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How to Watch the Cops Workshop

Sarah — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:11:06 +0000

Winnipeg Copwatch is hosting a free workshop on how to safely and effectively witness police interactions. It will include sections on camera and recording skills, de-escalation techniques, knowing your rights, and more. Whether you’re interested in witnessing on your own to prevent police misconduct, starting a copwatching group with friends, participating in Winnipeg Copwatch patrols, or just learning more skills, this workshop is for you.

Come to the Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre, on the 3rd floor of 91 Albert Street, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 from 7:00-9:00PM. The workshop is free, and volunteers will be there to provide childcare.

International Day Against Police Brutality

alex_s — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:23:23 +0000

International Day Against Police Brutality
Saturday March 13th, 2010

12:00 – March and rally in solidarity with those who have experienced violence by police and in celebration of community power. meet at the park next to Ndinawe (472 Selkirk). March to 430 Langside for hot beverages, delicious food and a movie. Return Bus tickets will be available.

2:30 – Free movie! Either march with us or meet us at the Magnus Eliason Recreation Center (430 Langside). Help yourself to popcorn as we watch “Cowboys and Indians: The J.J Harper Story”. Free Childcare available.

These events are supported By: Winnipeg Copwatch, Elizabeth Fry, New Socialist, International Workers of the World, Femrev, The Anarchist Black Cross and The UN Platform for Action Committee Manitoba

Free copwatching workshop March 20

macho — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:33:42 +0000

Come to the Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre, on the 3rd floor of 91 Albert Street, Saturday 20 March 2010 from 1:30-3:30pm. The workshop is free, and volunteers will be there to provide childcare.

Whose Law and What Order?

Kendra — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:59:36 +0000

photo by greg.g

A presentation and discussion on police, power and justice

Wednesday, October 22, 7pm
Crossways in Common
222 Furby Street at Broadway

Featuring:

Tamar Hopkins (Melbourne, Australia)
Tamar Hopkins is an Australian lawyer who has been working on police violence issues faced by newly arrived African and Afghani Australian communities for the past three years. She is researching police accountability strategies that meet the needs of victims of police rights abuses.

Nahanni Fontaine (Winnipeg)
Nahanni Fontaine is the Director of Justice for the Southern Chiefs’ Organization.

Elizabeth Comack (Winnipeg)
Dr. Elizabeth Comack is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manitoba. She has published in the areas of policing inner-city communities, social inequality and the law, the criminalization of women, and gender and violence.

Everyone is welcome & admission is free.
Snacks and bus tickets provided.
Children are welcome. Child-minding available.

Presented by Winnipeg Copwatch
wpgcopwatch@gmail.com
www.winnipegcopwatch.org

Generously sponsored by
the University of Winnipeg Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies

International Day Against Police Brutality & Upcoming Copwatch Trainings

admin — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:20:46 +0000

March 15th will mark the 2008 International Day against Police Brutality. It first began back in 1997 as an intiative by Montreal Collective Opposed to Police Brutality and the Black Flag group in Switzerland. The march was organized by numerous people and they ask that people meet at the Red Road Lodge (631 Main Street) at 6:00pm. The march will leave at 6:30pm and goto the drunk tank on Martha Street, then to the Public Safety Building on Princess Street and then finish at the Law Courts Building at 408 York Ave. For more information you can contact winnipegIDAPB@gmail.com or phone 942-1588.

Copwatch will be hosting a ‘know your rights’ workshop for the second annual Winnipeg do it yourself fesitval (DIYFEST). This will happen on Saturday March 15th at the Red Road Lodge from 12-2:30pm. We encourage people to attend the International Day against Police Brutality later that day.

If your are unable to attend this workshop and wish to still become involved with Copwatch, we will be hosting a training weekend on March 29th. We encourage people to register by phoning 942-1588 or emailing wpgcopwatch@gmail.com. It will take place at the Magnus Eliason Recreation Centre (MERC) at 430 Langside Street from 2pm – 5pm. Here are the workshops that will be covered: Learn how to use a camera, know your rights, how to interact with police and de-escalation tactics.

Upcoming Sharing Circle

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:08:14 +0000

Sharing Our Stories
Sharing Circle on Police Violence and Community Issues organized by the Manitoba Aboriginal Justice Equality Coalition.
Have you ever felt victimised by the police? Are you concerned about neighbourhood safety or police response? Do you feel vulnerable or powerless? Tell your story so healing can begin.

Saturday February 9th
1pm-4pm
Magnus Eliason Recreation Centre
430 Langside Street

Snacks, childcare and bus tickets provided.

MAJEC is an all-volunteer grassroots coalition dedicated to promoting
equality for Manitoba’s Aboriginal peoples.

For more information, contact MAJEC at info@majec.ca or visit http://majec.ca

Winnipeg Copwatch Presents Jeff Gindin in a Know Your Rights Workshop

admin — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:17:17 +0000

Do You Know Your Rights When Interacting with Police?

Come to a free workshop with defence lawyer Jeff Gindin.
Mr. Gindin has been a defence lawyer for 36 years and has been teaching at the law school for 30 years. Come learn about your rights and what you should do when involved with the police.
Saturday January 12th at 2pm to 4pm at the Magnus Eliason Recreation Centre (430 Langside Street) on the second floor in the Multipurpose room. Copwatch will provide food, drinks, childcare and bus tickets to people interested.

Round Table Discussion

admin — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:58:21 +0000

Winnipeg Copwatch has been invited to speak on at a public forum organized by the the Winnipeg Anarchist Black Cross(ABC). It will consist of a re-introduction to the Anarchist Black Cross, followed by a look at the history, goals, visions and projects. Afterwards there will be a short discussion with members of ABC, Copwatch, Elizabeth Frye Society and others looking at alternatives to incarceration and how the groups may work together in the future.

There will also be a presentation by Kevin Schachter on prison tourism from Prison Isla San Lucas in Costa Rica.

The event is at the Mondragon (91 Albert Street) at 7pm on November 6th, 2007.

Photos from the Tasha Hubbard event

admin — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:04:06 +0000

The two events surrounding Two Worlds Colliding and the Tasha Hubbard’s visit to Winnipeg went really well. After the screening of the film, people shared stories and discussed how the film affected them. Naturally, there is a lot of healing that needs to take place and there needs to be spaces for people to share their stories and to be heard. People filled the Mondragon on September 27th to hear Tasha speak about her experiences when making the film and spoke briefly about the history of policing in a Canadian context. Below are some photos from the event courtesy of Aaron Pierre.

Upcoming Copwatch Events

admin — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:30:36 +0000

Tasha Hubbard is coming!

Tasha Hubbard will be coming to Winnipeg and doing a public talk on September 27th 2007. In anticipation of this public discussion, Winnipeg Copwatch and the Manitoba Aboriginal Justice Equality Coalition(MAJEC) will be hosting a film screening of Two Worlds Colliding, the film that Tasha directed documenting Saskatoon’s infamous starlight tours. Here is the description of the film from the National Film Board:

Two Worlds Colliding chronicles the painful story of what came to be known as Saskatoon’s infamous “freezing deaths,” and the schism between a fearful, mistrustful Aboriginal community and a police force that must come to terms with a shocking secret.
One frigid night in January 2000, a Native man, Darrell Night, finds himself dumped by two police officers in -20° C temperatures in a barren field on the city outskirts and finds shelter at a nearby power station. He survives the ordeal but is stunned to hear that the frozen body of another Aboriginal man is discovered in the same area. Days later, another victim, also Native, is found.
When Night comes forward with his story, he sets into motion a chain of events: a major RCMP investigation into several suspicious deaths, the conviction of the two constables who abandoned him and the reopening of an old case, leading to a judicial inquiry.
It remains to be seen whether the gulf between the two worlds can be bridged.

So come join us September 20th, and we hope to see you on the 27th as well!

Two Worlds Colliding Film Screening

Thursday September 20th 2007
Urban Shaman Gallery (290 McDermot Avenue) at 7:00pm
There will be snacks and either coffee or hot chocolate provided.

& then…

Behind Two Worlds Colliding

Thursday September 27th 2007
Mondragon Bookstore and Coffeehouse (91 Albert Street) at 7:00pm
Tasty vegan treats will be provided.

Tasha will also be doing a public presentation at the University of Manitoba entitled:

Images of Change: Film, Photography and Social Justice

a presentation by Tasha Hubbard and Edith Regier
Wednesday September 26 2007
Room 409 Tier Building University of Manitoba
2:00 – 4:00pm