Events

Anarchy in Japan

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Report-back and Fundraiser
Beats by DJ Motomasa
Sun. Dec. 11th 5:30 p.m.
Rhizome Café
317 e. Broadway
$5-$10 Sliding Scale
No One Turned Away
Kitchen open for food and drinks
before and during event.

Japanese anarchists sponsored a tour by Vancouver video activist Franklin López to screen his new film, END:CIV. Frank will discuss
how efforts to shut down nuclear power plants, protests against homelessness and anti-racism struggles are galvanizing the Japanese around radical social change. His talk features video footage of protests and interviews with activists.

SubMedia TV …….. + Aviation Justice, the Climate Crisis and the Suppression of Dissent

Last modified on 2011-10-28 20:01:10 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Daytime:

Location: Black Tent, Occupy Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery – intersection of Georgia and Howe www.occupyvancouver.com

Time: Saturday, October 29th, 1.00- 2.00pm

Evening:

Location: Spartacus Books, 684 East Hastings Street Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory, BC V6A 1R1, www.spartacusbooks.net

Time: Saturday, October 29th, 5:00-7:00pm
FREE

On October 29th, British and US environmental organizers Debi Wagner, John Stewart and Dan Glass will make a visit to Vancouver as part of the Aviation Justice Express tour, sharing the story of one of the most important climate victories of the past decade. They will explain how an unlikely coalition of local residents, environmentalists, and fiscal conservatives stopped plans for a third runway at London Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport. The tour is a culmination of a month long speaking tour and exposure of campaign strategy across both Canada and the United States, connecting struggles for environmental justice.

The victory at Heathrow was the result of a clear strategy and the ability to forge an incredibly diverse coalition, with environmental direct action activists working right alongside conservative politicians. Even David Cameron, the new Conservative Prime Minister of the UK, was convinced to shut down the project. Glass and Stewart will describe the behind-the-scenes story of the coalition, which focused on climate change, noise, community destruction, and economics. Partly in response to their work, the new British government has moved away from the path of aggressive aviation growth. American aviation activist Debi Wagner will relate her experiences organizing to halt aviation expansion of Seattle’s Bellingham airport, and how her struggle connections with the countless other communities threatened by 3000+ airport expansion plans underway in the US.

John is appearing virtually rather than in person due to their being barred from entry into the United States. On September 29, John, who does not have a criminal record and meets the requirements for the US Visa Waiver program, had his visa waiver rescinded mid-flight. He was questioned by the FBI, the Secret Service, and immigration for six hours at New York’s JFK Airport before being put back on a plane to London. This unwarranted behavior on the part of the government raises important issues regarding the suppression of political dissent.

Please join us for this exciting event!

Share our Facebook invite at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=310757522271792

More information is available at www.spartacusbooks.net

More information is available at http://www.AviationJustice.org/

Testament + Insurgent Photo + Stimulator

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PROJECTING RESISTANCE
an evening of anti-capitalist media

FRI. SEPT. 16TH – 8pm – RHIZOME CAFE*
317 E. Broadway – rhizomecafe.ca

TESTAMENT
ANARCHIST HIP HOP
testtheirlogik.com

INSURGENT PHOTO
VISUAL ESSAY & REPORT-BACK FROM GREECE
insurgentphoto.blogspot.com

THE STIMULATOR
AGIT-PROP VIDEOS FROM THE GLOBAL CIVIL WAR

*$5-$10 sliding scale
no one turned away
Rhizome’s kitchen &
Bar open prior
& during event

The Case of Eric McDavid

Last modified on 2009-06-15 20:52:21 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Join us as we learn about Eric’s case, entrapment, the use of informants, and government repression in general. Unfortunately, these tools of the state are becoming more and more prevalent, and it’s imperative that people understand how they work.
MONDAY JUNE 22, 7:00PM
SPARTACUS BOOKS

684 East Hastings St.
Phone: 604.688.6138
supporteric.org
Download Poster (PDF)
Facebook Event Page

'Hopium' takes the West Coast by storm

Last modified on 2009-05-15 10:41:43 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

The Stimulator’s on a mission to expose the current  social control mindfuck! Now through June 5, you can catch the West Coast tour in Seattle, Olympia, Portland, Salem, Beaverton, San Francisco, Fresno, L.A. and Denver.  Scroll down for the deets and dates.

HOPIUM delivers 90 minutes of short films, mashups, and clips from It’s the End of the World and We Know It and I Feel Fine, the world’s most subversive news show. The evening culminates with highlights from the forthcoming END:CIV, and the documentary hit GROUND NOISE & STATIC, a video report from the Democratic and Republican national conventions in 2008.

Brace yourself for video montages that mix culture jamming, news, satire, music and plenty of action to scratch the social justice itch. Hopium is a crash course on the countercultures, protest movements, and underground forces set to collide in the post-Bush world.

Denver
Friday, June 5th, 8pm
Bug Theater
3654 Navajo St
Admission $10
Grab the poster

subMedia takes over Victoria

Last modified on 2009-01-28 22:45:37 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Brace yourselves, friends and comrades!
We’re very pleased to present two Vancouver media heroes reporting from the front lines of the propaganda war! Kick off the countdown to 2010 with a full weekend of media, art and activism as we join together to celebrate the renegade spirit!

Friday Feb 13 – The Joy of Dissent
Camas Books, 2590 Quadra St. 5 pm on, by donation
Please welcome Franklin “the Stimulator” Lopez — internationally-known as the hilarious and foul-mouthed host of “It’s the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine,” the world’s most subversive news show. Franklin reports back from the battleground of the 2008 Republican and Democratic National Conventions, where he dodged surveillance, security forces, and federal cops to document the crackdown on independent journalists. It’s the Victoria premier of Franklin’s latest video “Ground Noise and Static,” the underground story of the American police state in 2008. Find out why Franklin’s recruiting video ninjas for 2010! (6 – 8 pm)

Plus: Celebrate the Bear Mountain Tree Sit and the spirit of resistance at SPAET! (5 pm)
Revolutionary tunes with the Outspoken Wordsmiths and Revolutionary Cyborg Wedding Band Mobile Unit (8 – 11 pm)
Retro bike raffle, 50/50 draw, free food and much more!
Posters available at Camas – please help spread the word!
RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=64147620352

Saturday Feb 14 – Communities in Action
Linden Street House, 2 – 4 pm. Media activism workshop with Franklin Lopez
More details to come.

Sunday Feb 15 – Speaking Truth to Power
Media Activism in the Police State
UVic SSM A110, 7 – 9 pm. Tickets $10 door, $8 advance.
Join video genius Franklin Lopez and acclaimed author Chris Shaw (Five Ring Circus) for an in-depth discussion of surveillance, intrusive security, human rights, and the coming crackdown on dissent in BC. Franklin screens his underground hit “Ground Noise and Static,” documenting the pre-emptive (and baseless) arrests of dozens of indy journalists in the US last year, and explains how a posse of video ninjas escaped the dragnet with their footage intact.

Vancouver writer Chris Shaw discusses Olympic Insecurity and the Cost to Communities, including the impact of unprecedented surveillance and military patrols. Over the past five years, Shaw’s hard-hitting and tireless analysis has earned him the reputation as Vancouver’s foremost advocate for social policy change. Shaw’s earlier warnings of skyrocketing costs, heavy-handed secrecy, environmental destruction and repressive “security” are confirmed every day in the news headlines. Shaw will share the latest information and his forecast for BC in 2010.

RSVP through Facebook Event Link

The Olympic crackdown is coming! We’re getting ready — are you?
Sponsored by VIPIRG and VIC FAN. Proceeds benefit VIC FAN and subMedia.
Volunteers get in free.

GROUND NOISE AND STATIC: Free Speech Under Attack at the RNC

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A community reportback on protests, police and arrested journalists at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul

Sun Oct. 5 4-6pm at Central Cinema (21st and Union, Seattle)

Download flyer (pdf)

Featuring on-the-scene video coverage of protests and arrests from PepperSpray Productions (Seattle) and Submedia (Vancouver), followed by critical discussion.

Speakers include: Susan Gleason (Reclaim the Media), Larry Hildes (National Lawyers Guild), Doug Honig (ACLU-WA), and local journalists arrested at the RNC.

Cosponsored by Pepperspray Productions, Reclaim the Media,
ACLU-WA and KBCS 91.3fm Community Radio.

When PepperSpray reporters ran into Cindy Sheehan outside the Democratic National Convention they asked for her prediction of what will happen in November. Cindy said "One of the corporate candidates will win, and the question then, as always, will be what will the people do, not what will the politicians do."

It was exactly for this reason that Seattle’s PepperSpray collective sent 2 reporters to the democratic and republican national conventions, not to gain access to the convention floors, but to cover the movement in the streets. We weren’t there to document either party, nor the crimes they have committed. The list is so long and the crimes so bad even corporate media has been reporting that for some time now. What corporate media overlooks is the story hidden in plain sight, of the movement, larger, more diverse, and more creative than anything happening inside the conventions. The corporate media would ignore, sensationalize, or insult those gathered in the streets, but indymedia was there to cover the action, and to find out what motivates the movement and to give both strategic and tactical reports of the battle for the future of humanity. Meanwhile the two major parties spent millions on riot gear and more millions to buy "demonstration insurance" that would cover the lawsuits police might incur while doing whatever it took to keep the people down. Apparently in modern America the Bill of Rights applies unless somebody gives the cops insurance money.

PepperSpray reporters went bravely into the melee, collaborating
with Vancouver’s Franklin Lopez to issue a daily video report from the streets. Both PepperSpray reporters were arrested, as were so many other media workers, but now they are back, with a terabyte of video clips. Continuing the collaboration with Submedia’s Franklin Lopez, we have prepared a report-back from what Republican nominee McCain dismissed as the "Ground-noise and static."

Politube

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Politube: The best online politcal shorts of the Bush era, curated and hosted by subMedia’s Franklin López
Part of the New Forms Festival.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Time:    8:00pm – 9:30pm
Location:    Radical Entertainment [MAP]
Street:    8th floor – 369 Terminal avenue
Vancouver

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MurdockSpace Page

subMedia on the road

Last modified on 2008-06-16 16:54:54 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

In the last week in June I’ll be traveling through the midwest, showing films and meeting with like minded folks. Here’s the schedule.

Friday June 20th.
Allied Media Conference. Detroit Rock City

I’m Doing This to Win Your Heart: June 21 Chgo film fest

 

subMedia in the NYC

Last modified on 2008-04-04 15:18:20 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Yep, the Anarchists are also in the NYC and they are going to show some subMedia stuff on April 11th. Go here for details.

April 11 Movie Night: End of Suburbia Followed by Panel Discussion

Last modified on 2008-03-25 23:54:06 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Are you ready… … for $3 a litre gasoline? … for sky rocketing food prices? … to completely change the way live? Join the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive for a screening and a panel discussion of "End of Suburbia". This public forum made up of city planners, food experts and community organizers, will explore how ready Vancouver is for a low energy future, and what we can do to prepare for this turning point in history.

Friday April 11th 7:30 pm
Ukrainian Orthodox Hall
154 10th Avenue East, (10th @ Main st.) (map)
Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door.

End of Suburbia Press Release
Facebook Event Page

Advanced ticket sales are now closed. Tickets will be available at the door for $12.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8OzaloLM[/youtube]

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subMedia in Chicago

Last modified on 2008-02-27 02:43:16 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

These bad ass motherfuckers are putting together a film fest that I wish I could attend.
It’s called the i ^ 3 Interstitial Festival and they are showing some of my shit. Here’s some of the weird stuff these folks crank out.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjgNGPJn4DI[/youtube]

D.I.Y. Media!!

Last modified on 2008-01-18 18:57:38 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

SEATTLE
Sunday Feb 17th 7:00pm
Rendezvous
2320 Second Ave
Seattle (Belltown)
206-441-5823
$5.00

VANCOUVER
Friday February 15th 8:00 pm
VIVO Media Arts Centre (MAP)
1965 Main St. Vancouver
Tickets
$5.00 in advance.
$8.00 at the door.

Radical writer Anne Elizabeth Moore joins subMedia’s Franklin López
for a talk and screening on making your own media.

Anne Elizabeth Moore will discuss the importance of Zines, graffiti,
underground comics and stencils as responses to and critiques of
rampant consumerism, social class differences, and access to media resources.

Franklin López will show selections from his low budget videos, chat about how he made them and his success in reaching large audiences on the internet. He will also show an excerpt from his newest film (currently in production) “END:CIV” which is based on the writings of environmental author, Derrick Jensen.

Click here for advance tickets (Vancouver Only)

Vancouver tickets also available at People’s Coop Bookstore, 1391 Commercial Drive

and at Spartacus Books, 311 W Hastings Steet,

Download Press Release (PDF)

Download Poster

Check out this article by the Vancouver Courier.