G8/G20 - Open Meetings, Announcments and Events

G8/G20 - Open Meetings, Announcments and Events

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JUNE 2010 G8/G20 CONVERGENCE
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/


ANNOUNCEMENTS and EVENTS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Next Toronto Community Mobilization Network Meeting
2. Request for housing/transportation/billeting and funds!
3. Poster in your area!
4. G20 Alternative Media Centre
5. Request for donations from Movement Defense Committee – Summit Legal Support Project

EVENTS

6. G20 Alt Media Centre Radio Workshop
7. Spring 2010 Anarchist Free University’s “Open Media Initiative”
8. G20 Art Making/ Performance/ Sound
9. Marxism 2010 Conference
10. Toronto VS. G20 Teach-In
11. Current schedule of actions


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PLEASE FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!
LETS GET THE WORD OUT!

Seventh Community Mobilization Network Open Planning Meeting for G8/20
Resistance in Toronto

29 May, 2010
11am – 1pm
Steelworkers Hall
25 Cecil Street

Hearing so much about the G20 but don’t know how to plug in? The open planning meetings are a great way to meet folks, hear updates and get a sense of what is needed from various committees.

We will be giving updates on schedules, distributing posters and flyers and discussing logistical details.

Followed by Outreach in different parts of the city – please come prepared to give an update!

The Community Mobilization Network is organizing the community based outreach, independent media, convergence for the days of action leading up to and during the G8/20 Summits in Ontario (June 25-27,2010).

If you are unable to attend but would like to participate in one of the committees, get more information or host a G8/G20 related event, email community.mobilize@resist.ca

If you haven't done so already - join our announcements list
email community.mobilize@resist.ca

and the facebook group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=236150947036

Keep visiting us online at: http://g20.torontomobilize.org/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/g20mobilize


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Need a ride to Toronto? Can you give someone a ride?

Need housing? Or can you provide floor space?

Let us know if you need transportation or housing, or if you can provide
anything for people in Toronto. Please fill out the housing and rideshare
forms on the website.

• If you need housing, please go here:
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/visitorhousing
• If you can provide housing, please go here:
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/housingform
• Need a ride? Offer a ride? Go to our ride share board:
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/rideshare
<http://g20.torontomobilize.org/rideshare>• Other Info about Coming to
Toronto:
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/comingtotoronto

While at the website, please donate what you can to the Network. We are
organizing a convergence space, providing food, training, education and
outreach. We need all the help we can get. To donate via Paypal, please go
to g20.torontomobilize.org and click on the link called “donate by Paypal”
or send cheques and cash to:

360A Bloor Street West, PO Box 68557, Toronto, ON M5S 1X0.

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Poster in your area!

With one month to go, we need you to spread the word in your community,
work and hang out places. If you can poster in your neighbourhood, please
let us know and we’ll get you posters.

Please email community.mobilize@resist.ca and we’ll connect you with the
Outreach team for posters and flyers.

If you can download and print materials, visit
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/posters

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The G20 Alternative Media Centre is looking for community radio activists,
web writers, editorialists, bloggers, journalists and videographers who
want to contribute to 2010.mediacoop.org during the G20 protests.

If you are interested in volunteering or can donate equipment, please go
to http://g20.torontomobilize.org/altmedia

And fill out the form!

For more questions, email g20altmedia@gmail.com

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i'm writing on behalf of the movement defense committee summit legal support project (mdc-slsp). the legal office is getting in gear though we need a bunch o'stuff! it would be great if the word could be spread about acquiring the following for the month of june:

1) computers/monitors (that work! or could be fixed to work!)
2) printer
3) computer desks and chairs
4) floor lamps
5) working telephones

all of this stuff could be returned after we're done w/ it...ideally we'd like to start collecting stuff in early June so we can test everything out before the week of action, etc. and could arrange for pick-up...

Please contact Karin if you can help at karinbaqi@riseup.net


EVENTS


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You are invited to a radio workshop!
Presented by the G20 Alternative Media Centre

Sunday, 23 May, 2010
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
318 Harbord Street (one long block south of Christie Station, behind/east
of the Linux Caffe)

Part 1: Radio Interviewing Workshop
Learn how to present a focussed 15-minute news/current affairs radio
interview that inspires social change. The workshop is adapted from one
originally designed by the Redeye news collective at Vancouver's Coop Radio.
It includes a section on pre-interviews, the difference between a topic and
a focus, how to order your questions, and interviewer etiquette for radical
allied media-makers. There is no tech component, so the workshop may also be
useful for video journalists.

Part 2: Field Recording and Digital Audio Editing
Learn how to capture the best sounds for radio using a digital recorder
(provided). Includes a section on mic techniques. Also learn how to
digitally edit your collected audio using free, open source software
Audacity on your own laptop or the ones provided. Also includes a section on
how to share your work for radio broadcast on local and national community
stations.

Part 3: GroundWire: Community Radio News
Learn how to produce a short, 2-minute news headline for GroundWire:
Community Radio News, a project of the National Campus and Community Radio
Association.

Facilitators: Anabel Khoo, Candace Mooers, and Jacky Tuinstra-Harrison.
Combined, they share over 25 years of experience working and volunteering in
community-based radio projects, including CHSR in Fredericton, CHRY in
Toronto, CKCU in Ottawa, CKDU in Halifax, and CKUT in Montreal.


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Spring 2010 | Anarchist Free University

Open Media Initiative
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Filmmaker Joseph Cami will facilitate an *EIGHT-WEEK* media initiative that will combine the diverse interests and concerns of the participants into a film that will be openly disseminated during the G20. This will be an interactive, creative and collaborative effort to help each person learn more about media by experiencing different aspects of the filmmaking process while learning how to creatively explore the social issues that matter most to us...

Starts May 25th, 2010
*Tuesdays*, 18.30 - 21.30
* location tbd (either UFT or Dupont & Ossington)
* facilitated by Joseph Cami
* we've had to *limit the number of people* who can sign up for this
course to *20* because of the resources needed in film production
* Please *RSVP* johnson_cami@hotmail.com to attend

for more details about the course click here...
www.jrjc.info/AFU_Open_Media_Initiative.html

fore more details about the facilitator click here...
www.jrjc.info/JRJC.html


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ART MAKING/PERFORMANCE/SOUND

Wednesday May 26
6-9 PM

100 St. George (Sydney Smith)
Geography Grad Students' Room
Room SSH621A, accessed through room SSH619
IN THE BASEMENT
Elevator in the lobby

Things we want to do:
- make stuff
- brainstorm catchy anti-G20 slogans
- design t-shirts with these slogans
- talk about art actions
- plan for arts other than visual arts
- start making puppets

You don't need to be an artist! You just have to be excited about art.


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Marxism 2010
A Planet to Save, A World to Win

Including panel “Crisis and Resistance from Greece to the G20.”

May 28 – May 30
Ryerson Student Centre
55 Gould Street

For full schedule and to register, go to marxismconference.ca

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Toronto vs. the G20
Teach-in
“Community Action for Social Justice”

Sat. June 5, 2010
10:30 – 6:00PM

OISE, 252 Bloor Street W., 5th Floor

What are we protesting, again?

It’s a good impulse to feel contempt for the G20. It’s a better impulse to
want to talk about it. Join student and community activists to learn about
the G20 and current social and environmental justice campaigns in Toronto,
and to get involved. Free citywide teach-in. Lunch included!

Check out schedule here:
*http://g20.torontomobilize.org/torontoVSG20*
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For more details, go to g20.torontomobilize.org/schedule

June 21 – All Out In Defense of the Rights of All March! 2pm, Allan
Gardens.
June 22 – Gender Justice; Queer and Disability Rights
June 23 – Climate and Environmental Justice
June 24 – Indigenous Sovereignty and Self-Determination! 11am Queen’s Park
June 24 – Confront the Invasions Forum. 95 Charles Street.

June 25 – 27 – DAYS OF ACTION

June 25 – Justice for our Communities. Rally. March. Tent City. 2:30 PM
Allan Gardens. Rally. March. Block Party. Tent City.

June 25 – Shout Out for Global Justice! 7:30 Convocation Hall. Forum

June 26 – People First! We Deserve Better! 1pm Queen’s Park. Rally. March.

June 26 – Get Off the Fence! Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Colonial March to
the Summit. 1pm College and University. March

June 26 – Saturday Night Fever. Radical Street Party. Late to Dawn.

June 27 – Getting Down to Businesses! Autonomous Direct Actions (invites
to Affinity Groups)

June 27 – Fire. Works. For. Prisons. 5pm. Bruce Mackay Park. Dundas and
Wardell. March

People are encouraged to host meetings, film screenings, panel events,
performances, marches, rallies, direct actions in cities across the world
that fit in to these themes. Please let us know what you are planning -
community.mobilize@resist.ca

The Community Mobilization Network is not organizing these actions.
Instead it is the networking space to coordinate different interests and
ideas. If your organization, community or group wants to organize on one
of these dates and want to connect with others, email
community.mobilize@resist.ca

A People's Summit is also being planned on 18-20 June 2010. Check it out
at http://peoplessummit2010.ca/

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Protest the G8/G20 in June!