[van-announce] SFPIRG Community Events Digest

Fri Jul 2 14:54:58 PDT 2010

SFPIRG Community Events Digest 

COMMUNITY EVENTS DIGEST 

== Social justice events happening on and off campus == 

*** Events Off Campus *** 

1) Celebrating Inclusion At Pride Toronto With Queer 2 Magazine Launch (Jul 4) 

2) Resist State Repression (Jul 4) 

3) Join Seth Tobocman at Spartacus Books (Jul 4) 

*** Other Announcements *** 

4) July at Rhizome Cafe 

5) July Harvest Box 

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*** Events Off Campus *** 

1) 

CELEBRATING INCLUSION AT PRIDE TORONTO WITH QUEER 2 MAGAZINE LAUNCH 

Sunday, July 4, 2010 

The Beaver (1192 Queen St. W, Toronto) 

Website: www.canadiandimension.com/events 

Phone: 204.957.1519 

Email: jpatterson at canadiandimension.com 

As the astounding events of last weekend’s G20 protests continue to unfold, the radical politics and social change movements continue to march forward with this weekend’s Toronto pride parade. 

In celebration of all that’s been won in the Queer community, including QuAIA’s recent inclusion in the parade, Canadian Dimension magazine releases part 2 of our focus on progressive Queer communities . Co-edited by artists Noam Gonick and Elle Flanders, the focus celebrates the difference, radicalism, culture and art that continues to forge new frontiers while addressing today’s human rights issues. Included in the issue are notables such as: 

- Long-time Queer organizer and educator Tim McCaskell who asks readers “What Stake do Queers Have in Anti-Colonial Struggles?” 

- Author and sociologist Gary Kinsman discusses the rich history and forgotten struggles of the queer liberation movement and how “ Past acts of resistance can be an important resource that we draw and build upon in our contemporary struggles.” (click for more) 

The special issue also uncovers and discusses current and emerging issues like how the growing Naxalite movement in Eastern India, recently termed “India’s greatest internal threat” by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is creating unease in the “world’s fastest growing democracy”. Barbara Legault discusses the rebirth of Montreal’s CLAC (Anti-Capitalist Convergence) and historian Andrea Levy argues that Canada’s response to the BP oil spill shouldn’t be “business as usual.” 

*LAUNCH PARTY*: You are cordially invited to our post-pride launch party and celebration of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid’s inclusion in this weekend’s event : featuring visuals, readings, and entertainment from Elle Flanders, Noam Gonick, Tim McCaskell and MORE. 

Queer 2 launch :July 4 th at The Beaver (1192 Queen St. W, Toronto). For more details visit www.canadiandimension.com/events or see the attached event poster. The Annual Dyke BBQ will follow. 

For further information, reprints or interview requests, please contact associate publisher James Patterson at 204.957.1519 or jpatterson at canadiandimension.com 

Subscriptions, or additional copies of this issue can be ordered by calling 1-800-737-7051 or at www.canadiandimension.com/magazine . 

2) 

RESIST STATE REPRESSION! 

Sunday, July 4th - 2pm, 2010 

China Creek Park South - West of Clark on Broadway 

MAP: http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=China+Creek+Park+Vancouver,+British+Columbia+V5T+2B6&g=Vancouver,+British+Columbia+V5T+2B6&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Vancouver,+British+Columbia+V5T+2B6&ll=49.262484,-123.079126&spn=0.003102,0.006899&t=h&z=17 

During the G20 Summit in Toronto this weekend, 40,000 people reclaimed the streets and shutdown the city. Over 900 were brutally arrested and detained, most without criminal charges. 

Arrestees reportedly have been denied access to lawyers, telephones, food and water (for upwards of 35 hours), and held in deplorable conditions in makeshift steel cages. Many have been beaten in the streets and in their homes; shot at with rubber bullets and tear gas; some have been sent to hospital with severe injuries. Many of the released are willing to testify to either experiencing or witnessing the sexual harassment of women and Queer people, youth as young as 15 in adult cells, threats of assault/harassment, no access to medication or medical treatment, police intimidation of released detainees among their extensive list of complaints. 

The summit was part of the largest and most expensive security operation in Canadian history. This show of extreme repression has broken the record for the largest mass arrest in Canadian history. Naturally, the 5 previous record holding events also came out of resistance to social and environmental injustice: 

* 2010 Toronto G20: Roughly *900* 

* 1993 Clayoquot Sound logging blockades: *856* 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayoquot_Sound 

* 1970 October Crisis: *465* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Crisis 

* 2001 Quebec City Summit of the Americas: *463* 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Summit_of_the_Americas#Protests 

* 1981 Toronto bathhouse raids: *286* 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Soap 

Come show your opposition to this growing Police State & meet us in the 

streets! 

NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! 

http://g20.torontomobilize.org/ 

http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/ 

http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/ 

3) 

JOIN SETH TOBOCMAN AT SPARTACUS BOOKS 

Sunday July 4th, 2010, 7pm 

Spartacus Books at 684 East Hastings Street 

Email: sambradd at gmail.com or kara.sievewright at gmail.com 

Join Seth Tobocman, radical comic book artist, at Spartacus Books Sunday July 4th, 7pm. His illustrations are known by people's movements world-wide. 

He will be performing excerpts from his current release, "Understanding the Crash" (Soft Skull). This new graphic book illustrates how Wall Street created an economic whirlpool with the help of Washington. 

He'll also be performing excerpts from the third printing of his book "You Don't Have To Fuck People Over To Survive" (AKPress): an attack on the morality, politics and social conditions of the Reagan era. 

For more details about Seth's work: http://www.sethtobocman.com/ 

To see videos of Seth in performance on the current tour: 

http://www.sethtobocman.com/events.html 

Spartacus Books is an accessible space and is located at 684 East Hastings Street. 

More event info will be posted to www.artandanarchy.wordpress.org . For questions please contact sambradd at gmail.com or kara.sievewright at gmail.com . 

*** Other Announcements *** 

4) 

JULY 2010 AT RHIZOME 

317 East Broadway, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories 

Phone: 604-872-3166 

Website: www.rhizomecafe.ca 

Email: rhizome at rhizomecafe.ca 

Dear friends of Rhizome- 

We hope you'll join us for the many events coming up in July! 

Please note that we'll be closed on Thursday, July 1 and then again from Monday, July 12 through Wednesday, July 21 for our annual summer holiday. 

In addition to attending the events listed below, we hope you'll join us for lunch, dinner, weekend brunch, drinks and snacks anytime. Our complete hours of operation are at the end of this email. Let us know if your group would like to use our Community Meeting Room, or if you would like to pitch an event proposal to us. Information on how to do both of those things is on our website: www.rhizomecafe.ca . 

Here's what's happening in July: 

Art on Our Walls 

Faith, Fencing & Fate: New Cultural Landscapes of Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 

On our walls from July 6 onward 

Crossing the southern border of the United States without authorization is now a life-threatening journey. As undocumented migrants travel north, they interact with and transform the landscape in small, yet significant ways through the things they leave behind, from shelters and shrines to quotidian objects. This collaborative project by Juanita Sundberg, a human geographer at UBC and Michael Hyatt, a social documentary photographer, records and represents these new cultural landscapes of migration in Arizona’s Altar Valley. Whether ephemeral or enduring, the landscapes left behind invite compelling questions about the sensory dimensions of migration, the ways geopolitics, bodies, and desert landscapes meet. 

Save the date for a talk by Juanita Sundberg: Thursday, August 12 at 7:00pm 

Events 

Please note: 

Rhizome will be closed on Thursday, July 1. 

An Evening for Human Rights in Southern Mexico 

Friday, July 2, 7:00pm 

Partners in Rights and Recovery and CIPO-Van host an evening of discussion about the current human rights situation in Oaxaca and Chiapas. 

By donation, no one turned away 

Vancouver Trans Film Festival 

Saturday, July 3, doors at 7, films at 8, followed by discussion 

Vancouver's Trans Forum, in collaboration with Divergence Movie Nights, presents a screening of Screaming Queens: The Riot At Compton's Cafeteria. A film by Victor Silverman & Susan Stryker (2005), the film " tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States -- a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighbourhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn." Join us afterward for a panel and discussion about the history of trans organizing in Vancouver. 

By donation 

Vancouver Trans Film Festival 

Sunday, July 4, doors at 5, films at 6, followed by discussion 

Vancouver's Trans Forum, in collaboration with Divergence Movie Nights, presents a screening of Transparent by Jules Rosskam (2005). The film focuses on 19 female-to-male spectrum folks' lives as parents, "revealing the diverse ways in which each person reconciles giving birth and being a biological mother with his masculine identity, and through the variety of genders the children use to conceive of their parents." Join us afterward for a panel and discussion about issues affecting trans parents/families. 

I Heart Alt Media: Report-back from the G8/20, and Upping the Anti Launch 

Friday, July 9, 7:00pm 

Upping the Anti, Vancouver Media Co-op, and resist!ca present this report-back from people who were on the frontlines of resistance against the G8/20 in Toronto, and a launch of Upping the Anti 10 , the latest edition of this radical journal of theory and action that provides a space to reflect on the state of political organizing in Canada. 

$10 suggested, includes a copy of UTA; no one turned away for lack of funds 

Vancouver Trans Film Festival 

Saturday, July 10, doors at 7, film at 8, followed by discussion 

Vancouver's Trans Forum, in collaboration with Divergence Movie Nights, presents a screening of Still Black - A Portrait of Black Trans Men, by Kortney Ryan Ziegler (2008). Still Black explores the lives of six black transgender men living in the United States. Through the intimate stories of their lives as artists, students, husbands, fathers, lawyers, and teachers, the film offers viewers a complex and multi-faceted image of race, sexuality and trans identity. Join us afterward for a panel and discussion on issues affecting racialized trans people. 

By donation 

Poems from the Cracks, Chapbook Launch 

Sunday, July 11, 6:00pm 

Join Cynthia Dewi Oka for the launch of her first chapbook, poems from the cracks , with host poet Rita Wong. Poems from the cracks is an assertion of our capacity to reflect, critique and create within/beyond the narrow spaces imposed by systemic conditions of displacement, violence, poverty and isolation. This collection grew out of the experiences and commitment to revolutionary work of one poet who is also a low-income single mother of colour currently residing in Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territory. 

By donation, no one turned away, all proceeds to support defense of G20 comrades, chapbooks for sale $5-10 

Rhizome Summer Holiday! 

Rhizome will be closed from Monday, July 12 through Wednesday, July 21. 

We will reopen at 11am on Thursday, July 22. 

Live Performance: Chris Chandler & Paul Benoit 

Thursday, July 22, 7:00pm 

Radical poet and storyteller Chris Chandler has joined forces with Seattle blues guitar virtuoso Paul Benoit. Delivering vignettes about politics and modern culture with the fire of a Baptist Preacher, the music is rooted in roots, coloured with blues, and based in Americana. This performance, presented by the IWW Vancouver, is becoming a Rhizome summer tradition. Come hear some serious truths about the power of the working class! 

$2-$20, no one turned away 

Tret Fure Concert and CD Release Party 

Friday, July 23, 7:00pm 

Tret Fure is a lesbian icon in the music industry. Her career spans decades and has earned her the love and respect of many. Join her for a release of her most recent CD. Advance tickets are on sale at Rhizome and at soundsandfuries.com. Presented by Sounds and Furies. 

$12-$18 sliding scale 

Board Games are Soooo Gay 

Saturday, July 24, 7:00pm 

We'll be back for another queer-friendly round of board games. Bring your own games or use ours. Our in-house DJs will keep the tunes coming. 

Free 

Queer Film Festival East Van Ticket Sales Day 

Sunday, July 25, 3:00-8:00pm 

Drop in and join the Vancouver Queer Film Festival for a campy, musical ticket sales day! From 3:00 to 8:00 the Film Festival team will be hosting advanced box office ticket sales (cash only please) and screening back-to-back musical films, including CABARET, THE WIZ, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. Come shop for tickets and/or hang out and sing along! 

Free 

United States Social Forum Report-Back 

Thursday, July 29, 7:00pm 

Come hear from folks who travelled from Vancouver to participate in the United States Social Forum, held in Detroit from June 22 through the 26 th . They will share their reflections on the state of social justice movements in the U.S., with a focus on organizing for migrant justice, the rights of workers excluded from existing labour protections, intersectional analysis, arts-based resistance, multigenerational organizing, housing rights and more--and will relate their learning to organizing in the Canadian context. 

By donation, no one turned away, proceeds to benefit local social justice organizing efforts 

Bi the Way, It’s Our Cabaret 3 

Friday, July 30, 7:00pm 

Celebrate Pride with the Qmunities Bisexual Support Group, at a night of fun and music for bisexuals and their allies. 

By donation, no one turned away for lack of funds 

Action Alert 

Support Needed for the CCDA 

As many of you know, the Comite Campesino del Altiplano (CCDA) is the cooperative that produces Café Justicia, Rhizome's house coffee, while simultaneously organizing for the land rights of Guatemala's indigenous majority. Recently, leaders of the CCDA were forced to flee Guatemala as a result of death threats they had received for their political work. They stayed here in Canada for a short time, returning to Guatemala just in time to be hit by Tropical Storm Agatha, which swept through Central America, leaving death and destruction in its wake. The storm's impact was greatest in the Guatemalan highlands where CCDA members live and produce the coffee we drink. People have been killed, the communities' infrastructure has been destroyed, and crops have been wiped out. The CCDA has faced political violence and natural disaster, and now they need our help to ensure that their communities survive and they are able to continue fighting for justice. 

BC CASA, the all-volunteer collective that imports, roasts and bags our coffee, is collecting donations to send to the CCDA for their relief effort. If you are able to contribute, please send cheques to Café Justicia-BC, 3205 Findlay St., Vancouver BC, V5N 4E6. If you are considering making a donation and need more information, contact lisa at rhizomecafe.ca . 

Thanks! See you soon! 

Rhizome 

Café * Arts Venue * Community Space 

Our regular hours: 

Tuesdays: 11am to 10pm 

Wednesdays: 11am to 10pm 

Thursdays: 11am to 10pm 

Fridays: 11am to midnight 

Saturdays: 10am to midnight (brunch from 10 to 3) 

Sundays: 10am to 9pm (brunch from 10 to 3) 

We’re closed on Mondays. 

A note on our name: 

In the botanical sense, a rhizome is a root system that some plants (like lilies and orchids and ginger and bamboo) use to spread themselves about. While the roots of most plants point generally downward, the rhizome is a horizontal root system that runs parallel to the surface of the ground. The plant sends shoots up from nodes in the rhizome, creating what look like many separate plants. These seemingly unrelated individuals are actually all connected, through a system that’s not immediately visible to the eye. 

5) 

JULY HARVEST BOX 

Hey busy students! 

Are you on a budget? Want to get more fresh fruits and vegetables? Want something convenient, affordable, healthy AND great for the environment and community? 

Try out the Harvest Box program this summer! 

July Local Organic Box 

Pick-up: Thursday, July 8th 

Order by: ASAP!!! 

July Value Box 

Pick-up: Thursday, July 29th 

Order by: July 20 

Harvest Boxes are available for pick-up in Convocation Mall between 12:30-4:00pm on distribution day. 

Ordering available online now at www.sfulocalfood.ca . 

Want to pay by cash or cheque? Visit our FAQs on our website: http://sfulocalfood.ca/sfu-harvest-box/faq 

To find out more, visit us on the web or email us at harvestbox at sfulocalfood.ca ! 

Know others who are interested in participating in this program? Feel free to distribute this email widely! 

Happy eating! 

- SFU Harvest Box Team 

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