[opirgyork] Welcome Back! DisOrientation 2011 is HERE!

[OPIRG York]

Greetings all!

Hope everyone had an amazing summer! It's that time of year again and 
here at OPIRG we've been working hard to put together another full week 
of incredible programming for DisOrientation 2011, scheduled to start on 
Thursday September 22nd with pre-DisO events on Sept 14th and the 20th! 
(FULL SCHEDULE BELOW and attached)

We are looking for VOLUNTEERS for the month of September to make 
DisOrientation 2011 happen! Interested in media documentation? Have a 
lively personality? Want to spend time doing something amazing and 
meeting new great people?! Get involved with one of our 3 teams! 
(Application form and info attached and available at www.opirgyork.ca)

Come by and say hi! Our office in the student centre is open monday to 
thursday from 11am to 6pm in RM. 449C. We can be contacted at 
opirg at yorku.ca and 416-736-5724.

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September 22 to September 30th 2011

WORKSHOPS/ DIRECT ACTION/ FILM SCREENINGS/ PANELS
ALL WELCOME/ ALL EVENTS FREE/PWYC & WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

DisOrientation is a radically different, politically progressive week of
events that will offer all students and community members access,
critical thought and insight into the exciting and political social
justice spheres that exist within and beyond York U.

*Wednesday September 14th* (Pre-DisOrientation Event)

“Slingshot HipHop”
Sunset (7pm)
York University Commons
Presented by: Toronto Palestine Film Festival

Directed by Jackie Reem Salloum, Slingshot HipHop tells the stories of 
young Palestinians
living in the West Bank, Gaza and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop 
and employ it
as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From 
internal
checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational 
differences, these
young people cross the borders that separate them through music. The 
documentary was
nominated for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury prize.

Slingshot HipHop premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and since 
then, has been
screened at various film festivals across the world. In Toronto, the 
film was screened
to a sold-out theatre in the 2008 Toronto Palestine Film Festival where 
it also won the
Audience Choice Award. We're excited to bring the film to York 
University as part of
DisOrientation 2011. See you at the Commons!

*Tuesday September 20th* (Pre-DisOrientation Event)

“Toronto Stop the Cuts Workshop”
3:30pm to 4:30pm
Student Centre RM 307
Facilitated by: Toronto Stop the Cuts Network

We have gone down to city hall to lodge our complaints about the city 
cuts slated
for later this year and have been ignored by our mayor and city council. 
This
workshop will discuss the city cuts within the context of developing a city
wide strategy to fight back and keep the services our city needs!

*Thursday September 22*

“Radical Walking Tour”
12pm – 1:30pm
Meet in front of commons fountain
Tour Guide: Imran Kaderdina

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 inequities produced by and through the university cannot 
spring
from nowhere. 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 1.5 hours.

“It get’s worse” Teach In
2pm – 3pm
Meet at Vari Hall for location
Facilitated by CWTP at York

This teach-in is intended to provide students with an opportunity
to discuss violence on campus and to learn skills to fight back
against the misogyny pervading our campus. Using the notion that
violence gets worse when it goes unaddressed, the “It Gets Worse”
campaign seeks to interrupt the apathy surrounding the alarmingly
high number of gendered-based violent incidents occurring on campus
and in particular to highlight the administration’s failure to properly
address it. In addition to giving folks an opportunity to speak out
against violence and the administration’s complacency, the teach-in
is intended to teach folks basic self-defense skills, inspire resistance
and remind us all of our ability to fight back as a community. We also
plan on using the event to launch a year long, multifaceted campaign to
take back our campus and confront the culture of gendered violence that
currently characterizes this institution.

“Freedom Tour Movie Screening”
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Student Centre RM 307
Film Screening and discussion facilitated by: DAMN

Freedom Tour was created by People First of Canada and the NFB. The 
documentary
was created when the government of Manitoba announced $40 Million to 
remake the
Manitoba Development Centre – The largest institution in Manitoba for 
people who
have been labeled as disabled. The film documents their journey across the
Prairie Provinces to contact survivors of the institution and to allow them
to tell their stories of life in the institution through their stories, 
pictures
and video. After the screening there will be a facilitated discussion to
talk about the history of disabled institutionalization in Canada.

“Tar Sands Kill, Pipelines Spill”
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Student Centre RM. 307

In April 2011, the Lubicon Cree First Nation community of Little Buffalo 
in Alberta
was devastated by an oil spill - the largest spill in the province since 
1975 - and
over 100 forest fires in the Slave Lake region. Oil and gas development 
has caused
irreversible ecological damage on their territory, grave health hazards, 
and the
ongoing violation of their human and indigenous rights. This workshop 
will share
the history of oil and gas development on Lubicon territory over the 
past 3 decades,
the impacts of the recent oil spill, other examples of community 
resistance to tar
sands, and the unprecedented social and ecological implications of tar 
sands developments.
Finally, we will discuss as a group how we can show solidarity and 
support to tar
sands-impacted communities, including Little Buffalo, from Toronto.

*Friday September 23rd*

“Vegetarianism as an avenue for social justice”
12pm – 1pm
Student Centre RM 307
Facilitated by the Toronto Vegetarian Association

As a two-part workshop, we begin by motivating a vegetarian diet through 
a discussion of food security.
The second part will be centered on leading a vegetarian diet at York, 
with recipes and tips and tricks.

“Queering Pop Culture”
1:30pm – 3pm
Student Centre RM 307

Pop culture surrounds *us* in ways that we can’t control. From 
billboards, to
pop-ups on the websites we surf, or in the public bathrooms we use. With 
some magazines,
a button maker and lots of DIY attitude the presenters would like to
examine the possibilities of not just consuming these pop culture 
products, but
really transgressing the buyer-seller (consumer-producer) relationship and
reconstructing these images and texts into queer, queer positive, trans, 
gender
dichotomy transgressive, and sex positive texts that intersect with and
deconstruct race, religious or class differences.
Buttons are an amazing way to create visibility and altering public 
space; while
creating and reinforcing identity categories. Come out and enjoy an 
interactive
workshop where we can all learn to produce creative and unique buttons. 
We will
be discussing the process of making the buttons, the merits of such 
buttons and
the assumptions we make about these buttons, and culture in general.

“Art for Justice 101 (workshop)”
3pm – 6pm
Student Centre RM. 430

Art For Justice is a new working group of OPIRG-York that aims to bring 
a radical
and progressive approach to art-making within student and community 
organizing.
We utilize different sorts of art not only to provide materials for 
movement,
but also as a movement itself. Art For Justice 101 workshop is the first 
workshop
of the group that will provide participants with basic knowledge of 
banner-making,
silk-screening, and stenciling among many other do-it-yourself of art 
techniques.
This will also be an opportunity to discuss and envision the ways art 
can bring change at York.

All materials and supplies will provided, but feel free to bring your own.
Bring any shirts and fabrics that you would like to use for silk-screening.

*Monday September 26th*

“Bathroom Politics”
12:30-2:30pm
Student Centre RM 307
Facilitated workshop/discussion/direct action by DAMN

Public Washrooms are spaces where many assumptions of “normalcy” are 
played out.
Typically, public washrooms are designed with cis-gendered, 
gender-conforming,
non-disabled persons in mind. In this event we will discuss who is 
included and
excluded from using public washrooms and then lead an art-activism 
exercise to
challenge the assumptions that are made about washroom space. Finally, 
our art
creations will be placed in and around washrooms on campus in order to 
provoke
thought and dialogue to the broader campus community.

“Media Advancing Movements”
2:30pm -5:30pm
Student Centre RM 307
Facilitated by: CHRY FM

Understanding how media creates and promotes systems of oppression is 
key to also
understanding how it can also be used to embody and promote the values 
of liberation.
This workshop encourages participants to consider various impacts that 
media has had
on them personally as well as on social movements in the 20th century.
This workshop is interactive and hands-on!

“Spoken word/soundscape recording workshop”
6pm – 8pm
Student Centre RM. 307
Facilitated by: Lead singer and instrumentalist Nic from LAL

The workshop is an introduction to spoken word, poetry, sound scape and 
recording.
Participants will get a chance to create a sound scape using collective 
voices and
found sounds. This backing track will be recorded in order to provide 
the sonics
for the spoken word piece(s). The group then will then create spoken 
word pieces /
poetry pieces based on a theme chosen by the group. The final spoken 
word piece /
poetry piece will be recorded over the sound scape and the participants 
will have
an mp3 at the end of the workshop! This workshop attempts to be guided 
by anti-oppression
and feminist philosophies. Nic and Rose also bring in their portable 
studio for this workshop.

*Tuesday September 27th*

“Fabric of Violence: Fabricating Change”
12pm – 2:30pm
Student Centre RM 322
Facilitated by THRIVE: Multicultural women against violence and oppression

**THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR WOMEN AND TRANS IDENTIFIED PEOPLE ONLY**

Fabric of Violence: Fabricating Change, uses fabric to create and engage 
in discussions
around issues of violence, freedom through women and trans people’s 
lived experiences.
The workshop will include both a section for discussion and art making. 
In addition,
participants will be able to choose if they would like their artwork 
that they
created to be displayed at a gallery in Toronto on the first day of the 
days of
activism on November 25th 2011.
Wheelchair accessible, TTC tokens and Snacks provided.

“The Struggle for Genuine Women’s Liberation in Canada”
2:30pm – 4:30pm
Student Centre RM 313
Facilitated by: Ugnayan ng Kabaatang Pilipino sa Canada/Filipino 
Canadian Youth Alliance-Ontario

This event will expose the anti-woman, anti-worker and racist Live-in 
Caregiver Program (LCP),
a federal government program being used as the de-facto national 
childcare program of Canada.
It will feature two documentary films, ‘The Nanny Business’ and ‘The 
Call to Scrap the LCP’.
The first film will show the plight of women who toil under this 
modern-day slavery program.
The second film will present the analysis of progressive Filipino 
Canadian women on the need
to scrap the LCP towards genuine women’s liberation.

A public forum will follow after the film screening.

“Students in the labour movement, a pivotal moment”
4:30pm – 5:30pm
Student Centre RM 313

With overbearing costs of education downloaded onto students, alongside 
austerity measures
that continue to attack quality jobs, it is imperative for students and 
workers to connect
their struggles. Many students also experience forms of mistreatment as 
workers themselves,
while workers on campus are fragmented and face substandard conditions. 
This workshop will
explore coalition strategies between students and workers and ways of 
mobilizing around
issues that affect both groups.

“Take it over: The ballot box, the streets and beyond”
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Student Centre RM 307
Facilitated by: York Federation of Students

Whether its slash-and-burn politics at city hall or the skyrocketing 
costs of attending
college and university, it is becoming more and more evident that 
communities must take
action to ignite change. Whether it’s government and public institutions 
who are willfully
ignorant to the social, economic and political ills that face us all, 
our collective
mobilization by and for our communities. This workshop starts from the 
assumption that
communities must organize to take back what is rightfully theirs: from 
the October 6
provincial elections, to deep cuts at city hall, to the February 1 
National Day of Action
to Drop Fees, participants will discuss why communities must begin to
“Take It Over” and how we can do it!

*Wednesday September 28th*

“Sex work decrim: get the facts”
12:30pm-2:30pm
Student Centre RM 313

In this workshop we will explore the difference between the legalization 
and
decriminalization of sex work. Looking at current by laws and licensing 
structures
that exist in other sectors of the sex trade we will develop an 
understanding of
what decriminalization could look like in Toronto, it’s impact on 
diverse groups
of sex workers, and ways we can support groups lead by sex workers who 
wish to
take the lead on policy development. We will also provide an 
understanding of
decrim models that currently exist in other countries and give an update 
on the
outcome of the Bedford appeal hearing that happened throughout the week 
of June 13th.

“CHRY Community Radio tour”
2:30 – 3pm
Student Centre RM 449C
Facilitated by: CHRY 105.5FM

Did you know CHRY 105.5FM Community Radio is based at York U’s Student 
Centre?
Did you know you can be a part of it? CHRY offers the sounds, voices, 
music and
stories left out of commercial or public radio, and offers 
hands-on-training to
all volunteers. Come to see the CHRY studios for yourself and meet the 
programmers
and staff that make up north Toronto’s only campus-based community radio 
station.

“No one is illegal: The truth and lies about Canadian immigration”
3pm – 5pm
Student Centre RM 313
Facilitated by: No One Is Illegal (NOII)

Some believe that the Canadian immigration system is fair and generous. 
It isn’t.
And Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney 
are swiftly
making it even worse. Come find the truth about undocumented people 
living in Canada,
and how Canada is responsible for displacing people around the world. 
Learn how a
grassroots group of migrant justice organizers are fighting against 
deportations,
and for justice, freedom and dignity for all. With special guests and 
videos.
http://on.fb.me/NOIIToronto

“Indigenous Resistances and anti-colonial solidarity: Examining race of 
the Left in Occupied Canada”
6pm-8pm
Student Centre RM 313
Facilitated by: First Nations Solidarity Working Group

This panel will host Indigenous activists from Toronto and the Grand 
River Territory,
along with Indigenous solidarity activists of color. Addressing issues 
of ongoing
colonial/racial violence(s), the panel will work to underline the need 
for all movements
of the Left to begin with an understanding of Canada as an occupied 
land. Speakers
will discus Canada's practices of colonial and racial violence against 
Indigenous peoples,
and will highlight Indigenous struggles against colonialism and for self 
determination/sovereignty.
We will also hear from settler allies who will describe their 
involvement in Indigenous
solidarity work and anti-colonial struggles. Reflecting on the current 
state of Indigenous
solidarity organizing, issues of colonialism, (hetero)patriarchy and 
racism within the
movement will be explored. Presentations by speakers will be followed by 
a moderated
discussion, and members of CUPE 3903 FNSWG will discuss their own 
organizing work.

*Thursday September 29th*

“Wen-do Women’s Self Defense”
1pm – 2pm
Student Centre RM 313
Facilitated by: Wen-Do Women’s Self Defense and CWTP at York

We recognize that women and girls already have a wealth of experience in 
protecting
their own safety. We believe that women and trans people can use their 
bodies
effectively, as they are -- older or younger, athletic or not, disabled 
or non-disabled --
to resist or defuse violent situations. We aim to build on participants' 
prior
knowledge and increase their self-confidence by teaching a variety of 
awareness,
avoidance and verbal self- defense strategies, and simple, practical 
physical
techniques that are designed to be effective even against a larger and 
stronger
attacker. The space is wheelchair accessible and TTC tokens will be 
provided.

"People's Journalism, building an alternative to capitalist media"
2:30pm to 4:30pm
Student Centre RM 313
Facilitated by: BASICS Free Community Newsletter

We know what capitalist media isn't focusing on internationally. But we 
sometimes
forget what's happening right here in Toronto, in working class and 
racialized
communities: Police brutality, the struggles of immigrants -- and the 
struggles
they leave back at home, class war against working people through cuts, 
women's
struggles, racialized workers being super-exploited in low paying jobs, 
the ongoing
colonization of indigenous peoples, and so on. But how do we cover all 
that? How do
we try to build an alternative to capitalist media in the absence of 
funds? Get a
brief introduction to people's journalism and learn about the different 
ways you
can get involved with BASICS.

“York Divest from Israeli Apartheid NOW!”
5pm-7pm
Student Centre RM 313
Facilitated: Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York

Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) presents a workshop 
introducing SAIA and
the global Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in 
solidarity with
Palestine. Attendees will be provided with context of the Palestinian 
struggle
for self-determination and the history that led Palestinians to call for 
BDS.
We will focus on the divestment campaign that was launched this past March.
This interactive workshop will introduce the divestment campaign and how 
York
is violating international law with their investments in the targeted 
companies.
Learn the truth about Palestine, BDS and find out how to join the 
growing movement.

*Friday September 30th*

“A Tribe Called Two Toes/Electric Pow Wow feat LAL and Sho Sho Esquiro 
Fashion Show”
6:30pm – 2am
The Orange Room - 132 Queens Quay East
19+ Event
Pay What You Can!

A Tribe Called Two Toes: is a collaborative touring effort featuring one
of the most exciting music crews in Indian Country – A Tribe Called Red &
the fastest rising Native Comedian working in North America today – Ryan
McMahon (Clarence Two Toes). Together, they’ve formed a new collective 
called,
“A Tribe Called Two Toes”.
Bursting forth from Canada’s capital, native DJ crew A Tribe Called Red is
making an impact on the global electronic scene with a truly unique sound.
Made up of three members – two-time Canadian DMC Champion DJ Shub, DJ NDN
and Bear Witness – the group has created a signature style called Pow Wow
Step, a mix of traditional Pow Wow vocals and drumming with cutting-edge
electronic music. They’re known for creating and running the Electric Pow
Wow events in Ottawa which showcased native DJ talent and urban aboriginal
culture, alongside a wild party. These events, in a sense, are a direct
continuation of the ideas surrounding Pow Wow culture, bringing people
together to celebrate good music, dance, and most of all to have a good 
time.

LAL: Vocalist and poet Rosina Kazi and producer Murr, began collaborating
on music as LAL in 1998, mucking about with tones of gear and wild poetics.
In the early 00’s, they created two politically charged 
critically-acclaimed
albums, Corners (2002) and Warm Belly, High Power (2004). the latter 
earning
them the distinction of ‘2004’s Best Soul Album’ by Canadian music bible
Exclaiim! Magazine. They have had extensive radio play on CBC, campus radio
and many of their songs appear in Indie media, films and documentaries,
including radio show and online site, Democracy Now.
Their newest recording self-titled LAL (to be released Fall 2011),
is inspired by the projections of their hopes and their fears into the 
future.
Their fears being that if we as a society keep going along the road we are
currently on, we will end up in a very scary place. But their hopes keep
their fears in check, and their faith is rock solid in the ability of the
human spirit to keep creating midst of struggle. Their dynamic live show
is a testament to the glorious exploration of the depths of humanism -
building community while ripping apart words, notes, and rhythms, eyes
open to the injustice that burrows deep into the fabric of society, and
hearts burning with the fire of justice for all.

sho sho esquire: is an Aboriginal fashion designer, artist, and youth
worker who's passion is for self-expression through art and fashion.
Her clothing has innovative style that blends native american culture
with urban life. Her use of vibrant colors and strong passion for hip
hop make her work one of a kind. sho sho incorporates recycled fabrics,
leathers, furs and every piece is original. Her custom clothing has
been worn by various hip hop artist's from immortal technique to indian
rights activist and singer song writer buffy sainte marie. sho shos
been featured in fashion shoWs and fashion exhibits across north america.


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All Welcome! All events are free/pwyc and wheelchair accessible.

For childcare and Accessibility inquiries please email aruna at opirgyork.ca
For more information about OPIRG and DisOrientation: www.opirgyork.ca






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