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Ongoing Sept 18-23 -- DisOrientation 2011
Wednesday September 21 2011 (All day)
Understanding Mainstream Media
Wednesday, September 21, 1-3pm
Wetmore Hall (New College), Room 75
300 Huron Street
with Justin Podur
Whether you’re an aspiring journalist, a grassroots activist, or a student
engaging critically with the world, it’s crucial to understand how the mainstream
media operate and how it is impacted and influenced by powerful institutions in
our society. This workshop will present an analysis of what makes the mainstream
media mainstream, and offer strategies for interacting effectively with the beastly
fourth estate.
Justin Podur is a Toronto-based journalist. His blog is http://www.killingtrain.com.
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The Past Is A Battleground
Sept 18 to Sept 23
http://disorientation2011.org
Ten years ago, two planes crashed into the World Trade Centre buildings
in New York City, inspiring the US-led “War on Terror.” Within months the
US invaded Afghanistan with Canadian military support. Two years later the
US invaded Iraq under the pretext of eliminating “weapons of mass destruction”
that were never found. These military ventures, like so many others, affirm the
simple truth about terrorism: states do it with far greater quantifiable devastation,
and always well disguised as a force of good. To counter this violence and
manipulation, activists around the world persistently research, educate and
organize to dig deeper than media sound bytes and fight those who distort
the truth for personal gain.
The tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001 reminds all of us that our
conception of the past determines how we operate in the present. Join the
Ontario Public Interest Research Group and the University of Toronto Students’
Union for a week of events that will help us reveal the most accurate version of
history, and prevent us from making the same mistakes twice.
All DisOrientation 2011 events are free and wheelchair accessible.
Full details at: http://disorientation2011.org
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
*Both Sunday events are part of Manifesto Festival of
Community and Culture (themanifesto.ca).
1:30-2:30pm – Identity and Decolonization: A First Step
Revival, 783 College Street
with musiciant/activist Amai Kuda; dancer & mural artist
Victoria Mata; theatre artist/activist Sedina Fiati; and spoken
word & visual artist Keisha-Monique Simpson.
2:45-3:45pm – Sound-making/Spoken word
Revival, 783 College Street
with Nic (da Grassroots, lal) Rose (lal and r3 Collective) and
Sonny B (r3 Collective)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
2-4pm – More Than “No Means No”: Reconceptualizing Consent
University College Arts Centre
15 King’s College Circle
6:30-8:30pm – What is Anti-oppression?
Centre for Women and Trans People
563 Spadina Crescent, Suite 100
with Sharmeen Khan
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
1-3pm – Direct Action Gets the Goods
Hart House, East Common Room
7 Hart House Circle
with Jessica Bell
4-6pm – Deconstructing the Immigration System:
Myths and racism in the canadian state
OISE Room 2281, 252 Bloor St W.
with Syed Hussan and Francisco Villegas, members of
No One Is Illegal
7pm – Showdown at Ground Zero:
A Retrospective on the tenth anniversary of 9/11
William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks Street
with Sunera Thobani
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
12-4pm – Independent Media Fair!
Outdoors on Willcocks Street, just west of St. George
1-3pm – Understanding Mainstream Media
Wetmore Hall (New College), Room 75
300 Huron Street
with Justin Podur
4-6pm – Canadian Extractive Industries and How to Stop Them:
A workshop about Neoliberalism and Colonization
OISE Room 5150, 252 Bloor St. W.
with the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network
7-9pm – Labor Unionism Today: Limits and legacies
OISE Room 2213, 252 Bloor St. W.
with Sam Gindin
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
2-4PM – Privatizing Public Education
Sidney Smith Building, Outdoor Patio
(Rain location: OISE Room 4418)
6-8pm – Food Quality & Working Conditions in Campus
CORPORATE Cafeterias
with Student-Worker Solidarity, a working group of the
UofT General Assembly
William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks Ave.
7-10pm – Eyewitness to War
Ten years of occupation in Afghanistan
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street
with Mike Skinner, Noaman Ali, and a representative
from Afghans For Peace
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
12-2pm – Sovereignty and Solidarity on Turtle Island:
Indigenous Rights 101
OISE Room 2281, 252 Bloor St. W.
with Barriere Lake Solidarity
3-5pm – The Struggle for Genuine Women’s
Liberation in Canada
OISE Room 5170, 252 Bloor St. W.
with the Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance-Ontario
6-8pm – Taking Campus Space Seriously
Location TBA
with Students Against Israeli Apartheid, the Centre for Women
and Trans People, UTSU President Danielle Sandhu, and others.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7
9pm-12am – R3: Roots,Rhythms, Resistance presents:
Amai Kuda CD Launch Celebration
The Tranzac, 292 Brunswick Ave.
Featuring: lal, sonny b, Izzy Mackenzie, Sedina Fiati
and Amai Kuda with full band
doors open: 9pm, show 10pm
Admission: $10, $20 with cd
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Visit http://disorientation2011.org for full event descriptions!
DisOrientation 2011 on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144562178970186#!/event.php?eid=188524427883561
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dawn (dawn paley)
México
Member since August 2008
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Journalist, co-founder VMC, ex-editor & board member with Media Co-op. Author, Drug War Capitalism.
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