[opirgyork] IMPORTANT UPCOMING EVENTS: Know your rights workshop callout, + the Oppression training!

Thu Mar 14 12:05:55 PDT 2013

Hi Everyone,

Please check out some of the amazing events that are coming up! For further
events, you can follow us on Facebook, where we will be posting more as we
receive them: https://www.facebook.com/opirg.yorku
We are very excited to support so many amazing events this coming week in
our community and in the greater Toronto. Please let us know if you want
more info, we are ready to help!

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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*In this email:*
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*OPIRG YORK NEWS*

*(1) **Mar 19: Know Your Rights Workshop*
*(2) ONGOING: CWTP York Newsletter
(3) Mar 22: SASSL's annual heART fundraiser
(4) Mar 27: SAIA Rally for Divestment and Change!*
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*COMMUNITY NEWS*

*(1)* *International Day Against Police Brutality*
*(2) **City Hall Monday: Open Shelter Now- No Homeless Deaths!** ** *
*(3) **CALLOUT:  **(En)gendering Resistance School of Public Interest Call
for Proposals*
*(4) **Mar 19-22: **Courtroom Solidarity for Security Certificate Detainee
Mahmoud Jaballah*
*(5) ONGOING: **Call for Submissions to Breakthroughs Film Festival, No
Charge!*
*(6) April 17: CRIMINALIZATION OF DISSENT*
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 *OPIRG YORK NEWS*

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*Know Your Rights Workshop - Cops Off Campus + CLASP*

*Date*: Tuesday, March 19th
*Time*: 1-3pm
*Location*: Room 313 Student Center
*On Facebook:* https://www.facebook.com/events/500058593386248

"Know Your Rights" is a presentation offering information about our rights
according to the law when interacting with the police. The topics include
general rights when talking to the police, situations where we are required
by law to provide information to officers, topics of detention, arrest,
search powers of the police, and discussion of strategies when these rights
are not respected in practice.

Brought to you by:

Cops Off Campus Coalition: copsoffcampus at gmail.com,
facebook.com/CopsOffCampusYorkU

Community Legal Aid Service Programme (CLASP) at York: (416) 736 – 5564,
www.osgoode.yorku.ca/clasp

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*CWTP York Newsletter*
 Check out some upcoming events for the next two weeks on and off York's
campus.

*2) Fierce and Fabulous Clothing Swap, Mar 19, 2-5ppm, Chancellor's Lounge,
beside the Underground
3) Know Your Rights Workshop - Cops Off Campus + CLASP, Mar 19, 1-3pm, rm
313
student centre
4) SASSL's annual heART fundraiser, Mar 22, Lunik Co-op at Glendon Campus 7-
11pm
5) Trans Film Series: 5th Anniversary Showcase, Mar 27, 6pm, William Doo
Auditorium, 45 Wilcocks St.
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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

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2) Fierce and Fabulous Clothing Swap, March 19th 2-5pm, at the Chancellor's
Lounge beside the Underground

This event is open to trans, questioning, and non-trans allies. Please bring
wearable and washed (preferably in hot water) clothes, shoes, and/or
accessories that you don’t need anymore.

Items can be donated in advance! You can drop them off at the Centre for
Women
and Transpeople (322 Student Centre)
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Clothing Swap Party: Fierce and Fabulous will be happening on February 12th
in
the Student Centre - Chancellor's Lounge next to the Underground Restaurant.
Fashion swap parties can be great fun and a fantastic way to refresh that
closet or wardrobe of yours.

Tired of looking at the same clothes over again? Want to add some extra
pieces
to your closet collection! Jazz up your wardrobe with some funky styles and
new colors! Are you in the mood for something fresh and stylish without
having
to go to a clothing outlet? If all these ideas sound like fun to you, come
and
be a part of a clothing swap party!!

What if you want to come and you would feel that the party might not suit
your
needs? Are you worried that there might not be any clothes for you? Thinking
that you’re size won’t be represented? Or we might not have the styles
you’re
looking for? No problem! Guaranteed, this party will bring you a variety of
all different sizes and styles that will sure suit to your fancy!!

Clothing Swap Parties: Yea or Nay? parties can be an innovative and creative
way to shop, with this one being the one for you as the right group of
stylistas are in attendance!!

Everyone is welcome to take whatever they like, but we do ask everyone to be
respectful that other people are looking to find clothes too.

https://www.facebook.com/events/439188439494445/?ref=ts&fref=ts

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3) Know Your Rights Workshop - Cops Off Campus + CLASP

Date: Tuesday, March 19th
Time: 1-3pm
Location: Room 313 Student Center

"Know Your Rights" is a presentation offering information about our rights
according to the law when interacting with the police. The topics include
general rights when talking to the police, situations where we are required
by
law to provide information to officers, topics of detention, arrest, search
powers of the police, and discussion of strategies when these rights are not
respected in practice.

Brought to you by:

Cops Off Campus Coalition: copsoffcampus at gmail.com, facebook.com/
 CopsOffCampusYorkU

Community Legal Aid Service Programme (CLASP) at York: (416) 736 – 5564,
www.osgoode.yorku.ca/clasp

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4) SASSL's annual heART fundraiser
March 22nd - Lunik Co-op at Glendon Campus 7-11pm
Come celebrate SASSL's annual heART fundraiser. It will be a night of
performance art from spoken word artists, dancers, singers, visual artists,
and more! Admission is free! A voluntary donation of toiletries or canned
goods is encouraged and will be given to the South Asian Women's Centre. We
will selling raffle tickets, so in addition to being entertained you'll have
the chance to win fabulous goodies like two tickets to Buddies in Bad Times!
All proceeds from raffle tickets will go towards the Rexdale Women's Centre.
There will also be free food!
Check out the facebook page at: http://tinyurl.com/SASSLheART

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5) Trans Film Series: 5th Anniversary Showcase
Mar 27, 6pm, William Doo Auditorium, 45 Wilcocks St.3

==>Trans Film Series: 5th Anniversary Showcase
==>Free Film! Free Snacks! Free Talk!

The Trans Film Series hosts a FREE screening of:
"MURDER IN PASSING" "BECOMING IRFAN" & "HOMO NOETICUS"

All welcome. Allies welcome.

** Join us as the Trans Film Series marks it’s 5th anniversary! **
Share in an evening of post-modern intrigue – with both surprises and
prizes!

► MURDER IN PASSING: A bike courier has been murdered...and everyone in the
town of Passing B.C. is a suspect! Did you catch this murder mystery as it
screened on TTC subway platforms? Now join us in launching it on the big
screen; where Detective Epicene must untangle a bewildering conspiracy
involving bikes, cars, opera, gender and greenwashing to expose the
murderer.
dir.: John Greyson (2013)

► BECOMING IRFAN: offers both video performance and a new take on coming out
videos. An experimental self-portrait, where the messiness of identity is
revealed.
dir.: Eshan Rafi (2010)

► HOMO NOETICUS: explores a transition away from gender, sex and the body
towards a spirit consciousness. This performance piece within an art film -
a
trans/queer manifesto for the new humanity called homo noeticus - is the
next
step in queer evolution.
dir.: Kiley May (2012)

DATE & TIME: Wednesday March 27, 2013
6pm – food / 6:30pm – film + post-film discussion
LOCATION: William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks St.

< Together lets acknowledge that as we come together it is on Indigenous
Land>

For info and accessibility contact: transfilmseries at gmail.com

|| ASL-English Interpretation || captions || wheelchair accessible ||
|| gender-neutral washrooms* || trans-positive space ||
|| food – vegan || TTC tokens available || FREE ||

@TRANSfilmseries
tinyurl.com/TFSMar

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Centre for Women and Trans People at York U

416.736.2100 x 33484 | http://yorku.ca/ywc - Facebook: Cwtp At York

322 Student Centre
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3

We are open Mondays to Thursdays from 10am - 5:30pm. We are also available
outside of these hours by appointment :)

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SASSL's annual heART fundraiser
*Date *:March 22nd -
*Location*: Lunik Co-op at Glendon Campus
*Time*: 7-11pm

Come celebrate SASSL's annual heART fundraiser. It will be a night of
performance art from spoken word artists, dancers, singers, visual artists,
and more! Admission is free! A voluntary donation of toiletries or canned
goods is encouraged and will be given to the South Asian Women's Centre. We
will selling raffle tickets, so in addition to being entertained you'll
have the chance to win fabulous goodies like two tickets to Buddies in Bad
Times! All proceeds from raffle tickets will go towards the Rexdale Women's
Centre. There will also be free food!
 *Check out the facebook page at:
**http://tinyurl.com/SASSLheART*<http://tinyurl.com/SASSLheART>
Warmly,
 Ali Maclachlan

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*SAIA Rally for Divestment and Change!*
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Join Students Against Israeli Apartheid as we protest York’s investments
in weapons manufacturing companies!

Students Against Israeli Apartheid invites all students, faculty, alumni,
and York University community members to Vari Hall on Wednesday, March 27
at 1:00 PM to send a message to the York University Administration that
enough is enough!

We are also calling on all of our allies across the GTA to join us as we
celebrate the passing of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions resolutions by
student unions across Ontario.

York University is currently investing large sums of money in military
corporations, weapons manufacturers, and other companies that are involved
in the violation human rights and the destruction of the environment
around the world. Weapons have been sold to the Israeli Defense Forces and
used against civilian populations in the Gaza Strip as recently as last
fall.

The Endowment Fund, which raises money for student scholarships and
bursaries, has been invested in these weapons manufacturers.

York students: if you are on scholarship, a portion of the money used to
fund your scholarship was made through the murder and subjugation of your
fellow students' families!

The York University Faculty Association has rightfully been pressing the
York Administration to practice responsible investment for several years.
Faculty pensions come out of the Pension Fund, which have been invested in
these weapons companies.

SAIA has been raising awareness of this issue across campus by lobbying
our student unions to pass Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions resolutions,
which commits them to support us in our demands.

The time has come for students and community members to stand up and make
our demands for responsible investment heard by the York Administration!

We are calling on the York University Administration to divest from all
companies implicated in the violation of international law and human
rights.

We are demanding that York University implement a Socially Responsible
Investment policy.

And we further demand that the York Administration relinquish its control
over Vari Hall so that our freedom of speech and assembly be respected and
restored in this once politically vibrant space!

Join us!

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 – Vari Hall!

*COMMUNITY NEWS*

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*International Day against Police Brutality*

All Out to the Community Development and Recreation Committee
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*Date*: Monday, March 15th
*Time*: 5-8PM
*Location*:52 Division, Toronto Police Services located at 255 Dundas
Street West.

Every year we remember this important event and put a call out to elected
officials to end Police Brutality in Canada and the World.
TORONTO has bad cops ( Sargents, Managers and Staff) and those cops make
all the rest of the T.P.S look bad. We have had serious events in which
Toronto Citizens have been physically and verbally assaulted and the use of
unnecessary force by rogue members of the T.P.S..

This practice has to stop.. We call on Mr William Blair the Chief of Police
and Dr Aloj Mukherjee , Chairman of the T.P.S Board to put words into
action , we demand an end to Abuse of Authority, we demand the immediate
termination of those T.P.S officers who they know well are still on payroll
paid by Toronto Taxpayers.

Violence, bullying and abuse of authority is the not the norm and should
not be tolerated in our Society. Please join us to celebrate, commemorate
and remind our Elected Officials to end Police Brutality and please
consider joining the first TORONTO COP WATCH group in Toronto. We need
committed volunteers who can contribute with logistics and time .
YES!!...We can do it for the rest of Toronto Citizens victims of Police
Brutality who are afraid to speak!

TORONTOCOPWATCH.WORDPRESS.COM

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*City Hall Monday: Open Shelter Now- No Homeless Deaths!*

All Out to the Community Development and Recreation Committee
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*Date*: Monday, March 18th
*Time*: 9 AM
*Location*:Toronto City Hall
*Gathering outside the main doors at 9 AM with Coffee and snacks

... *See below on how to sign-up to speak

On Monday, March 18th we will be going back to City Hall to the Community
Development and Recreation Committee. First on the agenda that day is the
item ‘Update on Emergency Shelter Services’. We are calling for everyone to
join us on this day – pack the room, sign up for deputations, demand from
the City that they open up space and deal with the crisis on the streets!

For the past few months, OCAP and allies have been raising the alarms
around a series of homeless deaths and consistent overcrowding in the
shelters. We have occupied space in front of Ford’s office and then again
at Metro Hall to demand that additional shelter space be opened up. The
response of Ford and his supporters has been to attack those speaking out,
to blatantly make up numbers, and to dismiss deaths on the streets as
‘personal choice’.

By the City’s own admission, shelters are operating at 96% capacity. On top
of this, the daily experiences of homeless people, advocates and front line
workers lead to the inescapable conclusion that this City's shelter system
is overloaded and in crisis. When spaces are over 90% capacity the
overcrowding creates tension, conditions worsen and for many are
intolerable. This small 3 – 4% margin of availability does not account for
beds for women, co-eds, families, or for people who are unable for reasons
of safety to go to certain spaces. In the Shelter Support and Housing
Administration’s own report, they admit to occupancy bed-checks being done
at 4am –long after people have tried to seek out a space.

Fittingly, the second item on the agenda of the March 18th Committee
meeting is ‘Review of the Centralized Waiting List for Social Housing’. The
waiting list for Housing in Toronto has approximately 90 000 households on
it and is an abysmal 10 years long. This on top of skyrocketing private
rents, the lack of sufficient income for those on welfare or disability,
Provincial cuts to programs like Community Start-Up, and cuts to shelter
beds and supports over the years, have created this crisis that we face
right now.

NO MORE mis-leading reports, third party consultation or bureaucratic
red-tape. We need immediate measures to respond to this crisis. Failure to
act has cost lives and will be sure to cost many more. These are our
demands to Committee on March 18th:

1. A hostel system operating at an acknowledged occupancy rate of 96% is
one that can't provide shelter, safety and dignity. People are being turned
away and others are sleeping on the floor in the Referral Centre. Unhealthy
conditions of overcrowding are creating tensions that cause conflicts that
force people onto the streets from fear or because they have been subjected
to disciplinary barrings. In 1999, City Council adopted a position that
staff could open additional space if the system reached 90% capacity. This
policy has never been revoked but it is not being implemented. We call on
the Committee to recommend that Council instruct staff that they must
ensure capacity levels do not exceed 90% and act as necessary to achieve
this goal.

2. In the summer of 1999, Metro Hall was opened to provide emergency space
for homeless people when shelter occupancy reached 90%. Your Committee must
call upon Council to instruct that this building or an equivalent facility
me opened immediately.

3. The economic situation and the general climate of social cutbacks we
live in make it almost certain that pressure on the shelter system will
increase in the period ahead. The Committee must call for the restoration
of all beds that have been lost in the system and, specifically, the return
of the 41,172 bed nights eliminated in the last City Budget. – a decrease
of 2.9% compared to 2012 (Despite what Ford and management have said
publicly, here are the City’s own numbers: http://www.toronto.ca/
budget2013/pdf/op13_an_ssha.pdf<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.toronto.ca%2Fbudget2013%2Fpdf%2Fop13_an_ssha.pdf&h=JAQHhzhyL&s=1>).
Since 2006, we have seen a loss of approximately 400 shelter beds (146 000
bed nights) in the systems with the closing of shelters such as Council
Fire, 60 Richmond, 110 Edward, Riverdale Salvation Army, CNH Metropolitan
Shelter. We call for the restoration of those shelter beds.

We are not prepared to sit by while social abandonment becomes the de-facto
policy of the City of Toronto. Committee must act and Council must take the
measures necessary to ensure the basic human right to shelter is there for
all who need it.

SPEAK at COMMITTEE (Deputations):

• Talk about conditions in the shelters
• Talk about your experiences of trying to get a bed
• Talk about your experiences as a front-line worker
• Speak out as an ally on why this situation is unacceptable

HOW TO SIGN UP TO SPEAK:

• You can go to this link http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/
viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2013.CD19.1<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapp.toronto.ca%2Ftmmis%2FviewAgendaItemHistory.do%3Fitem%3D2013.CD19.1&h=KAQHgQZKx&s=1>and
click on “request to speak” at the top of the page. Add your contact
information to the email form and send.
• OR you can request to speak by emailing cdrc at toronto.ca, letting them
know you want to depute at the March 18 Community Development and
Recreation Committee Meeting on agenda item 19.1 Update on Emergency
Shelters, and providing your name, group (if any), contact phone number.
• OR you can request to speak by calling the clerk at (416) 397-7796 and
providing the same information as above.

Get Involved with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
www.ocap.ca<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ocap.ca&h=3AQEyTQnk&s=1>
416-925-6939
@OCAPtoronto
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*(En)gendering Resistance School of Public Interest Call for Proposals*

(En)gendering Resistance: Exploring the Possibilities of Gender, Resistance
and Militancy

WPIRG’s 2013 School of Public Interest Conference
April 19th-21st
University of Waterloo
engenderingresistance.noblogs.org
www.wpirg.org

Call for Proposals!

Examining the social, political and economic realities of gender, as well
as the liberatory possibilities of militant resistance to gender based
oppression, WPIRG’s 2013 School of Public Interest will focus on the theme
of (en)gendering resistance.  A purposeful play on words, the conference
theme is intended to encompass reflections on the lived experience of
gender, the gendering of activism, and strategies for fostering vibrant
resistance movements.

Taking place April 19th-21st at the University of Waterloo, the weekend
long conference will bring together community organizers, activists and
students, to critically discuss issues related to gender and
resistance/resisting gender. Shaping, while simultaneously being shaped by
the ways in which we live, love, fuck and resist, the intricacies and
potentialities of gender will be explored.

Our vision is to provide an inclusive space to engage in dialogue that
challenges the narratives of the mainstream feminist movement, expanding
its critique and radicalizing its practice. We dream of a feminism that
does not seek the inclusion of marginalized identities within the dominant
order, but rather, strives to unapologetically challenge the dominant order
itself. How can we develop a movement for gender justice that is
necessarily anti-capitalist, anti-colonial and critical of state
institutions? How can we foster resistance practices that are firmly rooted
in anti-racism and an intersectional analysis of gender?

Patriarchy and gendered oppressions are everyday perpetuated within our
communities and movements. Sexism, queer and transphobia permeate social
justice groups and organizations. Gender violence and sexual assault occur
with tragic frequently within our ‘safe’ spaces. How can we challenge the
reproduction of gender oppression within broader social and environmental
justice movements? How can we develop non-state responses to issues of
sexual violence? What potential exists for the construction of holistic and
nurturing communities of resistance? How can we strengthen our ongoing
work, and build our collective capacity to resist?

In the spirit of engendering resistance, WPIRG invites community-based
activists, those struggling everyday against gender oppression, supporters,
and anyone who sees value in gathering to resist and share strategies, to
participate!

Possible topics can include (but are in no way limited to):
- queer/ing resistance
- building a trans* inclusive movement
- feminisms/ (trans) feminisms/ anarcha-feminisms
- capitalism and the material reproduction of gender
- intersections and reflections on gender, sexuality, race and class
-  gender and disability justice
- histories of gender resistance
- gender and militancy/the gendering of militant resistance
- sexism, queer and transphobia within social movements
- challenging gender violence and rape culture
- community accountability: perils, pitfalls and possibilities
- the policing of bodies and enforcement of gender
- gender, incarceration and the prison industrial complex
- gender and the media

We welcome individuals, groups, and organizations to submit proposals for
workshops, presentations, panel discussions, art installations, and
performance pieces. From theoretical discussions to artistic explorations,
from practical strategy sessions and skill-shares, we welcome a diversity
of presentation formats. We acknowledge that discussions of gender cannot
be separated from considerations of race, class, sexuality, ability and
age, and encourage proposals that consider such intersections.

Please submit proposals, including a 1-page description and facilitator bio
to spi at wpirg.org by March 13th, 2013 at 9am. Travel subsidies will be
available to cover travel costs for conference presenters, and a modest
honorarium will be provided.

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*Courtroom Solidarity for Security Certificate Detainee Mahmoud Jaballah*

*Date*: March 19-22, 2013
*Location*: Federal Court, 180 Queen St. W.

For more than ten years now, Mahmoud Jaballah has been subject to a
security certificate.

A security certificate is one of the most draconian measures in Canadian
Law. Based on secret information gathered by CSIS, the Ministers of
Immigration and Public Safety can obtain a judicial order detaining a
non-citizen indefinitely without charge.

Mahmoud, a father of six who came to Canada in 1996 seeking protection from
the Mubarak regime, was separated from his family in 2001 and imprisoned
for six years. He was released in 2007 on strict conditions that continue
to this day. He has never been charged with any crime.

Mahmoud and his lawyers will be in Federal Court starting on Tuesday, March
19 to challenge his security certificate with an abuse of process motion.

If you are able to come, please indicate your availability at this doodle
poll http://www.doodle.com/48727xhehebc7a6q and send us an email to
justiceforjaballah at gmail.com. That way we can update you if there are any
changes in the court schedule.

We are asking everyone to demonstrate their solidarity by following court
decorum.

For more information on Mr. Jaballah and Security Certificate's please
visit www.justiceforjaballah.org.

Thank you for considering this,

Justice for Jaballah Committee

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*Creative Action at Ministry of Labour: Make'em pay to work!*

*Date: March 22*
*Time: 7:30am *
*Location: 400 University Avenue Toronto*
*Facebook: **https://www.facebook.com/events/444527365622889/*<https://www.facebook.com/events/444527365622889/>

Join us as we charge Ontario Ministry of Labour employees fees to go to
work. Strange? Not at all. Migrant workers have to pay thousands of dollars
to work in Ontario, and its legal. If recruiters can make a quick buck off
migrant workers, we can make a quick buck off the people who allow it. All
you need is suit and a tie. Show up bright and early on March 22nd, around
7:30 or so in the morning.

Please fill out this form so we can send you all the details (its the
shortest job application you'll ever do)...: http://bit.ly/FeesfromMoL

Still unsure? Don't worry. Recruiters aren't licensed in Ontario, so anyone
can do it! What's even better is that recruiters can't be held liable for
what happens at work. So if these Ministry of Labour employees boss turns
on them, its no skin off your back.

By our guessestimation (its pretty hard to get the facts) at least half off
Ontario's 120,000 migrant workers are paying between $3,000 and $10,000 to
unscrupulous recruiters*. That's could be as high as 1.2 billion dollars a
year. Imagine how much more money could be made by the rich if we started
charging the non-migrant workers too. Its an untapped opportunity and we
need to take matters in to our own hands.

With few real ways to get into Canada permanently, migrants are forced to
pay recruiters to come to Canada on a temporary basis. To do so, entire
families get into debt. Here. they pay in to E.I., and CPP, but face
insurmountable barriers . Health and safety protections are non-existent.
Documents are seized and bosses are often abusive. All of this is allowed
by provincial and federal laws. We won't be treating the Ministry of Labour
employees that badly.

** This is the first of many actions, if you can't make it to this one,
please sign up at
www.migrantworkersalliance.org<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.migrantworkersalliance.org&h=cAQFMppW5&s=1>to
hear about future ones**

March 22nd is the three-year anniversary of the passing of the Employment
Protections for Foreign National Act (Live-In Caregivers & Others) aka
EPFNA. EPFNA banned recruiters fees and seizure of documents from live-in
caregivers but left out seasonal agricultural workers, and those in the
temporary foreign worker low skilled program. Not only that, EPFNA has not
been fully implemented to adequately support live-in caregivers and
requires key amendments to ensure that it actually works.

* Two-thirds of caregivers in a survey by Caregivers Action Centre who
arrived after EPFNA was enforced paid fees, averaging $3275. Filipino
workers that MWAC organizations come in to contact with report paying a
base fees of $5,000 while Thai workers report paying a base fees of
$10,000.

www.migrantworkersalliance.org | www.facebook.com/MigrantWorkersAlliance |
coordinator at migrantworkersalliance.org

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*CRIMINALIZATION OF DISSENT*
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*D**ATE*: WEDNESDAY APRIL 17, 2013
 *TIME:* 6:30 PM

*LOCATION:* OISE - Room 5-250
(252 Bloor Street West- St. George Subway Station)

Land Defenders, Human Rights and Political Activists are imprisoned!
The judicial system and the rule of law are being used as instruments of
state violence

Peoples around the world who organize and resist the onslaught of colonial
land theft, extractive industries, and state repression are arrested and
indefinitely being kept in prison as a strategy to silence their voices and
crush their struggles to assert their right to self-determination and
sovereignty.

On the occasion of Palestine Political Prisoners' Day

A PANEL DISCUSSION

IN SOLIDARITY WITH POLITICAL PRISIONERS AROUND THE GLOBE

Please join us to hear these stories,

identify common strategies and discuss effective community responses.

Co-organizers: Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Coalition for
Tamil Rights (CTR), Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN)
and the Philippine Solidarity Network - Toronto (PSNT)

For further information: Logan Sellathurai: justice5 at sympatico.ca

This "Panel Discussion" is organized as part of LACSN Solidarity Month
Events

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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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