[opirgyork] Make sure to check out DisO events! Lots more this week!

[OPIRG York]

Thanks to everyone who has been apart of DisOrientation so far!!!
We have had an incredible response so far and the events have been amazing!

Make sure you don't miss out!
If you haven't already - check out the schedule at 
www.opirgyork.ca/disorientation2010

Today we have Feminist Guerilla action, BDS campaign, Disentangling the 
G20 and film screening
For the rest of the week the events include issues from anti-poverty, 
migrant justice, bike repair D.I.Y to media justice, organizing 101 and 
film screenings!

Check out the events for the rest of the week below!

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*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 location is the Bear Pit 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 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
Nat Taylor Cinema

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
(If it's raining - will be in the Bear Pit)

**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 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.

7:30pm to 2am
Re-orientation cabaret: My sex is beautiful
Part of DisOrientation York 2010
Mc: Dainty Box

October 1 at 7:30pm - October 2 at 2:00am
Gladstone Hotel ( Ballroom)
1214 Queen Street West

...Featuring:
Raging Asian women
Ill Nana
Chromatically Correct
Nichola Ward
Cutesy Caliber
Philip Cairns
Luka

...and lots of other great acts, followed by a night of dancing with DJ 
Black Cat.

Friday October 1st at The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
Doors at 7:30pm, show starts at 8pm

tickets sliding scale 2-10$,
advanced tickets available at Good for Her and the CWTP York.
( All the money made at the door will go towards performers)

All ages event and ASL will be provided. Volunteers will be available to 
meet folks at York University and
Dufferin Station, and we will provide volunteers and TTC maps to help 
folks get back to campus at the end of the night.

Contact 416-736-2100 x 33484 or cwtpyork at gmail.com 
<mailto:cwtpyork at gmail.com> for more information, to let us know how we 
can meet your
accessibility needs or to find out where and when to meet the folks 
heading to the event together.

ALL WELCOME | ALL EVENTS FREE & ACCESSIBLE | CHILDCARE SUBSIDIES AVAILABLE

If you have any access needs and/or for Childcare subsidies please email 
aruna at opirgyork.ca <mailto:aruna at opirgyork.ca> or call 416-736-5724

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