Week 5 - Resistance Continued

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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International Campaigns against Canadian Mining Companies: a discussion of contexts, tactics, demands, and how Canadians can show solidarity with these struggles.

Monday June 7th,
19:45 @ the KWCCSJ
63 Courtland Ave E, Kitchener
*no charge/pay what you want

From independence movements and Indigenous rights struggles to ecological conflicts and economic justice campaigns, Canadian mining companies cause and intersect with a variety of issues around the globe. This discussion will use many specific examples to uncover the systemic corruption and deeply rooted power associated with this industry, while suggesting a number of pressure points to organize around in a Canadian context.

Sakura Saunders is an editor and founder of ProtestBarrick.net, an all-volunteer online network of groups researching and organizing around mining issues, particularly involving Barrick Gold. It contains news articles, testimonies, and backgrounders about Barrick's operations worldwide. Every year, Sakura organizes a tour of impacted communities to visit Canada, to learn from each other's campaigns as well as bring the battle to Barrick's shareholders, the Canadian Parliament, and the UN.

Canadian based Barrick gold mining is devestating indigenous communities and ecosystems around the world in a blind quest for profits. Anti-mining activist Sakura Saunders will join a KW peoples summit media presentation to discuss the severely negative impacts of mining around the world.

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Works
hop: Why resist the G20 - An introduction
June 8 2010
5-8pm @ the KWCCSJ
63 Courtland Ave E, Kitchener
*no charge/pay what you want

Come out to the KWCCSJ on June 8th from 5-8pm to learn what the G20 is, reasons to resist and how to plug into the events being planned in Toronto from June 18th-27th.

Also at the workshop there will be an explanation of basic direct action principles, basic legal and information of existing structures for people wishing to plug into the g20 organizing and demonstrations.

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Movie: Breaking the Siege
June 9 2010
7 pm @ the KWCCSJ
63 Courtland Ave E, Kitchener
*no charge/pay what you want

- San Salvador Atenco, May 2006. A small town in the suburbs of Mexico City. Two months before the presidential elections, a conflict for land and rights escalates between the population of Atenco and the Mexican government. Unbelievable events take place: the police attack a marketplace, the inhabitants block the highways leading to the city, and confrontations between an outraged population and police forces break out. The state of emergency goes on for several days and culminates in the death of a 14 year old boy.

This documentary reveals mass media’s strategy that ignores the concerns of the population and generates a climate of fear in order to justify a massive police deployment.

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Music: Rebel Spell
Fundraising show @ the KWCCSJ with punk rock masters the Rebel Spell

5$ pay what you can. music starts 9ish

BBQ before hand and movie before hand.

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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.

Palestinian citizens of Israel are also feeling the pressure as urban renewal and gentrification is used as a pretext to force them out of their historic cities, while the government passes laws to criminalize public discussion of their identity and history. Meanwhile repression against Palestinians and Israeli solidarity activists continues, as does the Palestinian Authority collaboration with Israel.

As the G20 replaces the G8 as the center of global economic and political power, it becomes the representative consensus of American empire and the club that Israel courts for affection. The Daily Nuisance editors and contributors Carmelle Wolfson and Jesse Rosenfeld will examine the relationship between Israeli Apartheid, American Empire and the Group of 20 in this discussion followed by a Q & A.

About The Daily Nuisance

While international mainstream news filters out and misinterprets local voices, TDN uses English to present local perspectives to an International audience. The editorial collective is comprised of Palestinian, leftwing Israeli and international journalists and media makers. Go to www.thedailynuisance.com

Bios

Carmelle Wolfson is a Canadian-Israeli print and broadcast journalist and an editorial collective member at The Daily Nuisance. She has worked as an editor for major mainstream Middle East news media such as The Jerusalem Post. She is also a copy editor for the Canadian independent social issues magazine Briarpatch. She has been involved in community radio programming, as well as indigenous sovereignty, student, labour and feminist organizing and has twice coordinated Media Democracy Day in Toronto. Her work can be found in The Globe and Mail, NOW Magazine, Electronic Intifada, The Real News, Znet and rabble.ca.

Jesse Rosenfeld is a Canadian print and video journalist based out of Ramallah and Tel Aviv-Jaffa since 2007. He is the print editor of The Daily Nuisance and has written from the Middle East for The Nation, The Guardian, The National (Abu Dhabi English language newspaper), Haaretz English, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, NOW Magazine, Z Net and Electronic Intifada. He has also blogged for Allvoices.com, Mondoweiss and produced video content for The Daily Beast and The Real News.

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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

details at:
http://2010resistance.ca/kwps/node/12