[Wamvan] Fwd: Community Events Digest, May 18 - June 3, 2012

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     This week's Community Events Digest. Social justice happenings on and
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               *MAY. 18 to JUN. 3, 2012 EVENTS


*** SFPIRG EVENTS ****


*SFPIRG Free Coffee Tuesdays*
*Every Tuesday
Starting 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!


*Library Volunteer Training*
*Wed. May 23, 2012*
*Time: 1-3 pm*
Place: SFPIRG Lounge, TC 326 in the Rotunda, SFU Burnaby

SFPIRG's Social Justice Library has over 7200+ alternative resources
including the most cutting edge books, DVDs and reports on issues of social
and environmental justice. The library relies on a volunteer team to serve
SFU students and we are looking for new members to join us this summer!

As a library volunteer, you will develop skills in managing an open-source,
online library database; researching new and exciting materials for our
shelves; supporting other students in their research; and outreach
(including classroom speaking, writing reviews, etc.). You'll also make new
friends and benefit from all the events, workshops, trainings and
discussions always happening at SFPIRG.

If you are interested in becoming a library volunteer, please register for
our volunteer training session by e-mailing admin at sfpirg.ca.


**** SFU EVENTS ****

*ACHSA Presents: Olympic Gold Pub Night*
*Fri. May 18, 2012*
*Time: 9 pm*
Place: Highland Pub, SFU Burnaby

This is a fundraiser pub night to give our support to our friend, member
and SFU alumni, Ruky Abdulai who has been dedicated to working quite hard
to make it to the London 2012 Olympics. She however needs a bit more
financial assistance to offset the cost of the trip.See her Facebook page
for more information on her accomplishments:
https://www.facebook.com/RukyAbdulai<http://sfpirg.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=06455f18e6886efe48a03ced1&id=0a6fdb20f0&e=2a97dd9a80>
.

Presold tix will cost $8 (available at the Highland Pub & the ACHSA Club
Room). Tickets at the door will cost $10.  FB events page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/363850776984386/<http://sfpirg.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=06455f18e6886efe48a03ced1&id=6d9d289c4f&e=2a97dd9a80>



**** COMMUNITY EVENTS ****



*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*
*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-manage1.com/track/click?u=06455f18e6886efe48a03ced1&id=f930be7dcf&e=2a97dd9a80>


*"The Right to Seek Refuge in Canada: The Implications of Bill C-31"
**Wed. May 30, 2012*
*Time: 7:00-9:00pm*
Place: World Art Centre, Woodward’s Building, 149 W. Hastings St.

*Lesley Stalker*, senior solicitor/barrister and Former Associate Legal
Officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, will provide an
overview of the obligations Canada has regarding refugees under domestic
and international law, with respect to the proposed amendments of Bill
C-31. This will be followed by a panel of people who work with the
communities who will be affected by the proposed changes, especially: LGBTQ
asylum seekers, torture survivors, Romani refugees, and the Latino
(particularly Mexican) community.

 **Harsha Walia*, co-founder of No One is Illegal, will discuss the impact
on refugee communities in Vancouver, specifically the South Asian and
Latino/a community
 **Lobat Sadrehashemi*, refugee and immigration lawyer, Elgin Cannon and
Associates, will discuss gender based claims
 **Elizabeth Csanyi*, Legal Assistant, UBC First Nations Law Clinic, will
discuss the impact on the Roma community
**Sharaly** Jordan*, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, SFU,
Rainbow Refugee, will discuss LGBTQ claims


*Cultural Growography - making art about plants and food-growing! *
*Alternate Thursdays, and possibly Wednesdays
31 May, 7 June*
*Time: 6 - 9pm**m - 5:00pm*
 Place: Purple Thistle Centre, #260-975 Vernon Drive, Vancouver (unceded
Coast Salish Territories)
Contact info: www.purplethistle.ca/gardening<http://sfpirg.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=06455f18e6886efe48a03ced1&id=6d25b28f27&e=2a97dd9a80>or
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.


*The BC Civil Liberties Association presents:
50 Years of Freedom - Speakers Symposium + AGM
**Fri. June 1, 2012*
*Time: 9:00-4:00pm*
Place: SFU Woodwards, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St.,
Vancouver
Contact Info: Visit
www.bccla.org<http://sfpirg.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=06455f18e6886efe48a03ced1&id=ea4438f351&e=2a97dd9a80>for
full program details and to register.

<http://sfpirg.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=06455f18e6886efe48a03ced1&id=e66dff8e39&e=2a97dd9a80>In
celebration of 50 years of protecting and promoting civil liberties, the BC
Civil Liberties Association is proud to present a day-long speakers series
featuring leading human rights and civil liberties advocates from across
Canada speaking on the state of freedom and democracy today. Open to the
public, suggested $10-35 donation. Register online at
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A day-long symposium featuring some of the highest profile civil liberties
defenders in Canada, including:

* “The Year the Internet Fought Back,” with Michael Geist, the nation’s
leading commentator on civil rights in the cyber-age, including copyright,
net neutrality and lawful access and Canada Research Chair in Internet and
E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa.
* “Turning the page on racial discrimination against First Nations children
by the Government of Canada, “ with Dr. Cindy Blackstock, Aboriginal
children’s advocate and Executive Director of First Nations Child and
Family Caring Society.
* “Fifty Years On: No Time for Complacency,” with Alex Neve, Secretary
General of Amnesty International Canada and an Officer of the Order of
Canada.
* “Criminalizing Women for Inequality, Poverty, Racism, Violence and Mental
Health,” with Kim Pate, the Executive Director of the Canadian Association
of Elizabeth Fry Societies and an internationally recognized advocate for
criminalized women.
* “Civil Liberties and Canada’s ‘State of Exception,” with Maureen Webb, a
Canadian human rights lawyer and author of Illusions of Security: Global
Surveillance and Democracy in the Post 9-11 World, a book that details the
Maher Arar national security scandal.
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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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 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
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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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