[Org4j-announce] THIS FRI / SAT: keynote and workshops!

[Organizing 4Justice]

Reminder: Organizing For Justice happens this weekend!


Fri Nov 12, 7:00pm
*G20-Toronto Debrief*
at Morrisset Hall room 205, University of Ottawa
http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=528

Sat Nov 13, 10am-5:15pm
*Day of Workshops*
at Lamoureux Hall ground floor, University of Ottawa
http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=447

followed by social event in the early evening, and new magazine launch party
(with DJ!) later on

full details at www.organizingforjustice.ca


*NOTE:*
*we are looking for a couple more volunteers to take a shift of childcare on
Sat*
if you can help please email org4justice at gmail.com or call 613-656-5498
shifts correspond with workshop time slots
(if no children show, you can attend a workshop instead during your shift)

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*NOV 13 – SATURDAY SCHEDULE:* (click on links for workshop descriptions)
at Lamoureux Hall first floor, University of Ottawa: www.uottawa.ca/maps (LMX
building)

~~ free/by donation ~~ wheelchair accessible ~~ childcare will be provided
~~

*10:00am* – Registration and refreshments
*10:30am* – Opening and welcome

*11:00am* – first slot of workshops. choose from

   - *Money Changes Everything <http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=462>** *-
   a new monetary model created and owned by the masses?
   - *Islamophobia, a trial for all
Canadians<http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=464>
   * – questioning the very meaning of pluralism and multiculturalism
   - *The classroom as a revolutionary landscape: Fighting injustice on the
   Thai-Burma border and beyond <http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=466>* –
   how educators everywhere can empower their students to fight oppression and
   injustice
   - *Chou Yang La Mou, la jeune fille qui élève des yaks (the girl who
   raises yaks) <http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=469> *[avec vidéo
   amateure et discussion/with video and discussion - workshop in
   French/bilingual] – quelques questions éthiques sur la légitimité et le rôle
   des médias de masse (addressing some ethical questions about the legitimity
   and the role of mass medias)

*12:15* – Lunch (provided)

*1:00pm* – choose from:

   - *Permaculture Applied to Social
Justice<http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=472>
   * [with video and discussion] – combining physical resource management
   with community solidarity, leadership and organizing for justice
   - *Decolonizing Canada: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake as
Template<http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=475>
   * [with slideshow, short video, and discussion] – examining the ABL
   struggle to shed light on some of the political and legal tools that
   Indigenous communities are using to fight for self-determination and
   recovery of their lands
   - *Anti-Capitalist Organizing: The Community Kitchen as a Means of
   Resistance <http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=480>* – alternative means
   to exclusive food systems in Canada, contributing to food security
   - *Building Radical Communities, an alternative to individual based
   activism <http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=523>* – building radical and
   sustainable communities that will serve as a safe space for all

*2:30pm* – choose from:

   - *Security Culture 101 <http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=483>* –
   dealing with state repression, infiltration and surveillance
   - *Lost in Colonization: Al kaffiyeh l’3arabiyeh, The Israeli Keffiyeh,
   The Hippest of the Hipsters and The Politicized
Queer<http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=486>
   * [with visual art, video, and discussion] – addressing the recent
   ‘kuffiyah’ fashion trend, especially among queer or activist circles
   - *The Ottawa Umi Café Story
<http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=489>*[note that this workshop runs
for 2.5hrs] – documentary film followed by
   participatory presentation that will attempt to meander along the lessons,
   discoveries, frustrations, and elations of the Umi Café, a hub of community
   activity that initially operated under a co-operative business model
   - *Going Beyond Polar Bears and PPM: Strategy Tools for Climate and
   Environmental Justice Organizing
<http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=490>*[note that this workshop runs
for 2.5hrs] – explore how through being allies
   and participating in community-based resistance we can rewrite the story
   behind climate change, the tar sands, and other extractive industry,
   building a grassroots movement that people can connect to

*4:00pm* – choose from:**

   - *Masks and Faces <http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=494>* – what power
   is, it’s types and sources, how it plays out, and how we participate or
   resist
   - *What to do when binary gender roles, patriarchy and sexism are
   sustained in social justice activism<http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=493>
   * – a space for critical reflections, where dynamics of power will be
   discussed, and support/coping approaches and strategies might be shared
   - *Targets of repression: How to live a life on urban city streets with
   criminal bail conditions <http://organizingforjustice.ca/?p=521>*
   - *[continued from 2:30]** **The Ottawa Umi Café Story*
   - *[continued from 2:30]* *Going Beyond Polar Bears and PPM: Strategy
   Tools for Climate and Environmental Justice Organizing*

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*5:30-9:00pm:* *Social event (discussion and drinks)*
at the basement of the Laurier Royal Oak (161 Laurier)

*9:00pm* *X-Ray Magazine Launch Party and Benefit*
at Brixton’s British Pub, Sparks St at Bank
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