Events
11 / 7
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Start: 11/05/2007 - 18:30
End: 11/10/2007 - 21:00
Deschooling the system, reclaiming education A group of uOttawa students, alumni, and community members from PGA-Bloc Ottawa and Common Cause have organized this amazing conference taking place all week. Speakers include Dr. David F. Noble, John T. Gatto, Cindy Milstein, The Miss G_ Project, and Matt Hern. A FREE dinner follows and caucus on Friday will conclude the conference. Check Out: unschoolingoppression.wordpress.com Start: 7:00 am
With the Sudbury premiere of Billie Pierre's new film on the struggle to prevent the deportation and to free indigenous activist John Graham. Wed. Nov. 7th, 7pm, 4th Floor McNaughton Room, St. Andrew's Place, 111 Larch Street. A wheel-chair accessible location. Organized by Sudbury Against War and Occupation. For more information go to: http://aws.roadnetwork.org For background info. see the article below by Native Youth Movement activist Billie Pierre. US Renews War on the American Indian Movement: The Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash Story by Billie Pierre, Nlaka’pamux/Saulteaux Nation, Earth First! Journal January/February 2006 | ||
11 / 8
(all day)
Start: 11/05/2007 - 18:30
End: 11/10/2007 - 21:00
Deschooling the system, reclaiming education A group of uOttawa students, alumni, and community members from PGA-Bloc Ottawa and Common Cause have organized this amazing conference taking place all week. Speakers include Dr. David F. Noble, John T. Gatto, Cindy Milstein, The Miss G_ Project, and Matt Hern. A FREE dinner follows and caucus on Friday will conclude the conference. Check Out: unschoolingoppression.wordpress.com | ||
11 / 9
(all day)
Start: 11/05/2007 - 18:30
End: 11/10/2007 - 21:00
Deschooling the system, reclaiming education A group of uOttawa students, alumni, and community members from PGA-Bloc Ottawa and Common Cause have organized this amazing conference taking place all week. Speakers include Dr. David F. Noble, John T. Gatto, Cindy Milstein, The Miss G_ Project, and Matt Hern. A FREE dinner follows and caucus on Friday will conclude the conference. Check Out: unschoolingoppression.wordpress.com Start: 8:00 pm
LAUNCH PARTY! Certain Days: 2008 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar - Nov 9th LAUNCH PARTY! Certain Days: 2008 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar Friday, November 9, 2007 $5 or $15 with a calendar doors at 8 p.m. with DJs Brought to you by Certain Days, CKLN, and the Prison Book Access Project BRING BOOKS for the Prison Book Access Project: dictionaries, language books, general fiction, and popular/pulp fiction. Books should be softcover, newer than 1995 and in good condition. Start: 9:00 pm
The Iron Wall Brunswick Theatre Hosted by CAIA (Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid) The Iron Wall, a film presentation in support of the Week of Action against the Apartheid Wall – a call from the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and its popular committees calling on the world to take action from November 9 – 16 to raise awareness of the global silence and complicity with the occupation of Palestinian land and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and to join the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions. | ||
11 / 10
End: 9:00 pm
Start: 11/05/2007 - 18:30
End: 11/10/2007 - 21:00
Deschooling the system, reclaiming education A group of uOttawa students, alumni, and community members from PGA-Bloc Ottawa and Common Cause have organized this amazing conference taking place all week. Speakers include Dr. David F. Noble, John T. Gatto, Cindy Milstein, The Miss G_ Project, and Matt Hern. A FREE dinner follows and caucus on Friday will conclude the conference. Check Out: unschoolingoppression.wordpress.com Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
The Toronto Local of Common Cause will be holding our regular bi-weekly meeting at: The Concord Cafe 937 Bloor Street West, Toronto Get off at the Ossington Subway station, it's about a block west on the south side, just west of Concord Ave. Here's a link to a map: http://toronto.ibegin.com/restaurants/concord-cafe Please contact us at ontarioac@gmail.com if you're interested in attending and for a copy of the agenda. | ||
11 / 11
Start: 12:00 pm
Ottawa, The Anarchist Discussion Group meet with Cindy Milstein on 'New Anarchism' - Nov 11 | ||
11 / 12
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11 / 13
Start: 12:00 pm
Please post all proposals for the Common Cause Delegate's meeting in the members forum by 12 noon Nov. 13th. Start: 7:00 pm
Join the No One Is Illegal Student Network and the South Asian Studies Students Association as we expose the brutality of Canadian mining companies and colonial state towards Indigenous Peoples of the world. STOLEN LAND: Confronting Canada's Mining Profiteers FEATURING: * Film Screening: U.A.I.L. Go Back * Asad Ismi (Writer and Journalist) * Krystyne James (No One Is Illegal Student Network) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
11 / 14
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:49 pm
Drawing from his experience with the Montreal-based Workers' Solidarity Network, Alex Diceanu will discuss the strengths and limitations of anarchist organizing in solidarity with established trade unions and the potential for anarchist organizing with newly-emerging community unions. Tuesday November 20 For more information: 905-777-8102 or kevin@skydragon.org | ||
11 / 15
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11 / 16
Start: 7:00 pm
Anti-Capitalist Resistance in Japan In July of 2008, The G8 will meet near Lake Toya in Japan to advance its agenda of capitalist globalization. At the same time, activists and organizers from No! G8 Action and other groups will stage mass protests, engage in direct action and civil disobedience, and attend counter summits and other events. ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, activistS Sabu Kohso and Go Hirasawa will be in Toronto to describe the current political situation in Japan, screen activist videos, and outline current plans for resistance to the G8. Join us to discuss: - The G8 and its consequences for the people of Japan, Canada, and the world Friday, November 16 Sponsored by Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action | ||
11 / 17
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
ANARCHIST ASSEMBLY #3 Saturday, November 17th @ 1:30PM The Anarchist Assembly is intended to bring together anarchists from First, there will be a short presentation from people who took part Next, we will devote time to presentations by anarchist or anarchist- | ||
11 / 18
Start: 12:00 pm
All amendments for the Common Cause delegates' meeting are due today at 12:00 noon. | ||
11 / 19
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11 / 20
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
At the newly renovated St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts! __________________ The idea that our global food system needs to be changed is taking hold in a very local way. Farmers are protesting high costs and low prices, health conscious restaurants are increasingly popular, some supermarkets are displaying local produce, lean and additive free meat and organic produce is being sold in outdoor markets, people from all cultures are planting gardens, and citizens are demanding more from their governments and agri-corporations to protect the environment and human health. Start: 9:00 pm
Avi Lewis : speaks on Occupied Factories in Argentina In the wake of Argentina's dramatic economic collapse in 2001, Latin America's most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis’s film The Take looks at various factories that have been taken back by expelled workers. This event will feature a screening of The Take along with a talk by Avi Lewis on occupied factories. The release of a new book on the subject will also be incorporated into the event | ||
11 / 21
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11 / 22
Start: 7:00 pm
Come see "In the Shadow of 9-11," a short film of a recent talk by Sunera Thobani, former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) who is interviewed in Upping the Anti #5. Join a discussion with local feminist activists and thinkers sparked by Thobani's interview ("The Fight For Feminism") on feminism in Canada. * Thursday, Nov. 22, 7pm, Myths and Mirrors space, (in Victory Park. on the right side of Frood Road, three blocks north of Kathleen). For more info. and for travel and childcare subsidization funds call Gary at 523-2205. Upping the Anti is a radical journal of theory and action which provides a space to address and discuss unresolved questions and dynamics within the anti-capitalist, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialist politics of today’s radical left in Canada. For more information go to http://uppingtheanti.org/ Start: 7:00 pm
Relief & Resistance: a Poor Peoples History of East Downtown Toronto Brunswick Theatre In the 19th century East Downtown Toronto was home to several poor houses. By the turn of the century the Cabbagetown slums housed thousands of factory workers employed by rich industrialists. In the 1950’s the area was home to Canada’s largest skid row and during the 1990’s the corner at Dundas/Sherbourne became the site of most militant anti-poverty demos. Toronto’s oldest working class area is now disappearing. How did this happen? How can we fight back? With Gaetan Heroux. Start: 9:00 pm
Crossing Arizona Brunswick Theatre Screening hosted by No One Is Illegal (Toronto) Heightened security in California and Texas has pushed illegal border-crossers into the treacherous Arizona desert in unprecedented numbers – an estimated 4,500 a day. Most are men in search of work, but increasingly the border-crossers are women and children seeking to reunite with their families. This influx of migrants crossing through Arizona and the attendant rising death toll have elicited complicated feelings about human rights, culture, class, labor and national security. Speaker will attend. | ||
11 / 23
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11 / 24
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11 / 25
Start: 12:00 pm
OADG: Anarchism and Canadian Labour Movements Ottawa anarchist Discussion Group, This talk will explore the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian labour movements and the extent to which the revolutionary potential of the working-class has been undermined by labour bosses and union bureaucracies. Anarchism and Canadian Labour Movements Sunday, Nov. 25 at Noon This talk will explore the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian labour movements and the extent to which the revolutionary potential of the working-class has been undermined by labour bosses and union bureaucracies. ---------------------------------------- Start: 2:00 pm
Provincial delegates council meeting of Common Cause. members please see the members forum for details. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Anarchist Eat and Schmooze: Announcing an anarchist potluck for Sunday November 25 between 6:00-8:00 p.m.in the peace lounge (7th floor) at Ontario Institute in Studies in Education at 252 Bloor St. West. (St. George subway) A time to get together with Toronto anarchists across the generations, eat some food together, see people you may not have come across in years, meet new folk, exchange stories, reminisce, and enjoy each other's presence. A particular call to old-time Toronto anarchists. We have just lost Jim Campbell--a Toronto anarchist who did stellar work in the prisons area for decades and who died recenty, so let's not waste this opportunity to hook up with one another. | ||
11 / 26
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11 / 27
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11 / 28
Start: 7:00 pm
Common Cause Meeting Last month a new provincial anarchist organization called Common Cause was formed. To quote some their materials: "Our intention is not to build yet another small group of a dozen or so people but to begin the process of building an organization of thousands that will have a presence in every town, workplace and neighborhood across the province." There are currently Common Cause collectives in Hamilton, Toronto, Sudbury, and Kitchener-Waterloo. We are hoping to form a collective in Ottawa. For more information on Common Cause check out http://linchpin.ca --- The first project of Common Cause is to put out a free bimonthly newspaper callled Linchpin to be distibuted accross the province. The Ottawa collective will provide local content for Linchpin, and distribute the paper. Start: 7:30 pm
At the newly renovated St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts! _____________________________________ Affordable housing is a powerful positive contributor to the health of Toronto's economy, environment, neighbourhoods and residents. But for some 200,000 families and individuals, affordable housing is a rapidly fading dream. A shocking number of people including single-parent families and low-income earners, Aboriginal and disabled persons, young people and seniors are living in sub-standard or over-crowded housing. They often pay more than 50 per cent of their income on rent. Home ownership is certainly not within their financial reach. Indeed many are in danger of losing their homes. | ||
11 / 29
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11 / 30
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12 / 1
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
MEMORIAL: LIFE and TIMES of JIM CAMPBELL Date: DECEMBER 1, 2007 A month and half ago today, on September 17, 2007, Jim Campbell suddenly died from an unexpected massive heart attack near his home close to Maynooth, Ontario. His common-law wife Julie Thiers was with him at the time of his death. Jim was 58 years of age. Jim’s sudden departure shocked everyone who knew him as a family member, personal or political friend. Jim’s death has been grieved by many people from across the country who shared any part of his life. Everyone who knew Jim has expressed the full impact of the loss of a solid friend and political ally. Since this tragic event, Jim’s legacy is | ||
12 / 2
Start: 11:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
Apply Pressure! Be Prepared This will be an introduction to health and safety at demonstrations. The sometimes dynamic nature of demonstrations can Topics covered will include preparation for and treatment of | ||
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12 / 4
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12 / 5
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12 / 6
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12 / 7
Start: 9:00 pm
SOCK HOP FOR ARDOCH ALGONQUIN FIRST NATION Friday December 7 PRESENTATION by AAFN Chief Paula Sherman at 9 pm sharp Door prizes *** 50/50 Raffles *** Cash bar TRANZAC CLUB, 292 Brunswick Avenue $10 at the door ($8 for TRANZAC members) Entrance is wheelchair accessible, washrooms are not. ************** Background: We're raising money to help sustain the blockade site at Sharbot Lake and to contribute to legal expenses. | ||
