[Indigsol] Organizing For Justice, Nov.20-22

[mattm-b at resist.ca]

You are invited to participate in the upcoming "Organizing for Justice"
conference that is being held in Ottawa from November 20th to 22nd 2008.
There is no cost to participate. Donations are welcome and useful but not
necessary.

This conference is open to people involved and/or interested in community
organizing. The four main themes of the conference are: social justice;
economic justice; environmental justice and healthy communities.

Organizing for Justice presents a space for community organizers, activists
and interested individuals to come together, develop strategy, share vision,
and work on skills and tools that will help them in their efforts to effect
change.

This conference is brought to you by Common Cause Ottawa, OPIRG-Ottawa,
OPIRG-Carleton, the Students' Federation of the University of Ottawa, and
the Social Planning Council of Ottawa. Special thanks to CKCU-FM 93.1 and
CHUO-FM 89.1.

For more information visit or to register visit:
www.org4justice.wordpress.com
or phone: 613-656-5498


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ORGANIZING FOR JUSTICE SCHEDULE
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*Thurs Nov 20*
Panel Discussion on "Organizing: Possibilities, Problems, and Priorities"
7-9pm at the Ottawa Public Library Main Branch, 120 Metcalfe St.

- Ed Bianchi from KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives
- Other speakers TBA

*Fri Nov 21*
Launch of the Dominion Newspaper special issue on Mining
7-10pm Umi Cafe, 610 Somerset St. W (at Percy)

*Sat Nov 22  *

9am-5:00pm
Morisset Library, 2nd floor, University of Ottawa
detailed scheduled available at:
http://org4justice.wordpress.com/sat-nov22-workshops/

    * 9:00am: Breakfast served
    * 9:30-10:20am: Opening Ceremony
    * 10:30-11:50am: Workshop session time slot #1
- Panel on Economic Justice (Anti-Poverty)
- Anti-Oppression: Analysis & Tools (double session, 10:30-1:30)
- Circle of All Nations, Culture of Peace
- Healthy Activism and Preventing Burnout
- Participatory Singing in a Song Circle
- Understand Audism (presented in Quebec Sign Language,
  with translation into American Sign Language and spoken French)

    * 12:00-1:30pm: Workshop session time slot #2
- Effective meetings, Facilitation and Consensus
- Panel on Environmental Justice
- An Anarchist Approach to Organizing
- Countering Israeli Apartheid
- Social Networking through the Internet (in French)

    * 12:30-4:30pm: Info-fair with tables, in Terminus, University Centre
    * 1:30-2:30pm: Lunch break *(LUG YOUR MUG AND TUPPERWARE)*
    * 2:30-4:00pm: Workshop session time slot #3
- Organizational Approach to Anti-Oppression
- Labour Organizing
- Justice For Indigenous Peoples
- Best Practices and Challenges for Engaging People in Issues
- Countering a Society of Individualism (in French)
- Motivation for Activism

    * 4:10-5:00pm: Open Space / Break-Out Groups & Discussion

7pm-midnight
Upping the Anti journal Issue #7 Launch Party
at Bar 1848, University Centre, University of Ottawa
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