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MayDay Weekend, May 2nd schedule

April 18th, 2010

Sunday May 2:

at Jack Purcell Community Centre

12:30pm – Opening

1:00pm
- Sex Activism (discussion)
- Silk-screening (workshop) note: best to bring your own shirt to screen onto

2:00pm
- Transforming or Ignoring Municipal Politics? (discussion)
- G8/G20 Huntsville/Toronto meetings and community mobilization of resistance: What are we fighting for, and what are we up against? (workshop)

3:00pm – Just Voices choir

3:30pm
- Building a Local Activist Community (discussion)

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MayDay evening activities – Sat May 1st

April 18th, 2010

There are two other events going on Saturday (day) that we think people should know about:

The following are events we support and encourage Organizing For Justice partipants to check out on Saturday night…

PROMdemonium

It’s the radical, community-oriented, gender-bending, bike-loving, enviro-humping, queer-diggin, slow dancing, big dress wearing prom that you never had. It is a FUNdraiser for local creative resistance initiatives – including Organizing For Justice.

Featuring:

  • The Sexual Overtones www.sexualovertones.ca
  • DJ Hobo and DJ Sweet Cheeks, DJ Daisy, DJ Chris International and Mr. Caffrey
  • The Infamous Kissing Wheel
  • Cash Bar 19+
  • and more !

8:30pm-1:00am (last call)

at Saint Brigids Centre for Arts and Humanities, 310 St. Patrick
Sorry, the venue isn’t fully accessible.

Tickets: Lower-income accessible tickets: $5. Rest of tickets: sliding scale $10-$20 (or more — it’s a FUNdraiser). Or want to get in free? Volunteer!
* note it will likely sell out, so make sure to get your tickets early!
Tickets available at Venus Envy (320 Lisgar St) and Octopus Books (116 Third Ave)

www.promdemonium.ca

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May Day Celebration & Benefit for Vale-Inco Strikers [USW 6500]

7:30pm at the Royal Oak (Upstairs) 221 Echo Dr. (@ Pretoria Bridge on the canal)

Featuring speakers: Leon Portelance [Vale-Inco striker/ USW 6500], Rosemary Warskett
… and singers: May Day Singers, Poetic Speed

Sponsored by the Socialist Project

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Capital Slam Semi-FInals

The twelve top poets from the Capital Slam season have been invited to throw down their best spoken word magic to try to advance to the finals!

$10, all ages

Doors open at 6:30pm – expected to sell-out so get there early!
at Alumni Auditorium, Jock Turcot University Centre, University of Ottawa

www.capitalslam.com

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Contra Dancing

Contra is a fun form of community dance where you begin and finish one dance (about 10min) with the same partner, progressing up and down the hall in long lines while you dance with different sets of other couples, repeating a sequence of moves guided by the caller. Essentially it’s lots of fun AND excellent exercise.

Dance 8:00pm-11:00pm with free beginner lesson at 7:30pm where basic moves are taught.

at Churchill Rec Centre in Westboro, 345 Richmond Road – side door

$12 general ; $10 members & students (with ID); free for youth 16 and under.
First-time contra dancers receive a card to attend their second dance free*

Note: this is a regular event, the first and third Saturday of every month Sept-June.

www.ottawacontra.ca

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MayDay Weekend: May 1-2

March 25th, 2010

Organizing For Justice presents…

MAYDAY WEEKEND 2010
>> May 1st and 2nd

In Canada and the U.S., ‘Labour Day’ is celebrated in September as part of a cover-up of the real history of the labour movement.

This year, we are celebrating the real labour day by holding a two-day gathering with opportunities to discuss labour activism and a whole lot more.

Saturday May 1, 12:30-6:00pm
Sunday May 2, 12:30-5:00pm

at Jack Purcell Community Centre
(near corner of Elgin and Gilmour)

Free / by donation. No registration required.

Themed around social justice, economic justice, environmental justice and healthy communities.

There will be discussions, workshops/skill-shares, cultural activities, information tables featuring local groups and organizations, snacks and refreshments, and a Saturday community dinner.

www.OrganizingForJustice.ca ~~ 613-656-5498 ~~ org4justice@gmail.com

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SCHEDULE | TABLING | ACCESSIBILITY | VOLUNTEERS | PROMOTION | GET CONNECTED

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SCHEDULE

Saturday May 1:
12:30pm – Opening
1:00pm
- Labour and Work-place Organizing (discussion)
- Community- and Guerrilla-Gardening (workshop)
2:30pm – Cultural Activity
3:00pm
- Collective Environmental Action (discussion)
- Indigenous Solidarity (workshop)
4:00pm
- Tentants’ Rights and Housing Alternatives (discussion)
- Spoken Word Poetry (workshop)
5:00pm – Spoken Word Performance
5:20pm – Community Dinner

Sunday May 2:
12:30pm – Opening
1:00pm
- Sex Activism (discussion)
- *TBC: Silk-screening (workshop)
2:00pm
- Transforming or Ignoring Municipal Politics? (discussion)
- *TBC: Organizing Protests & Legal Issues: Focus on G8/G20 (workshop)
3:00pm – Cultural Activity
3:30pm
- Building a Local Activist Community (discussion)

Note: *TBC on the Sunday means “To Be Confirmed”

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TABLING

If your group or organization would like to table at the event (on Sat and/or Sun), please contact us ASAP. We have 15 tables each day and it is first come, first served: org4justice@gmail.com, 613-656-5498

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ACCESSIBILITY

The venue is wheelchair accessible.

We are working on providing childcare and ASL translation; please contact us if you would require either of these: org4justice@gmail.com, 613-656-5498 … if anyone can help us arrange sign language translation, please contact us!

There is limited reserved parking for patrons of the community centre. You will need to ask at the front desk for a parking pass for these spots.

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PROMOTION / POSTERING

Please help us spread the word:

- Send out this callout to your friends or any listservs you are on

- Join and invite your friends to our Facebook page and event:
Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Organizing-For-Justice/112481105432506
Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104454686258267

- Print out these 1/4-pg flyers and pass them around:
http://organizingforjustice.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/org4justice-2010-flyer.pdf
(Note: colour version also prints well in B&W)

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VOLUNTEERS

We would really love people’s assistance in putting this event on. Contact us if you can help: org4justice@gmail.com, 613-656-5498

In advance:
- Promotions and postering (see above)
- Join the planning committee (for this event and for the future)
- Helping us find ways to offer sign language interpretation

The day(s) of:
- Facilitating discussions
- Note-taking
- Set-up / Set-down
- Childcare

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GET CONNECTED

We are bringing socialism to social media!

http://twitter.com/org4jus

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Organizing-For-Justice/112481105432506

Organizing For Justice is not only the gatherings we organize (this is our third edition!), but also about promoting various other local initiatives and events that are aligned with our values of social justice, economic justice, economic justice, and healthy communities. Join us on Twitter or Facebook to receive updates about various things going on in the local community.

http://www.OrganizingForJustice.ca

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Welcome!

October 10th, 2009

Welcome to Organizing For Justice online! Over four days, October 15-18, in Ottawa/Gatineau, we have scheduled:

  • Thurs evening Panel discussion (English)
  • Fri evening Music, Theatre and Spoken Word performances and Social event (English)
  • Sat all-day Book-/Info-fair and multiple sessions of Workshops, followed by a Community Dinner
  • Sat evening Table Ronde (panel discussion, in French)
  • Sun all-day Ateliers (multiple workshops, in French) along with some info-tabling

Note: we are inviting local groups and/or vendors to table as part of the Book/Info-fair on Sat Oct 17. Please fill out and return the tabling registration form!

If you’d like to help, please email org4justice@gmail.com or visit our ‘Get Involved‘ page. We look forward to seeing you in October! (or earlier if you want to help organize :) PS feel free to sign up on our Facebook group if you FB. Note: il n’y a pas de versions Francais de toutes les pages pour la moment, mais nous travaillons sur correcter cette probleme.

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Sat Oct 17: Book/Info-fair, Workshops/Sessions, Community Dinner

September 4th, 2009

Saturday October 17, 10:00am-8:00pm

Location: 440 Albert St (the old Ottawa Technical High School, between Albert & Slater just east of Bronson)

Featuring:

  • Book-fair/info-fair, 10am-6pm – with vendors and local community groups and organizations
  • Workshops / sessions – four time-slots of jam-packed ‘edutainment’ (see schedule below)
  • Community dinner and social – beginning at 6:00pm

Workshops/Sessions schedule:

10:30am-12:00pm – click for details of sessions

  • Movement- and Coalition-Building
  • Diversity, Equity and Anti-Oppression
  • Measuring Sustainability – Is there room in the middle?

12:30pm-2:00pm - click for details of sessions

  • Queer Struggles and the Economic Crisis
  • Healthy Activism / Preventing Burnout
  • Housing and Anti-Poverty Organizing
  • Resistance to the Coup in Honduras

2:30pm-4:00pm – click for details of sessions

  • Labour Solidarity and Resistance
  • Indigenous Peoples and the Law
  • Building an Anarchist Organization
  • Successful Online Campaigns and Internet Communication

4:30pm-6:00pm - click for details of sessions

  • Cooperatives: A Different Way of Doing Business
  • Know Your Rights (when dealing with the cops)
  • Environmental Organizing

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Thurs Oct 15: Panel discussion

September 4th, 2009

Thursday October 16, 6:30pm

Location: Ottawa Public Library main branch auditorium (120 Metcalfe at Laurier)

Panel discussion – Theme: Grassroots Responses to the Economic and Environmental Crises

Featuring:

  • Beenash Jafri was one of the founding members of the Anti-Racist Environmental Coalition (AREC) and continues to write and present on environmental justice issues. She’s currently a PhD candidate in women’s studies at York University, Toronto. Her research interests include: critical race/antiracism studies, postcolonial theory, critical feminism/gender studies, indigenous studies, identity politics, environmental justice, social movements and coalition building. See co-authored article ‘Green is not the only colour‘
  • Ben Powless (Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, Indigenous Environmental Network) – A Mohawk young person from Six Nations (currently a student at Carleton University) involved in organizing the Power Shift Canada 2009 conference (Ottawa, Oct 23-26), addressing climate change and a just transition to a ‘green’ society / economy.
  • Carlo Fanelli has been a part-time employee with the City of Toronto for the past 10-years and is currently a PhD candidate at Carleton University. Involved with an initiative aiming to organize working class communities in Toronto, he will discuss the origin, process and outcome of the recent Toronto Workers’ Assembly, as well highlight future plans and aims of its participants.

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