[opirgyork] More Events This Week+ OPIRG collective Information!!

[OPIRG York]

Hello OPIRG York members and community!

Check out the new events line-up for this week- TOMORROW will be York U's
Idle No More Round Dance at 12pm, and just before that, SAIA York will be
holding a flashmob in the Student Centre at 11:30am. SAIA will also be
having a new members meeting tomorrow evening. Also see below for some
events on Friday and this weekend!

There are many ways to get involved at OPIRG. We currently have 8 OPIRG
York working groups:
Art For Justice, Justice is Not Colour Blind, Students for a Free Tibet, YU
Free Press, Environmental Justice York, Progressive Filipino Canadians for
Community Empowerment and Development (PFCCED), Students Against Israeli
Apartheid, and the Vanier Prison Support Line working group. You can contact
Victoria Barnett, our volunteer coordinator, about ways to get involved in
these working groups: victoria at opirgyork.ca.

We also have three different collectives: PrOPIRGanda Radio, Radical
Reading Room and PrOPIRGanda Zine- see the callouts below. You can contact
our Coordinator of Administration and Information, Sharmeen Khan, about
ways to get involved in these collectives: sharmeen at opirgyork.ca.

You can always contact us at any time about ways to get involved, and help
out, or if you are interested in other issues that we can help connect you
too and feel free to stop by the OPIRG York office at 449C Student Centre
anytime during regular office hours (Mon-Thurs. 10-5pm) to chat!

-OPIRG York
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www.opirgyork.ca
416-736-5724
opirg at yorku.ca

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*In this email:*
*(1) ONGOING: Call out for radio collective members for OPIRG York's
awesome community radio show! *
*(2) ONGOING: **Call out for Radical Reading Room Collective members!*
*(3) **Jan 10th: **SAIA Flashmob: York U York U Divest!*
*(4) Jan 10th:  Idle No More York U with ASAY @ York*
*(5) Jan 10th: Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) New Members'
Meeting*
*(6) **Jan 10th: **Emergency Mapuche Protest: Matias, We Remember You in
Struggle*
*(7) Jan 11th: Idle No More Toronto*
*(8) Jan 11th: Candle Light March & Concert for Unity and Solidarity*
*(9) Jan 12th: Anti- Capitalism and Feminism*
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*Call out for radio collective members for OPIRG York's awesome community
radio show! *

OPIRG York is looking for new radio collective members for the weekly
activist news show PrOPIRGanda.  PrOPIRGanda is on CHRY 105.5FM at York
University and broadcasts live on Mondays from 12 - 1pm.  We conduct
interviews, cover events and create radio documentaries on social movements
locally in Toronto and beyond. We cover issues such as indigenous
sovereignty, environmental justice, anti-racism, feminist organizing,
Palestinian solidarity, art and revolution - all movements that set our
agitating hearts afire!

We are looking for collective members to meet weekly to plan radio shows,
cover events, record talks, and organize interviews.  We also want folks
who are into skill sharing and training in activist, alternative media.

*Who are we looking for?*

- anyone committed to activist media and wanting to cover issues from a
social justice lens
- folks whose voices and stories aren't commonly heard in mainstream media
- creative and talented storytellers
- people committed to making radio broadcasting an empowering experience

*Ideally, collective members would be available on Mondays on noon.*
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To get involved, please email Sharmeen at sharmeen at opirgyork.ca


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*Call out for Radical Reading Room Collective members!*
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OPIRG York has recently opened its Radical Reading Room. The Radical
Reading Room provides students and community members with alternative and
activist based material.  We want to provide magazines, zines, books and
other media produced by independent and activist publishers. We also
organize the Radical Bookworms - a study circle where folks read various
articles or books and have raging debates.

OPIRG York is currently seeking new collective members to run the Radical
Reading Room.

Tasks include:

- maintaining Radical Reading Room hours
- researching and ordering new material
- promoting new material on website and social media
- helping organize Radical Bookworms reading circles
- processing new memberships

If you like to be around books, and want to join, contact Sharmeen at
sharmeen at opirgyork.ca

And also, come check out the reading room in Room C449 in the Student Centre

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*SAIA Flashmob: York U York U Divest!*

*Date*: Thursday, January 10th
*Time*: 11:30am
*Location*: York University Student Centre
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Students Against Israeli Apartheid is calling on all members of the York
University community to take a stand and demand that York divest from
companies in violations of as well as divesting from companies involved in
violations human rights and international law. We are also asking that all
members of the York University community demand that York University set up
an ethical investment policy to prevent future investments and
re-investments into companies profiting from war, violations of
international law and violations of human rights

Having said that,
Students Against Israeli Apartheid is asking for the support all those in
solidarity with the Palestinian people to come out to our flash mob in the
student centre this THURSDAY JANUARY 10 2013 at 11:30 AM. There will be
leaflets with lyrics so you can all join in and chant along with us.
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*Idle No More York U with ASAY @ York*
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The Aboriginal Students' Association at York is calling on all our friends
and allies to support our Idle No More York U initiative.
Please accept and share this invitation far and wide. Chi Meegwetch!

*Our Facebook event invite* http://www.facebook.com/events/153632854784017/
*Date*: Thursday, January 10th
*Time*: 12pm
*Location*: Vari Hall *Round Dance* - Vari Hall at 12 pm sharp +
*Teach In*- 1-3pm in North Ross 203

Calling all treaty people, Indigenous and settler people alike! Please join
us in a round dance flash mob in solidarity with Idle No More and Chief
Therese Spence. Our unity against the Harper Government's omnibus Bill C45
is Theresa's strength, our knowledge, our power.

Anishnawbe Professor, Robin Cavanagh and Professor Anna Zalik, both of the
Faculty of Environmental Studies will be our guest teachers. There bios are;

http://www.yorku.ca/fes/wa/FacultyProfiles/app/profile/83052
http://www.yorku.ca/fes/wa/FacultyProfiles/app/profile/571558

As details develop, they will be posted here (
http://www.facebook.com/events/153632854784017/). As it is, we meet in Vari
Hall at 12 pm sharp on Thursday, January 10th, 2013. Our teach-in is to
follow at approximately 1pm.

Please wear red, bring Indigenous national flags and supporting signs and
banners. Some sign suggestions are:
-We Are All Treaty People
-Honour Our Treaties
-In Unity with Chief Theresa Spence
-Settler in Solidarity

'I am an Ally' swag bags will be available to assist campaign and unity
efforts.

*Why January 10th?...*

"For me to say that, I'm not afraid to die, I wouldn't be honest. As I
stated, when I began the hunger strike (on the 12th of December) if we do
not see anything positive, thirty days after the start on Jan. 10/13, I'm
willing to give my life so future generations can survive and enjoy the
many gifts from the "Creator". I have a lot of very good reason to want to
live, and I have a lot of faith in all of the Aboriginal People and our
Sisters and Brothers of other color, who are in this struggle to save
"Mother Earth" for those that are living and those not yet born." Chief
Theresa Spence

*The Idle No More Website* http://idlenomore.ca/

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*Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) New Members' Meeting*

Thursday, January 10
4:30-5:30
Rm. 307 Student Centre (third floor)

Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) at York University is part of
the growing global movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
against the apartheid state of Israel. We aim to raise awareness and
educate our campus about these issues and to end York's (and Canada's)
complicity in Israeli Apartheid.

Come to the New Members' Meeting and learn about SAIA,
our divestment campaign, and how you can get involved.

If you are unable to attend, just drop us an email and we'll set you up!

For more information, email: saiayork at riseup.net
Be sure to 'Like' us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SAIA.York
And follow us on Twitter @SaiaYork

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We believe Israel is an apartheid state that resembles South African
Apartheid. Palestinian citizens of Israel are denied from controlling and
developing over 90% of land because they are Palestinian.

Palestinians expelled in 1948 and 1967 are denied the right to return to
their homes and lands, despite the fact that anyone of Jewish background -
from anywhere in the world - has the automatic right to become an Israeli
citizen.

In the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinians live under separate
and discriminatory military law.

The Canadian government provides extensive political and economic support
to the Israeli apartheid regime. Canadian corporations profit through
investments and joint operations with Israeli companies. Canadian
universities have investments in companies that provide weapons to the
Israeli army. They also possess extensive ties to Israeli universities
involved in land confiscations and research for the military occupation.
We work to end all Canadian complicity in Israeli Apartheid.

For more information on Israeli Apartheid:

http://www.bdsmovement.net
http://www.caiaweb.org/
http://www.stopthewall.org/
http://mondoweiss.net/
http://palestineremembered.com
http://www.pacbi.org/
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*Emergency Mapuche Protest: Matias, We Remember You in Struggle*

*Date*: THURSDAY, JANUARY 10TH
*Time*: 5PM
*Location*: TORONTO CHILEAN CONSULATE – 2 Bloor Street West

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION in Support of the CAM Mapuche Political
Prisoners on Hunger Strike (50+ Days)

CALLING OUT ALL ANTI-COLONIAL/ANTI-CAPITALIST/ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN ALLIES

STOP THE STATE OF SIEGE + REPRESSION IN MAPUCHE
AUTONOMOUS MAPUCHE TERRITORY!

FREE OUR MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS!

In the Memory of Matias Catrileo Quezada, murdered by Chilean Police on
January 3rd, 2008 at the Santa Margarita Estate, so-called property of
Jorge Luchsinger, during an indigenous land reclamation. MATIAS, WE
REMEMBER YOU IN STRUGGLE.

Bring your drums, flags as we will show to the world our brothers and
sisters are not alone in their just struggle for the Reclamation,
Reconstruction and Liberation of the Mapuche Nation.

WCCC [Toronto]

For more info on the latest situation in Mapuche Territory, go to:
http://wccctoronto.wordpress.com/


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*Idle No More Toronto*
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*Our Facebook event invite:* http://www.facebook.com/events/142971442527419/
*Date*: Friday, January 11th
*Time*: 1 pm
*Location*: Dundas Square


We are at an important time in the #IdleNoMore movement, and we need to
keep momentum up now that Harper has agreed to meet with the AFN. So I’m
writing this post to give everyone a brief overview about the planned #J11
action.

#J11: Global Day of Action
#J11 is being planned as An #IdleNoMore International Day of Action,
Solidarity & Resurgence – on January 11, 2013 – to run parallel to the
meeting between PM Harper and the AFN.

The goal is to raise the profile of the movement, demonstrate our global
presence, and give visibility to our growing momentum as a peoples’
movement first.

As only a few AFN-determined representatives will be chosen to participate
in the meeting with Harper, we thought it would be important to show that
the rest of the movement stands united with one voice, that we are not
going anywhere, and that we are here to demonstrate the strength and
resurgence of our nations. We also want to honour and mark the fact that
Jan 11th will be the 1-month anniversary of Chief Spence’s hunger strike,
and to honour the other chiefs and elders who have been on hunger strike
with her.

All nations and all people from around the world are invited to join in
celebrating and affirming their support for what is happening and the need
to keep things moving forward together.
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*Candle Light March & Concert for Unity and Solidarity*
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*Our Facebook event invite:* http://www.facebook.com/events/293860570717555/
*Date*: Friday, January 11th
*Time*: 8pm- 2am
*Location*: Queens Park and Harbord for March, Concert at THE REVIVAL 783
College

Idle NO More Candle Light March will start Friday January 11 at 8 pm at the
big horse statue in Queens Park (the park behind the legislative buildings)
we will march to the concert venue (tbd)! Bring candles, decorate them,
personalize them. think of all those who have stood up before us and all of
those who stand up now. think of those we have lost to a system that does
not regard everyone as 'humans.' Think of those who have changed the world.
The concert is at The REVIVAL (783 College St. at Shaw) will feature
Indigenous and allied artists such as Plex, Arthur Renwick, Kevin
Schofield, Sarah Yankoo, Tara Williamson, Matty Powell, Cheryl
L'Hirondelle, Jeff Monague, Patrick Lebrun and many more.
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*Anti- Capitalism and Feminism*
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*Our Facebook event invite:*
http://www.facebook.com/events/459159957474148/?ref=2
*Date*: Saturday, January 12th
*Time*: 7pm- 9pm
*Location*: Beit Zatoun 612 Markham Street (just south of Bloor, near
Bathurst subway station).

Join the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly for a 'coffee house' discussion
on:

Anti-capitalism and Feminism

Socialist Feminism in Canada: A Brief History – Meg Luxton

Marxist Feminism: Keywords and Key Concepts – Shahrzad Mojab

Followed by Q and A and informal discussion.

This is the first of three-part monthly series on anti-capitalism and
feminism. Watch for future listings.

More about the speakers:
Meg Luxton: Professor and Director of the Graduate Program of Gender,
Feminist and Women's Studies at York University. Meg has been active in the
women's liberation movement, the National Action Committee on the Status of
Women, and a range of campus and community groups. As a socialist feminist
scholar she writes on feminist politics, women's work (paid and unpaid),
international effort to include women's unpaid work in the UN and the
history of the Canadian women's movement, especially it's left-wing
currents.

Shahrzad Mojab: Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult
Education and Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto. Scholar,
teacher, and activist, Shahrzad is internationally known for her work on
the impact of war, displacement and violence on women’s learning and
education. Her recent co-edited book, Educating from Marx: Race, Gender and
Learning (2011, with Sara Carpenter)

is an anti-racist feminist analysis of Marxism for a revolutionary feminist
praxis. Shahrzad’s extensive empirical research in diasporic communities in
Canada and Europe and the conflict zones of the Middle East has deepened
our understanding of capitalist and imperialist patriarchy, culture and
fundamentalisms. A unique feature of Shahrzad's work is making knowledge
accessible to the public through the use of arts such as story-telling,
dance, drama, painting and film. Professor Mojab’s research and teaching is
critical of theoretical frameworks which treat race, gender, and class
atomistically. She critiques monopolies of knowledge and power in
education, and advocates dialogical and inclusive pedagogical practices.


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