Colonization and Anti-Colonial Resistance with Gord Hill!
📅 Thursday October 22
🔥 Doors at 5:45 pm, Event at 6 pm
🍉 Followed by food at 7:30 pm
📍 Vines Den, 825 E Hastings
🌿 xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ lands
🎟️ RSVP Required, with priority spots reserved for Indigenous, Black, Palestinian attendees
We are delighted to have artist, author and activist Gord Hill (Kwakwaka’wakw Nation) join us at Vines Den for an evening on resistance of the past and parallels to the present and future. Through his work, Gord creates visual archives of resistance and the continuum of Indigenous land defence against colonial and fascist projects. As the Carney government approves pipeline after pipeline, data centres, and fast-tracks anti-migrant and mega surveillance bills, we invite you to join us to dive into movement memory to ground us in our ongoing struggle.
Gord Hill is author and artist of the acclaimed graphic novels The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book: From the WTO to the G20, and The Antifa Comic Book. He is also the writer and illustrator of dozens of movement publications, such as Warrior Publications, and has been involved in Indigenous peoples and anti-capitalist movements since 1990.
Marking the international Oct 22 Day to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation, we hope this evening inspires you to join local organizing against fascist and capitalist government and act in solidarity with Indigenous land defenders from Gitsxan to Grassy Narrows.
Hosted by Weaving Our Worlds.
WOW Accessibility + Housekeeping:
🍉 Doors will open at 5:45 pm and the event will start at 6 pm. Light food and informal chat will follow after the event ends at approximately 7:30 pm.
‼️This event is being hosted in a venue in the DTES, a neighbourhood targeted by colonial, racist, anti-poor, anti-sex worker, and anti-drug user policies and rhetoric, especially impacting Indigenous peoples. If you’re a guest in the DTES, please reflect on being present in the neighbourhood in a good way.
📦 We will be collecting distro items: socks, underwear, toiletries, blankets, period products, flashlights
🌿 Free event; donations will be collected at the door for Lax’yip Firekeepers and Grassy Narrows.
😷 Masks required to ensure that the day is accessible to immunocompromised comrades and protects all of us from Covid-19 transmission. If you are not someone who typically opts to wear a mask, we thank you for respecting this and helping us to enact a collectivist approach to wellbeing. Presenters may remove masks while presenting. Masks will be available on-site.
👶 If you would like childminding at the event for children under 10 years of age, you must indicate it on the registration form at least 1 week before the event, along with the number and ages of the children.
🩹 Harm reduction supplies are available onsite
♿ Please note that the venue has a portable ramp, and we welcome advance notice to avoid any delays in making the space accessible for you. Venue Accessibility details.
🚫 We never collaborate with any policing agency. This includes never allowing entry to cops, CBSA, etc., nor ever providing information or immigration status of people.
💜We welcome curiosity and conversation! This does not extend to harassing, discriminatory, oppressive speech or actions, especially related to marginalized genders, sexualities, race, religion, disability, age, appearance, etc. Everyone commits to a welcoming and dignified environment for all.