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Dear Friends of SJS,
check out these great events:
Thursday, Feb. 25th:
Super InTent City Block Party
3:30 to 7:00 pm
Super InTent City (Burdette & Quadra)
February 25th is the day that the BC government has named as eviction day for Super InTent City residents on the courthouse lawn in Victoria on the traditional territories of the Songhees & Esquimalt First Nations.
Super InTent City is safety and security for its residents and this extends to the broader community. The temporary and limited offers from the Provincial Government are not enough to meet the needs of ALL members of Super InTent City and we will stand together to say NO to displacement! We do not want to be dispersed into the parks, forests and doorways of the City... where we are more isolated and less safe.
Tent cities and housing that is created and run by those who live there IS the solution to the housing crisis in B.C. We are proud to host our brothers and sisters from Burnaby, Maple Ridge, Abbotsford and the Downtown Eastside Vancouver who are fighting demovictions, temporary shelters, tent city injunctions, gentrification & homelessness in their cities. Thank you to the Alliance Against Displacement for organizing travel.
Join us as we celebrate the building of a provincial-wide movement for housing justice!
Food at 3:30pm
Rally at 4pm
Community gathering until 7pm
The City Talks
Spring 2016: The Refugee Crisis and the Sanctuary City
Sponsored by the UVic
Committee for Urban Studies, the European Union Centre of Excellence,
and the Faculty of Social Sciences
Title:
Cities of Refuge
Alison Mountz
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration, Department of Geography, Wilfrid Laurier University and Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Harvard University
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Legacy Art Gallery, 630 Yates Street
Doors Open at 7:00pm
Lecture Begins at 7:30pm
Bio
Alison Mountz is a Professor of Geography at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is a political, urban, and feminist geographer, and a lover of cities. She researches migration, borders, displacement, asylum-seeking, detention, and the ways that these movements change landscapes of home and belonging. She is the author of Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border (University of Minnesota), which was awarded the 2011 Meridian Book Prize from the Association of American Geographers. Mountz is currently the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University.
Abstract
Cities have historically played a key role in providing refuge for those seeking protection and sanctuary from conflict and militarism. Today, in Canada, Germany, the United States, and beyond, cities have become key sites of refuge for the newly displaced. Mining the depth of past meanings of refuge offers important lessons for the present and future. By refuge, I refer not only to formal ideas— refugees being resettled, asylum seekers seeking protection, war resisters forging safe haven, or sanctuary cities as harbingers for those without legal status—although these are all important. I refer more inclusively and hopefully to refuge-seeking of all kinds. People travel to cities in search of work, shelter, community, recognition, difference, or even escape. This coming into something, the search for recognition, the desire to be seen and part of something, signals many of the reasons why people migrate to cities. This talk explores the potential of all cities to be and become sites of refuge.
This is a free public event at the Legacy Art Gallery ~ 630 Yates Street
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Run by the Committee for Urban Studies at the University of Victoria, The City Talks is a free public lecture series featuring distinguished scholars drawn from the University of Victoria, across Canada, and beyond. The theme for the Spring 2016 series is The Refugee Crisis and the Sanctuary City.
For more information, please visit www.TheCityTalks.ca
Last Stand for Lelu Documentary Screening (Two Dates! Feb 25, Mar 1)
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Thurs Feb 25th - Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad St), 7:00PM
Tues Mar 1st - UVIC, Harry Hickman Bldg Room 105, 7:00PM
DESCRIPTION: Please join us to watch this vital 24-minute documentary on the defense of Lax U'u'la (Lelu Island) by the Lax Kw'alaams. These screenings will include up-to-the-minute updates on what is happening at Lelu and other frontlines in the struggle against colonial intensification. As part of that, we will hear from Mary Vickers of the Heiltsuk First Nation.
BACKGROUND: This is a crucial time to come and support Lelu in every way we can. On January 23rd, 2016, the nine allied tribes of Lax Kw'alaams signed The Lelu Island Declaration with the intention to protect Lelu Island and Flora and Agnew Banks from corporate resource extraction for all time. The Declaration, also signed by Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, MLAs Jennifer Rice, Doug Donaldson, and Robin Austin, and MP Nathan Cullen, came about in response to continued attempts by Petronas and its North American branch, Pacific Northwest LNG, to begin work on a liquified fracked gas facility at Lelu.
Now the federal government has released its Draft Environmental Assessment for that project - in spite of its lack of authority on traditional, unceded indigenous territory. On March 11th, the 30-day comment period for the assessment will end, and the Government will release its final decision on the project within two weeks.
Filmmakers Tamo Campos and Farhan Umedaly have produced this timely documentary to share the voices of indigenous land defenders at Lelu Island. We hope you will come and help us honour those voices as well as build community towards stopping this colonial project.
ACCESSIBILITY:
These events are free to attend. They are also fundraisers for the land defenders at Lelu, and we will be 'passing the hat' to help with costs in running the camp.
Bus tickets will be available, and vegan snacks will be served at both events.
Childcare is available upon request.
We ask that people attending please try to help us provide a scent-reduced space.
Harry Hickman Building, at UVic, and its washrooms can be accessed with a
wheelchair. The Event Centre can be accessed by wheelchair, but it does not
have accessible bathrooms. Also, access to the building is at the back. If you
can come to the front first, someone can show the way to the back. Both buildings
and their washrooms can be accessed by wheelchair.
The Event Centre has gender neutral washrooms.
BACKGROUND INFO:
http://leludeclaration.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/Stop-Pacific-NorthWest-LNGPetronas-on-Lelu-Island-949045868451061/
https://www.facebook.com/Skeenawatershed/?fref=ts
WHO IS PUTTING ON THIS EVENT:
This event has been organized by some of the people who participate in an informal, relationship-based network called OUST Victoria. One of the people in the network is currently living at Lelu Island, and another is being paid to organize around this issue by the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition. Please contact Seb Bonet (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) if you have questions or concerns about accessibility, who is organizing this event, or how it has been put together.
March 3:
Lansdowne Lecture
Dr. Sarah Hunt, Kwagiulth (Kwakwaka’wakw), University of British Columbia
First Feminisms: reclaiming geographies of Indigenous resistance
Thursday, March 3, 7:00 p.m.
First Peoples House, Ceremonial Hall
Presented by the Department of Gender Studies
Dr. Sarah Hunt is Assistant Professor of Critical Indigenous Geographies in UBC’s First Nations and Indigenous Studies program and the Department of Geography.
“Feminism” is a term that is relatively new to Turtle Island, but Indigenous women are no strangers to resistance. In fact, Indigenous women were the first on this land to strategize and mobilize against heteropatriarchy, which was and is at the core of colonial power relations. Inspired by the transformative work of UVic professor and filmmaker Christine Welsh, this lecture will trace the contributions of Indigenous feminisms across diverse sites of resistance, rebellion and cultural resurgence.
Save the Date:
Thursday, March 17th, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
David Turpin Building A120
SJS Annual Lecture
Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights: A Conversation with a literature of damages, marketability, truth and telling.
Dian Million, PhD
University of Washington, Seattle
"Reconciliation" poses an entanglement of different interests: salvation narratives, human rights, and trauma procedures, in a knot that is virtually everything that is incommensurable. "Therapeutic Nations" follows traces of colonial gender and sexual violence into our present strategic emergence of Indigenous voice, movement, resistance and resurgence. This is resurgence that resists any reduction of “Native” to a subject of western knowledge, posed as a “problem” to Canada and the United States, or as a “victim” to be healed.
Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan) is an Associate Professor in American Indian Studies and Affiliated Faculty in Canadian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Million is the author of Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights (University of Arizona Press, 2013). As an active writer and poet she strives to bring experiential and felt thought to classrooms. Dian Million has been part of an ongoing Indigenous conversation on theory and Native studies. Million is the author of “Felt Theory: An Indigenous Feminist Approach to Affect and History,” “Intense Dreaming: Theories, Narratives and Our Search for Home,” and most recently “A River Runs Through Me: Theory from Life” in Theorizing Native Studies (Audra Simpson and Andrea Smith, Eds., Duke University Press, 2013). She teaches courses on Indigenous politics, literatures, feminisms and social issues.
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