[Wamvan] Fwd: SFPIRG COMMUNITY EVENTS DIGEST JUNE 23th - JUNE 30th

[Tami Starlight]

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Date: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:30 AM
Subject: SFPIRG COMMUNITY EVENTS DIGEST JUNE 23th - JUNE 30th
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COMMUNITY EVENTS DIGEST
  ==Social justice events happening on and off campus==
***SFpirg Community Events***
1) SFPIRG Action Research eXchange


***Other Community Events***
2) ACHSA Summer Pubnight (June 24)
3) World's first anthology of Anarchist Fiction book launch and roundtable
discussion (June 25)
4)  Second Commemoration and Anniversary (June 25)
5) Crisis of the nation and the left in Nepal (June 26)
6) Latin American culture and Sustainability Festival in Vancouver (June 26)
7) First nation 101 (June 27)
8) Latino Open Mi (June 27)
9) Stopping Free Trade Zones in BC (June 28 & June29)




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*** SFpirg Community Events***
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SFPIRG ACTION RESEARCH EXCHANGE- put the world of academia to work for you!

Are you a local non-profit or grassroots community organization with no time
or money for research? The Action Research eXchange (ARX) facilitates
community research by allowing community groups to design projects for
interested SFU students to complete as part of their coursework. An SFU
student can help make your organization’s social or environmental justice
project a reality!

Submit project proposals online at www.sfpirg.ca/arx/apply/. The deadline
for the fall 2011 semester is July 18, 2011. Proposals are accepted
throughout the year.

Priority will be given to grassroots organizations working on the following
topics: international solidarity, anti-war/anti-imperialism, labour, media
analysis research, queer studies, seniors’ issues, housing,
immigrant/refugees, ethnicity/race studies, education, Indigenous rights,
disability issues, and social justice/human rights.



***Other Community Events***
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ACHSA SUMMER PUBNIGHT
Friday June 24, 2011 @ 9pm
Highland Pub

You're being invited to:
Swag like a celebrity, party like a celebrity, walk the red carpet like a
celebrity, get your pics taken like a celebrity...and who knows? You may
even win an Emmy like a celebrity!

at ACHSA's Celebrity Summer Swagger Party

Pre-sold tix: $8; & @ the door: $10

Get your presold tix at the Highland Pub, the ACHSA Club room or at the
ACHSA club table in the AQ.

AWARD for the BEST SWAG!




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WORLD’S FIRST ANTHOLOGY OF ANARCHIST FICTION BOOK LAUNCH & ROUNDTABLE
DISCUSSION
Saturday June 25, 3pm - 5pm
Spartacus Books, 684 East Hastings (at Princess) tel: 604.688.6138

Vancouver book launch of the world's first anthology of anarchist fiction,
SUBVERSIONS , and a roundtable discussion about anarchism and literature by
anarchist writers from the Montreal Anarchist Writers Bloc , the BC Black
Ink Group and others (e.g., Norman Nawrocki, Ron Sakolsky, David Lester, Bob
Sarti , etc.).

The book presents a broad range of anarchist short stories, from hardcore
waving of the black flag to more reflective and sometimes introspective
story telling and soul-searching. As a movement and a political philosophy
that values freedom above all, anarchism has always attracted artists,
writers and creative rebel spirits. SUBVERSIONS underscores that connection.

More info : Web site: awb.daemonflower.com Email: awb at daemonflower.com



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THE FNRP OF VANCOUVER CANADA INVITE TO THE SECOND CONMEMORATION AND
ANIVERSARY
Sunday June 25th, 7:30pm
Coop Chilean at 3390 School Avenue in Vancouver

The National Front Peoples Resistances of Honduras (Collective FNRP
Vancouver Canada)
Invite the Canadian and Latin-American community to commemorate the second
years of The Active and Peaceful Resistance since the coup de tat in June of
2009 in Honduras.
1. - Principal event: The Commemoration, mystical and spiritual ceremony for
the heroes who die fighting the facto regime in Honduras, conducted by
Napoleon Ortiz active member of the FMLN.
2. - Special presentation of artist in resistance (Roberto Espinoza el
Catracho)
3. - Speech from members of the Executive coordination of the National Front
People Resistance FNRP by skepe and telephone conferences.
4.- The return of the president and General Coordinator of the FNRP Jose
Manuel Zelaya Rosales and the urgently necessity to fulfill the 4 agreement
achieved with the presidents of Venezuela Hugo Chavez Frias and Juan Manuel
Santos, Porfirio Lobo Sosa and Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales.

This achievement of the Resistance of Honduras, will not be possible without
the International solidarity

Invite:
The Collective FNRP of Vancouver Canada
Info: 778-223-1405
Skype: oliverhernan1



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CRISIS OF THE NATION AND THE LEFT IN NEPAL
Sunday, June 26th, 3:00pm-6:00pm
Langara College, 100 W 49th Ave, Vancouver

Nepal has just averted a constitutional crisis by extending the deadline for
its constitution writing by three months to August 28.
What happens in Nepal is a matter of grave concern for the people of Nepal
and all who sympathise with their well being and aspirations.

South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD); Progressive
Nepali Forum in Americas (PNEFA). For more information contact Abi at
604-506-9259



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LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SUUSTAINABILITY FESTIVAL IN VANCOUVER
June 26, 2011
Granville Street between Smithe and West Pender (the street will be closed
to traffic)

The Festival includes:
• A street soccer tournament
• Exhibits from different countries of Latin America including food,
dancing, music and art
• A children’s section for playing and learning
• A fashion show and much more…

Please find the Festival Flyer attached as well as the list of sponsors for
the event. For more information on the event and how to participate please
contact Oliver Lane at oliver at oliverlane.info (778-232-8482) or Alex Ardila
at ardila at interchange.ubc.ca (604-354-1393)


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FIRST NATION 101
Monday, June 27,
Reception from 5:30pm
Program begins at 6:00pm
Book signing 7:45 to 8:00pm

Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre
1607 East Hastings St.

First Nations 101 is a primer on the diverse and complex day-to-day
realities of First Nations people.
Jam-packed with information on more than 70 subjects, First Nations 101
endeavors to leave readers
with a better understanding of the shared history of First Nations and
non-First Nations people.
Lynda Gray is a member of the Tsimshian Nation from Lax Kw’alaams on the
Northwest Coast of
British Columbia. She is the proud mother of two adult children and is the
Executive Director of the
Urban Native Youth Association. One dollar from the sale of each book will
be donated to UNYA’s
capital campaign to build a Native Youth Centre in Vancouver.

For more information, visit http://www.firstnations101.com/



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LATINO OPEN MI
Monday June 27th, 6:00pm-10:00pm
El Barrio Restaurante Latino
2270 East Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC

ENTRANCE:
$5 suggested donation
Get there early - seating is limited!

HEADLINE ACTS:
-Mario Ayala from the Aching Heart Foundation (Rock band)
-Angelo Moroni (Monologue performance)
-Joaquin Ernesto (Trova)

Come out for a fun and social night to enjoy and support local Latino talent
in our community!
Performers of all genres and ages welcome - poets, comedians, singers,
dancers, theatre performers, freestylers, poetry slammers, DJ's, etc!
El Barrio Restaurant will have their full food and beverage menu available
to satisfy your taste buds. Must have valid ID to purchase alcoholic
beverages.
50/50 draw

For more information, or if you'd like to be part of the show, email us at
raices.contact at gmail.com
Proudly presented by RAÍCES Latin American Cultural Society



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STOPPING FREE TRADE ZONES IN BC
In Vancuver: Public Presentation
Tuesday, June 28th @ 7:00 pm
Vancouver Community College
Downtown Campus, corner of Dunsmuir & Hamilton St.
Room 420 (take elevators to 4th floor)

In Delta (Ladner):
Wednesday, June 29th @ 7:00 pm
Ladner Pioneer Library
4683 51st Street

In February of 2011 the BC Government released a request for proposals to
conduct a feasibility study for a British Columbia Foreign Trade Zone
Program. While "Foreign Trade Zones" (FTZ) will be explored across the
province, a specific proposal is being developed within the Pacific Gateway
Strategy that has pushed for port and highway expansion from Delta Port
throughout the lower mainland.

"Foreign Trade Zones" are also referred to around the world as Free Trade
Zones or Special Economic Zones. They section off land to create the ideal
investment climate for industry and business. In other words, allowing
corporations to establish their own standards and laws within a specified
zone avoiding any public influence over such things as social and
environmental policy. Though "Foreign Trade Zones" have existed since the
1970s, mostly as duty free zones, their recent proliferation has established
investment environments going beyond what corporations have secured in Free
Trade Agreements. The federal conservative government has committed to
examining the the current policies to make them "internationally
competitive". These zones attempt to establish:
- 100% foreign ownership
- 0% corporate taxes
- the removal of employment standards
- expansion of temporary labour programs
- removal of environmental standards

Finally, the proposal in Delta raises more questions about the sale of BC
Rail, the Agricultural Land Reserve in Delta, the Tsawwassen Treaty process,
the Gateway Highway & port expansion and the next phase of struggle against
globalization/colonization.

Join us in Vancouver or Delta for a short presentation and discussion about
what is being proposed, what has already happened and what we can do to stop
it.







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