Posts Tagged ‘Workshop’

MayDay Weekend, May 1st schedule

April 18th, 2010

Saturday May 1 :

at Jack Purcell Community Centre

12:30pm – Opening

1:00pm
- Labour and Work-place Organizing (discussion)
- Community- and Guerrilla-Gardening (workshop)

2:30pm – Singing4Justice with Maura Volante

3:00pm
- Collective Environmental Action (discussion)
- Indigenous Solidarity (workshop)

4:00pm
- Tenants’ Rights and Housing Alternatives (discussion)
- Spoken Word Poetry (workshop)

5:00pm – Spoken Word Performance

5:20pm – Community Dinner

link to evening activities

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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-4:00pmclick 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