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Undergraduate solidarity video for CUPE 3902!
Watch this video from undergrad OPIRG volunteers and get involved to support CUPE 3902! Write to opirg.toronto@utoronto.ca with "Undergrads for 3902" in the subject line! Video: http://vimeo.com/35703264
EVENT CANCELLED Language of Politics: Understanding Populism
***Unfortunately this event has been cancelled due to the illness of Stefan Kipfer.***
A Free Workshop Series about Words and Struggle
UNDERSTANDING "POPULISM"
Tuesday, November 29
7:00pm
(Location to be announced.)
with Stefan Kipfer, York University professor and researcher of politics, urban social movements and colonization.
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Have you ever thought “do I really know what that word means?”
An Evening with John Moore
An Evening with John Moore
Thursday, October 27
7:00pm
252 Bloor St. W.
Room 5280
John Moore is originally from Serpent River First Nation and currently
a resident of Sudbury, Ontario. In 1978, he was unjustly convicted of second-degree murder despite having no role in perpetrating the crime –
Language of Politics: Understanding Ideology
A Free Workshop Series about Words and Struggle
UNDERSTANDING "IDEOLOGY"
Monday, October 24
7:00pm
40 St. George Street, Room 3008
with Himani Bannerji, author of Demography and Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology
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Have you ever thought “do I really know what that word means?”
Mining Injustice Solidarity Network
Email: mininginjustice[at]gmail.com
Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN), previously known as Community Solidarity Response Toronto (CSRT), works to bring the voices and experiences of communities impacted by Canadian mining industries to Toronto, where much of this industry is based.
Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network
Email: lacsncanada[at]gmail.com
LACSN is a non-profit, autonomous, democratic organization that coordinates and supports the work of fifteen local organizations. The goal of these organizations is to carry out community-based work that leads to long-term societal change and economic transformation in our locales.
Communist Student Research Group
Email: RevolutionaryStudentsTo[at]gmail.com
We are the student-front of the Proletarian Revolutionary Action Committee. We are dedicated to promoting revolutionary communist politics on campus, fighting capitalist oppressions of all forms, and developing revolutionary culture and practice through social research and investigation.
FROM THE ARAB SPRING TO GLOBAL AUSTERITY
FROM THE ARAB SPRING TO GLOBAL AUSTERITY
How new transnational struggles are shaping Toronto protests
with Jesse Rosenfeld
Wednesday, October 12
7:00 pm
150 College Street, Rm 139
Fitzgerald Building
From Athens to London, New York to Toronto, people are rising up
in resistance to global austerity measures. Unsurprisingly, activists
around the world are drawing from the tactical lessons of the Arab
Language of Politics Workshop Series
LANGUAGE OF POLITICS
A Free Workshop Series about Words and Struggle
Have you ever thought “do I really know what that word means?”
Life’s demands often lead us to stop defining words once we get "the basic idea." But political words, and the concepts to which they refer,
are rooted in long histories of struggle. When we investigate these
words, we find opportunities to strengthen our understanding of the
