[opirgyork] OPIRG Hiring + Events Digest- so many upcoming events this week @ York and in Toronto!!

[OPIRG York]

Hello OPIRG York members and community!

OPIRG York is Hiring! Please see the job posting below for the Coordinator
of Administration and Information- we are hiring for a contract, one year
term for this position.

Also, check out the amazing line-up of events that are happening this week
@ York U, and 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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*In this email:*
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*OPIRG YORK NEWS*
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*(1) **OPIRG York HIRING- One year contract for a full-time position of
Coordinator of Administration and Information*
*(2) **ONGOING: Concerned About Racial Profiling at York University? *
*(3) ONGOING: **Call out for Radical Reading Room Collective members!**
(4) ONGOING: Call out for radio collective members for OPIRG York's awesome
community radio show! *
*(5) **Jan 22: Environmental Justice, Tar Sands and Line 9- Organizing
Meeting @ York*
*(6) **Jan 23: CUPE 3903 First Nations Solidarity Working Group Meeting*
*(7) Jan 23: UKPC/FCYA-ON Political Discussion Series*
*(8) Jan 24: CHRY NewsNow Winter Showcase*
*(9) Jan 25: Canvassing Training on Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline*

*COMMUNITY NEWS*

*(1) TONIGHT: Aamjiwnaang and Idle No More Talk*
*(2) Jan 22: Amplifying Femme Presented by Videofag*
*(3) Jan 22: **LIVESTREAM From Vancouver: Idle? Know more! A public panel
on Indigenous issues*
*(4) **Jan 23: #FillTheIFHGap Public Rally Outside Ontario Ministry of
Health*
*(5) **Jan 23: A Lecture with Norman Finkelstein*
*(6) **Jan 25: FREEDOM FRIDAY's 2yr Anniversary (Jane-Finch Neighbourhood!)*
*(7) Jan 26: Anti-Poverty March: Confront the Liberal Party Leadership
Convention*
*(8) Jan 26: Rally for Rights and Democracy + No Line 9 Block*
*(9) Jan 26: From Turtle Island to Kurdistan: Women and Resistance*
*(10) **Jan 28: Women and Pornography: Visiting "The Purity Myth" *
*(11) **Jan 28: UNITY #J28 Ottawa*
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*OPIRG YORK NEWS*


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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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*Concerned About Racial Profiling at York University?*

Concerned about the recent crimes and sexual assaults that have been going
on at York University? Concerned by the recent influx of Toronto Police on
campus, and feel intimidated by them (the police)?
Concerned about the racial profiling going on at York university,
specifically by the Toronto Police? Have you seen Toronto Police or Campus
Security ID'ing/carding people on campus recently?
Please get in touch with OPIRG York - victoria at opirgyork.ca - to find out
some ways to get involved, to prevent this from happening!
*#CopsOffCampus *
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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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*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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*Environmental Justice, Tar Sands and Line 9- Organizing Meeting @ York*

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*Date*: Tuesday, January 22nd
*Time*: 6pm
*Location*: Room 311C, Student Centre @ York U.

*Contact*: ecojusticeyork at gmail.com, 416-736-5724

This is the 6th meeting for the environmental justice working group of
OPIRG York. We are specifically planning for the canvassing training
happening on Friday, Jan 25th, as well as follow-up after the training.
More details about the training can be seen here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/119855238186753/

If you want to get involved, please email ecojusticeyork at gmail.com.


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*CUPE 3903 First Nations Solidarity Working Group Meeting*

*Date*: Wednesday January 23rd
*Time*: 5:00pm (Right after the GMM!)
*Location*:  CUPE 3903 Office  2050 TEL Building

Are you excited and inspired by the Idle No More movement, and wondering
how you can engage as a York teaching assistant or contract faculty? Come
join and build the work of your own union’s longstanding First Nations
Solidarity Working Group, which holds as its mandate:

A.) To educate and organize the CUPE 3903 membership about issues relating
to matters of indigenous sovereignty and solidarity and to encourage
membership participation both within the working group and the local on
this issue.

B.) To work within and to help build rank and file networks of union
activists working on issues of indigenous sovereignty and solidarity.

C.) To co-ordinate efforts in support of indigenous sovereignty with other
local, regional and national (union and non-union) projects in support of
indigenous sovereignty and solidarity.

D.) To actively participate in supporting indigenous struggles such as (but
not limited to) the Six Nations struggle to reclaim the Haldimand Tract.

At this meeting, we will be discussing the building and strengthening of
the working group’s capacity over the next 6 months according to the
mandate above and in the context of Idle No More.

All are welcome. Feel free to bring your own proposals.


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*UKPC/FCYA-ON Political Discussion Series*

*Date*: Wednesday, January 23
*Time*: 6-8 PM
*Location*: Ross South 201, York University

UKPC/FCYA-ON is holding a series of political discussion circles this
Winter term of the school year! To start, join us for a presentation and
discussion circle on:

- the Filipino Canadian community's struggle for a just and genuine
settlement and integration in Canada
- movement-building from our community's perspective
- building genuine solidarity with ongoing peoples' movement in Canada, the
Philippines and other countries

Light refreshments will be served!

*Other time/locations:*
University of Toronto, January 24 6-8 PM - OISE 5280


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*CHRY NewsNow Winter Showcase*

*Date*: Thursday, January 24th
*Time*: 1-3pm
*Location*: 430 Student Centre (YU Grad. Student Association office)

The CHRY NewsNow Collective is showcasing the best audio from Fall 2012!

The event will feature live audio clips from the Fall NewsNow shows as well
as a discussion facilitated by various producers and contributors on their
experience with CHRY, producing audio and creating accessible news content.

Come join us! Everyone is welcome!
Food will be provided potluck style, bring something yummy if you wish!

The space is accessible.
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*Canvassing Training on Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline*

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*TAR SANDS-LINE 9 IN TORONTO - IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD?*

*Date*: Friday, Jan. 25th
*Time*: 1 pm - 4 pm
*Location*: York University, Room 313 Student Centre
*Facebook: *https://www.facebook.com/events/119855238186753/
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*#NOLINE9*

This training by OPIRG York's Environmental Justice working group will get
you the skills and confidence to talk to your friends and neighbours about
environmental justice
issues surrounding Tar Sands and Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline. The pipeline
runs through Toronto including the York University and Jane/Finch
neighbourhoods. We'll provide you with copies of all necessary canvassing
materials!

*Snacks to be provided
*The building and room are accessible

More information:
ecojustice at gmail.com
416-736-5724
opirgyork.ca
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*COMMUNITY NEWS*
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*TONIGHT: Aamjiwnaang and Idle No More Talk*
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*Date*: Monday, January 21
*Time*: 7pm
*Location*: 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto
*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/287633888025837/?ref=2

Aamjiwnaang has been described as the most toxic place in North America.
Activists on this reserve near Sarnia, surrounded by Chemical Valley are
taking on the industry’s giants to fight for their community’s future.

It’s a fight for all of our future. For clean air, and water we can drink.
For community values over corporate profit-making.
Learn about the daily realities of life in Aamjiwnaang and hear the story
of the blockade of the CN rail line that lasted for 13 days. Real News
video:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=9461

PeaceWorks, Toronto Friends Meeting
Ontario Voice of Women for Peace

All welcome! Pay what you can

www.peaceworkstmm.org
416-731-6605
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*Amplifying Femme Presented by Videofag*
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*Date*: Tuesday, January 22
*Time*: 7pm
*Location*: Videofag - 187 Augusta Avenue, Toronto
*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/315471611886116

Join us for a evening of loud and vulnerable musings on femme identity.

Opening with a screening and Q & A of Kiley May's 'Homo Noeticus' first
presented at the 2011 Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival.

Continuing with Catherine Hernandez's 'Femme Playlist' a performance piece
outlining the many experiences leading to self definition as a femme
through humour, song and shit disturbing.

Closing the evening with Kim Katrin Crosby's internationally presented
workshop, 'In Fierceness & Vulnerability: Deconstructing and Resisting
Femmephobia'.


Femme of Centre folks, and particularly in queer community are often
accused of ‘colluding with the enemy’; that our gender expression exists
because we are simply conforming to patriarchal expectations. While they
are varied experiences of privilege possessed by femmes of centre, in a
sexist, racist, ableist, capitalist, heterosexist society, we also
experience nuanced oppressions. While affirming our agency, we will with
care explore how oppressed communities that we are a part of participate in
the perpetuation of oppression as a means to maintain and assert power as
well as naming strategies of resistance and resilience.

PWYC with a portion of proceeds going towards Brave New Girls Retreats.

Brave New Girl Retreats and Healing Skill Shares are community funded
intentional spaces for those who identify as femme and as Of Colour and/or
Indigenous regardless of gender. We are innovators, (dis) abled, trans,
genderqueer, healers, artists, sex workers, organizers and cultural
creators.


Kiley May is a kaleidoscope of identities. They are a Mohawk Storyteller,
Artist, Creator and Shaman. Kiley is also a 2-Spirit, Trans, Queer and
Genderqueer human being. They do creative work in film, photography,
writing, journalism, fashion and performance art. As well Kiley does
healing, activism and education work in the areas of Kaleidoscope
Identities (gender, body and sex diversity), female empowerment, sex
positivity, Two-Spirit and Indigenous knowledge.

Catherine Hernandez is a proud queer woman of colour a single mom and the
critically acclaimed director of Sulong Theatre.

A daughter of the diaspora, Arawak, West African, Indian and Dutch, hailing
from Trinidad and living currently in Toronto, Kim Katrin Crosby is an
award-winning multidisciplinary artist, activist, consultant, facilitator
and educator.

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*LIVESTREAM From Vancouver: Idle? Know more! A public panel on Indigenous
issues*
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*Date*: Tuesday, January 22
*Time*: 8:30pm EST (5:30pm PST)
*LIVESTREAM*: www.livestream.com/occupyvan
*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/151302958355184/?ref=2

A panel on Indigenous rights and self-determination, a legacy of struggle
against colonialism, and the Idle No More movement.

*VIDEOS* of panel will be available after Jan 29th here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/IdleKnowMore

More about the Livestreamed event is available here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/151302958355184/?ref=2

For more information contact Harsha Walia at hwalia8 at gmail.com

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*#FillTheIFHGap Public Rally Outside Ontario Ministry of Health*
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*Date*: Wednesday, January 23
*Time*: 11:30am
*Location*: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (Bay & Wellesley St. W)
*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/455851527807727/?ref=2

On Wednesday, January 23rd, JOIN US in a public rally to deliver a petition
with over 627 signatures of health professionals, social service providers
and community members to the Ministry of Health.

When: Wednesday, January 23rd, 11:30am
Where: Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (900 Bay Street), Toronto.
Why: Because it’s time for the Ontario government to step up and fill the
IFH gap.
Who: We are mobilizing the 627 signatories and calling on everyone else to
join us! See the petition here:
http://health4all.ca/PetitionToMinisterMatthews

In the leadup to our event, on the next three Wednesdays in January (Jan
9th, 16th, 23rd) and the convention dates (26th and 27th), we need your
help to:
A. Phone the candidates.
B. Email the candidates individually or click here for an easy online form
that will emails all candidates for you:
http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/ontario-liberal-leadership-candidates-fill-the-ifh-gap
C. Tweet the candidates. Use the hashtag #FillTheIFHGap as well as using
the #olpldr and #onpoli hashtags. Scroll down for automatic tweet links.
D. Have your organization write a letter to the candidates.

Don’t know what to tweet? How about:
http://clicktotweet.com/Qa0M9
http://clicktotweet.com/5rTJH
http://clicktotweet.com/17_a8
http://clicktotweet.com/kY109
http://clicktotweet.com/CenYK
http://clicktotweet.com/NEX96
http://clicktotweet.com/b5CY6

For contact Information for Ontario Liberal Leadership Candidates including
emails, phone numbers and twitter handles, visit:
http://health4all.ca/FillTheIFHGap

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*A Lecture with Norman Finkelstein*
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*Date*: Wednesday, January 23
*Time*: 7pm
*Location*: 252 Bllor Street W (OISE)
*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/489027267814975/?ref=2

"Israel and Palestine in 2013: more of the same or new opportunities?"

The author of Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish romance with Israel
is coming to an end, and What Gandhi Says, About Nonviolence, Resistance
and Courage, Norman G. Finkelstein received his doctorate in 1988 from the
Department of Politics at Princeton University. For many years he taught
political theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict. He currently writes and
lectures. Finkelstein is the author of eight books that have been
translated into 50 foreign editions.

This is Dr. Finkelstein's first speaking engagement of 2013! Come early to
ensure you have a seat.

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*FREEDOM FRIDAY's 2yr Anniversary (Jane-Finch Neighbourhood!)*
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*Date*: Friday, January 25
*Time*: 6-9pm
*Location*: Yorkwoods Library 1785 Finch Ave. West, Toronto
*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/272740066185334/?ref=2

Come out and celebrate two years of community love, laughter,support, and
talent! There will be food, cake, art, performances, music, prizes, and
much more! If you have been to any of the past Freedom Fridays, you know
what to expect! If this will be your first time, it will be an experience
to remember.

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*Anti-Poverty March: Confront the Liberal Party Leadership Convention*
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*Date*: Saturday, January 26, 2013
*Time*: 12noon
*Location*: Moss Park (Sherbourne and Queen), Toronto
*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/124643624368784/?ref=2

**Free Meal*
**Joining the Ontario Federation of Labour Rally for 1pm*

-Restore Community Start-Up (CSUMB)
-Raise the Rates of OW/ODSP
-Affordable Housing Now

On January 26th, the Ontario Liberals will select a new leader to replace
Dalton McGuinty and we'll be there to confront them. OCAP, anti-poverty
organizations from across Ontario and other allies will meet at Moss Park
for an anti-poverty feeder march to highlight the Liberal's despicable
legacy of increased poverty.

We will march through Toronto’s Downtown East neighborhood where government
policies have caused a desperate lack of housing and years of grossly
inadequate welfare and disability rates have created massive homelessness
and poverty. We will then join up with dozens of unions and social
movements whose members are gathering in Allan Gardens and march on the
Liberal Convention.

The Liberals will be forced to face those affected by their cuts and their
legacy. Through powerful and determined community mobilization, supported
by key labour allies across the province, we were able to win $42 million
in funding that was intended to be cut as part of the elimination of the
Community Start Up and Maintenance Benefit (CSUMB). This partial victory
has shown us what communities can achieve and will propel us forward. This
is a movement with its sights set on winning - join the anti-poverty march
and contingent at the Liberal Party Convention on January 26!


RESTORE COMMUNITY START-UP, RAISE the RATES, HOUSING NOW!

*Organized by: *Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

Supporting organizations: CUPE Ontario, Ontario Federation of Labour,
Poverty Makes Us Sick (Kitchener), Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty,
Toronto Stop the Cuts and more...

GET INVOLVED!
www.ocap.ca
416-925-6939
ocap at tao.ca
@OCAPtoronto
#SaveCSUMB #RaisetheRates

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*Rally for Rights and Democracy*
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*Date*: Saturday, January 26, 2013
*Time*: 1pm
*Location*: Rally at Allan Gardens in Toronto (Jarvis & Carleton), followed
by march to the Ontario Liberal Convention at Maple Leaf Gardens.
*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/489963847693178/?ref=2

Protest at the at the Ontario Liberal Convention

1:00 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013

Rally at Allan Gardens in Toronto (Jarvis & Carleton), followed by march to
the Ontario Liberal Convention at Maple Leaf Gardens.

The Ontario government has been shut down while worker's rights are under
threat and cuts to jobs and services are hurting every community.

It's time to defend everyone's democratic and economic rights.

For details, visit: http://ofl.ca/index.php/campaigns/democraticrights

Rally hosted by the Ontario Federation of Labour

*+ No Line Block @ Rally for Rights and Democracy*
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/103408453170759/?ref=2

Allies in the U.S. North-East have called for a day of cross-border action
against Eastern tar sands pipelines and we are responding with a "No Line
9!" block at the Ontario Federation of Labour's Rally for Rights and
Democracy (https://www.facebook.com/events/489963847693178/). Rising Tide
Toronto is calling all allies to stand with communities and say No to Line
9.

Enbridge Inc is planning to pump toxic tar sands bitumen through 40
year-old Line 9 meant for conventional crude by as early as next year. The
use of the pipeline will result in 300,000 barrels of increased flow of
bitumen to chemical valley, located on Aamjiwnaang First Nation lands,
declared the most polluted place in North America by the World Health
Organization. From chemical valley to Montreal, Line 9 passes within 50 km
of an estimated 9.1 million people, including 99 towns and 18 First Nation
communities, and runs directly through the Haldimand Tract on unceded
Haudenosaunee territory. In Toronto, Line 9 passes through the most
racialized communities in the city. We all know that it's only a matter of
time before the pipeline spills and destroys communities. In fact, it was
the same type of pipeline that spilled tar sands dilbit into the Kalamazoo
River in Michigan two and a half years ago. People got sick and the site is
still being cleaned up.

Not only will we be affected here in Ontario, but the use of the pipeline
means the expansion of tar sands production in Alberta. On Jan 9th, Federal
scientists confirmed what First Nation peoples have been saying for
decades: the tar sands are toxic, carcinogenic, and cause extreme changes
to wildlife and people's health (
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/01/07/pol-oilsands-alberta-lakes-pollution-pah.html).
Community members from Wet'su'wet'en, Beaver Lake Cree, Lubicon, Fort
Chipewyan, Fort McMurray, Aamjiwnaang, Six Nations, and Kalamazoo have all
testified to the gross violations of democratic, environmental, and human
rights of tar sands expansion.

Tar sands expansion will also speed up global warming which means more
extreme weather, the melting of ice caps, the loss of low-lying land, and
eventually a threat to human existence on the planet.

Please take action with us now, and declare that tar sands, the most
destructive project to Mother Earth, will not pass through Toronto.

#NoLine9

Endorsed by:
-Indigenous Sovereignty and Solidarity Network
-OPIRG-York
-Environmental Justice group at OPIRG-York
-Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network
-Toronto People's Assembly on Climate Justice
-Occupy Gardens Toronto
-Toronto Bolivia Solidarity
-Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultral Women Against Rape
-No One Is Illegal - Toronto
-Toronto Raging Grannies
-Council of Canadians - Toronto

If your organization would like to endorse or support the "No Line 9!"
block, please email risingtidetoronto at gmail.com


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*From Turtle Island to Kurdistan: Women and Resistance*
***The North America Premiere of Berivan: The Legend of Rebellion***

*Date*: Saturday, January 26th, 2013
*Time*: 7 PM (Doors open at 6:45 PM)
*Location*: Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue
*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/408389125905085/?ref=22

**This space is physically accessible**
**$5-10 or pay what you can**
**No one turned away for lack of funds**

*OPIRG-Toronto Presents...*
*Toronto Kurdish Film Series*

OPIRG-Toronto and the Art for Justice action group present the first
screening in the Toronto Kurdish Film Series, From Turtle Island to
Kurdistan: Women and Resistance. Join us for two films that explore the
role of women in resistance against the state and what self-determination
looks like for indigenous women here on Turtle Island and Kurdish women in
Turkey. Berivan: The Legend of Rebellion, a documentary on one Kurdish
woman’s armed struggle against the Turkish state, makes its’ North American
premiere, accompanied by Don’t Need Saving: Aboriginal Women and Access to
Justice, a look at the consequences of colonization for indigenous women on
Turtle Island (North America). Following the film screenings, members of
the Toronto Kurdish Community Centre and Audrey Huntley, director of Don’t
Need Saving: Aboriginal Women and Access to Justice, will be speaking.

Berivan: The Legend of Rebellion
Director: Aydın Orak
Turkey 2010 / Kurdish (Kurmanji) and Turkish with English subtitles /
52 minutes

Kurds in Turkey have been challenging the political destiny that had been
drawn out for them. Much resistance against the Turkish state and for the
self-determination of the Kurdish people has been waged. On March 21st,
1992, the Newroz, a celebration in Cizre, quickly turned into a rebellion.
Seventeen people were killed during this uprising. On that day, a young
woman named Berivan led thousands of the people in Cizre, a small town in
the southeast of Turkey, in their rebellion against the state. She became
the symbol of the resistance in Cizre. This is her story.

Don't Need Saving: Aboriginal Women and Access to Justice
Produced by METRAC & Wolf Dog Productions. Director/Producer Audrey
Huntley. Camera/Editor: Mike Barber.

In this short film, the Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence against
Women and Children (METRAC) and Audrey Huntley speak with indigenous women
in Toronto to explore racist stereotypes, violence and colonialism.

*Organized by* the Ontario Public Interest Research Group-Toronto and the
Art for Justice action group. Endorsed by the Toronto Kurdish Community
Centre Women’s Committee


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*Women and Pornography: Visiting "The Purity Myth"*
*Feminist Media Studies Circle*


*Date*: Monday, January 28th, 2013
*Time*: 12-1:30pm
*Location*: CWSE @ 252 Bloor St. W., 2nd Floor, Rm 2-225
*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/312528975531698/?ref=2

Join us for feminist discussions on monthly theme: Women and Pornography
Facilitated by OISE students Andrea Weerdenburg and Eve Dufour

Free! Accessible! Feminist!
Tea and cookies provided

We will be discussing Chapter 4 - The Porn Connection from Jessica
Valenti's book "The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is
Hurting Young Women"

You may find this chapter using link:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=rQ10AIsHNa4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+purity+myth&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4DDrUNDLJsiTqwGZkIBo&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAQ


*Please register by emailing* cwse.oise at gmail.com

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*UNITY #J28 Ottawa*


*Date*: Monday, January 28th, 2013
*Time*: 11am - 4pm
*Location*: Parliament Hill, Ottawa
*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/313142095464170

We are looking forward to a day filled with Unity and Healing on The Hill.
We will be there to assist the folks at Parliament Hill, begin their new
year surrounded by the jingling sound of the Healing Dance
We will surround those with us, and those around us, with the healing of
the Jingle Dress Dancers.

Interested Jingle Dress Dancers please contact:
Azure Smith-Spencer on Facebook link below

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Calling-All-Jingle-Dress-Dancers-for-the-World-Day-of-Action-Jan-28-2013/506591429385189


Interested Women's Drums please contact:
Barbara Dumont-Hill via email womens_drums at yahoo.ca

Men's Drums please contact:
Greg Meekis via email greg_meekis at yahoo.com

Volunteers please contact Kimberly Smith via email
unityvolunteers28 at yahoo.ca

Meegwetch.

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