[van-announce] [ May 13, 15 & 21 ] Resistance to the G8 in Vancouver! March, Panel and Workshops

[John Smith]

>From May 20th to the 22nd Vancouver will be host to the G8 University
Summit ahead of the G8/G20 meetings in Toronto in late June.  Local
organizers are coordinating a series of events on the themes of education
and the G8 in the lead up to a march and mobilization against the G8
University Summit on Friday May 21st.

1  >>  Thurs. May 13th – We Ate the G8: Teach in (Panel on Education)
2  >>  Sat. May 15th – We Ate the G8: People’s Summit (Day of Workshops)
3  >>  Fri. May 21st – The People’s Street Summit (March & Mobilization
Against G8 University Summit)



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WE ATE THE G8: TEACH-IN

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Thursday May 13th 7pm-9pm
Take Back UBC Robson Square!
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Food, warm beverages, childcare, and bus tickets will be available.

Students and Educators share their experiences of resistance to the
corporate school system, and explore alternative education models

Speakers:

>>> JANE BOUEY on the impacts of recent funding cuts on public education
in Vancouver
>>> ANDREA MORGAN on the (un)sustainable university: rethinking food, land
and community
>>> DUSTIN RIVERS on teaching language and anti-colonial education in
indigenous communities
>>> MYKA ABRAMSON on the G8 and G20, the Olympics and the Future of Public
Education
>>> SUMAYYA KASSAMALI on the G8 University Summit, UBC and the G8, and
global summit resistance
>>> ANTHONY MEZA-WILSON on emancipatory education: a vehicle for social
transformation.

Join the We Ate the G8 Teach In on Facebook
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WE ATE THE G8: PEOPLE’S SUMMIT
Free workshops to build resistance!

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Saturday May 15th
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
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[ full schedule is below ]

Followed by Action to support False Promises on False Creek
Rally for affordable housing
2:30pm-4:30pm
Science World (By Main St skytrain station)


SCHEDULE:
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10:30 - 12:00 [ 3 workshops ]

>> Occupation, Globalization and Displacement: workshop on the G8/G20
(ROOM: 2290)
>> Emancipatory Education Workshop (ROOM: 2280)
>> Does Capitalism make you Sick? Health Inequalities & the Drive to
Privatize (ROOM: 1510)

12:15 - 1:45 [ 3 workshops ]

>> Workshop on localizing resistance to trade agreements (ROOM: 1510)
>> Street Tactics Workshop (ROOM: 2290)
>> Uprooting Journalism: Workshop with Vancouver Media Co-op (ROOM: 2280)


WORKSHOPS:
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Occupation, Globalization, and Displacement
[ 10:30 - noon, ROOM 2290 ]

A workshop that will explore the specific processes of the G8 and direct
complicity in empire-building, militarization, corporate globalization,
mass displacement and creation of poverty, destruction of the land, and
restrictive border policing. This workshop will also discuss ways to
resist the G8 and similar institutions from an anti-capitalist,
anti-colonial, and anti-oppression framework. Workshop will be facilitated
by No One Is Illegal Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories

Emancipatory Education
[ 10:30 - noon, ROOM 2280 ]

Everyone has some experience with education. Did your experience liberate
you? Come prepared to share in this participatory workshop where we
explore the possibilities for education as a vehicle for social
transformation. We will have some conversations about emancipatory vs.
totalitarian schooling, education and the global market economy, and
community grassroots initiatives for education. Hopeful you will walk away
with a head brimming with ideas and some connections to help make
educational change an inevitability in your community.

Does Capitalism make you Sick? Health Inequalities and the Drive to
Privatize
[ 10:30 - noon, ROOM 1510 ]

Join organizers from the Alliance for People’s Health in a popular
education session on understanding the economic roots of our ill-health.
Share your experiences with health care and the social determinants of
health. Educate yourself about the trends towards privatization in health
and social services including the recent BC government attacks on welfare
and disability. Envision and learn about grassroots approaches to educate,
organize and mobilize our communities into action.

Localizing Resistance to Trade Agreements
[ 12:15 - 1:45, ROOM 1510 ]

An interactive workshop on developing new strategies to challenge
neo-liberal trade agreements. New strategies are aimed to empower local
community based organizing against trade agreements, something that is
often difficult for campaigns that focus on the decisions of national or
provincial governments. The current economic crisis and increasing public
awareness of environmental and climate concerns provides an opportunity to
re-examine campaigns against trade agreements.

Street Tactics Workshop
[ 12:15 - 1:45, ROOM 2290 ]

An overview of the different strategies used by demonstration to prevent
harm on their side and improve chances to achieve their goals. A rough
overview of maneuvers used by anti-globalization protests on the east
coast to protect themselves and
overcome police forces.

Uprooting Journalism
[ 12:15 - 1:45, ROOM 2280 ]

The Vancouver Media Co-op invites you to a discussion about bringing
journalism back to the grassroots. Questions to be explored include what
kind of skills do people want and need in order to work as rebel
reporters? How can the VMC nourish our movements and foster horizontal
communication? What tools, techniques and tips do media makers and
activists have to get our issues into the media? VMC collective members
will also introduce our programs this summer, including hands-on video and
radio opportunities, stories to cover (including the G20 in Toronto), and
upcoming investigative journalism workshops.


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THE PEOPLE'S STREET SUMMIT!
Bringing their Summit to the Ground!

Join us for a rally in opposition to the G8 University Summit.

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Friday, May 21st
Vancouver Art Gallery 3PM: March
Canada Place 4PM
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories
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Endorsed by:

Check Your Head, City Wide Housing Coalition, Comuna of the Popular
Indigenous Council of Oaxaca (CIPO), Delta/Richmond Chapter of The Council
of Canadians, East Vancouver Abolitionists, Food Not Bombs,
GatewaySucks.org, Justicia for Migrant Workers, No One Is Illegal
-Vancouver, No One is Illegal-Toronto, Oil Sands Truth, Pink Resistance,
Purple Thistle Centre, The Rational on Coop Radio, Simon Fraser Public
Interest Research Group, Siraat Collective, Social Justice Centre - UBC,
Student Environment Centre - UBC, Teaching Support Staff Union – SFU,
Toronto Community Mobilization Network, VANACT, UBC Colour-Connected
Against Racism, Vancouver Seattle Womyn's Action Network, Vancouver Status
for Women.

To endorse this rally or for more information email van.mobilize at gmail.com
website http://vcmn.resist.ca

>From May 20th to the 22nd Vancouver will be hosting the G8 University
Summit ahead of the G8 & G20 meetings in Ontario this June. Like the G8 &
G20 meetings the summit is an opportunity for closed door, unaccountable
meeting to further economic and social agendas that promote exploitation,
profit, environmental degradation and colonization of the worlds
resources. Universities increasingly are promoting the same agenda and
continue to operate under their own unaccountalbe, top-down institutional
structures. During their meeting we expect government, corporate and
university officials to talk about the continued corporatization of the
university and the role of academia in supporting corporate "greenwashing"
campaigns while it continues to be the laboratory for the oil and
pharmaceutical industries.

The summit's theme is “Universities and Communities: transition to a
sustainable future”. We believe that the oil and pharmaceutical industries
are the problem. We believe universities are serving the interest of
corporations, not communities. We believe that education should be
emancipatory, free for everyone and promote freedom, equality, social and
environmental justice, not the neo-liberal trade agenda, the free market
or criminal industries. We will build the momentum for a movement for
emancipatory community education, Indigenous Sovereignty and
Self-Determination, Environmental and Climate Justice, Migrant Justice and
an End to War and Occupation, Income Equity and Community Control over
Resources, Gender Justice and Queer and disAbility rights.

WHILE THE UNIVERSITY IS WITH THE ELITES, WE WILL BE ON THE STREETS!

EDUCATION SHOULD EMPOWER COMMUNITIES, NOT CORPORATIONS!