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Why Resist 2010?
A Conference on the Vancouver Olympic Games

UPDATES TO BE POSTED TO: http://resist2010.blogspot.com/

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Saturday, October 25th
Olympics Resistance Benefit Show
Rhizome Cafe, 317 E. Broadway (corner Kingsway)
Doors 8 pm
$5-20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Sunday, October 26th

Please distribute far and wide.

Resistance on Trial: FREE John Graham.
A benefit show in solidarity.

Featuring:

JASON BURNSTICK
ECHOLALIA
ERICA MAH
and SPECIAL GUESTS!

Cafe deux Soleils (2096 Commercial Drive)
October 1st @ 8:30 pm
$5-15 sliding scale (all donations go directly to John's family for traveling to South Dakota for his trial.)

Come enjoy some Café Ramona and appreciate, try on and buy some beautiful clothing and products made by amazing Zapatista Mayan indigenous women in Chiapas, Mexico.

Movie Fundraiser for the Walk 4 Justice
Suggested Donation $5-$15. No one will be turned away.
Sept. 10 at 7:00pm
Jack Purcell Community Center
Indigenous Peoples’ Solidarity Movement – Ottawa (IPSMO)
All donations go to the Walk 4 Justice
Everyone Welcome!
Wheelchair Accessible
Poster: http://ottawa.indymedia.org/media/2008/09//8256.pdf

Join us for a celebration of the arts, revolution and community. This event includes music, theatre, art, guest speakers and a social justice fair.

Date: September 6
Time: 11AM-7PM
Location: Camosun College (Lansdowne) By the Paul Bldg
Price: By Donation

Indigenous Resistance on Film:
Fundraiser for No Olympics on Stolen Native Land West Cost Tour

Saturday, July 26th. First film at 6:30pm
Spartacus Books (684 Hasting Street- phone 604-688-6138)
Coast Salish Territory

* Suggested Donation of $5 - $8 (no one turned away)

* Snacks available

TREATIES, COLONIZATION & RESISTANCE:
July 14th, 2008, 7:30 pm
Open to the Public.

In 1858, the new colony's governor, Sir James Douglas, read the official proclamation that cemented the colony of 'BC'. In 1974 a provincial secretary for 'BC' stated:

"We feel that a holiday should be dedicated to the pioneers who built the colony of British Columbia..."

The African Peace Festival aims to:
-showcase local African artists, musicians, NGOS and entrepeneurs
-to fund a grassroots initiative in Africa

-to raise awareness of African issues
-to expose BC to African culture and artists,
-to unite the African diaspora to work for peace and justice on the African continent

This year the African Peace Festival is supporting an initiative to

There is a Benefit show happening on May 9th in Vancouver BC at 524 Main st. (APC) 7pm, All Ages, by donation

We are hoping to raise funds to send to the Tyendinaga Mohawks in Ontario to help with legal defense and supplies.

the bands are:

Mass Grave
Leper
Mutiny
Echolalia

They’re smaller, smarter, and feistier, and they number in the millions, but can D.I.Y. zines, blogs, and viral videos overthrow the corporate media dinosaurs?

Find out from Anne Elizabeth Moore and Franklin López as they brazenly celebrate independent media in Vancouver and world-wide. Anne is the Chicago-based author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity and the former editor of Punk Planet, the legendary punk zine that folded

People's Prom February 14th
The revolution will not be televised...the revolution will be live.