Events

United We Eat, Divided We Starve: OCAP's Raise the Rates Campaign
Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Part of the PMUS Poverty & Health series

Join in a community discussion of why we must all fight for increased social assistance rates and a decent income for all!

Fight to Win in KW

Tuesday, February 28th
7:00 pm-9:00pm
Queen Street Commons Café
43 Queen Street South, Kitchener

* Free event. All welcome. * Free snacks & refreshments provided * Child friendly space * Wheelchair accessible

Featured Panel Speakers include:
Liisa Schofield & John Clarke - Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)
Ilian Burbano (CUPE Ontario Raise the Rates Campaign Organizer)

Mapuche Anti-Authoritarian Solidarity Film Screening

Wednesday, February 29th
6-9pm
Queen Street Commons Cafe- 43 Queen Street South (Kitchener)

Join the Women's Coordinating Committee For A Free Wallmapu for the screening of two amazing films directly from our communities in conflict in Wallmapu and the anti-authoritarian resistance in Chile. Those that have fallen in struggle are remembered in film and in action.

THE REBIRTH OF LEMUN (Lemun Renace)

Mapuche youth, Alex Lemun Saavedra, was only 17 years old when he was murdered by Chilean National Police during a reclamation in the lands of Wallmapu, in 2001. “The Rebirth of Lemun” portrays the memory of a young Weichafe [Warrior], a community in mourning and the defiance of an indigenous nation.

Algonquin Resistance to Assimilation: Barriere Lake Speaks in Kitchener-Waterloo

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Queens Street Commons Café

43 Queen Street South, Kitchener, Occupied Haudenosaunee Territory

Join us for food and a talk by Michel Thusky, a community spokesperson from the Algonquin community of Barriere Lake

Come hear about the long-standing resistance of Mitchikanibikok Inik, the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, to forced assimilation and cultural extinction. Michel Thusky, a spokesperson from the Algonquin community, will talk about community identity in the context of his people’s struggle to defend their land, their way of life, and their traditional governance system against attacks by the colonial governments of Quebec and Canada.

Ableism, Disability, + Anarchism

Sunday, March 4th 13:00-15:00
The Silver Spoon - 217 King St. West

Join Common Cause KW for a workshop on Ableism, Disability, & Anarchism. The Workshop will include a short video, as well as participatory activities and discussion. It will explore the basic theoretical underpinnings of radical disAbility struggle vis-à-vis contemporary anarchist theory, as well as begin to venture into the practical struggles of radical disability.

email commoncausekw@gmail.com for more information!

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Resisting Rendition and Demanding Justice:
An Evening with Canadian Torture Survivor Abdullah Almalki,
accompanied by Matthew Behrens, co-ordinator of Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture.

Tues March 6, 2012
Kitchener Downtown Community Centre (KDCC)
Multi-Purpose Room
7:00pm-9pm

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