[opirgyork] York Events this week- IWW, IAW, Consensus Training + Meetings!

[OPIRG York]

Hello OPIRG York members and community!

There is a lot going on this week at York University, as well as across the
city. In this email we are listing just the York events for this upcoming
week, and tomorrow will send out the community listings! One important
announcement for this week is that OPIRG York welcomes Rocio Velasquez as
the new Coordinator of Administration and Information, and we will say
goodbye to Sharmeen Khan, the outgoing coordinator. Rocio will be joining
OPIRG York for a one year term. You can email her directly at
ro at opirgyork.ca to say hello and welcome!

As always, you contact us at OPIRG York 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. 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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*OPIRG YORK NEWS*
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*(1) Mar. 4-8: International Women's Week @ York University
**(2) Mar. 6: Consensus Decision-Making Workshop*
*(3) **Mar. 6: **A community meeting on the minimum wage + JFAAP Meeting**
(4) **Mar. 6/7: Israeli Apartheid Week (March 1-10) - York U events *
*(5) **Mar 7: CUPE 3903 First Nations Solidarity Working Group Meeting*
*(6) **Mar. 11**: Environmental Justice Organizing Meeting @ York - Stop
Line 9! *



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*International Women's Week @ York University*

This year, York's student and service groups are collaborating on a number
of events for the week of March 4th - March 8th (International Women's Day).
*Facebook Link:* https://www.facebook.com/events/1925549694250935

*Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday | 12:00 - 2:00pm | Vari Hall*
Wall Art: Note-Making & Postcard Writing
Come and write messages and reflections about this day throughout the week
leading up to the 8th where the notes will be displayed on Friday in Vari
Hall as part of International Women's Day Art Wall.

*Monday, March 4th* | 6:00 - 9:00pm | Chancellor's Lounge, beside the
Underground Restaurant in the Student Centre
Film Series & Panel Discussion
Featuring filmmakers Kyisha Williams and Juli Rivera.

*Tuesday, March 5th* | 12:00 - 2:00pm | Rm 430, Student Centre
Come take a load off and get poked. Enjoy Community Acupuncture for immune
boosting and stress reduction with Jiselle Griffith ND. The sessions are 5
persons max for first hour and 5 for the last hour.

*Tuesday, March 5th* | 2:00 - 4:00pm | Rm 322 The Student Centre
Drop in and learn about the Art of Burlesque and Tease by Coco La Creme.

*Thursday, March 7th* | 7:00 - 10:00pm | Chancellor's Lounge, beside the
Underground Restaurant in the Student Centre
Come and sing your heart out at the Karaoke Party 'Who Runs the World'

*Friday, March 8th* | 1:00 - 3:00pm | Vari Hall
Come out and view the Wall Art of Messages and add some of your own and
fill out some postcards to send to folks who you care about or who uplift
and inspire you.

In Collaboration and Sponsorship with: TBLGAY, Centre for Women and Trans
People York, OPIRG York, SASSL, Centre for Human Rights, York Federation of
Students, York University Grad Student's Association, York Campus Res Life

**All events are Wheelchair Accessible, Childcare Subsidies upon request.
Snacks will be provided for the events but not for the Vari Hall Wall Art
or Postcard making.

***For Wheelchair access to Room 430 please use the East elevator located
next to the Pagoda restaurant in the Student Center

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*Consensus Decision-Making Workshop*

*Date*: Wednesday, March 6th
*Time*: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
*Location*: Chancellor's Lounge, Student Centre, York University
(Chancellor's Lounge is located just inside the doors to the Underground @
the Student Centre - venue is wheelchair accessible)

*Invite/Share on facebook:* https://www.facebook.com/events/419190568174930/

How movement groups make decisions has a big impact on our politics, our
effectiveness, and the quality of our activist experience. It can be a
major challenge to find the model that has the right mix of inclusiveness,
accountability, and efficiency for your group.

Consensus decision-making is a group decision making process that seeks the
consent of all participants. Consensus may be defined professionally as an
acceptable resolution, one that can be supported, even if not the
"favourite" of each individual. Consensus describes both the decision and
the process of reaching a decision. Consensus decision-making is thus
concerned with the process of deliberating and finalizing a decision, and
the social and political effects of using this process.

This workshop will explore different approaches to consensus and different
tools to facilitate your way through even the hardest meetings!

*Facilitator*:
Leah Henderson

*Contact: *opirg at yorku.ca* *
**Please do contact us if you have any accessibility, childcare or other
needs!*
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*A community meeting on the minimum wage + JFAAP Meeting*

*Hosted by* Workers Actions Centre and Jane Finch Action Against Poverty
*When*: 6:00 pm; Wednesday, March 6, 2013
*Where*: 2nd Floor, Yorkgate Mall; Black Creek Community Health Centre

Ontario workers are struggling to get by working 2 or 3 low paying
jobs. Can you survive on $10.25/hr?

Come to JFAAP community meeting: Share ideas on how we can melt the
freeze and make our voices heard!
With a presentation from the Workers’ Action Centre

It’s time for an increase to the minimum wage!

Light dinner will be served
Childcare provided
TTC tickets available

Organized by Jane Finch Action Against Poverty (JFAAP)

For more information, please contact janefinchactionagainstpoverty at gmail.com;
416-760-2677

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*Israeli Apartheid Week (March 1-10) - York U events**
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*WEDNESDAY, March 6th
>From The Roots: Building Resistance Across Colonized Lands*
Speakers: Crystal Lameman and Riham Barghouti
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: York University, Curtis Lecture Hall F
https://www.facebook.com/events/492959974085801/

Crystal Lameman is a 30 year old mother of two and she is from and resides
on the Beaver Lake Cree Nation which is located 2.5 hours N.E. of
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She is a college and University graduate,
holding a 2 year Social Work Diploma, a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, and
a Bachelor of Elementary Education. She has always taken an active role in
participating in the dialogue on the Rights of Indigenous People. It is
through her involvement at the grassroots level she has been given
numerous opportunities to travel, i.e. London, Oxford, Birmingham England
to deliver her message in relation to the Fuel Quality Directive and the
Canadian tar sands importation into Europe, while there she was a keynote
speaker at the People and Planets Shared Planet conference, and rallied
for support around England in the campaign to stop the tar sands
destruction. She is also an alumni member of the Front-Line Fellowship
program through the Environmental Action Coalition in Washington DC where
she travelled to receive a three day training initiative. She attended the
United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainability. She was a keynote
speaker at the PowerShift 2012 conference in Ottawa, and was a part of a
She Speaks: Indigenous Women Speaking out Against the Tar Sands panel that
had stops in Vancouver, BC and Toronto, Sarnia, and Brantford, Ont. She is
actively involved in all that encompasses Indigenous rights and issues –
socially, economically, and environmentally. Crystal is currently doing
contractual work with the Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign and
Sierra Club Prairie Chapter as the Alberta Climate and Energy Campaigner.
She actively speaks to media and plays host to the many people who travel
to her community seeking information regarding the Beaver Lake Cree
Nations court case against the Canadian Government and the over 17, 000
permits and leases granted to big oil without the Government following
through with their duty to consult the Beaver Lake Cree. She proudly
states that the entirety of her work is done at the grassroots level.

Riham Barghouti is a Palestinian American activist who lived in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory for 10 years. She currently resides in New
York City where she works as a teacher. Ms. Barghouti is a founding member
of Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel and PACBI,
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
Ms. Barghouti holds a Masters in Education from Pace University, a Masters
in Gender, Law and Development from Birzeit University and a Bachelors
Degree in Sociology and Women’s Studies from Hunter College, City
University of New York.

*THURSDAY, March 7th
Israeli Activism against Occupation and Apartheid: Strategies for Solidarity
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Speaker: Noa Shaindlinger
2:30 - 4:30
Location: York University, York Student Centre, GSA room 430

As an Israeli anti-israeli-apartheid activist, Noa Shaindlinger will first
discuss her involvement in Zochrot, a Tel-Aviv NGO whose mission statement
it to educate Israeli-Jews about the Nakba and preserve the memory of
pre-1948 Palestine. Noa also joined anarchists against the wall and
participated in demonstrations and other actions against the current
realities of land theft, expanding settlements and limitations imposed on
the freedom of movement of Palestinians. She will speak about the nature
of this type of solidarity work, the joint struggle and its internal
tensions and pitfalls.

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*CUPE 3903 First Nations Solidarity Working Group Meeting*

*Date*: Thursday, March 7th
*Time*: 7pm
*Location*: Meet in OISE lobby, 252 Bloor St West

New members are welcome! At this meeting, join us to learn about and
discuss an upcoming day of both court support for a criminalized Land
Defender and an educational "retreat" at Six Nations on March 19th.

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*Environmental Justice Organizing Meeting @ York - Stop Line 9!*

*Date*: Mon. March 11th
*Time*: 1-2:30pm
*Location*: 311B Student Centre, York University
*On facebook: *https://www.facebook.com/events/128802613963711
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Join us to discuss community canvassing against the Line 9 pipeline and tar
sands, plan on-campus awareness actions and envision other plans for the
Environmental Justice Working Group. We will also strategize around issues
to focus on when applying to be an intervenor during the National Energy
Board (NEB) hearings.  New members are always welcome!

If you want to get involved, please email ecojusticeyork at gmail.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
us about ways to get involved in these collectives: opirg at yorku.ca.
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