Note: this is the June 4th version of this calendar. Later versions may include additional events and details.
*** THE G8 -- BREAKING IT DOWN! ***
A community teach-in about local & global struggles & resistance
Free. * Traduction disponible vers le francais. * Childcare available on request. * Lunch to be served by donation. * Wheelchair accessible.
---> OPENING PANEL: The G8 - Making The Links
With panelists:
---> PANELS, WORKSHOPS & PLENARIES
For more information, the full schedule of panel and workshops, speaker bios, and panel and workshop topics, please see: http://www.takethecapital.net/teachin.html
*** BIKESHEVIKS ***
The Bikesheviks will begin their 2.5 day, 200km trek from Montreal to Ottawa.
For more information or to participate: research@tao.ca (ask to be put on the mailing list) or call 514-848-7421
Across Ontario communities are organizing Highway Caravans that will slow the speed of traffic on the Hwy. 401 to its posted minimum. Caravans of vehicles from just a couple to a whole fleet will drive together onto the Hwy 401, move into both or all lanes, and gradually slow down. Help bring the economy back under our own control. Grab on tight and slow down
Join us on the highways and in Ottawa in June as we take the capital !
The G8 Highway Blockades are an Ontario Common Front action.
Get in touch to organize or co-ordinate a caravan from your area:
---> A Snake March will leave from Dundonald Park (Somerset and Lyon, across from the Beer Store) at 12 PM SHARP.
---> A second Snake March will leave from Confederation Square (The War Memorial at Wellington and Elgin) at 1 PM SHARP.
(The starting point of each march is subject to last-minute change. Check for up-to-date information about the starting point on-line at http://www.takethecapital.net/ and at the Welcome Center upon your arrival in Ottawa on June 25 or 26.)
Both marches will be action-oriented, and will re-decorate the bureaucratic core of the city with colorful and creative symbols of resistance as they slide through Ottawa.
For more information: takethecapital@tao.ca
At mid-day on June 26, Dundonald Park will be reclaimed to offer a public, chill and festive space in which radical anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist opposition to the G8 can be expressed and articulated in eight thousand creative and artistic ways over the course of the two days of protest.
The Chill Zone will also be established as the permanent food-serving site of a number of notorious food collectives on June 26 & 27.
All protesters are asked to respect the chill and festive nature of the zone.
---> If you want to perform, distribute materials & propaganda, play music, organize workshops or contribute to the zone in any other colorful way, please get in touch with us by emailing at takethecapital@tao.ca or by phone at 613-788-3310. <---
The Bikesheviks Velorutionaires will arrive in Ottawa
For more info or to participate contact: research@tao.ca (ask to be put on the mailing list) or call 514-848-7421.
We invite the women in our community to knit or crochet 1 foot squares for our anti-G8 action, which we will link together to form a gigantic "social safety net" to symbolize a caring, compassionate and peaceful society.
Called by the Ottawa Committee of the World March of Women. To get involved, contact: womensmarch@magma.ca / (613) 233-0228
Initiée par la Coordination anti-impérialiste / during the "Take the Capital" Global Days of Actions For more information contact aicg_cai@web.net.
Bring your flags of resistance and other symbols of opposition.
As the G8 retreats to the hills of Kananaskis to intensify the so-called "War on Terror", we will converge in Ottawa against borders, the criminalization of immigrants and refugees, racism, genocide and war.
In solidarity with refugee and immigrant communities, indigenous struggles for self-determination, and all the victims of economic and military imperialism, we assert that NO ONE IS ILLEGAL!
For more information: takethecapital@tao.ca or http://www.takethecapital.net/nooneisillegal.html
*** A PINK BLOC on JUNE 27 ***
Triangle Trash is organizing a "Pink Bloc" for the TAKE THE CAPITAL days of action against the G8 this June in Ottawa. The "Pink Bloc" will converge on June 27th at 1:00 pm in Majors Hill Park for the NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ! a March of 1000 Flags of Resistance. The March is planned to be physically non confrontational.
We decided to march as part of NO ONE IS ILLEGAL to facilitate the participation of as many Queers as possible. We recognize that people are coming from different backgrounds and groups and we want people to be able to march with the "Pink Bloc" and still be able to do their own thing. People wanting to do more Direct Action style stuff will still have the opportunity to do so on the 26th while being able to march on the 27th with Queers who feel the need to be in lower risk actions.
For more info on the "Pink Bloc" or Triangle Trash contact us: triangletrash@yahoo.ca or call (819) 771-0925
For more info or to participate contact: research@tao.ca (ask to be put on the mailing list) or call 514-848-7421.
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TAKE THE CAPITAL!
Ottawa Actions Against the G8
June 26-27, 2002
http://www.takethecapital.net/
mailto: takethecapital@tao.ca
613-788-3310 (messages only)
on parle francais.
se habla espanol.