[Sjsall] upcoming opportunities and calls for support

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Dear Friends of SJS,

Friends of Cuba Garage Sale:

This coming Saturday & Sunday, August 8 & 9 , 9am to 2 pm, at 3179 Glasgow St., the Victoria Friends of Cuba committee will be holding a garage sale as a fundraiser. If any of you have any items that are worth selling and would like to donate to them for the sale they ask you to bring them to 3179 Glasgow St., at the corner of Tolmie and Glasgow this coming Friday from 4pm till 7pm.

They can only accept saleable items, refuse will not be accepted.

In solidarity,

Victoria Friends of Cuba

Gidimt'en Tiny House Build (August 8th-15th, 953 Balmoral Rd)

From Seb Bonet:

I'm writing to appeal for funds for a project I'm helping to coordinate from August 8th to 15th at 953 Balmoral Rd; and to invite you, if you're in the area, to come and participate, by building, or taking in an evening workshop (6.30pm start times every night) or night-time film... (approx 8.30-9pm).

Donations can be made here: https://chuffed.org/project/gidimten-grizzly-den-balmoral-tiny-house-build (or by e-transfer to me: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

To volunteer: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RjBCZF2bsLpSZaCb1Z1Y08dfWWCRtEyj9WVQjZo5Zts/edit#gid=909150599

For updates and more info, see our FB page (once it's up): search "Gidimt'en Grizzly Den"

A bunch of us are building a house to support the Gidimt'en's continued reoccupation of their territories. As we know, Gidimt'en, as one of the five clans of the Wet'suwet'en nation, was violently raided by RCMP in January to enforce the wishes of settler state and capital to build the CGL pipeline. Since then, police harassment and surveillance has continued, while CGL builds its man camps under the cover of a BC essential service.

It is in this context that we are building a tiny house, or mobile trapping cabin, for the use of the Wet’suwet’en land defenders who are fighting to protect their homelands, water and their way of life. As we saw in January, homes like these are critical for keeping land defenders safe as the battle continues against CGL, the provincial and federal government. This tiny house will provide space for Wet’suwet’en people to access their homelands and for land defenders to have a warm and safe place over the long, cold, and often stressful winter months.

As with previous builds, we are doing our imperfect best to create and sustain relationships rooted in the politics of Indigenous Resurgence, and that hook into other struggles for autonomy in this time of Black uprising and global pandemic. With that in mind, we will be running workshops every evening, beginning at 6.30PM, and will follow workshops with film screenings of classic and contemporary films. Workshops will be on the politics of Black life here, police abolition work in Oakland, thinking about allyship, learning lessons about house governance from local teachings and practices, updating about the rematriation of Ma'amtagila, and much more!

We want to also say that we'll be trying to make the space attentive to COVID-19. This year, we're organizing a smaller building team. For workshops, we are asking people to wear masks (and will have them on hand), pod up in their biomes when relevant, and will designate an area for people who identify as wanting or needing greater rigour around 2 metre physical distancing and mask-wearing.

For questions related to volunteering, please email Casey: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For questions related to workshops, please email me: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For questions related to movie screenings, please email Ryan: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We want to end by acknowledging the build will be taking place on Lkwungen territory. In aspiring to fulfill the wishes of local people from previous builds, we want to name the importance of approaching this work with good hearts and minds.

With care, Seb

Advance Notice of Summer 2021 Course

The Corporate Mapping Project at UVic is planning to hold its third Summer Institute next May, at UVic. It will likely run as both a 500 and 400 level course. The course’s title is ‘Corporate power, fossil capital, climate crisis: the search for solutions’. (see attached description)

The plan, as before, is to centre the activities around one intensive week on campus (and/or possibly remotely, depending on the public health situation), with term papers due in July. The Institute will be highly interdisciplinary and open to graduate students (and strong four-year students) with diverse academic interests. Students interested should contact Dr. Carroll at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Regards, Margo

Margo L. Matwychuk, PhD

Director, Social Justice Studies

University of Victoria

Territories of the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSANEC Peoples

PO Box 1700 STN CSC

Victoria BC V8W 2Y2

Office: Cornett B210

PH: (250) 721-6283

FAX: (250) 721-6215

We acknowledge and respect the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples on whose unceded territory the university stands and whose relationships with the land continue to this day.

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