[Wamvan] Fwd: Community Events Digest, July 23 - July 30, 2012

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Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:21 PM
Subject: Community Events Digest, July 23 - July 30, 2012
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     This week's Community Events Digest.
Social justice happenings on and off campus...
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               *JUL 24 to AUG 5, 2012 EVENTS


*** SFPIRG EVENTS ****

*SFPIRG Free Coffee Tuesdays*
*Every Tuesday*
*Time: 11am until we run out*
Place: SFPIRG Lounge, TC 326 in the Rotunda, SFU Burnaby

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!


*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!


**** SFU EVENTS ****

*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
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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.


**** COMMUNITY EVENTS ****

*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:
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* **Español abajo*
* Tue. July 31, 2012
Place: *Across the Americas

We are heeding a call from communities in the global south that have
organized and are resisting the exploitative practices of the mega resource
extractive industry.  Organizations across the Americas – from Argentina to
Canada – stand in solidarity with communities impacted by the Canadian
extractive industry. Together, we are calling for a Continental Day of
Action to demand an end to exploitative and unjust mining practices. Civil
society along with communities from Canada to Argentina will conduct
coordinated actions including rallies, demonstrations, community radio
coverage, letter writing campaigns and other alternative and imaginative
actions of protest in front of mining corporate offices and Canadian
embassies across the Americas.

Click here to read the official Call-Out and Demands
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Also, click here for more information: http://lacsn.weebly.com/
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Let us know if your community group, collective or organization wants to
plan an event or sign-on to the Call-Out!


*C**all 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.

SFPIRG was set-up by students on SFU's Burnaby campus in 1981 - we're
currently celebrating our 30th birthday!

Our mission is to work towards a just and sustainable world. Areas of work
include education, action, research and community.

Come find us in *TC326 in the Rotunda* or drop us a line to get involved!

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unceded Indigenous territory belonging to the Coast Salish peoples. Based
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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.

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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