From mob4glob at turning.ca Fri Feb 3 09:27:48 2012 From: mob4glob at turning.ca (Announcements List for U of S Mobilization For Global Justice Club) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:27:48 -0600 Subject: [mob4glob] Global Citizen Awards Gala - Saturday, February 4 Message-ID: In celebration of INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT WEEK 2012 ... The Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation is inviting you to attend our Global Citizen Awards Gala event in Saskatoon. *** 2012 Global Citizen Award Winners *** - Walk for Future Generations Youth Participants - JoAnn Jaffe Also: Honour Song Tribute by: - John Noon Entertainment by: - The Seahags Local and International appetizers will be provided. Cash bar available. *** Check out our website, www.earthbeat.sk.ca to learn more! *** Please RSVP, if possible (scic at earthbeat.sk.ca). Saturday, February 4, 2012 - Doors @ 6:30, program at 7:00 pm Cosmo Seniors Centre Saskatoon - 614 11th St. E. Free to attend, but donations gratefully accepted. Funding for this event has been provided by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) From mob4glob at turning.ca Wed Feb 8 14:57:24 2012 From: mob4glob at turning.ca (Announcements List for U of S Mobilization For Global Justice Club) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:57:24 -0600 Subject: [mob4glob] Reporting from the Front Lines of the Arab Spring | Saturday, Feb. 11 Message-ID: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Arab Spring protester-riot-gear.jpg Saturday, February 11 3:30pm Mayfair Branch Library - Meeting Room 602 33rd St W, Saskatoon Admission: Free - Public Welcome - Wheelchair Accessible Description: Join Organizers Darius Mirshahi (aka hip hop artist Testament) and Sakura Saunders as they report from the front lines of the uprisings in Cairo, Egypt. Excerpted from "Egypt's Ongoing Uprising" http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2012/01/25/egypts-ongoing-uprising/ One year ago, millions of Egyptians took to the streets and occupied public squares as part of the wave of revolts popularly referred to as the Arab Spring. Inspired by the uprising in Tunisia, Egyptians overcame the paralysis of fear and met their oppressors head-on, clashing with the police on National Police Day. The people were dispersed, but confrontations continued in neighborhoods and streets across Egypt, spreading police numbers thin while systematically destroying police infrastructure and readying the masses for the Day of Rage. On January 28, the people of Cairo retook Tahrir square, breaking through police barricades with decentralized marches originating from neighborhoods throughout the city. With the police defeated and withdrawn, neighborhood patrols spontaneously emerged to protect neighborhoods, while Tahrir was transformed into an autonomous zone and tent city. Two weeks later, the streets erupt in joyful celebration as Mubarak surrendered power. One year later, the third round of elections has just concluded, while the military still holds political power. They also hold over 12,000 political prisoners, who are being hastily sentenced in military trials. The streets of Cairo are filled with graffiti and the residue of political protests that became street fights. Walls made of huge concrete slabs block roads where the military and police faced off with protesters only months earlier; the marble sidewalks remain torn up where street militants recently improvised ammunition. Some neighborhood assemblies have transformed into "popular committees in the defense of the revolution," working on issues ranging from basic services to local governance. Meanwhile, over 100 independent trade unions were formed, breaking the state's former monopoly on organized labor. _____ Peter Garden Turning the Tide Bookstore 525 11th St. East Saskatoon, SK Cree Territory - Treaty 6 S7N 0G1 (306)955-3070 www.turning.ca -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 5564 bytes Desc: not available URL: From mob4glob at turning.ca Wed Feb 15 13:39:06 2012 From: mob4glob at turning.ca (Announcements List for U of S Mobilization For Global Justice Club) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:39:06 -0600 Subject: [mob4glob] REMINDER -TONIGHT: Indian Horse | A Book Launch with Richard Wagamese Message-ID: You Are Invited to a Book Launch with Richard Wagamese the Award-Winning Author of Ten Books Including One Native Life and Keeper'n Me indian-horse-cover.jpg Wednesday, February 15 - 7:30pm Oskayak High School (Gymnasium) 919 Broadway Ave - Saskatoon Admission Free - Public Welcome - Wheelchair Accessible Presented by: Oskayak High School, The U of S Department of Native Studies, Saskatchewan Literacy Network, Turning the Tide Bookstore, Social Justice and Anti-racist Anti-Oppressive Forum on Education (SAFE), First Nations University of Canada, and Douglas and McIntyre Publishers RSVP to the Facebook event here Download a printable copy of the event poster here Description: A magical new novel from the bestselling author of One Native Life. Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he's a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he's sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he'll find it only through telling his story. With him, readers embark on a journey back through the life he's led as a northern Ojibway, with all its joys and sorrows. With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he's sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Indian Horse unfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. Wagamese writes with a spare beauty, penetrating the heart of a remarkable Ojibway man. Drawing on his great-grandfather's mystical gift of vision, Saul Indian Horse comes to recognize the influence of everyday magic on his own life. In this wise and moving novel, Richard Wagamese shares that gift of magic with readers as well. Praise for Richard Wagamese and Indian Horse: "Indian Horse is a force for healing in our beautiful, broken world." - Kathleen Winter, author of "Annabel" "Richard Wagamese is a born storyteller." - Louise Erdrich, author of Shadow Tag) "Wagamese writes with brutal clarity... [and] finds alleviating balance through magical legend." - Globe & Mail "Wagamese is capable of true grace on the page." - Winnipeg Free Press "Richard Wagamese is a national treasure." - Joseph Boyden, author of Through Black Spruce "Richard Wagamese's writing is sweet medicine for the soul." - Richard Van Camp, author of The Lesser Blessed About the Author: Richard Wagamese is an Ojibway from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario. He is the author of four novels, including Dream Wheels, winner of the 2007 Canadian Authors Association MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction. His autobiographical book For Joshua was published to critical acclaim, and One Native Life was selected as one of the Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books of the Year. He lives outside Kamloops, British Columbia. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil's Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride. A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. Stay after the film for a panel discussion. Our panelists will expand the discussion of intellectual property rights into other domains, including the visual arts and the patenting of life. This should be a lively evening! Panelists: David Lariviere, Artistic Director, PAVED Arts Priscalla Settee, Professor of Native Studies, U of S Others to be confirmed Admission is free, and donations are gladly accepted. www.cinemapolitica.org/saskatoon RIP Remix Manifesto -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We will use a fun, interactive, fair and innovative planning method called World Cafe to develop collective vision and core value statements for Occupy Saskatoon and to harvest all of the great ideas for actions and projects that live within Occupy Saskatoon supporters. This is your chance to have your voice heard and to help construct a local movement doing what is perhaps the most important work humanity has ever done to awaken, inspire and co-create a world that works for all life. Variety in perspectives, experiences, ideas, passions, skills and talents will ensure that Occupy Saskatoon is a vibrant hub for positive change that resonates with the larger community we represent. In Phase II on March 11th (see separate event listing), we will build on the ideas, chart our course, and align ourselves with actions based on our capacity, passion and talents. Please come and share broadly in your networks. Free of charge. Wheelchair accessible. Potluck snacks and non-alcoholic beverages ~ if you can, bring extra to share with those who cannot. Coffee and water provided. _____ Re-Imagine Occupy Saskatoon Phase II: Projects and Teams 162023_214123552019735_1999321979_n.jpg Sunday, March 11, 2012 | 1pm to 5pm St. Thomas Wesley United Church, 808 20 ST W For more information contact occupysaskatoon at gmail.com RSVPs are not required but strongly encouraged to help us know how much seating to put up in preparation. Thank you. You may come to Phase II even if you missed Phase I, but for the best experience and result, attendance at both events would be helpful. Please note that this event is in a different location. Phase II - Projects & Teams Using a free-flowing planning method called Open Space, we begin our day organizing the ideas that came out of Phase I. Using a voting method called Dotmocracy, we whittle the ideas down into something we can work with based on what we have the most interest for and energy to help create. Then we build the ideas into something we can bring into reality. In the Open Space method, we get to choose what we work on based on our interest, skills and talents, which creates a good experience for us and the best result for the ideas. When we are done, we will have collectively charted a course and done a good deal of the work required to visualize the actions we need to take for organizational stability and want to undertake to achieve our vision. Please come and share broadly in your networks. Free of charge. Wheelchair accessible. Potluck snacks and non-alcoholic beverages ~ if you can, bring extra to share with those who cannot. Coffee and water provided. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 6882 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Screenplay by Paul Laverty; directed by Ic?ar Bollain; a production of Morena Films, 2010. 100 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles. See the Official Website at: http://www.tambienlalluvia.com/en/ And the Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/tambienlalluvia Film screening followed by Panel Discussion with: ??Dr. Priscilla Settee (Native Studies / U of S) ??Dr. Lalita Bharadwaj (School of Public Health & Global Institute for Water Security / U of S) ??Prof. Rodolfo Pino-Robles (Native Studies / U of S) ??Jeh Custerra (Environmental Campaigner) When: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 ? 6:30 p.m. ? Doors open; 7:00 p.m. ? Film Screening; 9:00 p.m. ? Panel Discussion Where: Broadway Theatre FREE Admission ? Everyone Welcome! Event Generously Sponsored by: College of Arts & Science Div. of Humanities & Fine Arts, Dept. of Languages & Linguistics, and Women?s & Gender Studies Program; and the University Library For further information contact: Dr. Paul McDermid, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Languages and Linguistics/Spanish, Phone: 966-5628; Email: paul.mcdermid at usask.ca Deborah Lee, Librarian, University Library/Aboriginal Engagement & Indigenous Studies Liaison, Phone: 966-6019; Email: deborah.lee at usask.ca Donna Canevari de Paredes, Librarian, University Library/Spanish & Latin American Studies Liaison, Phone: 966-5970; Email: donna.canevari at usask.ca -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: LaLluvia Poster.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 872155 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Wise's main public lecture, "Looking in the Mirror: A Reflection on Racism", will be held at 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.) on Thursday, March 15, 2012, at TCU Place. In this lecture, Wise will provide an analysis of the way racial privilege shapes the lives of Caucasian North Americans and explain ways in which racism not only burdens people of colour, but also benefits in relative terms, those who are "white like him". The corporate lecture, "Dismantling Racism in Your Organization", will take place earlier in the afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at TCU Place. This lecture will be beneficial to managers, human resource professionals, and customer service employees who wish to enhance their organizational effectiveness through understanding racism. Both lectures are free and open to the public on a first come first served basis. Wise's visit is supported by SIAST, the City of Saskatoon, and Turning the Tide Bookstore. For more information, or to hear insights from Wise's visit to Saskatoon in 2011, visit www.saskatoon.ca and click on "C" for Cultural Diversity and Race Relations. About Tim Wise Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and educators in North America. Recently named one of "25 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World," by Utne Reader, Wise has lectured across the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean in over 600 communities. He is the author of five books. including his most recent, titled Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity. Wise has provided training to teachers, journalists, physicians, and medical industry professionals, as well as corporate, government, entertainment, military, and law enforcement officials on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions. Wise has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs, is a regular contributor to discussions about race on CNN, and was featured in a segment on ABC's 20/20 in 2007. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or our City Blog. Click on the links at www.saskatoon.ca. -30- _____ Tim Wise's Saskatchewan Schedule for March/April 2012 Regina sessions: Privilege 101 Tuesday, March 13, 2:30-4:30 pm University of Regina's Education Auditorium White Like Me Tuesday, March 13, 7:00-9:00 pm Knox-Metropolitan United Church, 2340 Victoria Ave. Dismantling Racism in your Organization Wednesday, March 14, 2:30-4:30 pm Knox-Metropolitan United Church, 2340 Victoria Ave. Bringing It Home - a panel discussion on racism in Saskatchewan Wednesday, March 14, 7:00-9:00 pm First Nations University's Atrium Saskatoon sessions: Dismantling Racism in your Organization (Preferred seating will be allocated for the Saskatoon corporate session) Thursday, March 15, 2:00-4:00 pm TCU Salon, Saskatoon Looking in the Mirror: A Reflection on Racism Thursday, March 15, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. TCU Salon, Saskatoon Prince Albert sessions: Arresting Racism Wednesday, April 4, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Prince Albert Dismantling Racism through Education Wednesday, April 4, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Prince Albert White Like Me Wednesday, April 4, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Art Houser Centre, Prince Albert Leading Change - By invite only Thursday, April 5, 2012 Dismantling Racism in your Organization Thursday, April 5, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. E.A. Rawlinson Centre for the Arts, Prince Albert Please note that the corporate sessions titled, "Dismantling Racism in your Organization" will be open to the public, but the talk is specifically oriented to address systemic barriers that exist and are continually sustained within organizations. Registration for SIAST employees will take place at the corporate and education sessions only at each location, but please feel free to attend any of the other sessions listed. Elizabeth (Liz) Duret, the Representative Workforce Consultant, is representing SIAST on this project. If you require additional information please contact her at durete at siast.sk.ca or 659-3774. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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