[Org4j-announce] Upcoming events

Thu Oct 21 21:43:35 PDT 2010

UPCOMING EVENTS!

Oct 20-26

Ottawa International Writers’ Festival

http://www.writersfestival.org/

Fri Oct 22, 12:00 noon

Rally against Canada-EU trade deal

http://canadians.org/about/AGM/rally.html

Fri Oct 22, 8:00pm

spins & needles: clothing remix + remake party

http://spinsandneedles.com/upcomingevent.htm

Fri-Sun Oct 22-24

Council of Canadians AGM / 25th anniversary

http://canadians.org/about/AGM/2010/agenda.html

Mon Oct 25

Election Day

Mon Oct 25, 5:30pm

“The Politics of Rape” a lecture by Jane Doe

http://www2.carleton.ca/canadianstudies/news/a-lecture-by-jane-doe/

Mon-Thurs Oct 25-28

Social Justice Week at Carleton University

http://www.gsacarleton.ca – 3rd item down the page

Oct 27 – Nov 4

2nd annual Indigenous Sovereignty Week

http://www.bit.ly/iswottawa

Thurs Oct 28, 6:00pm

Ottawa Assembly planning meeting

PSAC building, 233 Gilmour

~~ full details below ~~

Fri Oct 29, 5:30pm

Critical Mass bike ride

http://www.ottawacriticalmass.blogspot.com/

Mon Nov 1, 6:00pm

Bodies of Dissent – a panel discussion on building support for our sexual
justice movements

Alumni Auditorium, University of Ottawa

~~ full details below ~~

Fri-Sun Nov 5-7

One World Film Festival

http://www.wiam.ca/programs/one-world-film-festival/index.php

Fri-Sat Nov 12-13

4th Organizing For Justice gathering

Fri Nov12, 7pm - Keynote on the G20 in Toronto

Sat Nov13, 10am-5:00pm - Full-day conference

Details coming soon – http://organizingforjustice.ca

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OTTAWA ASSEMBLY MEETING

Please come help steer. More than two hundred people have been involved over
the past six months in discussions about creating something new and exciting
in Ottawa.

What: Next monthly meeting
When: Thursday, October 28, 2010
Where: JK Wyllie Boardroom, Grd.
Floor, PSAC, 233 Gilmour Ave.
Time: 6pm to 9pm
Other: Vegan food will be served.
Bring a bowl or plate and eating utensils. Cash donations appreciated

The aim is to build an Assembly as a force for fundamental economic,
political and social change in our community, province and country. Monthly
meetings are held to build this project. At the September meeting, we
focused on some political principles that might define the Assembly. The
October meeting will continue that discussion from where we left off with a
view to developing a clearer sense of what the Assembly would stand for.

The October meeting will also start to address the question of how the
Assembly could be organized. For example: Should it be an organization of
individual members, or a network, or a coalition or organizations? How will
the Assembly make decisions? How can we become a different kind of
organization than those that have failed in the past?

Please join the ride and help decide the Assembly’s direction. The meeting
will be structured to engage maximum participation.

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The Pro-Choice Coalition of Ottawa / Coalition pro-choix d'Ottawa

invites you to a pro-choice, sex-positive event

Bodies of dissent: a panel discussion on building radical support for our
sexual justice movements

Monday, Nov1st, 6:00-9:00pm

Alumni Auditorium in the University Center, University of Ottawa campus

a fundraiser for an abortion emergency access fund, in response to the
anti-choice harassment campaign sanctioned by the City of Ottawa, and
currently happening on Bank street.

Tania Dopler, a member of the Ottawa Aboriginal community and an outreach
worker with the Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy, will be there to offer
a smudge.

Feminist support workers from the Carleton Sexual Assault Support Line will
be present to offer support on site.

SHAG, a youth advisory group from the Youth Services Bureau that is
dedicated to educating, advocating and acting as a resource on sexual heath
and wellness for our peers in Ottawa, will be selling us some sexy baked
goods.

Panelists:

Rayna Farr-Dutchin has been alive since December 1994, she is an Ottawa
native with a penchant for music and poutine. She became involved with RJ at
a very early age but never really thought she'd be doing anything like this
in the future since she's a bit of a goof-ball. Rayna's favorite colour is
rainbow and her favorite word is a swear so it can't be written here (note
from organizers: fuck ya it can!). Since the age of 13 Rayna has watched the
slow but steady sexual progression of her peers with interest, disgust, and
horror. At the same time she has been blessed to experience a Catholic High
Schools Sex-Ed curriculum. After attending a Young Women's Leadership
Institute in New York City this summer Rayna realized that there was a need
in society to hear from a teen when it came to sex. Instead of some adult
who thinks they're "with-it" enough to be able to speculate how a 16 year
olds mind works.

A proud Two Spirit youth, Jessica Yee is the founder and Executive Director
of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, the first and only organization
of its kind in North America by and for Indigenous youth working within the
full spectrum of sexual and reproductive health throughout the continent.
Jessica is currently serving as the first Chair of the National Aboriginal
Youth Council at the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network, the International
Indigenous HIV/AIDS Working Group, and is the co-chair of the North American
region for the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus at the United Nations
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She is a strong believer in the power
of the youth voice and agency, and you can see her writing on sites like
Racialicious, or pick up her recently released book "Sex Ed and Youth:
Colonization, Communities of Colour, and Sexuality" and look for her
upcoming book in Winter 2011 "Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex
of Feminism: Feminist Education Now - Youth, Activism, and
Intersectionality". She is the 2009 recipient of the YWCA Young Woman of
Distinction award, named one of 20 International Women's Health Heroes by
Our Bodies/Our Blog and was recently awarded the Miziwe Biik Aboriginal
Youth Entrepreneur Award for her founding of the Native Youth Sexual Health
Network.

POWER is a non-profit, voluntary organization founded on February 17th,
2008. Membership is open to individuals of all genders who self-identify as
former or current sex workers, regardless of the industry sector in which
they work(ed) (i.e. dancers, street level workers, in and out call workers,
phone sex etc). POWER envision a society in which sex workers are able to
practice their professions free of legal and social discrimination,
victimization, harassment and violence and in which sex work is valued as
legitimate and fulfilling work making an important contribution to society.

Tomee Sojourner is an Organizational & Community Development Consultant,
Social Entrepreneur, Diversity and Social Inclusion Expert, Social
Commentator, Artist, and Motivational Speaker. For over 15 years, she has
situated her activism, professional, and personal work on developing
socially transformative courses/workshops/resource s covering various topics
including, anti-racism, oppresshun awareness, intersectional diversity,
health care, sexual and mental health, and organizational/community
development. Tomee has as M.A. in Social Justice and Equity Studies. She has
been a College Professor and guest lecturer for high school, graduate and
undergraduate students.Tomee’s professional work is informed by her
intersectional diversity, and her lived experiences as a Black,
masculine-identified queer woman, educator, and social entrepreneur thriving
with a learning disability.

tickets are sliding scale

5$-unlimited

35$ at the door

(no one will be turned away)

Advanced tickets are really appreciated and help with the organizers anxiety
levels.

Tickets sold at Venus Envy- 320 Lisgar St

Ottawa University Women's Resource Center- UCU 220

Ahora Mexican Restaurant - 307, Dalhousie St

or with your friendly neighborhood activist.

ASL interpretation available. Please contact us for further accessibility
needs. Please register for free childcare before oct 25th at
prochoiceottawa at gmail.com

Facebook event page:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119747421414616

More about why we are fundraising for an abortion access fund:

Note: The Pro-Choice Coalition of Ottawa believes that people have the right
to bodily integrity and privacy and don't need anyone elses approval before
choosing an abortion. Enough with this bullshit hierarchy of "good reasons"
why its ok to control. My body, my mind, my life, my choice. The following
are glimpses into much more complicated stories.

Tia: Tia is a 14 year old young woman who recently landed in Canada as an
asylum seeker after a terrible gang rape in her home country. She was 21
weeks pregnant. She had no health coverage for an abortion, no money to pay
for the abortion itself nor for the bus ticket and accommodation required to
travel to the doctor who is able to terminate her pregnancy. She did not
speak English. Tia’s aunt called Canadians for Choice’s Information and
Referral Line last month to ask for help. Tia was sure she did not want to
continue her pregnancy but she did not know where to go or how to get there.
We were able to help her and her aunt navigate throughout the process of
obtaining a safe abortion. We were able to support them by funding their
travel expenses and accommodation in Toronto and by joining forces with
other groups and the abortion provider to ensure she was able to afford the
cost of the procedure.

Cathy: Cathy is a young woman from Kamloops, British Columbia. When she
phoned her local hospital to ask about an abortion, the person on the phone
blatantly lied to her saying that abortions were not offered. Cathy called
the Canadians for Choice information and referral line one week later in
desperate need of support. With two young children under 3 years old, she
could not bear to continue her pregnancy. When she reached CFC, she had just
passed the gestational age where abortions are performed in Kamloops. Cathy
now had to travel to Vancouver to obtain an abortion, but she could not
afford the cost of a bus ticket. The Canadians for Choice Emergency Travel
Fund helped her get to Vancouver where she was finally able to obtain the
service she so urgently needed

Lacey: Lacey lives in a First Nations Community in Northern Saskatchewan.
She needed to travel to Regina in order to terminate her pregnancy. She had
to get someone to drive her to the nearest bus station which is 3 hours
away, then needed to travel 5 hours to Regina. She could not afford the $115
bus ticket. CFC bought the ticket for her.
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