[Wamvan] Fwd: Community Events Digest, July 16 - July 30, 2012

[Tami Starlight]

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> From: SFPIRG <sfpirg at sfu.ca>
> Date: 14 July, 2012 11:38:04 PM PDT
> To: <tamistarlight at gmail.com>
> Subject: Community Events Digest,  July 16 - July 30, 2012
> Reply-To: SFPIRG <sfpirg at sfu.ca>
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> 
> This week's Community Events Digest.
> Social justice happenings on and off campus...
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> JUL 16 to JUL 30, 2012 EVENTS
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> *** SFPIRG EVENTS ***
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> SFPIRG Free Coffee Tuesdays
> Every Tuesday
> Time: 11am until we run out
> Place: SFPIRG Lounge, TC 326 in the Rotunda, SFU Burnaby
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> Free coffee, tea & hot chocolate every Tuesday in the SFPIRG Lounge. From 11am until we run out. Come by, grab a cup and relax in our library with a good book. Bring your own mug!
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> Friends of the Rotunda Picnic
> Tues. July 17, 2012 
> Time: 11:30am to 2:00pm
> Place: MBC Field - outside the Atrium, SFU Burnaby
> 
> Join SFPIRG, Out on Campus, the Women's Centre, CJSF and ACHSA (African & Caribbean Heritage Student Association) for a Friends of the Rotunda picnic on the grass outside the Atrium. Enjoy a free barbecue, activities, and a fun social celebrating the great work of the organizations in the Student Rotunda!
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> 
> Fat Happiness Day
> Zine-Making Extravaganza
> Wed. July 25, 2012
> Time: 12noon - 1:30pm
> Place: SFPIRG Lounge, TC 326 in the Rotunda, SFU Burnaby
>  
> 
> Fat Happiness Day is a chance for members of the SFU community to gather together for a facilitated discussion about the politics of fat and body size diversity. Bring your fat happiness - and yes, also your struggle and pain around this issue - and join us in the SFPIRG lounge.  This month’s Fat Happiness Day will be a zine-making extravaganza with Dana Putnam. Dana is a library worker, a button-maker, a lover of zines and the arts, a lapsed cyclist and a recalcitrant writer. She is honoured to be asked to come up the hill to share resources and work together to tell our own stories.  There will be cupcakes!
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> 
> *** SFU EVENTS ***
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> After Hours Social & Discussion nights
> Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting from June 5 till August 23
> Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
> Place: Out on Campus Lounge, TC314N, SFU Burnaby
> Facebook Event:http://www.facebook.com/events/339644622773700/ 
> 
> Join us at Out on Campus this summer for a series of After Hours Social & Discussion Nights.This is a fun way to meet new people or get to know your friends better. Snacks provided. Out on Campus is a friendly, safe space, open to everyone regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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> 
> *** COMMUNITY EVENTS *** 
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> 
> Reportback from the Vancouver Delegation to Gaza: Resistance, Refugees, Rights and Return
> Sun, July 22, 2012
> Time: 7pm 
> Place: Room 1700, Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings St, Vancouver
> 
> Resistance, Refugees, Rights and Return, the Vancouver Delegation to Gaza - consisting of 9 Vancouver-based activists - traveled to Gaza, Palestine in June 2012. As part of our delegation, we met with health work, refugee rights, BDS, women's, students, labour and youth organizations with a goal of building links between progressive movements here and the Palestinian revolutionary left. Read delegates reports' at Vancouver2Gaza  and This Tiny Globe.   Come hear the delegates' experiences, and the voices of those with whom they met and built ties, and discuss how we can build upon and develop organizing strategies to challenge Canadian complicity in the dispossession, oppression and occupation of Palestinian people and land.    For more information on the delegation, its participants, or to invite a member to report back, please see: http://vancouver2gaza.org/  or email vancouver2gaza at gmail.com. Facebook Event.
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> 
> Fundraising Dinner & Food Drive in Support of Unis'tot'en Action Camp
> Mon. July 30, 2012
> Time: 7pm 
> Place: Grandview Calvary Baptist Church, 1803 East 1st Ave
> Cost: $20-25 per ticket      
> 
> Please join us in a fundraiser to support the 3rd Annual Unis’tot’en Action Camp against proposed and approved mining and pipeline projects in Wet’suwet’en territory. The camp dates are August 6 – 10 and will see a lot of activities around building solidarity and planning.
> 
> Tickets are $20-25 each and we need to sell 50-60 tickets.
> Your ticket includes:
> * Dinner, salad, dessert, drinks.
> * Information and updates on the Unis’tot’en Action Camp
> * An evening of solidarity and resistance with allies
> 
> For more information email noii-van at resist.ca or call 778 885 0040. For more information on the 3rd Annual Unis’tot’en Action Camp: http://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/3rd-annual-unistoten-action-camp/.  
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> 
> Call for volunteers - Powell Street Festival (Various positions)
> Sat. August 4 and Sun. August 5, 2012 
> Time: 11:30 am - 7:00pm
> Place: Oppenheimer Park (400 block of Powell Street), Vancouver
> Contact info: Ammana Haleem, Volunteer Coordinator, Powell Street Festival Society ; Tel: 604. 739. 9388 | Fax: 604. 739. 9308 ; volunteer at powellstreetfestival.com ; www.powellstreetfestival.com
> 
> The Powell Street Festival is an annual celebration of Japanese Canadian arts, culture and heritage, attracting over 12,000 visitors each year, and this year will enter its 36th year! We are recruiting volunteers who can help us before, during and after the Festival! Positions fill up quickly, so sign-up soon!
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> About SFPIRG
> The SFPIRG Public Interest Research Group, aka SFPIRG, is a student-funded and student-directed resource centre dedicated to environmental and social justice. PIRG's were established across North American campuses in the 1970's and 80's as a way for students to advocate for change.
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> SFPIRG was set-up by students on SFU's Burnaby campus in 1981 - we're currently celebrating our 30th birthday!
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> Our mission is to work towards a just and sustainable world. Areas of work include education, action, research and community.
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> Come find us in TC326 in the Rotunda or drop us a line to get involved!
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> Tel: (778) 782-4360
> Email: info at sfpirg.ca
> Web: www.sfpirg.ca
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> Address:
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> Simon Fraser University
> V5A 1S6
> Unceded Coast Salish Territories
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> Territory Acknowledgment
> SFPIRG acknowledges that we are located on unceded Indigenous territory belonging to the Coast Salish peoples. Based on our current knowledge, this includes lands belonging to the Musqueam, Skxwú7mesh-ulh Úxwumixw (Squamish), Stó:lo & Tsleil-Waututh (pronounced: slay-wa-tooth, aka Burrard) nations. 
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> Today, most of BC remains unceded sovereign Native lands, over which neither the Canadian or BC governments have the legal or moral authority to govern.
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> Here at SFPIRG, we are working towards better understanding how we can support Indigenous sovereignty as most of us are settlers on this land. 
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