[opirgyork] TODAY: Chriss Crass + International Women's Day this weekend + More!

[OPIRG York]

Hey Everyone!

*TODAY*: Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-racist organizing, Feminist
praxis and Movement Building Strategy is in *room 313 Student Centre from
3-5pm* - see the details below. Also check out all the awesome upcoming
events- including International Women's Day programming this weekend. Our
working groups are super active also- check out the callout below for
Incendies, feminist zine, among others!

If you're interested in volunteering, or have any questions, please get in
touch with Victoria, at victoria at opirgyork.ca.
We always are in need of volunteers! And stop by the OPIRG York office
anytime -- Room 449C Student Centre!

-- OPIRG York


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*TODAY'S DIGEST:*

1. *TODAY*: Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-racist organizing, Feminist
praxis and Movement Building Strategy
2. *TOMORROW*: Chris Crass - Anti-Racist Organizing for Collective
Liberation Workshop
3. ONGOING: Incendies: Submissions Callout- March 14 Deadline
4. *FRIDAY*: EMERGENCY RESPONSE! NEB decision on Line 9
5. March 10: Stop Police Carding/Racial Profiling
6. March 12: Book Launch - Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the
Age of Individualism (Hosted by OPIRG York)
7. March 8: International Women's Day
8. March 8: WOMEN: Don't Grease Your Chains... Break Them!
9. March 13: Alok Vaid-Menon of Dark Matter @ York U
10. March 7: International Women's Day Programming at CHRY 105.5 FM

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*1. **Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-racist organizing, Feminist
praxis and Movement Building Strategy*

*Date*: TODAY Thursday March 6th
*Time*: 3-5pm
*Location*: Room 313 Student Centre
*Facebook event:* https://www.facebook.com/events/704154692948451/

Chris Crass is a longtime organizer working to build powerful working
class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation.
Throughout the 1990s, he was an organizer with Food Not Bombs, an economic
justice anti-poverty group, strengthening the direct action-based
anti-capitalist Left. In the 2000s, he was an organizer with the Catalyst
Project, which combines political education and organizing to develop and
support anti-racist politics, leadership, and organization in white
communities and builds dynamic multiracial alliances locally and
nationally. He has written and spoken widely about anti-racist organizing,
lessons from women of color feminism, strategies to build visionary
movements, and leadership for liberation. His book, Towards Collective
Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building
Strategy was recently published by PM Press.

There is a profound need for anti-racist leadership in white communities
that can simultaneously build support for movements and challenge the ways
that racism has divided our movements. While racism has historically
divided our movements, anti-racism can be a catalyst to build them. Drawing
on the long legacy of white anti-racist organizing, this workshop will
explore anti-racist organizing vision, strategies and lessons with the goal
of deepening our understanding and commitment to anti-racist organizing as
a key element in building larger movements for the liberation of all people.

At York on March 6th, Crass will draw on the long legacy of white
anti-racist organizing, to explore anti-racist organizing vision,
strategies and lessons with the goal of deepening our understanding and
commitment to anti-racist organizing as a key element in building larger
movements for the liberation of all people.


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*2. **Chris Crass - Anti-Racist Organizing for Collective Liberation
Workshop*

*Date*: Friday, March 7th
*Time*: 630 pm
*Location*: Centre for Social Innovation, Whole Connector Room, 215 Spadina
Avenue (Suites 120/400) between Dundas and Queen St. W.

Chris Crass is a longtime organizer working to build powerful working
class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation.
Throughout the 1990s, he was an organizer with Food Not Bombs, an economic
justice anti-poverty group, strengthening the direct action-based
anti-capitalist Left. In the 2000s, he was an organizer with the Catalyst
Project, which combines political education and organizing to develop and
support anti-racist politics, leadership, and organization in white
communities and builds dynamic multiracial alliances locally and
nationally. He has written and spoken widely about anti-racist organizing,
lessons from women of color feminism, strategies to build visionary
movements, and leadership for liberation.

His book, Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist
Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy was recently published by PM Press.
(books available at event!)

There is a profound need for anti-racist leadership in white communities
that can simultaneously build support for movements and challenge the ways
that racism has divided our movements. While racism has historically
divided our movements, anti-racism can be a catalyst to build them. Drawing
on the long legacy of white anti-racist organizing, this workshop will
explore anti-racist organizing vision, strategies and lessons with the goal
of deepening our understanding and commitment to anti-racist organizing as
a key element in building larger movements for the liberation of all people.

All those interested in building movements for collective liberation are
welcome. But please RSVP at collectlib2014 at gmail.com so we can prepare
accordingly..

Wheelchair accessible
Childcare available on advance request.

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*3. **Incendies: Submissions Callout- March 14 Deadline*

**** SUBMISSIONS CALL-OUT : ****

Incendies, York University's first and only feminist arts and culture zine
is looking for submissions for our upcoming issue!

*Theme for Issue #4: Space*

What are the spaces you inhabit? How do different spaces relate to you your
identity; to your gender, feminism, sexuality, disability, etc? Are those
physical spaces or are they intangible? What about the spaces we encompass
at home versus the public? Spheres we travel through, labels we encompass.
What is your role at home, in the public, in your profession, your
community, this planet and universe?

We want your pieces about "space" in any way you can imagine or interpret
it!

Send us your strongest pieces at incendies.publication at gmail.com. We accept
visual art, poetry, short stories, articles, essays and more. For
submissions guidelines visit our website at incendiesmag.wordpress.com

****All submissions must be in by March 14th at midnight!****


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*4. **EMERGENCY RESPONSE! NEB decision on Line 9*

*Date*: Friday, March 7th
*Time*: 12pm Noon
*Location*: Queen's Park Toronto
*Facebook Link: *https://www.facebook.com/events/1388764608062021

The National Energy Board (NEB) has announced that they will make their
decision this Thursday afternoon at 4:30 EST. As the NEB has approved 99.9%
of all tar sands related projects, we expect their decision to be a rubber
stamp.

So, a coalition of groups in Toronto will be calling for an emergency
response outside Queen's Park to react to the NEB's announcement. When our
voices are muted by government, the streets become our megaphone!

There, we will demand action from the Province by pushing for an
environmental assessment and discuss next steps to stopping Enbridge's
proposal.

*Come out to support! FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 12noon at Queens Park*

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*5. **Stop Police Carding/Racial Profiling*

*Date*: March 10, 2014
*Time*: 12:00pm-2:00pm
*Location*: York University,  Ross Building RM822

This workshop will be a joint effort with Osgoode College and other
colleges at YorkU.   The BSW students will be spearheading the conference.

The workshop deliberations will be on the following themes:
* What is police carding/ racial profiling
* What kind of support systems are available/who have access
* What are our rights
* What kind of possible interventions can students look into to support
social change

This workshop will highlight the issues of police carding/ racial profiling
as well as provide direction to individuals as to what avenues to take if
they experience or witness police carding/ profiling.
Presented by: Bachelor of Social Work Students

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*6. **Book Launch - Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of
Individualism (Hosted by OPIRG York)*

*Date*: Wednesday, March 12, 2014
*Time*: 6pm
*Location*: York U Student Centre, Room 313

According to recent estimates 400,000 people die every year as a result of
human-made global warming. The UN projects that 3 billion additional people
may be pushed into extreme poverty by 2050 because of environmental
destruction. The scale of the problems we face should make it clear that
individualist, lifestyle-centric approaches to activism will not suffice.
We need to change the structures of our social system, not our light bulbs.
"Confronting Injustice" seeks to expose the structural roots of the
injustices we must confront, and outlines an approach to activism which
transcends the hopeless individualism of our time.

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Umair Muhammad has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Engineering
from the University of Waterloo. He is currently pursuing an MA in
Political Science at York University. His research focuses on the political
economy of climate change. Umair has been involved in anti-poverty and
environmental activism for six years. He is currently a member of Jane and
Finch Action Against Poverty, where he is helping to organize against the
proposed reversal of Enbridge's Line 9.

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The Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) at York University is a
student funded, student-run, nonpartisan organization on campus that
conducts research, advocacy, organizing, lobbying, as well as educational
and media campaigns. Over the years OPIRG York has stood at the forefront
of social justice mobilization at York University, operating a dynamic
space that acts as one of the main activist hubs on campus. OPIRG York is a
bastion of creativity, passion and idealism.


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*7. **International Women's Day*

*Date*: Saturday, March 8th
*Time*: 11am onwards
*Location*: various- see below!

Join us on March 8th!
Saturday March 8, 2014
International Women's Day
Women Taking Power!
Start Location: OISE Building (252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON)

$14 Minimum Wage Now!
Public Services are Women's Services!
GenSqueezed: We Demand our Future!

Rally: 11am (252 Bloor Street West, OISE Building)
March: 1pm
Fair: 1:30pm (55 Gould Street, Ryerson University)

More info: http://iwdtoronto.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/events/731075343592233/

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*8. **WOMEN: Don't Grease Your Chains... Break Them!*

*Date*: Saturday, March 8th
*Time*: 7pm
*Location*: 16 Bancroft Ave., Toronto

Destroy the Patriarchical Prison System!
Free our Mapuche (Indigenous), Anarchist and Revolutionary Political
Prisoners

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SATURDAY, MARCH 8TH @ 7PM

***SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER OF THE LANDLESS WORKER MOVEMENT DIRECTLY FROM
BRAZIL***

ORLANDO PIMENTEL

Youth organizer with the Landless Workers Movement (MST), speaking on the
ongoing resistance against gentrification and securitization brought about
by the upcoming World Cup to be held in Brazil in June 2014.

Brazil's Landless Workers Movement, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem
Terra (MST) in Portuguese, is a mass social movement, formed by rural
workers and by all those who want to fight for land reform and against
injustice and social inequality in rural areas.

The MST was born through a process of occupying latifundios (large landed
estates) and become a national movement in 1984. Over more than two
decades, the movement has led more than 2,500 land occupations, with about
370,000 families - families that today settled on 7.5 million hectares of
land that they won as a result of the occupations. Through their
organizing, these families continue to push for schools, credit for
agricultural production and cooperatives, and access to health care.

SHOWCASING the Brazilian Mini Doc:

DISTOPIA 021: CITY SEGREGATION AND SPECTACLE (Portuguese/Spanish with
English Subtitles)

See Trailer here: http://vimeo.com/32676930

Cities are spaces of cultural uniformity through a series of surveillance
mechanisms, repression and segregation. Its architecture is designed
fundamentally on the circulation of goods, its spaces mediated by
consumption and the current economic model: Capitalism. The short
documentary focuses on these processes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which
have only been heightened by the upcoming FIFA World Cup in June 2014, and
the Summer Olympics in 2015.

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EXCLUSIVELY SCREENING the MAPUCHE FEMINIST DOCUMENTARY FILM:

"EYES OF A WOMAN: GLANCE OF THE EARTH" (Spanish with English Subtitles)

A film by Mapuche Feminist and Warrior, Moira Millan

See Trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKLrM6-gfag

The film of a Mapuche activist from Puelmapu (so-called Argentina)
depicting the life of Moira Millan, the film's protagonist and writer.
Moira is a Mapuche woman who had to migrate from Patagonia to the City of
Buenos Aires with her two small children. After some time, she decides to
go back to Reclaimed Mapuche Territory, where her mother's remains lie. She
knows the land must be preserved, but her daughters do not want to live in
the country. The film raises many issues on the preservation of Mapuche
indigenous identity in today's Argentina, in which Moira travels to visit
women of other communities an indigenous nations, with which she shares the
experience of preserving ancestral culture through education, health, music
and taking back the land.

GUEST SPEAKERS:

*EVA PORTILLO (LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN SOLIDARITY NETWORK)

* SIGRID (Idle No More Toronto/The Indignants)

MUSIC, POETRY & MUCH MORE...

ORGANIZED BY:

THE WOMEN'S COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR A FREE WALLMAPU [TORONTO]

http://wccctoronto.wordpress.com/


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*9. **Alok Vaid-Menon of Dark Matter @ York U*


United South Asians @ York ( USAY ) and South Asia Research Group - SARG
are excited to announce that we'll be hosting Alok Vaid-Menon of Darkmatter
at York University on *March 13, 2014. *

DarkMatter consists of two queer south asian spoken word activists &
artists Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian (unfortunately due to
personal reasons Janani won't be able to come to Toronto. We'll miss Janani
but thrilled to have Alok here!)

We have two amazing events lined up for the day:

Brown Gurlz Do it Well - a Spoken Words workshop on exploring themes of
queerness, gender, race, diaspora and radical politics. The workshop will
have a series of group and individual writing and performance exercises.
Venue: GSA Lounge (420 Student Center)
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM

***Please RSVP for the workshop at sargyork at yorku.ca by March 7****

*Performance by Alok Vaid-Menon*
*Venue: The Underground, Student Center*
*Time: 6:30-8:00 PM*
(We will start the event by having an open mic for workshop participants!)

Sponsored by United South Asians at York, York Centre for Asian Research,
and Centre for Women and Trans People York University.

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*10. **International Women's Day Programming at CHRY 105.5 FM*

*March 7th, 2-6pm*

Tune in to CHRY 105.5 for International Women's Day.

We're interrupting normal programming to bring you specialized content that
explores the struggles, contributions, and advancements of women identified
folks in Canada and around the world.

2pm-3pm: The history and critiques of Western feminism
3pm-4pm: Art and Artists
4pm-5pm: Status of Abortion in Canada and the Prison Industrial Complex
5pm-6pm: Labour Rights: Filipino Domestic Workers and Sex Work in Canada.

Including music and history spotlights!

Listen on the net: chry.fm



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