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Save the Centre for Studies in Social Justice!

Date: Monday, June 3, 2013 - 1:30am

Location

University of Windsor
Sunset Avenue
Windsor, ON
Canada
42° 18' 19.6956" N, 83° 3' 54.45" W

Dear Friends and Allies:

We need your support! The University of Windsor administration has determined that it will close the Centre for Studies in Social Justice this July 1, 2013. This decision must be reversed as the Centre is a unique, vital and vibrant hub for social justice research, knowledge dissemination, exchange, and advocacy in Canada. You can learn more about the great work that has been done at the Centre by visiting their webpage:
http://www.uwindsor.ca/socialjustice

Five ways millennials will actually save the world

A recent cover article in Time magazine has the internet all abuzz about millennials. There have been a slew of great mashups of the cover, and the folks over at the Atlantic Monthly have been so kind as to totally debunk the article's claims.

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The Trouble With Billionaires - Democracry, Government and the 1%

Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Location

Toronto City Hall - Council Chamber
100 Queen Street West @ Nathan Philips Square
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 11.6136" N, 79° 22' 59.4624" W

Starting with the 2008 financial meltdown,  then bank bailouts,  government deficits,  out-sourcing,  factory shutdowns,  high unemployment,  record  high household and student debt,  then the Euro-debt crisis, and now government austerity programs with cutbacks in Federal and Provincial budgets to public services  and social programs  including pensions, drug benefits and Medicare  - - - -                   it’s still the “Great Recession” and …

The Trouble With Billionaires – Democracy, Government and the 1%

Can online activism incite political agency? ShitHarperDid keeps apathy in its crosshairs

It is by now a common trope: teenagers don't vote.

On May 2, 2011, the day of Canada's last federal election, close to 2 million young people avoided the polls. Remarkably, only 37.4 per cent of Canadians aged 18-24 voted. 

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There is no such thing as a 'young voter': Elections, movements and the politics of identity

Photo: باثريس - übung / flickr

Not long ago I was at a political event having a conversation with another young organizer, and as these conversations often do, they turned to some of our gripes with some of our older colleagues. Today, it was a particular frustration, the elusive "youth vote."

Politicians, political organizers and pundits have made a lot of hay over the past decade decrying, appealing to and discussing the crisis with what they tend to call "young voters." With an election in British Columbia right around the corner, it's beginning again.

Why were we sharing this moment of frustration? Because there is no such thing as a young voter.

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"EDUCATION, LIBERATION, ACTION!" Forum on Equity and Education Presented by University of Toronto Transitional Year Programme Students and Alumni

Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 6:15pm - 9:15pm

Location

OISE RM# 2124
252 Bloor St. West
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 40' 4.4004" N, 79° 23' 54.1392" W

Over the last forty-three years, the Transitional Year Programme (TYP) has offered applicants a full-time access program uniquely geared towards historically underrepresented experiences, while also offering students with a chance to gain entry into the University of Toronto Undergraduate Faculty of Arts and Science. In an age of austerity and cutbacks to similar programming, TYP has remained steadfast in the delivery of an academic bridging program rooted in a pro-equity and anti-oppressive worldview.

 

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Smash the State Report: Mar. 1, 2013.

March 5, 2013
| February in Review from mediacoop.ca + quebec student strike redux? Toronto G20 police repression goes international with 2 extradition arrests inthe US and more!!
Length: 1:00:40 minutes (55.55 MB)

Elections are not a solution: Out of the voting booths, into the streets

| February 4, 2013

Decolonizing Our Minds 2013

Date: Saturday, February 9, 2013 - 10:30am - 5:00pm

Location

William Doo Auditorium
45 Willcocks St.
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 40.4856" N, 79° 24' 3.2256" W

THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO EQUITY STUDIES STUDENT UNION PRESENTS

DECOLONIZING OUR MINDS 2013: PRACTICING DECOLONIAL LOVE

http://www.uoftessu.com/dom2013/

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