Trudeau: We’re Watching You (Vancouver)

Jack Poole Plaza 1085 Canada Place, Vancouver, Canada

www.protectpressfreedom.ca TORONTO COURTHOUSE RALLY (Feb 6th): https://www.facebook.com/events/298803663850895/ TORONTO (Feb 25th): https://www.facebook.com/events/1194885020589826/ LONDON (Feb 25th): https://www.facebook.com/events/162466814250003/ ST. JOHN'S (Feb 25th): https://www.facebook.com/events/185022728645048/ We are calling on the Government of Canada to: 1) End mass surveillance and protect the private data of people and groups in Canada, including Indigenous communities, Muslims, journalists, environmentalists, labour organizers and academics while […]

LGBTQ+ Lit for Young People

Bob Prittie Metrotown 6100 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, Canada

Explore the best in LGBTQ+ materials for kids and teens with speakers from the BCLA LGBTQ Interest Group. Email tina.lee@bpl.bc.ca to register.

Lgbtq+ Lit for Young People

Bob Prittie Metrotown 6100 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, Canada

Explore the best in LGBTQ+ materials for kids and teens with speakers from the BCLA LGBTQ Interest Group. Email tina.lee@bpl.bc.ca to register. ***Apologies for the improper capitalisation. Facebook does not like acronyms in event titles.

An Evening with Tongo Eisen-Martin

Gallery Gachet 88 East Cordova Street, Vancouver, Canada

hosted by the Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer in Residence at SFU with music from Selectors' Records Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York's Rikers […]

Rally for a Poverty Free BC

Vancouver Public Library Central Branch 350 W Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

We’re teaming up with the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, Raise the Rates and many other groups for a Poverty Free BC March and Rally on March 4, 2017. Please join us! This is our chance to raise our voices together and show candidates in the provincial election that we’ll be voting for politicians that commit […]

CULTURAL REALITIES OF RESISTANCE: in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin

The Arts Factory 281 Industrial Ave, Vancouver, Canada

Saturday, March 4th, 281 Industrial Avenue, 2-4pm CULTURAL REALITIES OF RESISTANCE in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin presented by SFU Writer in Residence Program in partnership with The Capilano Review Suggested reading: (1970) Amilcar Cabral, “National Liberation and Culture” http://www.blackpast.org/1970-amilcar-cabral-national-liberation-and-culture *light refreshments* Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has […]

Upstream Voices: Stop Petronas LNG! Defend Wild Salmon!

Wise Hall & Lounge 1882 Adanac Street, Vancouver, Canada

Upstream Voices: Indigenous land protectors speak for salmon We are All Salmon People: take a stand against Petronas LNG Every spring, 300 million juvenile salmon converge on the rich tidal waters around Lelu Island at the mouth of the Skeena. But the Malaysian giant Petronas wants to build a LNG terminal in critical salmon habitat. […]

Reclaim International Working Women’s Day

700 W Georgia Street, Vancouver, Canada

This is an informal autonomous independent call out to all those who want to take a stand and take up space for Working class Women as we reclaim International Women's Day as International WORKING Women's Day, as it was inaugurated 100 years ago! We honour the struggles of our foremothers and educate, agitate, and organize […]

Rad Families – book release & social hour

Spartacus Books 3378 Findlay Street, Vancouver, Canada

RAD FAMILIES: A CELEBRATION Book Tour & Social Hour Join editor Tomas Moniz and writers scott winn carla bergman and more for an engaging hour of storytelling at Spartacus Books on March 10th at 7:00 pm! RAD FAMILIES: A CELEBRATION honors the messy, the painful, the playful, the beautiful, the myriad ways we create families. […]