VICTORIA - These Burning Streets - Poetry Booklaunch at Camas Books
These Burning Streets - Poetry Booklaunch
Date: November 9
Time: 7pm PST
Location: Camas Books (2620 Quadra St, Victoria, BC - Unceded Lekwungen Territories)
FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/477916838895879/
Come out to the book launch of Kelly Pflug-Back's first book of poetry published by Combustion Books.
Readings by: Ruby Smith Diaz, Juliet Belmas, Jeremy Loveday, Mathew Cook, Scott Brown, Rayne Hartsorn, Star, Monkeywrench, Beki Leuschner, & Comrade Black
Friends of Kelly and local poets conspire to bring you reading of her poems their own poetry as well in support of Kelly who is serving 15 months in prison for g20 related charges.
The name of this collection of poetry is no mere hyperbole. When the G-20 met in Toronto, Canada in 2010 behind armed thugs and fortress walls to discuss the fate of the world, Kelly Pflug-Back was among those who took to the streets to counter it with the militancy that the situation demanded. The cops dragged her off and tormented her in jail for a month while the government attempted to frame her as the leader of the infamously leaderless Black Bloc. Many of her charges were dropped, but she pleaded guilty to the destruction of several police cars and corporate storefronts and awaits sentencing. She was sentenced to fifteen months behind bars for daring to be free, for writing her poetry with action and words alike. Every dollar received by the publisher from the sale of this volume will go to aid her in her struggle against the state.
http://www.combustionbooks.org/products-page/poetry/these-burning-streets/
Links to Kelly's work: http://kellypflugback.wordpress.com/these-burning-streets/
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Camas Books is in a new location, only 1/2 a block from the old location. 2620 Quadra St, Victoria BC, Unceded Lekwungen Territories. Kelly use to volunteer with Camas so this seems like an excellent place for her book to be launched. Camas is 100% volunteer run, non profit, dog friendly and is wheelchair accessible.
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The G8/G20 meetings took place in Ontario from June 25-27, 2010. Toronto-based organizations of women, people of colour, indigenous peoples, the poor, the working class, queer and trans people and disabled people organized a peoples convergence with 40,000 people taking to the streets, standing up for justice in collaboration and solidarity!
Activists, community members, inspired and outraged individuals came together as a movement to demand justice for people and the planet. Over a week of mobilizations, events, workshops and direct actions took place in the face of state and police repression, violence and infringements on rights and freedoms.
We must continue to mobilize and build greater solidarity among our communities- an important part of this is supporting all those arrested during the G20 summit, including our allies still in detention, and those released on bail.