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
Revolutions, seizing symbolic targets to demand popular democratic
control and using online media to mobilize.

The latest wave of mobilization - inspired by the Occupy Wall Street
protests in New York City - is coming to Canada. In Toronto, there's
a tremendous opportunity to unite the energies of this new wave of
protest with the efforts of established grassroots organizations. Join
us for a discussion about how these global struggles are impacting
us at home.

JESSE ROSENFELD is a journalist who has covered social struggle in
North America, Europe and the Middle East. From 2007 until March 2011,
he reported from the Middle East, primarily based in Ramallah and Tel Aviv. Rosenfeld, who covered last year's G20 protests, was recently in London, Athens and New York City and seeing first hand how
the protests have been shaped by the global events. He has written for The Nation, The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, Al Jazeera English, The Irish Times, Ha’aretz, Foreign Policy, and Alternet.org, among others.

This event is sponsored by OPIRG-Toronto, www.opirgtoronto.org.

Endorsed by The Centre for Social Justice, Coalition Against Israeli
Apartheid, Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, Ontario Coalition Against
Poverty, New Socialist Group, No One Is Illegal-Toronto, Toronto Stop
the Cuts Network, Upping the Anti, and the UofT Equity Studies Students'
Union.

We regret that this venue is not wheelchair accessible due to very limited space availability. For more information, please write to opirg.toronto@gmail.com.