Occupy Canada

General Meeting - Occupy Niagara

Date: Monday, November 7, 2011 - 4:00pm - 8:00pm

Location

CAW Local 199

124 Bunting Rd.

St. Catharines, ON

Canada

43° 9' 51.6276" N, 79° 12' 35.0748" W

See map: Google Maps

This is the first meeting for those interested in Occupying Niagara Region. If you haven't already, everyone is encouraged to join the conversation, by "liking" the Occupy Niagara page, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Niagara/255923167777669

All are welcome with their ideas and suggestions. Also everyone is encouraged to spread the word and invite others. The meeting starts at 6pm, but come as early as 5pm to meet with your fellow Occupiers.

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Occupy T.O. march, and "Tunes Against Austerity" at City Hall

Date: Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 2:00pm

Location

St. James Park

120 King East King & Church streets

Toronto, ON

Canada

43° 39' 0.6696" N, 79° 22' 23.6244" W

See map: Google Maps

Join Occupy Toronto for a big Saturday march starting at the Occupation Site at St James park.

We will be marching to City Hall, where we will have a rally consisting of a couple of speakers and then a short concert against the social service cutbacks, privatization, wage cuts, and job insecurity that ordinary people are facing on the municipal, provincial and national levels.

Join us in the fightback and ...LETS MAKE SOME NOISE!

2:00 - Meet at St James Park
3:00 - Rally and Concert at City Hall

Speakers and musical performers to be announced a.s.a.p.

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Occupy Kelowna general assembly and rally

Date: Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 10:00am - 11:45am

Location

Kerry Park

Bernard avenue Foot of Bernard

Kelowna, BC

Canada

Phone: 250 868 8080

49° 53' 10.6872" N, 119° 28' 14.88" W

See map: Google Maps

What is OCCUPY KELOWNA ??

Occupy Kelowna is a representation of the whole community. We are business owners, mothers, fathers, starting wage and career workers, union members,retirees, students and even council candidates past and future. We are the 99% of Kelowna citizens who feel unrepresented. We are the 80% that have not voted in years. We are part of the 70% who did not vote Harper in. We are awake and know now that ignoring the way the system works is never going to fix anything. We are the citizens that realize Einstein was right: "You cannot expect different results from the same actions".

What does Occupy Kelowna want?

Simply put; Social Justice.

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Air Canada workers talk at Occupy Toronto

Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Location

St. James Park

King & Church streets North West corner. Look for the GTWA tent near the North West corner of the park (close to Adelaide near the bathrooms).

Toronto, ON

Canada

43° 38' 59.6904" N, 79° 22' 27.8904" W

See map: Google Maps

The Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly (GTWA) is bringing Air Canada workers to Occupy Toronto. Join us as we make the connection between their struggle and the occupation movement and examine how we can we support each other.

Featuring:

- Sean Smith is the Strike and Mobilisation Co-ordinator for CAW Local 2002 representing over 10,000 workers across the country in the airline industry. He is also a member of the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly.

- CUPE Air Canada Flight attendants currently in struggle for a fair contract and being threatened with back to work legislation.

Dress for the weather.

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Activist Communique: Update on the status of Occupy Canada cities threatened with eviction

Krystalline Kraus

| October 28, 2011

Here are some updates from Occupy Canada cities and their relationship with their respective city councils.

Vancouver, BC -

At Occupy Vancouver, the city mayor has made it clear through the media that he wants to see Occupy Vancouver -- located on the lawn of the Vancouver Art Gallery -- shut down but has yet to issue a deadline.

It has become somewhat of an election issue for the current mayor, Gregor Robertson, and during a October 25, 2011, all candidates debate, said he hoped there could be a peaceful resolution to the demonstration. He said, "It is your right to protest. It is not your right to have an encampment in our downtown." Rumours in Vancouver are that the policing cost for the occupy site have exceeded $500,000.

Our new weekly blog roundup

Kaitlin McNabb

| October 28, 2011

rabble.ca is excited to introduce a new feature: our weekly blog roundup! Every Friday we will post a quick snapshot of the week's action, featuring blog posts that inspired, intrigued and informed over the past week, just in case you missed them!

This week's topics range from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside community and their needs, premature prorogation and, of course, Occupy, Occupy, Occupy!

Progressive Voices

Occupy comes to Hamilton

October 27, 2011

| On this week's episode of Progressive Voices, we speak with the Media Committee of Occupy Hamilton on the origins and importance of the Occupy movement, and what Occupy Hamilton hopes to achieve.

Length: 21:03

Activist Communique: Occupying solidarity with Indigenous rights

Krystalline Kraus

| October 28, 2011

When I first heard of the Occupy movement, the first thing that popped in my head was: "Wait a minute, North America/Turtle Island is already occupied; it has been occupied for the past 400 years."

So in case you're wondering, the answer is no, I don't like the title of this movement and the least I can do is refer to the different cities involved as Occupy cities, as opposed to occupied cities because, well, like I said, they are already occupied.

I also use the term "are" in that last statement as opposed to "were" when referring to this land's occupation status since racism and colonization in Canada is not something of the past, but an ongoing, destructive process that Canadians need to admit to.

Missed the Council of Canadians Indignez-Vous! conference? Watch the livestream rebroadcast here

rabble.ca live-streamed the "Indignez-Vous! Hope in Resistance" conference October 21 and 22.

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A directory to #Occupy Canada

Krystalline Kraus

| October 28, 2011

A directory to #Occupy Canada

Occupy Canada officially launched across Canada on October 15, 2011, with 34 cities declaring their participation one month after the Occupy Wall Street movement took off in the U.S. 21 of these occupations are ongoing.

It is fitting and inspiring to see Occupy Canada return to Canada since it was Canadian publishing and culture-jamming group Adbusters who made the first Occupy Wall Street call out on July 13, 2011.

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