Events Not to Be Missed

Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

When: Friday, November 21st, Doors 8:30pm, Film starts 9pm
Where: Vancity Theatre - 1181 Seymour St Vancouver, BC

What: Documentary highlighting the role of men, women & commerce
in mainstream hip hop. Panel discussion, featuring Chuck D follows.

Fundraiser for Battered Women's Support Services

BWSS Crisis & Intake Line: 604-687-1867

Vancity Theatre: Vancouver International Film Theatre

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For all of you Fashionistas and Early Christmas Shoppers

FAB FAIR’S 5th Annual WINTER SALE

When: Saturday November 22nd and Sunday November 23rd 11:00am-5:00pm daily
Where: Heritage Hall - 3102 Main Street at 15th Avenue,
Vancouver

What: 45 fabulous and funky local designers
will come together in the historic Heritage Hall to display their eclectic mix
of jewellery, handbags, scarves, hats, belts and so much more.

$2 admission, kids free.

For more information email:fabfair@hotmail.com

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Eastside Culture Crawl

When: Nov 21: 5pm to 10pm & Nov 22 + 23: 11am to 6pm
Where: In over 300 artist's studios across East Vancouver!

What: The Eastside Culture Crawl is an annual FREE 3-day visual arts festival.
This event involves artists who work on the east side of Vancouver, BC,
in an area bounded by Main Street to Commercial Drive and from First Avenue
north to the waterfront.

The website has the locations of participating artists.

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Tar Sands: The Dark Side of the Boom
BC-Wide Speaking Tour on the Impacts of the Tar Sands on
Communities in Alberta and BC

Dogwood Initiative

Council of Canadians

Please join us for a very important panel about the largest industrial project in history that has been devastating the environment and communities in Alberta. This enormous development is expanding across the continent with little to no regard for the eco-systems and communities that lie in the path of its infrastructure.

Speakers include:

Mike Mercredi - Member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, speaking about the front line struggles of the indigenous community in Fort Chipewyan agains the tar sands industry.

Jesse Kalman - Tar Sands Campaigner with the Polaris Institute, speaking about the social and environmental impacts of the tar-sands.

Will Horter - Executive Director of Dogwood Initiative, speaking about the support infrastructure based and proposed in BC affects current and future tar-sands development.(Speaking in Vancouver, Victoria, Comox and Nanaimo)

For more details & information go here.

Tar Sands Tour Dates:

Vancouver
Tuesday, November 25
Heritage Hall, 3102 Main St. (7pm)
Contact - Council of Canadians Vancouver Chapter:
norman.hill@shaw.ca or 604-789-9331

Nanaimo
Tuesday, December 2
Vancouver Island University—Nanaimo Campus
Room 109 - Building 356,
900 Fifth Street (1pm)
Contact - Council of Canadians Nanaimo Chapter:
blhansen@shaw.ca or 250-245-2254 / 250-816-6253

Victoria
Wednesday, December 3
The BCGEU Hall,
2994 Douglas Street (7pm)
Contact - Council of Canadians Victoria Chapter:
barbaramp@fastmail.fm or (250) 220-5355

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Anti-Poverty Legal Strategies: Housing and Human Rights

Meet Irene Faulkner, Lawyer in the Victoria Tent City Case

In October, the BC Supreme Court judged that Victoria's bylaw preventing homeless people from erecting temporary shelters in city parks violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms*. Irene Faulkner will speak in Vancouver on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 as part of a panel on housing and human rights.

Join us in a discussion with legal organizations and lawyers representing poor and homeless people in the fight against poverty. What are the possibilities and limitations of the law in anti-poverty organizing? What role do those directly affected by poverty have in advancing legal challenges?

WHO:

IRENE FAULKNER: Lawyer in Victoria Tent City lawsuit. Last month, a BC Supreme Court found that Victoria's bylaw preventing homeless people from erecting temporary shelters in city parks violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

ROZ SALVADOR: lawyer with BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre, a non-profit, public interest law office that advocates for poor people in matters of income assistance, disability benefits and residential tenancy.

LAURA TRACK: lawyer with Pivot Legal Society that utilizes strategic legal advocacy to focus on the causes of problems rather than symptoms.
PIVOT has released several reports and launched several legal complaints on the issue of lack of affordable housing in the DTES.

WHAT:"Housing, fighting poverty and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms"

WHERE:YWCA, 733 Beatty Street

WHEN:Wednesday, November 26th, 6:30 p.m.

The event is free.

This event is organized by West Coast LEAF and co-sponsored by the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre POW (Power of Women) Project.
For more information please phone (604) 684-8772
or email exec@westcoastleaf.org or project@dewc.ca

*"Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice." s. 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982, being Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982, (U.K.), 1982, c. 11

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