[opirgyork] Weekly Digest Wed/March/10th

Wed Mar 10 14:29:21 PST 2010

Greetings all!

Please remember to sign up for the upcoming Anti-oppression workshop and 
Consensus 101/Meeting facilitation skill trainings!

There is limited space available! So please email aruna at opirgyork.ca to 
sign up!

***Anti-oppression training: Wednesday March 24th - 2-5pm - GSA Student 
Centre RM. 430
***Consensus/Facilitation skills: Thursday March 25th - 3-5pm - GSA 
Student Centre Rm. 430

See you then!

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1) Call to action: Out of our shelters! Out of our lives!
2) Filipino-Canadians await the arrival of the Maleta in Toronto
3) 3rd Annual Congo conference - How much do you know about the DR 
Congo? March 11th
4) Sikh Activist Network events
5) International Summit Invitation
6) Dominion Issue #67 is now online!
7) Water Forum - March 20th
8) I (heart) Alternative Media Fundraiser!
9) The City is a sweatshop (March 19th + 20th)
10) Through their eyes: Art and Photography by Palestinian Youth
11) WPIRG Volunteer Coordinator JOB POSTING
12) Black Voices Conference 2010 - Free to the public!
13) Serious people: A Black history event
14) The experimental Eskimos: Film Screening
15) Blazing the Indigenous Feminist Trail
16) How we forgot here - The Movement project
17) Job Posting - Interim Executive Director

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1) - please forward widely-

OUT OF OUR SHELTERS! OUT OF OUR LIVES! was the message delivered
to the Canada Border Services Agency on March 8th, International Women's
Day, by the 120 plus women and trans-folks who poured into the Toronto
Rape Crisis Centre for an Emergency Assembly.

The Assembly was called after it came to the attention of the Shelter |
Sanctuary | Status campaign that in Feb. 2010 an Immigration Enforcement
officer went into a women's shelter, looking to deport a non-status migrant
woman, and survivor of violence. Since this information has been made 
public,
more and more women have started to break the silence.

The Assembly agreed to begin a large-scale campaign insisting that
Immigration Canada make women's spaces and services OFF-LIMITS to
Immigration Enforcement. We are writing today to ask for your support. 
Please
read below, forward and act! Our actions can make immediate change.

(Details of the assembly can be found at 
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/435
Here is what the Toronto Star had to say: http://bit.ly/dAeIlT )

The gathering of over a hundred women, with support from hundreds of 
others calls for:

1) IMMEDIATE ACTION
This FRIDAY, March 12:
Phone or Email Reg Williams, Director of Immigration Enforcement in Toronto
Phone: 905.612.6070
Email: reg.williams at cbsa-asfc.gc.ca, cc shelter.sanctuary.status at gmail.com

Insist that CBSA has no place in anti-violence against women organizations.
A sample of what you can say or write can be found at:
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/436

Forward this call to your friends, family and networks. The more
people/organizations that they hear from, the stronger our message will be!

2) If you are part of an organization that serves or supports migrant women,
transpeople and children, or work in a shelter or anti-violence against 
women
organization, invite a member of the SSS campaign to talk to you about
Access Without Fear. We can work with you to ensure that your centre is safe
and accessible for all people, regardless of immigration status.

3) Shelters and anti-VAW organizations across the city and across the 
country
are signing on to a declaration demanding:
-a moratorium on all deportations for women surviving violence
-Immigration Enforcement stay out of shelters and anti-VAW spaces
-women fighting back against violence be given immediate status

The full declaration is available here: 
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/432
If you are working in the anti-VAW sector, work with residents and
participants to get your organization to sign on to the declaration.

4) Get involved with the SSS campaign. On March 19, come out to the
SSS: Access Without Fear Forum for front-line workers and service providers
to develop strategies aimed at ensuring access to essential services for 
people
without full status. Register here: http://bit.ly/9y1Pvo

The Shelter|Sanctuary|Status Coalition is a growing movement of over 120
anti-Violence Against Women organizations that are working to create safe
spaces for all women, regardless of immigration status.
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/sss
shelter.sanctuary.status at gmail.com

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2) Filipino-Canadians await the arrival of the Maleta in Toronto

Toronto, ON – On Saturday, March 20, 2010, Filipino workers, women, 
youth, and their allies will gather in anticipation for the arrival of 
the Maleta (“Suitcase”) Project launch, signaling the beginning of a 
groundbreaking grassroots arts initiative that unpacks the community’s 
rich history of migration and community-building. Entitled “End the 
Exploitation, March for Liberation,” the project launch will spark a 
dynamic and creative way of depicting the community’s struggles and 
legacy of empowerment. The launch will take place a few weeks after 
International Women’s Day, highlighting women’s struggles and resistance 
through a multi-media arts exhibit and a live cultural show.

The Magkaisa Centre, a community centre that houses progressive 
Filipino-Canadian organizations in Ontario, takes pride in welcoming the 
escalation of Maleta Project to a national level. Initially from the 
Kalayaan Centre in Vancouver, the project has served as an inspiration 
to all Filipino-Canadians to embrace the community’s culture of 
resistance. “This month, the Magkaisa Centre will carry forward a 
historic project that will creatively depict the rich history and 
stories of our community in Canada,” announces Joy C. Sioson, 
Chairperson of the Philippine Women Centre of Ontario (PWC–ON).

John Nerier, a member of Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino sa 
Canada/Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance–Ontario (UKPC/FCYA–ON) states 
that “the Maleta is our collective story. The project reclaims the power 
of art and culture in depicting the centrality of Filipino women’s 
issues in the struggles of the Filipino-Canadian community as a whole, 
and the resistance that Filipino women have mobilized to empower the 
entire community towards social change."

The theme of “Enhancing Filipino Women’s Equality” shows the role of 
women as active creators and producers of their own history and 
innovators of various forms of creative expression. The night is one of 
the Magkaisa Centre’s first round of events to celebrate Philippine 
Women Centre of Ontario’s 10th year anniversary.

“Through art, we aim to bring the real struggles our women go through 
out to the rest of the community and to the mainstream Canadian 
society,” Aila Comilang, a member of PWC-ON and UKPC/FCYA stated. “As 
women of colour who will no longer accept this ongoing marginalization 
and exploitation, we are taking on the active role of empowerment and in 
building a movement towards genuine women’s equality and liberation,” 
she continues.

The launch will feature an art exhibition created by members of the 
Magkaisa Centre. Live performances from the Sinag Bayan Ontario Cultural 
Collective and light refreshments will grace this evening of celebrating 
art and culture for the people.

“The Maleta Project launch is only the beginning in exercising the 
vision of an empowered Filipino community,” Sioson states. “We are more 
than just members of Canada’s multicultural mosaic. We are active 
participants who are entitled to our own voice in Canadian society.” 
Participants of the launching will get a glimpse of the Maleta Project, 
activities for which will continue throughout the entire year and will 
culminate in a final exhibit in October, in time for the 10th year 
anniversary celebration of PWC–ON. The Maleta Project launch is yet 
another step towards the just and genuine settlement and integration of 
the Filipino-Canadian community.

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“End the Exploitation: March for Liberation: The Maleta Launch” ?

Saturday, March 20, 2010

?International Student Centre

University of Toronto St. George Campus?

33 St. George Street?5:00 PM – 8:30 PM ?

Doors open at 5:00 PM, show starts at 5:30 Pm

To confirm your attendance, please contact: ?

Qara Clemente ?(416) 519-2553; ?pwc-on at magkaisacentre.org ?

To register online, visit 
http://www.magkaisacentre.org/2010/03/05/maleta-suitcase/

Magkaisa Centre organizations:

?Philippine Women Centre of Ontario ?

SIKLAB Ontario (Advance and Uphold the Struggles of Filipino Workers) ?

Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada/Filipino Canadian Youth 
Alliance—Ontario (UKPC/FCYA—ON)

Philippine Women Centre of Ontario (PWC-ON) Member of the National 
Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada (NAPWC) Telephone: 416-519-2553

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3) 3rd Annual Congo Conference - "How Much do you know About the 
D.R.Congo?".

Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010
Time: 12:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 152 Founders Assembly Hall

We have invited speakers such as:

Bukeni Waruzi (New York): He founded and served as the Executive 
Director of Ajedi-Ka/Child Soldiers Project, an organization working to 
demobilize and reintegrate child soldiers in the DRC. Bukeni is also 
known for his advocacy at the INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT that led to 
the arrest of the Congolese war lord Thomas Lubanga for the recruitment 
and the use of child soldiers in the DRC.

Kambale Musavuli (New York): a Congolese activist, student coordinator 
and spokesperson of Friends of the Congo. He produces weekly podcast on 
the situation in the Congo. He has written for the Washington Post, 
Pambazuka News and numerous other online publications. He has been 
interviewed on National Public Radio, Democracy Now, ABC, Aljazeera, 
Radio France International and myriad radio and television programs 
throughout the globe.
(www.friendsofthecongo.org)

Victor Amissi (Ottawa): Victor AMISI began his work with development 
organizations, humanitarian emergency management for Rwandan refugee 
children (orphans and unaccompanied children) in 1994. In 1996, he 
initiated Project GRAM-Kivu, a human rights organization to take care 
for children and women victims of armed conflicts in the Province of 
South Kivu, eastern DR Congo.

Omekongo Dibinga (Washington DC): Author, Poet, Actor and Motivational 
Speaker! He has shared the stage with Les Brown, Willie Jolley, Sonia 
Sanchez, Outkast, Wyclef Jean, Reverend Run and MANY MORE... Please 
visit his website (www.omekongo.com)

PLEASE VIEW THE FOLLOWING LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q4IbXFZ4-M

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4) Upcoming York Sikh Activist Network Events!

1. Sat. March 13, 2010 - Basketball Tournament

2. Sun. March 14, 2010 - Sisters Circle

3. Thurs.March 18, 2010 - Poetry Slam/Open Mic

4. Mon. March 22, 2010 to
Thurs. March 25, 2010 - Sikh Identity Forum and Sikhi Awareness Week

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1. Sat. March 13, 2010 - Basketball Tournament

Come out to the Sikh Activist Network's First Annual Basketball Tournament!

Think you got skills? Come out with your team

Limited Spots!

Email: sports at sikhactivist.net to register your team
(up to 6 teams) by Wednesday, March 11, 2010

When: Saturday, March 13, 2010
Where: Cassie Campbell Community Centre, Brampton
Price: FREE!

**CO-ED teams encouraged
** Ages 15 and up

Facebook: 
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&tid=352219666268#!/event.php?eid=394011730864&ref=ts

2. Sun. March 14, 2010 - Sisters Circle

Sisters Circle -
Because we ARE Power!

Come and make your voice heard!

This will be a positive, and open space to encourage discussions.
Discuss your experiences as a Sikh woman and what you would like to see 
happening in the community to improve the status of women.

Encouraged Female Youth age 15 - 30

**Free Refreshments will be provided**

Please register to attend at info at sikhactivist.net

Where: Punjabi Community Health Services (2829 Derry Rd East), 
Mississauga, Ont
Time: 12-3 pm.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=351627043675

3. Thurs.March 18, 2010 - Poetry Slam

Poetry Slam

*Come out at join a free space to express yourself through words and any 
other creative outlet**

Do you write poetry? Sing? Play an instrument?

Come out to the Sikh Activist Network's FIRST Poetry Slam and vibe to 
some positivity.

Perform alongside artists from When Lions Roar and other local talent!

Examples of Artistic pieces can include:

* Spoken Word * Hip Hop * Punjabi Folk and Traditional Performances * 
and much more

When: March 18th
Where: Founders Assembly Hall (York University)
Time: 6:30-9:30 pm

Interested in performing? Please e-mail york at sikhactivist.net to register

**Free Refreshments will be provided**

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=394126937817&ref=nf

4. Mon. March 22, 2010 to
Thurs. March 25, 2010 - Sikh Identity Forum and Sikhi Awareness Week

The Sikh Students Association and the Sikh Activist Network are 
partnering to bring you Sikhi Awareness Week!

It will include:

Monday, March 22, 2010 - Sikh Identity Forum 2 - 5p.m. 430 Student Centre
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - Langar (Free Food) 11:00a.m. - 2:30p.m. Vari Hall
- Gatka Demonstration 3:30p.m. Outside of Vari Hall

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - Gurdwara Trip
(Includes Busses to North York Gurdwara, Inclusive Youth Kirtan and 
Gurdwara Tour)
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - Kirtan

Some of these days may be subject to change.

If you would like to register for the Sikh Identity Forum or the 
Gurdwara trip please email: york at sikhactivist.net

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5) INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT INVITATION!!!

Dear Friend / Colleagues

On behalf of the 2ND CAHT 2010 Summit Organizing Committee, I am 
privileged indeed to extend a warm invitation to you to participate in 
the 2ND Summit on Child Abuse & Human Trafficking (2ND CAHT 2010) to be 
held in New York, United States of America and Senegal from April 26th – 
29 and May 3rd – 6th 2010.

The summit will bring together professionals and researchers to unravel 
different aspects of the theme “Child Abuse and human trafficking: 
Looking Through the Lens of Prevention’ in recognition of the need to 
focus attention on the creation of holistic approaches that engage 
children and families, communities, professionals, business and 
governments in preventing child abuse and human trafficking” The 
Conference will also provide an opportunity for the delegates to network 
and share ideas.

Your participation at this summit will contribute to the fulfillment of 
this need and to achieving your Section Strategic Plan Objectives, and 
is therefore greatly appreciated.

In order to facilitate your logistical and administrative preparations, 
please contact the secretariat for more information. Below you will find 
the contact E-mail address of the secretariat. E-mail: caht2010 at mynet.com

We look forward to welcoming you to the CAHT 2010 summit, and to what 
will prove to be an unforgettable event.

Yours sincerely

Ms Kaitlyn Morgan
kaitlyn_morgal at mynet.com

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6) Dear Readers:

Issue #67 features reports from Gaza and Vancouver, a look at mass 
school closures in northern British Columbia and Olympic spending, an 
investigation into the political motivations behind the federal 
government's cuts to NGOs, two articles on Israeli Apartheid Week, a 
look at the "real firefox" and much more...

To download a pdf edition or read articles online, visit:

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/print/issue_67

* If you're in Toronto, check out the official launch of the Toronto 
Media Co-op on March 25th:
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/events/2952

* To keep opening Media Co-op locals and publishing timely, critical 
coverage you can't find anywhere else, the Dominion / Media Co-op needs 
your support. Become a sustainer today.
http://www.mediacoop.ca/join

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7) Council of Canadians

Toronto Chapter Water Forum 2010

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Doors open at 9:30am

Finishes at 5:30pm

Location: Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Room 308/309

Free! Everyone is welcome.

Speakers Include:

Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

Hamilton Bay Area Restoration Council

Centre for the Environment

Wellington Water Watchers

Oak Ridges Moraine Foundation

Hamilton Conserver Society

Citizens for a Safe Environment

STORM Coalition

Polaris Foundation

Great Lakes United

The meeting will start at 10am. We recommend you bring your own lunch – 
we will have a short break for lunch. We’d appreciate if you could RSVP 
to torontochapter at gmail.com. The closest TTC stop is St. Andrew, and you 
can take the King Streetcar west to John Street, or it would be a 
10-minute walk. There is Green P parking available on John St, south of 
Wellington.
Join us in active citizenry. Get involved and make a difference.

E-Mail: torontochapter at gmail.com

Blog: http://councilofcanadianstoronto.blogspot.com

Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=155194435464

National Website: www.canadians.org

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8) What: The "I (heart) Alt Media" party
When: Thursday March 25th @ 9pm
Where: Cinecycle 129 Spadina Avenue,
Near Queen and Spadina
Who: Featuring woot-woot-artists like Garbageface, John Rose,
Anand Rajaram, Kay Pettigrew, Bob Wiseman, D'bi Young,
and DJ Nick Red & DJ B#
Why: Because you love alt media

Usually finding good news is harder than finding a good party.

Luckily on Thursday, March 25th, you're going to be able to find both.

That night Groundwire, Upping the Anti and the Toronto Media Co-op are 
hosting an epic, fun-filled evening with music, drinks, an art auction 
by artist CoCo. 
http://coreychristophercomely.com/cocoasartist/home.html, a raffle and 
other awesome events in order to raise as much money as we can. The G20 
is coming to Toronto in late June 2010 and we are trying to set up the 
infrastructure necessary to cover it. We need journalists, writers, 
equipment, publications and cash to make it all happen.

We are hoping you can help us out.

Our goal for the G20 is to provide a platform to provide daily analysis 
and updates using both audio, video and feeds. Our goal for the evening 
is to dance, have tons o' fun and make a lot of money.

Don't know much about the Toronto Media Co-op, Upping the Anti or Ground 
Wire? Websites and a short description of the various media projects can 
be found below.

Get ready for a night to remember. See you on the 25th!

Cheers,

Upping the Anti, Toronto Media Co-op and Ground Wire

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9) THE CITY IS A SWEATSHOP
March 19-20, 2010
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/thecityisasweatshop

Featuring:

Adil Charkaoui - Migrant Justice Advocate
Lee Maracle - Poet and Author
Clayton Thomas-Mueller - Defenders of the Land
Uzma Shakir - Atkinson Economic Justice Fellow
Sakura Saunders - Media Activist

and many others...

Hidden behind skyscraper towers and corporate greed is a city built on 
the foundations of stolen land, exploitation of immigrant labor and 
denial of basic services to those living without full status or in 
poverty – Toronto. A sweatshop city.

Massive changes to the immigration and refugee system, coupled with 
renewed Immigration raids have created an even more precarious situation 
in Toronto, home to thousands of people living without full status.

Non status people are being systematically shut out of schools, food 
banks and hospitals, and harassed at women’s shelters by Police and 
Immigration Enforcement while rebuilding their lives. Migrants are 
exploited at work, and threatened with deportation when attempting to 
unionize. Immigration enforcement is attacking people in their homes, at 
work and on the streets.

But we are taking back our city. One shelter at a time, one food bank at 
a time, one health care centre at a time. Breaking the walls, fences and 
borders in Toronto, we are creating a Sanctuary City that ensures 
justice and dignity for all.

Join us this year in our second annual City Is A Sweatshop series of events!

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March 19, 2010, 12:30pm
SERVICES | SANCTUARY | STATUS: ACCESS WITHOUT FEAR
Health Science Building, UofT, 155 College Street

Pre-Registration required! http://bit.ly/9y1Pvo

A forum for front-line workers and service providers working with 
migrant communities, students, academics and activists to develop 
strategies aimed at ensuring access to essential services for immigrants 
without full status.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=341804103195

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March 19, 2010, 7:00pm
DISMANTLING THE SWEATSHOP CITY
72 Lib, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street

A powerhouse panel discussion featuring activists who have struggled to 
break down barriers to justice and self-determination of all people. 
Focused on the ideas and ways that will break down the banks, the 
corporations, and the policies that are forcing many to live in 
indignity, the panel will forefront those that have dug at the roots of 
injustice and planted seeds of change in the very foundations of the system.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=344069350167

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March 20, 2010, 7:00pm
SANCTUARY CITY
Cecil Street Community Centre, 58 Cecil Street

Come join us for food, talks and inspiring performances to celebrate the 
struggle to transform the city from a sweatshop to a sanctuary. Through 
organizing in communities, in schools and in shelters, in foodbanks and 
in health centres and at work places, we are creating the city we want 
to live in. Grassroots organisers and artists from across the city will 
share their vision of this city, one based on justice and solidarity.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=342085707711

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As we prepare to flood the streets of Toronto on May Day (May 1, 2010), 
and as we build our resistance to the G8/G20 Summits coming to Toronto 
in June 2010, this series of events will lay out a vision for a city 
that includes everyone that lives, works, loves and struggles here.

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10) Through their Eyes: Art and Photography by Palestinian Youth

Place: Beit Zatoun 612 Markham St. Toronto,
ON (Near Bathurst Subway)

When: 7pm, Tuesday, March 16th

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THROUGH THEIR EYES

Art and Photography by Palestinian Youth

Project Hope invites you to come to Beit Zatoun, our international 
office in Toronto, Tuesday, March 16th to celebrate the beginning of a 
month-long gallery exhibiting photography and art done by Palestinian 
students from the West Bank city of Nablus.

Join us for an evening of art, music and refreshments as Palestinian 
youth help us to better understand their lives under occupation in 
Nablus through their photographs and drawings.The gallery will remain 
open for public viewing until April 9th.

The main galleries will consist of the following work:

- Photogallery - photos taken by school drop-outs in workshops (October 
- December 2009, led by Valerian Mazetaud)
- Art - graphic novels created by university youth in workshops (May 
2009, led by Rebecca Cox)
- Photogallery - photos taken by children in the Bridge to the World 
program (June - July 2009, led by Stephanie MacIntosh)

Sponsors
Project Hope: Humanitarian Oppurtunities for Peace and Education

Beit Zatoun is an art and culture center in Toronto which is now home to an
international office for Project Hope's coordination and a store front
to Beit Zatoun
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For more information,

Email projecthope at projecthope.ps

www.projecthope.ps
www.beitzatoun.org

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11) WPIRG Job Posting - Programming & Volunteer Support Coordinator
Application Deadline: March 29, 2010, 9am

WPIRG is seeking a dynamic, personable, and creative individual who has 
a life-long interest in issues of social and environmental justice to 
fill the permanent position of "Coordinator of Programming and Volunteer 
Support".

The Organization
WPIRG is a student funded and directed organization that provides 
support for students to research, educate, and take action on 
environmental and social justice issues. WPIRG endeavours to foster a 
non-hierarchical working environment by following consensus 
decision-making processes. WPIRG strives to be an anti-oppressive 
working environment by proactively opposing all forms of oppression such 
as those based on gender, race, class, sexual preference, age, cultural 
heritage/ethnicity, religion, gender orientation, and ability.
WPIRG has a high turnover in volunteers and the two permanent staff 
provide continuity and stability in this ever-changing organization. 
They carry out critical support work that maintains the integrity of the 
organization, assist volunteers in their activism, and provide 
connections to other activists and organizations. WPIRG is a small 
office environment and the two staff work collaboratively and share some 
responsibilities. The primary support for staff is each other.

The Position
The primary work of the Programming and Volunteer Support Coordinator 
fall into three categories - 1) volunteer recruitment and engagement, 2) 
volunteer and action group support and development, and 3) coordination 
of workshops, actions and events. Working in consultation with the 
board, staff, and volunteers, primary responsibilities will include 
volunteer recruitment, engagement, training, tracking, support and 
appreciation, and workshop, action and event planning, promotion and 
delivery.

Additionally, this position is to assist in the continuing development 
and maintenance of the organization. This may involve participation in 
organizational planning, policy development, training development and 
office & library maintenance.

WPIRG is a highly collaborative work environment, and most work is 
completed with input from the Board of Directors and the Projects and 
Organizational Development Coordinator. There is also a high level of 
collaboration with the other coordinator in their area of responsibilities.
Specific objectives and responsibilities may be articulated by the Board 
of Directors in work plans that are developed and approved by the Board 
from time to time - additional responsibilities may also be added.

Qualifications
- Demonstrated interest and experience in social and environmental 
justice and familiarity with contemporary issues and their interconnections
- Anti-oppression analysis and proficiency in applying this throughout 
your work
- Demonstrated ability to recruit, engage, coordinate and support volunteers
- Experience coordinating and promoting workshops, actions and events
- Self-direction and ability to take initiative in a dynamic work 
environment
- Ability to prioritize work and manage numerous tasks simultaneously
- Excellent problem solving capacity in a fast paced environment
- Excellent collaborative skills, demonstrated ability to work well with 
students, volunteers, and co-workers
- Demonstrated skills and training in inclusive process: theory and 
practice of consensus decision-making; group dynamics; and conflict 
resolution
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to design and lead workshops & training
- Ability to create promotional materials
- Familiarity with a university/college environment
- Experience with not-for-profit organizations
- Comfortable learning new technology and software (PC & Mac, Wordpress, 
Adobe Creative Suite)

Employment Terms
The Programming and Volunteer Support Coordinator is a permanent full 
time position with a 6 month probationary period; 35-40 hours per week 
at a rate of $19.44 per hour, with extended health care benefits and 
four weeks paid vacation per year. Permanent staff are members of the 
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1281. The anticipated 
employment start date is April 12th if possible.

Because WPIRG is located on a university campus, it follows the cycles 
of university life - four month terms (the busiest terms being Sep-Dec 
and Jan-Apr with the slowest term being May-Aug). Within each term, 
another cycle exists, with the beginning of term being the most active 
and the end of term quieter. Work time allocated to the various areas of 
responsibility will vary greatly, depending on the time of term. Evening 
and some weekend work is expected.

How to Apply
WPIRG welcomes the contributions that individuals from marginalized 
communities bring to our organization, and encourages aboriginal people, 
people of colour, women, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, queer-oriented 
people, single parents, members of ethnic minorities, immigrants and 
people with disabilities to apply. We encourage applicants to describe 
in their cover letter the contributions and experiences they, as 
individuals who identify with marginalized communities, would bring to 
WPIRG.

Also in their cover letter, all applicants are asked to provide a brief 
statement on their views of power and oppression.

Applicants must provide a resume with 3 references, a cover letter, and 
a response, no longer than 500 words, to one of the following questions:
- What role do social change agents play in engaging marginalized 
communities?
- How do you envision your role in supporting students working towards 
social change?

Deadline for Submissions is Monday March 29, 2010 at 9am

Interviews will be held April 2nd - 6th.
Deliver submissions to The Hiring Committee, WPIRG, Student Life Centre 
room 2139, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1; or email 
applications to info at wpirg.org.

Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

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12)
We are proud to present the YUBSA conference which is happening on March
12-March 14. The theme of the conference is the " Evolution to Revolution"
and is entirely FREE, FREE and FREE!!!!!

ITENERARY FOR THE CONFERENCE

Thursday March 11th 2010

12pm-6pm: Tabling & Registration (Vari Hall/ Student Centre)

Friday March 12th 2010

9:00 am - 10:30 am: (Breakfast and Opening Ceremony)
10:30 am - 10:45 am: Transition to Workshop A
10:45 am - 12:15 pm: Workshop A:Hip Hop and Social Change
12:15 am - 1:15 pm: Lunch
1:15 pm – 1:30pm: Transition to Workshop B
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Workshop B:Leadership
3:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Break
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm: Roots Lounge

Saturday March 13th 2010

10:00a.m. – 10:45a.m: Registration
11:00a.m – 12:30p.m: Workshop C: Self-Improvement is the Basis of
Community Development
12:30p.m – 1:00p.m: Break
1:00p.m – 2:00p.m: Workshop D: Missing Pages
2:30p.m – 4:00p.m: Panel Discussion: Fluidity of Blackness
7:00p.m - 8:00p.m: Gala (cocktails)
8:00p.m – 9:00p.m: Dinner
9:00p.m – 10:00p.m: Speeches, dessert, Council’s address, performances
10:00p.m: Dance

You can register ONLINE as www.yubsa.ca!!! or in person at the YUBSA
office!!!

SEE YOU THERE!

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13) Serious people: a Black history event
Saturday March 13th
9pm
Trane Studio
964 Bathurst Street

Serious People

This event is a black history event produced by Toyin of TOVACO.

Featuring:
*Imaaji - http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.aspx?epk_id=195260

*Ayo Lelani - http://myspace.com/ayoleilani

*Amai Kuda - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw5xe6UIC9o

*Shi Wisdom - http://www.youtube.com/ladishi

*TOVACO Tribe is tapping into the Elders Circle and we will hear 
readings from our Elders on Purpose and reason. Speaking to the 
strengths, images, conflicts and realities of the "Black" citizen.

* Ill Nana give us Purpose and reason through dance!
- http://www.youtube.com/illnana257

Rhythmic transitions and atmosphere are being provided by:
Bass Guru > Ian DeSouza - http://www.myspace.com/idesouza
Percussion >Daniel Stadnicki - http://www.myspace.com/danielstadnicki

Dj Congress i spins an African dance party!!!

Doors 9pm
$7 before 10pm $10 after 10:01pm

Poster by Pavia Designs

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14) Monday March 15th
5pm - 830pm
Nat Taylor Cinema

Hosted By Cinema Politica at York University
A working group of OPIRG York

The Experimental Eskimos

In the early 1960s the Canadian government conducted an experiment in 
social engineering. Three 12-year-old Inuit boys were separated from 
their families in the Arctic and were sent to Ottawa to live with white 
families and to be educated in white schools.

The consequences the experiment would have on their identity and culture 
was brushed aside. The experiment had unexpected results. All three men 
went on to become activists and leaders of their
people, instrumental in establishing aboriginal rights in Canada and the
creation of Nunavut.

But it all came at a terrible cost. Peter Ittinuar,Zebedee Nungak and 
Eric Tagoona candidly recount their stories and challenges in this 
remarkable film about an attempt at assimilation, empowerment and the 
triumph of the human spirit.

Trailer of film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sUNfPvNj6A

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15) From Land Sovereignty to Reproductive Justice Freedom Fighting:
Blazing the Indigenous Feminist Trail

March 25, 7-9pm / 252 Bloor W, Rm 2-212 / Free, wheelchair accessible

"Indigenous Feminism" has been taken up as more than just a “theory” by 
Indigenous academics and activists throughout Turtle Island and beyond. 
But still many people reject the term. What does “Indigenous Feminism” 
constitute? Is it just about women? Isn’t feminism a “white-woman’s” 
thing? Isn’t land really the only issue?

A powerhouse evening featuring two incredible women who have shaped and 
continue to blaze the Indigenous feminist trail, and who will never be 
defined solely by one theory.

Featuring
Andrea Smith, co-founder of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence and 
the Boarding School Healing Project

Lee Maracle, award-winning poet, novelist, performance storyteller, 
scriptwriter, actor, and writer in residence at First Nations House at 
University of Toronto

Moderated by Jessica Yee, founder and executive director of the Native 
Youth Sexual Health Network

Introduced by Eileen Antone, OISE Professor and Director of Aboriginal 
Studies and the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives, University of Toronto

Featuring an opening performance by the Red Slam Collective

Presented by the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE)
Co-sponsored by the Indigenous Education Network and the Native Youth 
Sexual Health Network

E-mail cwse at utoronto.ca for more information

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16) “Airlines don’t just move bodies; we move all that desperation. We 
fly all those dreams.”

The Movement Project presents:

How We Forgot Here

by Gein Wong, Marika Schwandt, Malinda Francis and Eva Rose Tabobondung

March 22 - 28, 2010 (one week only!)

Tuesday - Saturday 8pm, Saturday & Sunday 2pm (Monday 8pm Preview PWYC)
Walnut Studio Loft 83 Walnut St. (W. of Bathurst, S. of King - next to 
Stanley Park)

Tickets:
$15 advance at The Toronto Women’s Bookstore (TWBS), located 73 Harbord 
Street.
$20 at the door | ($2 from your advance ticket will go towards the TWBS)
Receive a free copy of Gein Wong's new CD 'Burning Money for You' with 
each ticket.

Following the tremendous success of last year’s sold out workshop 
presentations, The Movement Project invites you to join them onboard 
Eagle Airlines, Canada’s newest Indigenous-run airline, for the fully 
mounted production of How We Forgot Here. On this flight you will be 
immersed in a pulsating, multi-artistic journey of memories that reveal 
the complexities of migration and settlement in Toronto.

How did we get here? Where are our ancestors from?
What have we forgotten along the way?

With visual projections, film, theatre, live electronic music, and 
spoken word poetry, your trip aboard Eagle Airlines will call upon the 
multiplicity of voices easily lost in the city hustle.

Featuring: Malinda Francis, Rosina Kazi, Marika Schwandt, Ryan 
Symington, Eva-Rose Tabobondung and Gein Wong

The Movement Project consists of playwright, poet and music composer 
Gein Wong (2010 KM Hunter Award in Theatre nominee); actor and dancer, 
Marika Schwandt (Spotlight Award, The Art of Catching Pigeons by 
Torchlight Summerworks 2009); and filmmaker Malinda Francis (a.k.a. 
docuvixen).

Bringing artists together from multiple disciplines, The Movement 
Project was formed in 2007 to capture the often silenced narratives of 
those who have come to live in Toronto and in Canada through various 
processes of migration. Informed by interviews and countless personal 
conversations, How We Forgot Here invites the audience to consider some 
of these stories and the process it takes to call a place ‘home’. With 
support from the Ontario Arts Council, How We Forgot Here is the first 
'movement' in a series of performances to be developed in the coming years.

www.themovementproject.ca

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17)
Job Posting

The Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter is an organization 
of Chinese Canadians in Toronto that promotes equity, social justice and 
inclusive civic participation by conducting activities in the areas of 
public education, systemic advocacy, community development and coalition 
building. We are currently seeking an Interim Executive Director to work 
closely with the Board of Directors to promote equity and human rights 
for the Chinese Canadian community in Toronto and for Canadian society 
in general.
Interim Executive Director

RESPONSIBILITIES:

· To oversee day-to-day operations of the CCNC Toronto Chapter office.

· To represent CCNCTO and become an active member on a number of 
committees, coalitions and advisory groups.

· To co-ordinate advocacy actions including the development of policy 
statements, briefs, letters, reports and proposals, on issues relevant 
to the Chinese Canadian community.

· To liaise with the media, government officials, funding bodies and 
community organizations within the City of Toronto.

· To prepare funding applications, research proposals, and program reports.

· To recruit and provide supervision and evaluation to program and 
support staff.

· Reporting to the Board of Directors, you will provide leadership and 
direction toward achievement of CCNC Toronto Chapter’s mandate, program 
and activities.

QUALIFICATIONS:

· Knowledge and community experience on anti-oppression and social 
justice advocacy

· In-depth knowledge of policies and issues affecting immigrants and 
visible minorities

· Knowledge of grant writing and financial management

· Knowledge and experience working with small non-profits, volunteer 
boards and committees

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

· Working knowledge in Chinese is preferable (Mandarin and/or Cantonese)

· Well developed supervisory, administrative and organizational skills

· Excellent multi-tasking and multiple-project management abilities

Starting Salary: $ 45,000 per annum, prorated for 6 month contract with 
possibility of extension to full time.

Anticipated start date: May 15, 2010

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS:

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 by 5 p.m.

APPLY IN CONFIDENCE TO:

CCNC Toronto Chapter Hiring Committee

Suite 124, 215 Spadina Avenue

Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2C7

Fax: (416) 979-3936

E-mail: karen at ccnctoronto.ca

CCNC Toronto Chapter is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage 
applications from visible minority groups, First Nations People, women, 
and people with disabilities. We thank all applicants but only those 
chosen for an interview will be contacted.