[opirgyork] Important Events Tomorrow + Event Digest!

[OPIRG York]

Hey Everyone,

Take a look at the three events for tomorrow!
Also check out the digest of other upcoming events :)

-OPIRG York

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1)  Take Back Our Campus:  Rally Against Sexual Violence - Thurs. Oct. 11th
2)  Supplies NOT Lies!  Honour the Treaties! - Thurs. Oct. 11th
3)  Designing Injustice:  Rally Against Prisons & Prison Expansion - Thurs.
Oct. 11th
4)  Remembering Thomas Sankara - Sat. Oct. 13th
5) OPIRG York Open House + Radical Reading Room OPENING! - Tues. Oct 16th
6) Demonstrate Against Poverty Oct 17- Day for the Eradication of Poverty!
(JFAAP + OCAP Event) - Wed. Oct 17th
7) Black Creek Community Farm Open House - Sat. Oct 13th
8) Honouring our Communities: March Against Racism - Sun. Nov. 4th
9) Forward Ever! Independence, Revolution & Liberation - Fri. Oct. 19th

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*1) Take Back Our Campus:  Rally Against Sexual Violence*

Over the last few weeks, there have been several reports of sexual assaults
at York University. These incidents affect our safety and peace of mind as
students and community members. These assaults are not isolated incidents
and reflect broader trends of gender-based violence on our campus and
within our communities. As a community, we hold a collective responsibility
to create inclusive, safe[r] spaces on campus for woman-identified and
trans* people so we can live, work and study on a campus free of harassment
and/or sexual assault.

Please join the York Federation of Students for a rally to oppose gendered
and sexual violence and ensure that our campus is a safe[r] space for all.

*"Take Back Our Campus: Rally Against Sexual Violence"*
*Thursday, October 11, 2012*
*Student Centre*
*Noon*
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*For more information, please contact Safiyah Husein, 647-295-9706,
vpequity at yfs.ca*
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*2) Supplies NOT Lies! Honour the Treaties!*

Act against the injustice faced by Six Nations children, and demand treaty
rights to education be honoured!


*Thursday Oct.11 12pm*
*Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) *
*25 St. Clair Avenue East, Toronto.*

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*Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/366839806727115/
Buses leave from Six Nations Old Council House at 10a.m. and return by 3pm.

“Are you going to come stand with me to fight for everything it takes to
have my kids get the good education they deserve?” - Rhonda Martin, Six
Nations.


Despite ordering supplies 5 months ago, Six Nations schools still do not
have all supplies and are facing a more general funding crisis. At some Six
Nations schools, reports are emerging of supply teachers not being paid,
the hot water being shut off, and photocopiers are under threat of being
repossessed. As teachers are overwhelmed with trying to make up for
inadequate resources, parents have taken a stand against the aggressions of
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, and the Federal Government.
They have been met with lies, disrespect and broken promises from Director
of Education Peter Jones and Minister of Education John Duncan. Enough is
enough! Parents, teachers and allies demand justice, SUPPLIES NOT LIES!

This injustice is only the latest in a long line of actions which fail to
uphold the treaty rights to education that Canada must abide with the
people of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory.  Six Nations and
Tyendinaga are the only two reserves in Ontario which have refused the
devolution of educational funding onto band councils, and have insisted
that the federal government live up to its treaty responsibilities and fund
education. However, massive cutbacks to education and attempts by the
Conservatives to pass a unilateral approach to education under the First
Nations Schools Act, are laying the groundwork for the further undermining
of treaty rights. These moves show the colonial face of the fierce
austerity agenda we ALL are facing.

As long as we are on this land, we are all treaty people and are bound the
treaties that our ancestors made together. Let’s stand together to stop the
Federal Government of Canada’s colonial education agenda and demand it
fully uphold treaty rights.

Join Six Nations parents and teachers to demand SUPPLIES NOT LIES! HONOUR
THE TREATIES!

For more info:

Contact: CUPE 3903 First Nations Solidarity Working Group at
cupe3903fnswg at gmail.com

Check out the week of resistance and call-out from parents, teachers,
allies:
On Monday Oct.1st:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTsLARb9V80&feature=player_embedded
On Friday Oct. 4th:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzkKc8XnFdI&feature=player_embedded

APTN coverage:
http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2012/10/04/six-nations-parents-outraged-over-ottawas-handling-of-school-supplies/

Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, December 2011
http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/SEN/Committee/411/appa/rep/rep03dec11-e.pdf

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*3) **Designing Injustice: Rally Against Prisons & Prison Expansion*

*Date:* Thursday October 11
*Time:* 2 pm
*Location:* 145 Richmond St W (Richmond & University)
*FB Event:* http://www.facebook.com/events/456711904372273/


Join the Prison Moratorium Action Coalition and our partners and allies as
we rally against the construction and expansion of prisons and the prison
industrial complex in our communities.

The Academy of Architects for Justice are holding their annual conference
'Community Dialogue: Architecture for Justice & Renewal' in Toronto this
week October 10-12 at the downtown Hilton:
http://network.aia.org/AcademyofArchitectureforJustice/Home/FallConference/

Why don't we pay them a visit and show that we're angry, we're watching
them and that we are going to be a thorn in their side from here on in.

It's well known that the crime rates in Canada are at their lowest in 40
years* yet the Conservative government is moving full-steam ahead on its
Tough On Crime agenda - creating harsher penalties for minor offenses
ensuring that there will be plenty of need for the SuperJails that they're
building. This will mean that more members of our communities who are
already marginalized will be at even more risk of incarceration. People of
colour and specifically from Black, African and Caribbean communities;
Aboriginal and First Nations people; drug users; people living with HIV;
people without status in Canada are already target by police and victimized
by the justice system and will all bear the brunt of this very political
move on the part of the Harper Government.

Let's remind those who are hoping to shape these institutions that we have
our own plans. We'd like to share with them!

Let's talk about designing JUSTICE in our communities! They want a
community dialogue, we will give them one.

Join us at the Dowtown Hilton at University and Richmond at 2pm on Thursday
October 11!


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http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/24/crime-rate-in-canada-at-lowest-level-since-1972-statistics-canada-says/


*Endorsed by* AIDS ACTION NOW!, TDUU, Toronto Harm Reduction Alliance &
more.

*4) Remembering Thomas Sankara*
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A film screening and discussion of the work of social emancipation of
Thomas Sankara as well as the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the
martyrdom of this revolutionary leader from Burkina Faso (West Afrika)


the film

"Burkina Faso: A Revolution Recitified" by filmmaker Thuy-Tien Ho


                                followed by a panel discussion

Panelists:


Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, Group for Research and Initiatives for the
Liberation of Afrika (GRILA)


Steve da Silva, International League of People's Struggles (ILPS) - Canada


Representative from the Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity


WHEN: Saturday, October 13, 2012


TIME: 7:00PM


WHERE: 252 Bloor Street West (next to the St. George subway station) in
Room 5-170 (fifth floor)


FREE EVENT (Donations accepted)


Organized by:


Group for Research and Initiatives for the Liberation of Afrika (GRILA)


International League of People's Struggles (ILPS) - Canada


Pan-Afrikan Solidarity Network (U of T)


Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity


For further information contact: network4panafrikansolidarity at gmail.com

*5) OPIRG York Open House + Radical Reading Room OPENING!*

https://www.facebook.com/events/351369254957808/

Join OPIRG York on...
TUESDAY OCTOBER 16th 2012 from 12pm - 4pm
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
introduce our new Radical Resource Reading Centre! This is also our
thank-you event to our amazing Dis-Orientation Volunteers!

- Come and find out about OPIRG resources
- Learn about our exciting working groups
- Meet the staff, board members and volunteers
- Play board games!!!
- Listen to some awesome music!!!
- 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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*6) Demonstrate Against Poverty Oct 17- Day for the Eradication of Poverty!*

https://www.facebook.com/events/352751731481406

Demonstrate Against Poverty

Date: Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012
Time: 3:30PM
Location: Corner of Jane/Finch

We demand:

-Raise the rates
-Increase Minimum wage
-Keep the Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit
-Restore the special diet program
-Stop police targeting youth
-Affordable: decent housing, healthy food, prescriptions, childcare
-An apology from York University and Excalibur newspaper for their constant
misrepresentation of the Jane-Finch community

Music
Food
Good people
Fun

Come celebrate the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty!

Four years ago JFAAP was formed on the corner of Jane and Finch. Since
then, we have done much but poverty prevails and may have gotten worse. We
have to continue to resist!

JFAAP.wordpress.com <http://jfaap.wordpress.com/>
janefinchactionagainstpoverty at gmail.com
Organized by Jane Finch Action Against Poverty and Allies

Endorsed by: OPIRG York, York University Faculty Association (YUFA), York
University Graduate Students Association (YUGSA), Black Creek Community
Health Centre (BCCHC), CUPE 3903, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

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*Day for the Eradication of Poverty*
*Wednesday October 17*
*Join Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and Jane-Finch Action
Against Poverty (JFAAP) at events throughout the day...*

DOWNTOWN:

Save the Community Start-Up, Raise the Rates Now!

10:00 AM: Walk-in Clinic: Find out about or apply for Community Start Up,
join us at the Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square (west of the
Eaton Centre, south of Dundas)

12.00 Noon: Meal and Rally @ Toronto City Hall Square (Bay/Queen): March on
the Provincial Government to Deliver all Applications Collected that Day

A Province wide campaign is being built to save the CSUMB and, in Toronto,
OCAP is looking to contribute to this on October 17 with a mass application
for the benefit that will also demand the cutback be reversed. We will hold
a mass clinic to make people aware of how they can apply for CSUMB and we
will fill in application forms for all those who wish to obtain it. Then,
we will rally together and march on the Government to put in these
applications and many more from across Ontario.

If you want to help build this event or learn how you and others in your
community can receive the CSUMB, give us a call today. More than anything,
come out on October 17 and help us stop McGuinty from getting away with his
plans to put people on the streets. Save the Community Start Up Benefit,
Raise the Rates NOW!

More info at: http://www.ocap.ca/node/1013
http://www.facebook.com/events/283317985117858/
Contact: ocap at tao.ca // 416-925-6939

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*7) Black Creek Community Farm Open House*

YOUR FARM – YOUR IDEAS
 Open House: October 13 - Driftwood Community Centre

It’s true!  There’s going to be a community-based farm right here in this
neighbourhood at 4929 Jane Street.

Black Creek Community Farm will be an urban farm that engages, educates and
empowers diverse communities through the growing and sharing of food.  The
farm will be a place where food, training, and culture happen - by and for
the community.

The farm will be your farm, so come to a short info session on October
13th.  Learn more about the project, ask questions, share your ideas, and
tour the farm site.

Where: Driftwood Community Centre,
4401 Jane Street at Driftwood Avenue.
When: Saturday October 13th from 2-4pm

For more information:
blackcreek at everdale.org
www.everdale.org/blackcreek/

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*8) Honouring our Communities: March Against Racism *

HONOURING OUR COMMUNITIES: MARCH AGAINST RACISM

NO HONOUR IN DEPORTATIONS | NO HONOUR IN APARTHEID | NO HONOUR IN CORPORATE
PROFIT
Sunday November 4th, 2012 at 3 PM
Rally at David Pecaut Square, March to Fairmont Royal York Hotel (100 Front
Street)

Jason Kenney is being awarded an ‘honorary’ degree by Israel's Haifa
University at a fundraiser supported by Stephen Harper, Ezra Levant, Peter
Munk, Stockwell Day and others. This event is a celebration of war, racism,
corporate profit, displacement, apartheid and anti-migrant xenophobia – all
intensified by the Conservative Party of Canada’s agenda. There is nothing
honorable about this gathering.

We call on our communities to gather in/to honour of our strength and
resilience, in opposition to this award and gathering, and against the
dishonorable acts of Kenney, Harper and their allies

Join us on November 4th !
#confrontkenney #nohonour

Childcare and ASL will be available.

For further questions on accessibility, to endorse, or to join the
organizing please emailhonouringourcommunities at gmail.com

For more information, check out the facebook event here:
http://www.facebook.com/events/233309536798501/.

*9) Forward Ever! Independence, Revolution & Liberation *

The Spice Youth Toronto Community Initiative & the Network For Pan-Afrikan
Solidarity
Presents

Critical Perspectives on the New Jewel Movement, the Grenada Revolution & a
Legacy of Pan-Afrikan Liberatory Struggle

When: Friday, Oct. 19th 2012
Where: Room 5-170 (5th floor) OISE, University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street (near St. George subway)
Time: 7pm

Film: The Grenada Revolution Documentary

Performance by Hudson George

Panel:

Dr. Alissa Trotz
Associate Professor
Caribbean Studies at New College & Women & Gender Studies
University of Toronto

Mr. Caldwell Taylor
Former Grenadian Ambassador to the United Nations

Dr. Arnold Itwaru
Senior Lecturer, anti-colonial scholar & activist
New College
University of Toronto

Marie Benjamin & Kadon Douglas
Independent Researchers

Event is Free *donations welcome*

Venue is wheelchair accessible & Childcare will be available


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