Shabe Yalda: Solstice & Solidarity
Shabe Yalda: A Celebration of the Winter Solstice in Solidarity with the Women & Revolution in Iran
Light dinner served. Music – Poetry – Open Mic. Free to the public.
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LASC Peace Coffeehouse: Guatemala – Mining & Mayan Resistance
Speaker: Grahame Russell, international human rights activist and co-author of “Testimonio: Canadian mining in the aftermath of genocides in Guatemala”
Rights Action, founded in 1995 by Grahame Russell and Annie Bird, was born out of the work of Guatemala Partners and its predecessors – GHRSP and PEACE for Guatemala – that during the 1980s and early 90s provided funding and support for the huge number Guatemalans (a majority being Mayan) violently displaced from their homes and communities by the U.S.-backed repression, many forced to flee into exile.
Rights Action supports education, legal work and activism to hold accountable the U.S. and Canadian governments, and our companies and investors that oftentimes cause and profit from exploitation and poverty, environmental destruction, repression and violence, corruption and impunity in Honduras and Guatemala.
Free and open to the public. Canisius College Science Hall at Main and Delevan near the NFTA metro station. Please Note: one parking lot is closed there during construction, but there is street parking along Main Street or in the parking lot by the M&T bank.
Bread & Puppet Theater’s Domestic Resurrection Circus
Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater will present its iconic, politically radical puppet circus at Springville Heritage Park on Friday, September 16th.
With roots in the Vietnam anti-war protests, the internationally celebrated theater has been based in Vermont since the early 1970s, and is one of the oldest, nonprofit, political theatre companies in the country.
Bread and Puppet Theater will present their Domestic Resurrection Circus: a bright, raucous melee of short acts governed by a brass band, addressing the heart of the current moment with diverse puppetry styles and spanning many moods, from slapstick to the sublime. Their visually rich shows are political and very spectacular, with puppets often on stilts, wearing huge masks with expressive faces, singing, dancing and playing music.
This is is a bring-your-own-chair, outdoor type of event. There is a suggested donation of between $10-$20, but no one will be turned away due to lack of funds. After each show, Bread and Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli.