[opirgyork] Awesome events this Week + OPIRG York is Hiring!

[OPIRG York]

Hi Everyone,

Just a reminder that we are hiring for a Six-month contract for a full-time
position of Coordinator of Administration and Information- the application
deadline is August 2nd! Also the dates have been picked for our annual
DisOrientation Week, and it will be held from September 23-27th! Keep those
dates open- more information about the workshops and events happening that
week will be coming soon! We will also have a big Keynote speaker on
Thursday, September 26th, so keep that evening free!! (More details coming
soon!). Our Radical Reading series is starting today as well!

This week, there is a* Swamp Line 9 report back (tonight)* as well as an
exciting event *Battle of the Brushes*, on Thursday evening. Check out the
full information below!

Please stay in touch with us- whether to tell us about your upcoming events
(that we can include in the email digest/promote on facebook/online) or
tell us how you would like to be involved, or if there are issues you are
interested in that we can connect you to! Feel free to get in touch with us
at anytime at opirgyork at gmail.com.

-OPIRG York
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www.opirgyork.ca
416-736-5724
opirgyork at gmail.com



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*YORK NEWS*

*(1) OPIRG York is Hiring: Six-month contract for a full-time position of
Coordinator of Administration and Information*
*(2) Apply Now: “Making the Youth Count in Canada’s Future: The Struggle of
Young Workers in the Age of Austerity and Neoliberal Globalization”*
*(3) August 2nd Deadline: OPIRG York Working Group Applications - Due
August 2nd!*
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*COMMUNITY NEWS

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*(1) July 24: **Swamp Line 9 Reportback! *
*(2) July 25: **s.o.s. + Lost Lyrics present BATTLE OF THE BRUSHES*
*(3) August 10: Jailbreak! Queer Cover Band Show*
*(4) August 5th Deadline: **Spark Scholarships: Regent Park, Jane-Finch,
Pelham Park Gardens*

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*YORK NEWS*

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*OPIRG York is Hiring: Six-month contract for a full-time position of
Coordinator of Administration and Information*

Ontario Public Interest Research Group - York

Six-month contract for a full-time position of Coordinator of
Administration and Information

*Start Date:*  August 19, 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 six-month 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 network 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.

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.


Applicants must provide a resume, cover letter, and one-page statement
about “Community organizing and working through oppression and privilege.”
This page is intended to give the hiring committee a sense of your
community organizing experience and how you locate/understand yourself
within that work. We encourage applicants to describe the contributions and
experience that they, as individuals who identify with marginalized
communities, would bring to the OPIRG organization in their cover letter.
Applications that do not include a statement will not be considered for
short listing.

For the purpose of the statement it is important to note that OPIRG-York
sees anti-oppression as a process that acknowledges the existence of
systemic oppressions (including, but not limited to, racism, sexism,
homophobia, transphobia, and ableism). Through practices and policies, we
seek to actively identify, challenge, and address oppression wherever it
exists, in all its various forms.

Please send your resume, cover letter, and statement by 6PM Thursday August
1st, 2013 to: opirgyorkhire at gmail.com

PLEASE NO FAXES AND NO PHONE CALLS

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“Making the Youth Count in Canada’s Future: The Struggle of Young Workers
in the Age of Austerity and Neoliberal Globalization”

Toronto, ON—The Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance of Ontario/Ugnayan ng
Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada–Ontario (UKPC/FCYA-ON) invites all youth and
young workers to attend “Making the Youth Count in Canada’s Future: The
Struggle of Young Workers in the Age of Austerity and Neoliberal
Globalization”, an Ontario-wide conference which will be held on August 3rd
at the United Steel Workers Hall in Toronto.

We continue to witness the neoliberal agenda of globalization intensify its
attack in Canada through its main driver, the Conservative government. This
is evident in the changes to employment and labour standards, the push
towards flexible and temporary labour, the implementation of austerity
policies and the push towards privatization and cutbacks of public services.

These ongoing reforms and changes undeniably denigrate the lives of all
working people in Canada including, im/migrants, students, Aboriginal
peoples and the newly-arrived, which indicate that no sector, occupation
group or community is off-limits to the impacts of the neoliberal agenda.
Currently, Canada’s future generation, the youth, are subjected to an
all-time high unemployment rate of 14%, which is double the national
unemployment rate.

In Ontario, youth unemployment is at 16.2% as of March 2013. As the
province with the highest tuition fees in the country, ballooning student
debt coupled by a labour market characterised by the general decline of
secure and meaningful full-time jobs, the youth have little choice but to
accept ‘flexible/contractual’ jobs, often in the low-wage sector, despite
high levels of educational attainment.

As part of the Congress of Progressive Filipino Canadians (CPFC), the
Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance/Ugnayan Ng Kabataang Pilipino sa
Canada–Ontario (FCYA/UKPC-ON) cannot accept a future or fate that can only
be left up to the fluctuations of the market economy. For FCYA/UKPC-ON, it
is imperative that we expose and oppose the current neoliberal agenda and
all its manifestations here in Canada to counter the attacks being imposed
on us, and make the youth count in Canada’s future.

Conference objectives

    To understand the impacts of the global economic crisis and neoliberal
globalization on the youth in Canada.
    To develop strategies to advance the struggle of the youth against
neoliberal globalization.

“Making the Youth Count in Canada’s Future: The Struggle of Young Workers
in the Age of Austerity and Neoliberal Globalization”
Ontario-wide conference
August 3, 2013
United Steelworkers Hall
25 Cecil Street
Toronto, Ontario

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APPLY HERE:
http://www.magkaisacentre.org/2013/04/18/maketheyouthcount/<http://www.magkaisacentre.org/2013/04/18/maketheyouthcount/>
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*OPIRG York Working Groups Applications!*

OPIRG York is very excited to send you this callout for Working Groups-- we
have had many amazing working groups over the years, and are looking for
more amazing groups this coming year. You can see some information below,
and on our website here:

WORKING GROUPS INFORMATION & APPLICATION<http://opirgyork.ca/working-groups>
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*Swamp Line 9 Reportback! *
*Discussion on Line 9 and Tar Sands resistance in Southern Ont (+ silent
art auction)*

*Date*: Wednesday, July 24th
*Time*: 7-9pm
*Location*: the Centre for Social Innovation, 720 Bathurst Street
*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/366336590162680

On June 20th, a group of people started an occupation of the Enbridge's
Westover Pump Station near Hamilton, Ontario, at one of the several sits of
construction on the Line 9 pipeline. The action, which lasted nearly a
week, was both a response to Enbridge's careless disregard for our lives
with it's despicable track record of oil spills, and an act of solidarity
with the communities most affected by Tar Sands developments.

Join Swamp Line 9 organizers for an evening to discuss Line 9 and Tar Sands
resistance in Southern Ontario.

**We will also be hosting a silent art auction to raise funds for Swamp
Line 9 legal support. Light refreshments will be served ***

TORONTO CONTEXT

In the past few years, we have seen different versions of Toronto's
possible future; in both Kalamazoo and Arkansas, an aging pipeline whose
flow had been reversed to accommodate tar sands bitumen, spilled and
devastated homes, wildlife, waterways and people's health. Chemicals
specific to the transport of bitumen poisoned the air, while the heavier
bitumen sank in the waterways, making it near impossible to clean.

Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline – a 37 year old pipeline that is almost
identical in build and age to the Line 6 pipeline that ruptured in
Kalamazoo – runs alongside Finch Ave in North Toronto. Considering the
risks involved with the transport of dilbit (diluted bitumen), this
pipeline should not be allowed to carry this substance through any densely
populated area.

But instead of opposing or even carefully considering Enbridge’s proposal
to send tar sands through this aging infrastructure, the project is being
pushed through without as much as an environmental assessment! In fact, the
National Energy Board is doing everything it can to shut out voices from
the public in the approval process.*

SOLIDARITY WITH SWAMP LINE 9!

We stand in solidarity with those at the Swamp Line 9 action because they
acted directly to stop Enbridge’s Line 9 from carrying tar sands bitumen
through Ontario. In doing so, they were protecting the Beverly Swamp in the
headwaters of Spencer Creek, Hamilton's largest watershed, and all of the
watersheds that Line 9 crosses.

We recognize that corrupt forces are governing the approval process for
Enbridge’s Line 9 reversal proposal, from Harper's omnibus bills to an
increasingly powerful tar sands lobby. We recognize that while Swamp Line
9's tactics might technically be against the law, they are necessary in
preventing this dangerous proposal from becoming an inevitability.

Support Swamp Line 9 legal defence here: http://www.gofundme.com/swampline9

* “Energy board changes pipeline complaint rules” Gloria Galloway, Globe
and Mail, April 5, 2013
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/energy-board-changes-pipeline-complaint-rules/article10824925/
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*s.o.s. + Lost Lyrics present BATTLE OF THE BRUSHES*

S.O.S. + LOST LYRICS
present
BATTLE OF THE BRUSHES

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LIVE PAINTING BATTLE
SILENT AUCTION
DANCE PARTY
CASH BAR
19+

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ARTISTS
///ALEXA HATANAKA///
///KEITA MORIMOTO///
///TAKENORI KIKUTA///
///CAMILLE LAUREN///

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MC J
DJ ZEHRA

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Visit a 1-night live studio where 4 painters create art right before your
eyes.

Vote for your favorite artist for their chance to a $400 cash prize and
your chance to special raffle prizes AND bid to take home your favorite
work.

Dance with us as we celebrate art and life!

LOCATION: STEELWORKERS HALL, 25 CECIL ST, TORONTO
TIME: THURSDAY JULY 25, 2013, 8PM [$5, DOORS 7PM]

***All $$$ collected goes to THE MURAL/ARCHIVE PROJECT (M/AP) (For details:
sos-collective.ca)
***Questions/accessibility: sos.curatorial.collective at gmail.com

*Event Links:*
http://events.cp24.com/event/battle-of-the-brushes
https://www.facebook.com/events/163975230452758/

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*Jailbreak! Queer Cover Band Show*

In recognition of Prisoner Justice Day, and building up to the Queer &
Trans Anarchist & Anti-Authoritarian Convergence August 23-25, QueerCore
presents
Jailbreak!, the next installment of the Queer Cover Band Show series.

Prisoner Justice Day is an annual day of remembrance for prisoner lives
lost and in recognition of the injustice, oppression and hypocrisy of the
prison industrial complex. On Prisoner Justice Day, we show solidarity with
those inside prison walls in their fight for humane treatment and better
conditions, and work towards the eventual abolishment of the prison system.

They may not be able to hear our songs, but in our hearts they are not
forgotten.
Pay tribute to their struggle.
Bring your stories and songs of remembrance, resilience and resistance.
Light a candle. Light a fire. Let the flames engulf the prisons and the
state.
We'll set this night ablaze and dance in the ashes.

//RIDE A UNICORN\\
//ROCK OUT\\
//SMASH THE PRISONS\\

Saturday August 10th
Doors at 8PM.
Bands at 9PM
Location: To Be Announced,
Check out our Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/658684767480024/

$5 at the door or pay what you can.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds (seriously, no one will be
turned away)
Proceeds will go to supporting the work of the Prisoner Correspondence
Project Toronto, which runs a letter writing program to Queer and Trans
identified prisoners in the U.S and Canada.

What is the Queer cover band show??

We are bored and tired of straight cis-gendered white dudes taking up the
majority of space at shows. We want more rad folks to sing and play their
hearts out. For too long we have been excluded. It's time for our glittery
selves to shine.

This space is prioritizing queer/trans people of colour, black, indigenous,
women and all those that are underrepresented and alienated from the music
scene. Let's build our own beats to break down barriers and help create a
music scene that aims to be safe, inclusive and empowering. Have no shame
in your skill level. You can do it!

What is Queercore Toronto?

Queecore, besides the wicked awesome music reference, is an autonomous
collective of queer identified radicals in Toronto committed to injecting
anti-capitalist political ideology into queer community organizing. We
fight the pink washing of the police, the state and the corporations and
will not be co-opted or assimilated into heteronormative, patriarchal,
racist systems of exploitation and consumerism.

Contact us at radicalcoverbandshow.to at gmail.com for assistance building
cover bands, borrowing instruments and finding practice space.
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*Find Queercore on Tumblr: *http://queercoreto.tumblr.com


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*Spark Scholarships: Regent Park, Jane-Finch, Pelham Park Gardens *

The goal of the Spark Initiative scholarship is to promote academic
excellence and to provide an opportunity for outstanding young leaders with
significant financial need to reach their highest potential by:
Reducing financial barriers for young leaders with high academic and
leadership promise who have significant financial need;
Promoting diversity in the future leadership of the City of Toronto by
facilitating the successful completion of an undergraduate university or
college degree; and
Rewarding youth leaders who participate in civic/community engagement
and/or balance work and school

*Eligibility Criteria*
Age: between 17-25 years old
Residential Location: The candidate must live in or near one of the
following areas of the City of Toronto: Jane-Finch, Regent Park, Pelham
Park Gardens
Education Status: Has been recently accepted or is continuing their
education (but not yet graduated) at an AUCC university or college and will
be registered in full-time studies in September 2013.
Grades: Has attained at least a B average in high school or in
university/college.
Financial Need: Has demonstrated financial need and is using the Ontario
Students Assistance Program (OSAP).
Extra-Curricular/Volunteer/Part-time job: Has demonstrated experience in
being a positive active member in their school and/or residential community
and/or has worked at a part-time job while in school.

*DEADLINE: *August 5th 2013 at 5:00pm EST. Please direct all questions to
Kathy Conteh at kathy at sparkinitiative.ca.

APPLY HERE –> Spark Scholarship Application Form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zpchN2cOBvfLsA7YO20GbZjfE6Lu5DK5uhSltdtE4DU/viewform>

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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. Apply to be a working group:
**http://opirgyork.ca/working-groups*
Contact victoria at opirgyork.ca for further information.

*We also have three different collectives: *PrOPIRGanda Radio, Radical
Reading Room and PrOPIRGanda Zine- see the callouts below. You can contact
us about ways to get involved in these collectives: opirgyork at gmail.com.
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