[opirgyork] OPIRG Reminders!

Tue Jul 12 15:53:56 PDT 2011

1) Call out for activity proposals for DisOrientation 2011 (app attached)
2) Call out for articles for PrOPIRGanda - OPIRG York Newsletter
3) Call out for articles for YU FREE Press - Dis/Orientation edition

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1) Call-out for activity proposals for DisOrientation 2011
Application is attached to this email
Deadline: July 18th, 2011

For years on the York University campus, YPIRG, its allied organizations 
and community members have put together
an alternative orientation week that promotes critical thinking, 
education and insight into a variety of
social and environmental justice issues. DisOrientation is an 
alternative schedule of events to foster student activism in the
face of corporate and oppressive control of our campuses.

We are looking for organizations, departments, collectives, people, 
groups that have great ideas for events or
activities of any kind to participate in this year’s DisOrientation, 
scheduled to happen in September 2011.

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 and in our city. By bringing together a wide range of campus 
and community 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 and in our 
communities.

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*2) Callout for articles:*

*Seeking submissions from awesome people!*

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*PROPIRGANDA: OPIRG YORK NEWSLETTER*

OPIRG York is seeking submissions for our upcoming Fall 2011 newsletter! 
PrOPIRGanda is a media project facilitated and produced by OPIRG York to 
provide space for activists, students and community to promote their 
creativity and activism. It’s only a good avenue to outreach to York 
University and the North York community on issues you are working.

*Things we are Looking For: *

*Articles: *Articles should be as relevant to the York community as 
possible, and generally speak to the social and environmental justice 
movements in Toronto/globally as well. Articles can be from 100-500 words.

*Possible ideas include:*

- Fighting budget cuts and austerity

- Sexual violence on York University and resistance

- Indigenous solidarity work

- Union organizing and labour strikes

- Analysis on the upcoming provincial election

- International Solidarity around Palestine, Arab Spring, the Congo, 
mining and more!
- a year since G20 - now what?

*Resources: *Resource Articles can be guides, how-to's, 
directories/contact info, and any helpful resources for new students. Up 
to 500 words.

*Organizational blurbs:*

If you are part of an organization/group organizing in the North York 
area, you can submit a 100 word write up on your organization and how 
students can get involved. Please include contact information and a 
website (if you have one).

*First Draft deadline: July 15*

*Please email them to propirganda at gmail.com*

If you are passionate about a particular political issue or are 
organizing a campaign, we would love to publish your work in our Fall 
2011 issue! If you would like to help with editing, layout and other 
exciting aspects to creating a newsletter, contact us at 
propirganda at gmail.com

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3) Dear readers/contributors/allies,

The /YU Free Press/ is now accepting submissions for our first issue of 
the 2011-2012 academic year, "*Dis/orientation*". Each year /Ontario 
Public Interest Research Group/ (OPIRG-York) in collaboration with other 
radical groups on campus creates * Dis/orientation* - a 
multidisciplinary politicizing alternative to frosh week in which York 
students, new and old, can discuss issues of social justice, 
anti-oppression, anti-colonialism, gender, racism and accessibility. As 
a participant group of *Dis/orientation*, we are excited to explore in 
this issue themes of student mobilization and community accountability 
at York around:

-History of the land York occupies

-Gender-based violence on campus

-Tuition fees and accessible education

-Health and safety on campus

-Vari Hall (student activism vs. administration oppression)

-Free speech on campus

-LGBT/TBLGAY issues on campus

-Accessibility at York University

-Working conditions of the food service and sanitary workers on campus

-Issues facing international students (status, health insurance, 
housing, etc)

-Campus unions - CUPE3903, YUSA, YUFA, CUPE 1356

-Campus groups - Centre for Women and Trans People (CWTP), CHRY 
Community Radio, Feminist Action, Filipino Student Association at York 
(FSAY), South Asian Alliance (SAA), Students Against Israeli Apartheid 
(SAIA), Students for Free Tibet (SFT), Trans Bisexual Lesbian Gay 
(TBLGay), Undergraduate Sexuality Studies Association, York United Black 
Students' Alliance (YUBSA)

These are just some of the themes we would like to cover for this issue, 
but we welcome submissions on a variety of topics concerned with any 
other social justice matter on campus. The submission deadline will be 
***August 5***. In addition to written submissions, we also invite you 
to send in photos, artwork, and poetry as well.

Please submit all articles, photos, community event notices, and art to 
*/info at yufreepress.org/*

All general inquiries and submissions can be sent to: 
*/info at yufreepress.org/*

Suggested word counts: *News: 50 to 750 words * Features: max 2000 words 
* Comments: max 1200 words * Arts: max 1500 words

If you have not submitted to the YU Free Press before, but would like 
to, this is your chance. The YU Free Press has experienced tremendous 
success since its inception, and it is due to the support and dedication 
of our writers, volunteers, allies, and readers. For that, we sincerely 
thank you for making us what we are today! Please email us at 
/info at yufreepress.org/ if you have any further questions!

/*YU Free Press Editorial Collective*/

www.yufreepress.org

http://issuu.com/yufreepress

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