[van-announce] Sound Resistance Radio and Productions MAY newsletter

[Bobby Bobcat]

SOUND RESISTANCE RADIO and PRODUCTIONS announcements for the
month of May...we are producing politically radical radio and
concerts.  This is a monthly publication...but if you wish to
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1.JOEY ONLY OUTLAW BAND/VIPER CENTRAL: Anza Club, May10
2.CO-OP RADIO BENEFIT: Cafe Rhizome, May5
3.UK LEGENDS CONFLICT IN VICTORIA, May31
4.CONFLICT BENEFIT SHOW: Sunset Room, May4
5.SOUND RESISTANCE RADIO SCHEDULE
6.DAVID ROVICS BANNED FROM CANADA
7.OUTLAWS WESTERN CANADA TOUR SCHEDULE: May/June
8.NOW BOOKING SEPTEMBER TOUR/EASTERN CANADA
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1.JOEY ONLY OUTLAW BAND/VIPER CENTRAL

THURSDAY MAY 10
ANZA CLUB, Vancouver
Joey Only Outlaw Band with:
Viper Central
8PM, $10

THE JOEY ONLY OUTLAW BAND have been winning over audiences and
taking Western Canada by storm touring all around BC and
Alberta this past year with their unique brand of cosmic
altcountry klezmer blues music. The six piece rockin' band of
Outlaws includes lap steel guitar, accordion, and cello on top
of a solid rhythm section combined with a massive repertoire of
original songs that span topics from climate change to native
rights to life in northern towns and Vancouver in 2010. 
Infectiously upbeat and danceable music with a message
reminiscent of early Johnny Cash or imagine Stompin' Tom
Conners with a full band, come on out and see what you've been
missing.

AND....VIPER CENTRAL are newly reunited and ready to step back
into the Vancouver altbluegrass scene. One of the coolest,
darkest, maddest musical phenomena ever to emerge from the
wooded glades of Main Street, VIPER CENTRAL rips it up golden
bluegrass styles with traditional and original songs,
instrumental tunes, and murder ballads full of sweet-n-crunchy
harmonies and tight melodic breaks that'll make your heart
soar, your feet shuffle, and your blood curdle.

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2.CO-OP RADIO BENEFIT

Cafe Rhizome, 314W.Broadway, 8PM
Saturday May 5th

A benefit concert broadcasted live on 102.7FM CFRO Co-op Radio
in Vancouver BC.  Join Co-op Radio today and become a member,
our radio station recieves no government funding, no corporate
advertising and is affiliated with no college or institution. 
We rely solely on your donations to keep us afloat.  For more
information go to (www.coopradio.org) where you can also listen
on-line.

Listen to SOUND RESISTANCE every Thursday at 1PM

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3.CONFLICT COMES TO VICTORIA

Tickets @ Dark Horse Books or Lyles Place ($15 advance)*

Conflict-Uk Anarco Punk Legends, an anarchist music collective
formed in 1981, and important part of the anarchist punk
culture.
WITH:  AB Irato-Montréal Punk rockers, have toured with the
ripcordz, total chaos, and conflict.  The Rebel Spell-Peace
Punk from Vancouver BC

*May 31, 2pm start (doors 1pm)*
*ALL AGES!!!*
*@ the Leonardo Da Vinci Centre (near the skate park)*

There will be distros and tables, there is still room left for
groups or local distros to table at this event. There may be
VEGAN food available.  If any one has a vehicle, and is willing
to give people rides to the show, from their schools, please
contact me with your contact information, so we can arrange
rides to the venue (not that it is far). This may make it
easier
to get to the show for younger people. Same goes for any one
from Duncan, Nanaimo, or Courtney... If you are coming to the
show and have extra room in your vehicle that you can share
please post on here or contact me directly so we can set up
ride share systems to help others get to the show.

The event is presented by Noise Not Bombs and Black Raven Books.
For more info, or to table or volunteer please contact:
(prideandunity at hotmail.com)

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4.BENEFIT FOR CONFLICT SHOW
To raise money to make CONFLICT concert happen
May 4th, Sunset Room, All Ages

Joey Only (solo) and Lex McKie (from edmonton, a member of
eleutheros and self rule), RadaR and Pest, shane avec i grec,
Kym Hothead, Chase (chealsea Clark), + more, sliding scale
$5-15, 6:30pm

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5.SOUND RESISTANCE RADIO SCHEDULE

Listen to SOUND RESISTANCE on:
CFRO 102.7FM CO-OP RADIO online: www.coopradio.org
Every Thursday at 1PM in Vancouver BC

-THURS.May.10:
PartII of Irish Rovers LIVE in Vancouver

-THURS.May.17:
Glen Anus from legendary Toronto hardcore punk band DIRTY BIRD
unveils his new movie about a live show, CAMP NAUGHTY.

-THURS.May.24:
We welcome in URSULA, live anti-folk music in studio.

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6.DAVID ROVICS BANNED FROM CANADA

(www.DAVIDROVICS.com)
On his way to a show with Joey Only in Vancouver at the RAILWAY
CLUB May 25th activist folk singer David Rovics was stopped by
officials at the Canadian border and banned from the country
for one year.  We were all very disapointed at show time that
David couldn't make it.  Here's SOME of what David wrote about
it:

Dear folks in Canada,

I have been banned from entering Canada for the next year by
Canadian authorities, as of April 25th.  I thought I'd shoot
off some initial thoughts on the subject since many people are
curious, and since I think it's  pretty outrageous behavior on
the part of the Canadian government.

I made many trips to Canada throughout the 1990's and was waved
through every time, as far as I recall.  Having a US passport
generally makes international travel embarrassingly easy (as
with other passports of First World countries).  And still up
to this day, at border after border around  the world, the
agent will usually ask me how long I'm staying, I respond, and
my passport is stamped and I'm through.  I walk past the room
where other  people are being taken aside for questioning, and
it's always full of  darker-skinned people from somewhere in
the world where crossing borders is  usually difficult or
impossible.  But with my US passport it's generally a  breeze.

Going into Occupied Palestine in 2005, the Israeli intelligence
officer asked me why I had just been in Lebanon and a few other
questions, and after five minutes or so of that I was let
through.  My Palestinian travel companions were detained for
five hours and eventually let in, even though they were both US
citizens, so obviously having a US passport isn't magic for 
everyone in every situation...  But aside from my experiences
entering Canada, that five minutes at the Jordan River terminal
was the biggest hassle I  ever had crossing an international
border (including coming into the US, which for me has always
been a matter of a stamp on the passport and a "hope you had a
good trip, welcome home" from the "Homeland Security" agent).

After the WTO protests in Seattle, at which thousands of
Canadians joined tens of thousands of US citizens and others
from around the world to protest and partially shut down these
meetings of the global corporate elite, everything changed for
me.  As I understand it, the US and Canada signed some kind of
law that has them sharing intelligence and using the same kinds
of rules for people crossing their borders.  As I recall, the
US was  pressuring Canada to make their rules like the US
rules, and as usual, the  Canadian government rolled over and
barked as instructed by their southern  neighbor.  I'm not a
legal researcher here, but as I recall, that law was  passed in
early
2001 in time  for the FTAA protests in Quebec City.

Last week the concern was that I was going to Canada to play a
gig without a work permit.  Last week they started  by
thoroughly searching my car and my bag.  They threatened to 
strip-search me but deciding against it.  They had a nice
doggie sniff me  and my bag.  Like millions of  amiable people
on both sides of the border,  I'm a regular user of
marijuana, so the dog got very excited about the aroma of  my
bag and my car. Canadian law is pretty lax about pot, so the
customs  folks didn't seem to care much about it either way,
apparently more interested  in larger quantities of harder
drugs (which were not to be found) than the  trace elements the
dog found.

For the first time in my experience, the immigration folks
actually looked on the web and found out that I was supposed to
be playing at the Railway Club  that night.  As always, I told
then I was going to visit friends.   This, obviously, was a
half-truth or lie, depending.  Like the vast  majority of
musicians who travel between countries in North America and
Europe  to play gigs, I have never had a work permit.  This was
the first time I  was really caught red-handed at the border
with a gig they found on the web, and  this was the ostensible
excuse for being banned from Canada for one year.

On the Exclusion Order I was given, however, it doesn't seem to
say anything about that.  It says I was turned away due to a
section of the  Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and
Regulations of 2001.   Specifically "paragraph  20(1)(B) of the
act that every foreign national  ... who seeks to enter or
remain in Canada must establish to become a  temporary
resident, that they hold the visa or other document required
under the  regulations and will leave Canada by the end of the
period authorized for their  stay."

I'm not a lawyer, but this seems weird, given that I could
easily prove that I had plans to fly to Europe a few days
later, and they never asked me to prove that I intended to
leave Canada soon.  (In the past they have often asked when I'm
leaving and asked me to prove it.)  I was kept waiting for
close to
three hours, and during the time I was sitting there lots of
people  were brought in for questioning and searching, and
almost all of them were people of color, mostly from east or
south Asia.  One legal US resident  originally from Mexico was
turned away from the border, everybody else was  eventually let
through.

In any case, I think it's worth saying a little more about
going to other  countries to play gigs, and what's involved. 
Perhaps it's partly because I'm existing below the radar in
other countries, but it's been my experience that most
countries have an institutionalized disinterest in people going
to their country from the US to play a few gigs.  They ask how
long you're staying
and they don't care that you have a guitar on your back, and
then they stamp your passport with no further questions asked.

I don't know how long it's been this way or what the reasoning
is, but my  impression is most countries don't really care
about minor transgressions like playing a gig without a work
permit.  They presumably are aware that most musicians are
living economically marginal existences and that the financial
and
logistical realities of getting a work permit just to play a
couple of gigs   makes it unlikely that musicians are generally
traveling with work permits,  aside from the big stars and
such.  Or maybe they just don't think it's worth their time and
resources to go after such small fry.  In any case,  they
generally don't bother.

I would venture to say  that whether my problems with the
Canadian border are related to my bad luck, or  the sharing of
intelligence data with US authorities, or me being political,
or  me  being a musician without a work permit, it's political.

I don't believe in borders and I think they should all be
abolished,  especially the borders of large, rich countries
that are underpopulatedand  where the government has a policy
of economically and militarily screwing the Third World, as
Canada most definitely does.  But if the Canadian  authorities
want
to turn people away from their border because they have a 
violent criminal  history, there are lots of war criminals in
the US who should  definitely be turned away.  But instead,
they are invited to speak to the  parliament and help them make
their laws and foreign policies.  If the  Canadian government
wants
to turn people away for taking away the jobs of  Canadian
workers, there are plenty of US-based multinationals who are
directly  responsible for the sorry state of much of the
Canadian economy -- just go visit  the ex-factory towns in
Ontario or Nova Scotia if you don't know what I'm  talking
about, and then go
visit the squalid Maquiladoras in Tijuana where much  of that
industry has moved to.

When the great musician and activist Paul Robeson had his US
passport taken away so thart he couldn't perform and agitate in
other countries, Canadian activists organized a concert on the
border in Blaine, Washington. Robeson  stood in Blaine and sang
for people on the Canadian side in Douglas.  I thought about
that concert as I drove to the border, through the park that
separates
these two countries.  These two countries with so much in
common.  These two nations both built upon the slaughter of the
native  populations and the systematic theft of their lives,
lands and  livelihoods.  These two illegitimate nations so full
of settlers  and thieves.  Up to this so-called border.

Some folks in Vancouver have written me about organizing a
concert like that one, on the border, sometime this summer. 
I've recently moved to Portland, Oregon, and I'll be in the
area from mid-June to mid-July and again  for the month of
September.  I'm looking forward to the event if it comes
together.  In the scheme of things, being banned from Canada
for a year is  not a crippling blow for me, and in terms of me
personally it's definitely  not worth spending your time trying
to do anything about this, unless you see it as a useful thing
in the course of a campaign against Canadian policies, against
borders in general, or whatever, in which case feel free.  I
do, however,  look
forward to the prospect of a concert on the border, and I hope
to see some  of you there.

To add one more thought, there have been suggestions that this
one-year ban may be related to my support for the Palestinian
struggle.  I have no idea whether this is or isn't the case.  I
was heading towards Vancouver to do a  show at the the Railway
Club and for a reception at the Palestinian Cultural Centre. 
The immigration people only mentioned the gig at the Railway
Club.  Of course, there could very well be legitimacy to this
speculation,  I just don't know.  (Hard to know these things
when the government doesn't  tell you...)

Yours,
David Rovics

DRovics at aol.com
DRovics at gmail.com
(617)  872-5124
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7.JOEYONLY OUTLAW BAND TOUR SCHEDULE: May/June 2007

May10:VANCOUVER: Anza Club w/ Viper Central, 8PM, $10
May13:VANCOUVER: Railway Club, FOLK YOU NITE, (Joeysolo)
May24:VANCOUVER: Malone's, Pender&Seymour, 10PM,
June15:NELSON: The Royal, 10:30PM
June16:FERNIE: The Royal
June17:NANTON AB: Nanton Auditorium Theatre
June19:LETHRBIDGE AB: The Gate, All Ages
June20:CALGARY AB: Haymarket Books, All ages, 5PM, (Joeysolo)
June20:CALGARY AB: Verns Tavern, 10PM
June21:SASKATOON SK: Buds On Broadway
June22:EDMONTON AB: Velvet Underground, 10PM
June23:JASPER AB: Downstream Pub
June24:Jasper AB: Private hostel party
June28:NORTH VANCOUVER: The Maplewood, Country nite

July-Aug: Railway Club, Princeton Pub, Artswells Festival,
touring with UK indie feminist band Gertrude, and more....
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8.NOW BOOKING EASTERN CANADA

Anybody with contacts for shows in Ontario or Quebec who is
willing to book a show for Joey Only please contact me ASAP. 
Any activist or politically radical activist group who would
like a benefit concert or the like please contact us.  Dates
are already filling, thanx a lot.

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