Soul Shakedown benefit for the Kingston Mayworks Festival of Labour and the Arts
Saturday March 20th - 9:30pm at Time To Laugh Comedy Club (394 Princess St)

Soul Shakedown DJs Redfoot and La Gringa return with Latin, Pan African, Brazilian, and Dancehall tunes.

We are also welcoming back DJ Seditious who will be spinning neo-Soul and Hip-hop.

This party will be supporting Mayworks. The Kingston Mayworks Collective is a community collective of workers, students and artists who believe that bridging art and labour can bring powerful social change. The Mayworks Festival will take place May 1st - May 8th in Kingston.

Saturday, March 20th, 7-10pm at Sydenham Street United Church

Join us for an evening of music and words to Save Canada’s Prison Farms.

Performers:

Sarah Harmer, Fred Penner, Luther Wright, Open Heart Society featuring Chris Brown and Eric Schenkman, Brian Flynn, Kris and Dee, Maya Thau-Eleff and Special Guests

Tickets:

$15 ($5 for unemployed and underemployed) available at Renaissance Music, Tara Natural Foods, Brian’s Record Option, and Local Family Farms in Verona - cash only please. A small number will be available at the door.

Partners:

Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice, Frontenac Cattlemen’s Association, Frontenac Federation of Agriculture, John Howard Society, National Farmers Union, Local 316, Sisters of Providence Justice and Peace Office, Union of Solicitor Generals Employees, Urban Agriculture Kingston

For more information, or to volunteer for the Save Our Prison Farms Campaign, please contact, 613-767-4127, mccann17@yahoo.com

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
6:30 to 8:30 pm
Delahaye Room
Central Branch of Kingston Frontenac Public Library
130 Johnson Street, Kingston

Harvest Pilgrims tells the little-known story of Canada’s migrant workers. The photographs in the “Harvest Pilgrims” collection have been highly acclaimed internationally through many publications and exhibitions, including a travelling show curated by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography that opened in Mexico City. Vincenzo Pietropaolo will present a slideshow of his work on the subject, and talk about the project, which has been 20 years in the making.

For more information:

Between the Lines
416.535.9914
info@btlbooks.com

MayWorks Kingston
www.opirgkingston.org/mayworks

· Free lunch! (Catering by Windmills)
· “Positive” remarks by Gender Studies Professor Scott Morgensen

· OPIRG Positive Space Award

When: Thursday, March 11, 11:30 to 2:00 (food from 11:30 on; “ceremonies” between 12:00 and 1:00)

Where: Robert Sutherland Room at the JDUC

What to Do: Put it on your calendar and RSVP to posspace@queensu.ca

Looking forward to seeing you there,

Jean

Jean Pfleiderer, For Positive Space Committee

Human Rights Advisor/Sexual and Gender Diversity Coordinator

Saturday, March 6, 2010
1:00pm - 4:00pm
AKA Autonomous Social Centre
75 Queen Street

Are you looking for a non-judgmental space to confront apprehensions about anti-racism, or to start a dialogue about discrimination in your life and work?

Do you want to help fight racism, but aren’t sure where exactly to start?

This mini ‘How to be an Ally” workshop, hosted by the Queen’s Committee Against Racial and Ethnic Discrimination seeks to provide participants with the knowledge and understanding of tools and strategies that can be used to prevent discrimination and create schools and communities that welcome and value diversity.

We aim to provide a safe space for engagement with anti-oppression and offer suggestions for practical action to combat racism in your social networks.

Please join us to learn how we can all work together to build a more inclusive community!

Free admittance; all welcome!

Snacks will be provided

Monday November 16th: Opening and Launch at QUIC in the JDUC. 6:30pm. Free food! Come and learn what we are talking about, with reasons to oppose the Olympics demonstrated with a talk by members of Resist 2010 and some movie clips.

CANCELLED: Special Olympics Discussion Group, co-hosted by QCRED. In JDUC room 236. This open group discussion will have guest speaker Bob Lovelace from the Ardoch Algonquins, with the general theme of cultural appropriation. CANCELLED!

Thursday Nov 19th: Clowning workshop and Storyslam at AKA Autonomous Social Centre, 75 Queen St. Starts at 1pm. Learn protest and street theatre tactics and have fun.

Also on Thursday: Screening and premiere of H2Oil with filmmaker Shannon Walsh. Mac-Corry B201
7:30pm. H2Oil follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against tar sands expansion.

Friday Nov 20th: Death-In outside RBC (Princess St. and King), 12 noon. Be a part of a protest against RBC, a sponsor of the Olympics AND the Tar Sands, two environmentally destructive projects.

Saturday Nov 21st: Faux-Olympic Games in Skeleton Park from 2-4pm. (Rain date: Sunday 22nd, 10am-12noon). Enjoy a family-friendly day of games and free refreshments in the park, including a tug of war, punching bag, scavenger hunt, and big group activities. Bring your friends, bring your kids!

Also on Saturday: All-ages fundraising concert for the Olympics Resistance Network, with anarcho-punk band From the Depths. This is intense, defiant, dark music, based in compelling melodies. AKA Autonomous Social Centre, 75 Queen St. Early show: starts at 8pm.

Sunday Nov 22nd: ‘What We Leave Behind’ Book Launch with local activist and author Aric McBay. AKA Autonomous Social Centre, 75 Queen St, 3-5pm.

See the attached poster for its beauty and readability!

Wednesday, Sept. 16th - Screening Under the Stars: Drool
A darkly queer comedy in the tradition of Little Miss Sunshine where a dysfunctional family unit grows to appreciate one another when they pile into a purple Kathy Kay Cosmetics car to dispose of the dead-beat patriarch in the trunk.
9pm, Newlands Pavilion, King and Barrie St., Admission by Donation
Co-hosted by Reelout

Friday, Sept.18th - Bike Repair Workshop with Yellow Bike Action
Join OPIRG Kingston and Yellowbike Action for a hands-on workshop teaching you how to repair various bike problems. Yellowbike Action mechanics will be equipped with tools and skills, and all you need is a hurting bike!
Space is limited, so please RSVP at 613-533-3189 or info@opirgkingston.org
3-5pm, Greyhouse, 51 Bader Lane. Free!
After all the fixing, join us for a Critial Mass Ride at 5:15.

Tuesday, Sept. 22nd - Zine Making Workshop
Join OPIRG for a fun, no-skilled-required introduction to Zine Making. A Zine enthusiast will be sharing tips, and graphics/materials will be provided. Please bring any materials you want! Coffee and tea will be available!
6-8pm, Grey house, 51 Bader Lane. Free!

Thursday, Sept. 24th - Film Screening of Finding Dawn
Finding Dawn illustrates the deep historical, social and economic factors that contribute to the epidemic of violence against Native women in this country. It goes further to present the ultimate message that stopping the violence is everyone’s responsibility.
6pm, Room 12, Dunning Hall, 94 University Ave. Free!
Co-hosted By Queen’s University Native Students Association

Friday, Sept. 25th, 2-4pm – Book launch: The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy by Yves Engler
This book could change how you see Canada. Most of us believe this country’s primary role has been as peacekeeper or honest broker in difficult-to-solve disputes. But, contrary to the mythology of Canada as a force for good in the world, The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy sheds light on many dark corners.
Yves Engler is the author of two books: Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority (with Anthony Fenton) and Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical
Location: Robert Sutherland Room, 2nd Floor of JDUC @corner of Union and University

Sunday, Sept. 27th - Radical Walking Tour of Kingston
Meet at the Grey House for a guided radical walking tour of downtown Kingston. This tour is designed to uncover Kingston’s function in the military economy, the prison-industrial complex, and the public-private corporate nexus housed at Queen’s University and downtown. The tour will also bring to light some of the stories of marginalized folks including Kingston’s black, Jewish, and queer communities. It will point to a few inspiring examples of resistance that have all in their own way fought for a different and better Kingston, one that is anti-oppressive, pro-community and pro-autonomy. Spend an hour familiarizing with Kingston’s history, sites, sounds, joys, and concerns.
12pm, meet at Greyhouse, 51 Bader Lane. Free!

Sunday September 27th - Really Really Free Market
Come by for free stuff, snacks, music and company! Bring books, music, clothes, ideas, skills and other items to give away in an afternoon of gift economy celebration!
1:30-4:30pm at the AKA Autonomous Social Centre, 75 Queen St (at Wellington).

Monday. Oct 5th - Get Crafty Night
Join EQuIP for our weekly meeting and discussion. Afterward, stick around for our crafting night! Bring any craft you want—knitting, paint, hemp, sewing etc! EQuIP will provide some supplies for those who need it. OPIRG will supply some zine making supplies and teach you how to make one! Everyone welcome!
5:30pm, Grey House, 51 Bader Lane, Free!

Monday, Oct 5th – Absoufian Abdelrazik Talk
6:30pm, Wilson Room, Downtown Library, 130 Johnson St, Free!

Monday. Oct.19th, - Queen’s Queer History Night
Ever wonder what Queen’s was like for Queer students before you got here? How about the roots of Kingston’s Queer community? With this event, two of Queen’s Alumni will be talking about their experiences at Queen’s!
5:30 - 8:30pm, Greyhouse, 51 Bader Lane. Free!
Co-hosted with EQuIP!

Tuesday June 16th, 7pm
Dunning Hall Room 12 (Corner of University Ave and Union St)

Adil Charkaoui was arrested under a so-called security certificate in 2003; he spent almost two years in jail before being released under draconian conditions pending the outcome of the process against him. Now, for the first time in six years, Adil is able to travel freely outside Montreal. For more information about this tour or the Coalition for Justice for Adil Charkaoui please visit: http://www.adilinfo.org/

This event is sponsored by OPIRG Kingston, The Queen’s Coalition against Racial and Ethnic Discrimination (QCRED), and The Kingston Humanist Association.

Update: Click here to find archived materials from this project online.

The Ontario Public Interest Research Interest Group, the Education on Queer Issues Project, the Women’s Centre, and the People’s History Project are hoping over the summer to gather the stories of folks who have used this house over the past many decades. Although we’ve only been here for 17 years, we know that for almost 40 years this house has provided safer spaces for marginalized folks and acted as a catalyst for change. We are seeking to collect the stories of your experiences in this house. Maybe you were involved in EQUIP, OPIRG, CUSEN, Amnesty International,The Women’s Centre, Kingston Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Association, or maybe you were in the Queen’s Homophile Association back in the day!

We are interested in collecting informal interviews with people, but we are also looking for any materials associated with groups and their activities who were operating out of the house, including pictures, promotional materials, posters, anything that will aid us in recapturing a sense of the past of the Grey House.

If you, or anyone you know would like to help collect materials, or talk to people about their experiences, or were involved here at the Grey House and would like to help with this project please contact us:

info@opirgkingston.org

Thanks so much.

The Kingston May Day Festival is a celebration of worker resistance and radical community organizing, and of efforts to build alternative economic and social spaces!

Come join us for a two-day celebration featuring workshops, skill shares, a really free market and lots of fun activities!

Check out the website at www.mayday.akakingston.org for more information and agenda details.

**Agenda**:

Friday May 1st

3:00-7:00pm Skeleton Park–> A Really Really Free Market! (free food, free stuff)
9:00-11:00pm Market Square–> Urban Capture the Flag

Saturday May 2nd (AkA Autonomous Social Centre)

9:30-10:30 Opening
10:30-11:15 Introduction to May Day
11:30-12:00 Resisting the 2010 Olympics
12:00-1:00 Lunch and Creative Tactics
1:00-1:45 Anarchism and Islam
2:00-3:30 Anti-Classism
3:45-4:30 Break/Death at HayMarket Square Reading
4:30-5:30 The future of labour: Worker-Coops?
7:00-9:00 Movie Screening: 69
10:00-1:00 Evening fun (shh..it a secret!)

Or choose to see the facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=67541766044

*April 19th GreenUp festival booth featuring: Green Cleaning give-away and tips*
Location: K-Rock Centre
Time: 11-5
Cost: FREE/Foodbank Donation

*April 20th Movie Showing: Who Killed the Electric Car*
Location: THE ARTEL, 205 Sydenham St
Time: doors 7pm, screening 7:30
Cost: by donation

*May 29-30th Bio-remediation Weekend*
Location: TBA
Time: TBA
Food: provided during the day
Presenter: Lauren Ross of the Rhizome Collective
Bio: Lauren is an environmental engineering with 30 years of experience
protecting and remediating soil, water, and plant systems. She has designed
and implemented permaculture systems and encampments for activists in
Cancun, Mexico, Stirling, Scotland, Calgary, Canada, Brunswick, Georgia, New
Orleans post-Katrina and Sacramento, California. She has taught courses and
workshops in water politics in venues as diverse as the University of Texas
and the Radical Encuentro.

More info: http://www.rhizomecollective.org/rust.html

TO REGISTER FOR ANY EVENTS OR FOR MORE
INFO CONTACT: cusp.kingston@gmail.com
phone: 613.344.0798
http://www.cuspkingston.blogspot.com/

Saturday March 14th 10am-3pm
Seedy Saturday
Public Library on Johnson St.

- Trade/buy seeds and learn about seed-saving!

Tuesday March 24th 6-9pm
Greenwashing & Eco-Cleaning:

- Is that product really green?
- Take-home cleaning supplies for everyone who attends!
- Bring something shiny to polish.
- Local eats!

Tuesday March 31st 7-9:30pm
Movie Night! Who Killed the Electric Car?

- Learn more about upcoming events.
- Meet the CUSP crew.
- Biofuel chat.
- Yummy Soup!

To ask about or register for any CUSP events, e-mail: cusp.kingston@gmail.com

The OPIRG Positive Space Award will recognize a full-time Queens University
undergraduate or graduate student who has demonstrated leadership in the Queens
and/or Kingston community in promoting the recognition and celebration of sexual
and gender diversity.

To nominate someone for the OPIRG Positive Space Award, send an e-mail to
posspace@post.queensu.ca. Please include your name, program, and phone number, your nominee’s name, program, and phone number, and a brief description of why you think your nominee should receive the OPIRG Positive Space Award.

Deadline to nominate is Sunday, March 1, 2009.

For more information on the award, go to http://www.queensu.ca/positivespace/award.htm

Jean Pfleiderer, For Positive Space Committee
Human Rights Advisor/Sexual and Gender Diversity Coordinator
Human Rights Office
Mac-Corry A315
613.533.6000 x75847

The primary goal is to educate the community on the interconnection of local anti-colonial, anti-poverty, and anti-capitalist struggles alongside national and international action against VANOC.

This educational group raises awareness of the oppression and marginalization caused by Olympic organizing, specifically affecting indigenous communities.