[opirgyork] DisOrientation 2010 Schedule is UP!

[aruna at opirgyork.ca]

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ALL WELCOME | ALL EVENTS FREE & ACCESSIBLE | CHILDCARE AVAILABLE

DisOrientation is a radically different, politically progressive,
series of events that will offer all students access and insight into
the exciting political and social justice spheres that exist at York
University. By bringing together a wide range of campus groups and
services, we are trying to draw the links between the many different
kinds of political, environmental and social justice based activism
that exists on campus.

*Thursday Sept 23rd*

3:30pm to 5pm
Radical/Alternative Walking Tour
Meet in front of head of commons fountain
Tour Guides: Kelly Fritsch and Aaron Gordon
This political history tour attempts to get you on your way to
uncovering and developing a historical knowledge of York. York has, is
and always will be a contestable space, and is a space that will
always need to be fought over. As members of York'’s community we are
responsible for the actions of the University and holding the
University accountable for its actions. Building resistance to
inequalities and inequities produced by and through the university
cannot spring from no where. The history of successful resistance at
York goes back before the first buildings were built or the York
University Act was introduced in 1959. Contemporary campaigns,
actions, coalitions, and solidarities can be built on this tradition– or
historical memory – of resistance and political organization. The tour
guides will provide you with a brief history of political actions on
campus to help you better understand the politics of education at York
University and better strengthen historical memory. The tour will take
about one-and-a-half hours.

*Friday September 24th*

12pm to 3pm
Anti-Oppression workshop 101
Facilitated by Zahra

3pm to 5pm
Fourth World War Film Screening
Closed Captioning Available
>From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa,
Palestine, Korea, and the North; from Seattle to Genova, and the War
on Terror in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq, The Fourth World War is
the story of men and women around the world who resist being
annihilated in this war. The product of over two years of filming on
the inside of movements on five continents, The Fourth World War is a
film that would have been unimaginable at any other moment in history.
Directed by the makers of This Is What Democracy Looks Like and
Zapatista, produced through a global network of independent media and
activist groups, it is a truly global film from our global movement.

*Monday Sept 27th*

12pm to 4pm
DisOrientation 2010 Concert and social justice fair
Lots of performances, DJs, opportunities to find out about a variety
of social justice/activist organizations from York and the Toronto
community!
Stay Tuned for the exciting line up and location!

5pm to 7pm
Alternative Journalism - YU Free Press writing workshop
Rm. 321 in the student centre
For women and trans people interested in broadening their skills in
alternative journalism, anti-oppression and the chance to write or get
involved in the YU Free Press!

*Tuesday Sept 28th*

12pm to 2pm
Positive Space & our Campus
Hosted by TBLGay, CWTP York
A discussion around the strengths and weaknesses of the positive space
program and how it affects our campus and the spaces that practice
"safe/positive space".

230pm to 430pm
Haudenosaunee resistance to colonization on the Haldimad tract: 1784-2010
Presented by the First Nations Solidarity working group and OPIRG York
Panel discussion in which speakers from six nations will talk to us
about both the historical background of colonizatian on the Haldimand
tract and the nature of
contemporary indigenous resistance to it. FNSWG will also have a member
from our
working group to speak about the work that we've been doing in non-native
communities, and how non-native activists in Toronto can get involved in
doing work on "our side of the wampum".

430pm to 530pm
Breaking the Cycle
Outside/Inside Vari Hall
Join the Breaking the Cycle crew for some amazing, inspiring theatre
art that will make you question, think and challenge your ideas on
gender, race and the prison industrial complex.

430pm to 630pm
Size Acceptance and Fat Phobia Workshop
Rm. 321 in the Student Centre
This workshop will explore ideas about fat phobia and size acceptance
and how we can accept and celebrate all of our shapes and sizes! We
will bust myths about health and food, and speak about how bodily
control is used as a tool of oppression. We will challenge fat phobia
in various contexts while providing alternatives to the fat phobic,
malestream “norms”. We will have interactive activities and
discussions while remaining sex-positive, queer-positive and accepting
of all shapes and sizes. This workshop will be from a feminist
perspective and is open to everyone.

6pm to 8pm
"Sari Soldiers" Film Screening
Hosted by United South Asians at York University
Closed Captioning Available
The Sari Soldiers follows her and five other brave women, including
Maoist Commander Kranti; Royal Nepal Army Officer Rajani; Krishna, a
monarchist from a rural community who leads a rebellion against the
Maoists; Mandira, a human rights lawyer; and Ram Kumari, a young
student activist shaping the protests to reclaim democracy. The Sari
Soldiers intimately delves into the extraordinary journey of these
women on opposing sides of the conflict, through the democratic
revolution that reshapes the country’s future.

*Wednesday Sept 29th*

1230pm to 2pm
Whose Campus? Our Campus!: Feminist Guerilla Action @ York U
Rm. 313 in the Student Centre
We will be sharing stories and information about past and present
endeavors by feminist activists on campus at York, and inviting
students to get involved in our future mobilization efforts. Our main
focus this year surrounds the prevalence of sexual assault on campus,
and the most recent release of the METRAC safety audit. Participants
will learn about feminist activism on campus in an interactive way,
through peer-education by other students, complete with an intro to
Guerilla postering!

2pm to 4pm
Push Play -  This show is entitled
In front of Vari hall (Back up room is TBA if raining)
Come watch 13 hot new video works by emerging artists of colour on a
range of topics including social justice, race, sexuality, health, trans
lives, and oppression.
Through personal narrative, story telling, doc style, spoken word, and
exploratory
forray, these artists will inspire and transform your outlook on some of
these important sometimes unheard realities.

230pm to 430pm
Cutting Ties With Israel: A Workshop on the Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions Campaign
Rm. 313 in the Student Centre
This interactive workshop will introduce participants to Israeli
apartheid and to the global Palestine solidarity movement.  We will
explore what students at York can do to cut ties with Israel and to
support the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.
Resist global oppression, colonialism and capitalist exploitation
through resisting Israeli apartheid.

430pm to 630pm
Disentangling the G20 ClusterF&%k
Rm. 313 in the Student Centre
Still trying to wrap your head around with the G20? The teach-in will
look at what happened before, during and after the G20. It will look
at the issues communities organized around, as well as the commitments
to austerity measures the G20 agreed upon and what it means for us.
Note: There will be donation buckets for the Legal Defence Fund, so
please bring change!

630pm to 830pm
G20 Related Film: This Is What Democracy Looks Like
Closed Captioning Available
This film, shot by 100 amateur camera operators, tells the story of
the enormous street protests in Seattle, Washington in November 1999,
against the World Trade Organization summit being held there. Vowing
to oppose, among other faults, the WTO's power to arbitrally overrule
nations' environmental, social and labour policies in favour of
unbridled corporate greed, protestors from all around came out in
force to make their views known and stop the summit. Against them is a
brutal police force and a hostile media as well as the stain of a
minority of destructively overzealous comrades. Against all odds, the
protesters bravely faced fierce opposition to take back the rightful
democratic power that the political and corporate elite of the world
is determined to deny the little people.

*Thursday Sept 30th*

1130am to 3pm
Intro to Bicycle Maintenance and Repair Workshop
Outside of Vari Hall or on front lawn of the Commons
**PLEASE BRING YOUR BIKES TO THIS WORKSHOP**
Working through an anti-racist, queer and trans positive framework (as
I’ve found is rare in the bike world), this workshop will offer
participants a brief, concise, and useful overview of basic bicycle
maintenance, repair, and general information. We will go over bike
essentials, such as parts, necessary tools, and how to diagnose and
remedy common problems. As the number of cyclists on the road
increases, it is important for more cyclists to have a basic
understanding of their means of (sustainable yet fun!) transportation
for their own safety and others sharing the roads.

1230pm to 230pm
TURN IT UP: “Media Justice, Community Radio & You
Rm. 313 in the Student Centre
Step into the world of community radio and experience what "media
justice" could look like...This workshop is about how community radio
can be an allied and transformative tool for social justice.
In Part One, workshop participants can expect to learn about the
history and politics of community radio worldwide and locally. We will
be specifically discussing the current situation of media
concentration and a movement for media justice in Canada.
For Part Two of the workshop, we'll be hitting the streets collecting
sounds and voices of York campus and taking it all back to the studios
at CHRY 105.5 FM Community Radio to learn how to do basic audio
editing and production.

230pm to 430pm
Resistance to Poverty in Ontario
Rm. 313 in the Student Centre
Join speakers from OCAP, Jane-finch action against poverty, and
Etobicoke who will be talking to about the current struggle against
poverty in Toronto: which includes the fight for adequate incomes,
against police brutality, and for housing especially in the new post
g-20 era of social cutbacks. We will collectively talk about
strategies of resistance, show video clips of different events, etc.
Check out this amazing panel and learn about the issues and how to get
involved and the role of campus groups.

430pm to 630pm
No One Is Illegal Disorientation Panel Discussion
Rm. 313 in the Student Centre
NOII –TO would like to invite you to a panel discussion on
forefronting the movement towards the Status For All campaign,
specifically looking at the Education Not Deportation campaign and the
possibilities for engaging in such grassroots organizing here at York
University. (Speakers to be announced shortly)

630pm to 830pm
No One is Illegal Film: Continuous Journey (2004)
Rm. 313 in the Student Centre
Closed Captioning Available
Continuous Journey (2004 is an inquiry into the largely ignored
history of Canada's exclusion of the South Asians by a little known
immigration policy called the Continuous Journey Regulation of 1908.
Unlike the Chinese and the Japanese, people from British India were
excluded by a regulation that appeared fair, but in reality, was an
effective way of keeping people from India out of Canada until 1948.
As a direct result, only a half-mile from Canadian shores, the
Komagata Maru was surrounded by immigration boats and the passengers
were held in communicado  virtual prisoners on the ship. Thus began a
dramatic stand-off which would escalate over the course of two months,
becoming one of the most infamous incidents in Canadian history.

*Friday October 1st*

1230pm to 330pm
Organizing 101 Workshop
Rm. 307 in the Student Centre
Catalyzing on new energy and excitement towards grassroots organizing
in Toronto, this workshop will help situate new organizers in the
types of social justice work they hope to do. We will look at locating
ourselves from an anti- colonial/ anti- oppressive standpoint, as well
as identify some of the key visions and goals that participants have
for their work. We will help participants assess their own skills and
goals and visions for moving forward. This workshop will be open to
all levels of experience, and will be a space for all participants to
exchange knowledge and stories with one another.

ALL WELCOME | ALL EVENTS FREE & ACCESSIBLE | CHILDCARE AVAILABLE

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