[opirgyork] Upcoming Events- May Day + Unite Against Austerity + Actions Against Mining Injustice + JFAAP (ongoing)

Thu Apr 16 16:16:03 PDT 2015

Hey y'all!!!

Hope you have all had a chance to take advantage of the great weather we've
been having, if your looking for things to do to enjoy this beautiful
weather look no further, check out the awesome jam packed list of events
below!

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

-- OPIRG York

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*TODAY'S DIGEST:*

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1. *May 6th**: *JFAAP General Meeting
2. *HIGHLIGHT*: *MAY Day Toronto *May 1st + Actions Against Mining
Injustice (April 18th) + Unite Against Austerity (April 25th) & Many More
3. *ONGOING:* Environmental Justice Global Divestment Day

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4. *April 9th - 25th: *Strange Beauty: Tangled Art + Disability
5. *April 13th - 20th**:* Stop Bill C-51! Don't Let Harper Torch Our Rights!
6. *April 17th*: TBLGAY End of Year Potluck
7. *April 17th: *YUBSA Presents: The Fringe of Social Justice: Self
Actualizing Our Blackness
8. *April 17th: *Solidarity Against Inequality: Ontario Common Front
Anti-Poverty Assembly
9. *April 17th:* Stand With Justice: Rally in Support of Palestinian
Political Prisoners
10. *April 17th: *There Is No Map! Virtual Walks in A Vanishing Landscape
11*. April 17th:* #416RISE: 3 Year Anniversary
12: *April 17th: *PFF Spring Fundraiser: Raffle, Drinks, and Music
13: *April 18th: *Spring Into Action + Peak Launch Party
14. *April 18th:* Day of Action Against Bill C-51 (Part 1 & 2)
15. *April 19th: *Say No to War in Yemen
16. *ONGOING*: 30th ANNUAL MAYWORKS FESTIVAL + GIVE $30 FOR 30 YEARS OF
ART, LABOUR & SOCIAL JUSTICE!
17. *ONGOING*: Jane Finch Mother's In Motion Fitness FUNDRAISER

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*1. **JFAAP General Meeting*

*JFAAP* general meeting will be on *May 6th at 6pm at Seneca College in
Yorkgate Mall (North West corner of Jane and Finch) Room 218/219 (2nd floor
of the mall) *on the *1st & 3rd Wednesday of every month*;
new members are always welcome!

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2. May 1: 10th Annual May Day of Action Rally and March

Every year on May 1st grassroots organizations in Toronto rally and march
to mark International Worker’s Day, for migrant and worker’s rights and in
support of Indigenous people’s struggles. Themed around the most pressing
issues of the day and committed to people’s struggles against oppression
and exploitation, May Day unites people’s struggles for self-determination
and liberation. We continue this tradition in 2015, rallying and marching
against colonial and capitalist attacks on our communities here and
Canadian imperialism’s plunder and attacks on peoples across the world.

*July 8 - 10: Confront the Pan-American Economic Summit*

The Pan American Economic Summit will bring the heads of Shell, Rockefeller
Foundation, US, Canadian and European Chambers of Commerce, as well as
Canada's Finance Minister and ex Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Perez to
Toronto from July 8 to the 10th, 2015.

These unsavoury characters joined by many other heads of state are meeting
in Toronto at the Fairmont Royal York to coordinate the further
impoverishment of people around the globe, a project they like to refer to
as austerity. This meeting is happening alongside the 2015 Climate Summit
of the Americas so as to ensure that the super-rich can continue to profit
from the destruction of the planet, and the displacement of people. It is
taking place in tandem with the 2015 Pan-Am Games, which is a massive
transfer of public money in to private hands, while hoisting up the ugliest
face of Canadian nationalism.

So sometime between July 8 and 10th, 2015, , No One Is Illegal - Toronto,
the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and Mining Injustice
Solidarity Network will be coordinating confrontational actions to
challenge these capitalist, earth-destroying profiteers. Mark the dates.
Join us and organize your own actions. More details will be announced
shortly.

www.toronto.nooneisillegal.org | www.ocap.ca | www.solidarityresponse.net

In the week after the Pan American Economic Summit, OCAP will be taking
action to confront the social cleansing that is the Pan Am Games. More
details to be announced soon.

List of participants at the Pan-American Economic Summit 2015:
http://forum-americas.org/toronto/2015/speakers

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*Spring into Action - Actions against mining injustice*

April 18, 2015
7:30pm
the intergalatic travel authority, 1165 Bloor St. W., near Dufferin Station

Every year, as Canadian mining companies hold their shareholder meetings
here in Toronto, we SPRING INTO ACTION with protests, street theatre, art
attacks, films screenings, workshops (and more!) to educate, advocate, and
agitate in solidarity with communities around the world impacted by the
harmful effects of these mining projects.

Join us on April 18 for the launch of this season of resistance to mining
injustice! This party will also launch the latest special issue of The Peak
magazine on mining issues.

More information:
http://www.solidarityresponse.net/coming-soon-spring-into-action-2015/

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*April 25: Unite Against Austerity - Public Forum*

April 25, 2pm
United Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street

All around the world - from Quebec to Greece to Chile to South Africa -
tens of thousands of people are rising up against austerity.

It’s time for the rest of us to rise up too!

Speakers:
• Crystal Sinclair, Idle No More Toronto
• John Clarke, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)
• Jennie Miller, Vice Chair, Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU)
Greater Toronto Area Council
• Chris Ramsaroop, Justicia for Migrant Workers
• Moderated by Karen Cocq, Campaign to Raise the Mimimum Wage

Governments and corporate media say there is not enough money and belts
must be tightened. But we know there is lots of money – it’s just
concentrated in a few hands at the top.

More information: www.facebook.com/events/1580909308832451/

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*May 2: May Day 2015 Public - Political & cultural evening*

The United Mayday Committee's annual celebration of the international
workers holiday will be held on Saturday, May 2nd at the Steelworker's
Hall, 25 Cecil Street, Toronto. Join us for another lively evening of
politics and culture.

A very full event listing will be posted here soon.

Admission is free. Food will be served and there will be a cash bar. Doors
open at 6:00.

More information: www.facebook.com/events/641324629333859/

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*3. **Environmental Justice Global Divestment Day*

In order to avoid dangerous climate change, the world needs to redirect
investment from fossil fuels to alternative forms of energy that are
compatible with climate safety and social justice.

York University is invested in the fossil fuel industry. Governments and
organizations around the world have recognized that we are approaching the
threshold where climate change will become dangerous and irreversible.
Investment in fossil fuel corporations drives the consumption of fossil
fuel reserves, which must remain underground in order to avoid dangerous
climate change. In addition, the detrimental effect that extraction of
fossil fuels takes on the environment and surrounding communities cannot be
ignored. York plays a direct role in facilitating violent and dangerous
extraction techniques by funding
these fossil fuel companies.

York has divested before from companies for supporting investments contrary
to the mission of the University, and must do it again.

The York community plays a crucial role in the fight for fossil fuel
divestment. I call on York University to:
1. Freeze new fossil fuel investments immediately.
2. York University to commit to full fossil fuel divestment within five
years.
*https://divestyorku.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/fossil-free-york-petition*
<https://divestyorku.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/fossil-free-york-petition>

*https://www.facebook.com/fossilfreeyork*
<https://www.facebook.com/fossilfreeyork>

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*4. Strange Beauty: Tangled Art + Disability*

*Disability Art Fills 401 Richmond with Strange Beauty*

*Abbozzo Gallery
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Abbozzo-Gallery/123314197372>Musideum - A
World of Musical Instruments <https://www.facebook.com/musideum>Urbanspace
Gallery <https://www.facebook.com/urbanspacegallery>Vtape
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vtape/119945631396439>Yyz Artists' Outlet
<https://www.facebook.com/yyzartistsoutlet>*
*Gallery 44*

*Opening reception: Thursday April 9th, 6-9pm, Urbanspace Gallery*

*Performance by Noah Goodbaum a.k.a "The Mighty Rhino" -* APRIL 25, 8PM at
the Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas Street East**

The 2015 Tangled Arts Festival engages Toronto’s legendary arts hub with
new works by disability-identified artists featuring exhibits at YYZ,
Gallery 44, Urbanspace Gallery and more.

Tangled Art + Disability is filling Toronto’s arts and cultural landscape
with a variety of disability perspectives by hosting their 2015 Tangled
Arts Festival – entitled Strange Beauty - in an iconic nucleus for the
creation and presentation of art: 401 Richmond.

Over the month of April, Strange Beauty will fill the building with a
collection of new exhibits and performances, carefully selected and
commissioned by Canada’s leading disability arts organization. Tangled
invites audiences to reimagine and rediscover conventional notions of
beauty while wandering through the galleries, cafes and public spaces of
the converted warehouse at Richmond and Spadina.

Strange Beauty will feature new works by 11 Canadian artists in media,
photography, sculpture, performance art and music, including a “krip-hop”
performance by Toronto’s own Noah Goodbaum a.k.a. “The Mighty Rhino” – a
hip hop artist with a disability.

*Highlights include:*

Toronto-based photographer Steve Kean will unveil a monumental project,
Spina Bifida: Front to Back, a series of double portraits that will be on
exhibit at the Abbozzo Gallery and Gallery 44. “I have Spina Bifida,” says
Kean. “I’m a disabled artist. Yet this is the first time in my artistic
practice that I am examining how people like me, who live with this
condition, view themselves and seek to claim their power.”

Additional Strange Beauty highlights include Carrie Perreault’s Impossible
Conversations, a sound installation and performance work compiled from her
own writing, and submissions from anonymous contributors addressing those
things that always remain unsaid.

“Impossible Conversations comes from the idea that sometimes you want to
have a conversation with someone but you’re so scared the words won’t come
out right, or they’ll misinterpret the intent, or they won’t hear you the
way you want to be heard,” explains Perreault.

Strange Beauty will open on April 9th, 2015 with a special guest
presentation from Peter Caldwell, Director of the Ontario Arts Council.
Caldwell will speak about the new Deaf and Disability grants program at the
OAC, a first in Canada and a revolutionary contribution to the development
of disability arts in Ontario.

The exhibits will run until *April 25th*.

*Accessibility:*
This event is in a barrier-free location. There will be ASL interpreters
and attendant care. We request that you help us to make this a scent-free
environment. For any other accessibility arrangements or questions about
accessibility, please contact Eliza at eliza at tangledarts.org by April 1st,
2015.

For more info: *http://tangledarts.org/strange-beauty/*
<http://tangledarts.org/strange-beauty/>

*Facebook Event Page: **https://www.facebook.com/events/402169026629164/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/402169026629164/>*

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*5. Stop Bill C-51! Don't Let Harper Torch Our Rights!*

Come join us *April 13-18* to distribute flyers and gather petition
signatures in opposition of Stephen Harper's proposed bill to create a
police state in Canada.

*WEEK OF EDUCATION:*

#1 Monday, April 13th: Bloor & Spadina
Bill C-51 Week of Education: Outreach Tabling #1
*https://www.facebook.com/events/1620252628195717/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1620252628195717/>

#2 Tuesday, April 14th: Saint Clair West
Bill C-51 Week of Education: Outreach Tabling #2
*https://www.facebook.com/events/905036649558826/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/905036649558826/>

#3 Wednesday, April 15th: Roxanne James, MP Constituency Office

Protest:
Stop C-51 demonstration in Scarborough Centre-Roxanne James
*https://www.facebook.com/events/782141551882308/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/782141551882308/>

Outreach:
Bill C-51 Week of Education: Outreach Tabling #3
*https://www.facebook.com/events/579158085520560/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/579158085520560/>

#4 Thursday, April 16th: Yonge and Dundas
Bill C-51 Week of Education: Outreach Tabling #3
*https://www.facebook.com/events/1556838087923532/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1556838087923532/>

#5 Friday, April 17th: Joe Oliver Constituency Office

Protest:
Stop C-51 Demonstration in Eglinton-Lawrence: MP Joe Oliver
*https://www.facebook.com/events/851385728273539/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/851385728273539/>

Outreach:
Bill C-51 Week of Education: Outreach Tabling #5
*https://www.facebook.com/events/872851972772387/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/872851972772387/>

We need 4-8 committed volunteers to help us with the info picket for around
4-5 hours.
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See National Event & for more resources:

*https://www.facebook.com/events/324375227772328/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/324375227772328/>https://stopc51.ca/education
<https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fstopc51.ca%2Feducation&h=aAQF8uEbJ&enc=AZNZzvT2D-IeW9hyClQxLrdtxP8evcIvyZeSLOyzR9tosj2iTE14Y-q5d2VkRJ_PimQ&s=1>*

Petition Guide & Template: *https://openmedia.ca/petitiondrive*
<https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fopenmedia.ca%2Fpetitiondrive&h=lAQEtKVfZ&enc=AZO1zHseA0uAtngQ1u12tLYTa6YrTCY0bRf9JkvCaUMmUBiub15hJZ0cpPOJRKuJN-8&s=1>

Message your MP tool:* http://StopC51.ca/mp
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FStopC51.ca%2Fmp&h=RAQH93VJw&enc=AZOQYLvEodollaCWuJGveEPwcr6cd2zndraATRdgaABPjTpnpmODl4nCL6h9KNj69Kg&s=1>*

Letter to the Editor tool: *http://OpenMedia.org/SecretPolice*
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FOpenMedia.org%2FSecretPolice&h=eAQGunz7D&enc=AZOq-N2-cJy7N1xjtAnqtop2caDQ087DQ8xuP6uU3taWLq-7pBxFSPOSpQkk4e56Yrg&s=1>

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People all over the Greater Toronto Area are engaging their communities and
getting the word out about the reckless and ineffective 'secret police'
Bill C-51.

Any activity that helps educate your fellow residents of Canada is welcome:
Petitions, letter writing, social media outreach, marches, forums,
flyering, canvassing etc.. Let's grow the numbers in opposition.

#StopC51 #RejectFear

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*6. *

*TBLGAY End of Year Potluck*
The year is ending, you are stressing with school work/assignments/exams,
come hang with us for some food, boardgames, and company!

Please provide an ingredients list if you're bringing food items!

*Facebook Event Page: **https://www.facebook.com/events/847638338662949/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/847638338662949/>*

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*7. The Fringe of Social Justice: Self Actualizing Our Blackness*

Come join the *York United Black Students' Alliance*
<https://www.facebook.com/YorkUnitedBlackStudentsAlliance> as we present *The
Fringe of Social Justice*.

>From understanding Blackness as indigeneity; to asserting the value and
importance of every Black life; to holding ourselves accountable to the
members of our community we tend to overlook; to finding processes of
healing and reconciliation as we navigate a hostile world – we aim to
re-invigorate and reaffirm the journey to self-actualization in ourselves
as individuals and as a unified community.

*Location: Student Centre Room 307-313*

*Friday, April 17: **This day will kick off our conference with a little
music talent and vision of the future.*

*Board SpeechesRoom 307, 5PM*

*Come meet the newly elected 2015-2016 Board and hear what they have
planned for the upcoming academic year.*

*Prison Industrial Complex WorkshopRoom 307, 6PMOscar*

*Roots Lounge Open MicRoom 307, 7:15PM*

*Saturday April 18th: *

*A day full of workshops for the budding activist.(workshops will be held
in either room 307 or 313.)*

*Breakfast*

*9AM in Room 307*

*Afrikan Indigeniety 10AMSzimbah Hanley*

*Zero Gun Violence11:30AMLouis MarchBlack Lives Matter Toronto1PMBlack
Lives Matter CoalitionLunch2:15PMIslam in the Black Community3PMRania El
MugammarHealing and Reconciliation 4:45PMUnblind Tibbin *

*Closing Remarks6PM*

*Facebook Event Page: **https://www.facebook.com/events/689429897835848/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/689429897835848/>*

<https://www.facebook.com/events/1580676855513574/>
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*8. Solidarity Against Inequality: Ontario Front Anti-Poverty Assembly*

Free registration for this important assembly.
Join community activists, labour activists and anti-poverty organizers in
developing an action plan to challenge inequality and end poverty.
Be a part of the more than 20 workshops hosted by our movement’s best
campaigners and social justice organizations.
Together, we can put poverty on the national and provincial agenda.
For more information, visit:
*www.WeAreOntario.ca/index.php/AntiPovertyAssembly
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.WeAreOntario.ca%2Findex.php%2FAntiPovertyAssembly&h=YAQE4wlSP&enc=AZOUg5cCsRiPUkc4VlO-R_TnwJKOt9m5fQAZhos410gFjazJZyO4gyWBQzdVW3_M6cQ&s=1>*

*Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/869047736475076/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/869047736475076/>*

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*9. *
*Stand With Justice: Rally in Support of Palestinian Political Prisoners*

Free all Palestinian political prisoners
Free all Palestinian children
Stop administrative detention

As of February 2015, there were 6,200 Palestinian political prisoners in
Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 454 administrative
detainees, 23 women and 163 children.

*Join the rally this coming Friday in support of all the Palestinian
Political Prisoners!*

*Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/966250920051880/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/966250920051880/>*

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*10. There Is No Map: Virtual Walks in A Vanishing Landscape*

A solo exhibit by: Linda Elshami

There Is No Map is a body of work that contributes to an ongoing
investigation of the Israeli occupation in the West Bank. The work is
manifested in optic and haptic modes of representation; it embodies a
geopolitical struggle using critical and methodological graphic design
praxis and an interdisciplinary approach that integrates cartography and
architecture.
The production of occupation hinges on the Israeli spatial practices that
continuously shift, construct, deconstruct, segregate, and shuffle the
landscape of the West Bank. These practices are present in the continuous
building of settlements, gates, checkpoints, and separation barriers;
pouring concrete becomes an act of casting political ideologies and a
condition for the expansion of Israel. The exhibition examines these
spatial practices close up and at a distance. As such, the work examines
the geography/landscape of the West Bank as a (site) through performing
virtual tours (sight) using Google Earth to render a landscape in
transition.

Linda Elshami and Goodfellas Gallery would like to formally invite you to
join us for the opening reception of THERE IS NO MAP, *Friday April 17th at
6pm*.

The exhibit runs from *April 15th - 22nd *

About the Artist:

Linda Elshami launched her creative career as a portrait artist and art
gallery owner prior to establishing her graphic design practice. She holds
a BSc in Visual Communications from the American University of Sharjah
(United Arab Emirates) and is currently an MFA candidate at OCAD
University.

In recent years, Linda has made a transition from corporate designer to
independent design practitioner. This shift in focus has allowed her to
broaden her exploration of diverse media, informed by theory and design
research methodologies. Her work acts as a commentary on social, cultural
and political themes through critical graphic design praxis. Having lived
most of her life in the Middle East before moving to Toronto, has allowed
her to view her own culture as an outsider for the first time. This
cultural, intellectual and visual shift has engendered a series of
experimental projects that deal with notions of identity, diaspora and
displacement and allow her to look at her being from the perspective of
intellectual exile.

*Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/813164988750014/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/813164988750014/>*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/813164988750014/>

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*11. #416RISE: 3rd Year Anniversary*

416RISE is a celebration of Toronto's urban arts and culture. The event
marks the annual celebration of RISE's continuous impact on youth and
emerging artists in the city.

416RISE will take place at Daniels Spectrum inside the *Ada Slaight Hall
(585 Dundas St. East) *
*Doors open at 6:00pm*

The event will involve intimate interaction with our city through positive
engagement, cultural expression and live performances.

#IVIVI
#416RISE

Performances by:
Vinoj Suthakaran
Xolisa Renee Jerome
Shadiya Aidid
Seth Dyer
Renée Ashanta Henry
Ohm Shanti
Nasim Asgari
Jason Philosofly
Zakisha Brown
Christian Bridges
Dez Yhdubb Hibbert

*Facebook Event Page:  <http://goog_260076740/>*
*https://www.facebook.com/events/737093186406600/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/737093186406600/>

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*12. PFF Spring Fundraiser: Raffle, Drinks and Music!*

Come join the Proletarian Feminist Front Toronto in celebrating warmer
weather!

As well as a fundraiser for PFFT, this event is a birthday party/going away
party for some lovely comrades who are leaving Toronto.

Please bring cash for the raffle, etc!

This is not a BYOB event.

If you have not been to Sarah or CJ's place before, please contact one of
them for directions.

*Facebook Event Page:
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/goog_1176676318>**https://www.facebook.com/events/815490185207805/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/815490185207805/>*

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*13. Spring Into Action + Peak Launch party*

*Location Information:* *the intergalatic travel authority, 1165 Bloor St.
W., near Dufferin Station*

Every year, as Canadian mining companies hold their shareholder meetings
here in Toronto, we SPRING INTO ACTION with protests, street theatre, art
attacks, films screenings, workshops (and more!) to educate, advocate, and
agitate in solidarity with communities around the world impacted by the
harmful effects of these mining projects.

Join us for the launch of this season of resistance to mining injustice!
This party will also launch the latest special issue of The Peak magazine
on mining issues.

This event marks the one year anniversary of the murder of 16-year old
youth anti-mining activist Topacio Reynoso Pacheco. At her funeral,
Topacio's mother promised: “The resistance doesn't end here, my love.” We
will both commemorate the life of this vibrant young woman and community
leader, while also recommitting to honouring her mother's promise by taking
action!

This is going to be a jam-packed night in which we will be launching many
things, including:

- a brand new MISN website!
- delicious snacks!
- a participatory, city-wide sticker attack to commemorate Topacio!
- the new, mining-themed, issue of The Peak!
- the trailer for a new mining resistance documentary, by a MISN member!
- and, of course, our gorgeous new Spring into Action posters and promo
materials!

+ a few surprises! stay tuned!

*Accessibility info:*
- Intergalactic is a fully wheelchair accessible space near *Dufferin
station* (which has an elevator)
- this is a kid friendly event - childcare and kid-activities will be
available!

*Facebook Event Page: **https://www.facebook.com/events/441723799342293/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/441723799342293/>*

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*14. Stop Bill C-51 [Itinerary of Events]*

*14.1) April 18th: Day of Action Against Bill C-51*

On *Saturday April 18*, join Matthew and members of Beaches-East York for a
Day of Action Against Bill C-51 - the Anti-Terrorism Bill.

We will be knocking on doors, picking up the phone, talking neighbour to
neighbour and inviting people to sign a petition on Bill C-51

*155 Main Street, Toronto, Ontario M4E 2V9*

Two Sessions:

*- Gather at 10:30 – go out for 11:00 back at 1:00- Gather at 1:30 – go out
for 2:00 back at 4:00*

*Facebook Event Page: **https://www.facebook.com/events/1564949997125957/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1564949997125957/>*

*14.2) Stop Bill C-51 Picket; Toronto Centre at **Chrystia Freeland Liberal
MP's Office*

*Location: **1027 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario*
*Time: Saturday **13:00 - 15:00*

Bring out your noise makers, your banners, your signs and your friends and
help us tell Chrstia Freeland that is not ok for her to support taking our
rights away.

*Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/754148061350868/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/754148061350868/>*

*14.3) Toronto Day of Action to #Stop Bill C-51 - Part 2*

*Time: Saturday at 2:00pm *

EVENTS: Message us your GTA event!

Chrystia Freeland - Toronto Centre Constituency Office Picket
*https://www.facebook.com/events/754148061350868/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/754148061350868/>

Adam Vaughan - Trinity Spadina Constituency Office Demonstration
*https://www.facebook.com/events/917344068286905/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/917344068286905/>

Newmarket: *https://www.facebook.com/events/780719302024407/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/780719302024407/>

NDP Linda McQuaig Community Canvas:
*https://www.facebook.com/events/612608562207859/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/612608562207859/>

NDP Matthew Kellway Community Canvas:
*https://www.facebook.com/events/1564949997125957/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1564949997125957/>

NDP Alex Wilson Community Canvas:
*https://www.facebook.com/events/425504400958187/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/425504400958187/>

For a full list of NDP Events in GTA:
*https://action.ndp.ca/page/event/search_results?orderby=day&state&country=CA&event_type%5B0%5D=23&limit=100&radius_unit=km*
<https://action.ndp.ca/page/event/search_results?orderby=day&state&country=CA&event_type%5B0%5D=23&limit=100&radius_unit=km>

Toronto Week of Education Main Event by the Toronto Coalition Against C-51:
*https://www.facebook.com/events/424480314385162/*
<https://www.facebook.com/events/424480314385162/>
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In solidarity with other cities across the nation, we will be supporting a
day of action on *April 18th*educating people on the bill, canvassing
communities, postering, rallying outside of constituency offices and
capping it all off with a fundraiser to sustain the growing movement
opposing Bill C-51 and defending civil liberties.

If you want to organize a rally outside of a constituency near you let us
know and we will help you make it happen and promote it. As we get closer
to the day, we will add more and more events where communities can have a
real impact.

The more Canadians learn about Bill C-51, the less they like it. That's why
opinion is swinging rapidly against the government – they’ve finally been
forced to admit the bill is fundamentally flawed and we need to now keep up
the pressure.

The government admitted C-51 was flawed by amending it during the hearing
committee, but still they have failed to address citizen's concerns. The
suggested amendments do not go nearly far enough to address serious
concerns about the impact the bill will have on Canadians’ privacy and
democratic rights. None of the amendments add oversight, deal with the
charter violations, over broad terms of terrorism or any of the other
reckless measures the bill takes. Once again we must call for this bill to
be withdrawn completely.

*#StopC51 #Rejectfear*

Toronto Community Group: *https://www.facebook.com/groups/1404483709864512/
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/1404483709864512/>*

*Facebook Event Page: **https://www.facebook.com/events/782935238442867/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/782935238442867/>*

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*15. Say No to War on Yemen*

The Saudi led bombing campaign has already killed more than 600 people -
most of them civilians.

Once again, the west is supporting a proxy war in the Middle East which is
causing more destabilization and bloodshed. The US has been helping the
Saudis with their bombing campaigns. Canada, which just sold $15 billion in
weaponry to the Saudis is helping to stoke tensions in the region and has
allied itself with some of the most repressive regimes involved in this
conflict.

Join us to say no to the war on Yemen.

*Sunday April 19, 5 PM Dundas Square*

*Facebook Event Page:
<http://goog_1176676343/>**https://www.facebook.com/events/461160927367287/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/461160927367287/>*

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*16. 30th ANNUAL MAYWORKS FESTIVAL*

*MAY 1 - 14, 2015 | TORONTO*
Festival Program: On Website
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 Festival Program: On Facebook
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Aiming to provide a forum where arts-positive unionists and union-positive
artists can create and dialogue, Toronto's Mayworks Festival has held its
ground as an independent, grassroots, and community-oriented festival for
thirty years. Mayworks continues to carve out a space for artists, cultural
workers, and trade unionists working in a range of mediums to engage with
the common struggles of artists and labourers.

The 30th annual festival launches with silkscreen printing workshops
facilitated by members of the Justseeds Artists' Collective. At these
workshops participants are encouraged to print materials for Toronto's
annual May Day rally. The evening of the rally, we are celebrating with the
United May Day Committee at a concert featuring worker-positive
performances. Later in the festival we are presenting the Toronto premier
of the album Work Songs about an activist and organizer's struggles to
remain hopeful while attempting to reach personal and political goals.
Closing our festival Mayworks Rising: 30th Birthday Party and Concert - is
a musical co-presentation with BOLD As Love, a series dedicated to uniting
racialized and Indigenous artists and communities.

We are featuring three visual arts exhibits exploring a range of themes.
Portrait of Solidarity is showcasing how five artists with a rich history
with Mayworks have taken up the issue of migrant labour; Like Flesh and
Blood draws on the historic figure Joseph Emin to speak to the similarities
of indentured labour in the 18th and 19th century and global migration
patterns of contemporary, and often racialized, labour forces; and the
research-heavy Do what with less? visual arts exhibit highlights challenges
faced by over thirty interviewed workers in the cultural sector.

We are also presenting three theatre performances: including What Ails Your
Soul - a culminated performance of a series of theatre workshops in which
Jane Finch Action Against Poverty members, community artists and residents
share the stories of their lived experience of poverty; the one-woman
multidisciplinary play The Erasable Woman takes up the issue of invisible
labour and transgenerational trauma; and the theatre piece Life on the Line
- recounts the six-month women's strike at Eatons in the winter of 1984-85.
Along with these theatre works, we are excited to be screening Deux Jours,
Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night) - a 2014 Oscar-nominated film about a female
worker fighting to keep her job.

Our co-presentation with Jane's Walk, is featuring a walking tour of
downtown Toronto that informs participants about the labour movement's
anti-war positions against World War I. And our co-presentation with Turtle
House Art and Play Centre, an art-based organization programming activities
primarily for children and families from refugee backgrounds, is providing
a free drumming workshop open for all. Another workshop we are proud to
host is Co-Creating Images For The World We Want To See, teaching
participants how to design images that reflect the significant work of
artists, social justice organizers, and labourers.

Reflecting on the festival's artistic direction over the years, one can see
that Mayworks' programming reflects the diversity of our city's unionized,
migrant, un-waged, and precarious workers while building links between
precarity in the art world and broader patterns of precarious work in the
city, and globally. We hope you enjoy the the 30 annual Mayworks Festival!

*GIVE $30 FOR 30 YEARS OF ART, LABOUR & SOCIAL JUSTICE*

As part of the 30th year celebrations, Mayworks has launched its first-ever
crowdfunding campaign.  We are asking Mayworks' friends and supporters to
"Give $30 for 30 years of Art, Labour and Social Justice".

   Your crowdfunding donation will help preserve:
A space where artists, workers and community members gather to share
creative labour and struggles
Artists being fairly paid for their work
Opportunities for young, diverse, marginalized and emerging artists
Good wages & benefits for unionized Mayworks staff
Partnerships with unions, community groups & artists' organizations
A festival where most events are free or pay what you can
Community-based, accessible venues

How to support the #Mayworks30 anniversary campaign:
Please visit our crowdfunding site and make a donation to join our 30 for
30 campaign:
https://fwyc.ca/campaigns/mayworks-festival-working-people-and-arts

Please share the link on social media and over email with friends, family,
co-workers and encourage them to join the 30 for 30 campaign.

*17. **Jane Finch Mother's In Motion Fitness FUNDRAISER*

*FUNDRAISING LINK:*
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jane-finch-mother-s-in-motion-fitness

There are two ways to help:
1. Contribute - $15 is a hour of childcare for the women in the program
2. Share- the more people hear about the campaign, the more we are likely
to meet our target.
3. The first person to donate $100 will receive a free family portrait from
Errol Young - Professional Photographer.
4. the first 2 people to donate $50 will receive 2 free movie tickets.

We are a group of mothers with children of various ages who want to improve
our health and that of our children through increased physical activity and
healthy eating.

The Jane Finch Mother's In Motion (MIM) fitness program was started by
mothers in the Jane Finch Community. It started in 2012 and currently has
over 45 women registered. It runs Tuesdays and Fridays mornings at Oakdale
Community Centre. The program is coordinated by the participants with
support from Black Creek Community Health Centre (in kind staff support)
and City of Toronto Parks and Recreation (space). Initially, The Canadian
Association for the Advancement of Women and Sports and Physical Activity
provided some funding for childcare and instructors.

According to statistics Canada, Jane Finch has one of the highest rates of
diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Many of the women who
participate in the MIM fitness program get access to dieticians,
instructors, free childcare and personal trainers.

Our funding will come to an end and so we are looking for new partners to
assist us in sustaining this program. Your donation to the MIM fitness
program will provide childcare and instructors for the fitness program.

For more information please contact Ama Amponsah at 647-787-7291 or email
at leticia.boahen at yahoo.com

*FUND ONLINE:*
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jane-finch-mother-s-in-motion-fitness

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