WORLD REFUGEE DAY JUNE 20TH
From our man Bill at Crescent Fort Rouge United Church here in Winnipeg, where the Raza family continues to seek sanctuary from deportation back to Pakistan where they face persecution:
Wednesday, June 20th is World Refugee Day. A rally is planned for 7:30 that evening at Crescent Fort Rouge United Church (corner of Wardlaw & Nassau in Osborne Village). The purpose is to show support to the family and to remind the Government of Canada that their claim for refugee status here in Canada has wide support.
It is a “rally”, not a fundraiser and is open to all who want to show support. Some prominent community leaders will bring brief messages of support and several artists have offered their talents to entertain. Confirmed artists include Shawna Dempsey, Cara Luft, Nathan Rogers, & Jeff Preslaff. Bringing messages of support from the wider community are Joyce Milgaard, Marty Dolin, Jennifer Howard, David Ball and others.
The family is in their 10th month living in sanctuary and still awaiting word from the Government of Canada on their Humanitarian & Compassionate application. There is room for more than 700 — please come and get the word out so that others can come too. We want to send a strong message that people care.
SAD NEWS FROM THE ROAD
We got home safely from an otherwise awesome trip through the midwestern states to learn the terrible news that some peeps who made a road trip from Virginia to come rock with us in Kentucky did not make it home. Cayce Castelow, Benjamin Hutson and Joseph Amoury were killed in a car accident on their way back to VA. If these were the same Virginians i spoke to after we played, i can tell you they rocked hard and seemed like pretty rad young muthas. I can only imagine that their friends and families are devastated by the news. Our sincere condolences to all y’all. Peace.
Propagandhi to participate in the 5th annual Run For Rights!! Pledge your support below!!
heythere, hithere, hothere, heythere!
on saturday june 9th, we’ll be taking part in a major fundraising effort in winnipeg. the 5th annual RUN FOR RIGHTS is taking place, to raise $ for 14 Winnipeg organizations working for social justice and human rights. Chrissy-boy and Jordy-boy are taking pledges to support the Canada-Haiti Action Network (CHAN), while Beaver-boy and Toddy will be raising $ for Welcome Place, a Winnipeg based organization that assists refugees new to our city.
for more info on CHAN, please visit the CHAN website.
to contribute financial support directly to the CHAN-Winnipeg credit union account, please click here.
all funds raised will go directly to assist these organizations based in Haiti, working to expose the Canadian/American/French anti-democratic, imperialist policies which are currently active in repressing the rights of Haiti’s poor majority. (See the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and Confédération des travailleurs haitiens.)
your assistance is critical, and will be greatly appreciated!!!
Live From Denver!
Hello, Tweefs..
Well, Here I sit in Denver!
The shows are going good. We’re all having a god time! A little frisbee here and there. A guy in Covington looked exactly like my brother, and I’m not just talking about his hairline! eh-man! Everyone’s been pretty nice. Only one fight so far! So that’s about that! Thanks for coming out the shows and thrashing it up!
As of May 27th I am now 34 years old! Hah!
...And If You're In Jail, BREAK OUT!!!!
Tommorrow at 8:30 AM the Propagandhi train flies right off the tracks of Insanity!
10 shows, ten pairs of underwear, A couple shirts, tooth brush, some socks, two wristbands, and my favorite shorts. I am ready to flip OOUUUUTT!
Plus, I just spent some quality time in the can cutting my hair to show off under the runway lights! It’s almost like I have a full head of hair!
So, We’ll see you out on the streets! Bring a helmet once again. This is going to be a roller coaster on a banana peel track!!!
Smell it and see!
Ha!
-Rod.
WHO WANTS TO VOTE FOR A MILLIONAIRE?
So i just held my nose and dialed up the CNN website and came across the bland disclosure of the assets of upcoming US presidential hopefuls:
Republican Rudy Guiliani: $45 million in assets ($16.1 million in just the past 6 months) Democrat John Edwards: $29.5 million in assets One has to wonder what these douche-bags could have even REMOTELY in common with the average person living in the US, no? Consider the lifestyles that come with such obscene concentrations of wealth (and decision making power) and these guys might as well be from another planet. Yet people will still vote for them in droves. Wha…? As every day goes by, i become more and more certain that i myself was dropped off on the wrong planet 37 years ago. Will someone PLEASE wrap me in a towel, stick me in a basket on the front of their Kuwahara and tabletop some cop cars on the way to what’s left of the forest so my real parents (Hammerhead and Greedo) can pick me up? Thank you. (don’t forget to vote for me as WORST CANADIAN IN CANADIAN HISTORY)
Fartfreaks..
One week till next shows! Watch out America! We’re adding a couple more little ditties to our little set! We’re excited and ready to trample through the good ol’ midwest!
It’s been a long time since any of us have been down in those parts! the last time I was in Lawrence Kansas was about 1994! Yowza! I believe the show was I Spy, Whipped, and Huasipungo. I set off the alarm at the St. Louis museum the next day! Why does a statue have a wiener if Historians are not allowed to touch it! Oh memory lame, dare I walk your swollen path?
Anyway, be thankful, my hands are so cold I cannot type anymore!
Goodbye!
Dealing Out the Decibels and Pain...
O.K.
Tonight at the Albert: Bob Reed from RAZOR.
Anything left to say? I didn’t think so.
(I have one thing left to say boy: Bob REID from RAZOR. ‑chris)
WORST CANADIAN **UPDATE**
(Hello dedicated supporters! I just received word from an amused number cruncher at the Worst Canadian competiton that, thanks to your votes, i am currently ahead of both Stephen Harper and Celine Dion as said Worst Canadian! In a revealing and suprising turn of events, i am somehow behind Dr. Henry Morgentaler. At least I am in good company as regards the Doctor. Keep voting for me peeps!)
Hello balls, Chris here.
I just heard on CBC Radio that Canada’s prestigious history magazine The Beaver (not to be confused with our very own prestigious walking history magazine The Beaver) is hosting a contest to decide who is Canada’s Worst Canadian.
We once asked you to vote for us to win a song-writing prize and we won it.
We once asked you to vote Kowalski the world’s sexiest vegetarian and he almost won it.
Now i’m asking you to vote me — Chris Hannah of Propagandhi — the Worst Canadian. It is the one thing in life that I actually pride myself on.
I don’t stand during Oh Canada, I don’t support Canadian troops, i cheer for Sweden in international hockey tournaments, I hate Wayne Gretzky, I side with First Nations against the Canadian state, I fantasize out loud of the decimation of the Canadian animal exploitation industry and I wish Great Big Sea would die horrible, languishing deaths in a capsized ferry incident. The proof is in my pudding my fellow shitizens. I am THE worst Canadian and you know it.
Please, do the right thing. Vote for me as The Worst Canadian in Canadian history. It’s the only patriotic thing to do.
Walk For Darfur, See you Sunday!
Hello Here is the listing for the Walk For Darfur on Sunday in Winnipeg and a link to the Walks in the rest of the world world. I really do hope to see you there! “Sunday the 29th of April is Global Darfur Day under the Globe for Darfur initiative globefordarfur.org In nearly 300 cities around the world people will raise their voices in protest to end the humanitarian and security crises in Darfur. The victims of the attacks are mostly Darfurian civilians targeted by government armed Arab militias such as the Janjaweed. On Global Darfur Day, concerned citizens across the country will raise their voices in protest to put an end to the horrific violence in Darfur. In Alberta protestors are walking from Calgary to Alberta in an initiative called 400,000 steps for 400,000 lives, and in Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver and in Europe, the Middle East and in the U.S. there are protest rallies and concerts this upcoming weekend.An estimated 400,000 civilians massacred and 2 million people displaced in Darfur — a region in the western part of Sudan the size of France. Genocide in Sudan Public Rally Sunday April 29th, 1:30 pm Manitoba Legislative Building Speakers and music.” Rod.