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The stuff is actually not bad at all. It's brewed by a microbrewery out BC way called Cannery Brewing Company. Just exactly the right amount of hops for my taste. Apparently it has been brewed since 2000, but its distribution here to Manitoba is so recent that it isn't even mentioned on their website that. It was mentioned by (who else) 'Mr BeerN'Hockey' on his blog last spring, but I thought he was spinning a yarn. The company site states that the beer is only available in BC and Alberta. Not anymore.

So, here's my little plug for the guys who make beer in an old cannery in Penticton BC. Wanna spice up that next incredibly dull political meeting where the speaker in front drones on and on about dialectics, intersectionality, praxisology and many other words that they barely know the meaning of-including many that have no meaning ? Well...it's obviously "cash bar time", and you can put a little fizz in the dry, dull, dreary business of leftism by flogging 'Anarchist Amber Ale'. Just get on the tails of your local liquor store to start ordering it in. Believe it or not those guys do listen to customer requests. I don't know how well it might go trying to import it to the USA however. I have a vision of a whole truckload being intercepted and "rendered" by a midnight flight to some prison in Bulgaria as a threat to the "natjunal sekurty" of the USA. Ah well, at least it will keep the jailers too drunk to get around to torturing anyone. Be the first on your block to drink the "beer with meaning" on your front stoop and fling the empties at passing police cars. Where else are you going to get a "statement in a can". Fun for the whole family I'm sure.

CANADIAN LABOUR-SUDBURY:

STRIKE SUPPORT WEEK IN SUDBURY:

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Candle Light Vigil and Support Strike kick off a ‘Week of Action’:
SUDBURY—The Sudbury District Labour Council (SDLC) will be holding a candle light vigil to commemorate International Human Rights Day and to support the Steelworker’s strike at Vale-Inco on Thursday, December 10th at 6:00 pm. The event, which is sponsored by both the SDLC and United Steelworkers Local 6500 will start at the McClelland Arena in Copper Cliff and continue with a candle-lit procession to the Steelworkers’ picket line at Vale’s smelter.

The vigil will be held on International Human Rights Day—the day that marks the 61st anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. The Declaration includes several articles on economic human rights and workers’ rights including the right to work and join trade unions (Article 23), the right to rest and leisure (Article 24) and the right to a decent standard of living (Article 25).

Organizers say they want to show that the Steelworkers fight at Vale is a human rights issue. “Workers’ rights and the right to decent work and a decent standard of living are some of the most important aspects of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. We see the Steelworkers fight at Vale as a human rights issue, and an issue impacting this entire community, not just the members of Local 6500.”

Week of Action for Working Families The Workers’ Rights are Human Rights Candle Light Vigil will kick off a Week of Action for Working Families in Sudbury and at Vale locations across Canada. In Sudbury union members, student activists, retirees, and families of the strikers are planning six days of action on the picket lines and across town. The week is being organized by USW members and community supporters as an opportunity to display widespread and growing support for the Union’s struggle for a Fair Deal at Vale-Inco.
Contact: John Fera, President, USW Local 6500—705-675-3381

John Closs, President, SDLC–705-929-1496
For a full schedule of Week of Action events, please click here.

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Thursday, December 10th—International Human Rights Day Candlelight Vigil on the Picket Lines, sponsored by the Sudbury District Labour Council and the United Steelworkers
Event starts at 6:00 pm at the McClelland Arena in Copper Cliff and continuing at the Smelter Picketline.

Friday, December 11th—Out of the Classrooms and Onto the Picket Lines! Students and faculty from Laurentian University are coming out to hold ‘class’ at the picket line at Clarabelle Mill at 11:00 am. Sponsored by the Laurentian University Faculty Association (LUFA) and Laurentian Canadian Federation of Students (CFS).

Saturday, December 12th—Sunday, December 13th—Families Supporting the Strikers Fundraiser. Bake sale, penny tables, indoor yard sale, face painting, door prizes, jewelry, and private vendors. Admission is $2.00 and children under 10 get in free.
Saturday from 9am to 5pm and Sunday from noon to 5 pm.
At the new Steel Hall at 66 Brady St.

Sunday, December 13th—Steelworker Solidarity with the Strike
Join a busload of USW members from the Toronto area for an action on the Clarabelle Mill picket line at noon.

Monday, December 14th—Lessons from the Past—Protecting What We’ve Won
Retired veterans of the 1978 strike and other struggles at Inco tell their stories of how we won the contractual benefits we have now. Starts at 1:00 at the Smelter Picket Line.

Tuesday, December 15th—Fair Deal for Our Families—Join members of the Families Supporting the Strikers Committee as they march from Copper Cliff Park to Vale’s offices to deliver a message of support for the strikers. The event starts at 3:00 at Copper Cliff Park and the march steps off at 3:30.

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Help build the 2010 anarchist assembly!:
Recently a group of anarchist activists who were involved in organizing the 2009 Toronto anarchist gathering got together to start planning a similar event for 2010.

What we came up with at our initial meeting was to call an anarchist assembly to be held in Toronto in March 2010.

We see this as a public assembly consisting of assembly meetings, workshops, book tables, and social spaces that will build the anarchist movement.

The next organizing meeting for the 2010 anarchist assembly will be held:

Sunday November 29

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)

252 Bloor St. West (St. George Subway)

4pm

Meet in the lobby

We encourage all anarchist activists to participate in making this a productive and exciting event for all.

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Creating a Just Health Care System for Immigrants and Refugees:‏
~Please forward widely~

Crossing the Borders:

Creating a Just Health Care System for Immigrants and Refugees

* Presented by "Health for All"

Thursday November 26th

6:30pm

55 Gould Street, Student Campus Centre, Room 115

Ryerson University

*An Evening Panel & Discussion Featuring:*

*Paul Caulford, MD, Scarborough Urban Health Outreach Centre (Clinic for the Uninsured) will discuss the reasons for and workings of the SUHOC, a health clinic that serves a large population of undocumented/uninsured persons.

* Bob Gardner, PhD, The Wellesley Institute will speak about the health care system and structural issues of equity

* Nell T.will speak about her first-hand experience of attempting to access care as a person with precarious status

*MacDonald Scott, LLCL will speak, as Nell's legal representation, from a legal perspective, outlining her unprecedented case in attempting to access Interim Federal Health, without status.

* Health is a fundamental human right. One that is being denied to hundreds of thousands of people living in Toronto. Increasingly conservative immigration policies are leading to high rates of rejection of refugee and permanent resident applications. Such policies leave many migrants with no access to health insurance. It is well established that immigrants tend to arrive healthier than the general Canadian population, but with the stresses associated with migration,migrant health deteriorates and the need to access health care inevitably arises.

The 200,000 undocumented migrants estimated to live in Toronto are forced to live in chronic fear of becoming ill, and to abandon their medical needs until they become too dire to ignore. Many die without ever having accessed care due to fear of being reported to immigration enforcement and the looming threat of deportation. Afraid of being targeted by immigration enforcement, people are forced to choose between deportation or a healthy life.

Every day in our cities, hundreds of thousands are denied justice at the doors of health care facilities throughout Toronto, and forced to pay impossible fees to access basic medical care. There is a growing consciousness around the GTA that we, as health administrators, front line staff, doctors, nurses, social workers, students, and health professionals, must be able to provide services to all people, irrespective of immigration status, and must work together to create a just health care system that recognizes health as a fundamental human right.

We are coming together to create meaningful and accessible services for all people. We invite you to an evening of discussion that will focus on the question: What would a just health care system in Canada look like?

This participatory evening will bring together people who are doing migrant research, front line health care professionals, as well as administrators and staff to discuss the current challenges and innovations in expanding services, and routes of entry into the health care system for persons without insurance and status. This forum will bring together a number of people who are already engaged with these issues - but also bring in students and those who are seeking to learn more about health issues for undocumented peoples living in Toronto, and across Canada.

*We want proposals, we want questions, we want to hear your experiences and know what you think the answers are. Please join us for this very important event.

* *Join our "Health for All" facebook group to stay updated:**http://www.facebook.com/group.**php?gid=180071088303&ref=ts*<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=180071088303&ref=ts>

*Endorsed by*:

Health Is Political

Health Providers Against Poverty

Medical Reform Group

No-One Is Illegal, Toronto

Nursing Students of Ontario Public Health Interest Group,

U of T Medicine

Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario

Residents without Borders,

University of Toronto

Students for Medicare

The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

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Annual General Meeting:‏
Pollock’s Hardware Co-op Ltd.

FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Please join your fellow members for the first AGM of our growing Co-op.

Monday November 30, 2009

Luxton Community Centre (upstairs)

210 St. Cross Street

registration: 6:30pm

call to order: 7:00pm

• presentation of 2008-09 financial report and 2009-10 forecast

• reports from the chair and general manager

• approval of co-op by-laws• election of board of directors*

• open discussion about our future

* If you want to be considered for board membership please send your name and contact info to the Nomination Committee c/o 63 Scotia Street, R2W 3W6 or call 471-3080 or e-mail membership@phco-op.ca

DOOR PRIZES!

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Here's a little blurb and link from the Pollock's Co-op website telling what Pollocks is about. Enjoy.

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No bailouts required for Pollock's:
by Tom Simms
In June 2008, Pollock's Hardware was reborn due in a large part to the historic cooperative values that were embraced by our North End neighbourhood. Little did we know at the time that we would be starting up this unique community enterprise amidst one of the worst economic recessions of our times. On the first year anniversary of the re-opening of the store, which had closed after 85 years when the owners retired and a new owner could not be found, we are pleased to report that while global capitalism is unravelling, Pollock's Hardware Co-op is making record sales. No bailouts required here. Our community-owned hardware store on north Main Street is thriving.

The revival of Pollock's Hardware, which was established in 1922, is based on the same historic co-operative principles used by prairie farmers to deal with the devastation of the prevailing survival-of-the-fittest private market ideology that impacted their livelihoods by forming wheat pools and marketing boards. As well, communities have organized themselves along co-operative lines to establish credit unions to fill the void left by banking institutions.

Read the whole article: Winnipeg Free Press July 17, 2009

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As Part of Indigenous Sovereignty Week:
Host:
Winnipeg Copwatch - est. 2006
Date:
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Time:
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
MERC
Street:
430 Langside
City/Town:
Winnipeg, MB
Description
5PM: Winnipeg Copwatch will be hosting "Start your own Copwatch" Magnus Eliason Recreation Centre, 430 Langside

Police Brutality and systemic/Institutional racism are a daily reality for Indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in Winnipeg and around the world. Police forces exist as forces of occupation of land stolen or misappropriated by governments for the benefit of the elite settler population.

Copwatching as a response to police brutality, racism and colonization can be a useful tool and skill to have when searching for self-determination of your reserve, neighbourhood or community.

Copwatch is offering this workshop on starting your own copwatch as non-indigenous supporters of Indigenous sovereignty week.