[opirgyork] Weekly Digest - October 3rd 2011

[aruna at opirgyork.ca]

Thank you to everyone for coming out and supporting DisOrientation 2011
and the Electric Pow Wow!

This is just the beginning! We have lots more lined up for you starting
this week and throughout the month!

1) Open House
2) PrOPIRGanda radio collective wants YOU!
3) OPIRG's Resource Centre is looking for volunteers
4) Artists for Justice Working group meeting (TOMORROW - TUESDAY)
5) Rebels with A Cause Film Festival

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1)
Open House
Wednesday October 5th
12pm to 4pm
Student Centre RM 449C
York University

Join OPIRG York on...

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5th 2011 from 12pm - 5pm
in the OPIRG office (Student Centre Rm. 449 C) for free food, fun and
meeting amazing fellow social justice thinkers on campus!

We're having an open house to welcome back new/returning students, and
show you what OPIRG has to offer!

- Come and find out about OPIRG resources
- Learn about our exciting working groups
- Meet the staff, board members and volunteers
- Enjoy great food
- Sign up to become a volunteer
- Learn about what OPIRG does
- Come and hang out!

See you there!

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2) OPIRG Radio Show Collective is looking for members!

Interested in community radio? Looking for experience reporting on social
justice, environmental and anti-oppressive issues?

OPIRG’s Radio collective wants YOU!

No experience is necessary, and this is a great and fun way to start off
or continue your work in community radio.

If you are interested in joining or finding out more, please email –
sharmeen at opirgyork.ca

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3)
*Volunteer for the OPIRG Resource Centre!*

Interested in develop alternative libraries and building the availability of
radical resources on campus? Would you want to develop reading clubs that
prioritize texts on social and environmental justice issues? Are you
excited
at the prospect of investigating and archiving the history of the radical
student movement on the York campus?

Join the OPIRG York Resource Centre Collective!

OPIRG York is a student funded organization, run by a student board of
directors that funds events and working groups on and off the York campus
that advocate for social and environmental justice issues. In addition to
an
office in the Student Centre (Room 449C if you’d like to drop by for a
visit), we have a great space for a resource centre that has been less
than
functional in recent years.

We want you help, all those who are interested in radical resources, reading
groups, archiving and institutional history, to make the resource centre a
valuable resource for students on campus! We want your input on what
books,
films, magazines and graphic novels the centre should acquire to cover the
breadth of social/environmental justice issues happening in Toronto and
around the world. We want you to tell us what reading groups we should
create and what events we should host related to radical texts and
publications!

We are developing a Resource Center collective and all York students and
community members are invited to join! Help us get this library in working
order and develop programming that assists students in investigating and
examining the injustice and oppression happening in the world around them,
and what they can do to stop it.

For inquiries, ideas and how to get involved, please e-mail
radicalresourcecentre at gmail.com .

For more information on OPIRG york, please visit www.opirgyork.ca or e-mail
aruna at opirgyork.ca.

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4) Interested in Art? Social Justice? Radical Art making?
 Want to make art that will make people think?

Artists for Justice Working group are having their first meeting TOMORROW!
Join us to talk about our next projects, what we want to do, and meet
other political artists!

Tuesday October 4th, 2011
3:30pm to 5:30pm
Student Centre
RM. 449C

Free snacks!

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5)
Rebels With A Cause
Film Festival
October 24th - 28th

REBELS WITH A CAUSE is a film festival organized for and by York community
members. In screening films that are artistically, politically, and
socially critical, combined with artist's talks, panel discussions, and
Q&A's, REBELS WITH A CAUSE aims to (re)introduce its audience to the
political and social spheres at York and its community while inciting
action & education through the avenue of film.

Location: Various, On Campus

DAY 1

2:30PM – 4:30PM
Artist’s Talk: Bear Witness

6:00PM – 8:00PM
REact:G20, Co-presented by Parkdale Film + Video Showcase

Victory Salute – Trevor Tureski
Dear Stephen Harper – Alison Taylor & Sabine LeBel
(3days before) G20 “Fence” – Lauren Satok
1 Question – Liz Knox
Packin’ – John Greyson
Left to Eat Cake – Ananya Ohri
Afganimation – Allyson Mitchell
Raw Memory – Jorge Lozano
Like a Nice Rubber Gas Mask – Malcolm Rogge
Cut – Julieta Maria

Political Filmmaking Panel
Facilitator: Amil Shivji
Panelists: Sabine LeBel, Jorge Lozano, Ananya Ohri, Alison Taylor

DAY 2

2:30PM – 4:30PM
York Focus: Films by, for and of York community

Banana Bruises – Joyce Wong
The Golden Pin – Cuong Ngo
MataDanze – Amil Shivji
Remember the Disremembered – Victoria Moufawad-Paul
Homophony – Jorge Lozano
Motet for Amplified Voices – John Greyson

Vari Hall Preservation Panel
Panelists: Clare O’Connor, Imran Kaderdina, Laila Rashidie

6:00PM – 8:00PM
Shooting Indians: a journey with Jeffrey Thomas

A conversation with Ali Kazimi and Jeff Thomas

DAY 3

2:30PM – 5:30PM
Dis(Orient)ation, Curated by Victoria Moufawad-Paul

Like Twenty Impossibles – Annemarie Jacir
Chronicle of a Disappearance – Elia Suleiman
For Cultural Purpose Only – Sarah Wood

Q&A with Vicky Moufawad-Paul

6:00PM – 8:00PM
Arna’s Children – Juliano Mer Khamis & Danniel Danniel

Students Against Israeli Apartheid Panel

DAY 4
2:30PM – 4:30PM
Queer & Trans Activism

Seeking Single White Male - Vivek Shraya
Ache in My Name - Vivek Shraya
Red Lips [Cages for Black Girls] – Kyisha Williams
CAMP – Alexis Mitchell
Land(E)scaping – Jorge Lozano

Queer & Trans Activism Panel

Facilitator: Aruna Boodram
Panelists: Alexis Mitchell, Vivek Shraya, Kyisha Williams

6:00PM – 8:00PM
Indigenous Struggles

>From Nomad to Nobody – Michael Buckley
Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside –
Alejandro Zuluaga & Harsha Walia
As Long As the Rivers Flow: the Story of the Grassy Narrows – Dave Clement

Indigenous Struggles Panel
Panelists: to be confirmed

DAY 5
6:00PM – 7:00PM: Closing Event

7:00PM – 10:00PM
The Personal & the Political Story of Activism

Black Womyn Griots: D’bi Young & Helen Yohannes Speak – Helen Yohannes
Mountains That Take Wings – C.A. Griffith & H.L.T. Quan

Personal & Political Story of Activism Panel
Facilitator: Hadiyya Mwapachu
Panelists: to be confirmed