• Monday, March 10, 2025 🗓
  • 6 pm sharp ⏰
  • In consideration for those observing Ramadan, we will break for light meal around 7 pm. 🥣
  • 1803 East 1st Ave, off Commercial. xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ lands 📍
  • Masks Required and Provided😷
  • Childminding onsite. ASL confirmed. Wheelchair accessible. 🧡

Tariffs. Taxes. Trade. What does this all have to do with our lives?

In 1994, the Zapatistas rose up in armed struggle against the North American Free Trade Agreement, declaring that NAFTA was a death sentence for Indigenous communities. In 1999, the anti-capitalist globalization movement shut down the World Trade Organization in the Battle of Seattle. Since then, hundreds of capitalist trade agreements have come into force and are being resisted around the world. Social movements in South America are opposing the EU-Mercosur free-trade deal, African farmers are resisting the colonial land grabbing of ‘the new scramble for Africa’, corporate property and patent rights are maintaining global vaccine apartheid, and the Zionist entity is attempting to normalize through trade and arms relations. Trade and investment agreements are about advancing capitalism, and are today’s key tools of imperial and geopolitical control.

As trade wars dominate the news cycle, join us for a roundtable on the issues that mainstream commentators are missing, and how global capitalist trade agreements in regions around the world affects struggles against colonization, militarization, and exploitation:

  • How the Indigenous Zapatista uprising sparked a global movement against capitalist trade agreements.
  • How Israel is using trade agreements with US, UAE, Saudi Arabia & Canada in Zionist normalization efforts
  • How capitalist trade and foreign interventions maintain the imperialist occupation of Haiti.
  • How trade and defense pacts between Canada and the Philippines is part of the war on peasant and working class communities.

Hosted by Weaving Our Worlds, a recently formed grassroots anti-authoritarian, internationalist collective.

Thank you for joining us on March 10th for our event! Some additional information:

In person only. 👥

Light food will be served during the middle of the event so those observing Ramadan can break fast 🍲

Mutual Aid is in effect! Bring cash to the event, with all funds going to Sameer Project in Gaza; Urgent Support in Goma, DR Congo; and to help cover event costs. Or bring clothing items, especially jackets, socks, and gloves in good condition for distro in DTES. 🧥

ASL-English interpretation provided. 🤘

Venue has an accessible entrance at street level, which gives access to hall, washrooms, and kitchen. The washroom door opening is 86 cm, and the stall door is 61 cm.

Child-friendly space, and there is also a playroom in the venue. Childminding confirmed on-site 👶🏾

Everyone commits to a welcoming and dignified environment for all. This includes not engaging in harassing, abusive, discriminatory, or oppressive speech or actions especially related to marginalised genders, sexualities, race, religion, disability, age, appearance, etc. ✊

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 and ASL interpreters may remove masks while presenting. Masks will be available on-site. 😷

We can’t wait to see you and connect with one another on March 10. Spread the word and bring a friend!