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Event Listings: Monday, November 29 – Sunday, December 5, 2021

This is the most recent compilation from the Radical Events Ottawa (REO) List. The REO List is a public announcement list for radical events, meetings, protests, and other activities in Ottawa, Ontario, on unceded Algonquin territory. The Punch Up Collective collects submissions and produces this curated weekly compilation of upcoming activities.

Due to COVID-19, we’ve expanded the list of events we would typically include to feature more online activities and actions, including some that are not specific solely to the Ottawa area.

CONTENTS

Urgent Rally: When the Wet’suwet’en nation is under attack — Unite, fight back! – Sunday, November 28, 1:00PM

Last Leveller Story Meeting of 2021 – Monday, November 29, 7:00PM

Ottawa launch: The Good Arabs and Personal Attention Roleplay – Friday, December 3, 6:00-8:00PM

“Ingesting Home” dinner performance and screening – Saturday, December 4, 5:00PM

DETAILS

1. Urgent Rally: When the Wet’suwet’en nation is under attack — Unite, fight back! – Sunday, November 28, 1:00PM 90 Wellington St

Hosted by Extinction Rebellion Ottawa

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This event takes place on unceded Algonquin territory.

XRO stands in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders and sovereignty. Come out to our action on 90 Wellington Street on Sunday November 28th at 1PM. Indigenous activists will speak, and an action will be suggested.

Wet’suwet’en people have been defending their territory from a dozen pipelines and their accompanying colonial state violence for over a decade. In the past few months CoastalGas Link, with government approval, and backed by militarized RCMP raids, have continued to build a pipeline through Wet’suwet’en Territory, demolishing ancestral sites and threatening the sacred waters of the Wedzin Kwa river – all without the consent of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs. Under ‘Anuc niwh’it’en (Wet’suwet’en law) all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en have unanimously opposed all pipeline proposals and have not provided free, prior, and informed consent to Coastal Gaslink/TC Energy to do work on Wet’suwet’en lands. Learn more at https://www.yintahaccess.com/

Recently, dozens of heavily armed RCMP officers, with assault weapons, K-9, and snipers, arrived en masse on Wet’suwet’en territory, breached Gidimt’en checkpoints, and have arrested dozens of land defenders. Members of the Wet’suwet’en nation put out calls Turtle-Island-wide for people to take urgent action, be allies, stand in solidarity with their efforts, pressure the government, and to SHUT CANADA DOWN. residents of so-called Ottawa/Gatineau, we need to be ALL OUT to stand up to this colonial violence in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders and supporters.

Come out and demand an end to the CGL Pipeline and the roadmap of colonialism and violence carried out by corporations, the RCMP, and the Canadian government. Stand up to the violent displacement of Indigenous Peoples for settler industry and capital gains. Show up now for decolonization and land back!

Rally + action!

Inviting all. Spread the word. Wear a mask.

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Cet événement se déroule sur le territoire algonquin non cédé.

XRO est solidaire avec les défenseurs des terres et avec la souveraineté Wet’suwet’en. Venez à notre action au 90, rue Wellington le dimanche 28 novembre à 13h. Des activistes autochtones prendront la parole, et une action sera proposée.

Les Wet’suwet’en défendent leur territoire contre une douzaine de pipelines, et contre la violence de l’état colonial qui les accompagnent, depuis plus d’une décennie. Au cours des derniers mois, CoastalGas Link, avec l’approbation du gouvernement et soutenu par des raids militarisés de la GRC, a continuée à construire un pipeline à travers le territoire Wet’suwet’en, démolissant des sites ancestraux et menaçant les eaux sacrées de la rivière Wedzin Kwa – le tout sans le consentement des chefs héréditaires Wet’suwet’en. En vertu de “l’Anuc niwh’it’en” (loi wet’suwet’en), les cinq clans des Wet’suwet’en se sont unanimement opposés à toutes les propositions de gazoduc et n’ont pas donné leur consentement libre, préalable et éclairé à Coastal Gaslink/TC Energy pour travailler sur les terres Wet’suwet’en. En savoir plus sur https://www.yintahaccess.com/

Récemment, des dizaines d’agents de la GRC lourdement armés, avec des armes d’assaut, des K-9 et des tireurs d’élite, sont arrivés en masse sur le territoire de Wet’suwet’en, ont enfreint les points de contrôle de Gidimt’en et ont procédé à au moins 15 arrestations de défenseurs des terres. Les membres des nations Wet’suwet’en ont lancé des appels à travers l’île de la Tortue pour que les gens prennent des mesures urgentes, qu’ils soit des alliés, solidaires de leurs efforts, et fassent pression sur le gouvernement et FERMENT LE CANADA. Résidents de soi-disant Ottawa/Gatineau, nous devons TOUS être là pour tenir tête à cette violence coloniale en solidarité avec les défenseurs et partisans des terres Wet’suwet’en.

Sortez et exigez la fin du pipeline CGL et du plan du colonialisme et de la violence menée par les entreprises, la GRC et le gouvernement canadien. Résistez aux déplacements des peuples autochtones par la violence pour l’industrie colonisatrice et les gains en capital. Présentez-vous maintenant pour la décolonisation et la restitution des terres!

Manifestation + action !

Invitez tout le monde. Passez le message. Portez un masque.

2. Last Leveller Story Meeting of 2021 – Monday, November 29, 7:00PM Online

Hosted by the Leveller

We’re looking for contributors and we need you.

Story Meetings are where you can pitch article ideas, help brainstorm content, or be assigned a story. They’re also a way to learn about the Leveller and introduce yourself.

Our next story meeting is: Monday, 29 November at 7PM https://meet.jit.si/LevellerOttawaStoryMeeting Just click the link to join us – Jitsi is like Zoom, except free and open-source, non-corporate, etc.

Can’t make it? No problem! Email [email protected] to pitch us a story.

Production Cycle is now monthly for this new volume. The due date for this production cycle will be December 6 and publishing on December 13. This is our last publishing date of 2021!

We Pay $75 per story. It’s not a large sum, but this is an increase from our previous pay scale. We want to support contributors to our online paper especially during these times.

Check out other ways to get involved with The Leveller – including joining the Editorial Board: https://leveller.ca/get-involved/

3. Ottawa launch: The Good Arabs and Personal Attention Roleplay – Friday, December 3, 6:00-8:00PM Happy Goat, 35 Laurel

Hosted by Venus Envy Ottawa and Metonymy Press

Please join us for the Ottawa launch of Helen Chau Bradley’s debut fiction Personal Attention Roleplay and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch’s poetry collection The Good Arabs.

Happy Goat, 35 Laurel Free event 6-8 pm December 3, 2021 with special guests natalie hanna and Ellen Chang-Richardson

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Thanks to Venus Envy, books will be for sale on site! Vaccine passports will be required; food and drink will be available for purchase, but we strongly encourage you to keep your masks on during the readings.

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The stories in PERSONAL ATTENTION ROLEPLAY are propelled by queer loneliness, mixed-race confusion, late capitalist despondency, and the pitfalls of intimacy. Taking place in Montreal, Toronto, and elsewhere, they feature young Asian misfits struggling with the desire to see themselves reflected—in their surroundings, in others, online. Casey Plett calls the collection “A perfect album of stories.”

Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a Parc-Extension balcony in summer, the verse and prose poems in THE GOOD ARABS ground the reader in place, language, and the body. Peeling and rinsing radishes. Dancing as a pre-teen to Nancy Ajram. Being drenched in stares on the city bus. The collection is an interlocking and rich offering of the speaker’s communities, geographical surroundings both expansive and precise, and family both biological and chosen. Zeyn Joukhadar says, “Even at its heaviest, this is a collection that insists on joy and on embodiment.”

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HELEN CHAU BRADLEY is a writer and musician living in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Their writing has appeared in carte blanche, Cosmonauts Avenue, Maisonneuve Magazine, the Montreal Review of Books, and elsewhere. They are the author of Automatic Object Lessons, a poetry chapbook. They are the Fiction Editor for This Magazine, and the host of Strange Futures, a speculative fiction book club. Personal Attention Roleplay is their first book.

ELI TAREQ EL BECHELANY-LYNCH is a queer Arab poet living in Tio’tia:ke, unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory. Their work has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology, GUTS, Carte Blanche, the Shade Journal, The New Quarterly, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. They were longlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2019. You can find them on Instagram and Twitter @theonlyelitareq. Their book knot body was published by Metatron Press September 2020. The Good Arabs is their second poetry collection.

ELLEN CHANG-RICHARDSON (they/her) is an award-winning poet whose multi-genre work has appeared in Watch Your Head, third coast magazine, Room, Vallum Contemporary, and elsewhere. The author of three poetry chapbooks, including snap, pop, performance: a series of ekphrasis (Gap Riot Press, 2020) Ellen is the founder of Little Birds Poetry, the co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series, and a member of the poetry collective VII. They currently live and work on the traditional unceded territories of the Algonquin Anishinabeg First Nation (Ottawa, Ontario). You can find them online @ehjchang and ehjchang.com.

NATALIE HANNA (she/her) is an Ottawa-born, queer, disabled, lawyer of Middle Eastern descent, working with low-income populations. Her writing focuses on intersectional feminism, political, ecological, and personal themes. She is the author of twelve chapbooks, most recently infinite redress (Baseline Press, 2020), and the collaborative chapbook machine dreams with Liam Burke (Collusion Books, 2021). Between 2016-2018, she was Administrative Director of the Sawdust Reading Series and served on the board of Arc Poetry Magazine. Her poem, “light conversation” received Honourable Mention for Arc’s 2019 Diana Brebner Prize. Her poetry, commentary, and interviews have been published in Canada and the U.S. She runs battleaxe press (small press poetry), and lives in Ottawa, Ontario, on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe land. She is working on her first, full length collection of poetry.

Accessibility info: Beyond COVID protocols in place for restaurants and the masking request above, the Happy Goat is a street-level space that is wheelchair accessible.

Please contact the Happy Goat or Metonymy with specific accessibility queries or requests.

À noter que l’événement se déroulera en anglais.

4. “Ingesting Home” dinner performance and screening – Saturday, December 4, 5:00PM Arts Court Studio (3rd floor), 2 Daly Ave

Hosted by Debaser

In this intervention, Jude Abu Zaineh explores the soft power of food, especially for diasporic communities with a precarious connection to ancestral homelands. Comprising a performance, screening, and dinner gathering hosted by the artist, Ingesting Home convenes guests around Palestinian food, poetry, and folk stories. A strong sense of community is often formed around meals in Palestine and the Arab world, while hunger strikes are routinely used as potent forms of protest. Food is also a great equalizer, transcending social divides and national borders, providing a taste of home even when home might be inaccessible. The intervention offers a moment of reflection around a dinner table, on the meanings of food here and there, and its potential as a site of learning, exchange, and growth.

Curated by Amin Alsaden for Pique ✦ Winter Edition. This performance is part of the larger Pique festival. For more information, visit thisispique.com

The screening runs throughout the event; the artist’s performance and dinner begins at 5:00pm. Participants are encouraged to share their stories and experiences with food while enjoying the feast. All are welcome, but there will be room for up to 30 seated guests only, so book your spot early!

For accessible entrance, enter building at 67 Nicholas St, and take elevator B to 3rd floor. Wheelchair accessible, gender neutral washrooms are available throughout the building.

For accessibility and visitor information for the Arts Court building and the OAG go to:

https://artscourt.ca/visitor-info-en https://oaggao.ca/plan-your-visit

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