[opirgyork] TONIGHT: The Struggle For Economic Justice: May Day Celebration and Panel Discussion with JFAAP & More!

[OPIRG York]

Hey Folks!

TONIGHT is the Jane Finch Action Against Poverty & West Side Arts Hub
Mayworks Event!! This is an culmination of a bunch of AMAZING groups here
in the Jane-Finch York University neighbourhood. The Struggle For Economic
Justice: May Day Celebration and Panel Discussion is sure to be an AWESOME
event -- it starts at 6:30pm at the York Woods Library -- see full details
below. Hope to see you there!

Also check out The Demonstration-- another amazing event by Mayworks, that
OPIRG York has endorsed. It is this coming Wednesday-- full details below.

If you are interested in helping OPIRG York poster around campus next week
for May Day, please email victoria at opirgyork.ca.

If you're interested in volunteering anytime at OPIRG York, 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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*TONIGHT: The Struggle For Economic Justice: May Day Celebration and Panel
Discussion*

Monday May 5, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Free
York Woods Library, 1785 Finch Avenue West
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/773351199342360/

A community event in honour of International Workers’ Day featuring a
series of performance by Nomanzland and a photography exhibit by Errol
Young. These performances will be followed by a panel discussion on the
campaign for the $14 minimum wage, the campaign to raise Ontario Works (OW)
and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) rates, and issues of poverty
at large (such as cuts to social programs). Panelists will speak on how
these issues have been affecting communities of racialized immigrants and
working people and various ways in which we can work collectively for a
just society. Speakers include residents and activists from the Jane-Finch
community (Leticia Ama Boahen and Suzanne Narain) and Lawrence Heights
community (Kaydeen Bankasingh) and organizers from Workers’ Action Centre
(Sonia Singh and Acsana Fernando).

Food, TTC tokens and childcare will be provided.

Co-presented by Jane Finch Action Against Poverty and West-Side Arts Hub

Co-sponsored by Workers’ Action Centre and Ontario Coalition Against
Poverty.

This event is part of the 29th annual Mayworks Festival of Working People
and the Arts, taking place fromMay 1 - 15, 2014 at various GTA locations.
For more details on this year's program, artists, and festival partners,
please visit http://mayworks.ca/.


*The Demonstration*

*Opening Reception:* Wednesday May 7, 7 pm - 9 pm, Free
*Exhibit Runs from:* May 1 - June 8, Free
*Gallery Hours: *Thursday - Saturday, 1 pm - 7 pm
Whippersnapper Gallery, 594b Dundas Street West
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/224403721087882/

Historian Eric Hobsbawm writes that, “Next to sex, the activity combining
bodily experience and intense emotion to the highest degree is the
participation in a mass demonstration”. Coco Guzman’s immersive
installation The Demonstration explores the interpersonal dynamics of the
crowd and the intense emotional narratives generated when a large group of
people comes together for a common purpose. The audience is invited to
wander within the scene of this grotesque demonstration/parade composed by
human-size papier-mâché figures and on-site drawings and to reflect on the
place that protest/celebration and gathering takes in our neoliberal
societies.

Co-presented by Whippersnapper Gallery.
Co-sponsored by The Public, Opirg York, CUPE 1281.

This event is part of the 29th annual Mayworks Festival of Working People
and the Arts, taking place fromMay 1 - 15, 2014 at various GTA locations.
For more details on this year's program, artists, and festival partners,
please visit http://mayworks.ca/.

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-OPIRG York
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416-736-5724
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