[opirgyork] TODAY: DisOrientation Starts! + Update from OCAP's Taking It Back!

[OPIRG York]

*OPIRG-York and CWTP @ York presents DisOrientation 2013: “Art in
Rebellion!”*

For years on the York University campus, OPIRG-York, its allied
organizations and community members have put together an alternative
orientation week open to students and community members. This year’s “Art
in Rebellion!” is to be held on and near the York University campus,
from Monday,
September 23rd, 2013 to Friday, September 27th, 2013. DisO is fundamentally
about sharing skills, his/herstories, and knowledge that demonstrate the
vibrant talents and capabilities we all possess. If you want to learn about
some amazing organizing work being done around the city, if you want to
build networks with other folks that are committed to fighting for social
change or if you just want to join us for some art fun, come out to
DisOrientation 2013! We hope to see you there!

All are welcome! All events are free and wheelchair accessible!!
*More Info:* http://diso2013.opirgyork.ca
*Share on Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/569675093069625

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*SCHEDULE FOR TODAY:*

*Monday, September 23rd 2013*
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*Exploring Migrant Worker Narratives with Justicia *
*Facilitated by: Evelyn Encalada*
*11 a.m.-1 p.m. *
*Room 430, Student Centre *

In this workshop we will critically analyze Temporary Foreign Worker
Programs in Canada as expressions of immigration and labour apartheid. Our
focus will be on migrant farm workers from the Global South who perform
back breaking work in farms and greenhouses across the country to produce
the food we consume. We will contemplate our roles as consumers and allies
of migrant workers and their families by analyzing our very own privileges
and power in this chain of production. The workshop will end with a
creative adbusting activity to make migrant farm workers visible in the
local food production.


*Seeds of Resistance: Breaking Down Privilege & Oppression*
*Facilitated by: Ray Garcia*
*1-4 p.m. *
*Room 430, Student Centre *

Many of us are not aware that we live in a society that benefits certain
people at the cost of other people being denied these same benefits. In
this workshop, we will explore, define and unpack the terms Privilege and
Oppression and the different ways they affect us/and the society we live
in. We will also take a closer look at “Anti-Oppression” and the work that
it often includes – and excludes. Through collective strategizing and art,
we will examine and explore a more wholesome approach (one that includes
accountability, healing, creation and resistance) in the ways we navigate
our own personal journeys in grounding ourselves within these systems and
the different ways we can support each other.


*Know Your Rights Workshop, with Movement Defence Committee*
*4-6 p.m. *
*Room 313, Student Centre*

In this workshop we will outline your legal rights in regards to police
interactions, the basics of what happens upon arrest and, in going through
the court process, and suggest some practical things to consider as you
prepare to go out on the streets. We do this with a solidarity approach and
with a focus on those who are most vulnerable to arrest/criminalization.
The Movement Defence Committee [MDC] is an autonomous working group of the
Law Union of Ontario made up of legal workers, law students, activists and
lawyers which provides legal support to progressive organizations and
activists in Toronto. We recognize that members of oppressed groups are at
higher risk when they encounter the law and we work to provide information
and support that is specific to these groups.

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*
Update from Taking it Back*

At approximately 9:30pm this evening the occupation at 230 Sherbourne St
and adjoining lots was evicted. In doing so police defended a landlord who
has let this property sit empty for years while shelters are beyond full
and the need for affordable housing is desperate.

We have continued on to City Hall where we will bring the demand to
Expropriate 230 Sherbourne straight to the doorstep of City Politicians.
We are continuing our camp out and in the morning will be having a
breakfast and challenging City officials to sign on to the demands and
commit to housing, shelter and safe space in the Downtown East:
http://www.ocap.ca/node/1101

This is the launch of the Taking It Back Campaign. Join us in defending
the Downtown East and fighting for what poor people in this neighborhood
need and deserve.

*Monday, September 23rd
Breakfast 9am
Followed by a visit to City Politicians at 10am*



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