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Video: Casseroles -- Montreal May 24

For more than 100 days, Quebec students have been protesting a rise in tuition fees. With the imposition of Loi 78, limiting the rights to protest, Quebecers en masse have been joining them in the streets -- with pots and pans. 

Every evening at 8:00 p.m. people meet in the street with their pots and pans and make all the noise they can in protest. Music thanks to the band Avec pas d'casque and their record label Grosse Boîte

Musique/music:
INTUITION #1 -- Avec pas d'casque
© Grosse Boîte
Bandcamp: avecpasdcasque.bandcamp.com/album/astronomie

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Rally For Reproductive Justice

Date: Saturday, June 19, 2010 - 1:00pm

Location

Ryerson University - Pitman Hall
160 Mutual St.
Toronto
Canada
43° 39' 34.0128" N, 79° 22' 36.1632" W
See map: Google Maps

RALLY FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

Sex education matters for youth, maternal health includes abortion!
 
This is in conjunction with Oxfam's Gender Justice Summit prior to the Toronto G20 meetings.

WE DEMAND:
- The support and implementation for the changes to Ontario's sex education curriculum.
- Full funding for family planning and safe abortion in Canada's G8 Maternal/Child Health Initiative.
- Action on all women's health inequalities and injustices faced globally.
 
Featuring a spoken word performance by RED SLAM and speakers from:

- The Native Youth Sexual Health Network
- Oxfam
- Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics
- Planned Parenthood Toronto
- LGBT Youthline

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People's Summit 2010

Status of Chattel

After a wee rant on my Facebook wall, words fail.

It's the girls' fault?

"The Government of Canada is pleased to provide support to Regroupement des femmes de la région de Matane for its project, Et toi ton couple, ça clic? (So, Are You Clicking as a Couple?). This project aims to promote equitable, non-violent behaviour in the romantic relationships of adolescents by targeting the hypersexualization of girls as a root cause of dating violence."

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Weekly Pulse: Sotomayor an enigma on abortion

By
The Media Consortium
| May 27, 2009

By Lindsay Beyerstein, TMC MediaWire Blogger

Yesterday, Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina and the third woman ever nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. She is currently a federal judge on New York's 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. Born to Puerto Rican immigrant parents and raised by her mother in the housing projects of the South Bronx, Sotomayor went on to attend college at Princeton and law school at Yale. George H.W. Bush appointed her to the U.S. District Court in 1991 and Bill Clinton "promoted" her to the 2nd Circuit in 1998.

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Porn lessons

Showing adult films on campus debases both men and women

A Baltimore Sun Op-Ed by Gail Dines April 5, 2009

So the porn industry is now in the business of educating our youth. A spokesman for Digital Playground expressed disappointment with the cancellation of a public screening of one of the company's porn movies at the University of Maryland, College Park, claiming that showing such a movie "opens up a discussion, a discourse on sexuality and gender roles."

Actually, it does no such thing. Showing porn movies on campus creates a hostile and dangerous environment for its female students, it distorts how students think about sex and it debases both men and women.

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