March 13th, Radical Open Mic V.2: Soapbox
March 13th: Make Your Own Reusable Menstrual Pads!
Saturday March 13th, 2-4pm @ AKA:
Join us for a FREE, hands-on workshop for individuals who would like to learn how to make their own reusable menstrual pads. The history of the feminine hygiene industry is one example of corporations attempting to exert control over women’s bodies through pressures to look and smell “clean” and “attractive” to men. Making your own menstrual pads is one way to assert your independence from the feminine hygiene industry, as well as reduce environmental impact, and save some money.
There will be childcare provided.
We appreciate registration via email to ensure space and supplies. Email groundswell@riseup.net and be sure to tell us if you will be bringing any children!
March 12th: Shades of Gay
Queen’s Pride Project and Queen’s Native Students’ Association Presents:
SHADES OF GAY!
Dance! Dance! DANCE!
This QCRED-sponsored event is the first queer dance in Kingston that is geared towards queers of colour! We welcome people of colour, Indigenous people, and allies to dance without fear, and begin community building!!
This event is 19+
Cost: Pay what you can!
Supporters: CultureSHOCK! and the Women’s Centre at Queen’s
March 12th: Red Slam Collective
Red Slam Collective featuring MC 7th Son, Miles Turner, Mahlikah “AngelHeart” Awe:ri, Lena Recollet, and Isaac Riverwalker with Yusei Ota on Drums…is spreading the S.L.A.M. movement East during another week of Aboriginal Awareness in Ontario Universities.
Free Admission
All Ages
Showtime: 7:30pm
March 6th: CARED ‘How to be an Ally’ workshop
March 6th, 1-4pm, RSVP
Are you looking for a non-judgmental space to confront apprehensions about anti-racist activism, or to start a dialogue about discrimination in your life and work? Do you want to help fight racism, but aren’t sure where exactly to start?
This mini ‘How to be an Ally” workshop, hosted by the Queen’s Committee Against Racial and Ethnic Discrimination seeks to provide participants with the knowledge and understanding of tools and strategies that can be used to prevent discrimination and create schools and communities that welcome and value diversity.
We aim to provide a safe space for engagement with anti-oppression and offer suggestions for practical action to combat racism in your social networks.
Please join us to learn how we can all work together to build a more inclusive community!
Free admittance; all welcome! Snacks will be provided 
You can also check out our facebook event page
We have space for about 25 people. Please confirm by email if you’re attending!
February 28th: Prison World
747 Presents Prison World
February 28th @ 7:47pm, AKA
A short documentary about the Prison Revolts in Greece in 2007
(DIY, 35 minutes, subtitles, 2008)
In the morning of Monday, April 23, 2007, prisoners at the prison of Malandrino in Fokida, mainland Greece, revolted. The spark igniting the revolt was the beating of anarchist prisoner Yiannis Dimitrakis as well as the vicious, violent response of the guards to the protests staged by his co-prisoners. The revolt spread to at least 11 other prisons and lasted for 4 days.
Prisons in Greece are not unfamiliar with revolts and protests, due in large part to the political use of prisons as a means of repression by the Greek state, and the inhumane conditions within them. November 2008 saw a month of prison revolt involving some 90% of Greece’s 11,700 prisoners.
The film will be followed by a banner and sign-making party hosted by End the Prison Industrial Complex (EPIC) for the picket called for by the Save Our Farms Coalition at Corrections Canada Regional Headquarters on Monday morning at 7:30am. More info: http://www.saveourfarms.ca or email epic (at) riseup.net
February 21st: Tar Angel
747 Film Series Presents: Tar Angel
Sunday, February 21st at 7:47 PM
AKA Autonomous Social Centre
Kingston, ON
Ahmed Kasmi and his family left Algeria 3 years ago. The family now resides in Montreal and they are one week away from receiving their Canadian citizenship. Ahmed’s son, 19-year-old Hafid, joins a group of young activists and breaks into an immigration office to delete computer files. Filmed by surveillance cameras, Hafid’s actions are broadcast on the nightly news. He is now a fugitive. While practicing the Canadian national anthem, Ahmed sees his son on TV and is devastated. He must now try to save his son and his family’s chance at citizenship.
With no one to turn to, Ahmed sets out alone into the snowy streets of Montreal. Trying to retrace the steps of his radical activist son, he discovers a city he does not know and a son who is a stranger to him. Along the way, Ahmed encounters Huguette, a feisty young woman who is deeply in love with Hafid. Although they form an unlikely pair, Huguette and Ahmed agree to search for Hafid in an attempt to stop him from further militant actions.
February 10th: RAN Training Workshop
Join the Canadian Unified Students Environmental Network (CUSEN) for workshops we are hosting in Kingston with amazing folks from the Rainforest Action Network and RAN Toronto (RANT). The evening of workshopping is free and there will be free food provided.
On February 10th at AKA Autonomous Social Centre, 75 Queen St.
6-9:30pm, members from RAN will facilitate workshops on the following topics:
-tar sands 101 [HOW TO STOP THE EVIL]
-campaign strategies [get people to be interested!]
-direct action training
-intro to campus organizing [the ins and outs of student minds]
The workshops are open to everyone, you don’t need to go to Queen’s or be a student.
January 24th: If I Die Tonight
The 747 Movie Series presents: If I Die Tonight at 7:47pm
A unique and provocative view into the great divide between “the people” and “the police”.
IF I DIE TONIGHT is not a “documentary from a distance”. Whether or not one agrees with their viewpoints, the characters elicit instant rapport with and compassion from their audience as they re-live their experiences. IF I DIE TONIGHT is a film about racial profiling, police brutality and the system that allows these enigmas to exist and persist, as seen through the lives and stories of those who are living on both sides of an impenetrable divide.
(USA 2009, 92 minutes. Written, produced and directed by Seyi.)
January 24th: the really really FREE market!
Sunday January 24th, 1-5pm
WHAT: A market of free stuff!
Bring: books, music, clothes, ideas, skills to share, food and other items to give away. And/Or, take as much free stuff as you want.
WHY, you ask?: Because sharing is more fulfilling than owning and because as a community we have many more resources than we do as individuals.
All are welcome… no money please!