It’s time for the Toronto Peoples’ Social Forum
Hey everyone, yes, it’s that time of year…time for the forum which starts Saturday July 11 to Sunday July 12, 2015.
But with a special picnic kick off TONIGHT you can read about here.
Here are the deets:
Saturday July 11 to Sunday July 12, 2015.
Starts 4:30 p.m.
Ryerson Campus, closest to Church and Gerrard.
The Call Out:
Register Now! www.peoplessocialforum.org/torontopsf
Following in the tradition of the World Social Forum and last summer’s extremely successful Peoples’ Social Forum in Ottawa, we are hosting the TORONTO PEOPLES’ SOCIAL FORUM! This gathering of social and environmental movements, unions, civil society, Indigenous peoples and progressives will be an official counter-summit to the Pan-American Economic Forum immediately preceding it. We shall counter the narratives of the elite neoliberal and neoconservative voices with those of our own!
We will gather as diverse peoples with pluralistic visions of change on what has for centuries been considered shared territory. The lands upon which Toronto is built have been a home and hunting grounds of many peoples, including the Haudenosaunee, Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the New Credit. This is the territory of the One Dish One Spoon treaty, which was made between the Anishnaabe and Haudenosaunee. What belongs to one belongs to all. In this spirit, we will come together to find ways to work together towards a more just and joyful world.
More information: www.peoplessocialforum.org/torontopsf/
Thanks to the PSF host organizations the UNIFOR Sam Gindin Chair of Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University and A World in Exile: Ryerson’s Counter Culture Campus Group and the Racialised Students Collective. Also, thanks to the Department of Social Justice Education at OISE for their co-sponsorship.
GENERAL SCHEDULE
July 10: 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. — The Peoples’ Picnic Block Party: a kick-off for the Toronto Peoples’ Social Forum
https://www.facebook.com/events/1667153263517977/
July 10: 6 p.m. — Critical Mass Bike Ride
https://www.facebook.com/events/108818569460506/
July 11: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. — Toronto Peoples’ Social Forum (opening, workshops, assemblies, alt media fair)
July 11: 7:30-9 p.m. — Keynote Panel with Tantoo Cardinal, Judy Rebick, Linda McQuaig, Ajamu Nangwaya, Syed Hussan, and Mike Palecek
https://www.facebook.com/events/1468781446767092/
July 11: 9 p.m. — Revolution is Poetic: Afterparty
https://www.facebook.com/events/1452936365009631/
July 12: PSF General Assembly (only open to people/organizations involved with the PSF organizing)
For full calendar, please see here. https://www.facebook.com/events/625405217562434/
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