[opirgyork] OPIRG York is Hiring + Upcoming Events this week!

[OPIRG York]

Hello OPIRG York members and community!

OPIRG York is Hiring! Our current Coordinator of Administration and
Information, Sharmee Khan, is leaving OPIRG York for a year, and so we are
hiring for a contract, one year term for this position. Please see the
details of the job posting below, and feel free to forward the posting far
and wide to your contacts who may be interested and have the skills
for the job!

Also, check out the amazing line-up of events that are happening this week-
there is lots going on across the city and you can see a digest of a bunch
of upcoming events here. If you have events you would like OPIRG York to
send out to this listserv, feel free to forward the callouts to
victoria 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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*(1) **OPIRG York HIRING- One year contract for a full-time position of
Coordinator of Administration and Information*
*(2) 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!*
*(4) **Jan 15th: Speak Out Against the Budget! Join the Stop the Cuts
‘Budget Breakfast’ *
*(5) **Jan 15th: Environmental Justice, Tar Sands and Line 9- Organizing
Meeting @ York*
*(6) **Jan 17th: Toronto Resists the Omnibus Crime Bill*
*(7) Jan 18th: 2013: Bring it On- OCAP FUNDRAISING PARTY*
*(8) Jan 18th: Upping the Anti Issue 14 Launch Party*
*(9) Jan 12th: Beyond Toronto's Transit Crisis: toward a red-green vision
for our city*


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*OPIRG York HIRING- One year contract for a full-time position of
Coordinator of Administration and Information*


Start Date:  As soon as possible, latest by March 4, 2013,

OPIRG - The Ontario Public Interest Research Group - is a student-based
social justice, education and action organization at York University. OPIRG
York is currently hiring for a one-year term for the Coordinator of
Administration and Information position to replace a permanent staff member
on leave.  The employment term will end February 24, 2014. This is a
unionized position with CUPE Local 1281.

Salary:  $20.90/hr, 30 hrs/wk, comprehensive healthcare plan

Hours of work:  30 hrs, 4 days a week, plus occasional evening and weekend
work.

OPIRG welcomes the contributions that individuals from marginalized
communities bring to our organization, and invites aboriginal people,
people of colour, women, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, queer oriented people
single parents, members of ethnic minorities, immigrants and people with
disabilities to apply. We encourage applicants to describe the
contributions and experience they, as individuals who identify with
marginalized communities, would bring to the OPIRG organization in their
cover letter.

*RESPONSIBILITIES: *
Administration:  financial management, record keeping, audit preparation,
correspondence, office organization, grant writing, maintenance &
development of Resource Centre and supervision of office volunteers and
grant staff.
Project & Event Coordination:  assist board & volunteers with event/project
programming, including conceptualizing, planning, publicizing, organizing,
coordinating logistics, follow-up.
Provincial PIRG:  participate in the Ontario PIRG networks as needed.
Promotion & Outreach:  assist in the production of outreach materials (e.g.
pamphlets, posters, press releases), networking with campus/community
groups on common issues, share responsibility with Volunteer Coordinator
for radio show.
Participate in Decision-making:  attending board meetings, staff meetings,
relevant working group & committee meetings, assist in policy & planning,
using consensus process.
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*QUALIFICATIONS:*
The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and experience from
either paid or volunteer work:
Strong knowledge of bookkeeping, bank reconciliations, budget creation and
maintenance, audit preparation; familiarity with Quickbooks accounting
software is an asset.
Experience networking & community development with a diversity of groups,
familiarity with local community centers, activist groups & resources
especially within an anti-racism framework.
Awareness of activism in a broad range of issues including anti-racism,
indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, student rights,
environmentalism, opposing corporate rule/government cutbacks,
globalization, sexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms
of discrimination.
Experience in supervising volunteers and grant staff, coordinating research
projects, especially related to social justice, political action and
environmental issues.
Experience working with community resource centers.
Experience working with volunteers.
Experience coordinating projects & events, especially related to
anti-racism, social justice & political actions.
Familiarity with consensus decision-making, organization & strategic
planning, and evaluations.
Experience creating promotional/public educational materials.
Strong organizational, office coordination & time management skills.

Please send your resume, cover letter, and a statement, no longer than
1-page, on your student/anti-racist/social justice activism as well as your
views of power and oppression, by *6PM Monday Jan 28/2013 to:
opirgyorkhire at gmail.com*

PLEASE NO FAXES AND NO PHONE CALLS

We regret only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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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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*Speak Out Against the Budget! Join the Stop the Cuts ‘Budget Breakfast’*

*Date*: Tuesday January 15th
*Time*:  at 8am
*Location*: City Hall


It’s time once again to speak out against the Toronto City Budget. The 2013
budget has massive cuts to services the people of Toronto desperately need.
City Council votes on the budget on Tuesday, January 15th. Join us as we
fight to Stop the Cuts for 2013.

How to get involved:

1.     Contact your local councilor demanding that they vote against any
cuts in the 2013 budget. Demand more services, not less. (Find your
councilor here: http://app.toronto.ca/im/council/councillors.jsp)

2.     Talk to friends, family, co-workers and neighbours about the cuts.
Distribute the Stop the Cuts Budget flyer: http://tinyurl.com/STCbudget2013

3.     Join us for the Stop the Cuts Budget Breakfast on January 15th. We
will be at City Hall to voice our opposition before council votes. On
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/152507964898746/


Key Issues in this Budget

Ideology over Common Sense
·       Service and staffing cuts from last year have not and will not be
reversed. The loss of revenue from cutting the Vehicle Registration Tax and
freezing property taxes in 2011 leaves a lingering hole in the budget that
is used as an excuse to cut services.
·       Property taxes are once again only being raised by under 2% instead
of the 3% needed to match inflation. Corporations continue to get handouts
as their property taxes are being raised by less than 1%. A 3% increase
would cost the average homeowner only $80-$90/year. The cost of not
increasing taxes is massive cuts to services we all need.
·       The City is again refusing to use last year’s surplus to balance
next year’s books. This is another justification for cuts. Using surplus is
a common budget practice - not the recklessness that Ford claims it is.
·       Budgets that were cut by 10% last year are frozen for this year.
Including inflation and growth in the city, most departments are down 16%
or more. Less funding means fewer services.

Proposed Cuts and Fee Hikes
·       Shelter, support and housing is being attacked when we already have
a housing crisis in this city. Due to federal, provincial cuts there is a
cut of $72 million from last year’s budget. City Council should be fighting
these cuts on behalf of Torontonians. Instead they are adding their own
cuts through the elimination of the Personal Needs Allowance, slashing the
budget for TCHC repairs, rent subsidies and reducing the number of shelter
bed nights by a whopping 41,172
·       We already face another TTC fare hike while service levels remain
grossly inadequate
·       Dialysis patients are going to lose Wheeltrans access
·       The Global AIDS Initiative is being axed
·       Cuts to the Fire Department that put everyone’s safety at risk
·    Police, who actually got a budget increase last year, are only being
asked to freeze their $1 billion budget.
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*Environmental Justice, Tar Sands and Line 9- Organizing Meeting @ York*

*Date*: Tuesday, January 15th
*Time*: 6pm
*Location*: Room 315C, Student Centre @ York U.
*Facebook:* https://www.facebook.com/events/191243167684430

Contact: victoria at opirgyork.ca, 416-736-5724

This is the fifth meeting for the environmental justice working group of
OPIRG York. We are specifically planning for an educational day- this
meeting will work out those details. We have also discussed, outreach,
media, and actions! If you want to get involved, please email
victoria at opirgyork.ca.



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*Toronto Resists the Omnibus Crime Bill*

In March 2012, the federal Conservatives passed the Omnibus Crime Bill
C-10, despite the protests of thousands of Canadians that the bill would
greatly increase the prison population, would not prevent crime, would cost
billions of dollars and would have a devastating impact on already
marginalized communities, particularly Aboriginal communities who are
already drastically over-represented in Canadian prisons.

Bill C-10 is now law, but we can resist! The Law Union of Ontario is
hosting a mass meeting on Thursday, January 17th. The idea is simple:
Torontonians meet and we brainstorm ways to prevent the implementation of
this bill and stop Harper's unjust law and order agenda.
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*On facebok*: https://www.facebook.com/events/286639401439330/?ref=2

Thursday , January 17
Beit Zatoun
612 Markham St (just south of Bloor)
Toronto, ON
6:30-8:30 pm

Featured speakers:

Jules Koostachin (Elizabeth Fry Society Toronto): the omnibus bill's impact
on the over-criminalization and over-incarceration of Aboriginal peoples,
especially Aboriginal women

Annika Ollner (PASAN): implications of the bill for prisoners,
including overall increases in Prison populations and changes to prisoners'
rights

Mike Leitold (Law Union of Ontario): overview of the omnibus bill's changes
to the criminal laws and the Law Union's resistance to date

Light refreshments will be provided

ASL and child care will be available. Please email smack at tao.ca 48 hours
before the event if you require these services.

PLEASE NOTE: there are two series of steps into the building. A ramp system
is available. Washrooms are in the basement down a flight of stairs

Hosted by the Law Union of Ontario's Prison Justice Committee


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*2013: Bring it On- **OCAP FUNDRAISING PARTY*

FRIDAY, JANUARY 18
STEELWORKERS HALL, 25 CECIL STREET.

6.00 to 8.00 Meal and family friendly celebration

8.00PM: Bar opens, Music and Entertainment: DJ's AntiCapitalista,
Leila P, and more!

Admission: Pay-What-You-Can
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2012 has been a landmark year for OCAP's work. We fought and prevented the
definitive closing of the School House Shelter in the
down town east where we have been based for two decades and continue to
fight for increased harm reduction, homeless services and housing.

The Raise the Rates Campaign for decent social assistance income has gone
from strength to strength. As a result of a powerful and
determined mobilization across the province, the Ontario Liberal party was
forced to restore $42 million in funding that it had intended to cut as
part of the elimination of Community Start Up and Maintenance Benefit
(CSUMB). And we aren't slowing down anytime soon! This partial but
significant victory has shown us what communities can achieve and it will
propel us forward as we continue the fight to fully restore the CSUMB and
Raise the Rates by 55%.

A truly Province wide challenge to poverty is emerging that will be
part of a common front of unions and communities resisting austerity
together. This will move to a new level on January 26th when OCAP
rallies poor and homeless people to join the mobilization against the
Liberal Leadership Convention. To make all this work happen we need
the involvement and support of everyone that can – including financial
support.

Come out on the 18th to help us celebrate the past year and prepare
for the year ahead!

Want to become an OCAP sustainer? Here’s how: http://update.ocap.ca/node/756

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
www.ocap.ca
416-925-6939
@OCAPtoronto

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*Upping the Anti Issue 14 Launch Party*

UTA 14 is back from the printer and we're ready to launch it in style!

Join us for some drinks, music, and discussion and pick up your copy of the
issue.

The launch details:
Friday, January 18, 2013
Bike Pirates
1292 Bloor St. (at Lansdowne)
Toronto
9:00 pm

Free for UTA subscribers and sustainers
$10 gets you in and a copy of the new issue
Performers: TBA

In this issue:

Dean Spade on Critical Trans Politics * Josh MacPhee and Laura Whitehorn on
a People's History of Art and Politics * Ross Wolfe on Resistance, Reform,
and Revolution * Andalusia Knoll on Radical Legacies at UNAM * Special
Section: Dispatches from the 2012 Quebec Student Strike * Mandy Hiscocks,
Alex Hundert, and Joanna Adamiak on State Repression and the G20 Resistance
* Book Reviews and more...

Bike Pirates is an accessible venue and it has one barrier free all-gender
washroom.
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*Beyond Toronto's Transit Crisis: toward a red-green vision for our city*
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*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/329782463801719/?ref=2

*Date*: Sunday, January 20th
*Time*: 1-3:30pm
*Location*: Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St, Toronto, Ontario

A discussion on how to build our transit movement hosted by the Free and
Accessible Transit Campaign of the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly

As the city recovers from the Ford onslaught,

· What have we learned from our campaigns?
· What are the goals of Toronto transit activists?
· How can the transit movement achieve them?

PANEL:

* Stefan Kipfer -- Free and Accessible Transit Campaign
* Brenda Thompson – Scarborough Transit Action
* TTC Riders
* Fair Fare Coalition
Moderated by Kamilla Pietrzyk, GTWA

Background paper: http://www.workersassembly.ca/node/208
or: http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/750.php

http://www.workersassembly.ca/transit

Contact: hermanrosenfeld at rogers.com



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


*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.
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