OPEN FORMAT 12 Friday Dec 9th
- a benefit for Organizing4Justice

December 6th, 2011 by admin No comments »

{pleasure through sound presents}

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OPEN FORMAT 12 — a benefit for Organizing4Justice

Friday, December 9, 2011
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset St. West), Ottawa
9:oo PM to 1:oo AM

Pay what you can (donation requested)
ALL AGES

Sponsored in kind by CHUO 89.1 FM (www.chuo.fm)

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:::::: OPEN FORMAT ::::::

is a monthly series presenting a changing roster of secret DJs mixing together
music they love, freely and regardless of genre.

It is free but by donation, with the DJs of each night directing
all monies to people and/or places in our communities where it may be helpful.

Please support events like this so they can continue to take place in yr town!

 

:::::: Organizing 4 Justice ::::::

is a grassroots community project that aims to foster:

  • vision, strategy, and communication
  • skills and tools for effective organizing
  • relationship-building and networking

around the themes of:
** social justice ** economic justice ** environmental justice ** healthy communities **

https://organizingforjustice.ca/

 

:::::: OPEN FORMAT aims ::::::

  • . To share music in a communal space, without prejudice, hype, commercial ambition, or posturing.
  • . To acknowledge and contribute to the conditions within which music of all kinds can be created & enjoyed.
  • . To look outward, embracing the political, the undefined, the steadfast, the over-looked and the sincere.
  • . To unfetter from the straight-jackets of taste and habit.

http://pleasurethroughsound.blogspot.com/

 

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CALLS for PROPOSALS TO PRESENT
and for SUBMISSIONS TO PUBLISH

December 6th, 2011 by admin No comments »

CALLS FOR PROPOSALS TO PRESENT
and for SUBMISSIONS TO PUBLISH

(upcoming conferences and publications)

  • Music and Social Justice
  • Queer(ing) Crisis: Struggles, Mobilizations & Possible Futures
  • Contesting Power, Envisioning Alternatives, Creating Futures: The (Missed) Connection between Research and Social Change
  • The Global Economic Crisis and Canada: Perception Versus Reality
  • Declassified Mental Health Support and Survival Guide

**Note: if there are other calls/notices that we have missed, please add as a comment, or email org4justice@gmail.com

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Music and Social Justice
February 24-25th, 2012 at Carleton University

Carleton University’s newly formed Music and Social Justice Collective is holding an interdisciplinary symposium on the subject of music and social justice entitled “Sound Changes: Music and Social Justice” to be held on February 24 and 25, 2012 at Carleton University. This initiative is an outgrowth of Professor Jesse Stewart’s graduate seminar “Music and Social Justice”. Bringing together graduate students and academics from a wide variety of disciplines as well as performers, community activists, and other cultural workers, the symposium will examine music’s capacity to act as an agent for positive social change in a variety of musical, social, and cultural contexts.

Proposals due: December 9th, 2011

More info: contact@musicandsocialjustice.org
http://musicandsocialjustice.org/

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Queer(ing) Crisis: Struggles, Mobilizations & Possible Futures
March 2nd, 2012 at Carleton University

Queer(ing) crisis is an interdisciplinary conference inviting discussions around questions of global, economic, political, legal and other forms of crisis through a queer lens. The conference will be a forum to bring together different disciplines and to provide a space for exploring the multiple perspectives concerning queer crisis. The conference also seeks to build solidarity, establish alliances, and to cultivate an intellectual community amongst those working in critical sexuality studies.

Proposals due: January 8th, 2012

More info: queerconferencecarleton@gmail.com
http://www1.carleton.ca/politicaleconomy/2011/cfp-queering-crisis-struggles-mobilizations-possible-futures

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Contesting Power, Envisioning Alternatives, Creating Futures: The (Missed) Connection between Research and Social Change
March 16th, 2012 at Carleton University

The Organizing Committee of the 13th Annual Graduate Conference in Political Economy welcomes abstracts from graduate students for a conference to take place Friday, March 16th 2012. We invite papers that explore the relationship between research and action. Presenters are welcome to base their papers on academic research and/or activist experience.

Proposals due: January 16th, 2012

More info: ipecarleton@gmail.com
http://www1.carleton.ca/politicaleconomy/2011/cfp-contesting-power-envisioning-alternatives-creating-futures-the-missed-connection-between-research-and-social-change

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The Global Economic Crisis and Canada: Perception Versus Reality
- 2013 issue of Alternate Routes journal
- Conference on March 23rd, 2012 at Ryerson University in Toronto

Alternate Routes is seeking contributions that go beyond the rhetoric of recession versus recovery as measured by narrowly economistic factors. We are seeking papers that chart the full affects of the global economic crisis and its implications for Canada. In what ways has international instability affected Canada? To what extent are such features structurally-induced, the product of contemporary circumstances, the result of specific policies of particular administrations, or some combination of other factors? What are the characteristics, politics, and forms of resistance to Canadian versions of austerity? What new challenges and opportunities have been created? How should progressives respond?

Proposals for conference are due: January 15, 2012

Article submissions due: April 31st, 2012

Contact: editor@alternateroutes.ca
http://www.alternateroutes.ca/index.php/ar/announcement/view/299

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Declassified Mental Health Support and Survival Guide

OPIRG-Kingston wants to develop a zine that will explore resources, tactics and strategies around self-care, supporting our friends, consent, and other such topics. We believe that there are no better experts about our lives than ourselves. We want this publication to come directly from our community (students, staff, faculty) which has the knowledge, skills and experience to develop solutions for our community. We are seeking to provide resources, tactics and strategies through soliciting
*articles *artwork *poetry *stories, etc.

Submission deadline: January 18th, 2012.

Contact: mentalhealth@opirgkingston.org with submissions, questions, comments and more!
https://www.facebook.com/events/253727021352654/

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Shared progressive office space:
Under One Roof opens in January

November 17th, 2011 by admin No comments »


Bringing Ottawa-based progressive groups
together under one roof

Click image for 13-page brochure in PDF format

 

The ‘Under One Roof’ project, opening soon at 251 Bank St, offers community groups and organizations office space and access to shared facilities/resources, in a facility housing a number of progressive/left-leaning organizations.

For example, one desk (in a semi-open room) at $500/month includes access to meeting/event space, a media room, shared kitchen facilities, printing/photocopying, internet access and a phone line. This would be located on the 2nd floor of the building (the first floor is elevator or stair access from the street, and the upper floors will be opening at later dates).

 

  • There is also a 13-page in-depth brochure: click here for PDF (or email contacts below for a higher-quality version)
  • And, this interview on rabble.ca featured project coordinator Diane Touchette of the Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives talking about Under One Roof.

 

CONTACT INFO:
Diane Touchette, 613-883-1341 or dianet@policyalternatives.ca
or Sharon Fernandez, 613-236-5524 or share6662002@yahoo.com

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 31, 2011

Ottawa NGOs to Unite Under One Roof

An innovative vision for social work spaces is getting ready to be launched in January 2012.

Under One Roof Properties Inc. is modeled after Toronto’s Centre for Social Innovation, where NGOs come together to share resources, ideas and work space in a centralized sustainable location.

Diane Touchette, Under One Roof’s President, explains: “People work best when they feel they are a part of a network of peers with the same social values. This initiative provides a unique opportunity for NGOs and progressives to support and learn from each other’s work in a healthy, collaborative environment that also contributes to the revitalization of the downtown core.”

Under One Roof, located at 251 Bank Street, has been in the works for over two years. Renovations are currently underway and tenants are looking forward to moving in for December 2011 and January 2012. The template for a collaborative work space is expanding floor by floor throughout the building to accommodate future tenants. The space is being completely retrofitted with environmentally sound materials and state-of-the-art furniture, equipment, and technology. In addition to office space, there will be communal spaces integrated into the floor plan to better facilitate the sharing of ideas and projects.

Under One Roof offers a variety of different types of leases to tenants: from longerterm leases for larger NGOs to more flexible leases for smaller organizations and consultants. Tenancy will include phone, long distance, internet, the use of meeting rooms of various sizes, and access to an on-site professional studio to film interviews and record podcasts. Under One Roof will also provide positive, accessible space for public events: book launches, meetings, poetry readings, and lunch hour speaker series.

“The response has been overwhelmingly positive and demonstrates conclusively that Ottawa is ready for Under One Roof. A healthy collaborative workplace with deep community ties is a key part of the work life balance that people crave. This is precisely what Under One Roof is all about,” concludes Touchette.

Spaces are still available but going fast. For more information contact Diane Touchette (at 613-883-1341 dianet@policyalternatives.ca) or Sharon Fernandez (at 613-236-5524 share6662002@yahoo.com).

 

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DIY printing — Occupy Ottawa poster & flyers, and Occupy paper

October 16th, 2011 by admin No comments »

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Promotional materials for Occupy Ottawa — 8.5×11 poster pdf, and 8.5×11 flyers pdf (with 4 quarter-page flyers).  Also the 2-page ‘rabble rouser’ Occupy print edition. The poster/flyers are the “99% strong” image, and indicate Confederation Park but don’t have any dates listed (ie, ongoing). They’re in colour (red & black) but can be printed in black&white or grayscale.

This is one way we have to reach people who are not on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Print your own to distribute/post:

 

ALSO…

 


The rabble rouser

print edition, covering the Occupy movement

Two-page pdf from rabble.ca to print double-sided and hand out copies for people who want to know more about what ‘Occupy’ is.

Two versions:

 
–> Here is the rabble rouser home page, from rabble.ca’s Occupy coverage.

 

IF YOU ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE PRINTING OF COPIES, please email outreach.occupyottawa@gmail.com, design.occupyottawa@gmail.com, & cc publisher@rabble.ca
 
Click for: Occupy Ottawa on Facebook — Occupy Ottawa website (still in progress)
 

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