[opirgyork] TODAY: Fair Contracts Without Concessions Now! + No 4 & 4 + Defend Shelter Beds + C-51 Can't Stop Us!

Fri Mar 27 04:38:34 PDT 2015

Hey everyone!!!

Spring is here and warmer weather is on it's way! What better way to
celebrate than to get involved with one of the amazing events happening in
the community! Check it out below! For the duration of the CUPE 3903
strike, OPIRG York board and staff will continue to fill our mandate,
continue to do work in the community, and continue to work on social and
environmental justice issues, but will not be crossing picket lines. Please
see our solidarity statement here: *bit.ly/3903support
<http://bit.ly/3903support>*

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. *April 1st**: *JFAAP General Meeting
2. *March 27th: *RSM Presents Undergrad Contingent at the March to Unite
the Fight
3. *March 27th: *March to Unite the Fight! Reject Austerity! Fair Contracts
Without Concessions Now!
4. *ONGOING:* Environmental Justice Global Divestment Day

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5. *March 27th: *Scholarship, Arts, Activism: How Scholars, Artists and
Activists Change the World
6. *March 27th**:* Tools for Change Presents: Accessible Movements
7. *March 27th*: Aamer Rahman: The Truth Hurts
8. *March 29th: *Stop Bill C-51: Organizing Meeting
9. *March 29th:* Cross Canada Day of Action: No 4 and 4! Immigration Not
Deportation!
10. *March 30th*: Public Forum: C-51 Can't Stop Us! Fighting Colonialism,
Islamophobia & Surveillance
11*. March 30th:* OCAP: Delegation to the City Shelter Administration:
Defend the 124 Beds Lost by Closing the Hope Shelter!
12. *March 31st: *Silence is Violence: Roundtable #2 Eradicating Violence
on Campus
13. *March 31st: *Growing Your Own Food: A Garden Resource Network

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*1. **JFAAP General Meeting*

*JFAAP* general meeting will be on *April 1st 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. Undergrad Contingent at the March 27th Rally & March to Unite the Fight*

We understand that, as undergrads, the struggle of striking 3902 and 3903
members is tied up with our struggle against increasing tuition, falling
wages and diminishing prospects for the future.

Join the Revolutionary Student Movement's undergrad contingent at the
10k *MARCH
TO UNITE THE FIGHT* from *Glendon campus to U of T St. George* and help us
push the struggle to as high a level as we can push it. When you do, you'll
be making it heard loud and clear that working class students are a force
to be reckoned with and that we know who our enemies are: the corrupt
administrations, the governments pursuing austerity agendas, and the whole
capitalist system!

*Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/645774948900656/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/645774948900656/>*

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*3. March to Unite the Fight!**When:* *March 27th, 11:30AM *

*Where:* *Beginning at York University Glendon Campus and ending at
University of Toronto (accessible buses and rest stops en route) *

On March 27th join striking workers of CUPE 3902 and CUPE 3903 in a
historic march from York University to the University of Toronto.

Our demands for adequate compensation for the labour we perform are fair
and legitimate. Graduate funding at UofT has not increased since 2008, the
year of the last global economic crisis. At York University, teaching
assistants and graduate assistants continue to put their bodies on the line
to defend tuition indexation – a hard fought measure to keep graduate
studies affordable and accessible for future generations, the inclusion of
LGTBQ equity language, and a funding increase for incoming graduate
students. While tuition and cost-of-living in Toronto continue to skyrocket
– throwing students deeper and deeper into debt and despair, UofT reported
a $200 million budget surplus last year and York, $4 million, with senior
administrators at both institutions enjoying sizeable salary increases.
They can more than afford our modest demands to make universities
accessible to more than the wealthy elites. We are fighting for access to
education that will provide fair learning and teaching conditions for us
all. In sum, we are against the commodification of education and
casualization of labour!

Over the past months, it's become very clear that the administration at
UofT and York, along with the provincial government, are collaborating to
divide our members, chip away at collective bargaining, and crush the
strikes. In response, we are connecting our struggles into one very long
picket line to deliver a collective message to our employers, and
ultimately to a provincial government intent on carrying out its austerity
agenda: We will strike to win!

In organizing together, we hope to inspire other academic workers in the
sector to wage their fight for better working, living, and learning
conditions! Join us on March 27th!

*Please read carefully:*

*3903 STRIKE PAY:*
You have to let 3903 know in advance if you would like to receive strike
pay for your participation in the march. Please email*march27march at gmail.com
<march27march at gmail.com>* with your name, faculty and unit # as soon as
possible.

*3902 STRIKE PAY:*
Marchers are eligible for strike pay. No instructions given to sign up yet.

*DISTANCE AND APPROX TIME:*
The total distance of the march is 10KM. We approximate a total of 4 hours
for the march.

*ROUTE:*
The starts at Glendon campus, on to Lawrence Ave, down on Yonge Street,
then to UofT downtown then ending at Queens Park station. Majority of the
route will be along the subway line so folks can join or leave at any time.

*REST STOPS:*
We will stop at Rosehill Reservoir for 20 minutes to rest and have washroom
break. This park is 2 blocks south of St. Clair.

*ACCESSIBILITY:*
We will be booking one accessible bus and one regular bus with a washroom.
Everyone is welcome to use the buses at any time during the march.

We have 5 manual wheelchairs floating throughout the march and can be used
by anyone who would like to continue marching, but would prefer doing so
from a wheelchair. The wheelchairs will come with volunteer assistance if
needed.

We are also planning to have the accessible bus transport folks from
Eglington Station to Glendon campus on the morning of the 27th. Schedule
will be released soon.
We are also planning to have regular buses transport folks from UofT
downtown campus to Glendon campus on the morning of the 27th. Schedule will
be released soon.

*MARSHAL TRAINING:*
There will be a training for volunteer march marshals at *10:30AM on
Friday, March 27*, before the march itself at Glendon campus in York Hall.

*EVERYBODY IS WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MARCH! THE MORE THE MERRIER,
STRONGER AND SAFER!*

*POST MARCH SOLIDARITY SOCIAL6:30PM *
The 3902 Hype Squad are inviting everyone to *The Imperial Pub* *(54 Dundas
St. East)* after the March/Rally to celebrate (and rest) after our
incredible walk. We also wanted to take this opportunity to provide a
social setting for CUPE 3902 and CUPE 3903 members to get to know one
another!

We encourage all UofT and York union members and allies to join. Please
invite your friends from all departments!

*Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/940296722676549/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/940296722676549/>*

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*4. 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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*5. **Scholarship, Arts, Activism: How Scholars, Artists and Activists
Change the World*

This is a* FREE EVENT*. Please circulate widely.

This conference aims to expand on the potential of social justice education
for students, activists, artists and scholars alike by asking the following
questions: What critical interventions are being made to resist
neo-colonial violence? What does it mean to engage in activist work as a
scholar/ activist? Three central areas will be explored: environmental
racism, violence against Indigenous populations, and the increasing
criminalization of racialized youth. The aim of the conference is to use an
arts-based and interactive model to discuss the theoretical and practical
mediations required to engage in critical activism and scholarship.

This event will feature a conversation with scholars such as: Karyn
Recollect; Bonita Lawrence; Carmela Murdocca; and *Ajamu Nangwaya
<https://www.facebook.com/ajamu.nangwaya>*

Activist groups: *Black Lives Matter-Toronto Coalition
<https://www.facebook.com/blacklivesmatterTO>; Jane Finch Action Against
Poverty (JFAAP)
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jane-Finch-Action-Against-Poverty-JFAAP/132701496774939>
*
and *Sisters in Spirit *

Keynote by: *Honor Ford-Smith *

And a live performance by *Dbiyoung Anitafrika
<https://www.facebook.com/dbiyounganitafrika2>*

*Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1600958140117997/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1600958140117997/>*

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*6. *

*Tools for Change Presents: Accessible Movements*
What are the barriers to activism - to claiming an activist identity - to
participating? Is it possible for everyone?

Our groups and movements are stronger when we recognize everyone has
something to contribute; and, organize in ways that support each other with
what we need to participate.

What is radical accessibility? What can radical accessibility look like in
campus and community organizing? How accessible are social justice
movements now? Using an intersectional accessibility analysis – this
workshop will be a space to reflect on thoughts, ideas and actions on
accessibility. Facilitated by Kayla Carter and geoff.

*Date: Friday, March 27 2015Time:* *2-5pm*

*Location: *
*George Brown College, 200 King St.E. **Career Centre rm.B155*
* This event occurs on Indigenous land.

*Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/347510095459548/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/347510095459548/>REGISTRATION REQUIRED:*
*http://bit.ly/CAC_T4C_1
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FCAC_T4C_1&h=oAQHGsF2C&enc=AZOy8kygJqybbB_z2zkCt-DwxP0A3h-1rh2XwU6_arsiw-Twm0-QLOYOEMwkrcmkwfU&s=1>*

*Access:*
ASL-English Interpretation | care attendant | live captioning | reflection
room available | large print copies of workshop package | Wheelchair
Accessible | Scent Free Space | Food Provided

For questions/accomodations contact: *cacassistant at sagbc.ca
<cacassistant at sagbc.ca>*

*http://bit.ly/T4C-CAC1
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FT4C-CAC1&h=sAQHwG9We&enc=AZP4uIdX33axI-YvGv9egL_CS3rBbyP56WNYASpRVGmceeHVQ0A7coDrepJd7jxpVgI&s=1>*

Trainers:

Kayla Carter is a writer, a storyteller, a poet, a lover, a daughter, an
artist, a sister and a dancer. She is a Toronto born artist who is of
Jamaican, Cuban, Maroon and Taino ancestry and believes that her existence
is not accidental nor is it coincidental. Kayla believes that art is
healing, transformative and meditative process not only for those who are
receiving it but also giving it. Her work focuses on regimes of trauma,
healing, diaspora, affect, shame, institutions of and histories of
violence, queer theory, blackness, transnational feminist thought and
storytelling. Kayla is currently a Masters student in the Critical
Disability Studies Department of York University.

geoff is a project coordinator for the Pieces to Pathways project. Pieces
to Pathways is a peer-led initiative conducting a needs assessment of
substance use among LGBTTQQ2SIA youth aged 16-29 residing or accessing
services in Toronto. For more information about the project, please
visit *www.piecestopathways.com
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.piecestopathways.com%2F&h=qAQFrYgdd&enc=AZOgBBuEC1RbsAXbW6-4p7Qt_-PHRGwYSq23yVXLW263HjzrO0o81XEiUpPl1cN8uwk&s=1>
*geoff
is a mixed race genderqueer anarchist that believes in creating communities
of love and still dreams of smashing the state. they wish to politicize
their experiences with substance use and sobriety while unravelling the
limited representation of the addicted body. recently, geoff co-presented a
panel titled "new ways of knowing: doing disability studies differently" at
the reclaiming our bodies and minds conference 2015 in Toronto. their paper
titled "destabilizing disability: including addiction for cross-movement
solidarity" discussed the significance for coalition building across
identities of difference. this paper is made available in knots: an
undergraduate journal of disability studies, thorough the equity studies
department at new college, university of Toronto. more on their work can be
found at* livingnotexisting.org
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flivingnotexisting.org%2F&h=7AQERdPNd&enc=AZPF-OksqhDdzBprWAs1iTsigXN7r9hEDY2rDfT78h2wYDVjD1xqeYSFz5h_XiN3CRA&s=1>*

This workshop is being hosted during the 23rd Annual Labour Fair of George
Brown College

via the Community Action Centre

*facebook.com/communitycentreGBC
<http://facebook.com/communitycentreGBC>instagram.com/communityactioncentre
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Finstagram.com%2Fcommunityactioncentre&h=eAQHfgRCN&enc=AZN6iifFhHYNB2RGrBwlOgnNebX9fzYyVrPJL-uS5IdqDlt14gwTSdPv4WqIUSC0WUE&s=1>http://sacommunity.tumblr.com/
<http://sacommunity.tumblr.com/>*

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*7. Aamer Rahman: The Truth Hurts*

Aamer Rahman is an Australian stand-up comedian of Bangladeshi descent. He
is best known as one half of comedy duo Fear of a Brown Planet.

Rahman has a cheerful, upbeat, laid back but politically aggressive comedic
approach. The majority of his material is based on real-life observations
and current events. He comments on social justice and politics through his
humour touching on various topics including racism, pop culture, etc.

** IN SOLIDARITY WITH WORKERS IN CUPE3902 WE HAVE MOVED THIS EVENT
OFF-CAMPUS *WHERE: Bloor St. United Church (300 Bloor St. W)WHEN: Friday
March 27th - 7:00PM COST: -- FREE for U of T students-- $5.00 online for
public (if ordered on March 25th and onward)*

General U of T students AND Public MUST RESERVE TICKETS*
*http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/utsu-presents-aamer-rahman-the-truth-hurts-tickets-16284108206
<http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/utsu-presents-aamer-rahman-the-truth-hurts-tickets-16284108206>*

UTSC STUDENTS (set number of reserved tickets*):
MUST contact SCSU VP Equity in the SCSU office or *equity at scsu.ca
<equity at scsu.ca>*

♢♢♢ Note: If you reserved your tickets PRIOR to *March 25th* (during the
first round of tickets) -- your tickets *REMAIN VALID* - and *REMAIN FREE* -
both student or non-student - please print or mobile download your tickets
so we can diffrentiate ♢♢♢

*FOR EVERYONE -- UPON ADMISSION YOU NEED:*

1) Your eventbrite ticket either PRINTED or mobile DOWNLOADED.

2) Your Tcard for UofT students

*Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1523560151233444/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1523560151233444/>*

BROUGHT TO YOU BY:

*University of Toronto Students' Union (UTSU)
<https://www.facebook.com/UTSU98>UTSU Social Justice & Equity Commission
<https://www.facebook.com/SJEutsu>*
SUPPORTED BY:

*Scarborough Campus Students' Union <https://www.facebook.com/SCSUuoft>APUS
- Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/APUS-Association-of-Part-Time-Undergraduate-Students/182359808466428>*

Clips of his performances:
Border Security:
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BKRo_RCBRk
<https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4BKRo_RCBRk&h=8AQH4T3ji&enc=AZNDr4_9gV20gaiWy9T7GyTT4JhgV65Byu2ih6mC3qWXmBQQaPEyey-1sERlA6B1Rmc&s=1>*

Reverse Racism:
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M>*

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*8. *

*Stop Bill C-51: Organizing Meeting*
Join us for an open meeting to plan future actions and events to stop C-51,
and begin laying out a plan to protect civil liberties if Bill C-51 is
passed.

Topics include; local canvassing, trips to Ottawa, coalition and
relationship building, another Toronto Rally, Art, Music and more....

*WHEN: March 29th, 10am - 2:00pmWHERE: United Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil
Street.*

More Details to follow.

Please be aware of this complimentary event the next day:
*https://www.facebook.com/events/792155747498451/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/792155747498451/>*

Facilitated by: The Toronto Coalition to Stop C-51.
______________________________________
OPPOSE BILL C-51! REJECT FEAR

Bill C-51 is a reckless, far-reaching dangerous law that will:
- Increase surveillance, disruption and targeting of activists

- Criminalize activist actions like blockades and civil
disobedience by expanding the definition of terrorism.

- Expand the use of secret evidence and no-fly lists. Secret evidence and
laws are already being to used to deport migrants, on terrorism related
grounds without charge

- Essentially create a Secret Police with no accountability
or oversight, worsening the over-criminalization and
over-imprisonment of Indigenous and Black communities

- Chill free speech by criminalizing discussions on dissent.

- Increase detention without access to a lawyer. Many
migrants are already jailed for over 10 years without
charges or trial.

Bill C-51 intensifies the ‘security’ attack on Muslims, non-status people,
Indigenous land defenders, people of colour communities and activists, and
extends this intimidation to even more people.

We must reject Bill C-51 and support the communities
most vulnerable to policing and surveillance.

*Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/818228024893251/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/818228024893251/>*

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*9. *
*Cross Canada Day of Action: No 4 on 4! Immigration Not Deportation!*

*Cross-Canada Day of Action: No 4 and 4! Immigration Not Deportation!*
The Harper Cons plan to uproot migrant workers that have lived, worked and
formed relationships in Canada for over four years. So, on March 29th, join
at Citizenship and Immigration Canada headquarters to seed justice. We will
be planting small seedlings that you will be able to take home. Bring your
friends and family for this community action to seed justice.

Between *March 29 and April 1, 2015* take actions to oppose the 4 and 4
rule against low-waged Temporary Foreign Workers and Live-In Caregivers
expected to come in to effect on April 1st. Refuse a revolving door
immigration system and call for full immigration status for all.

* *Toronto: March 29, 2pm at Citizenship and Immigration Canada
headquarters*
*(**55 St. Clair E. St. Clair and Yonge – St. Clair subway station)* /
*RSVP *on*facebook <https://www.facebook.com/events/919143408106323/>.*
* *Actions are also planned in Edmonton, Guelph, Hamilton and Okanagan
valley and Peterborough*. Details at* www.no4and4.tumblr.com
<http://www.no4and4.tumblr.com/>*

As of April 1, 2015, all migrant workers in Canada in low-waged jobs and on
Temporary Foreign Worker or Live-In Caregiver permits will be barred from
working in the country for more than four years. All those that have been
in Canada more than that time will face mass deportation. They will also be
banned from returning to work in Canada for four years. Those that choose
to stay will become undocumented.

These changes are effectively a mass deportation. These rules will tear
apart families, friends and communities across the country. Migrant workers
pay tens of thousands of dollars to come to Canada and work at minimum wage
jobs to provide an opportunity for their family; so that their children can
go to school; and to have a better life. The 4 & 4 rule strips away migrant
workers’ dignity, forces workers already in precarity into further
uncertainty, and imposes discriminatory and arbitrary barriers on how long
workers can stay here.

That these migrants have worked in Canada for four years proves that their
jobs are permanent, not temporary. These friends and community members
deserve permanent residence, not deportation. This 4 and 4 rule entrenches
a revolving door immigration policy, employers can simply replace current
with new workers.

Please sign and share this petition:
*www.change.org/p/stop-the-mass-deportation-of-thousands-of-immigrants-on-april-1st
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.change.org%2Fp%2Fstop-the-mass-deportation-of-thousands-of-immigrants-on-april-1st&h=hAQF3OLmo&enc=AZNDUy29mKdwGFkpbVXuMyoaAPahK7D3sanNykMFkpy00V2teDt72o8wRCS_1l1ahZs&s=1>*
Campaign Against 4 Year Limit on Migrant Workers

*www.no4and4.tumblr.com <http://www.no4and4.tumblr.com/>no4and4 at gmail.com
<no4and4 at gmail.com>*

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*10. C - 51 Can't Stop Us! Fighting Colonialism, Islamophobia, &
Surveillance*

*Townhall: C-51 can't stop us! Fighting Colonialism, Islamophobia and
Surveillance*
As we resist the passing of Bill C-51, join us to hear from some of those
most impacted by anti-‘terror’ laws, surveillance, and state violence.
Discussions at this event may violate multiple Bill C-51 provisions – join
us to insist that we will continue to act irrespective of laws that target
dissent.

*March 30th, 6pm - 8:30pm*
*United Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street. *
*share through facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/events/792155747498451/> & web
<http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/938>*

As we resist the passing of Bill C-51, join us to hear from some of those
most impacted by anti-‘terror’ laws, surveillance, and state violence.
Discussions at this event may violate multiple Bill C-51 provisions – join
us to insist that we will continue to act irrespective of laws that target
dissent.

*Speakers:*

*- ANISHINAABE WOMAN ACTIVIST* (Blockader) and mother who has been at the
front-lines of land defense for decades.

*- MOHAMMAD MAHJOUB *is an Egyptian refugee in Canada who has been detained
in Canada without charges or trial on a security certificate by CSIS and
CBSA for nearly 15 years.

*- AMANDA LICKERS *(turtle clan, onondowa'ga haudenosaunee) is a young
woman who organizes against tar sands expansion projects throughout her
territories, connecting her work with and directly supporting many other
Indigenous resistance struggles across Turtle Island.

*- SAKURA SAUNDERS* is a environmental justice organizer who actively
supports resistance to Canada's extractive industry. She organizes with
Rising Tide Toronto and the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network.

*- ANNA WILLATS* is a Toronto teacher, who is fighting in solidarity with
marginalized people for their rights and justice, against state violence in
all its forms.

*- ZOE DODD *has been organizing and working in the downtown east for over
a decade. She's a member of OCAP, Toronto Drug Users Union and the Toronto
Harm Reduction Workers' Union.

*- MAC SCOTT *is an anarchist who works in the law, go figure. He is a
member of No One Is Illegal and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty and
has been doing migrant justice work for 17 years.

*- KIMALEE PHILLIP *is anti-racist, anti-colonial feminist and organizer
from Grenada. She is the Equity Officer with CUPE 1281 and does organizing
work with the Network for the Elimination of Police Violence (NEPV) and the
TRCC/MWAR's Black Women's Caucus.

*Moderator:*

*- SYED HUSSAN* is a migrant justice and solidarity activist in Toronto who
has faced police surveillance in Canada for his organizing. Since at least
2008, Hussan has been placed on the national security related lists in the
United States.

We are actively seeking public endorsements from organizations that have in
the past, and will continue to take confrontational actions for justice
regardless of unjust policies. A sign-on letter for individuals will be
floated shortly. Email* nooneisillegal at riseup.net
<nooneisillegal at riseup.net>* to endorse.

*Coordinated by: No One Is Illegal - Toronto
<https://www.facebook.com/NoOneIsIllegalNetwork>, Justice for Mahjoub
<https://www.facebook.com/SupportMahjoub?fref=ts> | End Security
Certificate Trials <https://www.facebook.com/SupportMahjoub> and Earth
Justice Action <https://www.facebook.com/groups/377855848901368/>.*

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*11. Delegation to City Shelter Administration! Defend 124 Shelter Beds!*

*HOPE SHELTER CLOSING TAKES AWAY 124 BADLY NEEDED BEDS FOR HOMELESS FOLKS!*

*Delegation to City Shelter Administration, Metro Hall, King and
John, Monday, March 30, 1.00 PM *

The central part of Toronto is facing sweeping gentrification. As condo
towers go up, low income tenants and homeless people are being driven out.
The plan is to remove hundreds of homeless by moving the shelters to
outlying parts of the City.

On March 31, everyone in the 124 bed Hope Shelter at College and McCaul
will have to leave. There is no indication that a replacement facility will
be ready and, when one is found, just where it will be located. Even if
housing is found for some of those in the place, the loss of these beds
will mean hardship for hundreds of others who need shelter in the months
ahead.

Please come out and support our delegation to the City as we demand the
opening of bed spaces in the same area of the City and show that the social
cleansing agenda of the developers and politicians will be resisted.

*Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1567057126909660/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1567057126909660/>*

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*12. Silence is Violence: Roundtable #2 Eradicating Violence on Campus*

Our first women's round table to discuss gendered violence on campus was a
success. We wish to open up the dialogue to include men in our next
roundtable to strategize how we can begin moving forward to eradicate all
forms of violence occurring at York University.

While our organizing at this time is centred around violence occurring at
York - we welcome students/faculty/staff from other universities to also
attend as we recognize this issue is not isolated.

*Light snacks will be provided
**If you have any concerns regarding accessibility or transportation -
please message the group organizers. Unfortunately WomenatthecentrE
<https://www.facebook.com/WomenatthecentrE> is not an accessible space - it
is on the third floor with no elevator, if this is a problem please let us
know and we can attempt to find an accommodating space.
***Please note that if the strike ends - the meeting time and location will
need to be changed.

*Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/447103735457158/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/447103735457158/>*

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*13. Growing Our Own Food: A Garden Resource Network*

*BE PART OF CREATING THE GARDEN RESOURCE NETWORK*

An exciting collaboration is underway to create a GARDEN RESOURCE NETWORK
in the Jane-Finch neighbourhood.

This network would support families, schools, individuals, community
organizations and businesses in growing their own healthy and local food.

It's better for the planet.
It's better for your pocket.
It's a way to bring the community together.

The network would ideally provide:
tools, seeds, compost and hand on workshops to all it's members
... but to make that happen, we need YOU!

Join us on *March 31st at Yorkwoods Public Library at 5:30 pm* for snacks
and a big community conversation to formalize the goals, and official
structure of The Network. Come ready to share your ideas, meet fellow
gardeners or want to be gardeners

All are welcome (including interested partners, beginner gardeners,
children and more!). Please forward to those you think would be interested!

*Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/915673095138974/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/915673095138974/>*

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