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From: Dave Olsen <dolsen at vcn.bc.ca>
To: Sound Resistance! Listeners <CoopRadio at 102.7FM>
Subject: Tune into Sound Resistance! Thursday at 1pm
Date: 27 Aug 2003 17:52:31 -0700

This week on Sound Resistance! (& only on Co-op Radio, 102.7FM):

LIVE! In Studio will be Joey Only doing two "covers" to Johnny Cash 
tunes: 25 Minutes to Go/I Got Stripes and Fulsom Prison 
Blues...beware that this Prison theme ain't gonna be as passive as ole 
Johnny's!

We'll also get the latest on the Tent City Squat and try to understand 
why a COPE Parks Board would spend taxpayer money on obtaining 
an injunction against the squat when it occupied the back, unused 
corner of Thornton Park.

Following up on the live music will be Mumia Abu-Jamal's latest work 
(recorded August 2nd by www.prisonradio.org).  One piece focuses on 
yet another man that is clearly innocent but living on death row, while 
the other work is a great educational piece on Black August: In Honour 
of Haiti's Revolution, 1791-1804.

And we'll fit as much motivating music as we can into another action 
packed hour...Sound Resistance! every Thursday from 1pm to 2pm, 
ONLY on Vancouver Co-op Radio, 102.7FM, the People's Station!


News and Events:

The World Remembers Chile  September 11, 1973
An evening of history, politics, stories, music and images 
commemorating the 30th anniversary of the military coup

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 7:00P.M.
Harbour Centre - 515 West Hastings St.

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Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the March on Washington - A 
StopWar.ca Benefit

Thursday, August 28, 7:00p.m.
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W.Hastings
Room #1800

Featuring:

*A Talk by Jack O'Dell, Veteran Organizer of the Civil Rights 
Movement in the  United States.

*Film Screening: "10,000 Black Men Named George", the dramatic 
story of the  union organizing battles of the sleeping-car porters in the 
1920s and 30s, led by A.Phillip Randolph, a leading figure in the civil 
rights movement and initiator of the March on Washington movement.

More information: stopwar_van at yahoo.ca or contact at stopwar.ca

Proceeds to StopWar.ca, Vancouver's Anti-War Coalition, to support 
ongoing education and mobilization for peace and justice.

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EDUCATE ORGANIZE MOBILIZE:
Building Anti-Imperialist Practice from the Ground Up

    As people around the world face intensifying attacks on our social, 
political and human rights, the need for a sustained social justice 
movement has never been more apparent. When we organize locally, 
and demand respect for the working and marginalized people in our 
own community, we can create a viable Left that is a force to be 
reckoned with. 

    When we organize locally, we are working in solidarity with the 
growing international movement against exploitation and human 
degradation. Bus Riders Union organizers get on the bus every week 
to mobilize bus riders to participate in building a grassroots movement 
that fights to win. 

Come out for a dynamic discussion of grassroots organizing and the 
international movement for social and economic justice, and find out 
how to get involved! 

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 10
7pm at SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings Street)

For more information call the Bus Riders Union 
at 604-215-2775 or email bru at resist.ca

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Dear Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal,

We have just learned that Mumia has developed a serious health 
problem.  His feet are very swollen & are causing him considerable 
pain. He is concerned that he may be suffering from a blood clot. We 
are trying to arrange for a private physician to visit as opposed to the 
prison doctor at SCI Green. Mumia does not have confidence in the 
latter.

Please flood SCI Green's phone line: (724) 852-2902. During the 
evening shift, ask for Captain Hall (if he's out after midnight, ask for the 
Shift Director). After 8am in the morning, ask for Superintendent Folino 
(if they aren't there ask for the current Shift Director or the medical 
staff). Demand:

1. that Mumia be allowed to be examined and treated by an  outside-
of-prison doctor and
2. that he be immediately given fresh garlic, as per his request, as an 
interim treatment to boost his body's natural defenses.

We will keep you posted.

In solidarity,

Laura Herrera and Jeff Mackler, Co-Coordinators
The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, SF
415-255-1085

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BLACK AUGUST INTERNATIONAL 
BENEFIT IN HONOR OF HAITI'S REVOLUTION, 1791-1804 

BERKELEY COMMUNITY THEATER 
AUGUST 30, 2003 
6:30pm - 11:00pm 
radio simulcast at www.CKLN.fm

Radio Hosts:  Donald Lacy, Kiilu Nyasha, Tiyesha Meroe, and JR 
Valrey
poets * speakers * rappers * singers * bands

Keynote speaker:  Dr. Raye Richardson, co-founder of Marcus Books, 
retired professor 

Amandla Poets * Avotcja & Modupue * E. W. Wainwright & the African 
Roots of Jazz Hatem Bazian * The Coup * Company of Prophets 
*Chrystos * David Johnson * Daughters of Yam * Ray Love *Kehinde & 
Taiwo *  Yuri Kochiyama  * Kreative Dwellah * Pierre Labossiere * Loco 
Bloco * Martin Luther * Tiyesha Meroe * Luis Talamantez * 
SundiataTate * T.E.A.M.  * Wanda Sabir *

BRING A PACKAGE OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES (pens, pencils, pads, 
etc.) TO SUPPORT HAITI'S LITERACY CAMPAIGN 

To contribute to this historic event, please make tax deductible 
donations out to: Community Futures Collective/BAI and mail to:  Haiti 
Action Committee, P.O. Box 2218, Berkeley, CA 94702 

Prison Radio challenges mass incarceration and racism by airing the 
voices of men and women in prison. Our educational materials serve 
as a catalyst for public activism.

To subscribe to the Prison Radio Zap-email list, send a blank email 
message to prison_radio-subscribe at topica.com

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Model-turned-radical feminist featured in six film retrospective.

VANCOUVER - Rebel Rebel: Six Films by Vera Chytilova will celebrate 
the radical feminist director known for her spirited, madly stylish 
attacks on sexism and materialism. Part of a current touring film 
exhibition organized by the Czech Center in New York, the series will 
come to Pacific Cinematheque from August 22 to 31, wrapping up the 
not-for-profit cinema's 2003 Summer Season. 

Chytilova's impressive graduation film, Ceiling (1961), provided a 
harbinger of Chytilová's defiant themes and daring aesthetic strategies, 
and drew on her own experiences in modelling. Her chef d'oeuvre 
remains the dazzling Daisies (1966), one of the most memorable films 
of the psychedelic and subversive 1960s (and a major influence on 
Jacques Rivette's 1974 opus Celine and Julie Go Boating). Banned by 
Czech authorities for a year  in part because of outrage over the 
giddily anarchic film's "wastage of food . . . the fruit of the work of our 
toiling farmers" Â Daisies went on to win international attention and 
acclaim for Chytilová, and was followed by the equally arresting Fruit of 
Paradise (1969), a boldly stylish, highly symbolic allegory of male-
female relations. 
Chytilová's extravagant work of this period marked her as "one of the 
most radically innovative filmmakers of the sixties" (Peter Hames), and 
earned her favourable comparisons to other unorthodox anti-realists: 
Federico Fellini, Sergei Paradjanov, Alexander Jodorowsky. In the 
political and artistic clampdown that followed the 1968 Soviet invasion 
of Czechoslovakia, it also put her out of work: after Fruit of Paradise, it 
would be some seven years before Chytilová could get approval to 
start another project. Only after she wrote an open letter to Czech 
president Gustav Husák, published in western newspapers, was she 
allowed to resume filmmaking in the mid-1970s. Chytilová's 
subsequent films retained much of her iconoclastic bent and acerbic 
bite, even as they as moved, eventually, towards a more realist 
aesthetic approach. 

Her barbed social satire Prefab Story (1979) earned bureaucratic ire 
for its witty swipes at chronic shortages, shoddy workmanship, and 
official incompetence and corruption in Czechoslovakia. The decidedly 
weird Wolf Chalet (1987) used horror and science fiction conventions 
as the basis for a political allegory about group psychology and 
totalitarianism ("I want to direct science fiction or fantasy," Chytilová 
had said in a 1978 interview, "because it's the only way to show 
reality"). 
The tragicomic Tainted Horseplay (1988) started as an ironic sex romp 
and turned into a nightmare about AIDS Â the first Czech film, and 
perhaps the first from anywhere in Central and Eastern Europe, to deal 
with that subject. "In her integrity, artistic boldness and originality, and 
in her ability to survive the most destructive social and political 
catastrophes," critic and noted novelist Josef Skvorecky has written, 
"Chytilová is a unique phenomenon in post-invasion Czech cinema."

Rebel Rebel: Six Films by Vera Chytilova
Daisies preceded by Ceiling, Friday August 22 - 7:15 pm, Saturday 
August 23 - 9:25 pm
Fruit Of Paradise, Friday August 22 - 9:30 pm, Saturday August 23 - 
7:30 pm
Prefab Story, Friday August 29 - 7:30 pm, Sunday August 31 - 9:40 pm
Wolf Chalet, Friday August 29 - 9:25 pm, Saturday August 30 - 7:30 
pm
Tainted Horseplay, Saturday August 30 - 9:20 pm, Sunday August 31 - 
7:15 pm

Pacific Cinematheque
1131 Howe Street, Vancouver
Details/advance tickets: http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca
24-Hour Infoline: 604 688 FILM

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From: freevaughn at ziplip.com
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003

The free vaughn campaign is calling on all supporters to help apply 
pressure to relevant government officials for the immediate release of 
Vaughn!

Please flood these individuals' EMAIL, SNAIL MAIL, and VOICE MAIL 
inboxes.
Please request a timely response in order to make a greater 
impression.
Please CC (copy) your correspondence to freevaughn at ziplip.com

Marc Bellemare
Minister of Justice and Attorney General for the Province of Quebec
Ãdifice Louis-Philippe-Pigeon
1200, route de l'Ãglise
9e étage
Sainte-Foy (Québec) G1V4M1
Phone : (418) 643-4210 / (514) 873-3317 / (418) 644-3099
Fax : (418) 646-0027 / (514) 873-7174 / (418) 644-3118
Email: ministre at justice.gouv.qc.ca

Wayne Easter (Canada's Solicitor General)
House of Commons
318 Justice Building
Ottawa  K1A 0A6
Telephone:  (613) 992-2406 / (902) 964-2428 / 1-800-442-4050
Fax:  (613) 995-7408 / (902) 964-3242
Email:  weaster at auracom.com, Easter.W at parl.gc.ca, 
eastew at parl.gc.ca
http://www.wayneeaster.com/

Andy Scott (Vaughn Barnett's MP and Former Solicitor General)
61 Carlton Street
Fredericton, NB
E3B 3T2
Telephone:  (506)-452-4110 / (613) 992-1067
Fax:  (506)-452-4076 / (613) 996-9955
Email:  ScottA at parl.gc.ca, Scott.A at parl.gc.ca

You can:

DEMAND* the immediate unconditional release of Vaughn Barnett.

DEMAND* the government immediately drop the charge against 
Vaughn Barnett.

DEMAND* that all "Unlawful Assembly" charges be dropped from all
arrestees.

* You could use other words like: request, suggest, recommend, 
cajole, or
DEMAND.

Unlawful Assembly is an arbitrary charge that is used to target people 
for being at or near a protest. The majority of people arrested on July 
28th were not able to "disperse" when requested by the Montréal 
Police because they were surrounded and unable to move past 
hundreds of Riot Cops.  Protesting is not a crime. We are alleged to 
have freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. These freedoms 
were violated arbitrarily with no good reason.

dave

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