From: Darrell Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 22:36:26 -0500
To: Darrell Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Calendar - July 1/ 01
With the arrest of former president of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic, one
anticipates the most important �show trial� since the trial of Georgi
Dimitrov by the Nazi court for the Reichstag fire (1933). The indictment
and conviction of NATO leaders (including Jean Chr�tien) for their criminal
and barbaric attacks on Yugoslavia is a task that will fall to the People�s
Court of the future working class dictatorship.
�Yes, he who does not want to be an anvil, must be a hammer. The German
working class did not realize the truth of this either in 1918, or in 1923,
or on July 20, 1932, or in January 1933...�
� George Dimitrov, Selected Works, Vol. 1, p. 402. (Sentenced to death in
absentia for his role in the Communist Party-led worker�s and peasants�
uprising of September 23, 1923 against the bloody military dictatorship in
his native Bulgaria, Dimitrov was at the time of the Reichstag trial a
member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. Dimitrov
quotes Goethe, �Leiden oder truimphieren, Amboss oder Hammer sein�.)
�The only reasons I am in this prison are because I am a socialist and
because I stood up to NATO. I am a political prisoner.�
� Slobodan Miloevic, interviewed in prison by Chris Black, Canadian lawyer,
June 15, 2001
Calendar
Ongoing actions
� Versatile - 250 CAW members have been locked out since March 27, after
being on strike since November 3. The main issue is keeping the factory in
Winnipeg and recognition of collective bargaining rights, as set out at 12
days of hearings at the Labour Board. Join the 24-hour picket line on
Clarence St., just West of Marshall. Call to help petition and lobby the
government to buy the factory so that it stays in Winnipeg - 487-2217.
� Brinks guards - over 100 Teamsters are on strike; join the picket line at
York & Fort or at 405 Dawson Rd., from 6 a.m. to midnight On strike since
Oct. 24.
� Just Theatre is holding auditions for people interested in creating and
performing progressive social and political satire - call Thomas at 287-8583
� Child Care Coalition of Manitoba is calling for a �Quebec-style�
childcare system in Manitoba. For a copy of the Coalition�s comprehensive
�Blueprint for Action - a five year plan for Manitoba Child Care Policy
Redesign� or for information on joining the coalition, call Cecile Cassista
489-0355. A five year plan - what a great idea!
� The Marxism Course is beginning soon, to register call the Communist
Party at 586-7824.
� To receive regular information on developments in Colombia and the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People�s Army (FARC), get in touch
with the Winnipeg FARC Solidarity Committee at 222-0736.
� Peace Alliance Winnipeg is collecting names on a petition against �Son of
Star Wars� � Missile Defence � calling on Ottawa to get off the fence and
speak out against this insane plan. To help out and get a copy, call
775-8178.
� �Critical Mass� bike ride every Friday to promote/ celebrate bike riding
as an alternative form of transportation, 5 pm at Vimy Ridge Park (Broadway
& Portage)
� Boycott: Canada Post franchise outlets, privately owned wine stores in
Manitoba, Philips Electronic, Electrolux and NORPAC (frozen fruits and
vegetables) products, Indonesian goods, Victoria Inn (Brandon), Royal Oak
Inn (Brandon)
� Mayworks 2002 - if your group would like to participate in next year�s
festival of Labour and the Arts, let the Mayworks Committee know by August
15 for purposes of grant applications - 947-2220
July
Sun, 1 July - Police attack On to Ottawa Trek, Regina, 1935
Tues, 3 July - Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee, WORC*, 7 pm
- Winnipeg School Division No. 1, 7 pm, 1577 Wall St. E.
(by Notre Dame) - subject to change, 775-0231
Wed, 4 July - DAISY (Direct Action is so yummy****), 91 Albert St, 2nd
fl., 7:30 pm
Sun, 8 July - Direct Action***, WORC*, noon
Mon, 9 July - Structured Movement Against Capitalism**, 7:30 pm, WORC*
Thur, 12 July - Peace Alliance Winnipeg, 7 pm, WORC*
- Coalition for Economic Justice*****, 7:30 pm, WORC*
Sat, 14 July - Petitioning to keep the Versatile factory in Winnipeg,
10:30 am at the corner of River & Osborne call the Penner-Bethune Club
586-7824 if you can help out.
- Free* Festival, Forks, 2 pm - �a summer gathering where
everything and everyone is free� �the aim is for everyone to become active
participants in the creation of a free space.�
Sun, 15 July - Joint Winnipeg Club meeting, 10:30 am, at Ukrainian
Labour Temple
16-27 July - Grand Work Bee - renovating the offices at 387 Selkirk -
call 586-7824 to help!
Mon, 16 July - Winnipeg School Division No. 1, 7 pm, 1577 Wall St. E.
(by Notre Dame) - subject to change, 775-0231
Wed, 18 July - City Council meeting, City Hall, 9:30 am
- Spanish Civil War begins, 1936
Thur, 19 July - People�s Voice deadline
Mon, 23 July - Structured Movement Against Capitalism**, 7:30 pm, WORC*
- First volume of Capital by Karl Marx published, 1867
Thur, 26 July - Moncada Day celebration, with Grupo Moncada from Cuba!
Plus special guests - Music, Politics, Culture - doors 7 pm, show 9 pm, le
Rendez-Vous, 768 Tache, sponsored by Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Cte, tickets
$15
- Coalition for Economic Justice*****, 7:30 pm, WORC*
- Castro leads attack on Moncada barracks, 1953
August
Thur, 2 Aug - Dimitrov�s United Front speech, 1935
Mon, 6 Aug - Lanterns for Peace, Hiroshima Day commemoration,
Centennial Library Gardens Pool, 8:00 pm, Peace Alliance Winnipeg, 775-8178.
Out of town
July 5-8 - Water for People and Nature: A forum on conservation and
human rights, UBC Campus, Vancouver, info Council of Canadians,
www.canadians.org/blueplanet/index2.html
July 6-8 - Communist Party USA national convention, Milwaukie,
www.cpusa.org
July 8-13 - Canadian Labour Congress Youth Kamp, ages 10-15, 947-9494
August 8-16 - 15th World Festival of Youth and Student, Algiers,
Algeria, Winnipeg prep committee, 775-8518
August 19-25 - CHO!CES youth activist retreat, info Jesse 944-9408
Sept. 27-30 - First International Conference on Environmental Recovery
of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, www.me.berkley.edu/~ENRY2001
Sept 28-Oct 4 - IMF and World Bank meeting, Washington DC
Oct 5-6 - The Corporate-Security State, international teach-in on
the use of global police and militaries to protect corporate globalization
against people and democratic dissent, Ottawa, info (604) 687-3223,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
October 12-14 - �Holding the University Accountable: Divesting from
Israeli Apartheid, U California Berkeley Campus, Students for Justice in
Palestine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
October 13 - International Day to Protest the Militarization of Space,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], www.space4peace.org.
October 20 - Unveiling of Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion monument in
Ottawa, 10:00 am
Notes
TBA - to be announced
*Workers� Organizing Resource Centre, 205 Notre Dame, 947-2220
**SMAC aims to be �a structured movement against capitalism, a movement
capable of bringing together all those who are opposed to corporate
globalisation and its negative consequences, regardless of their ideology
or political affiliation.�
***Direct Action Group (labour & other activists), WORC, Sundays usually at
noon, call office to confirm details
****DAISY(Q) is opposing the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas and other
aspects anti-corporate globalization, it can be reached at 786-5000,
extension 1878, www.DaisyQ.org.
*****The CEJ meets the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month, it is working on
a People�s Bill of Economic Rights and an agenda to eliminate poverty in
Manitoba'
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