June 14th, 7:30pm.

The author and illustrator of the powerful comic book, Gord Hill, member of the Kwakwaka’wakw nation,

will make connections between Indigenous resistance, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist movements such as

those leading the frontlines of resistance to the G8/G20.

500 Years of Resistance is a historically accurate graphic portrayal of Indigenous resistance to the European

colonization of the Americas, and there will be copies for sale!

This event if free! Everyone welcome.

Vegan SxE Hardcore Show featuring:

Lab Rat from Calgary- animal liberation, vegan, SxE hardcore music http://www.myspace.com/labrathardcore

Rape Revenge from Calgary- feminist, queer, vegetarian SxE grindcore music http://www.myspace.com/raperevenge403

Renewal from Peterborough ON- Definitely not the Christian pop band by the same name, but the opposite http://www.myspace.com/renewaltheband

$5-$10 suggested cover goes right to the bands, PWYC
All Ages, dry show
8 – 11 pm
Invite yer friends and come out to dance!

The SUN, FUN and SLAVERY TOUR

featuring:

KINGDOM SHORE (Ottawa)

NELSON ROSS LAGUNA (Ottawa)

Wherein the band Kingdom Shore covers the earth w/ their contemporary string music from an anxious world, before (or after) author Nelson Ross Laguna launches his book Sun, Fun & Slavery: How the South Became the North’s Playground (Exile Press) by leading a discussion about the neo-colonial practice of the South American tourism industry.

After covering traveling costs, all proceed go toward the continuing existence and operation of AKA. This stop on the tour will also feature the Exile Infoshop Traveling Bookstore of radical books and zines.

When: Sunday, March 28, 2010

Where: AKA Autonomous Social Centre, 75 Queen St., Unit 1

Start: 7:00pm

Admission: $7 suggested donation for the gainfully employed

$4 for the under-waged/under-employed/student

Otherwise, pay what you can. No genuine interest will be turned away.

ALL AGES

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About NELSON ROSS LAGUNA (Ottawa)

Union leader and activist Nelson is a founding member of the Exile Infoshop (http://www.exilebooks.org/) workers co-operative in Ottawa, along with being an author, ex (?) musician, and heavily underrated street hockey goaler.

ABOUT Sun, Fun & Slavery: How the South Became the North’s Playground (Exile Press)

“Most of us never stop to think about the footprints we leave after we have left the areas we claim to explore. Our attempts at helping the global south with tourist dollars is another attempt to have white man’s privilege save the poor from becoming poorer, all the while reinforcing racist stereotypes and the histories of slavery on a continuing path of imperialism. In our attempts to invent our own little paradise in someone else’s backyard, we have created a system that bears a striking resemblance to the one we were determined to destroy. Sun, Fun & Slavery is a short exploration of this phenomenon, with a focus on the intersection between modern-day tourism and terrorism.” –AK Press (http://www.akpress.org/2009/items/sunfunandslavery)

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About KINGDOM SHORE (Ottawa)

Dear friends, hawsers holding fast on the grim perimeters of this pinchbeck holding company, Kingdom Shore was formed in the ruck and warrens of March 2006, beneath the long shadows cast by the punk rock that grew out of 1980’s hardcore, avant and art rock, electro-acoustic music, noise, old world Gospel, and contemporary and left-field music, to take turns at watch so that we may fail well to stave off the malevolent, the narrow of heart, the analogue tastemakers, the dissociate, the ruder forms that survive slackjawed and willfully ignorant at hoarse latitudes, to take pleasure in twilight, to rejoice in waves standing at 19Hz, to refuse the world as a justification of interests in a strategy of slaughter as sold to us, to defy the open nerve of dispossession, to hum quietly among the hares at free elections under threat of the gun, to resist inheriting numbness, to give back what little we have received that is good, to rise up and get down, and to draw toward the hearth those who know that the light in this world is not its final ash, and that if you believed in anything, you could not kill another.

This is not a bid for relevance. This is not modern. This is not chamber music. Museums are for education, and active forgetting, and are not prisons for the children we are and are ours. It is too soon to relegate ours goals to incompleteness. There is so much left to do. Despair young and never look back. Bend closer children. Let us go.

The current line-up includes Nathan Medema (pedals, found-sounds and field recordings, laptop, electronics, samples, processing), and Simon Guibord (laptop, electronics, Korg MS-20), Ryan Hough (violin), Jasmine Landau (violin), Gerg Horvath (Double-Bass), and Mark Molnar (cello, loops, and electronics).

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For on-line information please see:

Kingdom Shore – www.kingdomshore.ca

Exile Infoshop – www.exilebooks.org

Black Bough Records – www.blackbough.ca

Sul pont – www.sulpont.ca

8pm start

featuring:

Dirty Lickins

Jeff Andrew

Scott Dunbar

Boucan d’enfer

$5-10 Pay what you can – No one gets turned down at the door!

This is a dry event meaning no alcohol will be sold! BUT it’s a snacks/baked goods potluck event! So there will be snacks and probably non-alcoholic beverages served for free. You can bring something if you want to participate it is optional, but if you do bring something PLEASE bring a list of ingredients for allergy reasons. Also it doesn’t have to be vegan, but it would be nice if there were vegan and non-vegan snacks.

AKA Autonomous Social Centre launches its Miasma Infoshop! Join us for an afternoon of zine exploration, book lending, local author spotlights, DIY clothes and culture, food and music.

Miasma Infoshop in the AKA Autonomous Social Centre is a radical literature distributor with anarchist and other kinds of radical media including books, zines, pamphlets, film, music, and more.

Our infoshop has some materials available for sale, but the majority of our stock is in the lending library. We have reading and meeting space, and a kid’s area with toys and books.

The launch will go from 1-5pm on March 21. From 2-4pm the launch proceeds with zine/book readings and music from the excellent Dirty Lickens. Snacks and entrance are free…

This will be a child friendly event.

Come celebrate a space for alternative ideas and resources

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!

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

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

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!

cared@ams.queensu.ca