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SUMMARY:OPIRG Toronto Contingent to March for the Land
DESCRIPTION:*** OPIRG Toronto Contingent***\nMarch For The Land: Walk with Land Alliance!\nWednesday September 27th\, 2023\n10AM: Meet at the OPIRG Toronto office for brunch & an informal discussion about how to conduct ourselves and stay safe at the March for the Land. \n*meat\, veg\, vegan and gluten free options will be available \n11:30AM: Depart for Rally location (Grange Park\, Beverly Street) \n12PM- ?: Rally & March \nWhen the march is complete we will hold a short de-brief \nJoin OPIRG Toronto to stand in solidarity w. five First Nations calling on Premier Ford to end unwanted mining activity on their Territories\nOn September 27th\, 12 pm 2023 five First Nations from Northern Ontario will come to Toronto to lead a march calling on Premier Ford to end unwanted mining activity on their Territories. These five strong First Nations have formed a historic alliance to protect their lands and waters in the face of mounting concerns about encroachment on their territories by mining exploration companies who have been enabled by the Ford Government. \nWalk with five First Nations of the historic Land Alliance to show that we stand with them in their fight for control over their lives and their lands.\nEarlier this year leaders from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI\, or Big Trout Lake First Nation)\, Wapekeka\, Neskantaga\, Muskrat Dam and Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows) signed a Mutual Cooperation Agreement. \nThese five First Nations are powerful leaders in the movement for Indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice. They have shown that together we can fight for justice against all odds and make real gains. \nJoin the Land Defense Alliance to demand respect for Indigenous rights and protect the sources of life on their Territories in the face of mining incursions. Through this march the Land Alliance will show their strength\, present their demands\, and build public support for their struggle for control over their lives and their lands \nThis is a family-friendly event. Rain or shine! \n\nBACKGROUND\nProspectors have staked thousands of new claims on these First Nations’ territories since Ford came to power. They are exploiting Ontario’s antiquated “free entry” mining system that allows companies and individuals to stake mining claims on First Nations lands from the comfort of their offices\, without gaining the consent of the Indigenous people who live there. \nProspectors are not required by Ontario to give any notice to First Nations until after the claims have been registered and are in force. Conversely\, Ontario does not inform prospectors which First Nation’s land they are staking until after the claims are purchased. The claims grant the prospector a wide range of rights under Crown law to explore the area for valuable minerals and to own the treasures that are found under the ground. \nHowever\, the areas that these prospectors are staking have been home to Indigenous people for countless generations and continue to provide the sources of life\, culture\, and livelihood for them. In spite of the well-known concerns of these First Nations\, and many attempts to bring the Ford government to the table\, the free entry system remains in place and new claims continue to be registered in social conflict zones against the will of First Nations. \nAki Paamaachi Ikoo Ying Ganawaandata! \nProtect the land that gives us life! \nKakanawedaamin Anishinabe Miinigowisiwin. \nTake care of and keep the land! \n  \nSign up for the rally: https://freegrassy.net/land-alliance-march/ \nMore info: https://freegrassy.net/ \n  \nIF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS ABOUT ATTENDING THIS RALLY WITH THE OPIRG TORONTO CONTINGENT PLEASE EMAIL US: COORDINATOROPIRGTO@GMAIL.COM.
URL:https://opirgtoronto.org/program-calendar/opirg-toronto-contingent-to-march-for-the-land/
LOCATION:OPIRG Toronto\, Room 318\, University of Toronto Student Commons\, 230 College Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5T1R2\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="OPIRG Toronto":MAILTO:opirg.toronto@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Intro to Prison Abolition & How to Enact it on Campus
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join OPIRG Toronto & the Disability Justice Network of Ontario’s Prison Project for an interactive educational workshop on Prison & Police Abolition\n***This workshop is aimed at students\, faculty & staff at U of T\, and anyone who studies or works on a university or college campus in the GTA. \n***Dinner will be provided: Vegan and gluten free options will be available. Please let us know if you have any other serious allergies. \n***In accordance with OPIRG Toronto’s Health and Safety Policy\, to minimize risk for all participants\, folks will be asked to wear masks. Exemptions will be made for medical or human rights reasons. \nAbolition: It’s a big idea\, but how do we get there? Why is it so important? And how can we start enacting it on campus?\nDJNO’s Prison Project has been supporting prisoner organizing\, providing concrete support to prisoners\, and doing community-driven research around the intersections of race\, disability\, and prisons for the last year. Join us for a discussion around why abolition – not reform – is the only solution we support\, and dream with us around how to get there! \nWe’ll discuss practical ways to engage in abolition on campus and provide some concrete takeaway tools. This workshop and discussion is meant both as an introduction the idea of abolition and how to enact it. Anyone can join! \nFacilitated by: Trish (they/she) is a long-time community organizer and mobilizer based in Hamilton\, ON\, who is neurodivergent\, queer\, and disabled. They have a passion and responsibility for defending the land and water and have been criminalized for it. They use their experiences in the criminal legal system to help others make empowered choices about risk and initiate discussions around power\, fear\, courage\, and resilience. Trish has experienced incarceration and forced psychiatric institutionalization: Those – and other experiences in the community – have left them committed to enacting non-carceral\, inclusive approaches to accountability and justice in the community. Since its inception\, Trish has volunteered with DJNO’s prison project and believes wholeheartedly in the dream (and work) of total abolition \nREAD MORE ABOUT PRISON AND POLICE ABOLITION ON CAMPUS\nMORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS\nDJNO’s Prison Project aims to hear\, document\, and amplify the experiences of individuals who have been imprisoned and live at the intersection of being racialized and disabled in order to push against carceral logics. \nWe are prison abolitionists who believe in care and a community-centered approach to accountability and justice. The criminal legal system overwhelmingly targets\, surveils\, prosecutes and imprisons people who are disabled – in particular those who are also Black\, Brown\, or Indigenous. It is a system which is heavily reinforced through an interconnected network of racist and ableist agencies and systems: the school to prison pipeline\, social service and child welfare agencies\, social housing\, private security forces\, and more. \nMORE INFORMATION: https://www.djno.ca/prison-project \nOPIRG Toronto is an intersectional grassroots volunteer-based group at the University of Toronto\, with a mandate for action\, education\, and research on environmental and social justice issues.\nWe seek to empower and educate students and community members by building connections and providing opportunities for students to connect with community activism and vice versa. We also provide a forum for learning and sharing skills\, and give people the tools and opportunity to work co­operatively for social and environmental change. We are an independent student funded organization\, we are not funded or beholden to any administrative or governmental body. This means that we are not associated with UofT’s administration or any level of government (federal\, provincial or municipal). We are a member of a provincial network of Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs)\, with eleven others in Ontario. \nMORE INFORMATION: https://opirgtoronto.org/
URL:https://opirgtoronto.org/program-calendar/intro-to-prison-abolition-how-to-enact-it-on-campus/
LOCATION:Room #524 – Wilson Hall (New College)\, 40 Willcocks Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 1C6\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="OPIRG Toronto":MAILTO:opirg.toronto@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Seeds of Freedom X Art of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Join the Toronto Seed Library\, Beehive Collective & OPIRG Toronto for a day of seed saving and storytelling\nSnacks provided * All are welcome * Drop in style\n***drop in any thyme and stay as long as you like! \n***In accordance with OPIRG Toronto’s Health and Safety Policy\, to minimize risk for all participants\, folks will be asked to wear masks. Exemptions will be made for medical or human rights reasons. \nLearn more about struggles for food justice & seed freedom through art and storytelling. \nThink critically about how capitalism\, colonialism\, climate change and loss of the Commons impact our water & food systems & how we can challenge the powers that bee and build more just and sustainable ways of living. \nSort & package seeds to bee distributed to 13 active Toronto Seed Library branches across the city\, as well as the 2024 Seedy Saturday seed exchanges! \nBring seeds to share if you have them\, and take home anything you need for next year!
URL:https://opirgtoronto.org/program-calendar/seeds-of-freedom-x-art-of-resistance/
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