KWPS Press Statement
talking over, time for action!@
18 June 2010

From 3 May to 16 June 2010, the Kitchener-Waterloo People’s Summit (KWPS) hosted twenty-six events that educated, engaged, entertained and worked to mobilize the citizens of K-W in the lead up to the G8/20 summits and convergences in Huntsville and Toronto.

KW Peoples Summit presents:

Information for Toronto G20 Convergence Bus From KW to Toronto (via Guelph)

Dates:
Monday 21 June
Thursday 24 June
Friday 25 June
Saturday 26 June

Times:

To Toronto*

8:00am Waterloo Town Square (Waterloo)
8:15am KWCCSJ 63 Courtland Ave (Kitchener)
9:00 am 1 Trent Lane, UofG (Guelph)
11:00am 1266 Queen St., West (Toronto)

From
Toronto*
8:00pm 1266 Queen Street West (Toronto)
10:00pm 1 Trent Lane, UofG (Guelph)
10:45pm KWCCSJ 63 Courtland Ave (Kitchener)
11:00pm Waterloo Town Square (Waterloo)

*This information (plus more) on www.2010resistance.ca
* First Come, First Serve
* 48 passengers

Websites:
Movement Defense Committee http://movementdefence.org/
Toronto Community Mobilization http://g20.torontomobilize.org/
KW People's Summit www.2010resistance.ca
Toronto People's Summit http://peoplessummit2010.ca/

The KW Peoples Summit wishes to thank all our generous donours and our other sponsors. The Peak Magazine in Guelph is amazing, LSPIRG really stepped up, and WPIRG was a partner right from the start, again, thank you.

THE KWPS has been a blast, keep the momentum going through this exciting night of film and into the toronto peoples summit and into the convergence!

June 16 2010
7pm @ the KWCCSJ
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Saturday, June 14th 11am-8pm
Multi-Purpose Room, Student Life Centre
University of Waterloo

KW PEOPLE’S SUMMIT PRESENTS:
A DAY OF WORKSHOPS FOR G8/G20 RESISTANCE

*no charge/pay what you want

11am-1pm ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Panel: Empire and Apartheid, G20, the West and Palestine
Thursday June 10th 2010
7:30pm @ the KWCCSJ
63 Courtland Ave E, Kitchener
*no charge/pay what you want

As settlements expand across Jerusalem and Israel’s military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza intensifies, Palestinians are on the edge of a new popular revolt. Israel continues its crippling siege of Gaza, while – a year after the war – it is again expanding military action in the strip.

Week 5 at the KWPS is a busy one with a bunch of great events:
Monday June 7th - International Campaigns Against Canadian Mining
Tuesday June 8th - Workshop: Why resist the G20 - An introduction
Wednesday June 9th - Movie and Music
Thursday June 10th - Panel: Empire and Apartheid, G20, the West and Palestine
Saturday June 12th - A DAY OF WORKSHOPS FOR G8/G20 RESISTANCE

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500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
by Gord Hill

June 3 2010
7:30pm @ the KWCCSJ
63 Courtland Ave E, Kitchener
*no charge/pay what you want

Author of the book, How Non-Violence Protects the State, Peter Gelderloos will be speaking to that very issue.

Nonviolence, the War on Terror, and Revolution: the role played first by nonviolence and now by the War on Terror to pacify social conflicts, and how people can recover the power to fight back.

"G20 Poets: When Words Resist"
A showcase of local KW spoken word poetry themed on anti-colonialism, anti-capitalism, human rights, anti-patriarchy, social justice, ecological sustainability, indigenous rights, community building. This event will showcase 20 poets who will each perform a piece that will engage, challenge and inspire the audience surrounding these issues.

Event Details:
Sunday May 30th, 6-8pm, KWCCSJ (KW Community Centre for Social Justice)
63 Courtland Ave E, Kitchener

Thursday May 27th
@ the University of Waterloo
Room: SLC - Multipurpose Room
7:45
*no charge/pay what you want

(watch live on ustream)

Ojistario, co-founder of Young Onkwehonwe United (YOU), and of the Tuscarora from the Haudenasaunee of Six Nations will speak along side Indigenous solidarity activist Alex Hundert at this panel.

The KW People's Summit presents PARTY FOR YOUR RIGHT TO FIGHT!!!

Doors: 22 May 8:30pm
@ Maxwells Music House (220 King St. North)

A fundraiser for G8/20 transport and legal fees at Maxwells Music House with:

- DJ Carmello
- Spoken Word by Unstruck
- Spoken Word by Lishai, latest winner of the Toronto Poetry Slam
- Test their Logik

Tickets:
$6-15 at the door