Cinema Politica @ The Bloor launches a recurring political and activist screening night at the Bloor / Hot
Docs Cinema next Tuesday, April 3rd, with a special screening of CULTURES OF RESISTANCE, featuring guest speakers S.K. Hussan, Ilian Burbano, Sakura Saunders and Pedro Cabeza.
CULTURES OF RESISTANCE
A global look at the many facets of resistance deployed by people committed to progressive change Iara
Lee / Brazil-USA / 2011 / 73min / Multiple languages with English
subtitles
This screening is co-presented by No One Is Illegal
Toronto, Students Against Israeli
Apartheid Toronto & Latin American and Caribbean
Solidarity Network.
WHAT: Screening of CULTURES OF RESISTANCE
WHERE: Bloor / Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor Street
West, Toronto
WHEN: Tuesday, April 3, 6:30 PM
COST: Suggested donation $2-5
INFO: cinemapolitica.org/bloor
SYNOPSIS:
Does each gesture really make a difference? Can music and dance be weapons of peace? In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, director Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict and, as she saw it, heading for self-destruction. After several years, travelling over five continents, Iara encountered growing numbers of people who committed their lives to promoting change. This is their story. From IRAN, where graffiti and rap became tools in fighting government repression, to BURMA, where monks acting in the tradition of Gandhi take on a dictatorship, moving on to BRAZIL, where musicians reach out to slum kids and transform guns into guitars, and ending in PALESTINIAN refugee camps in LEBANON, where photography, music, and film have given a voice to those rarely heard, CULTURES OF RESISTANCE explores how art and creativity can be ammunition in the battle for peace and justice.
Featuring:
Medellín poets for peace, Capoeira masters from Brazil, Niger Delta militants, Iranian graffiti artists, women’s movement leaders in Rwanda, Lebanon’s refugee filmmakers, U.S. political pranksters, indigenous Kayapó activists from the Xingu River, Israeli dissidents, hip-hop artists from Palestine, and many more...
For more info and to watch the film's trailer, click here.
PRESS RELEASE
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Transcending borders towards strengthening solidarity and change
Contact: Pedro Cabezas -Phone: 647-547-4927
During the month of February
2012, over 13 grassroots organizations in Toronto collaborate to highlight the struggles towards progressive and democratic transformation processes taking place in Latin America and the Caribbean, and join efforts to organize a full month of activities aiming to engage the Canadian public on how to link theses struggles and processes to local ones and strengthen solidarity across borders.
2011 has seen some significant developments in the region as nations move toward closer economic and political integration with the creation of The Community of Latin American Caribbean States (CELA). Despite the global economic crisis gripping Europe and the United States, the Latin American region has managed to bypass the worst of the economic downturn brought about by austerity measures. Instead many countries in the region have chosen to increase social spending investing in healthcare, education, and infrastructure projects that benefit the majority of its citizens.
Despite some of these positive developments, many challenges still pose a threat to local and regional sustainable development in the region. These come in the form of Free Trade Agreements and Canada plays a leading role negotiating treaties that seek to boost corporate rights, weaken democratic rights and diminish public services, lower environmental standards, and foster violations to human rights.
With that in mind, join the Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN) and its member organizations during this full month of solidarity activities and help us strengthen solidarity and change that transcends borders.
Events and activities aim to:
• Generate a dialogue amongst Canadians about issues faced by different communities in Latin America and the Caribbean and strengthen collaboration amongst civil society organizations
• Share Latin American & Caribbean experiences on struggles
around austerity, privatization and corporate dominance and link
them to local struggles.
• Demand that the Canadian government cease trade and
investment practices that erode democratic rights, self-determination
and sovereignty of communities and nations in the region.
• Highlight and expose corporations that violate human rights and
foster a climate of fear and militarization in communities affected by
Canadian investment projects.
Join us during this month of solidarity activities
and help us strengthen solidarity and change that transcends borders.
For additional information/Updates visit our Facebook or the month of events tab
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Colombia: Mining Injustice Chronicles and Social Conflict
Join us for an afternoon of videos and discussion exploring the impacts of large-scale mining and resource extraction in Colombia and how communities are resisting and mobilizing to defend their rights and livelihoods.
Organized by: Colombia Action Solidarity Alliance, a working group of the Latin American & Caribbean Solidarity Network, an action group of OPIRG-Toronto.
For More information: cca_toronto@hotmail.com
Public Forum - Eroding Democracy & Sovereignty:
Corporate Trade, Investment, Free Trade
Agreements& Resource Extraction in the Americas
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23rd @ 7:00pm
Featuring Manuel Pérez Rocha, Institute for Policy Studies in Washington and Professor Anna Zallik,
Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University.
* Sponsors: LACSN, Common Frontiers, Council of Canadians (toronto Chapter) and CUPE ontario
Location: Ryerson University, 350 Victoria, Room POD 250 * More information:
pedro_cabezas@yahoo.ca
MONTH OF SOLIDARITY CLOSING PARTY
Featuring live
musical performances by Ruben Beny Esguerra and Luisito Orbegoso from Esguerra’s
upcoming new album “A New Tradition”. Djs eL man (Dos Mundos Radio) & no-
capitalista.
Location: Vida Lounge, 1345 St. Clair Ave. West @ Lansdowne
For More information:
pedro_cabezas@yahoo.ca
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Migrant Worker Solidarity Caravan-First Stop: Niagara!
Pilgrimage to Freedom Caravan 2011
Last year, over 150 migrant workers and their allies made history by marching over fifty kilometres, an equivalent of 12 hours, from Leamington to Windsor, Ontario demanding justice, respect and dignity for the hundreds of thousands employed under the auspices of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Programs. After years of harassment, intimidation and exploitation, migrant workers organized and took to the streets to stand up to these abuses.
The march called the 'Pilgrimage to Freedom: Breaking the Chains of Indentureship' ended in Windsor at the Tower of Freedom that is dedicated to those who travelled the underground railroad. The monument was chosen as the ending point to reflect on the connections of past and the present to slavery, indentureship and statelessness that renders racialized peoples as non-citizens. Over the last year, thousands of people have heard the testimonies and the stories that led to organizing the march. Demands fof permanent residency and citizenship status, an end to repatriations and deportations, labour law reform, equal access to social entitlements and an end to the coercive role of recruiters and contractors has inspired many others about the realities faced by migrant workers in Canada.
Migrant workers and members of Justicia for Migrant Workers have continued to organize in rural Ontario and are once again demanding that the chains of indentureship in Canada be broken. This year the pilgrimage continues as a form of a caravan across rural Ontario. Migrant workers and their allies will be recreating the stops of the underground railroad to pay tribute to the important struggles of resistance that we base our struggle upon.
J4MW is requesting the support of community, religious, labour and allied organizations to join us for this year's action. Migrant workers and their allies will be calling community meetings, and organizing meetings across south western Ontario. This year's actions will take place across several communities. If you are interested in further information feel free to contact Justicia for Migrant Workers. Tentative dates for stops on the caravan include:
September 4, 2011
Niagara on the Lake, St. Catharines and Niagara Falls
For more details on the Niagara Action click here
September 25, 2011
Windsor, Leamington, Chatham and Dresden
October 2, 2011
Simcoe - Brantford - Hamilton - Toronto
Click here for more information
Evelyn V. Encalada Grez http://evelynencalada.com
toll-free CAN/USA: 1 (877) 707-6620 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1 (877) 707-6620 end_of_the_skype_highlighting x 1 / fax: 1 (877) 798-6777
Barrio Nuevo is holding a community Headspace/Workshop/Encuentro
August 13th at CUPE local 4400, 1482 Bathurst, Toronto
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Your City-Your Budget-Your Say!
Public Community Meeting
Let's make our voices heard & strategize against the austerity agenda
Under Mayor Rob Ford's austerity agenda, the city is undergoing a dramatic shift in how municipal politics are carried out, how services that sustain our city's infrastructure and neighbourhoods are delivered and, ultimately, who stands to benefit and lose in this process.
Join us Monday, June 27 at 6:30 pm to discuss what's at stake, how we can mobilize in response to the austerity agenda and actively shape our city's and our communities' future.
Location:
20 West Lodge Ave.
May Robinson Auditorium (wheelchair accessible).
(Lansdowne Ave. & Queen St West nearest major intersection)
PRESENTERS:
*Gord Perks,City Counsellor Ward 14, Parkdale-High Park.
*Israt Ahmed, Social Planning Toronto.
*Community Activist, Parkdale Committee to Stop the Cuts
(A No One is Illegal Toronto-Campaign).
*Rob Howarth, Toronto Neighbourhood Centres.
Organized by CUPE Local 3393 - Political Action Committee
Endorsed by Parkdale Committe to Stop the Cuts (A No One Is Illegal - Toronto Campaign).
Refreshments will be provided
For more information please email: tisha.alam@gmail.com
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105402546220753
Join us Monday, June 27 at 6:30 pm to discuss what's at stake, how we can mobilize in response to the austerity agenda and actively shape our city's and our communities' future.
Location:
20 West Lodge Ave.
May Robinson Auditorium (wheelchair accessible).
(Lansdowne Ave. & Queen St West nearest major intersection)
PRESENTERS:
*Gord Perks,City Counsellor Ward 14, Parkdale-High Park.
*Israt Ahmed, Social Planning Toronto.
*Community Activist, Parkdale Committee to Stop the Cuts
(A No One is Illegal Toronto-Campaign).
*Rob Howarth, Toronto Neighbourhood Centres.
Organized by CUPE Local 3393 - Political Action Committee
Endorsed by Parkdale Committe to Stop the Cuts (A No One Is Illegal - Toronto Campaign).
Refreshments will be provided
For more information please email: tisha.alam@gmail.com
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105402546220753
Mining Injustice:
Confronting Corporate Impunity conference
Organized by CUPE Ontario's International Solidarity Committee
Celebrate the 12th Anniversary of the
Bolivarian Revolution with us!!!
THE LOUIS RIEL BOLIVARIAN CIRCLE AND HANDS OFF VENEZUELA invite you and your friends to come and celebrate the 12th Anniversary of the BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION OF VENEZUELA!! Please distribute! Share an afternoon of happiness, music, food, and discourse with a Politicial Karioki !! on Saturday Feburary 5, 2011 at the Elligton Music and Café, 805 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm VIVA CHAVEZ! VIVA VENEZUELA! VIVA ALBA! VIVA NUESTRA AMERICA LIBRE! VENCEREMOS!
Public Right Yes! Monopoly Right No!
MARRICHIWEU!!
Denouncing a G20 Police State Conspiracy
SATURDAY JANUARY 29TH 2011 @ 7:30PM
BIRGE CARNEGIE READING ROOM
95 CHARLES ST. WEST (@ MUSUEM STATION – U of T Campus)
A night of solidarity, panel discussion, music and video; with testimony from prominent Mapuche indigenous solidarity activist Jaroslava Avila, recently released of G20 conspiracy charges. The event is organized by the WCCC [Toronto]and Co-Sponsored by the Community Solidarity Network.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Keynote Speaker:
JAROSLAVA AVILA:
**Mapuche solidarity activist with the Women’s Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto], University of Toronto Student – Political Science Specialist
Testimony on recently Dropped G20 Conspiracy charges and the criminalization of indigenous rights
Guest Speakers:
MISSY “OJISTAR:IO” ELLIOTT & ANDREA CURLEY
** Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
DAVIN CHARNEY
**Attorney (representing Jaroslava Avila) & founder of the Centre for Police Accountability
JULIAN ICHIM
** Organizer with S.O.S. (Sense of Security) & the SPOT Youth Collective (Kitchener ON)
TESTAMENT
**Artist with radical Southern Ontario hip-hop group “TEST YOUR LOGIK”
DANIEL VANDERVOOT
** External Commissioner of the University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Union (GSU)
AZAD MASHARI
** Organizer with Health for All
Dan Kellar
** Organizer with AW@L (Formally Anti-War @ Laurier)
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Musical Performances by:
TEST THEIR LOGIK
& Much More....
For more info:
www.nobicentenaryonmapucheterritory.wordpress.com
www.g20.torontomobilize.org
See the event on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=157166661001697
Organized by:
The Women’s Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto]
Co-Sponsored by:
The Community Solidarity Network (formally the Toronto Community Mobilization Network)
Endorsed by:
Health 4 All
Graduates Students Union (GSU at U of T) - Social Justice and Equity Commission
National Congress of Latin American and Caribbean Women in Canada - Latin@s
AW@L
Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN)
TRAE LA BANDERA DE TU PAÍS.
VIVA LA PATRIA GRANDE!
VIVA LA UNIDAD LATINOAMERICANA!
Report Back from Cancún: Eyewitness Report and Discussion
Thursday, January 20, 7 p.m.
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street
(East of Spadina, South of College)
While world powers backtracked on global warming at the Cancún conference in December, vigorous protests inside and outside the conference spoke for the world's peoples in our struggle for climate justice. Over 190 countries met in December 2010 to come up with an agreement to respond to the world climate crisis. Come and listen to the reports of Canadians who went there to witness the negotiations.
Co-organizers: Toronto Climate Campaign; Council of Canadians (Toronto Chapter); Toronto Bolivia Solidarity
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The Dirty Gold Tour is a public education campaign featuring Salvadorean anti-mining activist Nelly Rivera, a leader of the anti- mining struggle against the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala.
This mining project, introduced by Canadian mining giant Goldcorp, is close to the border with El Salvador. Its environmental impact is not only expected to impact surrounding local communities in Guatemala, but to contaminate the water of the Lempa river, the main source of water for over three million Salvadoreans.
The resource extracting industry is a pillar of Canadian economic expansion around the world.
In Central America, Canadian mining investment has led to profound socio- economic change that has generated deadly social conflicts in local rural communities. Working in alliance with local governments mining companies foster forced displacement of local populations; co-opt
democratic participation, and are linked to coercion and threats to personal security, repression of workers, contamination of drinking water, and destruction of the environment.
During her visit to Canada, Nelly will be travelling through Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, and will engage with community and faith groups, students and policymakers to demand that Canadian mining companies be held accountable for their behavior overseas.
This tour is organized y Canadians Against Mining in El Salvador, CAMES, and supported in Toronto by the Salvadorean Canadian Association, Casa Maiz, The Caribbean & Latin American Solidarity Network, Community Solidarity and Response Toronto.
For further information visit our blog: www.dirtygoldtour.com or call 647.235.5278
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06/26/2010 - LASN MARCHA CONTRA EL G8/G20
PEOPLE FIRST MARCH
A community march has been called for Saturday June 26, 2010
in Toronto, Canada.
The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) and Canadian Labour
Congress (CLC) have been working with affiliated unions, women's
groups, and social justice and community organizations such as the
Toronto Community Mobilization Network to mobilize actions around
the G8/G20 based on the theme People first!
Barrio Nuevo, Latin American Solidarity Network ("LASN"), the Latin
American Trade Unionist Coalition ("LATUC"), May 1st Movement
(M1M) invite all latinoamericano/as to march together as part of big
contingent of Latin American people against the G20 at the Labour-
sponsored demonstration on Saturday, June 26, 2010.
Please come out & march with the Latin community against the G20!
Details
Date: June 26, 2010 Time: 1pm
[UPDATE] Where: Meet at the southwest side of Queen's Park,
close to the Queen's Park subway. Look out for the UFCW, Barrio
Nuevo, M1M, Migrante, LASN, and LATUC banners and shirts.
ROUTE
Our route is as follows; University to Queen, Spadina to College and back to Queen's Park.
TIPS
Check your bags. Please don't bring anything that could be interpreted as a weapon. This means no nail clippers, scissors, or swiss army knives.
BRING
- A bottle of water (and another for someone who needs it)
- A rag soaked in vinegar or lemon juice (keep it in a plastic ziplock bag)
- Comfortable clothing
- Practical shoes
Note: If you need anything on the route, look for our group's marshals -wearing armbands.
ATTENTION DRUMMERS
We need drummers and musicians to lead the way. Bring your instruments.Contact us for further details.
FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
Legal rights you need to know when photographing G20 events.
