Community Calendar Join the Other Press News Section every week for all the upcoming events on campus and in the city, including career workshops, educational seminars, forums, and free film showings. Also, if you know of an event coming up and want to get the word out, send an announcement to OPnewseditor@gmail.com and we will post it for you for free! Right on! On Campus The Amelia Douglas Gallery presents Kidz Show 2! January 16 to February 24 Art of employees’ and students’ children Opening reception February 8, 3:30-6:30pm For Gallery times, call 604.527.5495 Identity-Inclusion-Belonging-Becoming-Respect-Community Call for Submissions to the Douglas College President’s Writing Contest on Diversity Deadline: Monday, February 20 (2006) Prizes include gift certificates and publication opportunities. Celebrating our diversity in abilities, age, class, Deaf culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuali- te. Both academic and creative writing is welcome. Application forms can be found in the Library on both New West and David Lam campuses. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, Match 21st, 2006—The International Day to Eliminate Racism. 12-1pm, Theatre Foyer. For more information, contact the Douglas College Communications and Marketing Office at 604-527-5326 or denofreot@douglas.be.ca Professional Development Day (PDD)—Back by Popular Demand at Douglas College February 8, 2006 at New Westminster Campus What is PDD? College employees set a day aside every two years to gather together to reflect on and discuss issues related to working in a public community college. Daytime classes are cancelled and department staffing is kept to a minimum so as many employees as possi- ble can attend. The planning committee for PDD is hard at work rescheduling last year’s sessions where possible and arranging new speakers to augment the program for this year. Please mark your calendars for Ethics and Education, February 8, 2006 at the New Westminster Campus. The planning committee is always seeking new ideas and welcomes your participa- tion. For more information please contact the Douglas Development Office at 5411, or e-mail Lin Langley at langleyl@douglas.bc.ca. NEW WEST and COQUITLAM Open House about TransLink’s Light Rail Transit (LRT) Coquitlam City Centre on Wednesday, December 7 Pinetree Community Centre (Rooms 7 - 9) from 6:30 to 8:30 pm Hey David Lam students! Do you want light rail transit (LRT), direct from the SkyTrain to Douglas College’s David Lam campus? You have a chance to make your voice heard! LRT project staff will be present to chat with the public and to collect written feedback forms. Douglas College administration is lobbying for a stop outside the DL campus but Translink needs to hear from students—so if public transportation is important to you, please make an effort to stop by the open house! New Westminster Public Library’s Historical Society presents “Christmas 1945: The First After World War II” Wednesday, December 21, 7:30 pm New Westminster Public Library 716 6th Avenue New Westminster In a year of anniversaries marking the end of WWII, Archie Miller will look at how New Westminster celebrated Christmas 60 years ago. It was a tired but excited world that looked forward to peace for the first time in many years. For more information, please call: 604-527-4660 GREATER VANCOUVER Join us for a Full Day of Action Against Security Certificates on International Human Rights Day Saturday December 10 to Sunday December 11 Vancouver Art Gallery, Robson St. entrance Rally from 12pm to 2pm, Saturday Followed by a 24-hour vigil ending at noon on Sunday Dec. 11 Contact or for more information: No One is Illegal at noii-van@resist.ca or 778.552.2099 Frank Paul Memorial Rally December 6—11:00am at Main & Hastings Speakers are: David Dennis, Vice-Preside United Native Nations, Lawyer Cameron Ward, Curtis Clearsky of Knowledgeable Aboriginal Youth Association (KAYA), Billie Pierre of the Native Youth Movement Bring your signs and drums. If you have a name of someone who was assaulted by th police or worse, you can email noii-van@resist.ca, or you can attend and make a poste with their name and/or picture on it. “Strategies of Social Transformation” Celebrating the launch of Richard Day’s book, Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents 1 the Newest Social Movements (Pluto Press/Between the Lines) Presented by Ungrammatical Multitude and Spartacus Books Thursday December 8, 6:30 - 9pm Spartacus Books 319 W. Hastings (upstairs, second floor) Join us at the newly re-opened Spartacus Books for a participant-led conversation around these questions. Our guests include Mia Amir, Fiona Jefferies, and Harsha Wa’ Bus Riders Union Celebrates 4 Years of Grassroots Organizing for Transit for All! The Bus Riders Union is proud to announce A Celebration of Grassroots Organizing, an exciting evening of political discussion, food and live music to dance th night away! Please join us on December 11, from 6 to 9:30pm at the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House (800 E. Broadway near Fraser) Friday December 11, - Free Public Forum Free the Cuban Five—Heroes Held in US Jails. Extradite Anti-Cuban Terrorist Luis Posada Carilles to Venezuela! Co-organized by Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba and Vancouver Free the Cuban Five Committee. Endorsed by La Surda Latin American Collective. 5:30pm at Collingwood Neighbourhood House (5288 Joyce St.) 3rd Annual Anti-War Film Festival Imperialist Canada: War and Occupation at Home & Abroad Documentaries and Films on War, Occupation and Imperialism at Home and Abroad EXPANDED TO 2 DAYS! Saturday, December 17, 11:30am - 9:00pm Sunday, December 18, 11:30am - 5:00pm Britannia Centre (1661 Napier St) High school Auditorium Organized by Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) For more information, see www.mawovancouver.org or call 604.322.1764