January 13 2025 Roundtable – Solidarity Against Fascisms
Monday, January 13, 2025 🗓
Door/light meal at 6 pm. Event ends 8:30 pm ⏰
1803 East 1st Ave, off Commercial Drive, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ lands 📍
“What time is it on the clock of the world?” Revolutionaries James Bogg and Grace Lee Boggs first asked this question in the 1970s.
We have spent the past year watching and resisting live-streamed genocides, living through upheavals from the ongoing pandemic and climate catastrophe, and witnessing the consolidation of blood curdling, far right warfare around the world. Fascist ideologies are gaining popularity around the globe, exploiting both genuine concerns and longstanding prejudices in our communities.
This event will be a chance to come together to discuss transnational violences such as colonialism, austerity, anti-migrant racism, Zionism, Hindutva, transmisogyny, policing, ableism, and more, and how they are connected locally and globally. We will discuss how can we fight these systems, reject liberalism and neoliberalism, and strengthen our internationalist solidarities against capitalism, empire, and oppression.
As Ejeris Dixon reflects, “in the months and years ahead, we will need to show up for each other in some scary ways… Sustained solidarity of that calibre does not happen by accident. It must be built and reinforced over time.”
Join us for a roundtable featuring organizers, artists, students, revolutionaries, and care workers, followed by a collective community discussion AND free Naloxone training with supplies and kits provided.
Hosted by Weaving Our Worlds, a recently formed grassroots anti-authoritarian, internationalist collective.
Additional information:
Mutual Aid is in effect! Bring cash to the event, with all funds being donated to three mutual aid fundraisers: Crips for Esims for Gaza, Sudan Solidarity Collective, and Indigenous and Black Families Fight for Justice. Or bring clothing items, especially jackets, toques, socks, and gloves in good condition for winter distro in DTES. 🧥
In person only. 👥
ASL 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. 🦼
Light food, coffee and tea at the beginning so everyone can share a free, nourishing meal together 🍲
Child-friendly space. Children are very welcome at the event and there is also a playroom in the venue. Childminding confirmed👶🏾
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 January 13. Spread the word and bring a friend!