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I can't find a current link to this online, and I'm not sure how make a cut, so I hope this isn't too lengthy...If this post needs to be edited or cut for length I certainly understand. I found this in Spring 2009 of The Siksay Report. (Bill Siksay is my Member of Parliament.)

On May 15, I introduced a Private Member's Bill, "An
Act to Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (Gender Identity and Gender Expression)" in the House of Commons.

This bill seeks to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of a discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act and to the Criminal Code sections regarding hate crimes and sentencing provisions, providing explicit protection for transgender and transsexual Canadians for discrimination in all areas of federal jurisdiction.

Whether it is job discrimination, access to housing and public services, especially health care, problems with identity documents, difficulties with law enforcement officials, a high suicide rate, or the increased likelihood that they will be victims of violence, the situation of transsexual and transgender people demands our attention.

Given that transgendered and transsexual folks are members of our familiies, our friends, our co-workers, and our neighbours, I hope this legislation will find support from all parties in the House.

Riotverse





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call for submissions for a cathartic compilation zine(s) of poetry/prose about experiences at the DNC/RNC08 (+ more)

Riotverse is a new project which seeks to provide a healing outlet for writer/activist/freedomfighters/etc to prevent burnout and encourage anti-authoritarian, anti-white supremacist, queer and feminist centered struggle for social justice.

send one page submissions by June 10th to poeticsofresistance@hush.com
feel free to repost this call for submissions anywhere and everywhere
user: angstypenguin, angstypenguin, house season 1 ep 3, user:angstypenguin

Know any queer rural zines? x-post (if this doesn't belong/breaks rules, sorry; tell me&I'll delete)

Sorry if this doesn't belong here, but my friend Jenna (a.k.a. trashcan_chica) needs some help:

"does anyone know of any queer zines about living in rural areas or going to rural areas?

any help/pointing in the right direction would be amazing. i went through the whole Queer Zine Archive and couldn't really find anything.

thanks!
jenna b

p.s. i just got a wordpress site, sassyfrasscircus.com!"

Her (AIM) away message also says: "is looking for zines about/by members of radical queer ANTI-URBAN communities, so if you know of any..."

So please comment if you can help at all; thanks. :]

-Beth
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workshop Advice

Hey folks,

I feel like I have a lot of skills/experiences that I think can be of use to my communities, but organization is not my forte.
I've been working on designing a "Trans 101" workshop, but I also want to design a space to talk about other topics as well: environmental racism, queer art, Theatre of the Oppressed games. (I have a lot of time on my hands).
 Do you all have a" template" of sorts when you're creating something like this, or do you do something to organize your thoughts. Where do you start?
I am especially interested in interactive workshops, no droning on in front of a powerpoint.

Your suggestions, advice, inspiration, etc. are greatly appreciated!

cheers!

-kas


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