Friday, May 30, 2025
Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community Association & Art
1923 Fernwood Road
Doors open:  7 PM; Program 7:30 PM 

Join us to hear two Xinka women leaders talk about their struggle for self-determination and the health of their communities. 

A historic consultation process between the Xinka Indigenous People and the Guatemalan government over the future of Canadian-owned Pan American Silver’s Escobal silver mine is nearing its end after nearly seven years. 

Learn the concerns about the mine, the challenges these Xinka leaders have faced during the consultation process, and their hopes for the future.

The Xinka delegation is endorsed by numerous organizations including: Mining Justice Alliance, Café Justicia, BC Casa, CoDevelopment Canada, KAIROS – BC/Yukon: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, the UBC Latin American Studies Program, the Latin America Network Student Association (LANSA), Victoria Peace Coalition, Victoria Central America Support Committee, Americas Policy Group (APG), MiningWatch Canada, Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network, Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, Earthworks, and the Institute for Policy Studies – Global Economy Program

Everyone is welcome to Cafe Simpatico! Refreshments including Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee. Donations gratefully accepted. 

Sponsored by Central America Support Committee (CASC)

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Friday, April 25

The struggle of the indigenous Rama people, in alliance with the Afro-descendent Kriols, to stop illegal cattle ranchers from destroying the virgin rainforests of Nicaragua’s Indio Maíz Biological Reserve.

2023 / 83 min / Colour | Rama, Kriol & Spanish with English subtitles

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Fernwood Community Association and Arts, 1923 Fernwood Road (across from the Belfry Theatre).

Doors at 7pm, film at 7:30

Friday, March 28, 2025

A feature documentary film by Jenny Murray of the disappearing story of the women who fought in Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution and their continuing struggle for justice.

Film info: 2018, 96 minutes, English and Spanish with English Subtitles

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Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community Association
1923 Fernwood Road, Victoria BC
Doors open at 7pm – Film starts at 7:30pm

Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee, popcorn, and refreshments available. Donations welcome

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One of Canada’s longest running solidarity groups

Friday, February 28, 2025
UNICATA, the University for and with Waste Pickers, is the result of a decades’ long partnership between waste picker cooperatives, researchers from the University of Victoria and researchers from Brazil. This project aims to address the severe lack of education for millions of individuals who fulfill an important role in our cities: diverting waste. In addition, UNICATA aims to empower waste pickers and increasingly integrate them into urban planning and promote circularity in our cities.

Presenter, Dr Carolina Carvalho is an environmental and urban planner, and participatory mapping specialist. She is currently a postdoctoral and sessional lecturer at the CBRL, University of Victoria (UVic), Canada. She is also a researcher at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Carolina is founder of Comunidades Vivas – Mapeamento Participativo, a knowledge hub that aims to boost social engagement through participatory mapping in the city planning.

Everyone is welcome! Refreshments including Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee. Donations gratefully accepted. 

Sponsored by Central America Support Committee (CASC)

Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community and Arts  Association1923 Fernwood Road 

Doors open at 7:00 PM: 7:30 PM presentation.

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Friday, January 31, 2025

To start the new year, join us for an up to the minute report from the Canadian delegates who recently attended the World Congress of Anti-Fascist Youth and Students in Caracas, Venezuela. The speakers will discuss Venezuelan communes, human rights, peace, Indigenous resistance and plans for building an international youth movement. 
Everyone is welcome!

Refreshments including Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee. Donations gratefully accepted. 

Sponsored by Central America Support Committee (CASC).

Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community and Arts  Association
1923 Fernwood Road 
Doors open at 7:00 PM: 7:30 PM presentation.

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Friday, November 29, 2024

Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community Association and Arts
1923 Fernwood Road 
Doors open at 7:00 PM: 7:30 PM presentation

The recent death of Gustavo Gutierrez, known as the Father of Liberation Theology, inspired this month’s Cafe. The Liberation Theology movement aimed to restore dignity and hope to the poor and the excluded by freeing them from intolerable living conditions. Join us as speakers explore the revolutionary impact of Liberation Theology in Latin America.

Everyone is welcome. Refreshments including Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee. Donations gratefully accepted. 

Sponsored by Central America Support Committee (CASC)

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Friday, October 25, 2024

Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community Association 

1923 Fernwood Road 

Doors open at 7:00 PM: 7:30 PM presentation.

Communities of the Pacific West Coast (Mexico/Canada) for Climate Justice: Creating a shared agenda for planetary health and climate action.

Matilde Cervantes is an interdisciplinary researcher and artist who has been curating and producing cultural and artistic events internationally through the Global Pax Collective initiatives for two decades. Join us as Matty shares information about her current project and her thoughts on art for social change and collaborative justice. 

 Everyone is welcome! Refreshments including Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee. Donations gratefully accepted. 

Sponsored by Central America Support Committee (CASC)

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Friday, September 27, 2024

Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community Association 

1923 Fernwood Road

Doors open at 7:00 PM: 7:30 PM presentation. 

Please join us for the first Cafe of the fall season. 

Rotarian Bill Feyrer provides insight into Rotary projects in Honduras and political activist Tyson Strandlund brings recent news from Argentina and Venezuela. There will be time for discussion and questions. 

 Everyone is welcome! Refreshments including Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee. Donations gratefully accepted. 

Sponsored by Central America Support Committee (CASC)

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Friday, May 31st, 2024Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community Association1923 Fernwood RoadDoors open at 7:00 PM: 7:30 PM presentation. Join us for a slideshow and first hand report from a member of the 30th annual Ernesto Che Guevara Brigade to Cuba. Kay Gimbel will present his photos and talk about his recent experience as a Brigade member in Cuba. Several other Brigade members will also be in attendance and will join in the discussion during the Q&A.

Everyone is welcome! Refreshments including Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee.  Donations are gratefully received. Sponsored by Central America Support Committee (CASC) www.victoriacasc.org    https://www.facebook.com/vcasc/

Friday, April 26 – doors 7 pm, 7:30 pm presentation

A talk by anthropologist and author Peter Gose

In the last 30 years, Indigenous anti-mining struggles in the Andes have been widespread and highly visible. Previously, however, mining was integrated into the Indigenous agrarian world and its ritual relations to the land. This talk sheds light on that radical reversal to better understand contemporary anti-extractivist struggles in Peru and Bolivia.

Everyone is welcome! Refreshments include Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee. Donations gratefully accepted.

Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community Association
1923 Fernwood Road