When: September 28, 2024, 2-4 pm.
Where: Maritime Labour Centre (Boardroom 3), Vancouver
Light lunch and refreshments included.
Following up on the film screening of the WAGESTORIES film “The global Phase-Out Dilemma” with the Norwegian research team, we would like to invite the UP-BC community partners to an afternoon of zine-and-skill sharing between climate and labour organizers, grassroots publishing, and labour-climate solidarity.
Presenting publications from:
- John-Henry Harter,
- Sarah Law,
- members of Worker Solidarity Network and
- members of Asian Canadian Labour Alliance BC.
Cultures of Solidarity invites organizers to share histories, strategies and tactics through the visual or creative formats employed in actions and campaigns. This event focuses on the zine as a vehicle for building solidarity and the transfer of knowledge and skills across labour and climate organizing. A panel of intergenerational speakers will share zines or publications that have been meaningful in their movement work.
Cultures of Solidarity observes the creative intellect and labour of our political movements by showcasing research and knowledge production led by workers and members of communities in solidarity and struggle against capitalism and colonialism.
Organized by Steff Hui Ci Ling, UP-BC Partnership Coordinator
Hosted by SFU Labour Studies and Understanding Precarity in BC.
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The Asian Canadian Labour Alliance is a national organization that has existed for two decades. In 2020, with the spike in Anti-Asian racist incidents in British Columbia, a small group of Asian Canadian activists began to reach out to get ACLA active again in B.C. to further ACLA’s goals and advance anti-racism actions in our communities and in the labour movement. We welcome all Asian Canadian workers in B.C. (unionized or not, union staff or member) to join our efforts.
Pamela Charron (she/her) is the Executive Director of the Worker Solidarity Network (WSN) and has been a part of the hospitality/restaurant sector for 15 years. With her experience, she recognized that workers often face unjust employment and working conditions under the umbrella of capitalism and patriarchy. She joined the WSN over 5 years ago because all workers deserve decent work and justice was something to fight for. Her passion is to build worker power through the lens of peer-to-peer support, mutual aid, and taking collective action.
John-Henry Harter teaches History and Labour Studies at SFU. He has had an untraditional education as a high school dropout he worked for years as a digger of ditches, a tender of bar, and a waiter of tables. Going to college as a mature student he ended up with a BA in History and a minor in Film Studies. He has an MA and PhD in History from SFU. He writes on Class, the Environment, and Popular Culture when not consuming too much coffee and TV.
Sarah Law 婉雯 (she/her) is a sociology master’s student, climate justice organizer, and director of community engagement at Doing STS. Her work focuses on climate grief and other feelings of “world ending” through feminist affect theories, political economy, and settler colonialism. She loves gardening, swimming in the ocean, and stone fruit.
