advocacy
Mad Students Society peer support meeting "New Year, fear, cheer and community revolutions"
Jan 14 2012 - 3:30pm
Jan 14 2012 - 5:30pm
Location
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 11.6136" N, 79° 22' 59.4624" W
See map: Google Maps
MSS Presents: "New Year/Fear/Cheer and Community Revolutions"
What? Our January 2012 downtown peer support meeting
Where? Email Elizabeth at outreach@madstudentsociety.com for details.
How crazy was 2011? (How) Did you make it through the holidays? Come talk about the New Year and what you're worried about and looking forward to in 2012. Do you make resolutions? Dissolutions? Evolutions? Revolutions? What are your hopes for the mad community and MSS in the year ahead? Any questions you want answered? Issues you want addressed? Topics you want discussed? Events you want organized (you're so helping!)? Of course there will be plenty of time to talk about whatever else is on our minds... We welcome new members, frequent faces, and folks we haven't seen in awhile!
Contact name:
Elizabeth
Contact email:
Seventy delegates including parliamentarians from 11 countries issue appeal for the end of the siege of Gaza
| November 30, 2011Including transwomen in women's services
It's sadly not uncommon for transwomen to be discriminated against by women's services. Woman-only policies are exclusionary to women who are transgender, intersex and transexual.
Manual
That's why the Trans Alliance Society has produced the Trans Inclusion Policy Manual. The extensive guide covers definitions, legal and human rights, an overview of the need for inclusion as well as detailed sections about how to write and implement trans-friendly policy.
Mad Students Society: November peer support meeting
Nov 12 2011 - 3:30pm
Nov 12 2011 - 5:30pm
Location
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 11.6136" N, 79° 22' 59.4624" W
See map: Google Maps
Mad Students Society (MSS), created in 2005, is a community of students who are attending or planning to attend institutions of post-secondary or adult education and have past and/or present experiences with psychiatric and/or mental health systems.
Contact name:
Elizabeth
Contact email:
![Karl Nerenberg](http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/Karl.jpg "Karl Nerenberg joins rabble to cover news for the rest of us from Parliament Hill. Karl has been a journalist for over 25 years including eight years as the producer of the CBC show The House. He has written scripts for documentary films and long-form television reports for such shows as Le Point and Actuel on Radio Canada television and The Journal on CBC-TV. Karl also founded and, for five years, edited the magazine Federations: What's new in federalism worldwide.
Karl has been awarded a Gemini award, a Best International Documentary Series award (from "la communauté des televisions francophones"), a CBC Radio Award for Best New Series (C'est la vie) among others. As a broadcaster, Mr. Nerenberg produced and directed television series and documentaries in a wide range of genres and on a great variety of subjects -- from civil war in Central America, to the crisis in South Africa's Apartheid system.
Karl works in both English and French, and can be reached at karl@rabble.ca")
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| October 13, 2011Leaflet campaign
Introduction
This guide is intended to show activists how to organize a leaflet campaign.
Overview
For years, leaflet campaigns have proven to be a powerful advertising method. In light of the method's success as an affordable promotional tool, activists and non-profit organizations continue to utilize leaflet distribution.
Considerations
How do I create a leaflet?
What to include in a leaflet?
How to pay for a leaflet?
Where to hand out a leaflet?
What should I do if approached by a non-supporter?
Templates
PetitionOnline
PetitionOnline offers free online hosting of public petitions.
PetitionOnline instantly generates web-based petitions from user-submitted online forms. Functioning as an online clipboard, the website collects and displays all petition signatures. As each petition is self-contained, accessibility for would-be signers is available via the petition URL.
The tool's aim is the advancement and promotion of grassroots democracy.
Tactical Technology Collective
Founded in 2003, the Tactical Technology Collective remains an international non-governmental organization dedicated to the notion that technology and information management can be leveraged to bring about positive social change.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a non-profit advocacy and legal organization that aims to safeguard society’s digital rights. Since its establishment in 1990, U.S.-based EFF has worked to defend the Internet civil liberties of Americans.
John Perry Barlow, Mitch Kapor, and John Gilmore founded EFF.
https://www.eff.org/