[van-announce] SFPIRG Community Events Digest
SFPIRG
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Mon Jun 28 12:03:19 PDT 2010
COMMUNITY EVENTS DIGEST
== Social justice events happening on and off campus ==
*** Events Off Campus ***
1) Transition In Vancouver: From Fossil Fuel Dependence To Resilience (Jun 25&26)
2) A Rally & March in Opposition to the G8/G20 Summits (Jun 26)
3) Left Film Night-Plunder: The Crime Of Our Time (Jun 27)
4) Solidarity With Imprisoned Health Care Workers In The Philippines (Jun 29)
5) Hari Memorial Notice (July 4)
6) The 20th and FINAL Under the Volcano Festival (Aug 8)
7) Up North Film Screening Invitation and Poster (Jul 8)
8) Alt Media: Fundraiser and Report Back from G8/G20 Summit (Jul 9)
9) Community Gardens Tour (Jul 10)
*** Other Announcements ***
10) VSW Has Office Space For Individual Or Social Justice Group
11) International Perspectives, From 11 June To 11 July
12) No One Is Illegal at the G8/G20 Mobilizations in Toronto
13) Wilderness Committee Releases Anti-Incineration Video
14) Join the SFPIRG Board of Directors!
15) Farm Folk City Folk Home Grown Photo Contest
16) Find a Farmers' Market
*** Job Postings ***
17) Volunteer Opportunities with goBEYOND
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*** Events Off Campus ***
1) TRANSITION IN VANCOUVER: FROM FOSSIL FUEL DEPENDENCE TO RESILIENCE
Friday - Saturday, June 25 - 26, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Room C509, Langara College
Website: http://www.langara.bc.ca/events/2010/100507-transition-in-vancouver.html
Email: lkemp at langara.bc.ca
Phone: 604-323-5322.
Join leaders of the transition movement in Vancouver for a 2-day workshop and dialogue introducing the principles, steps and lessons of the successful Transition Town model of local response to global challenges. We will explore these and other important questions:
• What are the lessons for activists and concerned citizens?
• How can we increase resilience in every neighbourhood?
• What are the ways we might collaborate to get the impacts that are needed?
More information and to register: http://www.langara.bc.ca/events/2010/100507-transition-in-vancouver.html
Student subsidies available (if you are a full time student). Contact Leslie Kemp at Langara College lkemp at langara.bc.ca or call the registration desk at Continuing Studies: 604-323-5322.
2) A RALLY & MARCH IN OPPOSITION TO THE G8/G20 SUMMITS
Saturday, June 26th, 2010 at Noon
Grandview Park, Commercial Drive, between William and Charles St.
Organized by the Vancouver Community Mobilization Network
Email: van.mobilize at gmail.com
Website: http://vcmn.resist.ca/
Phone: 604.715.6990
Bring noise makers, banners, water and friends!
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Come join us as we march in solidarity with the thousands protesting the G8/G20 Summits in Toronto and around the world. Let’s send a loud and clear message to the G8/G20 elite that we wholly reject their unaccountable meetings. We know their decisions will only lead to further economic and social disparity, promote exploitation environmental degradation and colonization .
>From June 25 to 27th, the so-called ‘leaders’ and bankers of the twenty richest countries are gathering in Huntsville and Toronto for closed door meetings. The outcome of this summit is predictable: more of the same. More trade deals that benefit only multinational corporations . More threats to the existence of the worlds most vulnerable. More impoverishment. More addiction to the consumption of energy – dirty or clean. More economic policies that value profit and expansion over community and health. These are the policies that brought us to the crisis now facing the world economically, politically, environmentally and socially.
We say NO! We say that a better world is possible, there is an alternative! Add your presence and voice to the thousands in Toronto and millions around the world demanding a new vision of social and environmental justice. Change the System, not the Climate!
Endorsed by: Friends of UBC Farm, UBC Social Justice Center, Vancouver Climate Justice, Purple Thistle, Justicia for Migrant Workers, No One Is Illegal - Vancouver, Ugnayan ng kabataang Pilipino sa Canada (Filipino-Canadian youth alliance), SIKLAB (Overseas Filipino workers organization), Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group, Council of Canadians - Delta Richmond chapter, Streams of Justice, VANACT, Solidarity with Anti-Olympic Convergence Arrestees,
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What are the G8 and G20 Summits?
The G8 and G20 Summits are meetings of the heads of states, financial ministers and bankers of the richest countries in the world. The IMF and World Bank and other institutions are also present. A gathering of the world's richest industrialized countries, the extensively secured meetings are an attempt to further the ongoing exploitation of global communities and resources through the same policies, multilateral agreements, and wars that have resulted in the current financial crisis and ecological destruction of our planet.
The G8 and G20 summits consistently push an agenda of neo-liberalism and structural adjustment programs commonly including: putting economic growth measured by GDP ahead of all else, decreased trade barriers, the removal of labour and environmental protections, cut backs on social services, and the privatization of both resources and public sector services. They are meeting to make decisions that will result in more exploitation of people and the environment while ensuring that the systems that increase colonization, wars and displacement are maintained.
Why Oppose the G8 and G20 Summits?
As diverse communities from in and around the un-ceded Coast Salish Territories known as Vancouver, we reject both the institution of the G8/G20 and the ideology of neo-liberalism on which it is based. Neoliberal policies lead to increased corporate control, and to increased levels of inequality between the rich and the poor - both locally and internationally. The so-called "world leaders" who led the world to the brink of ecological collapse, and into one of the worst economic disasters ever have no right to make economic policy for the rest of us.
Globally, economic inequality is greater today than it has ever been in the history of the world. We oppose the agenda of free trade, privatization and market deregulation that the G8/G20 stands for, seeing it as a tool to reinforce the colonial pattern of domination of the global south by the north and the vast discrepancies between the wealthiest and poorest people in the world.
For more information, or if your organization would like to endorse this rally, please email: van.mobilize at gmail.com , call 604.715.6990, or visit http://vcmn.resist.ca/ .
3) LEFT FILM NIGHT- PLUNDER: THE CRIME OF OUR TIME
Sunday, June 27, 2010, 7 pm
Centre for Socialist Education, 706 Clark Drive, Vancouver, (corner of Clark & E. Georgia)
Phone: 604-255-2041
Email: pvoice at telus.net
Plunder: The Crime of Our Time explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity, uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed. It argues that the wrong doing committed by a few individuals distracts from the real story, implicating the institutions that financed and profited from fraudulent sub prime lending. These firms recklessly put trillions of dollars and the world economy at risk.
No charge for admission; 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 <pvoice at telus.net> for further information.
4) SOLIDARITY WITH IMPRISONED HEALTH CARE WORKERS IN THE PHILIPPINES
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 4pm
Philippine Consulate – 700 W. Pender at Granville
Website: http://freethehealthworkers.blogspot.com/
http://aphvan.wordpress.com/
Free the Morong 43!
Solidarity with the 43 Imprisoned Health Care Workers in the Philippines!
Join the Alliance for Peoples Health at 4pm on Tuesday June 29 for a public information picket of the Philippine Consulate in Vancouver (700 W Pender @ Granville). The APH will be delivering a letter to newly installed Philippine President Benigno Aquino III calling for the immediate release of the imprisoned health workers.
Everyone is encouraged to attend! Health care workers particularly encouraged to attend and to wear scrubs/ work clothes as a symbol of solidarity. The 43 health workers need your solidarity and support!
BACKGROUND
The Morong 43 are health care workers who were illegally abducted and detained by Philippine security forces on February 6 of this year and have been held, tortured and denied access to their families, friends and children. Accused of being ‘rebels’, the Morong 43 are in fact doctors, nurses and community health workers with a demonstrated commitment to working with the poorest and most oppressed sectors of Philippine society – women, peasants, workers and urban poor communities. At the time of their abduction they were participating in a workshop on community health promotion.
These courageous health workers are being punished for criticising the deplorable health conditions in the Philippines and working for health for all. IMF/ World Bank imposed neoliberal economic policies, privatization and the labour-export policy of the Philippines have devastated the Philippine health care system. Community health programs like the ones the 43 abducted health care workers participate in seek to provide basic health care to communities facing poverty, marginalization and militarization, and build capacity in these communities to deal with public health problems.
5) HARI MEMORIAL NOTICE
Sunday, July 4, 2010 , 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm
SUR 2600 , Simon Fraser University-Surrey Campus , 13450 102 Avenue, Surrey , BC , (At Central City Complex 102 Avenue just south of Surrey Central Sky Train Station)
Organized by SANSAD, # 435, 552A Clark Road, Coquitlam , B.C., Canada, V3K6Z8;
P hone: (604) 421-6752;
E mail: sansad at sansad.org
South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD) i nvites you to a
Public Meeting
To remember
Dr. Hari Sharma (1934-2010)
Educator, writer, photographer, activist, community leader, champion of the oppressed
Speakers from the community and Simon Fraser University will pay tribute to Dr.Hari Sharma’s contributions to scholarship, education, the South Asian community in British Columbia, and the cause of justice and peace in the world. Raminder Bhullar and Zahid Makhdoom will sing. People from the floor will be welcome to speak.
Co-sponsored by Department of Sociology-Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Punjabi Vichar Manch , Progressive Intercultural Society (PICS), Progressive Nepali Forum in America (PNEFA),and Pakistan Action Network.
With generous support from Simon Fraser University-Surrey Campus and SFPIRG
6) THE 20TH AND FINAL UNDER THE VOLCANO FESTIVAL
Sunday August 8, 2010, 12:00
Cates Park (Whey-ah-Wichen) North Vancouver Gates Open.
Cost: ADMISSIONS: @ Gate Only (no advance tickets) BY-DONATION $10-$20
Low income admissions by-donation suggested $5 available @ Main Gate ONLY
After 20 years UTV has decided to close this chapter of our history by making our 20th anniversary our final event. For two decades we have organized in solidarity with local and global social justice movements and have staunchly supported marginalized peoples struggles. We have survived and thrived and now it’s time to say goodbye. Come celebrate cultures of resistance, activism and community!
2010 HIGHLIGHTS:
* Naomi Klein and Arthur Manuel: Paying our Debts, At Home and Abroad: A Discussion with the award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author Klein and Secwepemc Nation activist Manuel, moderated by journalist & documentary film-maker Avi Lewis
Olmeca: Xicano MC returns in support of new album “La Contra Cultura” Plus Joey Only Outlaw Band, Delhi2Dublin, Los Migrantes and lots more!
Plus:
Malcolm Lowry Stage, Dragonfly Kid’s Festival, Artisans Market, Community Info Fair, Workshop Tent, and more…..
7) UP NORTH FILM SCREENING INVITATION AND POSTER
Thursday, July 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Fletcher Challenge Theatre, Room 1900 - Harbour Centre Campus Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
Up North - Conversations on the Impacts of Change
Winner - Best Art Documentary - Mountain Film Festival - 2010
Admission by donation
Presented by the Simon Fraser University Political Science Students Union
Reception to follow.
Trailer: http://www.upnorthmovie.com/
Synopsis:
Our environment and culture have been linked to our evolution since the dawn of civilization. Currently that linkage appears to be having an increasingly evident impact on our ecology and environment with little change in global culture. This dissonance is exaggerated intensely in our most delicate environments. Northern Canada is one of these environs.
In the summer of 2007, Drew McIntosh, Robert Lutener and Aaron Bocanegra set out on a journey across the north into the Arctic Circle, in exploration of the impact change has on the landscape and people's lives.
Their 8500 KM (5282 mile) adventure began in Edmonton, Alberta, four hours south of the largest proposed industrial project in history, the Athabasca Oilsands. Traveling through Alberta, British Columbia, Alaska, The Yukon, and the Northwest Territories they arrived in Inuvik, at the end of the 750 KM (466 Mile) gravel Dempster Highway, 200 KM (124 miles) north of the Arctic Circle.
Through conversations with First Nations Chiefs, Elders, comedians, artists, dancers and mountaineers, Up North takes you on a journey of discovery and inquiry devling into a mulitilayered look at forms of change including economic, environmental, cultural, social, political, dromological and linguistic. Set against the stunning beauty of North America's last wilderness, it accesses an alternate history of Canada's north, told through the wisdom of experience and the reflection of our culture in the landscape.
The project was and has continued to be entirely self-funded without any grant support or government support. We are not affiliated with any outside interest. The goal was to allow the landscape and the people to been seen and heard in their own voices. In addition to putting our money and time into the project we were helped a great deal by the donaction of both the van and the trailer as well as camping supplies by friends and family. Without the support of those who believed in the project we would not have been able to accomplish as much as we did.
8) ALT MEDIA: FUNDRAISER AND REPORT BACK FROM G8/G20 SUMMIT
Friday, July 9, 2010, 7:00pm
Rhizome Cafe, 317 E Broadway
Support alt media reporting on the G8/G20!
>From June 25th to 27th the world’s richest countries (the G8 and G20) will
send their leaders and business elite to meet along with heads of the EU,
IMF and World Bank in Huntsville and Toronto. These gatherings are about
trying to fix capitalism, a system that cannot be fixed; about creating
unsustainable trading solutions to ecological catastrophe; about ensuring
the continued exploitation of people of colour and the South and about
celebrating war as a means to create puppet allies and maintain
imperialist power.
Alt media is a critical part of the G8/G20 resistance; keeping us updated
and informed of the latest from the streets, and ultimately helping us to
build sustainable communities of resistance.
Join the Vancouver Media Co-op, Upping the Anti and Resist!ca for a
fundraiser and report back from the G8/G20 convergence in Toronto and
local resistance in Vancouver.
Upping the Anti - a radical journal of theory and action - will be launching
issue no. 10, which includes:
* Interviews on climate justice and anti-capitalism;
* Articles on activist responses to Avatar and the aftermath of the 2008
Greek revolt;
* Roundtables on radical media and ex-cops resisting police;
* Book reviews, and more!
*** Live music! *** Raffle! *** Politics! *** Fun! ***
Sliding scale $0 - $10; no one turned away for lack of funds.
$10 + includes UTA no. 10
9) COMMUNITY GARDENS TOUR
Saturday, July 10 2010, 10am – 12pm
Youth Garden at the corner of Raymur and Malkin (Southeast corner of Strathcona Park)
Vancouver, BC
Cost: Free! Donations accepted at the door.
Have you thought of joining a Community Garden? Interested in exploring and learning more about Community Gardens in your own neighborhood? Join us for this interactive workshop that will introduce folks to a wide range of urban agricultural activities!
Come tour Vancouver’s largest Community Gardens. Wander through extensive community orchards and learn about all the fruit and berries that grow in Vancouver; explore varying methods of annual vegetable production; learn about permaculture food forests; check out working honey bee hives, innovative building designs, greenhouse management techniques, large scale compost facilities and more! Tour will include hands on work in the Cottonwood and/or Strathcona Community Garden. Bring a willingness to get your hands dirty. Meet in the Youth Garden at the corner of Raymur and Malkin.
Easily transit/bike accessible:
By transit: Via East: Take the 99 B-line from Commercial/Broadway station and get off at Clark. Take the #22 MACDONALD bus and get off at Venables at Raymur.
Via West: Catch the #22 KNIGHT bus and get off at Prior Street and Campbell.
Transit schedules at: http://www.translink.ca/
REGISTER NOW for the Community Garden tour!
About the facilitator: Matthew Kemshaw of the Environmental Youth Alliance has worked in the field of Urban Agriculture for several years and has been mentored by some of the Pacific Northwest’s most respected community gardeners. His experience includes working with dozens of schools to strengthen or create their own schoolyard food garden, growing thousands of vegetable seedlings for giveaway in low income neighborhoods of Vancouver, working with Parks Victoria to develop Food Forests on city land, maintaining several community gardens in both Victoria and Vancouver, and designing and implementing horticultural therapy programs with the elderly and people suffering from addictions and/or mental health issues. Matthew has an incredible amount of passion and vision for urban agriculture in Western Canada.
*** Other Announcements ***
10) VSW HAS OFFICE SPACE FOR INDIVIDUAL OR SOCIAL JUSTICE GROUP
Effective July 1, 2010
Email: leapcoordinator at vsw.ca
Vancouver Status of Women is looking to share its space with a social justice group or individual with similar feminist values and principles. Our mandate is to ensure women's full participation in the social, political and economic lives of our communities. We are a queer and trans-inclusive organization.
The office space is located at East Hastings and Slocan, with access to multiple bus routes including #10, 16 and 135. It is ten minutes away from the Downtown Eastside and close to many community hubs and organizations.
Effective July 1, 2010 the office space is available for rent at $350/month (negotiable) with the following included:
•fully furnished office with computer, desk, chair, shelf and cabinet
•high speed internet access
•shared front lobby, which includes a comfortable meeting area, feminist library and children's space
•shared kitchen and kitchen equipment, including microwave and portable water boiler
•heat, air conditioning and utilities
•24/7 alarm security
Access to photocopying, printing, faxing and phone line is in addition to rent. Monthly amount to be negotiated depending on the specific needs of the renting group or individual.
If interested, please contact leapcoordinator at vsw.ca to set up a viewing by June 23rd at the latest. Please share some information about your group/self and what you are planning to use the space for.
11) From now until 9 July
Faith, Fencing & Fate: New Cultural Landscapes of Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
This collaborative exhibition 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. The work is housed in the lobby of the Liu Institute at UBC. Gallery hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., 6476 NW Marine Dr., Vancouver. For more information, click here .
* Independent media:
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/
http://rabble.ca/
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/altmedia
* Toronto Community Mobilization Network Solidarity and Respect Statement:
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/SolidarityRespect
13) WILDERNESS COMMITTEE RELEASES ANTI-INCINERATION VIDEO
For immediate release – Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Wilderness Committee Releases Anti-Incineration Video
Vancouver, The Wilderness Committee has launched a viral video decrying Metro Vancouver’s proposal to build a new garbage incinerator as part of the proposed regional waste management plan.
The video “Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Breath” takes a quirky look at how Metro Vancouver staff have been pushing waste incineration onto the general public, and pokes fun at flaws in their research and claims. The video also encourages viewers to take action, and directs them to the campaign website ZeroWasteBC.org where they can send a personal message that will be forwarded to elected city councilors on the board of Metro Vancouver and to Barry Penner, BC's Minister of the Environment.
"This video takes a lighthearted approach to a serious topic in order to help spread the word and make people take an interest in speaking out against this crazy plan to burn Metro Vancouver’s garbage," said Ben West, Healthy Communities Campaigner for the Wilderness Committee.
"Proponents of waste incineration are big corporations that will say almost anything to get these multi-million dollar contracts so we need to get creative to stand up for public health and the environment,” said West.
“ Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Breath” is now available online and can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fSg5JqWR0I
For more information please contact:
Ben West, Healthy Communities Campaigner -Wilderness Committee 604-710-5340
The Wilderness Committee is Canada's largest membership-based, citizen-funded wilderness preservation organization. We work for the preservation of Canadian and international wilderness through research and grassroots education. The Wilderness Committee works on the ground to achieve ecologically sustainable communities. We work only through lawful means.
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14) JOIN THE SFPIRG BOARD OF DIRECTORS!
Get involved with social justice on campus!
Join the SFPIRG Board of Directors!
Passionate about social justice issues? Want to get more involved?
SFPIRG, SFU's student-based social and environmental justice resource centre, is currently seeking nominees for our Board of Directors. The board is responsible for providing overall direction for SFPIRG as an organization, including such things as the budget and finances; visioning; policy work, committee work and more.
NO EXPERIENCE NECESARY - this is a learning boad. APROX 3 HOURS / WEEK TIME COMMITTMENT. GREAT EXPERIENCE!
Nomination period runs from Monday June 28th to Mon July 12th at noon.
For more information, visit tinyurl.com/sfpirgelections
Or come to an info meeting on Wed June 30th from 4-5pm at SFPIRG or come by the office in the Rotunda anytime!
15) FARM FOLK CITY FOLK HOME GROWN PHOTO CONTEST
Just a reminder about FarmFolkCityFolk's "Home Grown" Photo contest! The deadline is July 15. $500 in Farmers Market products and produce. Please pass on to your members & community!
For details: www.flickr.com/photos/homegrowncontest/
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16) FIND A FARMERS' MARKET
There are over 105 farmers' markets throughout British Columbia. Search the BC Association of Farmers Market's directory for farmers markets across the province! Check them out!
http://www.bcfarmersmarket.org/findamarket.asp
*** Job Postings ***
17) goBEYOND Working Groups
The goBEYOND Working Groups are a great way to get involved in shaping the movement. There will be roughly two conference calls a month, and some work in between. We are looking for volunteers who are self-directed and can take initiative, who are passionate about climate change issues and youth leadership, and who are interested in learning new skills. Below are 6 areas that you can get involved with!
1. Outreach and Communications: This group will develop an awesome communications strategy for goBEYOND that features both online tools, print media, and face to face campaigning. This is the perfect working group for outgoing people, writers, artists, design majors, or journalism types.
2. Bylaws: goBEYOND has incorporated and we're in the process of designing an innovative governance structure that fits our values. This will be a great opportunity to learn about the world of non-profit governance.
3. Fundraising and Admin: Ok fundraising may sound boring, but it is one of the most important skills you can learn for work in the NGO field. Environmental Organizations are always going to need money, and volunteering with this group will give you the tools to bring in the money (hopefully). Tasks might include planning fundraising events, meeting with potential donors, and making decisions about where all the money goes once we have it.
4. Strategic Planning: Are you a big picture thinker? This group will be charged with drafting a 5-year strategic plan for the organization.
5. Program Development : The Program Development Working Groups will follow up on the direction set at the Project Development Summit , and b uild on our existing programs for the fall semester of goBEYOND. Sub-groups include:
• Education Working Group: Will develop next year's goBEYOND Teach-In and other aspects of the education pillar, such as the Sustainability Education Across the Province short course for faculty who are integrating S
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