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Don’t know what Bill C-51 is?

Read this:

A Collection of Resources Concerning Bill C-51- the “Anti-Terrorism Act”

Main event page:

Day of Action Against Bill C-51 (National page) (All events March 14th, 2015)

City specific events:

Calgary, Alberta

WASTE IS COMING! JUNE 4-7 2015 

MUSIC-ART-COMEDY. NOT AT THE LAMPLIGHTER. 

"June 7th – 10th 2007

True story: We booked the Lamplighter months ago for this festival. We’re pretty organized like that. Three weeks later, bullshit struck. We received an e-mail that said,

“I can’t hold the venue for Music Waste. The bar staff knows about the festival and nobody wants to work it. They’ve let management know and I’ve been forced to let those holds go for something ‘more beneficial for the bar.’‘’

Um… What? They “know about” the festival? So they were fine with working that Rob Dayton karaoke jamboree thing, but they’re putting their foot down because our festival is so shitty? That’s like saying “I don’t care if the jizz stays in my hair for a few days. I’ll wait until I can wash it out with something better than a half-assed shampoo like Pert Plus.”

It’s for the best though. Nobody wants to hang out in a shitty, expensive bar and stand awkwardly uphill on that weird ramp in front of the stage.

What’s really funny is the fact that they went on to book a show as part of our new “Go Your Own Waste” feature, where the bands book their own shows for the festival. Too bad the chotchy bartenders and racist bouncers don’t “know about” that.

But in a strange way, this lame pull-out was kind of a revelation for us. We realised that we can’t just hang around the same shitholes watching the same bands and expect it to keep being fun. It’s time for new bands in new places. So that’s what this year’s festival is about: New newness.

There seems to be this wierd, long-standing impression that Vancouver is no fun. Fuck that. The city is just seething with young kids full of creativity and enthusiasm. Sure, it can be pretty grey and hopeless sometimes, but most places we go are packed with people having tons of fun. It could be worse, we could be in Seattle.

Ramones - London, Dec. 31, 1977

It is with great excitement that this journey continues, over a year since it started at the law courts in Vancouver’s downtown core, with a 4th dining event at the Museum of Anthropology on the UBC campus in West Vancouver.

Learn more about the Arthur Erickson Dinner Series

If you woke up tomorrow, and your internet looked like this, what would you do? 

Imagine all your favorite websites taking forever to load, while you get annoying notifications from your ISP suggesting you switch to one of their approved “Fast Lane” sites.

Think about what we would lose: all the weird, alternative, interesting, and enlightening stuff that makes the Internet so much cooler than mainstream Cable TV. What if the only news sites you could reliably connect to were the ones that had deals with companies like Comcast and Verizon?

On September 10th, just a few days before the FCC’s comment deadline, public interest organizations are issuing an open, international call for websites and internet users to unite for an “Internet Slowdown” to show the world what the web would be like if Team Cable gets their way and trashes net neutrality. Net neutrality is hard to explain, so our hope is that this action will help SHOW the world what’s really at stake if we lose the open Internet.

If you’ve got a website, blog or tumblr, get the code to join the #InternetSlowdown here: https://battleforthenet.com/sept10th

Automan by the K-Tels, 1979