[opirgyork] OPEN HOUSE + JFAAP/OCAP Events + REBELS WITH A CAUSE FILM FESTIVAL!

[OPIRG York]

Hi Everyone,

OPIRG York has some awesome events lined up this week and next week!
*TOMORROW* we have our open house and Radical Reading Room launch- join us
for some food, games and laughs, AND get your new Radical Reading Room
library card, and start exploring the books OPIRG York offers in it's
library!
*WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17th* - Join Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)
and Jane-Finch Action Against Poverty (JFAAP) at events for the Day for the
Eradication of Poverty - all details below.
*AND NEXT WEEK OCTOBER 22-25 *- Join OPIRG York and our various community
partners for our 2nd Annual Rebels With a Cause Film Festival. Full details
are listed below- it's a really exciting schedule and we are so excited to
be able to present this for the York and wider community!

As always, you can get in touch with us at OPIRG York by emailing
opirg at yorku.ca, or stop by the office at 449C Student Centre anytime! We
look forward to working with you!

-OPIRG York

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OPIRG York
www.opirgyork.ca
416-736-5724
facebook.com/opirg.yorku
twitter.com/OpirgYork

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*OPIRG York Events:*
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1. OPIRG York Open House + Radical Reading Room OPENING! - Oct 16th
2. Demonstrate Against Poverty Oct 17- Day for the Eradication of Poverty!
- Oct 17th
3. Rebels With A Cause Film Festival - Oct 22-25th
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*1. OPIRG York Open House + Radical Reading Room OPENING!*

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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*2. Demonstrate Against Poverty Oct 17- Day for the Eradication of Poverty!*

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, The
Spot, Learning Initiatives Fostering Elevation (LIFE), Nomanzland,
Community and Legal Aid Service Program (CLASP @ Osgoode at York U)

*AND*

*Day for the Eradication of Poverty*
*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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*3. Rebels With A Cause Film Festival*

The Rebels With A Cause Film Festival is brought to the York community by
artists and activists who seek the delicate balance between both creative
and political work. We believe that film should not pacify or be escapist,
but politicize and give us the courage to transform ourselves and our
communities. The films selected are artistic reflections on social justice
issues and critical documentations of unsung community work. Located within
a university context, Rebels engages in dialogue outside the classroom
through conversations after screenings. We hope that the communal act of
viewing and sharing our ideas about films will strengthen our community and
empower our work on York campus and beyond.

*Rebels 2nd Annual presents 5 curated programs titled Red Riot, Witness
Within, Dead Ducks, Carving Coming and Art in Action and 2 feature
screenings 5 Broken Cameras and Pariah.*

*RED RIOT | MON OCT 22 6:00–7:30 PM | NAT TAYLOR CINEMA, 102 NORTH ROSS
*http://www.facebook.com/events/424099314303954/
*Red Riot *confronts the systemic effects of patriarchy, from issues of
violence towards Aboriginal women to gender-based oppression closer to
home. Each short whilst acknowledging trauma, conveys a defiant spirit.

*WITNESS WITHIN | TUE OCT 23 5:30–7:00 PM | 1152A VARI HALL*
http://www.facebook.com/events/122642217884025/
*Witness Within* examines the implications of structural imprisonment and
systemic oppression in their myriad forms. The shorts highlight the
importance of depicting acts of injustice and the community responses to
them, displaying the ability of film to make social interventions.

*5 BROKEN CAMERAS | TUE OCT 23 7:30–9:30 PM | NAT TAYLOR CINEMA, 102 NORTH
ROSS
*http://www.facebook.com/events/339458172817473/
*5 Broken Cameras* is a cinematic collaboration between Palestinian farmer
Emad Burnat and Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi. A testament to the camera as
a political weapon, the film documents Palestinian resistance to Israeli
occupation in a West Bank village.

*DEAD DUCKS | WED OCT 24 2:30–4:00 PM | NICK MIRKOPOULOUS SCREENING ROOM,
004 ACCOLADE EAST
*http://www.facebook.com/events/355178054570477/
*Dead Ducks *features the work of York film professor Brenda Longfellow
that employs a distinctively different approach from conventional film in
dealing with the environmental crisis and its serious social impact.

*PARIAH | WED OCT 24 7:00–9:00 PM | 1152A VARI HALL*
http://www.facebook.com/events/444636518912151/
*Pariah* explores a Brooklyn teenager's journey into understanding her
sexuality and confronting her family's expectations alongside her own quest
for self-realization. The film is a stunning coming of age story with
striking visuals and a vivid soundtrack that matches the boldness and
nuance of its composition.

*CARVING COMING | THU OCT 25 1:00–2:30 PM | 013 ACCOLADE EAST*
http://www.facebook.com/events/149522228525283/
*Carving Coming* consists a series of queer films that looks at the
complexity of constructing identity within multiple spaces. The shorts both
challenge and celebrate notions of being queer. Together they meditate on
inclusivity and intersectionality.

*ART IN ACTION | THU OCT 25 4:30–6:30 PM | NICK MIRKOPOULOUS SCREENING
ROOM, 004 ACCOLADE EAST*
http://www.facebook.com/events/148303878647427/
*Art in Action *depicts stories told in this city that speak to sustaining
diasporic communities, confronting profiling and stereotypes, competing
interpretations and the erasure of the past. In each short the lens filters
through how race, history and representation create the myths that surround
us.

*YOURS IN REBELLION, A CLOSING CONCERT | THU OCT 25 7:00–10:00 PM | MARTIN
LOUNGE FAMILY, 219 ACCOLADE EAST
*https://www.facebook.com/events/455769064473228/

Come and celebrate the end of the Film Festival with amazing performances,
food and drinks!

*WITH*:

Jeff Tanaka: http://basicsnews.ca/2012/09/broken-worlds-a-poem
Yusra Khogali: https://www.facebook.com/yusraspokenword
Manny Manolo: http://www.mannymanolo.com/
Lido Pimienta: http://www.kudetalosangeles.com/Lido_Pimienta.html

*Free Food
*Cash Bar

More Information:

Website - rebelsfilmfest.wordpress.com
Facebook @RebelsWithACauseFilmFestival
Twitter @RebelsFilmFest
Trailer - http://youtu.be/yYM38RM1Ig4
Full guide - http://rebelsfilmfest.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/
rebels-guide_full.pdf
Email: rebels at opirgyork.ca

On behalf of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group at York, Rebels
thanks our community partners for their support and solidarity - York
Graduate Students' Association, Centre for Women and Trans People at York,
York Film Department, York United Black Students’ Alliance, Hot Docs,
imagineNATIVE, Octavia Films, Parkdale Film+Video Showcase, Regent Park
Film Festival, and Trans-Film Screening-Series.

Yours in rebellion, Rebels With A Cause & OPIRG York
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