Shaking up the Discourse'

The Closing Event of the Conference
Lumpen-City: Discourses of Marginality/Marginalizing Discourses
http://www.lumpencity.com

Friday March 13th, 2009
The Toronto Free Gallery
1277 Bloor Street West, east of Lansdowne

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7:30 - 9:30pm

*Prospects of Activist Research - A panel discussion with:*

Ashanti Alston, National Jericho Movement
Viviane Saleh-Hanna, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Rinaldo Walcott, OISE, University of Toronto
David Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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10pm - 1am

*Arts of Resistance - Music, Poetry and Dance*

with performances by:
Por Amor
DJ Nik Redman
DJ Syrus Ware
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Art Work: "Voices from Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex." In connection with the historic Critical Resistance 10th anniversary conference
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'If I Can't Dance, Is It Still My Revolution?' Website Launch and Dance Party

8pm Friday
March 13th
Raging Spoon
761 Queen W.
$10 or Pay What You Can (at the door)
Tickets at Toronto Women's Bookstore and Come As You Are

Cheap Drinks.
Wheelchair accessible.
Live captioning.

A fundraiser for OCAP and DAMN 2025

Eli Clare - Author of Exile and Pride and The Marrow’s Telling. Eli Clare, who is championed as having written the best radical book about disability ever, weaves hope, critical analysis, and compassionate storytelling together in his work on disability and queerness, insisting on the twine of race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability.

A.J. Withers - Author of the Still My Revolution zine series and website, they are a long time and passionate community organizer in Toronto and a co-founder of DAMN 2025.

Performances by: Rafeef Ziadah, Richard Laviolette, Griffin Epstein, and Jes Sachse

March 29: Letter writing night for Palestinian student political prisoners -

Anarchist Black Cross Federation & Teachers for Palestine

Join us for a night of food and camaraderie in solidarity with imprisoned Palestinian student political prisoners. Suggested donation: $2 or PWYC.

WHEN: Sunday March 29, 6 p.m.
WHERE: 62 Fraser Ave. (south east of Dufferin and King)
WHAT: Dinner, discussion and writing letters to Palestinian and North American political prisoners
WHO: Toronto Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) & Teachers for Palestine

Co-sponsored by Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA University of Toronto) and the Right to Education Campaign

Featuring presentations by Palestinian solidarity activists Kole Kilibarda and Yafa Jarrar, and statements from North American political prisoners.

Kole Kilibarda is an organizer with the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid in Toronto.

INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY (IWD), Toronto 2009

THEME: Women Lead the Fight: Good Jobs & Dignity for All

Saturday March 7, 2009

Rally - 11:00am
OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor Street West (St. George Subway Station)

March - 1:00pm

Fair 1:30p.m. Ryerson, 55 Gould Street

For more information about the history of IWD, go to
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/womday97.htm
http://www.internationalwomensday.com/

For more info on last year's rally in Toronto, go to
http://www.iwdtoronto.com/.

BACKGROUND
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is taking place in more than 40 cities across the globe (the number of cities is growing daily). This year, IAW happens in the wake of Israel's barbaric assault on the people of Gaza. In Toronto, the birthplace of IAW, a full week of lectures, films, and actions will make the point that these latest massacres further confirm the true nature of Israeli Apartheid. The theme for IAW 2009 in Toronto is “Standing United with the People of Gaza”, events will take place at the University of Toronto, Ryerson University and York University. IAW 2009 will continue to build and strengthen the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement at a global level.

EVENTS

Monday, March 2: Resisting Apartheid: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Library Building
Ryerson Univesity
LIB072
350 Victoria St.

The Committee for Just Education Presents:

CELEBRATING RESISTANCE: A victory for the Fight Fees 14
Thursday January 29th at 7pm
New College Wilson Hall Lounge, 2nd Floor - 40 Willcocks Ave.

Join students, staff, faculty and community members to celebrate a victory for the Fight Fees 14, a group of UofT students, staff, and alumni who were criminally charged for allegedly taking part in a peaceful sit-in on March 20th 2008.

Criminal charges and restrictive bail conditions imposed on the Fight Fees 14 are finally starting to be withdrawn after a long drawn out legal battle. Nine of the fourteen activists have had their charges completely rescinded, while the remaining five expect complete
vindication in due course.

Anarchists Against the Wall speaking tour

Tuesday Feburary 24
OISE auditorium
252 Bloor st. W. (St. George Subway Station)
7 PM - 9PM
Suggested Donation: $5 or PWYC

Sponsored by: CUPE 3907, Women in Solidarity with Palestine (WSP), Common Cause, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada (IJAN)

Endorsements include: United People's Jewish Order (UJPO) Canada, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), Zatoun, Not in Our Name (NION): Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism, CAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy, Ryerson University,
OPIRG-Toronto, Yosher Jewish Network for Social Justice, Global Aware, Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) - Univ. of Toronto, Queers Against Apartheid (QuAA), Toronto Women's Bookstore

A Short description of “Anarchist Against The Wall”

From CUPE 3903:

From CUPE 3906 at McMaster University:

Please sign up here to get on the bus Tuesday morning at 8:30am to
join the rally at the Ministry of Labour to oppose this undemocratic
law (busses will return to McMaster by 2:30pm). There is no need for
last names, etc - we just want to get a sense of how many people are

Support Impact Cleaning Services Workers

It's time for property owners and managers to adopt Responsible Contractor Policies

Rally and info-picket

Wednesday, January 21st
12:00 noon

480 University Ave
(north-west corner of University and Dundas)

Impact Cleaning Services workers face some of the worst working conditions in Toronto.

Impact operates an elaborate sub-contracting scheme that denies many workers the basic protections of the Employment Standards Act.

In a wealthy city like Toronto no one should have to work under these conditions.

Community organisations and politicians have come together to demand that building owners and managers adopt a Responsible Contracting Policy.

This will help make the lives of all cleaners better by stopping Impact from getting away with its dirty practices.

Join us on Jan. 21st. to demand that companies using Impact adopt the Responsible Contractors Policy.

RECOGNIZE THE SYSTEM AS FLAWED
AND TRANSFORM IT!

Saturday January 17, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
OISE, Room 2211 (252 Bloor St. W – 1⁄2 Block East of St. George St.)

ENDORSED BY: APUS, Common Cause, CUPE 3903, CUPE 3907,
No One Is Illegal - Toronto, OCAP

A Community Forum on the Uprising in Greece and its Lessons for Toronto

• Toronto Organizers will speak on their experiences with
direct action and disruption.

• A pre-recorded interview with an international activist
who was involved in the December 2008 occupation of
Athens Polytechnic.

• Clips from The Rehearsal (1974), a film recreating the events of the 1973 occupation of the Athens Polytechnic University by its students, an event that toppled a dictatorship.