SIGNED UP OUR 100TH
SUSTAINER. HELP US REACH THIS YEAR'S GOAL OF DOUBLING OUR SUSTAINER BASE,
AND SIGNING UP OUR 200TH!
But why is your support so crucial? Because our
response to the media crisis is a different media model altogether.
Three
years ago, _The Dominion_ incorporated as a multi-stakeholder co-operative,
where editors, contributors and readers are members and accountable to each
other.
We have been working with people across Canada to build a network
of Media Co-op [30] Locals that provide consistent, critical coverage of
un(der)-reported stories. Today, Locals are up and running in Vancouver
[31], Toronto [32] and Halifax [33].
The seed of democratic media in
Canada has been planted, and it is time to reach the roots far and wide
across the country, and deep into local communities.
THE DOMINION DEPENDS
ON READERS - PEOPLE LIKE YOU - TO PAY FOR THE NEWS THEY READ.
Reader
membership to the Dominion and Media Co-op is critical. Readers, through
financial contributions, sustain the work of journalists and organizers by
becoming sustaining members of the Cooperative. And, if you live in
Vancouver, Toronto or Halifax, becoming a sustainer means you receive the
added bonus of knowing your funding directly supports local, grassroots
journalists and organizers in your city!
But readers are not just our ATM.
Readers participate. Members are kept abreast of the Co-op's operations,
and their concerns and questions are addressed directly; they vote on the
direction of the Co-op at the Annual General Meeting; they elect a
representative to the Board of Directors; and they are involved in steering
_The Dominion's _coverage through our online working groups.
Consider what
independent journalism is worth to you. Then, head here [34] to check out
options for sustaining critical, independent media in Canada.
If you are
not yet convinced, why not become a subscribing member and receive_ The
Dominion _on your doorstep - or in your inbox - each month? For $25, you
receive receive a year's worth [35] of independent, investigative
journalism.
Thank you for your time and attention, and happy
spring!
Sincerely,
The Editors
Links:
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[1]
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126546530693493&ref=mf
[2]
mailto:project at dewc.ca
[3]
http://www.petitiononline.com/dtesctre/petition.html
[4]
http://www2.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=6f108afb-c8fd-4bc1-abd8-50a69a9871e2#ixzz0nkBH5G5d
[5]
http://www.theprovince.com/health/Closure+critical+health+centre+hits+Downtown+Eastside+hard/3015014/story.html#ixzz0nkBaem7z
[6]
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Health/2010/05/11/HealthCentreGap/
[7]
http://www2.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/opinion/story.html?id=eb25394c-0e4d-49a3-a1e7-19649fe1e222
[8]
http://www.straight.com/article-323456/vancouver/downtown-eastside-womens-group-protest-closure-health-centre-again-today
[9]
http://headwater.ca/
[10] http://stopwar.ca/
[11]
mailto:stopwar at resist.ca
[12]
http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/AfghanistanResources.htm
[13]
http://stopwar.ca/
[14] http://stopwarblog.blogspot.com/
[15]
http://malalaijoya.com/dcmj/
[16]
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122694007753464&index=1
[17]
mailto:vmcsustainer at gmail.com
[18] http://www.mediacoop.ca/join
[19]
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/Support_VMC3_0.pdf
[20]
mailto:vmcsustainer at gmail.com
[21] mailto:vmcsustainer at gmail.com
[22]
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/
[23]
https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vmc-announce
[24]
http://www.mediacoop.ca/membershipmonth
[25]
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/
[26] http://www.mediacoop.ca/
[27]
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/tarsands
[28] http://2010.mediacoop.ca/
[29]
http://www.justuscoffee.com/
[30] http://www.mediacoop.ca/about
[31]
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/
[32] http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/
[33]
http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/
[34] http://mediacoop.ca/join/sustainer
[35]
http://www.mediacoop.ca/join/subscribe
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