[opirgyork] DisO Day 2 + OPIRG Working Group Showcase & Other upcoming events at York!

[OPIRG York]

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

TODAY is the second day of DisOrientation at York!

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


*Tuesday, September 24th 2013 *
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*Wanted: Disability Understood as Red Smoking Hot, *
*Facilitated by: Loree Erickson*
*11 a.m.- 1 p.m. *
*Room 313, Student Centre *

Loree made the internationally awarded short video want. In want, she uses
hot and sweaty moments of entanglement present in genderqueer-crip desire
and an alternative model of personal care to offer a complex and sexy image
of disability. This work also brings forward relationships between systems
of oppression and everyday lived realities. Drawing on reactions to want,
Loree will facilitate a discussion of any of the above topics as well as
what possibilities occur through the production of disability, not only as
desirable but, as red smoking hot!

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*Queer Families: Children's books*
*Facilitated by: juli (a) rivera & AJ Withers *
*2-5 p.m. *
*Rm 307, Student Centre*

This workshop will explore kids books from a critical perspective. We will
talk about what makes a families book and what goes into making them. Feel
free to bring your favourite family book/children's book or books that
might relate to the workshop.

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*HIV Stigma 101 & Prisons*
*Facilitated by: Keisha Williams and Syrus Ware *
*6-8 p.m. *
*Room 313, Student Centre *

Why is HIV seen differently then cancer or other illnesses? Using lived
experience and the context of incarceration/ the legal system’ this
workshop will define and explore the complexities and personal/ systemic
impacts of stigma around HIV.


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*OTHER York U Upcoming Events:*
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1. *September 25*: CUPE 3903 GMM 11AM-2PM
2. *September 26:* Students For a Free Tibet @ York Meeting!
3. *September 26*: The Lessons of Chile: 40 Years After the Coup
4. *October 1st:* OPIRG York Volunteer Hangout + Working Group Showcase
Open House!
5. *October 2nd: *Environmental Justice Working Group Meeting- October 2nd
6. *ONGOING*: YU Free Press Callout for Submissions: Alt. Media Issue
7. *TAKE ACTION!* Support Striking Immigration Detainees!
8. *October 19:* No Line 9!  No Tar Sands Pipelines!  Rally at the NEB
hearings


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*1. September 25: CUPE 3903 GMM 11AM-2PM*

*Date*: Wed. Sept. 25
*Time*: 11am-2pm
*Location*: Atkinson Building RM 004
*More info: *http://3903.cupe.ca/

*2. Students For a Free Tibet @ York Meeting!*

*Date*: Thursday, September 26
*Time*: 5:30-7:30pm
*Location*: 315C Student Centre, York University (Keele Campus)

Students For a Free Tibet @ York is a political club group that represents
the issue of Colonialism and Genocide of Tibet. Tibet was an independent
country till it was occupied by China in 1959. It's been 54 years in the
fight and struggle for freedom for Tibet.  Please join us in raising
awareness of the issue and plan events/campaigns to continue fighting for
freedom, human rights and independence. Any bit of help makes a difference.
We would love to have your support. Please come out to our first meet and
greet on Thursday, September 26th, 2013 at the Student Centre in Room 315
C. We will let you know how you can be part of SFT and help us over some
delicious PIZZAs. See you all very soon.
Thank You


*3. The Lessons of Chile: 40 Years After the Coup*

*Thu. Sep. 26 at 6:00pm-8pm*
*York University, Keele campus*
*Room: Accolade West 106 (ACW106)*

The election of Salvador Allende and the Unidad Popular coalition in 1970
brought great hope and expectations for the working class around the world.
For many workers and poor around the globe, it appeared that a genuine
socialism was at hand.

Unfortunately, three years later, the Chilean revolution was drowned in
blood in one of the most brutal coups of the 20th century.

On the 40th anniversary of the first 9/11, what can we learn from the
experiences of the Chilean revolution? How can we make sure that the new
wave of revolutionary struggle (both in Latin America and around the world)
does not end up with the same fate?

*Speaker:*
Camilo Cahis, Fightback editorial board and son of Chilean exiles

*Organized by:*
Socialist Fightback at York University
Hands Off Venezuela

*Facebook:* https://www.facebook.com/events/436757373110131/

For more information Contact, please visit:
Email: fightback at marxist.ca.
Website: www.marxist.ca
Call Jahan: 647-448-0980 for help/directions to event.


*4. OPIRG York Volunteer Hangout + Working Group Showcase Open House!*

*Share on fb:* https://www.facebook.com/events/167571550102870/

Join OPIRG York on...

*Date*: TUESDAY OCTOBER 1st 2013
*Time*: 1:30-4:30pm
*Location*: the OPIRG office (Student Centre Rm. 449 C) and Room 307
Student Centre

...for free food, fun and meeting amazing fellow social justice thinkers on
campus!

We're having an open house to welcome back new/returning students,
re-introduce our Radical Resource Reading Centre, to relax and hangout with
new friends, to thank our amazing Dis-Orientation Volunteers, and to
SHOWCASE our OPIRG York Working Groups!

- Come and find out about OPIRG resources
- Meet the staff, board members and volunteers
- Listen to some awesome music!!!
- Enjoy great food
- Sign up to become a volunteer
- Learn about what OPIRG does
- Learn about our exciting working groups:

* YU Free Press
*Environmental Justice
* Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York University
* Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance – Ontario (UKPC/FCYA-ON)
* Students for a Free Tibet
* Incendies
+ AND Jane Finch Action Against Poverty (JFAAP)
+ AND Black Creek Community Farm
+ Rebels with a Cause Film Festival

- AND Come and hang out!

See you there!


*5. Environmental Justice Working Group Meeting- October 2nd*

The Environmental Justice working group at OPIRG York is gearing up for an
exciting year.  We will be mapping Line 9 in the Jane-Finch community and
putting together outreach materials for the community to use that talk
about how the pipeline reversal project will affect them.

We will also be using these materials to start a divestment campaign at
York to get the University to divest from Enbridge.

The first meeting of the working group will take place next Wednesday where
we will talk about these upcoming projects and how people can get involved.

The meeting will take place on:

*Wednesday Oct. 2*
*4-6pm*
*York University Student Centre*
*room 311C*

Hope to see you there!  Feel free to forward this email to anyone who might
be interested in getting involved.


*6. ONGOING: YU Free Press Callout for Submissions: Alt. Media Issue*
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*See full details here*:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=217001338464630&set=o.182846291734912&type=1&ref=nf
*Email submissions to:* info at yufreepress.org


*7. TAKE ACTION! Support Striking Immigration Detainees!*
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*More info:* http://endimmigrationdetention.wordpress.com

Joint statement by Books to Bars Hamilton, Dignidad Migrante,
Fuerza/Puwersa, No One Is Illegal-Montreal / Personne n’est illégal, No One
Is Illegal Toronto, No One Is Illegal Vancouver Solidarity Across Borders /
Solidarité sans frontières (Montréal)

Over a 180 immigration detainees in Lindsay, Ontario’s Central East
Correctional Centre (CECC) began protest actions on Tuesday, September 18th
against conditions of their detention. The detainees were recently moved
from other prisons in the Greater Toronto Area, about two hours away, and
have lost touch with families and legal support as a result. Conditions at
Lindsay are substantially worse for them then before. Some prisoners began
a hunger strike on Wednesday which has now ended but other strike actions
are continuing.

Striking immigration detainees are asking supporters to call and write
Superintendent Neil Neville (read more about him below) and immigration
enforcement in support of their demands.

*CALL: 705-328-6009*
*SIGN THE PETITION ON OUR WEBSITE:
http://endimmigrationdetention.wordpress.com*

The striking immigration detainees in Lindsay are demanding:

– Better access to medical care and social workers
– Cheaper phone calls and access to international calling cards (many have
family overseas)
– Access to better food, like the food on the non-immigration ranges
– An end to constant lockdowns
– Keep the improved canteen program going
– Better access to legal aid and legal services

Additionally, detainees are demanding that the Canadian Border Services
Agency (CBSA) grant specific requests to move individuals to facilities
nearer to their families, legal resources, and social services.

Some of the prisoners are long-term detainees, people immigration
enforcement cannot deport but will not release. Others have been designated
as ‘high security’ based on prior criminal history but this can be as
little as an arrest that has not led to conviction. Some people have been
in jail for over 7 years because Canada unlike the US and UK has no limit
on how long someone can be held prior to deportation.

*Background*

About Superintendent Neil Neville: Neville was in charge of Elgin-Middlesex
Detention Centre in 2009, when two inmates died. He left EMDC in May 2011,
and took on several roles within the provincial bureaucracy before taking
over in Lindsay. Inquests held into the 2009 deaths painted a picture of an
overcrowded, understaffed EMDC with inadequate medical care and supervision
of inmates.

About Immigration Detention in Canada: Between 2004 and 2011, 82,000 people
were locked up in immigration detention. At least another 25,000 have been
imprisoned since 2011. In 2012, 289 of the detainees were children, many of
them under the age of 10. There are three dedicated immigration detention
centres in Canada: in Toronto, in Laval and in Vancouver. The Kingston
centre, specially built for the security certificate detainees, known as
“Guantanamo North”, was quietly closed in 2011. The rest of the detainees,
about 35% of the total are held in maximum security provincial prisons,
some unable to leave their cells for 18 hours a day. $53, 775, 000 in
public money is spent on immigration detention annually or $239 per day.
Comparatively, a unit of social housing can be provided at less than
$31/day. The total cost of immigration detention including surveillance and
supervision of immigrants, particularly of security certificate detainees
and those not in detention is much higher. Immigration detention centres
are a $50million business, run in partnership with private companies like
G4S, Garda and Corbel Management Corporation. In Toronto alone, G4S and
Corbel were paid $19 million between 2004 and 2008. Garda has the contract
for the Laval Immigration Holding Centre. More info:
http://vimeo.com/55622758

Freedom to Move, Return, Stay: In the last ten years, the number of people
without full status (refugee claimants, temporary workers, etc) has
increased by 60% but permanent residency visas have stayed constant.
Refugee acceptance rates are less then 25%. Too many migrants are denied
full status, and are forced to live in the country without papers,
services, justice or dignity. Migrants without full status live in daily
fear of detention and deportation. Those arrested are locked up in cages in
brutish conditions awaiting forced deportations. This system is broken. We
insist: No One Is Illegal! End Immigration Detentions! Freedom for All
Prisoners!

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*8. No Line 9!  No Tar Sands Pipelines!  Rally at the NEB hearings*

*When*: Saturday, October 19th, Noon
*Where*: Toronto Metro Convention Centre (255 Front Street West)
*Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/events/231888730295797/

Enbridge is trying to pipe tar sands bitumen through Southern Ontario and
Quebec, threatening the health and safety of our communities and waterways,
and allowing for the expansion of the most destructive project on the
planet, the tar sands. Enbridge’s Line 9 is a 38-year old pipeline that is
almost identical in build and age to the Line 6 pipeline that ruptured in
the Kalamazoo River in Michigan.  In total, Line 9 passes within 50 km of
an estimated 9.1 million people, including 18 First Nation communities, and
directly through 99 towns and cities.
But instead of opposing or even carefully considering Enbridge’s proposal
to send tar sands through aging infrastructure, the project is being pushed
through without as much as an environmental assessment.  In fact, the
National Energy Board (NEB) is doing everything it can to shut out voices
from the public in the approval process, while First Nations communities
say that they have not been consulted. From October 16 to 19, the National
Energy Board will hold hearings in Toronto, but only pre-approved
intervenors are allowed to speak.
When our voices are muted by government, the streets become our megaphone.
Indigenous communities, environmentalists and labour groups have united to
oppose the tar sands pipelines going west and south, and we need a
similarly impressive display of mass opposition to any such proposal to
transport tar sands east. Stopping the Line 9 Pipeline Reversal and moving
toward a clean energy economy with green jobs would be a multiple “win” – a
win for communities, jobs, farms, the environment, public health, and for
our long-term energy security. Join us October 19th outside the NEB
hearings as we say "No Line 9! No Tar Sands Pipelines!".

Background
With the Kalamazoo River and countless other spills, we have witnessed the
devastation caused by bitumen spills to homes, wildlife, waterways, and
people's health. Chemicals specific to the transport of bitumen poison the
air, while the heavier bitumen sinks in waterways, making it nearly
impossible to clean-up.
Beyond the very real threat to our communities and waterways, pipelines
allow for the expansion of the tar sands. At every level of production, tar
sands is a disaster. From the extraction of bitumen, to the transport and
refining of the thick toxic substance, this industry is creating sacrifice
zones everywhere it operates. In particular, operations in Northern Alberta
are poisoning surrounding people, land, water, and animals, threatening the
health of many Indigenous communities, some of whom are experiencing high
rates of rare cancers.  What's more, the tar sands giga-project is Canada's
largest source of greenhouse gases, accelerating climate change, which is
leading to droughts, floods, and other extreme weather conditions.
For more information on Line 9, please see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tK83lr7doA

For inquiries: NoLine9rally at gmail.com



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