10:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday February 2 2013

Venue: Grandview Calvary Baptist Church

Address: 1803 1 Ave E Vancouver, BC (1 block East of Commercial Dr. / #20 Bus)

Cost: Free / by donation

Fourth and final Talking Circle as facilitated by Chief Phil Lane Jr.. You do not have to have attended the other workshops.

Focus: How can we move forward with the positive steps we need to take to uphold the idle No More and other movements ? What clear actions of change do we need? What are some of the unprecented unified actions we can take to ensure the grassroots can benefit in a kinder, sharing world?

Please come and learn about facilitating Talking Circles and using Principles of Consultation as tools for principle-centred community building and unified action, facilitated by our Brother Phil Lane Jr., Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations, and other respected Aboriginal Talking Circle Facilitators.

The purpose of Talking Circles and Principles of Consultation is to create a safe environment for all people to share their points of view and experiences with others. This principle-centered process helps everyone gain a sense of trust in each other, which is essential for building the cohesive circles that make up powerful community-based movements.

Talking Circles ensures people are respectful of one another's point of view, the shared time they take up and serve to allow non-interrupted talk and respectful consultation to proceed. A key result is that everyone's point of view gets heard in a respectful manner. This process also supports communities to transcend abusive or disruptive behaviour. For more information on Talking Circles and Principles of Consultation see http://www.fwii.net/profiles/blogs/guidelines-for-talking-healing-and-sharing-circles-and-principles.

This particular circle will be focussing on action oriented movement against Kinder Morgan.

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Saturday, December 1st, 10 - 4:00, W2 111 W. Hastings St.

Please come and learn about facilitating Talking Circles and using Principles of Consultation as tools for principle-centred community building and unified action, facilitated by our Brother Phil Lane Jr., Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations, and other respected Aboriginal Talking Circle Facilitators.

The purpose of Talking Circles and Principles of Consultation is to create a safe environment for all people to share their points of view and experiences with others. This principle-centered process helps everyone gain a sense of trust in each other, which is essential for building the cohesive circles that make up powerful community-based movements.

Talking Circles ensures people are respectful of one another's point of view, the shared time they take up and serve to allow non-interrupted talk and respectful consultation to proceed. A key result is that everyone's point of view gets heard in a respectful manner. This process also supports communities to transcend abusive or disruptive behaviour. For more information on Talking Circles and Principles of Consultation see http://www.fwii.net/profiles/blogs/guidelines-for-talking-healing-and-sharing-circles-and-principles

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Hosted by:
OCCUPY VANCOUVER ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GROUP as part of a series of community and movement building trainings.

The OVEJ Group believes that to live well together in harmony with Mother Earth we must facilitate system change for an equitable, sustainable and harmonious world, "System Change Not Climate Change"  www.occupyvancouver.com/ej

EVOLVER: Designed for this time of accelerated awakening, The Evolver Network is a learning laboratory of local communities bringing people and groups together to learn new skills, collaborate, celebrate, and manifest change. Evolver Spores are regional hubs of cultural incubation that inspire activism, raise awareness around today's most pressing issues, and explore transformative practices such as permaculture, meditation, shamanism, gift economies, nutrition, and visionary art.http://evolvernetwork.org/

THE HEALING GARDEN is a village network that is creating independent means (online and offline) for members to share peer support, wellness skills, resources, education and training for the purpose of deeper community resiliency. For more info, contact: healinggardenlove@gmail.com

TRIBAL HARMONIX is an umbrella organization that promotes the growth of sustainable community and tribal culture through dance, music, celebration, creative expression, and education.

Our mandate is to encourage new ways of thinking by supporting gatherings, workshops, and special events that raise consciousness of environmental, social, political, spiritual and youth issues.
http://www.tribalharmonix.org/music/

Monday October 15, 2012 marks one year since over 5000 people filled the square at the Vancouver Art Gallery to launch Occupy Vancouver – our own occupation as part of the global struggle against economic inequality, environmental destruction, and political corruption. We exposed and challenged the concentration of wealth and power in a way that the 1% will not forget. We accomplished a lot, and much more needs to be done.

A year ago, the economic crisis brought on by the greed and corruption of the 1% in the banking sector was the focus of much of our attention. Now, while this economic crisis festers and inequality becomes even starker, the oil companies controlled by the 1% are pushing for tar sands and fracking gas pipelines and tankers on our coast. We have woken up to how the 1% threatens our coast with oil spills and the very survival of humanity with global warming.

On Monday October 15th come back to the Art Gallery and celebrate, reflect, and gather inspiration to continue the struggle. Bring cake and candles to share.

Tentative Shedule:

11am – 4pm    Discussion groups and workshops – Details to be announced
4 – 5:30pm     Cake cutting, Celebration, Speakers & Music
5:30 – On     To be determined.

Bring your love. Bring your indignation. Bring your friends.

On October 15 2011, 5000 people gathered at the Vancouver Art Gallery to voice their urgent concerns about a broad and diverse range of social and economic issues, to show their support for the global Occupy movement and to launch our own occupation as part of the global struggle against economic inequality, environmental destruction, and political corruption. These issues have not gone away. We, concerned citizens of Vancouver, of Canada, and of the world, are still hungry for the changes that we must make to our ailing economies, our unresponsive political systems, and for the sustainable relationship we must develop with the natural environment. On Saturday September 15 2012, let's gather at Grandview Park to show our continuing support for and solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and the anniversary of their taking of Liberty Square, in the heart of Manhattan's financial district, on September 17 2011. When we're together, let's figure out how we might move forward together, upon what principles and foundation, and how we will mark our own anniversary of October 15. Let's figure out how to begin again, and get back to facilitating social, economic, and political change. Let's continue the struggle.Speakers! Discussion! Reflections on the year of occupations!

Speakers include: Chief Phil Lane (Four Worlds International); Cynthia Mellon (Iron Bound Community Corporation); Stephen Collis (Simon Fraser University).

Bring your love. Bring your indignation. Bring your friends.

rabble.ca has published an article about recent arrests and the criminalization of dissent:

http://rabble.ca/news/2012/06/arrests-vancouver-casseroles-we-need-stand-against-criminalization-dissent

"Last night in Vancouver seven participants in a casserole solidarity demonstration were detained and/or arrested by the Vancouver Police Department (VPD).

"They were taken down violently, roughed up, cuffed, searched and detained for hours. They were not informed as to why they were being arrested, or what if any laws they may have broken. They were, in short, denied most of their Charter rights."

June 2012: The Education Issue of the Occupied Vancouver Sun is now available.

Read it online and check out our back issues.

Join Occupy Vancouver at the rally, look for our System Change Not Climate Change banner.

Friday June 1st 2012 will be the first Viridis – Day of Green. Wear green to show your support for climate action and come down to the Art Gallery!

We're creating an inclusive movement, so ALL are welcome. Bring your friends and join us for music, poetry, dance, art, fun and inspiration. At this pivotal time in earth's history we need to join together to achieve our common goal of preserving quality of life on earth for our generation and generations to come.

SPEAKERS:
Seth Klein, British Columbia Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Tzeporah Berman, Former co-director Climate Unit Greenpeace International, co-founder of ForestEthics
Anjali Appadurai, Youth Delegate, Earth in Brackets
Ben West, Wilderness Committee
Louie Plottel, Grassroutes
Sophie Harrison, Get It Done, Kids for Climate Action
Alice Paul, Get It Done

With the support of:
Occupy Vancouver Environmental Justice Working Group
Burns Bog Conservation Society
Vancity

Join us in making your voice heard. Let's work together to GET IT DONE!

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Twitter: http://twitter.com/WeCanGetItDone
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/GetItDoneSpeaks
Website: http://getitdonemovement.com/