[van-announce] WORKING CLASS CAFE: trainhoppers and tree sitters

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WORKING CLASS CAFE: trainhoppers and tree sitters

Where:
cornuco-opia, 1359 Knight at Kingsway

When:
Wednesday, 10th of December 2003 from 8:30 PM until approximately 11:00 PM

Cost: free of charge

WORKING CLASS CAFÉ PRESENTS - THIS WEEKS SHOW:

TRAINHOPPERS AND TREE SITTERS: songs from rails and the battle at elk creek

Wednesday October 10th, 8:30PM
at the cornuco-opia
1359 Kingsway (at Knight) 

Join us every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month for a show THE WORKING CLASS CAFÉ.  
Our aim to provide a free space for working class musicians to play for 
working class folks, and to provide a show more healthy and enlightening 
than anything you have seen on TV all week.  Not only will we entertain you with 
music, we aim to enlighten you with the ramblings of intelligent radicals.  
We also feature fair trade organic Guatemalan coffee and other good food 
alternatives such as hemp ice cream.  The line-up for Wednesday December 
10th is as follows:

FEATURING - KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:  For the past two months a battle has raged to stop the 
logging in the Elk Creek Watershed.  Chilliwack’s Cattermole Timber Co. has 
not yet been able to get the fallen logs out of the forest floor.  Campers at Elk 
Creek have built a tree sit where Cattermole intends to build a road into the 
forest; meanwhile Cattermole’s workers are all on strike.  Elk Creek 
campers and activists will talk to us about the nearly extinct Spotted Owl, 
the plans to put a ski resort on the sacred Mt.Cheam, and their battles with 
the loggers.  The Elk Creek fight has not yet ended, and more help is needed to 
stop this detestable logging project. www.elkcreekaction.org  get involved!

HOST: Joey Only has been entertaining people with his mix of charged bluegrass, 
militant folk songs, and working class stories.  Joey has been a constant 
public performer for the past ten years beginning in Ontario, and also 
playing for audiences across the country.  He came west to climb mountains 
and see the ocean.  Joey’s first political work was as a writer and as a busker.  
In the last few years Joey has been more active as an organizer than as a musician.

GUEST: Altona, the Hotfooted Haint.  This authentic young trainhopping lad came to 
us with a banjo from Manitoba where he grew up in a Mennonite Community.  
Altona has been active in the struggle as a performer and activist, having 
traveled the entire country singing against and fighting capitalism.  When 
he came to Vancouver he teamed up with other hobo-kids and formed the street 
band Hot Footed Haints.  The Haints were only briefly together but they 
played shows, went on CO-OP radio, and performed at the Mass Squeegee 
Protest.  The Haints moment of glory came in October when they disrupted a 
City Council meeting with the Squeegee Council (singing POWER IN THE UNION) 
to oppose proposed laws against busking and squeegeeing.

plus more


If you are interested in playing at the Working Class Café Show, or your 
organization would like to have a keynote speaker as our feature contact:
garlicbobcat (at) resist.ca



This event is being organised by cornuco-opia
  



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