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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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: 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. […]

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: 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. […]

<<<<< Visiting members of the Prisoner Correspondence Project invite you to come participate in this two part workshop that will give context on the current state of the prison industrial complex and seek out concrete ways of resisting from outside. The first part of this workshop will consist of a brief (30-40 min) introduction to […]

Winter blues got you down? Bring your friends out to celebrate all our work and our vibrant community of resistance and revolution! An evening of spoken word and rap to raise funds for the Indigenous struggle against the Site C Dam. Let's nourish ourselves with good food, good company, and good art! Come early to […]

Land Defenders Dinner for invited Allies - 4:30 pm Doors for Public event 7:00 Reports from the front lines - 7:15 pm Silent auction featuring great art and other intriguing offerings. Cash draws Music and celebration 8:00 pm -featuring Holly Arntzen , Ostwelve, poetry by Justin Bige, Valeen Jules and Wild Salmon Defenders Alliance drummers […]

The Art and Science of Working with Fungi: Growing Mushrooms for Food, Medicine and Soil Mondays, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., March 13, 20 & 27; April 3, 10 & 24 At the Italian Cultural Centre, 3075 Slocan St., Vancouver Register at www.italianculturalcentre.ca This workshop series covers the skills needed to grow spawn and mushrooms […]

We would like to acknowledge that this event is taking place on the ancestral, traditional and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, on whose territories we live and organize. As stewards of these lands, we would like to recognize the tremendous labour that has gone into nurturing and protecting these traditional […]

UNITE HERE! Local 40 calls for a picket of Trump Hotel Vancouver! Gather with Local 40 Hotel and Food Service Workers, along with community allies on March 16th to stand up to racism, sexism, hate, and ongoing attacks on immigrant workers and families! In cities across North America, members of UNITE HERE have not only […]

The Toast Collective is lovely and it is run by lovely people who are putting their time effort energy and $ on the line so let's put all those things on the line too but back at them like a feedback loop Featuring: TOMMY TONE (https://trashtronix.bandcamp.com/) FUTURE STAR (https://futurestar.bandcamp.com/) CHRIS-A-RIFFIC (https://chrisariffic.bandcamp.com/) JARRETT EVAN SAMSON (hello) […]

After the success of February's town hall meeting in Whalley, we're having another, even better one! Join us for discussion and news on the fight for a $15 minimum wage in BC (and free coffee and doughnuts!) and how we can make it a reality. Whether Christy Clark and her awful BC Liberals win the […]

POETRY is BAD for YOU featuring the corrupted voices of samantha NOCK katayoon YOUSEFBIGLOO molly BILLOWS andrea LUKIC dallas HUNT eirinn MCHATTIE $10 or PWYC/ no one turned away for lack o' funds. saturday march 18 // doors @ 9 readings, conversations, snacks ALL AGES the toast acknowledges the sovereignty of the musqueam, squamish, and […]

Do We Need Police and Prisons? A discussion of punitive justice & the state! Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017 4:30-7:30pm SFPIRG Lounge - TC 326 in the Rotunda SFU Burnaby Most of us take police and prisons for granted and accept this system as a legitimate exercise of state power. We believe - because this is […]

Water Is Life Roundtable Honour World Water Day with Audrey Siegl, Carleen Thomas, Helen Knott & Caleb Behn What happens if people put protection of water first and foremost as their priority? How would BC’s planned fossil fuel expansion and hydro-dam expansion impact watershed health and Indigenous rights? What does reconciliation that honours water as […]

Despite the fact that the Hon. John McCallum issued an exemption that allowed Jose Figueroa to leave sanctuary at Walnut Grove Lutheran Church and regain his freedom in December 2015. The bureaucracy within CSIS, CBSA has not giving up the possibility to continue using the same allegation against other immigrants and refugees. Jose Figueroa continues […]

Voices from the Sacred Fire: Indigenous Land Defenders Speak Friday March 24th at 6:30 pm 1803 East 1st Ave, Vancouver Unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories. Indigenous land defenders from frontline struggles speak on protecting lands and waters and asserting nationhood on their territories. From No Kinder Morgan and Unist’ot’en to Lelu […]

To mark the International Day Against Racism, we will gather at Thornton Park on Main and Terminal, then we will march through Chinatown to Jack Poole Plaza. This where Indigenous, Black, Chinese, Japanese and South Asian people lived historically. Let's march against racism and all forms of bigotry, the rise of fascism, Bill C-51, Travel […]