EXILE Infoshop

(look for us at) ACT 25 – A COMMUNITY TALKS

keb — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:43:01 +0000

Exile will have an info/sale table at the following film and discussion:

Wednesday, SEPT. 15th, 2010
Hintonburg Community Centre
1064 Wellington Street, (3 blocks west of Somerset)
Ottawa, Ontario
7 pm (doors open at 6:45 pm)

ACT 25 – A COMMUNITY TALKS
Documentary Film – TAPPED (1hr 15 min)
Excellent documentary that examines the role of the bottled water industry and
its effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.

Discussion will follow the film.

Please share with others. Thank you. ActCity Ottawa

Articles and more info about ActCity Ottawa

Workshop and Discussion: Rape Culture

keb — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:29:19 +0000

when: September 9, 2010 at 4pm
where: at U of Ottawa, 129 Louis Pasteur room 285

facilitator: Stéfanie.

Sexual violence is everywhere: it’s on TV, it’s in our language, it’s in our fantasies—in fact, it is so omnipresent that we sometimes fail to see it at all. Rape culture is a term employed to describe the ways in which sexual violence is used as a tool of power and represented as normal and natural to train us to participate in it. During the workshop, we will explore how rape culture is based on gender roles, who rape culture hurts and who benefits from it. We will discuss ways to delearn and go beyond the violence.

Stéfanie is a support worker with the Coalition for a Carleton Sexual Assault Centre, a student group formed in 2007 with the purpose of creating a student-run, university funded sexual assault centre on Carleton’s campus. On March 22, 2010 they launched an independent, grassroots sexual assault support line for students, staff and faculty that operates from 8am – midnight, 7 days a week.

(Freedom School VIII)
download the poster

EXILE Infoshop is moving on!

keb — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:14:46 +0000

July 2010

1) EXILE Infoshop is moving on!

Dear friends and comrades,

The EXILE collective has decided to focus on searching for a better, more
visible and accessible space. It’s been a constant learning experience
for the past 3 years, trying to keep a community space open and paying the rent to a profiteering landlord.

This means that the current EXILE Infoshop space on Bank Street will be
closing on Friday, July 30th. Many items will be on SALE (books, t-shirts,
posters, DVDs, ‘zines) until then.

Regardless of when and where the new space will be, the collective will
still be active and continue to table books and ‘zines at events. The
website will also be updated, so please continue to visit
http://www.exilebooks.org for news and events.

Thanks for your support and please continue to encourage your
collective-run community spaces. See you soon!

2) Important library reminder!

In light of our closing the current EXILE space, we ask that all materials
borrowed from the library be returned by July 29th.

We hope to find an interim space to house our lending library as we scout
for a new HQ for the infoshop, but if you have lent materials to the
lending library and would like to have them back, please contact us ASAP
so that we can retrieve them for you.
update 09 Aug 2010: you can return materials to Mary at City Tailors for now.

3) Party!

In appreciation of your ongoing support (and in hopes of milking even more of it!), we invite you to a final karaoke-style celebration at the current space, 256 Bank St (second floor) this weekend. The party is on Saturday, July 31st, and starts around 9pm. Come party your ass off as we blow this pop stand for TOTAL FREEDOM.

See you soon,

- the EXILE Infoshop collective

A//E

Solidarity fundraising

keb — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:12:29 +0000

“Solidarity for our friends who are not free”
First batch of t-shirts, bags and patches now available at Exile.
All proceeds to Ottawa Movement Defense.

Film Benefit: Sacco and Vanzetti

keb — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:10:18 +0000

Common Cause and Exile Infoshop present a film:

LOCATION: Exile Infoshop
TIME: Thursday July 22, 7pm
BY DONATION: Proceeds to go to Ottawa Movement Defense and Toronto Movement Defense Committee to cover legal costs of June 18th and G20 defendants..

This 80-minute-long documentary that tells the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. It is the first major documentary film about this landmark story.

The ordeal of Sacco and Vanzetti came to symbolize the bigotry and intolerance directed at immigrants and dissenters in America, and millions of people in the U.S. and around the world protested on their behalf. Nearly eighty years later, the story continues to have great
resonance, as America once again grapples with issues of civil liberties and the rights of immigrants.

The case of two Italian-born anarchists, executed for a murder they almost surely didn’t commit, remains the definitive, scary myth of the promise of America snuffed by fear and loathing. It’s cleansing to see the facts laid out with intimacy and rigor, and the film earns the comparison it makes to the squelching of due process for some of today’s terror suspects. The difference is that Americans during the ’20s took to the streets to protest the railroading of two innocent men. Would that happen now?

— Entertainment Weekly (grade “A”)

…The trial and media coverage focused on the political ideology of the two men, treating as secondary the material evidence related to the crime itself. The two men were members of the Galleanist Anarchist movement, and the trial was a watershed moment in the campaign to delegitimize the global anarchist movement as a whole.

The politicization of the trial extended to Judge Webster Thayer, who allegedly referred to the defendants as “anarchist bastards.” This is one example of the many ways that the pair’s political activities and beliefs were invoked in a way that prohibited a fair trial from proceeding. Some of the most renowned thinkers of the day spoke out against the prejudice surrounding the trial, such as Upton Sinclair and Walter Lippmann. Fifty years later, a Massachusetts government commission confirmed the trial had been unfair and Governor Michael Dukakis declared a “Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Day.”

Sacco and Vanzetti come to Ottawa …

— Jesse Freeston, Toronto Media Co-op

(Download the poster, spread the word!)

G20 / June 18th Prisoner Letter Writing Night

keb — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:12:10 +0000

UPDATED
========================================================== G20 / June 18th Prisoner Letter Writing Night Solidarity Night w/ the Political Prisoners Still Held Captive! ==========================================================


Wednesday, July 14 / 2010, July 21, July 28

6pm - onwards

EXILE INFOSHOP
Dear friends and allies,
there are still approx 10 political prisoners still being held captive in

toronto, two in ottawa. please show up on WEDs and we can send them some

letters of support, zines, articles, whatever. exile will have ample

mailing supplies.

we have addresses for each specific prisoner in toronto and ottawa.
legal funds are still desperately required for both toronto's movement

defence committee and ottawa movement defence.
more info:

http://movementdefence.org/

http://g20.torontomobilize.org/

or email ottawamovementdefense@gmail.com

Fire & Flames!

keb — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:30:04 +0000

A militant report on G-20 resistance in Toronto in June 2010. Analysis, tactical tips, background, and more!
written by Zig Zag and hosted online at Vancouver Media Coop
now available in printed form at Exile.

EXILE Infoshop is moving !

keb — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:44:49 +0000

The EXILE collective has decided to search for a better, more visible and accessible space. It’s been a constant learning experience for the past 3 years, trying to keep a community space open and paying the rent to a profiteering landlord. This means that the current EXILE Infoshop space on Bank Street will be closing on Friday, July 30th. Regardless of when and where the new space will be, the collective will still be active and continue to table books and ‘zines at events. The website will also be updated, so please continue to visit www.exilebooks.org to check for events and news.

Thanks for your support and please continue to support a rare collective-run community space. See you soon!

- the EXILE Infoshop collective

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ps From July 14 to 30 many items are marked down in price. We’d rather sell them than cart them around! (download the moving sale poster)

Movie: Anarchism in America

keb — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:53:15 +0000

Common Cause (Ottawa) and Exile Infoshop presents
Anarchism in America
playing at
Exile Infoshop
256 Bank Street, 2nd Floor (not wheelchair accessible)
8 July 2010, 7pm

film and discussion
ps: we have air conditioning and snax

spread the word, download the poster!

coming soon: Sacco & Vanzetti, revisited?

G20 HOME COMING PARTY

keb — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:33:06 +0000

FRIDAY, JULY 2 2010 AT 8PM

come out & celebrate! wind down by tearing it up on the dance floor to raise money toward legal fees and a new infoshop space with dj’s, booze & games!

AT EXILE INFOSHOP 256 BANK ST