[Wamvan] Fwd: Community Events Digest, May 11 - May 27, 2012
Tami Starlight
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This week's Community Events Digest. Social justice happenings on and
off campus...
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*MAY. 11 to MAY. 27, 2012 EVENTS
*** SFPIRG EVENTS ****
*Decolonization and the Mind*
*Tue. May 15, 2012*
*Time: 6: 30 pm*
Place: SFU Harbour Centre, 555 W. Hastings St, Vancouver
Join Dr Michael Yellow Bird as he provides a step-by-step approach for
transforming the world through the use of what he calls “criticality.”
Real-world change is what we are after, and he helps us to understand the
connection between thought and meaningful action. Dr. Michael Yellow Bird,
MSW (Master of Social Work), Ph.D. is from the Arikara (Sahnish) and
Hidatsa Nations in North Dakota. He is greatly sought after for his
knowledge on a range of topics such as health, Mind Body Medicine (MBM),
mindfulness, neuroscience, social work, and nutrition. He is the co-editor
of two books: For Indigenous Eyes Only: The Decolonization Handbook, 2005
and Indigenous Social Work around the World: Towards Culturally Relevant
Education and Practice, 2008. This event is presented by the Simon Fraser
Public Interest Research Group (SFPIRG) and the Native Youth Movement.
Child care and transportation subsidies are available upon request. Email
admin at sfpirg.ca for information.
*Clubs Days*
*Thu. May 15 & 16, 2012*
*Time: 10 am - 3 pm*
Place: Convo Mall, SFU Burnaby
Want to find out more about SFPIRG and how to get involved? Check out our
table at SFU Clubs Days. We will be in Convo Mall, sharing information
about all the great projects & resources we have available for SFU
students. Come say hi!
*SFPIRG Free Coffee Tuesdays*
*Thu. May 22, 2012*
*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!
**** SFU EVENTS ****
*CAPITALISM AND PATRIARCHY:
"Seeing the Strings: A Series of Teach-Ins on the Oppressions that Hold
Capitalism Up"
**Fri. May 11, 2012*
*Time: 7-9pm*
Place: SFU Harbour Centre rm. 1400
Contact Info: seeingthestrings at gmail.com
How is sexism fundamental to capitalism? How does violence against women
and gender-nonconforming people support capitalism? How does defining our
own relationship to gender undermine capitalism? Join us for presentations,
discussion, and an activity-based workshop. Inspired by the Occupy
movement. seeingthestrings.wordpress.com<http://sfpirg.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=06455f18e6886efe48a03ced1&id=d6a0b568fa&e=2a97dd9a80>
**** COMMUNITY EVENTS ****
*The Journey : living poems
with Hari Malagayo Alluri & Cynthia Dewi Oka and special musical guests*
* **Fri. May 11, 2012*
*Time: Door at 6:45pm*
Place: The Rhizome Cafe - 317 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC
Contact Info: To reserve tickets, contact 604-710-5480
This is a fundraiser for Rhizome Café. Tickets $10-15 sliding scale,
available in advance at Rhizome Café. *Hari Malagayo Alluri* is a poet,
community worker and filmmaker who immigrated to South Vancouver, Coast
Salish Territories at the age of 12 and believes in craft and movement
towards social justice. Most recently collaborating with los migrantes, no
one is illegal, press release, Purple Thistle, RAIN and SFPIRG’s Poetry for
the People – the Vancouver Redux, he is a proud VONA alum with poems in
several anthologies, chapbooks, journals and zines. *Cynthia Dewi Oka *is
a poet, mother and community organizer who grew up in Bali, Indonesia prior
to becoming a visitor on Coast Salish Territories. She is a proud VONA
alum, organizer of Poetry for the People – the Vancouver Redux and
collaborator with press release, Purple Thistle and the Rhizome Movement
Building Centre. Her poems have appeared in several journals, (maga)zines
and chapbooks. She was recently runner-up in Briarpatch’s Creative Writing
Contest and shortlisted for the 2012 Prism International Poetry Prize.
*(Under)Mining Justice Film Festival:
Films that Dig Deep into Canada’s Growing Reputation as a Global Extractive
Industries Bully
**Sat. May 12, 2012*
*Time: 2pm-10pm*
Place: Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch
Contact Info: for complete schedule and room locations:
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(Under)Mining Justice festival features films about the impact of Canadian
mining both in Canada and in places ranging from Tibet to the Phillipines
and Latin America, as well as speakers from affected communities. Pay what
you can (if you can). Donations gratefully accepted, but not required.
*Living Room for the Movement*
*Sat. May 12,2012*
*Time: 6:00 pm*
Place: Rhizome, 317 East Broadway, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories.
By donation. Includes supper! Child inclusive. Community groups are invited
to bring literature that describes your work. Living Room for the Movement
is a community supper and party being hosted and organized by the Rhizome
Movement-Building Centre. Living Room for the Movement offers an evening of
celebration, dancing, food, and conversation to informally build
relationships and community! This event has been organized in recognition
of the fact that the most powerful movements for social and environmental
justice are built on bonds of friendship, trust and mutual respect; and
with the acknowledgement that in our movements, there are sadly so few
spaces for us to truly come to know each other, eat, laugh, and share
together. So let's do this!
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*NuYu Express:
Youth Art Show By Newcomer Youth*
*Sat. May 19, 2012*
*Time: 2pm - 4pm*
Place: Vancouver Art Gallery, Annex Room, 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC
RSVP: nuyuexpress at gmail.com
Free art show by newcomer youth. Refreshments will be served.
*Vancouver Commemorates the Palestinian Nakba, Calls for End to 64 Years of
Israeli Ethnic Cleansing*
*Free Community Supper: Sharing stories, creating resistance*
*Tue. May 15, 2012 *
*Time: 6-10 pm *
Place: Unitarian Church, 949 W. 49th St (49th and Oak), Vancouver
Contact Info: Hanna Kawas, 604-992-4346; nakbavancouver at gmail.com
This *community supper* will bring together the community to share
stories, creative work, and discussions about indigenous resistance,
continuing Nakba, and struggles for freedom. The program will include talks
by Palestinian and Indigenous activists and community members, Palestinian
music, and a short film by Palestinian director Sobhi al-Zobaidi. Childcare
is available. We request RSVPs for attendance, and for childcare, to
nakbavancouver at gmail.com in order to ensure we have enough food! No one
will be turned away. On the 64th anniversary of the occupation of
Palestine, and as the Palestinian people enter the 64th year of
dispossession and exile, theVancouver Coalition to Commemorate Al-Nakba is
organizing 2 events to commemorate the Nakba, stand against the continuing
Nakba, and call for the right of return for Palestinian refugees and
freedom for Palestine. 64 years after the Nakba - the war of 1948 in which
over 800,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and land and the
state of Israel created on that land - Palestinians continue to struggle
for their right to return, for freedom from occupation, for justice, and
against the Nakba that continues today. Facebook Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/346982315363691/<http://sfpirg.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=06455f18e6886efe48a03ced1&id=04a4bce962&e=2a97dd9a80>
*Vancouver Commemorates the Palestinian Nakba, Calls for End to 64 Years of
Israeli Ethnic Cleansing*
*March Of Return: March For Palestine*
*Sat. May 19, 2012 *
*Time: 2 pm *
Place: Gather at Clark Park (14th and Commercial) at 2 PM, March to
Grandview Park, Rally at Grandview Park
Contact Info: Hanna Kawas, 604-992-4346; nakbavancouver at gmail.com
*March and rally *commemorating the Nakba, standing against the continuing
Nakba, calling for justice, freedom and return for Palestine! We will also
stand against Canada's complicity and its own genocide of indigenous
people. Speaking begins at 2:15 pm and march begins promptly at 2:30 pm,
followed by a program in Grandview Park. Creative actions welcome! This is
a family friendly march. On the 64th anniversary of the occupation of
Palestine, and as the Palestinian people enter the 64th year of
dispossession and exile, theVancouver Coalition to Commemorate Al-Nakba is
organizing 2 events to commemorate the Nakba, stand against the continuing
Nakba, and call for the right of return for Palestinian refugees and
freedom for Palestine. 64 years after the Nakba - the war of 1948 in which
over 800,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and land and the
state of Israel created on that land - Palestinians continue to struggle
for their right to return, for freedom from occupation, for justice, and
against the Nakba that continues today. Facebook Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/280652725354822/<http://sfpirg.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=06455f18e6886efe48a03ced1&id=420d80b841&e=2a97dd9a80>
*Cultural Growography - making art about plants and food-growing! *
*Alternate Thursdays, and possibly Wednesdays
17 May, 31 May, 7 June*
*Time: 6 - 9pm**m - 5:00pm*
Place: Purple Thistle Centre, #260-975 Vernon Drive, Vancouver (unceded
Coast Salish Territories)
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eirlyseggwhisk at yahoo.co.uk
Guerrilla Gardeners of the Purple Thistle present: Cultural Growography
exploring our relationships with plants through art, writing, stories,
music, print, drama, critiques, zines 'n' stuff... ALL WELCOME - all ages,
all experience.
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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!
*Tel: *(778) 782-4360
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*Address:*
SFPIRG
TC326
Simon Fraser University
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Territory Acknowledgment SFPIRG acknowledges that we are located on
unceded Indigenous territory belonging to the Coast Salish peoples. Based
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*slay-wa-tooth*, aka Burrard) nations. 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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