OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) brings together educators from university, union, and community settings to understand and enrich the often-undervalued informal and formal learning of working people. We develop research and teaching programs at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) that strengthen feminist, anti-racist, labour movement, and working-class perspectives on learning and work.
If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements, please email them to mailto:rsussman@....
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1. This Week! – “Communities & Labour: Building Unity & Justice Through Diversity” Conference
2. New On The WALL Webpage
3. The Near East Cultural And Educational Foundation Presents “Palestine: A Struggle Against Apartheid”
4. Conference – “Learning Democracy By Doing: Alternative Practices In Citizenship Learning And Participatory Democracy”
5. This Week From rabble.ca
6. Online Resources On Workplace Literacy
7. Media Democracy Day Events
8. Toronto Premiere Of “Toxic Trespass” Documentary
9. Support Unionized Workers At Central Neighbourhood House, Toronto 10. UNITE HERE Has Openings For Union Organizers In Toronto And Ottawa!
11. Social Economy Centre Seminar – The Evergreen Brickworks: A Work In Progress 12. Workers’ Action Centre (WAC) In The News!
13. Journal Articles Online
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1. THIS WEEK! – “COMMUNITIES & LABOUR: BUILDING UNITY & JUSTICE THROUGH DIVERSITY” CONFERENCE
October 18-20, 2007
89 Chestnut Residence Conference Centre, Downtown Toronto
Goal:
To provide an opportunity for community and labour to define their shared values, to explore community unionism, and to build new relationships.
Organized and Supported By:
Labour Education Centre (LEC) ? Labour Community Services ? Toronto and York Region Labour Council
? United Way Canada ? Black Action Defense Committee ? Ontario Federation of Labour ? Learning Community Unionism Working Group, Centre for the Study of Education and Work (OISE/UT) ? North Etobicoke Revitalization Project (NERP) ? Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) ? Toronto Training Board (TTB) ? Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) ? Workers’ Action Centre – UNITEHERE ? Community Social Planning Council
Registration Fees:
· Full Conference (October 18 - 20) – $200
· Full Conference Subsidized Fee (low-income and/or not sponsored by an agency) – $100
· Thursday October 18 Evening Session, Opening Plenary only – $50 waged, $25 students/unwaged
· Friday October 19 All Day Session only – $75 waged, $25 students/unwaged
· Saturday October 20 Morning Session only – $50 waged, $25 students/unwaged
The WALL Survey was conducted in 2004 with a large representative national sample of the adult (18+) Canadian population (N=9,063) to provide unprecedented quantitative detail on learning and work activities and their inter-relations. The survey was administered by the Institute for Social Research at York University.
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3. THE NEAR EAST CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION PRESENTS “PALESTINE: A STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID”
Sunday, October 28th
2 p.m
Trinity St. Paul's United Church
427 Bloor St. West,
One block west of Spadina Road
Speaker: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti
Dr. Barghouti is a Palestinian patriot who devotes his life to the freedom and betterment of his people. A medical doctor, he founded and is president of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, which provides health care in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. He was also a founder of the Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute, PNGO and Palestine Monitor.
Dr. Barghouti was a delegate to the Madrid Conference in 1991, which was to end the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict. He was a founder and is general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, an alternative to Fatah and to Hamas. He was a candidate for the presidency of the Palestinian National Authority in 2005, and was elected as a member of Parliament in 2006.
Tickets: $10/$5 for students: available at the door and at Women's Book Store, 73 Harbord St., 416-922-8744
4. CONFERENCE – “LEARNING DEMOCRACY BY DOING: ALTERNATIVE PRACTICES IN CITIZENSHIP LEARNING AND PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY”
October 16-18, 2008
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
252 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Canada
Practices and understandings of democracy, citizenship, and citizenship learning are in transition. On the one hand, lower voter turnouts, declining citizen confidence in the political establishment, and criticisms about the ability of representative democracy to ensure social inclusion and equality of opportunity for all have sparked vigorous debates about how to address the “democratic deficit.” In the field of education, there have been paralleled growing concerns about the limitations of traditional civic education models that focus on the memorization of facts to nurture a critical, caring and engaged citizenry.
On the other hand, in the last two decades, innovative experiments in participatory democracy and citizenship education have proliferated in schools, universities, civil society organizations, social movements, co-operatives, workplaces, local and regional government, and many other spaces. Likewise, there has been an increasing awareness of the potential that opportunities for collective learning in democratic spaces have to advance the common good, to promote human development, and to complement the institutions of representative democracy with the insights of associative intelligence.
Conference Themes
Within the broad theme of learning democracy by doing it, we invite traditional academic papers, policy and practice papers, workshops, dramatic presentations and demonstration projects related (although not necessarily limited) to the following settings and sub-themes:
· Learning democracy in K-12
· Learning democracy in higher education
· Learning democracy in non-formal education
· Learning democracy in civil society
· Learning democracy in state-sponsored initiative
· Learning democracy in the workplace
· Learning democracy in transnational communities
Submission Guidelines
Presenters are asked to submit a 300-word abstract of their presentation by December 31, 2007. The abstract should also indicate the relation of the presentation to the above themes, as well as the format of the presentation.
Presenters who would like their papers to be considered for inclusion in a post-conference publication are asked to send their paper before July 31, 2008. Papers should not exceed 3,500 words (excluding references). All papers will be subjected to an anonymous, full refereeing process before publication.
Registration Fees
Early Registration (before July 31, 2008)
CDN $120 / students CDN $60
Late Registration (after August 1, 2008)
CDN $180 / students CDN $90
The UAW negotiations over the last few months might have been a chance to make up for a generation-long period of working-class defeat. But, once again, only one class was fighting.
Reports from the Canadian Council on Social Development’s project on Literacy Programs in the Workplace are now available. The goal of this project was to identify and analyze policies and programs that support employer investment in workplace literacy programs, including government initiatives to encourage investment in workplace training, and in particular, training in literacy and essential skills programs.
All the working papers and reports produced under this Workplace Literacy Project are available on the CCSD’s website at: http://www.ccsd.ca/pubs/2007/literacy.
Film And Panel Discussion
TIME: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
PLACE: Brunswick Theatre
296 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto
Panel discussion participants:
· Minthura Wynn, a key Burma human rights organizer
· Ler Wah Lopo, spokesperson for Karen Canadian Community
· Michelle Langlois of rabble.ca
· Ish Theilheimer of Straight Goods
Film: Season of Fear (15 minutes), a documentary film, touches on the involvement of Canadian mining company Ivanhoe in the displacement of indigenous people in Burma. There are two million internally displaced persons in Burma; many live in the jungle and are forced to move around constantly due to military actions.
Media Democracy Fair
TIME: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
PLACE: Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street, The Credit Union Lounge
DIRECTIONS: 1st floor of the POD Building, main entrances at Jorgensen Hall or Library Building at Victoria and Gould.
Participants include rabble.ca, Straightgoods.com, mediareform.ca, Media Democracy Initiative, Canadians for Democratic Media, and Global Aware.
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8. TORONTO PREMIERE OF “TOXIC TRESPASS” DOCUMENTARY
Friday, October 26
7 p.m
Royal Cinema
608 College St, west of Bathurst St.
Toxic Trespass, a compelling new film on children's health and the environment, will be shown as part of the Planet in Focus Film Festival. This documentary is a co-production of If You Love Our Children Productions and the National Film Board of Canada, with the support of Women’s Healthy Environments Network (WHEN). It investigates the growing evidence that we are conducting a large-scale toxicological experiment on our children, and explores what some scientists, doctors, activists and others are doing about it. The DVD and a companion resource guide, Taking Action on Children's Health and the Environment, will be available for sale from WHEN in the near future.
9. SUPPORT UNIONIZED WORKERS AT CENTRAL NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE, TORONTO
Workers at CNH (Central Neighbourhood House), represented by CUPE 4308, overwhelmingly voted to take strike action.~ We are standing up for respect for ourselves, our work and our community.
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Our strike date is Wednesday October 17th at 7 a.m.
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The mandate to strike has already forced the employer back to the table, after they walked away in July, and will be meeting on Monday October 15th 2007 to try and reach a deal before our deadline.
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As~workers, we~do not want to go out on strike but the CNH Executive Director and Board of Directors need to respect workers, the work~we do and respect the community they~we work~with.
If you want to send messages to this employer to reach a fair contract and provide a fair wage offer for workers at CNH, majority who are women and racialized people - contact the following:
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You can help.
Tell them it is time to show this respect by reaching a settlement with workers that will:
• Improve working conditions & maintain workplace rights
• Ensure fair wage increases
• Keep the doors of Central Neighbourhood House open
Please call and e-mail today:
Danny Anckle - CNH Executive Director at: 416-925-4363 ext. 104, or e-mail mailto:danckle@...
Other Toronto community agencies have settled fair contracts and provided wage increases – CNH can too.
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10. UNITE HERE HAS OPENINGS FOR UNION ORGANIZERS IN TORONTO AND OTTAWA!
UNITE HERE is a progressive labor organization, representing approximately 440,000 workers in the hotel, textiles, industrial laundry, gaming and food service industries in North America. These service industries employ large numbers of women, recent immigrants and people of color. UNITE HERE is committed to raising the living standards of the people who do some of the most "invisible" work in North America: the workers who clean hotel rooms, wash hospital sheets and serve food in cafeterias and airports.
Job Openings
UNITE HERE has immediate openings for entry level and experienced union organizers to work on innovative, aggressive, hotel campaigns to organize hotel workers in the Toronto and Ottawa regions. Because Hotel corporations are global, hotel workers in major cities across Canada and the US are working together with community and global allies in order to build real power through our Hotel Workers Rising campaign.
It is these innovative organizing campaigns and our strong training program that make UNITE HERE an exciting place to work for social and economic justice.
To apply:
- Send resume to: mailto:EThere@...
- Application deadline: October 25, 2007
- To find out more about our campaign updates and victories visit us at our website: http://www.unitehere.org/
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11. SOCIAL ECONOMY CENTRE SEMINAR – THE EVERGREEN BRICKWORKS: A WORK IN PROGRESS
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
252 Bloor St. West, Toronto
Room 12-199
Geoff Cape will explore the inspiration behind the development of this $55 million project as a social enterprise, and the various learning along the way from conception to pre-construction. ~He will cover issues such as financing, business planning, approvals, staffing and change management, together with a clear representation of the plans for the site – both architecturally and programmatically.
On Monday October 8, 2007, the Toronto Star published an opinion piece, written by WAC organizer Sonia Singh: “Why many workers won't be feeling thankful today”.
“Kelly, a Workers' Action Centre member, remembers the frustration every public holiday knowing that other workers he worked alongside would be paid for the day off, but because he was a temp worker, his temp agency would refuse to pay him. He knew if he spoke out against this injustice he could risk jeopardizing his assignments. Eventually he did challenge the temp agency and after a two-year fight won his pay.
This Thanksgiving will not be much of a holiday for the growing number of workers who are falsely called self-employed, in jobs like cleaning, courier service and fast-food delivery.”
When hate comes to town: community response to violence against immigrants
Author: Gordana Rabrenovic
American Behavioral Scientist 2007 51 http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/2/349
"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat."
- Audre Lorde
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
October 18-20, 2007
Location: 89 Chestnut Residence Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Dynamic Speakers include:
-Terry Downey, Executive-Vice President, Ontario Federation of Labour
-Judy Shum, Project Coordinator, North Etobicoke Revitalization Partnership
-Tam Goossen, Chair, Urban Alliance on Race Relations
-Andrea van den Heever, President, Connecticut Centre for a New Economy
-Rita Kwok Hoi Yee, Co-Founder of Social Workers Union in Hong Kong
Interactive Workshops include:
-Lessons from the Field with participants from Hotel Workers Rising Campaign, Labour Councils Community Campaigns, Workers’ Action Centre Toronto
-Deepening the Dialogue: Paired Conversations Exploring Competing Interests with participants from Black Action Defense Committee, Somali Youth Association of Toronto, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Sudbury popular theatre group
Labour Education Centre (LEC), Labour Community Services, Toronto and York Region Labour Council, United Way Canada, Black Action Defense Committee, Ontario Federation of Labour, Learning Community Unionism Working Group, Centre for the Study of Education and Work (OISE/UT), North Etobicoke Revitalization Project (NERP), Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), Toronto Training Board (TTB), Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), Workers’ Action Centre, UNITEHERE, Community Social Planning Council (CSPC).
"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat."
- Audre Lorde
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) brings together educators from university, union, and community settings to understand and enrich the often-undervalued informal and formal learning of working people. We develop research and teaching programs at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) that strengthen feminist, anti-racist, labour movement, and working-class perspectives on learning
and work.
If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements, please email them to mailto:rsussman@....
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1. NEW! REDUCED CONFERENCE RATES – “COMMUNITIES & LABOUR: BUILDING UNITY & JUSTICE THROUGH DIVERSITY”
2. NEW ON THE WALL WEBPAGE
3. RESURGENT VOICES: A POST-HURRICANE BENEFIT FOR BILWIVISION AND AUTONOMOUS MEDIA IN NICARAGUA
4. LEARNING DEMOCRACY BY DOING - ALTERNATIVE PRACTICES IN CITIZENSHIP LEARNING AND PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY
5. VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION – MIGRANTS: THOSE WHO COME FROM WITHIN
6. NOW ONLINE – NORTH AMERICAN DVD LAUNCH OF "ERNEST MANDEL: A LIFE FOR THE REVOLUTION"
7. TEN REASONS TO VOTE FOR MIXED MEMBER PROPORTIONAL (MMP) IN THE REFERENDUM
8. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: AN EXAMINATION OF RACIAL PROFILING IN CANADA
9. THIS WEEK FROM RABBLE.CA
10. FILIPINO AMERICANS DEMAND APOLOGY FROM “DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES” PRODUCERS
11. TAKE IT BACK! – COUNCIL OF CANADIANS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
12. CALL FOR PANELS & PAPERS FOR CFHSS CONGRESS 2008
13. JOB POSTING – CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES
14. ONLINE JOURNAL ARTICLES
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1. NEW! REDUCED CONFERENCE RATES – “COMMUNITIES & LABOUR: BUILDING UNITY & JUSTICE THROUGH DIVERSITY”
October 18-20, 2007
Goal: To provide an opportunity for community and labour to define their shared values, to explore community unionism, and to build new relationships.
89 Chestnut Residence Conference Centre, Downtown Toronto
Co-Sponsors:
· CSEW Learning Community Unionism Working Group, OISE/UT
· Toronto Training Board
· Ontario Public Service Employees Union
Registration Fees:
· Full Conference (October 18 - 20) – $200
· Full Conference Subsidized Fee (low-income and/or not sponsored by an agency) – $100
· Thursday October 18 Evening Session, Opening Plenary only – $50 waged, $25 students/unwaged
· Friday October 19 All Day Session only – $75 waged, $25 students/unwaged
· Saturday October 20 Morning Session only – $50 waged, $25 students/unwaged
· Doing Disability at the Bank: Discovering the Work of Learning/Teaching Done by Disabled Bank Employees
Ryerson RBC Foundation Institute for Disability Studies Public Report, October 2007
by Kathryn Church, Catherine Frazee, Melanie Panitch, Teresa Luciani, and Victoria Bowman
[This study] is one of twelve case studies associated with the research network called The Changing Nature of Work and Lifelong Learning in the New Economy (WALL). Our study was the only one in the financial sector, and the only one focusing solely on the experience of employees with disabilities. Its purpose was to identify and describe the informal learning strategies that disabled employees use in order to be successful in corporate jobs. What do they have to learn in order to be successful in the complex and competitive world of a Canadian bank?
· Beyond PD Days: Teachers' Work and Learning in Canada
by Rosemary Clark, Fab Antonelli, Donna Lacavera, David Livingstone, Katina Pollock, Harry Smaller, Jim Strachan, and Paul Tarc
This book (and accompanying DVD, "No Two Alike") encapsulates key findings from a decade of research into teacher work and formal and informal learning in Canada. Sponsored by the NALL (New Approaches to Lifelong Learning) and WALL (Work and Lifelong Learning) research networks, this book explores issues in teacher professional development, and provides practical suggestions for planners of professional learning opportunities for experienced teachers, beginning teachers, occasional teachers and internationally-educated teachers.
To order, contact:
Ontario Teachers' Federation (416) 966-3424 or 1-800-268-7061
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (416) 978-0515
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3. RESURGENT VOICES: A POST-HURRICANE BENEFIT FOR BILWIVISION AND AUTONOMOUS MEDIA IN NICARAGUA
October 15th
7-9pm
OISE Auditorium
252 Bloor Street West
BilwiVision, based out of URACCAN University, is a community-based TV station run by Indigenous, Creole and Mestizo youth on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua and is a partner in the VIVA! Project, a transnational community arts exchange. On Sept 4, Hurricane Felix struck the coastal region, devastating communities and damaging basic infrastructure. The benefit will support their autonomous media work, involving communities in the reconstruction and self-determination of the region. Local community media will also be featured as part of this exchange.
The program includes screening of videos from The VIVA! Project, BilwiVision, The Story Project, and Regent Park Focus.
Local Autonomous Media Fair
Pay what you make in an hour. Further donations welcome!
4. LEARNING DEMOCRACY BY DOING - ALTERNATIVE PRACTICES IN CITIZENSHIP LEARNING AND PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY
October 16-18, 2008
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
252 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Canada
This conference, which celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Transformative Learning Centre at OISE/UT, will provide a space for mutual learning and critical reflection about innovative and inspiring international initiatives. The conference will take place in Toronto, one of the most diverse cities in the world, and it will build on Canadian experiences in social action learning and participatory democracy, including indigenous models of democratic self-governance, the Antigonish Movement of Nova Scotia, the Citizens Forum, the Citizens Assemblies in British Columbia and Ontario, the Practicing Democracy initiative in Vancouver, and the emerging participatory budgeting initiatives in municipalities, public housing units and schools.
5. VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION – MIGRANTS: THOSE WHO COME FROM WITHIN
Spanish with subtitles in English
42 minutes
Within Canada:
$15 + donation to the community of Cujingo, State of Mexico (shipping costs are included)
For more then one film add, $10 per copy
For migrant farmworkers in Canada, $2.00 (including shipping)
Cost for personal copy without public viewing, $10 + donation
Orders from the United States: $20 (US) + donation
For each additional copy add $10 (US)
7. TEN REASONS TO VOTE FOR MIXED MEMBER PROPORTIONAL (MMP) IN THE REFERENDUM
1. More choice for voters: one ballot, two votes
With MMP, you cast a vote for your local candidate AND another vote for your preferred political party.
2. More power to voters: everyone matters
Even if you don’t elect someone in your riding, your party vote will still help elect at-large candidates. Every party will compete for your vote no matter where you live.
3. More options for voters
Voters will be able to consider the larger established parties, as usual, but also a number of smaller, newer, innovative parties.
4. Fairer results in elections
Parties will get only the seats and power they deserve – no more, no less.
5. Stronger representation
With both riding representatives and at-large representatives, voters will be able to call on more than one elected official in their region for assistance.
6. More diverse representation
Parties will learn that they attract more votes by nominating a diverse list of at-large candidates – including a good balance of women and men, and visible minorities.
7. More accountability to voters
Every voter helps elect someone, which strengthens accountability, and majority governments can only be formed by those representing the majority.
8. Better government and less concentration of power
Parties will be forced to negotiate and compromise, usually by forming coalition governments, which tempers the power of the premier and party leaders.
9. Citizens’ Assembly recommended MMP
MMP is recommended by the independent Ontario Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform, a body of 103 randomly chosen voters who studied and deliberated for eight months on the best voting system for Ontario.
10. Old guard doesn’t like it
The MMP system empowers voters and gives us more choice, fairer results and stronger representation – not what the old boys club wants, but what all Ontarians deserve.
8. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: AN EXAMINATION OF RACIAL PROFILING IN CANADA
Tuesday, October 16th
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
OISE Auditorium,
252 Bloor West (at Bedford), Ground floor
Join the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives for an in-depth discussion about racial profiling in Canadian communities and at our borders, and the role of governments. We will also be celebrating the release of the CCPA's publication, "Conflict, Crisis and Accountability: Racial Profiling and Law Enforcement in Canada," by Charles C. Smith.
Featuring:
· Charles C. Smith, Author
· Dr. Monia Mazigh
· Faisal Kutty, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Canada
· Dr. Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Author of "Canada's Economic Apartheid: The Social Exclusion of Racialized Groups in the New Century"
· Karl Flecker, Canadian Labour Congress
· Jessica Yee, Canadians for Choice and Planned Parenthood
· Filsan Fadal, Youth activist
· Jana Kooren, Educational Co-ordinator, ACLU Minnesota
· MorningStar River Drummers
INFO: Erika Shaker, CCPA, 613-563-1341
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9. THIS WEEK FROM RABBLE.CA
EMPTY PROMISES: THE HARD TRUTH ABOUT GETTING RICH
Broken promises are something we normally associate with politicians at election time. But what about the broken promise of economic growth?
10. FILIPINO AMERICANS DEMAND APOLOGY FROM “DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES” PRODUCERS
The National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) is demanding an apology from the producers of ABC's "Desperate Housewives" over an episode that aired on September 30 disparaging medical practitioners who were trained in the Philippines.
In condemning the racially-biased and culturally insensitive remarks, NaFFAA National Chair Alma Kern also points out the need for cultural awareness training among Hollywood writers, producers and actors. "It is outrageous that in this day and age, popular media continue to demean and insult Filipinos in America," Kern says. "For more than one hundred years, we have made valuable contributions to this country, not only as health professionals but as child care providers and home care givers. These dedicated, diligent and competent workers do not deserve to be slandered and stereotyped in such a prejudicial manner if only to evoke laughter."
In the ABC-produced episode, Terri Hatcher's character (Susan) was reacting to her gynecologist who suggested that she might be hitting menopause. "Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some med school in the Philippines," Susan replied.
ABC, Inc.
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521-4551
(818) 460-7477
To write to the producers of Desperate Housewives:
Desperate Housewives
Touchstone Television
100 Universal City Plaza
Bldg. 2128, Suite G
Universal City, CA 91608
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11. TAKE IT BACK! – COUNCIL OF CANADIANS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
October 26-28
Kelowna, BC
We hope you can join us for a free public forum, followed by a weekend of workshops and panel discussions, focusing on a peoples’ vision of North America. This year’s theme is “Take it Back!” and will feature speakers and activists from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. We’ll be looking at ways to take back what is ours – our democratic right to participate in discussions about Canada’s future within North America. This event is open to everyone. You don’t have to be a Council member to attend. It’s all happening at the Coast Capri Hotel, 1171 Harvey Avenue, in Kelowna.
12. CALL FOR PANELS & PAPERS FOR CFHSS CONGRESS 2008
The Equity Issues portfolio, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) invites member-organized papers, sessions, panels, workshops, or other events on Anti-Racism, Equity and Accountability in Canadian post-secondary education for Congress 2008.~This call develops the initiatives called for from the EI Congress 2007 panel, “Glass Ceilings and Traps Doors:~Anti-Racist Equity in Hiring, Retention, and Accountability in Canadian Universities.”~
For more information, contact: Donna Pennee, V-P, Equity Issues, CFHSS (mailto:dpennee@...).
We also invite presenters at the 2008 Congress to submit their papers for consideration in an edited volume, Thinking Beyond Borders: Race, Racialization and Antiracism in the Academy, to be edited by Donna Pennee, Malinda S. Smith, and Maria Wallis. Papers may explore any aspect of race, antiracism, and processes of racialization in relation to Canadian universities. We particularly encourage contributions that take an intersectional or interlocking analytical approach to the issues.
13. JOB POSTING – CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES
Title: Member Development Officer
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is seeking a membership development officer for its National Office. We are looking for an individual of exceptional skill, energy and commitment to be part of a progressive member-based policy research institute.
Skills and qualifications:
· Candidates must be able demonstrate a strong background and record of success in fundraising and membership development in a non-profit organization. Other skills include:
· Excellent verbal and written communications, including experience producing member newsletters, direct mail and internet-based fundraising appeals.
· Strong computer skills including knowledge of member databases (FilemakerPro), Microsoft Office, and desktop publishing programs.
· An understanding of and ability to explain the CCPA's purpose and values and provide a general overview of the Centre's work and structure.
· Demonstrated ability to work effectively, both independently and collaboratively as part of a team in a dynamic non-hierarchical environment, often working to deadlines.
· Fluency in French is an asset.
Duties and responsibilities:
The membership development officer, under the general direction of the executive director and director of operations, will:
· Manage national office membership servicing activities, develop membership expansion plans including direct mail, online fundraising, etc. Responsibilities include working with fundraising and other consultants related to these activities.
· Communicate with members (and prospective members) via written, telephone and email queries, and via newsletters; and develop and manage donation and bequest strategies. Also ensure the design, production and distribution of these mailings.
· Work collaboratively with other membership, administrative and communications staff in the national office and in the provincial branch offices across the country in carrying out membership responsibilities.
Salary:
This is a unionized permanent position with a salary range of $47,250 to $54,750 per year and a generous benefits package. Salary will depend on qualifications and experience.
Closing date for applications:
Email a cover letter and resume with references and telephone numbers, by October 31, 2007, to:
Diane Touchette, Director of Operations
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Email: mailto:dianet@...
"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat."
- Audre Lorde
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat."
- Audre Lorde
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) brings together educators from university, union, and community settings to understand and enrich the often-undervalued informal and formal learning of working people. We develop research and teaching programs at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) that strengthen feminist, anti-racist, labour movement, and working-class perspectives on learning and work.
If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements, please email them to mailto:rsussman@....
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DVD LAUNCH – “HOUSEHOLD WORK: MORE THAN IT SEEMS”
Please join us for the launch of…Household Work: More Than It Seems
Margrit Eichler and Laura Sky, Producers
Heather Walters, Teacher’s Guide Editor
Thursday, October 18, 2007
6 to 8 p.m.
Room 12-199, 252 Bloor Street West
OISE/UT
Come for a preview screening of the film, view the teacher’s guide, and meet some of the stars!
Household work – the mere mention of it makes some shudder and others yawn. Yet it is so much more than it seems. Although there are different ways of estimating the economic value of household work, they all agree that it is significant – but it is not part of national budgets, national policies ignore it, and even the people who do it rarely understand the value of what they are doing.
This film, which is based on a research project on unpaid household work and lifelong learning, shows the complex and inclusive nature of this work. A guide – prepared for teachers, by teachers – to accompany its use in classrooms is also included.
· Event is accessible
· Refreshments will be served
· Cash bar
Project Partners: Elan Productions Ltd., Sky Works Charitable Foundation, SSHRC, WALL, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education
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“COMMUNITIES & LABOUR CONFERENCE” – ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT FOR EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION!
Communities & Labour: Building Unity & Justice Through Diversity
October 18-20, 2007
Sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Education and Work – Learning Community Unionism Working Group (CSEW) - OISE/UT, the Toronto Training Board and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union
Location: 89 Chestnut Residence Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Featuring dynamic speakers and interactive, lively workshops.
JOB POSTING – CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES (CCPA)
Title: Inequality Researcher
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is seeking a Researcher for its Inequality Project. The position involves a combination of research and writing, data and policy analysis, and communications work. The Researcher will undertake a variety of short- and long-term research projects related to the Inequality Project. We are looking for an individual of exceptional skill, energy and commitment to be part of this unique groundbreaking project.
Skills and Qualifications:
The position requires a strong background in data and policy analysis in the areas of income distribution, labour markets and/or social and economic policy. Candidates must be able to demonstrate research experience in this area, with a strong (graduate level) academic background in a relevant field of study. Other skills include:
· background in quantitative methods and statistics;
· strong computer skills;
· excellent written and oral communication skills, including public speaking; experience, popular/accessible as well as academic writing skills; experience giving media interviews is an asset;
· demonstrated ability to work effectively, both independently and as part of a team, in an environment that is frequently working to deadlines with quick turnaround;
· fluency in French is an asset.
Job Duties and Responsibilities include:
· work collaboratively with the Inequality Team to develop and/or undertake in-depth original research;
· research and write policy briefs, research papers, and studies;
· write articles and opinion pieces for newspapers, the CCPA Monitor, a regular blog, and other publications;
· monitor and analyze federal and provincial public policy and trends with respect to income inequality;
· provide information and comment to media (press, radio and TV interviews);
· prepare materials for and undertake public speaking engagements about income inequality;
· provide support for project coordination and fundraising efforts.
This position may be at the researcher or senior researcher level, depending on the applicant. Salary will be commensurate with experience.
Application Deadline: October 15, 2007
Inquire and/or send applications to:
Trish Hennessy
Director, Inequality Project
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
2 Carlton Street, Suite 1001
Toronto Ontario
M5B 1J3
Tel: 416-263-9896
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CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS – “HOW CLASS WORKS” 2008 CONFERENCE
A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York
June 5-7, 2008
The Center for Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce the How Class Works – 2008 Conference, to be held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, June 5 - 7, 2008. Proposals for papers, presentations, and sessions are welcome until December 17, 2007 according to the guidelines below.
Purpose and orientation: The conference seeks to explore ways in which an explicit recognition of class helps to understand the social world in which we live, and ways in which analysis of society can deepen our understanding of class as a social relationship. Presentations should take as their point of reference the lived experience of class; proposed theoretical contributions should be rooted in and illuminate social realities. Presentations are welcome from people outside academic life when they sum up social experience in a way that contributes to the themes of the conference. Formal papers will be welcome but are not required. All presentations should be accessible to an interdisciplinary audience.
Conference themes: The conference welcomes proposals for presentations that advance our understanding of any of the following themes.
· The mosaic of class, race, and gender
· Class, power, and social structure
· Class and community
· Class in a global economy
· Middle class? Working class? What's the difference and why does it matter?
· Class, public policy, and electoral politics
· Class and culture
· Pedagogy of class
Timetable: Proposals must be received by December 17, 2007. Notifications will be mailed on January 16, 2008.
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RARE TORONTO APPEARANCE BY ACTIVIST D.L. RABY, AUTHOR OF “DEMOCRACY AND REVOLUTION: LATIN AMERICA AND SOCIALISM TODAY”
October 12th
Toronto Women’s Bookstore
73 Harbord St.
7:00p.m.
Is socialism dead since the fall of the Soviet Union? What is the way forward for the Left? Raby argues that Cuba and above all Venezuela provide inspiration for anti-globalisation and anti-capitalist movements across the world. Another World Is Possible, but only through an effective political strategy to win power on a popular and democratic basis.
Raby argues passionately that the way forward for progressives is not the dogmatic formulae of the Old Left, nor in the spontaneous autonomism of John Holloway or Tony Negri. Instead, it is to be found in new, broad and flexible popular movements with bold and determined leadership. Examining the relationship of key leaders to their people, including Hugo Chavez and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, Raby shows that it is more necessary than ever to take power, peacefully where possible, but in all cases with the strength that comes from popular unity backed by force where necessary. In this way it is possible to build democratic power, which may or may not be socialist depending on one's definition, but which represent the real anti-capitalist alternative for the twenty-first century.
Democracy and Revolution * 304 pages * ISBN 978-1897071-20-5 * $29.95 CDN
Available from your local bookstore
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CANADIAN COMMITTEE ON WOMEN’S HISTORY – PANEL
As it does every year, the Canadian Committee on Women's History is organizing a series of co-sponsored panels for the CHA meeting in Vancouver. One of the panels is to be entitled "Gender and Poverty in the Twentieth Century: Within and Beyond Borders." My work focuses on homelessness and economic and social marginalization on the west coast of Canada and the United States between the 1930s and the 1970s. As the panel organizer, I am seeking papers that are either comparative in scope or move beyond the boundaries of North America and which address the broadly defined theme of histories of gender and poverty. Please submit short abstracts to mailto:lisa.helps@... by October 15th.
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CONFERENCE – “COMMUNITY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS: CONNECTING FOR CHANGE”
CUexpo 2008 http://www.cuexpo08.ca/~
May 4-7, 2008
Victoria, British Columbia
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CUexpo 2008 will focus on Connections through workshops, paper presentations, oral and audio-visual presentations, round-tables, storytelling sessions, arts-based research exhibitions, poster sessions, symposia as well as local tours and special events.~
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Important Dates
November 15, 2007~–~Program submissions deadline
January 1, 2008 – Bursary request deadline
January 15, 2008 – Registration opens
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Need Program Submission Or Agenda Information –
Please contact Maeve Lydon by email: mailto:mlydon@...
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Need Other Information –
Please contact Mary O’Rourke by email: mailto:maireco@...
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TORONTO DISASTER RELIEF COMMITTEE – URGENT APPEAL
Dear friends: As you may know, the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC) is in serious financial straits. We have given our staff notice, and are faced with closing down the office and operating only as a volunteer organization. We are reviewing our options for the future. We need your help to move forward.
When we sent out our notice a couple of weeks ago about the office closing, many of you spoke up. You said you wanted to help out, wanted to contribute. Please take this chance to do so! Please help us make it to our tenth anniversary by giving a generous donation. If you need a receipt for income tax purposes, make the cheque payable to "Phoenix Community Works Foundation" and write on the bottom of your cheque, "Homeless Project". If the tax receipt is not of concern, please make the cheque payable to the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. Please send cheques to Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, 6 Trinity Square, Toronto, ON, M5G 1B1.
In solidarity,
Cathy Crowe, Street Nurse and Co-founder, TDRC http://www.tdrc.net/
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FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM TO TEACH: A CONFERENCE ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM
Saturday, November 10
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
252 Bloor Street West
(Wheelchair accessible)
Featuring Sunera Thobani as the keynote speaker.
Sunera Thobani is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Research in the Women’s Studies and Gender Relations Department at the University of British Columbia. Her areas of specialization include immigration and citizenship in Canada, the impact of globalization on women, community organizing for global activism, and media, women and the War on Terror. A long-time activist on women's issues and with anti-racist movements, Sunera Thobani was the first woman of colour to head the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.
Other Speakers Include: (Institutions and organizations listed for personal identification only.)
· Sedef Arat-Koc - Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University in Toronto
· Afua Cooper - Professor in the departments of History and Women's Studies at the University of Toronto
· Dan Freeman-Maloy - York University graduate student
· Richard Fung - Associate professor in the Faculty of Art at the Ontario College of Art and Design
· Grace-Edward Galabuzi - Assistant Professor at Ryerson University in the Department of Politics and Public Administration
· Maurice Green - Legal counsel for Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF), partner in Green & Chercover, a legal firm specializing in labour and employment law
· Paul Hamel - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; President of Science for Peace
· Jason Kunin - Social Studies and English teacher, Vaughan Rd. Academy
· Ausma Malik - Former Vice-president (Equity) of the University of Toronto Students' Union.
· David Noble - Professor of History at York University
· Margaret Pappano - Professor of English at Queen's University
· Ramneek Pooni - Membership Secretary of Queen's University Faculty Association (QUFA)
· Jason Price - Assistant Professor of Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Victoria
$20 Registration fee at door, $5 -$10 sliding scale for students/unwaged (includes vegetarian/vegan lunch)
Sponsored by: Educators for Peace and Justice and OISE Centre for Leadership and Diversity
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"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat."
- Audre Lorde
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) brings together educators from university, union, and community settings to understand and enrich the often-undervalued informal and formal learning of working people. We develop research and teaching programs at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) that strengthen feminist, anti-racist, labour movement, and working-class perspectives on learning and work.
If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements, please email them to mailto:rsussman@....
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1. WALL Book Launch – “Beyond Pd Days: Teachers' Work And Learning In Canada”
2. Toronto Anti-Poverty Day Of Action
3. Social Economy Centre Workshop – “Rock Paper Scissors”
4. From rabble.ca – Why We Act
5. Read An Online Sample Of WorkingUSA
6. Women’s Equality Moves To The Back Of The Shop
7. Ontario – Vote For Mixed Member Proportional Representation On Oct. 10
8. Video Presentation – “Occupation 101”
9. Canadian Research Policy Networks (CPRN) – Youth & Politics
10. New Book From LabourStart – "I Just Got Elected - Now What?"
11. Toronto Training Board's “Trends Opportunities And Priorities 2007- 2008” Consultations
12. All Candidates' Debate On Children's Issues - Don Valley West Riding
13. Forum – Stepping Up For Toronto’s Communities
14. Call For Works By Emerging Indigenous Media Artists
15. New Book – “Valuing Literacy: Rhetoric Or Reality?”
16. The Canadian Research Institute For Social Policy (CRISP) Colloquium – “A Call For Knowledge”
17. Online Journal Articles
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1. WALL BOOK LAUNCH – “BEYOND PD DAYS: TEACHERS' WORK AND LEARNING IN CANADA”
Centre for Leadership and Diversity (Theory & Policy Studies, OISE) will be hosting a reception to launch some recent publications by its co-directors and associate members.
September 24
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Theory & Policy Studies Lounge
6th floor, OISE
252 Bloor St. West, Toronto
The publications to be launched are:
· Beyond PD Days: Teachers' Work and Learning in Canada by Clark, R., Antonelli, F., Lacavera, D., Livingstone, D., Pollock, K., Smaller, H., Strachan, J. & Tarc, P. Toronto: Ontario Teachers' Federation/The Work and Lifelong Research Network, 2007.
This book encapsulates key findings from a decade of research into teacher work and formal and informal learning in Canada. Sponsored by the NALL (New Approaches to Life-long Learning) and WALL (Work and Life-long Learning) research networks, this book explores issues in teacher professional development, and provides practical suggestions for planners of professional learning opportunities for experienced teachers, beginning teachers, occasional teachers and internationally-educated teachers. Using this book for both supporting evidence and job-embedded strategies, PD planners can now go Beyond PD Days.
· Inclusive Leadership by Professor James Ryan (OISE), Jossey-Bass, 2006.
· Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States by Professor Reva Joshee (OISE) and Professor Lauri Johnson (University of Buffalo), UBC Press 2007.
· Urban Teacher Education and Teaching: Innovative Practices for Diversity and Social Justice by Professor R. Patrick Solomon (York University) and Dia N. R. Sekayi (Walden University), Erlbaum 2007.
· Toward an Equitable Education: Poverty, Diversity, and Students at Risk – National Report by professor John P. Portelli (OISE), Professor Carolyn M. Shields (University of Illinois), and Professor Ann B. Vibert (Acadia University), 2007
· Key Questions for Educators by Professor William Hare (Mount St. Vincent University) and John P. Portelli (OISE). U.S. edition by Caddo Gap Press, 2007.
Toronto Anti-Poverty, a non-partisan coalition of community organizations, trade union activists, community health providers and low income people, is building a September Day of Action for Wednesday, September 26th. We will challenge all parties of the Provincial Government to immediately increase social assistance rates, immediately increase the minimum wage, build affordable/social housing now, and provide access without fear to government services for non-status people: don't ask/don't tell.
3. SOCIAL ECONOMY CENTRE WORKSHOP – “ROCK PAPER SCISSORS”
Gaining insight and enhancing your organization's strategies for building better relations with government
with Peter Elson, University of Toronto
As part of the Social Economy Centre's 2007-2008 offerings, Peter Elson, a leading authority on voluntary sector/government relations, will demonstrate how an organization can match its objectives with those of its government counterparts.
Learn:
· How to negotiate contracts with government
· The basics of advocacy and providing policy input
· How regulations impact upon your organization
· How to successfully meet with politicians and bureaucrats
· Use the rock, paper, scissor analogy to assess your organization's current and desired relationship with government
· Determine which strategies may be most beneficial to your organization
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Peter Elson was the Executive Director for the Ontario Public Health Association for 15 years. He has an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently completing a PhD at OISE/University of Toronto. His research focuses on the nature of voluntary sector/government relations in Canada. He also teaches a number of courses in Ryerson's Voluntary Sector Management Program.
FORMAT: An interactive workshop with opportunities to ask questions and tailor the information to your own organization.
DATE: Friday, October 26, 2007 - 9:00 am - Noon
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COST: $100 + GST; Each additional participant from the same organization will receive a $15 discount .
LOCATION: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, room 5-175
252 Bloor Street West, Toronto (St. George subway station).
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~ 4. FROM RABBLE.CA – WHY WE ACT
What is it that makes a person work to make the world a better place? Even as a child, I got that not everyone can turn their outrage into action, or can preserve a clear sense of justice in a world of greys and disillusionments. The people who did change the world seemed magical.
Three activist handbooks.
WorkingUSA, The Journal of Labor and Society is an important forum for new ideas on the work experience. Addressing the range of concerns of working people, the journal covers workers both employed and unemployed, union and non-union, both in the marketplace and at home. A wide range of respected contributors examine the economic, political and social means to achieving a democratic worklife.
Closure of the National Association of Women and the Law leads to renewed call from labour for government to restore Status of Women mandate and funding.
7. ONTARIO – VOTE FOR MIXED MEMBER PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION ON OCT. 10
On October 10, Ontarians will do two things: Elect a~government and vote for or against electoral reform.~ There will be one ballot only; the ballot will list the candidates standing for election in your riding; AND will also contain the Referendum Question. The reform is Mixed Member Proportional representation (MMP),~recommended by a NON-PARTISAN Citizens' Assembly (who deliberated for eight months) and was endorsed by the late Doris Anderson - the great crusader for justice and women's rights.~
If the referendum question carries, and it must carry by 60% in 60 ridings, voting in the provincial general election of October 2011 will reflect the evolution to fairer representation and a much closer reflection of the popular vote and the actual seats held by~political parties in the Legislature.~ If we lose the referendum, we may not have a second chance to make meaningful change in our electoral laws, at least not in our lifetime.
Tuesday Sept. 25th
4-6pm
Graduate Students Association
(Rm. 430 of the Student Centre)
York University
A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.
The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets.
The film covers a wide range of topics -- which include -- the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880's, the 1920 tensions, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the first Intifada of 1987, the Oslo Peace Process, Settlement expansion, the role of the United States Government, the second Intifada of 2000, the separation barrier and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as well as many heart wrenching testimonials from victims of this tragedy.
9. CANADIAN RESEARCH POLICY NETWORKS (CPRN) – YOUTH & POLITICS
September 20, 2007 – They may look apathetic: they’re less likely to vote, less likely to be members of political parties and they know less about politics than other Canadians. In reality, during CPRN’s National Dialogue and Summit, young Canadians told us they felt disconnected from mainstream politics – even while expressing deep concern for the country and the way it’s run.
In response, CPRN commissioned a research series on Youth Civic and Political Participation, designed to examine the barriers, challenges and opportunities for this participation, and to offer policy recommendations and actions to support our young people in becoming more engaged.
Here are the first three of the six research papers:
Indifferent or Just Different? The Political and Civic Engagement of Young People in Canada, by Brenda O’Neill of the University of Calgary. This report reviews the literature addressing youth political and civic engagement in Canada, synthesizes the state of existing knowledge and identifies research gaps and priorities. It also includes policy recommendations for increasing youth engagement. http://www.cprn.org/doc.cfm?doc=1751&l=en
A Group Apart: Young Party Members in Canada, by Lisa Young of the University of Calgary and William Cross of Carleton University. In order to better understand what compels young people to get involved in politics the authors conducted a survey of young party members on university campuses and compared them to other politically engaged students to analyze their different characteristics and motivations. http://www.cprn.org/doc.cfm?doc=1748&l=en
The Meaning of Political Participation for Indigenous Youth, by Taiaiake Alfred, of the University of Victoria; Brock Pitawanakwat of the First Nations University; and Jackie Price of the Nunavut Sivuniksavut Program. This paper addresses two central questions: What does political engagement mean to indigenous youth today? And how do their attitudes and beliefs regarding political participation affect Canadian electoral processes and institutions? http://www.cprn.org/doc.cfm?doc=1749&l=en
Three more papers and a synthesis report of the series will be released this fall.
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10. NEW BOOK FROM LABOURSTART – "I JUST GOT ELECTED - NOW WHAT?"
This is the title of a new book we're offering as our LabourStart book of the week. (The subtitle is "a new union officer's handbook".)
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According to the publisher, "This is an aggressive new guide to building a strong and effective local union. Don't buy this book if your goal is simply to be a local union officer like "Old Joe" was before you, doing things the way they’ve always been done and skating by as things just bump along."~
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Do buy it if you want strong and effective local unions – and by buying this book using the link below, you support both a unionized bookshop and you~contribute to LabourStart.
11. TORONTO TRAINING BOARD'S “TRENDS OPPORTUNITIES AND PRIORITIES 2007- 2008” CONSULTATIONS
· October 3, 2007
10am-12pm
· October 8, 2007
2pm-4pm
· October 12, 2007
6pm-8pm
Location: Alterna Boardroom
Centre for Social Innovation
215 Spadina Avenue
Suite 400
M5T 2C7
· Share information on key trends and issues in Toronto’s labour market
· Discuss opportunities – Where are the jobs?
· Who are the workers?
· What are the issues/ barriers to employment?
· What strategies are being used to address labour market issues?
· What are the priorities?
Light refreshments will be served.
Space is limited! People can register for only one of the dates.
Please RSVP by September 28, 2007 to
Saddaf Syed
Partnership Coordinator
Toronto Training Board
416.934.1653 mailto:syed@...
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12. ALL CANDIDATES' DEBATE ON CHILDREN'S ISSUES - DON VALLEY WEST RIDING
Wednesday September 26, 2007
7:00 TO 9:00 PM
Marc Garneau Collegiate
135 Overlea Blvd. (at Don Mills)
Come hear your candidates' and the political party views on:
Children's Health, Child Care, Child Poverty, Housing and Challenges Facing Newcomers
*CHILD CARE AVAILABLE*
For questions or to request child care, please call 416-538-0628 x 4 or email mailto:andrea@...
DIRECTIONS: By car- Take the Don Valley Parkway to Don Mills Rd. N. exit, take Don Mills to Overlea Blvd., turn left at Overlea Blvd.
By TTC- Take Thorncliffe #100 bus from Broadview station OR take #25 bus from Pape station
HOSTED BY: Campaign 2000, Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Centre, Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care
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13. FORUM – STEPPING UP FOR TORONTO’S COMMUNITIES
~ A Provincial Election Forum on issues of concern to Toronto’s non-profit community sector.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
10:00 AM – 12:00 Noon
Metro Central YMCA Auditorium
20 Grosvenor St., 2nd Floor, Toronto
The community non-profit sector in Toronto is comprised of over 2000 organizations and agencies.~ It is important because of the wide range of services it provides to residents of Toronto.~ It is also a critical sector of our economy, representing 7.4% of Ontario’s GDP.~
The Provincial government’s role is crucial – in Ontario, 54% of agencies overall revenues come from the Provincial government.~
The Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, in collaboration with a wide range of community organizations, has invited the four main parties to designate their spokesperson on our issues.~ Where do the Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, New Democrats, and Greens stand on the issues of vital concern to our community organizations?
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· Moderator:~Mario Calla (President, CSPC-T, Executive Director COSTI)
· Liberal Party: Hon. George Smitherman (MPP Toronto Centre, Minister of Health)~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~
· Progressive Conservative Party: To be confirmed
· New Democratic Party: Rosario Marchese (MPP Trinity-Spadina)
· Green Party: Daniel Cullen (Candidate, Brampton-Springdale)
For more information about the event, or if you have questions you wish to submit for the meeting, please email mailto:cspc@..., or call the Community Social Planning Council at 416 351-0095 x 251.~
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14. CALL FOR WORKS BY EMERGING INDIGENOUS MEDIA ARTISTS
Deadline: October 13, 2007
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The Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, the Ullus Collective, UBC-Okanagan, the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition and the Independent Media Arts Alliance are seeking works by emerging Media Artists to screen at On Common Ground, a National Media Arts Conference and Festival taking place in Kelowna, BC June 10-14, 2008. Our objective is to have work from various regions across the country that will foster awareness about issues faced by Indigenous peoples across Canada.~
What We Need:
· A copy of the work
· A short biography of the Artist
· A brief description of the work
If you would like to contact us with further questions, you may do so at (250) 868-2298, fax (250) 868-2896 or by email at mailto:info@....
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15. NEW BOOK – “VALUING LITERACY: RHETORIC OR REALITY?”
by Nayda Veeman, Angela Ward, and Keith Walker
ISBN 1-55059-324-2; 6x9; pb; $27.95
Valuing Literacy is a 'broad brush" approach that bridges the gap between academic literature, public policy about literacy, and lifelong learning—topics of international concern in the globalized economy. The book is based on a recently completed case study of adult learning policy in Canada and Sweden; it draws on one author's over twenty-five years of practical experience in adult education and literacy, and the respective expertise of two academics in the fields of education policy and literacy.
Through the personal stories of Canadian and Swedish adults who choose to go back to school and the educators who work with them, the authors describe the impact of public policy on literacy outcomes. They raise questions about the impact of public awareness efforts and ask whether current literacy strategies have effectively increased learning opportunities for adults.
Intended for policymakers, adult educators, and education researchers—as well as being of interest to the general reader—the book has international appeal as it contrasts the impact on adult literacy levels of the social democratic approach of northern Europe and the liberal approach of English-speaking countries like Canada.
Valuing Literacy is expected to be in print by September 2006. If you would like to pre-order a copy, please contact
Temeron Books Inc. by one of the following methods:
Canadian orders, mail to Suite #210, 1220 Kensington Rd. NW, Calgary, AB T2N 3P5; phone (403) 283-0900; fax (403) 283-6947; or email mailto:temeron@.... Add GST to order.
US orders, contact Temeron Books by phone/fax at (360) 738-4016, or mail to: P.O. Box 896, Bellingham, WA 98227
Payment may be made via cheque or VISA. Please note that outside of Canada prices are in US dollars. We offer free shipping/handling worldwide on non-discounted prepaid orders.
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16. THE CANADIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY (CRISP) COLLOQUIUM – “A CALL FOR KNOWLEDGE”
Venue: Delta Fredericton Hotel, Fredericton, New Brunswick
October 3, 2007
Registration Fees: $99.00 CDN (taxes incl.) can be paid by cheque or money order.
A colloquium dedicated to showcasing the work of the New Investigators Network's four-year collaborative research program aimed at "raising and levelling the bar" for Canadian children and youth.
The New Investigators Network is an interdisciplinary, collaborative network of Canada's top social science researchers in the field of human development. The network was founded with support from the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research in fall 2002 to complement the achievements of its Human Development Program by helping to encourage the work of a new generation of scholars using quantitative data to inform their research.
"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat."
- Audre Lorde
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) brings together educators from university, union, and community settings to understand and enrich the often-undervalued informal and formal learning of working people. We develop research and teaching programs at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) that strengthen feminist, anti-racist, labour movement, and working-class perspectives on learning and work.
If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements, please email them to mailto:rsussman@....
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1. New On The Learning And Work Blog
2. Toronto Training Board Annual General Meeting
3. Building A Great City!
4. Seminar – The Evergreen Brickworks: A Work In Progress
5. New From The Workers’ Action Centre, Toronto
6. “Building Power” Videos Now Available Online
7. First Nations House Annual Open House
8. Colour Of Poverty Campaign
9. Petition – Ontario Educators For Democratic Inclusive Public Schools
10. Back To The Future: Indigenous Struggles In The Americas, With Hugo Blanco
11. New Site For Canadian Committee On Labour History
12. Fair Deal For Cities Campaign
13. Temporary Foreign Workers In Canada: New Programs - Old Story
14. Ontario Coalition For Better Child Care Election Materials
15. Maytree Foundation Launches “Policy In Focus”
16. New Date – North American Launch Of "A Life For The Revolution"
17. Street Health Report 2007 Release
18. Disability Studies Book Launch And Disability Arts
19. Online Journal Articles
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1. NEW ON THE LEARNING AND WORK BLOG
Labour Day September 2007: Reviving the labour movement through reviving class solidarity
As Canada and Ontario's labour movement marches in this year's Labour Day Parade it does so with something to celebrate: an increase in the provincial minimum wage…Why this achievement merits special celebration is that:
· It materially matters for hundreds of thousands of workers.
· It demonstrated the exciting possibilities of creating spaces through which immigrant workers, unemployed workers, and youth could express their frustrations and mobilize to improve their conditions.
· It opened a new door through which the unionized labour movement – in various stages of crisis since the Days of Action – might be revived: supporting the struggles of non-union workers because it is both the morally right thing to do and because it contributes to uniting and building the working class as a potential social force agent.
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2. TORONTO TRAINING BOARD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Keeping Your Balance: Managing Work and Life Responsibilities
· Greetings:
The office of Honourable Kathleen Wynne, Minister of Education (TBC)
· Keynote Speaker:
Andrea Garson, Vice President, Human Resources, Workopolis
Thursday, September 27, 2007
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. 2nd Floor Gallery
Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. West
Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by September 18 to:
Saddaf Syed
Partnership Coordinator
Toronto Training Board
416.934.1653 mailto:syed@...
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3. BUILDING A GREAT CITY!
by Michael Shapcott
Toronto is the biggest city in Canada, and among the half dozen largest cities in North America, but our city is suffering from a lack of investment in social and physical infrastructure (everything from affordable housing to public transit).
Toronto Mayor David Miller launched a new web site today that sets out the facts and figures regarding Toronto current fiscal troubles. The URL is http://www.fairtaxes.ca/.
The mathematics are really quite simple:
To build a great city (which also means a healthy city and an equitable city), new investments are needed in social and physical infrastructure. Toronto needs the money to make those investments. The city's current package of "revenue tools" (property taxes, user fees, grants, etc.) falls short of the need by at least half a billion dollars, according to city estimates. New revenues are needed, including the proposed land transfer and traffic congestion taxes that were deferred by a one-vote margin by City Council earlier this summer.
4. SEMINAR – THE EVERGREEN BRICKWORKS: A WORK IN PROGRESS
With Geoff Cape, Executive Director, Evergreen
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Noon - 1:30 pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
Room 12-199, 12th floor
252 Bloor Street West, Toronto
Geoff Cape will explore the inspiration behind the development of this $55 million project as a social enterprise, and the various learning along the way from concept to preconstruction. Geoff will cover issues such as financing, business planning, approvals, staffing and change management, together with a clear representation of the plans for the site – both architecturally and programmatically.
Bring your lunch and mug. Water, coffee and tea will be provided.
For more information, contact the Social Economy Centre at: (416) 978-0907 or mailto:sec@....
We have some new resources available on our website to get the word out during this election time about issues facing workers. Please feel free to use these resources- “Sample article” and “MPP lobby kit”-and support our campaign to pressure the government to listen to workers’ voices.
In April 2007, a unique conference on Latin America was held at Ryerson University. The CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy now has videos of two key panels at the conference, called "Building Power: Social and Political Transformations in Latin America."
The panels were on participatory democracy and indigenous struggles, and included activists and political leaders from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela, as well as Canada.
First Nations House Invites you to our Annual Open House!
Meet the staff, Elders and other students.~Food and Refreshments will be served.~ Everyone is invited!
Tuesday September 18, 2007
12:00 noon to 2:00 PM
First Nations House
University of Toronto
563 Spadina Avenue, 3rd floor
For More Info. Call First Nations House at 416.978.8227
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8. COLOUR OF POVERTY CAMPAIGN
Poverty in Ontario is growing at an alarming rate. On September 5, 2007 the Colour of Justice Network announced the launching of the Colour of Poverty Campaign - a province-wide community-based effort to help raise public awareness about the serious problem of poverty within the racialized communities of Ontario.
With the Department of Canadian Heritage as a key sponsor, the Colour of Poverty Campaign partners have developed a series of ten (10) Fact Sheets addressing different aspects of racialized poverty and its negative impacts on education & learning, health & well-being, employment, income levels, justice and policing, immigration and settlement, housing and homelessness and food security in Ontario.
“We call this the Colour of Poverty Campaign because today in Ontario, those who are poor are most likely to be people of colour. While there has been increasing awareness among the general public about the growing disparity between the rich and the poor, few people realize that poverty in this province impacts communities differently,” said Avvy Go, Clinic Director of Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic (MTCSEALC).
“Racialized communities are experiencing a disproportionate level of poverty. In Toronto, they are three times more likely to be poor than others because of the barriers and challenges they face in the job market” explained Grace-Edward Galabuzi, a professor at Ryerson University and the author of Canada’s Economic Apartheid – The Social Exclusion of Racialized Groups in the New Century.
9. PETITION – ONTARIO EDUCATORS FOR DEMOCRATIC INCLUSIVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I am circulating a petition about extending funding to all "faith-based private schools." ~This is an important public matter with significant implications for public education. 'Faith-based private school' is a euphemism for a broader integration of religion into public life as well as being a mechanism for privatizing public education; both detrimental to an accessible, equitable, and a democratic public education. Consider signing the petition and circulating it to other teachers. Please contact me for a copy.
Dr. Shahrzad Mojab, Professor and Director
Women and Gender Studies Institute
Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology
OISE/University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 1V6~
CANADA
Tel.: (416) 978-0829 or at the WGSI (416) 946-5383
Fax: (416) 926-4749 mailto:smojab@...
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10. BACK TO THE FUTURE: INDIGENOUS STRUGGLES IN THE AMERICAS, WITH HUGO BLANCO
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
5:30 p.m.
Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street, POD 250 (Gerrard St. Entrance)
Hugo Blanco, legendary Indigenous and leftist activist from Peru, and author of the book "Land or Death," will be our speaker for the evening.
He will speak about a culture created around the rich biodiversity of the Andes-Amazon region that is deeply in tune with Pachamama (Mother Earth). This is one of the seven zones of the world to have originated agriculture, and to yield a great variety of domesticated species. Blanco will speak of a world vision that sees humanity as a daughter of Mother Earth who must live in harmony with her. He will speak of an Indigenous, collectivist mentality so strong that it endures even after 500 years of what he names the "dictatorship of individualism".
Inspired as a child by a teacher who shared stories of resistance to the shocking treatment of Indigenous people by landowners, Hugo Blanco grew up to become a leader of the Indigenous uprising in the Cuzco region of Tawantinsuyo in the early 1960's, which put an end to the feudal system of haciendas. In 1978-80, Blanco became a symbol of unity and renewal of the Peruvian struggle against imperialism when he was imprisoned, threatened with death, exiled, and finally freed thanks to pressure from the Indigenous movement at home, and international solidarity.
11. NEW SITE FOR CANADIAN COMMITTEE ON LABOUR HISTORY
This is to let people know that the Canadian Committee on Labour History is now online at Athabasca University at the following site: http://www.cclh.ca/
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Among other features, this includes a secure online ordering system for both Labour/Le Travail subscriptions and the purchasing of~CCLH book publications, including the recent new books on the wage controls struggle of 1975-76 and on the history of labour in St. Catharines, Ontario.
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12. FAIR DEAL FOR CITIES CAMPAIGN
A strong, new coalition of community, environmental, labour and social justice groups has been formed to fight for a fair deal for Toronto and its residents. Under the banner “ A Fair Deal For Our City”, the coalition will be active in the months leading up to the October election demanding the provincial politicians commit to a fair deal for Toronto and other Ontario cities.~
Each year, billions in taxes go from Toronto to Queen's Park and Ottawa. Yet to deliver all its services, the City only takes six cents of every tax dollar Torontonians pay. Police, fire and emergency medical services, transit, housing, recreation and parks, roads, water and sewage, garbage and recycling, social services libraries, childcare, public health, homes for the aged... all of this must come from just six cents on the dollar. The provincial government has still not restored fair funding for public transit, and continues to download social service costs onto property taxpayers. In fact, Ontario is the only province in Canada where property taxes pay for social programs.
Between now and October 10th, the coalition will be demanding that every candidate for provincial election commit to immediately resolving this unjust situation. You can send a message to the candidates in your riding through the website: http://www.fairdealforourcity.ca/.
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13. TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKERS IN CANADA: NEW PROGRAMS - OLD STORY
A presentation and discussion about temporary foreign and migrant workers in Canada with Laurell Ritchie from the Canadian Auto Workers and Jojo Geronimo from the Labour Education Centre.
Agricultural workers picking tomatoes and cucumbers… live-in domestic caregivers… health care workers…. oil-sands workers…. construction and engineering workers… hotel workers… and even those serving Canadian's most sought after coffee and doughnuts. The range of jobs being filled by temporary foreign workers is widening. But their rights aren't.
These workers are not free to move to another job within the sector they work in. They contribute to health care and EI but are not full beneficiaries. They may belong to a union, depending on the sector, but they can't really use their contract rights. In certain cases they may be able to apply for immigration, but even then it's at the discretion of their employer.
This is an invitation to learn more about Canada's long-standing and newer programs for temporary foreign workers. Together we'll discuss the implications for our society and what actions might be helpful.
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14. ONTARIO COALITION FOR BETTER CHILD CARE ELECTION MATERIALS
With an election officially underway, The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care is campaigning on the need for universal, high quality, not-for-profit child care. We need your help, particularily in circuluating election materials and fundraising through our publication Women, Power and Politics and membership in the OCBCC.
We have posted our election materials on our website at http://www.childcareontario.org/. Please forward this email to anyone within your organization who is interested in child care issues.
Our website has a poster and brochure with the theme Overdue: Early Learning and Care for Every Child. We hope to have French materials up in a few days. Check back often as we also have a daily blog on our website with news and comments on the election campaign.
Many organizations and local coalitions are organizing local debates. Please email me any dates for local meetings and we will publicize the meetings among child care advocates and parents. My email is: mailto:andrea@....
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15. MAYTREE FOUNDATION LAUNCHES “POLICY IN FOCUS”
Maytree is pleased to present the first issue of its newest publication – Maytree Policy in Focus. This free publication will feature a different topic each quarter, summarizing important research, providing policy analysis and making practical recommendations.~Our first issue~"Extend the right to vote to non-citizen residents in Canada’s diverse cities” summarizes and explains~Myer Siemiatycki's research~paper Municipal Franchise and Social Inclusion in Toronto: Policy and Practice.~
We’ve also added a new section to our site: Policy and Research, which features our latest policy publications, research and resources related to the importance of cities, immigration and poverty.
16. NEW DATE – NORTH AMERICAN LAUNCH OF "A LIFE FOR THE REVOLUTION"
Friday, October 5
7pm to 9pm
O.I.S.E, Room 2-212
252 Bloor Street West (at St. George subway)
Please plan to attend the North American launch of "A life for the revolution" -- a documentary by Belgian film-maker Chris Den Hond on the life and politics of Ernest Mandel.
Ernest Mandel (1923-1995) -- a self-described "Flemish internationalist of Jewish descent" -- was one of the most innovative Marxist thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. He was a "professional revolutionary" who invested all his energy, knowledge and vast personal culture in the struggle for socialism and in the building of revolutionary parties and the Fourth International. At the same time, Mandel maintained a hectic pace of scholarly activity; he is the author of several books: Marxist Economic Theory; Trotsky: A Study in the Dynamic of his Thought; Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story; and Late Capitalism, among others.
The documentary is being launched as part of a two-disc DVD that also includes "A man called Ernest Mandel", a 40-minute film by Frans Buyens made in 1972 on the basis of a long interview with Mandel. This is the first time the Buyens film has appeared with English subtitles.
Speaking at this special launch event will be:
· Cherie MacDonald. Cherie is a well-known pro-choice activist, socialist-feminist and longtime supporter of the Fourth International. Cherie will speak of the important role played by Ernest Mandel and the Fourth International during the radicalization of the 1960s and 1970s.
· Greg Albo. Greg teaches political economy at York University and is a member of the Socialist Project. He will speak on Mandel's major contribution to Marxist political economy.
Excerpts from both films will be shown after Cherie and Greg's introductory remarks.
Copies of the two-disc DVD set will be available for sale at this launch meeting. For further information about this meeting, or if you are interested in purchasing the two-disc DVD set, please e-mail mailto:mandeldvd@... or call (416) 537-8925.
This event co-sponsored by The Socialist Project and the New Socialist Group.
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17. STREET HEALTH REPORT 2007 RELEASE
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
10 a.m.
Church of the Holy Trinity
10 Trinity Square (behind the Eaton Centre)
Join us for the release of the Street Health Report 2007, a community-based study on the health of homeless people in Toronto. The report presents the findings of a survey of 368 homeless adults in Toronto on their health and access to health care. This study was conducted in the winter of 2006/2007 by Street Health, a community-based health care organization working with homeless and under-housed people in downtown Toronto.
The report reveals a picture of homelessness in Toronto that demands immediate action and outlines a series of recommendations to improve the health of homeless people and to ultimately end homelessness.
As we release our report on September 19th, the National Film Board of Canada will be launching its "Street Health Stories" exhibit, a collection of portraits and audio-recordings of the voices of some of the survey participants.
18. DISABILITY STUDIES BOOK LAUNCH AND DISABILITY ARTS
Disability Studies 2007-2008 Speaker Series
Equity Studies, New College, University of Toronto
Disability Studies Book Launch and Disability Arts with Host Rinaldo Walcott
Wednesday, September 26th
5:00pm - 8:00pm
East Common Room, Hart House
7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto M5S 3H3
Ramp access: Tower Road, West Entrance
(ramp, accessible parking & washroom)
Book Launch, Reading and Writing Disability Differently: The Textured Life of Embodiment, by Tanya Titchkosky
"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat."
- Audre Lorde
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) brings together educators from university, union, and community settings to understand and enrich the often-undervalued informal and formal learning of working people. We develop research and teaching programs at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) that strengthen feminist, anti-racist, labour movement, and working-class perspectives on learning and work.
If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements, please email them to mailto:rsussman@....
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1. New On The WALL Website
2. New On The Learning And Work Blog
3. Call For Papers – “Studies In Social Justice”
4. Conference – “Embracing Diversity In Canadian Educational Communities”
5. Forum On Che Guevara And Cuba
6. CCL Unveils New Models To Guide Aboriginal Lifelong Learning
7. New Review From WHO: “Gender Equality, Work And Health”
8. Seminar – “Penetrating Neo-Liberalism: Changing Relations Of Gender, Race And Class”
9. Workshop – “Board-Management Relations: Bridging The Gap Between The Ideal And Reality In The Governance Of Community Organizations”
10. Forum – “Bring On The Referendum: What You Need To Know”
11. Campaign 2000 National Forums On Living Wages
12. “Quality College Education: Changing Our Future” Conference Postponed
13. North American Launch Of "A Life For The Revolution"
14. From rabble.ca – “The Upside Of Ivory Towers”
15. Conference – “2017: The Workplace”
16. Graduate Student Poster Submissions To “2017: The Workplace” Conference
17. New Book – “Why America Lost The War On Poverty - And How To Win It”
18. Annual General Meeting Of The Toronto Training Board
19. Online Journal Articles
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1. NEW ON THE WALL WEBSITE
Public Historically Cool to Faith-Based Funding
by Doug Hart and D.W. Livingstone, Toronto Star
Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory's new position on funding all faith-based schools is a poor fit with public opinion.
In 20 years of polling, we have never found more than a minority in favour of any extension of public funding to private schools.
Textbooks Economical with Words about Co-Ops
by Jack Quarter, Daniel Schugurensky, Erica McCollum and Laurie Mook, Toronto Star
A recent study conducted through the Social Economy Centre at the University of Toronto raises questions about the narrow focus of business and economics textbooks in Ontario's high schools.
The research by professor Daniel Schugurensky and MA student Erica McCollum of OISE/University of Toronto, examined the contents of 22 business textbooks containing 11,375 pages currently used in Ontario high schools.
In general, these textbooks had very little about non-profits and co-operatives.
The Editors of Studies in Social Justice invite submissions all year round. Studies in Social Justice is published twice yearly by the Centre for Studies in Social Justice, University of Windsor. This electronic journal publishes articles on issues dealing with the social, cultural, economic, political, and philosophical problems associated with the struggle for social justice. This interdisciplinary journal aims to publish work that links theory to social change and the analysis of substantive issues. The journal welcomes heterodox contributions that are critical of established paradigms of inquiry.
The journal focuses on debates that move beyond conventional notions of social justice, and views social justice as a critical concept that is integral in the analysis of policy formation, rights, participation, social movements, and transformations. Social justice is analysed in the context of processes involving nationalism, social and public policy, globalization, diasporas, culture, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, welfare, poverty, war, and other social phenomena. It endeavours to cover questions and debates ranging from governance to democracy, sustainable environments, and human rights, and to introduce new work on pressing issues of social justice throughout the world.
The latest issue features articles by: David Harvey (CUNY), Nancy Fraser (New School for Social Research) William Carroll (University of Victoria), Michael Reisch (University of Michigan) and Gary Craig (University of Hull) among others.
4. CONFERENCE – “EMBRACING DIVERSITY IN CANADIAN EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITIES”
Oct. 25-27, 2007
550 University Avenue
University of Prince Edward Island
Charlottetown, NB, Canada
The University of Prince Edward Island's Faculty of Education is partnering with Holland College to host the Atlantic Educators Conference (AEC). The focus is on research and knowledge exchange related to the conference theme - Embracing Diversity in Canadian Educational Communities. The conference also aims to promote collaborative research and curriculum work between colleges and universities. At the conference, the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre of the Canadian Council on Learning is sponsoring a knowledge exchange activity on October 25 and the Centre's coordinator, Kathleen Flanagan, will deliver a keynote address.
Monday, September 10, 7 p.m.
252 Bloor Street West (OISE), Room 2210
(St. George subway station)
COST: Free, donations appreciated
INFO: mailto:free5cc@..., 416-603-9858
Hear and discuss the following presentations, about social, economic, and political aspects of Cuba today, and its place in a changing Latin America. Sponsored by the Free the Five Cultural Committee, and Science for Peace.
"Che Guevara - Forty Years Later" by Marta Perez, former Vice-Chair of the Che Guevara Centre, University of Havana
"Cuba - Today and in the Future" by Elena Diaz, Professor, Latin American Studies of Social Sciences, Havana
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6. CCL UNVEILS NEW MODELS TO GUIDE ABORIGINAL LIFELONG LEARNING
Models provide initial frameworks for measuring success in learning
CCL (Canadian Council on Learning) and its Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre partnered with First Nations and Métis people to develop the Holistic Lifelong Learning Models following a series of nationwide workshops and consultations. The models are meant to foster discussions among all those interested in Aboriginal learning and lead to a new framework of measuring success in lifelong learning for First Nations and Métis communities. An Inuit learning model will be released later this summer as an outcome of an Inuit-specific workshop held last May.
“Western ways of thinking about learning do not adequately address how First Nations, Métis and Inuit people in Canada learn and think about learning,” said Dr. Paul Cappon, CEO of the Canadian Council on Learning.
“We are working with First Nations, Métis and Inuit organizations to spark a discussion and passion to create a holistic approach to measurement that recognizes all aspects of lifelong learning. Such new ways of thinking about learning are needed and critical to measuring the individual and collective well-being of Aboriginal communities.”
The two learning models have been developed as rich visual representations of how First Nations and Métis learn, based on historical research and intense discussions during the winter of 2007.
“Our people have long advocated that First Nations education is a holistic, lifelong learning process that begins in the cradle and continues to old age,” states Phil Fontaine, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
All three models will be launched later this year as three interactive websites and will serve as a tool to measure learning progress for First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.
7. NEW REVIEW FROM WHO: “GENDER EQUALITY, WORK AND HEALTH”
‘Gender equality, work and health', a new review published by the World Health Organisation (WHO), documents the relationship between gender inequality and health and safety problems. It reviews gender issues in research, policies and programmes on work and health, and highlights some specific issues for women, including the types of jobs they do, as well as their need to reconcile the demands of work and family.
8. SEMINAR – “PENETRATING NEO-LIBERALISM: CHANGING RELATIONS OF GENDER, RACE AND CLASS”
with Professor Raewyn Connell
University of Sydney
September 24, 2007
Founders Senior Common Room
York University, Toronto
This workshop brings together leading scholars and graduate students who are working on the ways in which neo-liberal policy changes are affecting the day-to-day practices and experiences of ordinary life. We are particularly interested in how gender, race, ability, sexuality and class relations are shifting under new social and economic conditions. How does neo-liberalism permeate and transform individual subjectivity, interpersonal relationships, social identities, locations and hierarchical relationships?
An interactive workshop conference: attendance limited to 60. No fees.
Please register by sending an email to Susan Braedley at mailto:braedley@...
9. WORKSHOP – “BOARD-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE IDEAL AND REALITY IN THE GOVERNANCE OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS”
with Vic Murray
School of Public Administration
University of Victoria
Friday, September 21, 2007
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West, Toronto (St. George subway station)
Dr. Murray is currently Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. He developed several of the first certificate and masters level courses as Director of the Nonprofit Leadership and Management Program at York University. He is the author of over 100 books, articles and papers in the fields of organizational behaviour and nonprofit management.
For years, books, articles, web-sites and consultants have been offering all kinds of advice on how boards ought to operate and relate to the organizations they govern. Yet many boards have a very difficult time living up to these ideals or choose not to even try. Why is this? Is it the fault of the boards and managers? Or is it possible that the advice itself is not always what is needed?
Join us in this workshop to:
· Explore the gaps between the ideal and reality in board governance
· Learn how to develop ways of bringing the ideal and reality closer together
· Learn how to use contingency-based analysis and tailored board development approaches
Format: ~An interactive workshop with opportunities to ask questions and tailor the information to your own organization.
Cost: ~$100 + GST; Each additional participant from the same organization will receive a $15 discount.
10. FORUM – “BRING ON THE REFERENDUM: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW”
Monday September 17, 2007
7:30-9:30 p.m.
OISE Auditorium
252 Bloor Street West (St. George subway stn.)
FREE ADMISSION
On October 10 you will be asked a referendum question that could change the course of politics in Ontario. You will be asked how you would like to elect provincial politicians in future – either the way we do it now, called first-past-the-post, or a new way called mixed-member proportional (MMP). Don't know what that is? Now is your chance to find out!
Speakers representing diverse views and coming from different parts of the political spectrum will discuss the benefits and risks of changing how we elect politicians. What do you value? Majority governments with the ability to pass legislation more easily or minority governments that build coalitions? At the end of the evening you'll come away with a clearer understanding of which system will deliver the type of political representation and accountability you would like to see at Queen's Park.
Panel:
· Rick Anderson: Campaign Committee Chair, Vote for MMP; former chief advisor to former Reform Party
· Catherine Baquero: Recent University of Toronto graduate; former member of the Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform mandated by the government to assess Ontario's electoral system
· Jonathan Rose: Academic Director, Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform; Associate Professor of Political Science, Queen's University
· Edelgard Mahant: Senior Scholar, Glendon Research Group in Public and International Affairs; Co-founder of the No MMP campaign
Elections Ontario will present an introductory video.
Tuesday, September 18
7 –9 pm
Public Forum in partnership with Community Social Planning Council of Toronto. Media invited.
Location: Grenoble School, Flemingdon Park (tbc). Childcare available.
Wednesday Sept 19
9 am - 4 pm
OFL building
15 Gervais Drive, Toronto
Poverty among young families today is substantially higher than it was 20 years ago. One-third of all low income children live in families with at least one parent working full time, full year. A large part of the problem is that many jobs pay low wages. Based on the belief that a job should be a pathway out of poverty, these forums focus on building support for a “Living Wage” –the income that a family would need to meet basic needs, maintain a healthy standard of living, and be able to save for future needs.
For details or to register, contact Liyu Guo of Family Services Association of Toronto at mailto:liyugu@....
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12. “QUALITY COLLEGE EDUCATION: CHANGING OUR FUTURE” CONFERENCE POSTPONED
This e-mail is to inform you the postponement of the Sept. 15 joint conference by OPSEU and OPSECAAT titled “Quality College Education: Changing our Future.”
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The current tentative date for the conference is Oct. 27, 2007. We will inform you of the new date and venue once it has been confirmed.
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13. NORTH AMERICAN LAUNCH OF "A LIFE FOR THE REVOLUTION"
Thursday, October 4
7pm to 9pm
O.I.S.E, Room 2-212
252 Bloor Street West (at St. George subway)
Please plan to attend the North American launch of "A life for the revolution" -- a documentary by Belgian film-maker Chris Den Hond on the life and politics of Ernest Mandel.
Ernest Mandel (1923-1995) -- a self-described ""Flemish internationalist of Jewish descent" -- was one of the most innovative Marxist thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. He was a "professional revolutionary" who invested all his energy, knowledge and vast personal culture in the struggle for socialism and in the building of revolutionary parties and the Fourth International. At the same time, Mandel maintained a hectic pace of scholarly activity; he is the author of several books: Marxist Economic Theory; Trotsky: A Study in the Dynamic of his Thought; Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story; and Late Capitalism, among others.
Chris Den Hond's 90-minute documentary looks back at Mandel's life and 60 years of struggle: from the Civil War in Spain to the fall of the Berlin Wall, with segments on Algeria, Che Guevara, Vietnam, the 1960-1961 Belgian general strike, May 68, Portugal, Chile, feminism, ecology, workers control, the Sandinistas and more. Copies of the film will be available for sale at this launch event. The documentary is being launched as part of a two-disc DVD that also includes "A man called Ernest Mandel", a 40-minute film by Frans Buyens made in 1972 on the basis of a long interview with Mandel. This is the first time the Buyens film has appeared with English subtitles.
Speaking at this special launch event will be:
Cherie MacDonald. Cherie is a well-known pro-choice activist, socialist-feminist and longtime supporter of the Fourth International. Cherie will speak of the important role played by Ernest Mandel and the Fourth International during the radicalization of the 1960s and 1970s.
Greg Albo. Greg teaches political economy at York University and is a member of the Socialist Project. He will speak on Mandel's major contribution to Marxist political economy.
Excerpts from both films will be shown after Cherie and Greg's introductory remarks.
Copies of the two-disc DVD set will be available for sale at this launch meeting. For further information about this meeting, or if you are interested in purchasing the two-disc DVD set, please e-mail mailto:mandeldvd@... or call (416) 537-8925.
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This event sponsored by The Socialist Project (http://www.socialistproject.ca/)
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14. FROM RABBLE.CA – “THE UPSIDE OF IVORY TOWERS”
The students are back at university. First-year undergrads wander around searching for classes. Frat pledges block traffic and try to look like they're having fun. Here's a question: Did anyone ever use the term "ivory tower" in a non-pejorative way?
October 14-16, 2007
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
The rapid growth of the knowledge economy, globalization, changing demographics, new technologies, increasing worker mobility and the millennial generation have created significant challenges in the world of work.
This new world raises fundamental questions about how the workplace can respond to and prepare for a landscape that is increasingly fluid and unpredictable. In October 2007, join the University of Waterloo as we gather thought leaders, researchers, business executives, and other professionals to create conversations and actionable insights.
Together we will look through the lens of the past decade’s successes and lessons learned to envision the future workplace.
16. GRADUATE STUDENT POSTER SUBMISSIONS TO “2017: THE WORKPLACE” CONFERENCE
We are currently inviting graduate student poster submissions for the Research Forum of the Conference 2017: The Workplace, taking place October 14, 2007. This multidisciplinary conference will provide a forum where participants and presenters can share ideas and discuss opportunities with an emphasis on the application or ability to apply research and knowledge in the workplace.
The poster format provides graduate students and conference delegates with an informal opportunity to discuss research findings. Structured abstracts of 250 words or less are required for each poster submission. Submissions will be reviewed for quality, relevance and applicability of the research in the workplace.
Submissions will be accepted on future-oriented research around work and workplace issues under the following themes:
1) Examine the future of technology and its expanding role in the workplace
2) Physical and mental health of employees
3) Societal and cultural effects on the changing face of the workplace
4) Role of education in the future of the workplace
The submission deadline has been extended to September 14, 2007.
17. NEW BOOK – “WHY AMERICA LOST THE WAR ON POVERTY - AND HOW TO WIN IT”
Lazy people or lousy systems?
In a provocative assessment of American poverty and policy from 1950 to the present, Frank Stricker examines an era that has seen serious discussion about the causes of poverty and unemployment. Analyzing the War on Poverty, theories of the culture of poverty and the underclass, the effects of Reaganomics, and the 1996 welfare reform, Stricker demonstrates that most antipoverty approaches are futile without the presence (or creation) of good jobs.
Stricker notes that since the 1970s, U.S. poverty levels have remained at or above 11%, despite training programs and periods of economic growth. The creation of jobs has continued to lag behind the need for them. Stricker argues that a serious public debate is needed about the job situation; social programs must be redesigned, a national health care program must be developed, and economic inequality must be addressed. He urges all sides to be honest—if we don’t want to eliminate poverty, then we should say so. But if we do want to reduce poverty significantly, he says, we must expand decent jobs and government income programs, redirecting national resources away from the rich and toward those with low incomes.
Frank Stricker is Professor of History at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Available September 2007 from the University of North Carolina Press
ISBN 978-0-8078-3111-3, $59.95 Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-5804-2, $19.95 Paper
The value of volunteering for a nonprofit membership association: The case of ARNOVA
Authors: Laurie Mook, Femida Handy, Jorge Ginieniewicz, and Jack Quarter
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 2007;36 504-520 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764007300388
Inner-city femininities and education: 'race', class, gender and schooling in young women's lives
Authors: Louise Archer, Anna Halsall, and Sumi Hollingworth
Gender and Education, Volume 19 Issue 5 2007 549 – 568 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540250701535568
"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat."
- Audre Lorde
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) brings together educators from university, union, and community settings to understand and enrich the often-undervalued informal and formal learning of working people. We develop research and teaching programs at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) that strengthen feminist, anti-racist, labour movement, and working-class perspectives on learning and work.
If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements, please email them to mailto:rsussman@....
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1. New on WALL Website – Stanley Aronowitz / Thomas J. Courchene Debate 2. Tenure-Stream Position At OISE/UT - Anti-Racist And Feminist Studies In Globalization And Education / Études De L’antiracisme Et Du Féminisme En Mondialisation Et En Éducation 3. Make History – Make Every Vote Finally Count!
4. National Co-Ops To Provide Three Common Recommendations To Federal Government
5. Save The Date For The 2008 Labor Notes Conference
6. New Book – More Unequal: Aspects Of Class In The United States
7. Conference – The High Road Runs Through The City: Advocating For Economic Justice At The Local Level
8. Upcoming Workshops From The Wellesley Institute, Toronto
9. Call for Papers – Sharing Authority: Building Community-University Alliances Through Oral History, Digital Storytelling And Collaboration
10. New Book – What Workers Say:~ Employee Voice In The Anglo-American Workplace
11. Online Journal Articles
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1. NEW ON WALL WEBSITE – STANLEY ARONOWITZ / THOMAS J. COURCHENE DEBATE
Stanley Aronowitz (author of Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery) and Thomas J. Courchene (author of A State of Minds: Toward a Human Capital Future for Canadians) debate "More Education Dollars, or Rethinking How We Work?: Employment Scenarios for the 21st Century". Moderator: Steve Paikin, co-host of Studio 2 and Diplomatic Immunity. Taped for the TVOntario Townhall June 20, 2005 as part of The Future of Lifelong Learning and Work conference.
2. TENURE-STREAM POSITION AT OISE/UT - ANTI-RACIST AND FEMINIST STUDIES IN GLOBALIZATION AND EDUCATION / ÉTUDES DE L’ANTIRACISME ET DU FÉMINISME EN MONDIALISATION ET EN ÉDUCATION
The Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, invites applications for a tenure-stream position in anti-racist and feminist studies in globalization, immigration and education. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor and will begin July 1, 2008.
We seek candidates with expertise in anti-racist and feminist theory of education, with a specialization in studies of globalization, transnationalism, migration and immigration.
The preferred candidate’s research and publications will further our understanding of the intersections among anti-racist, feminist, political economy and/or critical sociology perspectives in a global context. The successful candidate will be expected to teach and develop courses in the graduate program and in the initial teacher education program, and to supervise graduate students. S/he will have a doctoral degree, a record of research and publications, and a record of teaching courses at the post-secondary level. Ability to teach/supervise in French would be an asset. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Five years ago, the Toronto & York Region Labour Council went on record supporting the need to reform the electoral system in Canada. Like many others, we recognized that the results of our “first-past-the-post” elections gave unwarranted majorities to political parties without the support of the majority of voters. We concluded that some form of Proportional Representation would be a much better way of electing our governments.
The McGuinty government has followed through with its pledge to allow a full review of this province’s electoral system. They created a Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform, an independent body empowered to study and consult widely with Ontarians. The Citizen’s Assembly has finished its work, and has recommended that Ontario should change its voting system to a mixed member proportional (MMP) voting system similar to those used in New Zealand, Germany, Scotland and Wales.
This system combines strong local representation while ensuring that parties win seats in proportion to their overall voter support. Ontario would have 90 ridings plus the legislature would have another 39 at-large seats which would be filled from a list depending on the portion of votes their party received. The Assembly picked this system because it gives voters more choice, fair results and true majority rule, and has tended to produce legislatures with more women and diverse representation.
This is a crucial issue for working people. Given that few voters are even aware that this referendum will happen in October, we have a huge task ahead to educate and mobilize the public. You can find out more at: http://www.voteformmp.ca/.
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4. NATIONAL CO-OPS TO PROVIDE THREE COMMON RECOMMENDATIONS TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
· Renew and expand the Co-operative Development Initiative beginning in April 2008;
· Establish a new Co-operative Investment Plan; and
· Increase international development assistance and augment the role of co-operatives and other non-governmental organizations in its delivery.
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More detail on the recommendations is available at http://www.coopscanada.coop/aboutcca/gapp/govsubmissions.
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5. SAVE THE DATE FOR THE 2008 LABOR NOTES CONFERENCE
The 2008 conference is more than seven months away, but planning is already in high gear. The conference will be held April 11-13, 2008 in Dearborn, Michigan, just outside of Detroit.
You can help Labor Notes plan the conference. While we've got lots of good ideas for workshops, speakers, and meetings at the conference, we know that Labor Notes readers and supporters have plenty more, so we're looking to you all for some suggestions. Fill out our survey at http://labornotes.org/conferencesurvey and let us know what you want the conference to look like.
6. NEW BOOK – MORE UNEQUAL: ASPECTS OF CLASS IN THE UNITED STATES
Monthly Review Press has just published More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States, edited by Michael D. Yates. You can check it out at http://www.monthlyreview.org/moreunequal.htm. Class mobility, the growing income and wealth divides, class and schooling, class and race, class and gender, class consciousness, class and identity politics, are some of the topics covered. This would make a good supplementary textbook, as well as a good book for study groups, progressive organizations, and personal, college, and local libraries. Urge your bookstore to stock it.
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7. CONFERENCE – THE HIGH ROAD RUNS THROUGH THE CITY: ADVOCATING FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL
September 27 & 28, 2007
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Buffalo, NY
(Special Hyatt rate available by using group code G-CILR, when making your reservation)
This interactive conference provides a unique opportunity to explore recent experiments in local democracy to address problems of low-wage work, poverty, and inequality.
Citizens, experts, and public officials will exchange their practical experiences with policies designed to create economically dynamic, culturally inclusive and environmentally sustainable urban communities.
Sharing innovation and best practices on:
· New Frontiers for the Living Wage
· Green Cities
· Unions and the Crisis of Urban Inequality
· International Experiments in Local Democracy
Keynote Speaker:
Bill McKibben
Author of Deep Economy and The End of Nature
Speakers and Panelists Include:
· Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO
· Paul Sonn, NYU Brennan Center for Justice
· Jen Kern, ACORN Living Wage Resources Center
· Greg LeRoy, Good Jobs First
Who should attend?
Advocates, scholars, workers, policymakers, students, concerned citizens, and anyone else interested in changing the world one city at a time.
The Wellesley Institute is a Toronto-based non-profit and non-partisan research and policy institute. Our focus is on developing research and community-based policy solutions to the problems of urban health and health disparities.
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9. CALL FOR PAPERS – SHARING AUTHORITY: BUILDING COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY ALLIANCES THROUGH ORAL HISTORY, DIGITAL STORYTELLING AND COLLABORATION
Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada
Conference 7-10 February 2008
Deadline for Proposals: October 5, 2007
Please send a one-page abstract of your proposal and curriculum vitae to the chair of the organizing committee: Steven High, Canada Research Chair in Public History (mailto:shigh@...)
Historian Michael Frisch coined the phrase “shared authority” in 1990 to describe the dialogical nature of the oral interview. The interaction between the researcher asking questions and the community narrator providing answers results in a unique source. At its best, sharing authority is about much more than speaking to new audiences; it requires the cultivation of trust, the development of collaborative relationships, and shared decision-making. It cannot be rushed.
Despite the growth of funding for collaborative research, there has been remarkably little discussion of the public’s place in the research process: how, when, and should, authority be shared between university-based researchers and “community” members. What role does the “public” (in all its variations) play in our research? How successful have collaborative research projects been thus far? In what ways have new digital technologies (blogs, digital memory banks, and “Web 2.0” user communities such as YouTube or Flickr) been used to bridge divides? How might we “share authority” in the history classroom? Can the local, national and transnational communities we study become true partners in research?
Proposals are invited from a broad range of university researchers, community organizations, educators, oral historians, public historians, and others that are building research alliances that bridge the university-community divide.
Sponsored by the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University and the Life Stories CURA Research Group. For more on us, see: http://storytelling.concordia.ca/.
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10. NEW BOOK – WHAT WORKERS SAY:~ EMPLOYEE VOICE IN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN WORKPLACE
Edited by Richard B. Freeman, Peter Boxall, and Peter Haynes
This book brings together research in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand to answer a series of key questions:
· What opportunities do employees in Anglo-American workplaces have to voice their concerns and what do they seek?
· To what extent, and in what contexts, do workers want greater union representation?
· How do workers feel about employer-initiated channels of influence? What styles of engagement do they want with employers?
· What institutional models are more successful in giving workers the voice they seek at workplaces?
· What can unions, employers, and public policy makers learn from these studies of representation and influence?
The research is based largely on surveys that were conducted as a follow-up to the influential Worker Representation and Participation Survey (WRPS) reported in What Workers Want, coauthored by Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers in 1999 and updated in 2006. Taken together, these studies authoritatively outline workers' attitudes toward, and opportunities for, representation and influence in the Anglo-American workplace. They also enhance industrial relations theory and suggest strategies for unions, employers, and public policy.
"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat."
- Audre Lorde
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) brings together educators from university, union, and community settings to understand and enrich the often-undervalued informal and formal learning of working people. We develop research and teaching programs at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) that strengthen feminist, anti-racist, labour movement, and working-class perspectives on learning and work.
If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements, please email them to mailto:rsussman@....
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1. Conference - Communities And Labour: Building Unity And Justice Through Diversity
2. Article - Protecting The Human Rights Of International Migrants
3. Math That Matters - A Teacher Resource For Linking Math And Social Justice
4. Seminar - The Quebec Social Economy: Building A Movement For A More Democratic Economy
5. 2008 Colors From Palestine Calendar Now Available
6. Conference - Workers' Rights, Human Rights: Making The Connection
7. Article - There Is No Culture Of Poverty
8. Call For Projects - Literacy And Essential Skills
9. Rabble News - Working On The Edge
10. Conference - Move Forward Together, Or Fend For Yourself? The Future Of Canadian Pensions
11. New Video - Un Poquito De Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit Of So Much Truth)
12. Journal Articles Online
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1. CONFERENCE - COMMUNITIES AND LABOUR: BUILDING UNITY AND JUSTICE THROUGH DIVERSITY
October 18-20, 2007
89 Chestnut Residence Conference Centre
Toronto, Ontario
Join over 125 diverse community & labour workers, activists, academics, and students as we define our shared values, explore community unionism, and build new relationships.
Confirmed Speakers:
· Andy Banks, Campaign Unit Director, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
· John Cartwright, President, Toronto & York Region Labour Council
· Tam Goosen, Urban Alliance on Race Relations
· Andrea van den Heever, President, Connecticut Centre for a New Economy
Entertainment:
Sudbury Theatre Group, "Get A Real Job" - A play written, directed, and performed by Sudbury call centre workers.
Registration:
$200/ subsidized rate $100 (All conference related events, reception, and some meals)
Early Bird Special $150 (deadline-September 14)
Sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Education & Work and the Toronto Training Board
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2. ARTICLE - PROTECTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS
The conditions and rights of migrants in the world are worse than they were ten years ago. - Mr. Jorge Bustamante, Special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, in an interview with ACPD (Action Canada for Population and Development).
International migration has attracted a lot of attention in the last ten years. The UN estimates that there are some 191 million people who in 2005 were living in countries other than their country of birth, a significant increase from 75 million in 1960. This represents only 3% of the world population but this is only the tip of the iceberg since "temporary" foreign workers represent most of the international migrants today but are not included among the 191 million.
Mr. Bustamante stressed that two critical issues need to be urgently addressed: first, trafficking in women and children is increasing and "it is appalling that the Palermo Protocols on Human Trafficking and Smuggling are still not applied." Secondly, he stressed that "the lack of recognition of the demand for irregular migrant labour in destination countries gives rise to xenophobia, racism and anti-immigration sentiments."
3. MATH THAT MATTERS - A TEACHER RESOURCE FOR LINKING MATH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
In MathThatMatters, David Stocker has crafted 50 thoughtful and accessible lesson plans that explore the links between mathematics and social justice. This is an innovative and indispensable tool for those passionate about mathematics, social justice, civic engagement, and interactive and involved classrooms.
4. SEMINAR - THE QUEBEC SOCIAL ECONOMY: BUILDING A MOVEMENT FOR A MORE DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY
Presented by the Social Economy Centre (SEC) at OISE/UT
Speaker: Nancy Neamtan, Executive Director, Le Chantier de l'économie sociale
Nancy Neamtan will discuss how, over the past decade, a wide range of Quebec organisations have come together to promote and develop a citizen-based approach to economic development based on the cooperative and non-profit sector. The Chantier de l'économie sociale has played a central role in creating this movement, and is now a full-fledged participant in socio-economic development in Quebec. What are the reasons for its success? What lessons can be learned for other parts of the country? Answers to these questions will be discussed in this meeting.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Noon - 1:30 pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
252 Bloor St. West, Toronto
Room 12-199
Bring your lunch and a mug. Water, coffee and tea will be provided.
For more information, please contact Lisa White: mailto:sec@...
This event will also be webcast live on the Internet. Please see our website for detailed instructions: http://socialeconomy.utoronto.ca/
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5. 2008 COLORS FROM PALESTINE CALENDAR NOW AVAILABLE
While the Palestinian struggles have produced a great deal of revolutionary artwork, the struggle can sometimes lead us to forget that art can play a role just as important, art is part of what defines our identity, who we are as a people. The 2008 "Colors From Palestine" calendar is dedicated to the great Palestinian artist, Naji Al-Ali, and features some of his well known cartoons.
In a simple and forceful way, Naji cuts though all lies and disguises and brings the truth to the people. Naji is perhaps best known as the creator of the character Handala, who is depicted as a ten-year old refugee boy.
6. CONFERENCE - WORKERS' RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS: MAKING THE CONNECTION
Friday, November 16th & Saturday, November 17th 2007
Best Western Primrose Hotel,
111 Carlton Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
During the past quarter century or more, a time of increasing awareness of other human rights, the protection and promotion of workers' rights in Canada has been in decline. Canadian governments have frequently offended the established international rights of their employees to free collective bargaining and the right to strike, and in so doing have repeatedly been found in violation of international standards. The situation is no better in the private sector. Labour relations legislation regulating union organizing and collective bargaining often establishes procedures and requirements that are very difficult to fulfill, and that exclude many classes of workers.
The objective of this conference is to provide a forum for the labour and human rights communities to explore labour rights as fundamental human rights, with the establishment of a Canadian Workers' Rights Institute as an end goal. An independent institute would be able to put workers' rights on the policy agenda by:
· Publicizing international developments regarding the human rights nature of labour rights
· Reminding governments of their responsibility to protect and promote those rights
· Calling on corporations to respect those rights in order to be considered good corporate citizens
International Conference Speakers Include:
· Mary Beth Maxwell, American Rights at Work
· Keith Ewing, Employment Rights Institute, U.K.
· Janek Kuczkiewicz, International Trade Union Confederation
· Lee Swepston, Senior Advisor on Human Rights, International Labour Organization
· Carol Pier, Human Rights Watch
For more information, or to register, please contact:
Daphne Paszterko, Centre for Research on Work and Society
276 York Lanes, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON, Canada
tel: 416-736-5612 fax: 416-736-5916
email: mailto:paszter@...
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7. ARTICLE - THERE IS NO CULTURE OF POVERTY
Teaching Tolerance magazine
Number 31, Spring 2007
by Paul C. Gorski
For too long, educators' approach to understanding the relationships between poverty, class and education has been framed by studying the behaviors and cultures of poor students and their families. If only we -- in the middle and upper-middle classes -- can understand their culture… perhaps we can "save" some of our economically disadvantaged students from the bleak futures before them. And so we set about studying what Ruby Payne (author of A Framework for Understanding Poverty) and others describe as the "culture of poverty." This, despite that research has shown again and again that no such culture of poverty exists.
What does exist is a culture of classism, a culture most devastating to our most underserved students. And this is a culture worth changing.
This past May, the Workers' Action Centre (WAC) launched Working on the Edge, an urgent report that exposes the precarious labour market experiences of low-wage workers in Ontario. With a provincial election two months away, the WAC is now mobilizing around the issues addressed in the report: an inadequate minimum wage, outdated labour laws that do not cover current forms of work, and weak protection and enforcement of employment standards.
10. CONFERENCE - MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER, OR FEND FOR YOURSELF? THE FUTURE OF CANADIAN PENSIONS
The Canadian Labour Congress invites you to attend our 3rd Pension Conference in Ottawa from November 1-3, 2007 at the:
Ottawa Marriott Hotel
100 Kent Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5R7
Phone: 1-613-238-1122
Fax: 1-613-783-4229
Toll-free: 1-800-853-8463
Our 3rd Pension Conference will energize and focus labour's pension work at the federal level.
We welcome those who negotiate pensions, sit on pension boards or committees, teach about pensions, help organize new pensions, or others simply concerned with this issue.
The conference theme is: "Move Forward Together, or Fend for Yourself? The Future of Canadian Pensions."
With this theme in mind, our conference will demonstrate the value of Canadians moving "forward together" in retirement through cooperative pension policy.
Contact: Joel Davison Harden, National Representative, Social and Economic Policy Department, tel: 613-521-3400 ext. 264.
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11. NEW VIDEO - UN POQUITO DE TANTA VERDAD (A LITTLE BIT OF SO MUCH TRUTH)
A documentary by Corrugated Films in collaboration with Mal de Ojo TV
In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century.
But it was the people's use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca.
A 90-minute documentary, A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.
· Safe, Positive and Queering Moments in Teaching Education and Schooling: A Conceptual Framework
Authors: Tara Goldstein; Vanessa Russell; Andrea Daley
Teaching Education, Volume 18 Issue 3 2007 183 - 199 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10476210701533035
· From Seattle 1999 to New York 2004: A Longitudinal Analysis of Journalistic Framing of the Movement for Democratic Globalization
Authors: Jennifer Rauch; Sunitha Chitrapu; Susan Tyler Eastman; John Christopher Evans; Christopher Paine; Peter Mwesige
Social Movement Studies Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest, Volume 6 Issue 2 2007 131 - 145 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742830701497244
· Researching 40 Years of Learning for Work: The Experiences of One Cohort of Workers
Authors: John Goodwin; Henrietta O'Connor
Journal of Vocational Education & Training, Volume 59 Issue 3 2007 349 - 367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13636820701520393
"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat."
- Audre Lorde
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) brings
together educators from university, union, and community settings to
understand and enrich the often-undervalued informal and formal learning
of working people. We develop research and teaching programs at the
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) that strengthen
feminist, anti-racist, labour movement, and working-class perspectives on
learning and work.
Read previous announcements here: http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/csew/
If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements,
please email them to rsussman@....
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1. OPSEU / OPSECAAT Conference – “Quality College Education: Changing Our
Future”
2. Adult Learning Knowledge Centre – Apply For Funding For Speakers Program
3. Community Social Planning Council Of Toronto – Program Support Staff
Position
4. Call For Papers: Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting
5. Social Economy Centre Workshop On Board-Management Relations
6. Leadership Training For Social Justice Activists
7. Their Globalization And Ours: Explaining Trade And Capitalism From The
SPP To ALBA
8. New From The CCPA – “Inside The Bottle”
9. Online Journal Articles
OISE
252 Bloor Street West, Toronto
St. George subway station (Bedford exit)
Objectives:
●To bring together full- and part-time college faculty and
support staff and others interested in quality post-secondary education.
●To highlight the fact that this government has not focused on
quality of education.
●To launch a Sept/Oct election campaign together with college
workers and to put pressure on candidates to commit to correcting the
injustices, respecting the Charter.
●To mobilize college workers and supporters to action on this
issue.
Attendance limited to 200. Lunch provided.
For more information: Brenda Wall at 1-800-268-7376 / 416-443-8888 x.
8261, bwall@... or http://www.collegeworkers.org/.
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2. ADULT LEARNING KNOWLEDGE CENTRE – APPLY FOR FUNDING FOR SPEAKERS PROGRAM
The Adult Learning Knowledge Centre’s 2007-2008 speakers program is an
innovative program offered in partnership with adult learning
organizations across Canada. The program is designed to bring innovative
and informed speakers to address the general public about wide-ranging
adult learning issues and to contribute to the culture of adult learning.
The events are free and open to the public.
3. COMMUNITY SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL OF TORONTO – PROGRAM SUPPORT STAFF
POSITION
Full time Permanent Position
The CSPC-T has a full-time permanent Program Support Staff position
available. This position will be of interest to individuals who enjoy
handling a variety of reception, program support and administrative tasks
in a busy team environment that is focused on community development and
action. This position will provide support to the ANC Mount Dennis
project, as well as the Council’s overall activities.
Responsibilities
The responsibilities of the Program Support position include program
support activities, reception and office maintenance. Job duties include,
but are not limited to:
 Provide program and clerical support (e.g. filing, agendas,
minutes, record keeping, word processing, desktop publishing,) to program
staff
 Photocopy, mail, fax, arrange courier and special delivery
 Perform website maintenance
 Assist in the development and maintenance of the CSPC-T
resource and publication inventory
 Assist in the development and dissemination of all
materials/communications (flyers, brochures and other promotional material)
 Print, collate and bind materials and publications
 Perform all duties related to membership
 Maintain and update all databases (e.g. mailing, membership,
central database, project databases etc.) on a regular basis
 Provide necessary documentation and reconciliation of phone
and courier bills
 Book and post meetings
 Provide support in the preparation and follow-up for meetings
(e g. bookings, room preparation, refreshments, preparation of materials,
other arrangements and required follow
 Answer phones, receive and welcome visitors to the office,
provide information by telephone, email, fax or in person
 Maintain functional and orderly office
 Maintain a professional office environment, ensuring adequate
supplies and equipment function
Qualifications/ Skills
 3 to 5 years related work experience, preferably in the
voluntary sector
 Verbal and written fluency in English; knowledge of a second
language and culture is an asset
 Demonstrated skill and experience in support staff functions:
word processing, database management and reception
 Good computer skills (60-80 wpm using a variety of computer
applications such a Windows and Microsoft Office, proficiency in use of
Word and Excel)
 Demonstrated ability in Desktop Publishing and Internet
functions
 Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with the
public by telephone or in person
 Demonstrated ability to work as a member of a team and to
contribute to overall team effectiveness
 Demonstrated ability to work independently and in a flexible
environment
 Ability to perform a multi-function job and to respond to
needs as they arise
 Effective interpersonal, communication, and human relations
skills.
This position will be situated at both the CSPC-T Office at 2 Carlton
Street, and at the ANC Mount Dennis site.
SCHEDULE: Monday –Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
SALARY RANGE:
This position will be a member of CUPE 1777, and the salary range is
currently $32,910.56 - $38,101.76
Interested applicants are invited to submit a letter of application and
resume to Maria Serrano, Director of Operations, Community Social Planning
Council of Toronto, 2 Carlton Street, Suite 1001, Toronto, Ontario M5B
1J3, email: smaria@...
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
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4. CALL FOR PAPERS: CANADIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2-4 June 2008
In 2008 the University of British Columbia will welcome the Canadian
Historical Association to its Point Grey campus in Vancouver. Water and
mountains define the city and university, marking the end of a continent
and the possibility for new beginnings. Where the eastern rim of the
Pacific meets the western edge of North America, a diverse modern city
emerged at the site of ancient indigenous landscapes, incorporating but
not obliterating them. "Vancouver" is the product of
place-making and remaking; of de-centring and re-centring. It is the site
of hybridity; the blurring of the natural and cultural; the indigenous and
the foreign. It is a place where there has been room for the embrace of
the new and counter-cultural.
Accordingly, the 2008 Programme Committee invites proposals for panels and
papers dealing with the following:
 Childhood, youth, and generations
 Environments, cultures, and power
 Migrations, place, and identities
Preference will be given to those proposals which meet the target themes,
but a concerted effort will be made, where possible, to include paper
proposals dealing with other areas of historical inquiry.
International and comparative topics are strongly encouraged as the
overall theme of the 2008 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
is "Thinking Beyond Borders – Global Ideas: Global Values."
Proposals for papers and panels must be submitted electronically, through
the CHA website: http://www.cha-shc.ca.
The absolute deadline for submissions is October 15, 2007. NO LATE
SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
The Programme Committee reserves the right to break up proposed panels and
redistribute the individual presentations.
Questions about the CHA conference in general and the program in
particular should be directed to the Program Committee, at
cha2008@....
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5. SOCIAL ECONOMY CENTRE WORKSHOP ON BOARD-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS
Board-Management Relations: Bridging the Gap between the Ideal and Reality
in the Goverance of Community Organizations
Vic Murray
School of Public Administration, University of Victoria
Friday, September 21, 2007
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, room
5-175
252 Bloor Street West, Toronto (St. George subway station).
As part of the Social Economy Centre’s 2007-2008 offerings, Vic Murray
will present a workshop exploring the “stubborn paradox in the governance
of community organizations by their boards of directors.” This workshop
will also offer participants the opportunity to examine solutions for
bridging the gap between the ideal and the real-world experience in the
governance of community organizations.
For years, books, articles, web-sites and consultants have been offering
all kinds of advice on how boards ought to operate and relate to the
organizations they govern. Yet many boards have a very difficult time
living up to these ideals or choose not to even try. Why is this? Is it
the fault of the boards and managers? Or is it possible that the advice
itself is not always what is needed?
Join us in this workshop to: Explore the gaps between the ideal and
reality in board governance. Learn how to develop ways of bringing the
ideal and reality closer together. Learn how to use contingency-based
analysis and tailored board development approaches
FORMAT: An interactive workshop with opportunities to ask questions and
tailor the information to your own organization.
COST: $100 + GST; Each additional participant from the same organization
will receive a $15 discount.
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6. LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVISTS
September 14, 2007
5:00 p.m.
The Maytree Foundation
170 Bloor Street West Toronto
Apply now to Leaders for Change
Leaders for Change (LFC), a leadership development program for social
justice activists is being offered this fall with a focus on action-based
poverty reduction initiatives. LFC takes place from October 2007 to June
2008 and includes a variety of learning opportunities, including retreats,
training and self-directed action projects. The application deadline is
Friday, September 14, 2007.
Learn more about LFC and apply at the web site below:
7. THEIR GLOBALIZATION AND OURS: EXPLAINING TRADE AND CAPITALISM FROM THE
SPP TO ALBA
Saturday, August 25
4:00 PM doors open
5:00 PM educational and discussion
29 Inwood Avenue (north of Danforth, east of Donlands. From Donlands
subway, walk north on Donlands to Milverton; turn east on Milverton, and
turn north on Inwood to #29).
Speakers:
 Herman Rosenfeld, Member of Socialist Project and Trade
Unionists Against the War
 Paul Kellogg, Member of International Socialists, Author of
"Regional Integration in Latin America: Dawn of an Alternative to
Neoliberalism?"
The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit taking place in
Montebello, Quebec in August marks the current phase of corporate
globalization in North America. But there is also an alternative plan
emerging from the resistance movements in Latin America, the Bolivarian
Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).
Hear Herman Rosenfeld and Paul Kellogg explain these contours and
contradictions, and discuss how socialists can build solidarity for a
better world.
$10-20.00 sliding scale. Includes BBQ (vegetarian-friendly) dinner.
Beverages additional by donation.
Raffle prizes. Proceeds to support Socialist Worker Fighting Fund and
Relay.
Organized by Pape/Danforth International Socialists. Endorsed by Socialist
Project.
The CCPA is pleased to announce the release of the second edition of
Inside the Bottle: Exposing the Bottled Water Industry, by Tony Clarke.
Inside the Bottle provides a vivid and disturbing portrayal of how four
big companies - Nestle, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Danone - dominate the
bottled water industry and examines key issues of public concern about
their operations, including how they:
 pay little or nothing for the water they take from rural
springs or public systems;
 turn 'water' into 'water' through elaborate treatment
processes;
 produce a product that is not necessarily safer then, nor as
regulated as, tap water;
 package it in plastic bottles made of environmentally
destructive toxic chemicals;
 market it to an unsuspecting public as 'pure, healthy, safe
drinking water'; and
 sell it at prices hundreds, even thousands of times more
costly than ordinary tap water.
Tony Clarke is director of the Polaris Institute and author of nine
critically acclaimed books including Blue Gold: The Battle Against the
Corporate Theft of the World's Water [with Maude Barlow], now published in
40 countries.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
410-75 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 5E7
tel: 613-563-1341 fax: 613-233-1458 http://www.policyalternatives.ca
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9. ONLINE JOURNAL ARTICLES
Responsibility and the Deliberative Citizen: Theorizing the Acceptance of
Individual and Citizenship Responsibilities
Author: Shane Doheny
Citizenship Studies, Volume 11 Issue 4 2007 http://dx.doi.org/DOI:10.1080/13621020701476293
Patterns of Labour Market Entry: A Comparative Perspective on
School-to-Work Transitions in 11 European Countries
Author: Maarten H. J. Wolbers
Acta Sociologica, Vol. 50, No. 3, 2007 http://dx.doi.org/DOI:10.1177/0001699307080924
Mapping Strategic Engagements: Women's Movements and the State
Author: Karen Beckwith
International Feminist Journal of Politics, Volume 9 Issue 3 2007 http://dx.doi.org/DOI:10.1080/14616740701438218
Exploring Organizational Barriers to Diversity: A Case Study of the New
York State Education Department
Authors: Nandhini Rangarajan and Tamika Black
Review of Public Personnel Administration 2007;27 http://rop.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/3/249
"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you
keep it all afloat."
- Audre Lorde
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) brings together educators from university, union, and community settings to understand and enrich the often-undervalued informal and formal learning of working people. We develop research and teaching programs at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) that strengthen feminist, anti-racist, labour movement, and working-class perspectives on learning and work.
If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements, please email them to mailto:rsussman@....
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1. Register Now For “Communities And Labour: Building Unity And Justice Through Diversity”
2. A Textbook Case Of Rock: The Angry Tired Teachers Get Down
3. Conference – Employment Matters: Towards An Integrated Employment And Training System
4. Job Posting: Faculty Position School Of Linguistics And Applied Language Studies, Carleton University
5. Celebrate International Youth Day
6. Distance Learning Postgraduate Studies In Adult Literacy, Numeracy, And ESOL
7. Conference – Strengthening And Building Communities: The Social Economy In A Changing World
8. ACORN: Today We March! Tomorrow We Vote! (Association Of Community Organizations For Reform Now)
9. Journal Articles Online
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1. REGISTER NOW FOR “COMMUNITIES AND LABOUR: BUILDING UNITY AND JUSTICE THROUGH DIVERSITY”
· CSEW Learning Community Unionism Working Group, OISE/UT
· Toronto Training Board
You are invited to participate in an innovative, interactive and participatory conference that includes interactive plenary and panel sessions, and informative workshops.
Join over 125 diverse community & labour workers, activists, academics, and students as we define our shared values, explore community unionism, and build new relationships.
Dynamic Speakers include:
· Andy Banks, Director of Organizing, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers
· John Cartwright, President, Toronto & York Region Labour Council
· Speaker from the Woodbine Community Benefits project
Entertainment: Sudbury Theatre Group, Get A Real Job
Cost: $200/ subsidized rate $100 (All conference related events, reception, and some meals)
Early Bird Special $150 (deadline-September 14, 2007)
Location: 89 Chestnut Residence Conference Centre, Toronto, Ontario
2. A TEXTBOOK CASE OF ROCK: THE ANGRY TIRED TEACHERS GET DOWN By Chris Colin, Special to SF Gate
Born a dozen or so years ago, but tempered in the fires of last spring's Hayward teachers strike, this semi-revolving cast of East Bay educators are transposing ageless teacher frustration into verse.
3. CONFERENCE – EMPLOYMENT MATTERS: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING SYSTEM
CAECO (Collaborative of Adult Employment Centres in Ontario) and ONESTEP (Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Projects) are pleased to present “Employment Matters: Towards an Integrated Employment and Training System”, September 26 and 27, 2007, Kitchener, Ontario.
· Enhance your knowledge of effective labour market adjustment services.
· Speak to agency staff that have developed innovative client referral processes.
· Learn more about Ontario’s new labour market delivery model.
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4. JOB POSTING: FACULTY POSITION SCHOOL OF LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES, CARLETON UNIVERSITY
The School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Carleton University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Applied Language Studies, at the level of Assistant Professor.
Applied Language Studies at Carleton University has a strong tradition in both Writing Studies and Second Language Studies, as well as in Discourse Studies and Literacy Studies. The successful applicant for this position will contribute to our program in Writing Studies (especially courses in academic and workplace writing) as well as to our program(s) in Second Language Studies and/or Discourse Studies.
Applicants must demonstrate a strong commitment to scholarship as well as excellence in teaching. The successful applicant will be expected to teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in Applied Language Studies, supervise graduate students, develop a program of research leading to peer-reviewed publications, and contribute actively to academic life in the School.
The starting date for this position is July 1, 2008, and a Ph.D. in a field within Applied Language Studies must be in hand by this date.
Letters of application should be accompanied by curriculum vitae, the names of and contact information for three references, and a concise dossier that includes two samples of scholarly work and evidence of teaching effectiveness. Applicants are encouraged to consult the School's website at http://www.carleton.ca/slals/index.html and to include in their letter of application an explicit indication of specific courses they are prepared to teach, as well as a list of those they might wish to develop. Review of applications will begin on October 22, 2007, but will continue until the position is filled.
Applications should be submitted to:
Dr. Randall Gess, Director
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
215 Paterson Hall
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6
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5. CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY
Come celebrate International Youth Day 2007 and make a world of difference! The theme of this year's International Youth Day is "Be seen, be heard: Youth Participation for Development."
August 19th, 2007
12 pm - 4:30 pm
The Brunswick Theatre, Toronto
296 Brunswick Avenue (2nd Floor)
(near Bathurst & Bloor)
Please join Youth Challenge International's Volunteer Action Network in celebrating International Youth Day. The day will include an Art Exhibit, an NGO fair, photos and two movie screenings.
Ticket Price: $10 at the door
For more information, contact Erin Nesbitt: mailto:erin@... or 416-504-3370
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6. DISTANCE LEARNING POSTGRADUATE STUDIES IN ADULT LITERACY, NUMERACY, AND ESOL
· Are you are a Skills for Life Practitioner, Manager or Teacher Trainer?
· Thinking of moving your career towards Management, Research or Teacher Training?
Our postgraduate programme is designed to build on your initial training qualifications and to enable you to explore the relationships between practice, theory and research. Each 10-week course can be assembled to lead to a variety of postgraduate qualifications. Or, you may decide to choose the standalone module option, taking a single short course.
7. CONFERENCE – STRENGTHENING AND BUILDING COMMUNITIES: THE SOCIAL ECONOMY IN A CHANGING WORLD
October 22-25, 2007
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
The Canadian Social Economy Hub, CIRIEC International (Centre International de Recherches et d’Information sur l’Economie Publique, Sociale et Coopérative), and CIRIEC Canada are jointly organizing the first International Research Conference on the Social Economy. Researchers, senior practitioners and government officials (both elected and civil servants) are all welcome to participate.
The world is undergoing rapid and extensive changes associated with globalization, conflicting ideas about the roles of the State and the reconfiguration of communities. The Social Economy contains several approaches that could be of use to communities, social entrepreneurs, policy makers, and researchers (both within and without the academy). The goal of the first international CIRIEC conference on the Social Economy is to highlight the role of the Social Economy in building and strengthening communities in a variety of contexts and cultures.
(Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
Rally at:
Queen's Park, Toronto
1pm
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Support ACORN's People's platform! Demand action from the McGuinty government:
· Tenants Rights / Rent Freeze
· $10 Minimum Wage Now
· Rein in Payday Lending
· Stop Leaded Poison Paint
· Addiction Services Funding
· Recognize International Credentials
· Community Access to Public Schools
Working families in Ontario are feeling the pressure from all angles: stagnant low wages and job losses in combination with inflation and high rents are heightening poverty in Ontario. In the manufacturing sector alone, 150,000 Ontario jobs have been lost in the past two years, despite last year's corporate profits soaring at $200 billion. Our provincial government is failing us and we demand immediate action. Today we march, tomorrow we vote!
· ‘There isn't supposed to be a speaker against!’ Investigating tensions of ‘safe space’ and intra-group diversity for trade union lesbian and gay organization
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his [or her] mind craves. " - Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) is a community of practice, engaged in dialogue, research and action on learning and work issues. Its active steering committee and working groups bring together academic, labour and community researchers and practitioners. All contribute to the internal life of Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT), both in the graduate program and the
pre-service program. They also support the organizational capacity of the labour movement, and develop practical alternative tools to the dominant neo-liberal discourses on learning and work.
We are expecting approximately 150 people to attend this innovative and exciting conference.
This conference will draw together a diverse group of community members, community organizations, labour educators, labour activists, academics, researchers, and students.
Our overall goal of this conference is to provide an opportunity for community and labour to define their shared values, to explore community unionism, and build new relationships.
Conference Objectives:
· To provide a space for an initial conversation to explore tensions that exist within and across organizations when competing interests exist, and to establish common ground.
· To provide a space for critical analysis and dialogue on diversity within community and labour to improve and build solidarity.
· To provide a framework for ongoing research.
· To showcase existing community unionism projects.
· To establish a labour community forum to bring together the voices of community members and organizations, progressive academics, and unions.
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JOURNAL ARTICLES ONLINE Minority employees engaging with (diversity) management: an analysis of control, agency, and micro-emancipation
Patrizia Zanoni and Maddy Janssens
Journal of Management Studies July 2007 - Vol. 44 Issue 5 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2007.00700.x
An Ocean formed from one hundred rivers: the effects of ethnicity, gender, marriage, and location on labor force participation in urban China
Authors: Margaret Maurer-Fazio; James Hughes; Dandan Zhang
Feminist Economics Volume 13 Issue 3 & 4 2007 http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content?content=10.1080/13545700701439424
SECRET TRIALS AND A BINGE OF GOVERNMENT SECRECY SET FOR FALL PARLIAMENTARY
SESSION -- UNLESS WE STOP IT...
On February 23, 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled unconstitutional the notorious secret hearing security certificate procedure. A process so invested in secrecy, lack of procedural safeguards, and the complete inability of a person named in the certificate to know the case against them condemns the process as fundamentally flawed and unfair.
There are numerous problems with the highest court's decision: for example, its failure to recognize that the certificate regime results in indefinite detention, and its inability to recognize that it violates the equality rights of refugees and permanent residents. However, the Court unequivocally found that the process for determining a certificate's "reasonableness," the heart of the procedure, was completely incompatible with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
So far, the minority Harper government has treated the Supreme Court's decision as a minor annoyance -- much as the Bush administration brushes off pro-Guantanamo-Bay detainee court decisions in the United States -- and "Public Safety" Minister Stockwell Day has promised new secret trial legislation for this fall. This was not unexpected: indeed, in a July 2007 response to the standing committee on public safety, the government completely dismisses the Supreme Court finding that security certificates violate Charter rights, stating only that, from its point of view, the Supreme Court "held that the Government could do more to protect the rights of the individual during the process."
URGENT ACTION: UNION ACTIVIST ASSASSINATED IN EL SALVADOR
CELSAN is asking you to take action in response to the worrying and highly suspicious assassination of a union activist, Miguel Angel Vásquez Argueta, in El Salvador on 17 July only two weeks after the union he represented, the Electrical Sector Workers' Union (STSEL), endorsed and participated in the peaceful protest against water privatization in Suchitoto that the Salvadorean police broke-up violently.
The most recent example of state repression of peaceful dissent and social movement organization in El Salvador that has culminated in the charging of 13 peaceful anti-water-privatization protesters with "terrorism" is but a growing and troubling trend in El Salvador. In the past year, several social movement and political opposition activists have been beaten by police, arrested, and murdered execution-style by "unknown assailants". The memories of the brutal state terror of the 1970s and 80s that these incidents conjure are chilling.
Take Action!
Please send an email of protest to the Toronto Consul's email address: mailto:anamurra@....
The Community Social Planning Council of Toronto has partnered with Toronto Community Housing Corporation to create a comprehensive, innovative web-based guide to voting that focuses on encouraging voter turnout in the 2007 Ontario provincial election.
We asked TCH residents what issues matter to them the most to help us producethis site. On it, you’ll find information on the voting process, fact sheets on the issues, information on the referendum question, links to other resources,and more, in several languages.
THE METCALF FOUNDATION – COMMUNITY PROGRAM GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
The Metcalf Community Program seeks to strengthen and enhance the effectiveness of people and organizations working together to address the root causes of poverty. There are three different initiatives that support advancing these efforts – Communities in Action, Innovation Fellowships and Renewal Fellowships.
ANTI-RACISM CONFERENCE: FROM MULTICULTURAL RHETORIC TO ANTI-RACIST ACTION
A Critical Symposium Bringing Together Activists, Academics, and Artists
Munk Centre
University of Toronto
October 27th - 28th, 2007
Sessions:
· Anti-Racism and Multiculturalism: Transforming Multiculturalism from Within?
· Cultural Accommodation, Structural Racism and Material Inequalities
· Migration, Citizenship, and Borders
· Anti-Colonialism and Aboriginal Peoples
· International Interventions, National Imaginaries, and Security
Confirmed speakers:
· Nouman Ashraf
· Natasha Bakht
· Andrew Baldwin
· Himani Bannerji
· George Elliot Clarke
· Glen Coulthard
· Caroline Desbiens
· Grace-Edward Galabuzi
· D. Memee Lavell-Harvard
· Nandita Sharma
· Rinaldo Walcott
· Margaret Walton-Roberts
Some framing questions:
· Does official multiculturalism, which adopts a generalized rhetoric of difference and diversity, effectively serve to mask the continued salience of race and racism in the lives of many Canadians?
· How does the cultural fetishism of multiculturalism de-politicize difference and obscure material inequalities while masking the mechanisms that produce cultural difference in the first place?
· Can multiculturalism address structural and legal inequalities to which undocumented workers, migrant labourers, trafficked women, and others from the global South are subject once they enter Canada?
· Does a generalized language of multiculturalism work to marginalize and diminish the particular claims and histories of Aboriginal Peoples?
· What role do multicultural discourses play in differentiating Aboriginal peoples from "Canadians"? How has "aboriginal identity" been organized in opposition to Canadian identity through multicultural discourses and state practices? What role does/has/might this play in envisioning ancestral territories and homelands as undifferentiated national space?
· How are stories and myths about multiculturalism deployed to strategic ends?
· How does Canadian multiculturalism as a national imaginary shape Canada's actions abroad?
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his [or her] mind craves. " - Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) is a community of practice, engaged in dialogue, research and action on learning and work issues. Its active steering committee and working groups bring together academic, labour and community researchers and practitioners. All contribute to the internal life of Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT), both in the graduate program and the
pre-service program. They also support the organizational capacity of the labour movement, and develop practical alternative tools to the dominant neo-liberal discourses on learning and work.
If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements, please email them to mailto:rsussman@....
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1. CSEW Speakers’ Series – Work Studies As Humanization: A Freirean Approach To Lifelong Learning
2. New Course: Addressing Conflict In Workplaces
3. El Salvador: Assassination Of A Trade Union Official
4. Journal Articles Online 5. Poetry, Social Movements And Adult Education
6. Art Gallery Of Ontario Exhibition & Book Launch: Treasures Of The Tsimshian From The Dundas Collection
7. OPSEU / OPSECAAT conference: “quality college education: changing our future”
8. New Canadian Website On Literacy And Libraries
9. OPHA 2007 conference: “public health: who's at risk? What's at stake?” 10. Support National Association Of Women And The Law’s Staying Alive In 2007 Campaign
11. Next Meeting Of The Women Against Poverty Collective, Toronto
12. Request For Proposals: Community-University Exposition (CUexpo 2008)
13. Info & Petition In Support Of Korean Women Workers On Strike For >500 Days
14. Centre For Social Justice 10th Annual Social Justice Summer Retreat
15. Job Opportunity: Contract Instructions At Northern Alberta Institute Of Technology (NAIT)
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1. CSEW SPEAKERS’ SERIES – WORK STUDIES AS HUMANIZATION: A FREIREAN APPROACH TO LIFELONG LEARNING
Speaker: Emery J. Hyslop-Margison, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick
Tuesday Aug 7, 2007
3:00 pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
252 Bloor St. West, Room 8-201
St. George subway station (Bedford exit)
This presentation contrasts the view of lifelong learning posed by the human capital discourse with Freire’s understanding of education as a lifelong journey toward personal growth and social transformation. Rather than reducing learners to objects of economic globalization and labour market change, Freire’s pedagogy considers students political participants who actively shape their vocational and social lives. I argue that work-study policies and programs should accept Freire’s understanding of lifelong learning as a necessary component of human ontology. Finally, I offer suggestions on how work-study teachers might employ to counteract the human capital assumptions framing the current discourse on lifelong learning.
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2. NEW COURSE: ADDRESSING CONFLICT IN WORKPLACES
A new course will be offered this fall at OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) on “Learning to address conflict in workplaces” (SES2999H). It will run on Wednesday evenings from 5:30 to 8:30, starting September 19, 2007.
The course will be led by D’Arcy Martin, coordinator of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work (http://www.learningwork.ca/csew). D’Arcy is an adult educator and social activist who has worked primarily as a labour educator for the past 30 years.
This course will probe the structural sources of increasing stress and conflict in workplaces and consider a range of informal learning practices that people adopt in response. It will provide exposure to various approaches to addressing and resolving conflicts, including collective action by unions and associations. Using (class, gender, race, disability, age) equity lenses, it will explore the experience and stances of course participants, and engage in role plays of situations in order to develop skills and insight for intervening.
3. EL SALVADOR: ASSASSINATION OF A TRADE UNION OFFICIAL
PSI (Public Services International) is appealing to its affiliated organisations and the international community to send letters of protest to President Antonio Elías Saca condemning the assassination of Miguel Angel Vásquez Argueta, Finance Secretary for PSI’s affiliate STSEL in the electricity sector (Sindicato de Trabajadores del Sector Eléctrico), and calling for a full and independent investigation into the matter.
PSI only very recently launched an Urgent Action Appeal on 13 July, concerning acts of violence in El Salvador (see http://www.world-psi.org/urgentaction), when participants of a public meeting to oppose water privatisation were victims of brutal repression by the national police force. The STSEL had taken an active part in these protests.
It is with great sorrow that PSI learnt of the assassination of Miguel Angel Vásquez Argueta, Finance Secretary for the STSEL. Miguel Vásquez went missing on Tuesday 17 July and was discovered the following day assassinated with two bullets in the head.
Miguel Vásquez was highly respected by his colleagues and recognised as a responsible and committed trade union official dedicated to the defence of workers’ rights and social justice. PSI extends its most sincere condolences to Miguel Vásquez’ family, friends, relatives and colleagues and fully supports its affiliate STSEL in its demands to the El Salvador government.
PSI has written to ILO Director General Juan Somavia requesting his direct intervention in this case. PSI has been informed that the ILO has contacted the Government of El Salvador urgently requesting information on Miguel Vásquez’ assassination.
PSI is asking its affiliates to send a letter of protest to President Saca condemning this assassination and calling for a full and independent investigation into the matter (please use the online form).
If there is a mission of El Salvador in your country, send a letter to the Ambassador, requesting an interview and to call for a full and independent investigation into this crime.
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4. JOURNAL ARTICLES ONLINE
· Trade unions and regional government working in partnership? Emergent lessons from Wales
· Why is the potential of augmentative and alternative communication not being realized? Exploring the experiences of people who use communication aids
· Comparing transition expectations of young people with moderate learning disabilities with other vulnerable youth and with their non-disabled counterparts
· Book review: Freeman, R. B., & Rogers, J. (2006). What workers want (updated ed.). Ithaca, NY: ILR Press (with Russell Sage Foundation). 238 pp. $19.95 (paper)
Over the years I have had quite a few requests for various poems that I have done. And as many of you know, I have fairly regularly taught a course on poetry, social movements and adult education.
Given the ease of myspace.com for musicians, writers and poets, I have posted quite a bit of poetry as well as the outline of the most recent poetry course at myspace.com/buddhall for the curious, bored, interested or all of the above! That is http://www.myspace.com/buddhall for those not familiar with this medium.
Cheers, Budd
Budd L Hall, Ph.D., Director
Office of Community-Based Research
University of Victoria
Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3N6
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6. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO EXHIBITION & BOOK LAUNCH: TREASURES OF THE TSIMSHIAN FROM THE DUNDAS COLLECTION
August 1, 2007
Beginning at 2:00 pm
I would like to invite you to the Art Gallery of Ontario for a special afternoon when we welcome James Bryant and Wayne Ryan of the Allied Tribes of the Tsimshian. They will be here to help us celebrate ‘N³uut’iksa £agigyedm Ts’msyeen Treasures of the Tsimshian from the Dundas Collection. The welcome will be held next Wednesday, August 1, beginning at 2:00 pm with a special welcome by Toronto’s First Nations community. This will be followed by speeches by the Tsimshian.
‘N³uut’iksa £agigyedm Ts’msyeen Treasures of the Tsimshian from the Dundas Collection is an exhibition of First Nations works acquired by Rev. Robert James Dundas in 1863, in Old Metlakatla, near present-day Prince Rupert. The entire collection was auctioned by Sotheby’s New York in October 2006. The return to Canada from Scotland of the Treasures to the Tsimshian is made possible by various collectors who are also being celebrated for their courage and leadership. Their philanthropy will help us strengthen our understanding of the deep and complex history of First Nations art. The timing of this exhibition also signals a new direction for the Art Gallery of Ontario.
You are also invited later in the evening, beginning at 7:00 pm, to the launching of the book “Tsimshian Treasures: The Remarkable Journey of the Dundas Collection,” published by Douglas & McIntyre and Donald Ellis Gallery.
Please join us in giving our west coast brothers a warm welcome.
RSVP to Parin Dahya at 416.979.6660 (ext. 318) or e-mail mailto:parin_dahya@.... She will make arrangements for tickets to be waiting in your name at the Membership desk. Megwitch!
OISE
252 Bloor Street West, Toronto
St. George subway station (Bedford exit)
Objectives:
· To bring together full- and part-time college faculty and support staff and others interested in quality post-secondary education.
· To highlight the fact that this government has not focused on quality of education.
· To launch a Sept/Oct election campaign together with college workers and to put pressure on candidates to commit to correcting the injustices, respecting the Charter.
· To mobilize college workers and supporters to action on this issue.
NALD - the National Adult Literacy Database and AFLIG - the Action for Literacy Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association announce the launching of:
It is a site for people who work in libraries and literacy organizations in Canada and shall be used as a discussion forum for encouraging collaboration and information-sharing among literacy organizations and libraries. The site was developed based on a need identified at the National Summit on Libraries and Literacy that took place on June 14, 2006 in Ottawa during the Canadian Library Association annual conference.
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9. OPHA 2007 CONFERENCE: “PUBLIC HEALTH: WHO'S AT RISK? WHAT'S AT STAKE?”
November 18-21, 2007
Marriott Toronto Downtown
Eaton Centre
Toronto Ontario
Early Bird registration is now open for this year's OPHA (Ontario Public Health Association) Conference, co-hosted by Toronto Public Health.
During six concurrent sessions, delegates will be able to choose from numerous panels and oral presentations in five sub-themes:
· Working in a Health System under Reform
· Evidence Based Practice and the Precautionary Principle
· Emerging Issues in Public Health
· Populations at Risk
· Access, Equity and Social Justice
This year's lineup of keynote speakers includes Giller prize-winning author and emergency physician Dr. Vincent Lam; Michele Simon, author of the highly-acclaimed "Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines our Health and How to Fight Back"; Dr. Vincent Covello, founder and director of the Center for Risk Communication in the United States; and Angela Robertson, Executive Director of Sistering: A Woman's Place. As well, keynote panel discussions on youth, Aboriginal Health and Health System Reform are planned.
NAWL has launched its Staying Alive campaign in response to changes in the mandate of the Status of Women Canada’s Women’s Program, which make most of NAWL’s work ineligible for ongoing funding. In order to continue our essential work for Canadian women, NAWL must raise $300,000.00 by September 1, 2007. Although NAWL will seek appropriate partnerships with like-minded corporations, businesses, agencies and foundations, most of our Staying Alive support will come from individuals like you, who value democracy within Canada and equal rights for all women.
How you can help
· 750 women giving $200.00 each will bring us halfway to our target. That’s only 75 women per province. Please consider making a donation and, if someone you know can also support NAWL in this way, tell her about our campaign.
· Host a NAWL Staying Alive dinner! If you love to cook and throw parties, this is the fundraiser for you.
· ALL GIFTS COUNT! Whether you can donate $5, $10 or $20, NAWL can put every contribution to good use for all Canadian women.
· Contact mailto:funds@... for ideas and tips.
Please make your cheque payable to and send to:
National Association of Women and the Law
1066 Somerset West, Suite 303
Ottawa, ON K1Y 4T3
Please mark your cheque “Staying Alive” in the memo line so we can track your contribution.
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11. NEXT MEETING OF THE WOMEN AGAINST POVERTY COLLECTIVE, TORONTO
The next meeting of the Women Against Poverty Collective is scheduled for August 1st at 5:00pm. The location is the Parkdale Community Legal Services located at 1266 Queen St. W (just west of Dufferin).
Come out to take part in planning future action to win safe affordable housing for women, transfolks and our kids!
TTC available. Location is accessible. Kids welcome; we can take turns providing childcare.
*WAPC meetings are for women and trans identified folks and our kids.
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12. REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY EXPOSITION (CUEXPO 2008)
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to invite Proposals for Presentations to the third Community-University Exposition (CUexpo 2008) to be held in Victoria, B.C., May 4 - 7, 2008.
CUexpo 2008 follows CUexpo 2003, which took place in Saskatoon and Cuexpo 2005, hosted by Winnipeg. Full details of presentation options and the full scope of the exposition can be found at the CUexpo 2008 website:
Please don’t hesitate to forward this notice to associated organizations and colleagues, and please don't hesitate to contact mailto:maireco@... with questions or your comments.
13. INFO & PETITION IN SUPPORT OF KOREAN WOMEN WORKERS ON STRIKE FOR >500 DAYS
On March 1, 2006, approximately four hundred women who work as train attendants (similar to flight attendants) on the KTX “bullet train” began a strike to demand the end of discriminatory and unjust outsourcing practices of the Korea Railroad Corporation (KORAIL). KORAIL officials led KTX women workers to believe that although they were initially hired under short-term contracts via an external company, they would be granted permanent status as direct employees of KORAIL after one year. However, the KTX Crew Workers Branch Union’s demands for direct and permanent employment have yet to be met.
To date, the KTX Crew Workers’ Branch Union’s struggle is the longest and most bitterly waged fight by women workers in the history of Korea. For over 500 days, women who work as train attendants on the KTX bullet trains have held public rallies and marches, occupied buildings, lectured in classrooms, and conducted outreach on the streets and at train stations throughout the country.
KORAIL’s continued refusal to meet the union’s demands for gender equality, safe working conditions and secure employment have led union leaders to engage in desperate measures to expose the unjust and unequal conditions under which they are forced to work. After exhausting every tactic, 31 union members began a hunger strike on July 2, 2007. As the hunger strike surpasses its 14th day, many union members have been rushed to the hospital.
14. CENTRE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 10TH ANNUAL SOCIAL JUSTICE SUMMER RETREAT
August 23-26, 2007
Camp Arowhon in Algonquin Park
Theme for 2007: Empowering Movements to Transform the World: Canada, Justice or Just Us?:
Program:
This year we hope to strengthen links with grassroots and community-based social justice organizations from the Global South. We are expecting several international guests that are at the forefront of social movements in their region of the world. We will be discussing Canada's role in regards to the mining industry, environmental sustainability, alternative banking, food security, and global warming - among other topics.
Registration:
· Regular registration $215 each
· Children 5-12 years $90 each
· Children 2-4 years $60 each
· Children 0-2 FREE
For more information, email the Retreat Coordinator (Ewa Cerda) at mailto:retreat@..., call the Centre for Social Justice at 416-927-0777 / 1-888-803-8881, or visit the website at http://socialjustice.org/.
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15. JOB OPPORTUNITY: CONTRACT INSTRUCTIONS AT NORTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (NAIT) ~
The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) Corporate and International Training Department
Main office, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Position: Contract Instructors
Application deadline: Not applicable
Share your expertise – become a NAIT part-time Leadership / Supervisory instructor
There is currently a demand for leadership and supervisory professionals to work in a variety of training projects, both domestically and international, and we are looking to build our database of expertise. ~We’re known for matching the right people with the right projects, in addition to making sure our part-time learners get what they need to succeed. If you have leadership / supervisory and training experience, love a challenge and are passionate about teaching, we want to hear from you.
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his [or her] mind craves. " - Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
Visiting Carleton prof denied work permit over 1981 arrest
Last Updated: Monday, July 30, 2007 | 11:53 AM ET
CBC News
An American professor scheduled to teach at Carleton University this
fall was denied a work permit because of his arrest during a protest 26
years ago — a move he says has chilling implications for activists and
protesters on both sides of the border.
"I've not been convicted of a crime," said Tom Juravich, who teaches
labour studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. "But
somehow now, simply because I was arrested 26 years ago, I seem to be a
potential threat here in Canada."
He said that when he tried to cross the border at Cornwall, Ont., last
week, Canadian border agents told him his file showed he was arrested by
U.S. authorities in 1981. That was during a protest on a union picket
line, Juravich said.
He added that he was told he must provide further documentation about
the arrest in order to be cleared for a work permit.
Juravich said he visited Canada more than 50 times in the past two years
to work and to spend time with his partner, Teresa Healey, who lives in
Ottawa.
The situation implies that young activists and protesters may have
trouble crossing the border in the future, he said, and that may
discourage some people from engaging in activism or participating in
protests.
"I think this is going to have a chilling impact on the kind of
legitimate dissent that we consider as a part and parcel of the
democratic process," he said.
He blamed his recent problem on the way information is now shared
between Canada and the United States, as a result of terrorism fears.
Canadian border agents can't be expected to interpret decades old legal
documents from another country, he added.
Patrizia Giolti, spokeswoman for the Canadian Border Services Agency,
said in an e-mail that the agency cannot comment on Juravich's specific
case.
But she said information sharing between the two countries is nothing
new and that people may be deemed inadmissible because of criminal
charges laid in another country, even if those charges are later withdrawn.
"To allow an officer to determine their admissibility, they must provide
complete details of the charges, convictions, court dispositions,
pardons, photocopies of applicable sections of foreign law and court
proceedings," she added.
Meanwhile, Juravich's situation is also causing problems for Carleton
University.
"To lose two classes taught by a sort of internationally reputable
scholar is a disaster," said Rianne Mahon, director of the university's
Institute of Political Economy, which hired Juravich.
She said the news that Juravich was denied a work permit came as a shock.
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his [or her] mind craves. " - Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) is a community of practice, engaged in dialogue, research and action on learning and work issues. Its active steering committee and working groups bring together academic, labour and community researchers and practitioners. All contribute to the internal life of Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT), both in the graduate program and the
pre-service program. They also support the organizational capacity of the labour movement, and develop practical alternative tools to the dominant neo-liberal discourses on learning and work.
If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements, please email them to mailto:rsussman@....
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1. JOB POSTING: ONLINE EDITOR / CURATOR, RABBLE.CA
2. THIS WEEK IN RABBLE.CA
3. BOOK LAUNCH
4. ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
5. SOCIAL ECONOMY CENTRE (OISE / UT) SPEAKERS’ SERIES
6. ADULT LEARNING KNOWLEDGE CENTRE – CALL FOR PROJECTS
7. COMMUNITY UNIONISM: WOODBINE LIVE! ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX TO PROVIDE LOCAL JOBS
8. NEW GLOBAL LABOR STRATEGIES "LABOR AND GLOBAL WARMING" DISCUSSION PAPER
Closing Date: August 10, 2007
Contract: Two to three days per week
Location: Canada (virtual office)
rabble.ca, Canada's leading alternative online news and analysis Web site, seeks a dynamic editorial curator to direct day-to-day operations, edit the site's features section and integrate multi-media and social media functions into the website on a daily basis.
Responsibilities include assigning, editing and posting stories, working with other editorial staff, planning editorial calendar, image research, supervising editorial interns and volunteers, and some writing.
Candidates should have strong organizational skills, extensive editing experience, a demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, a collaborative approach to teamwork, familiarity with Web editing, a creative approach to working with limited financial resources, a knowledge of progressive politics and world affairs, combined with experience in progressive activism and a keen interest in the potential of Web 2.0 tools. At least three years experience in journalism or publishing, mainstream or alternative is required.
The editor works in a virtual office environment and can be based anywhere in Canada.
Please send cover letter, resume, references and a short writing sample outlining your vision for rabble.ca (one page max) by August 10th to rabble publisher Kim Elliott, mailto:jobs@.... In the spirit of the virtual office, only electronic applications will be accepted. The subject line should read: rabble editor application.
Closing date for application: August 10, 2007
Start Date: early September 2007
Competitive remuneration rates
Please note: only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
rabble.ca is an employment equity employer.
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2. THIS WEEK IN RABBLE.CA
· When college ends, so does activism
The importance of engaging and gainfully employing young progressives is hard to overstate, both for its immediate practicality and the long-term sustainability of the left.
Economics Transformed: Discovering the Brilliance of Marx, by Robert Albritton
Pluto Press, 2007
Canadian distributor: Fernwood Books, http://www.fernwoodpublishing.ca/, 416-703-3598
"Albritton provides a much-needed primer designed to show a new generation of students why Marx's thought remains absolutely relevant to all our lives. ... Read it and discover why Marxism matters more than ever." Noel Castree, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester
Sunday, September 9th 2007
3:30-6:30
Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
1214 Queen St. West (Queen and Dufferin)
· Book Review: Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework. Edited by Mary K. Zimmerman, Jacquelyn S. Litt, and Christine E. Bose. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006, 400 pp., $65.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper)
5. SOCIAL ECONOMY CENTRE (OISE / UT) SPEAKERS’ SERIES
The Social Economy Centre (OISE/UT) Presents
Social Inequality and Health
with Dr. Uriel Leviatan
Chair, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
Member, Institute of Kibbutz Research
University of Haifa, Israel
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
252 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Room 7-162
Dr. Leviatan will discuss the relationship between social inequality and health and well-being and how social capital affects this relationship.~The presentation includes recent research on the Israeli kibbutzim.
Bring your lunch and a mug.~For more information, contact Jack Quarter at mailto:jquarter@....
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6. ADULT LEARNING KNOWLEDGE CENTRE – CALL FOR PROJECTS
The Adult Learning Knowledge Centre of the Canadian Council on Learning announces a national Call for Knowledge Exchange Projects
Deadline: September 30, 2007
The Adult Learning Knowledge Centre invites groups, organizations, and institutes across Canada involved in adult learning activities to submit projects to this new Call for Knowledge Exchange Projects. The targeted areas for submissions in 2007-2008 are literacy, seniors' learning, arts and culture, and prior learning assessment and recognition. The knowledge centre is particularly interested in supporting small initiatives with a maximum grant of $5,000.
7. COMMUNITY UNIONISM: WOODBINE LIVE! ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX TO PROVIDE LOCAL JOBS
REDEVELOPMENT: ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX
Woodbine getting $750-million neighbour
by JEFF GRAY, Globe and Mail
July 18, 2007
Toronto City Council approved last night what may be the city's biggest single development application since amalgamation, a massive $750-million entertainment complex next to the Woodbine Racetrack that proponents say will be an economic boon to a depressed community.
But the project, called Woodbine Live!, is not without controversy. With pressure by a coalition of labour activists, local groups and left-leaning city councillors, the developers have agreed to work to ensure a share of the jobs goes to residents near the site at Highway 27 and Rexdale Boulevard in Etobicoke, Toronto.
8. NEW GLOBAL LABOR STRATEGIES "LABOR AND GLOBAL WARMING" DISCUSSION PAPER
Global warming will have immense consequences for working people – and for the labor movement. Climate change, and the measures that are taken to prevent or mitigate it, will change every aspect of our lives – including every aspect of how we work. Public policy on global warming will affect every issue that unions bargain over with employers and lobby over with government officials. Yet the discussion of how labor should relate to global warming has barely begun. GLS's newly released discussion paper LABOR AND GLOBAL WARMING describes the early stages of that discussion and identifies key issues it needs to address. It concludes with a 13-point “New Global Warming Policy for Labor.”
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his [or her] mind craves. " - Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) is a
community of practice, engaged in dialogue, research and action on
learning and work issues. Its active steering committee and working groups
bring together academic, labour and community researchers and
practitioners. All contribute to the internal life of Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT), both in
the graduate program and the pre-service program. They also support the
organizational capacity of the labour movement, and develop practical
alternative tools to the dominant neo-liberal discourses on learning and
work.
If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements,
please email them to mailto:rsussman@....
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1. This Week In Rabble.Ca
2. Rights Of Migrant Farm Workers Recognized – Canadian Centre For Policy
Alternatives Report
3. United Steelworkers District 6 Scholarships For Union Women
4. Income Security Advocacy Council (ISAC) Election Demands & Kit For
Ontario October Election
5. Campaign 2000 National Forum On Living Wages
6. Women Against Poverty Collective: Next Housing Rights Action
7. Public Forum On The Security And Prosperity Partnership (SPP)
8. This Week From Straightgoods
9. Justice For Migrant Workers (J4MW) Film Premiere And Discussion
10. Labour And The Arts – Sponsor A Poetry Reading
11. Workers Arts & Heritage Centre Wants To Hear From You!
12. Urban Alliance On Race Relations 26th Annual Awards Dinner
13. Info Needed On HIV/AIDS Workplace Policies
14. New Book – Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
15. Online Journal Articles
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1. THIS WEEK IN RABBLE.CA
Sicko
Alexander Daughtry is a nurse at St. Paul's hospital in Vancouver. He went
to see Michael Moore's latest film about the health care system in the
U.S. and brings this review. (audio file)
By Mordecai Briemberg
Rights 'opt-out' may be unconstitutional
Legislation that allows employers to “opt out” of minimum legal employment
standards in B.C. has resulted in substandard and unfair working
conditions and may be unconstitutional, according to a study released
Tuesday.
From Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
3. UNITED STEELWORKERS DISTRICT 6 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR UNION WOMEN
The scholarships are for specific courses offered by our District which
will assist women activists into becoming a part of their executive and
pursue leadership roles in the future.
Courses:
· Steelworker Stewards in Action
· Arbitration - “To go or not to go?”
· Arbitration - “We’re going, what now?”
· Arbitration - Prepare and Present
· Bargaining to Win
· Bargaining Pensions
· Confronting Workplace change: Continuous Bargaining Strategies
Please inquire through your local about the availability of a scholarship
to attend courses.
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4. INCOME SECURITY ADVOCACY COUNCIL (ISAC) ELECTION DEMANDS & KIT FOR
ONTARIO OCTOBER ELECTION
The Income Security Advocacy Council of Ontario is focusing on five key
demands in the upcoming provincial election on October 10th, 2007:
1. A comprehensive poverty-reduction strategy that uses a transparent
process, includes clear goals and targets, and is developed in
consultation with low-income people, policy experts and advocates.
2. An independent committee including low-income people, policy experts
and advocates, to develop rational and just criteria for determining OW
and ODSP rates (so that everyone has a decent standard of living, adjusted
annually to the cost of living).
3. OW and ODSP rates that reflect the real cost of living and are indexed
annually to inflation (including enough money to pay average rents and buy
nutritious food and other basic necessities).
4. Faster implementation of the Ontario Child Benefit: The Ontario Child
Benefit will go to all low-income families with children between the ages
of 0 and 18, whether they are working or on social assistance. The amount
is currently scheduled to increase gradually over five years, from
$50/month/child beginning in July 2008 to $92/month/child by 2011.
However, low-income families need that money now.
5. A $10 minimum wage NOW, adjusted annually to the cost of living: The
minimum wage is scheduled to increase from $8/hour to $8.75 in 2008, $9.25
in 2009 and $10.25 in 2010. But minimum wage workers working full-time
year-round need $10 an hour immediately just to get to the poverty line.
All workers deserve to live above the poverty line – and shouldn’t have to
wait years to get there.
Public Forum – “Community Strategies to Promote Living Wages”
Tuesday Sept 18 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Grenoble School, Flemingdon Park, Toronto (to be confirmed)
Speakers:
· Jen Kern, ACORN (US) speaks about lessons learned from successful US
community based living wage campaigns
· Lana Payne, Newfoundland & Labrador Make Work Pay Coalition
· John Cartwright, Toronto & York Region Labour Council
· Deirdre Pike, Social Planning & Research Council of Hamilton
Full Day Forum
Wednesday Sept 19 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
OFL Building, 15 Gervais Drive, Toronto
This forum will share information and lessons learned about 4 approaches
to encourage living wages and strategies to improve income security for
low-income families.
Panel presentation and workshops:
· Building successful coalitions to pass a municipal living wage bylaw:
Jen Kern, ACORN
· Provincial minimum wage/living wage campaigns: Bill Moore-Kilgannon,
Public Interest Alberta, and
Lana Payne, Newfoundland Make Work Pay Coalition
· Labour led campaigns: “Good jobs at living wages as part of community
economic development”
· Community-based approaches in partnership and business – Vibrant
Communities, e.g. Opportunities
Waterloo, Niagara, Victoria, Calgary
Poverty among young families today is substantially higher than it was 20
years ago. One-third of all low income children live in families with at
least one parent working full time, full year. A large part of the problem
is that many jobs pay low wages. Based on the belief that a job should be
a pathway out of poverty, this forum focuses on building support for a
“Living Wage” – the income that a family would need to meet basic needs,
maintain a healthy standard of living, and be able to save for future
needs.
To register, please send an email to liyugu@....
For more information on this event please contact Liyu Guo at
416-595-9230x244 or Jacquie Maund
416-595-9230x241 or visit our website at www.fallingfortunes.ca.
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6. WOMEN AGAINST POVERTY COLLECTIVE: NEXT HOUSING RIGHTS ACTION
July 19th
Protest and Press Conference: 11am
Court Support: 1:30 pm
40 College Street outside police headquarters
The Women Against Poverty Collective's next demonstration and press
conference to demand safe and sustainable housing for trans people, women
and our children who are survivors of violence will take place on July
19th, starting at 11am, outside of police headquarters at 40 College
Street.
This action coincides with some of the Housing Takeover defendants' first
court appearance. At the protest there will be speakers and spoken word
talking about the issues of violence and poverty in our lives. Then at
1:30 supporters are welcome to accompany the defendants into the courts at
College Park (Yonge and College).
7. PUBLIC FORUM ON THE SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP (SPP)
Sunday July 15
2:15 pm
389 College Street (west of Bathurst), 3rd floor, Toronto.
On August 20-21st in Montebello, Quebec, Bush, Harper and Calderon will be
cementing the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). What is
the status of the SPP and what should the left's response be?
Greg Albo and Herman Rosenfeld will make presentations on the SPP and the
upcoming activities in Montebello this summer.
9. JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WORKERS (J4MW) FILM PREMIERE AND DISCUSSION
Migrants: Those Who Come From Within
Subtitles in English, 42 minutes
Monday July 16 2007
7:00-9:30 pm
OISE/UT, 252 Bloor Street West, Room 4-422. Toronto
St. George Subway Station (Bedford St. Exit)
Over the past few years Canadians have become increasingly aware of the
thousands of Mexican and Caribbean migrant workers that come to labour in
our fields each year as part of the Seasonal Agricultural
Workers Program. We have seen how these men and women work long hours,
contributing in body and spirit to their own families' advancement, and to
the cultures and economies Canadian towns where they live and work. We
have seen too, how the Canadian agriculture has grown with these workers,
and how governments are striving to increase their numbers and expand the
program to other industries all over the country. The story that we do not
know is what happens to migrant agricultural workers when they go back
home. Participants in this program do not just return to their families
with money, gifts and work experience, but often carry with them serious
injuries, chronic illnesses, personal traumas, and feelings of loneliness
and disconnection that stay with them well beyond the period of their
contracts. Mexican filmmaker Aaraon Diaz has given a voice to these health
problems and to the migrant workers, families and friends who must endure
their consequences.
Sponsored by the Transformative Learning Centre at OISE/UT
10. LABOUR AND THE ARTS – SPONSOR A POETRY READING
Would your Local Union or district labour council be interested in
organizing or supporting a reading session by Gary Geddes based on his
upcoming book Falsework?
On June 17, 1958, Vancouver’s Second Narrows Bridge collapsed while under
construction. Eighteen men plunged to their deaths and later a diver in
the rescue effort. On the cusp of the 50th anniversary of the disaster,
critically acclaimed poet Gary Geddes in his upcoming book, Falsework
provides an intimate portrait of the many lives affected by the toppling
of that seemingly indomitable structure.
It is rare that a book comes along and takes one through such an
emotion-filled journey and displays it with such a worker perspective. In
a measure to expand this initiative beyond the traditional poetry circles,
it is hoped that some within and around the labour movement might help
spread the word.
Gary has stated that as part of his tour he would be quite happy to visit
your Local union or district labour council for a reading. He also stated
that he would be willing to link this with some form of adult education
initiative. If you would like to organize or support such an event, Gary
can be reached at the following:
Gary Geddes
Email: gedworks@...
1-250-598-5361
Victoria, BC
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11. WORKERS ARTS & HERITAGE CENTRE WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU!
For almost a century and a half, an old Custom House has sat beside the
railway tracks in the North End of Hamilton.
Did you ever visit it in days gone by? Walk by or play around it? Hear any
stories about it?
Did you work there when it was a wool factory? Or a macaroni factory?
Did you help out during the first renovations in the 1980s? Or come to
martial arts classes?
If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, the Workers
Arts & Heritage Centre wants to hear from you! We're interested in
your stories, old photos, or other objects for an upcoming exhibition in
September.
Please contact us: wahc@..., call 905-522-3003, or stop by to
see us at the old Custom House at 51 Stuart St. (between Bay and MacNab).
The Workers Arts and Heritage Centre is an independent non-profit charity,
unique in its effort to communicate the heritage of Canadian workers and
their unions, reflecting the broad cultural and racial diversity of Canada
and the role of women.
http://www.wahc-museum.ca/
51 Stuart Street Hamilton, Ontario L8L 1B5
Tel: 905.522.3003 Fax: 905.522.5424
Email: wahc@...
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12. URBAN ALLIANCE ON RACE RELATIONS 26TH ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER
Thursday September 26th
6:00 p.m.
The Grand Ballroom
The Toronto Colony Hotel, 89 Chestnut Street, Toronto, Ontario.
The award will be presented to members of the community, in recognition of
their contribution towards achieving racial understanding within the
Greater Toronto Area.
We are honoured to have Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, James K. Bartleman
presiding as our chief guest.
The keynote speaker for the evening is the Hon. Jean Augustine.
I am working on developing training resources around HIV/AIDS in the
Aboriginal communities. Do you know of any workplace policies that have
been developed around HIV/AIDS that I could have as reference to
developing some and reduce the STIGMAS and discrimination as well as
educate.
Chi Meegwetch
Marjorie Beaucage
AWRAC Project Coordinator
(Aboriginal Women Responding to the AIDS Crisis)
Email: marjo@...
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14. NEW BOOK – DRIVEN OUT: THE FORGOTTEN WAR AGAINST CHINESE AMERICANS
By Jean Pfaelzer
“Thanks to this gripping narrative, Chinese immigrants to the Far West –
so long overlooked – now stand front and center in the saga for the
struggle for civil rights in these United States.” – Kevin Starr
· Literacy for What? Literacy for Whom? The Politics of Literacy Education
and Neocolonialism in UNESCO- and World Bank–Sponsored Literacy Programs
Adult Education Quarterly 2007;57 275-292 Authors: Corrine M. Wickens and
Jennifer A. Sandlin
· The Transition of Adult Students to Higher Education: Legitimate
Peripheral Participation in a Community of Practice?
Adult Education Quarterly 2007;57 312-328 Authors: Victoria L. O'Donnell
and Jane Tobbell
· Gender Inequality in the Primary Classroom: Will Interactive Whiteboards
Help?
Gender and Education 455 – 469 Authors: Fay Smith; Frank Hardman; Steve
Higgins
· Standards or Communities of Practice? Competing Models of Workplace
Learning and Development
British Educational Research Journal 533 – 550 Authors: John Yandell; Anne
Turvey
· A Sociology of Pedagogic Voice: Power, Inequality and Pupil Consultation
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 311 – 325
Authors: Madeleine Arnot; Diane Reay
· The Methodology of Students-as-Researchers: Valuing and Using Experience
and Expertise to Develop Methods
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 327 – 342
Authors: Pat Thomson; Helen Gunter
· Experiencing the Workplace: Shaping Worker Identities through
Assessment, Work and Learning
Studies in Continuing Education 163 – 179 Author: Hilary Timma
· Knowing How to Know: Questioning 'Knowledge Transfer' as a Model for
Knowing and Learning in Health
Studies in Continuing Education 181 – 193 Authors: Cathrine Fowler; Alison
Lee
· The Learning Society as Itself: Lifelong Learning, Individualization of
Learning, and Beyond Education
Studies in Continuing Education 195 – 206 Author: Ya-Hui Su
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only
that which his [or her] mind craves. " - Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
OUR MANDATE: The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) is a community of practice, engaged in dialogue, research and action on learning and work issues. Its active steering committee and working groups bring together academic, labour and community researchers and practitioners. All contribute to the internal life of Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT), both in the graduate program and the
pre-service program. They also support the organizational capacity of the labour movement, and develop practical alternative tools to the dominant neo-liberal discourses on learning and work.
If you want to publicize events, publications, and other announcements, please email them to mailto:rsussman@....
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1. New Article On Learningwork Blog – Study: Gaining And Losing Literacy Skills Over The Life Course (1994-2003)
2. Canadian Workers' Paycheques In 30-Year Holding Pattern: Study 3. Call For Chapter Proposals: The 2010 Handbook Of Adult And Continuing Education
4. Sponsor "NAFTA From Below," Support Workers 5. Documentary “Occupation 101” In Toronto This July
6. Support The Early Learning And Child Care Act (Bill C-303)
7. Citizenship Studies Journal Online
8. Workers’ Action Centre Releases New Report – “Working On The Edge”
9. Adult Literacy Research-In-Practice Project Job Posting – Practitioner Researchers
10. Each For All – The Co-Operative Connection: Broadcasting The Co-Operative Message
11. Simply People – Celebrating Our Lives & Identities: 4th Annual Disability Celebration In Toronto
12. Job Posting – USW Research Department: Staff Representative 13. Online Video – Pedagogy, Human Development And Socialism: The Bolivarian Revolution 14. Socialism And Democracy Journal Online 15. Conference: Labor And Freedom In Global Perspective 16. Oppose Security And Prosperity Partnership Of North America (SPP) Summit 17. Another U.S. Is Possible – Report From The U.S. Social Forum 18. What's So Great About P3s Anyway?
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1. NEW ARTICLE ON LEARNINGWORK BLOG
Statscan study: Gaining and losing literacy skills over the life course (1994-2003)
2. CANADIAN WORKERS' PAYCHEQUES IN 30-YEAR HOLDING PATTERN: STUDY
OTTAWA - Canadians are working harder and smarter, contributing to a growing economy, but their paycheques have been stagnant for the past 30 years, says a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Rising Profit Shares, Falling Wage Shares finds that Canada's economy grew steadily and workers' productivity improved by 51 per cent in the past 30 years, but workers' average real wages have been stuck in a holding pattern all this time.
"Canadians are constantly being told they need to improve their productivity and grow the economy - which is exactly what they've done, but their paycheques aren't growing to reflect their work effort," says study co-author Ellen Russell, CCPA senior economist.
The study finds that Canadian workers' wage share of national income is the lowest it's been in 40 years. If workers' real wages had increased to reflect improved productivity and economic growth, they could be earning an average of $10,000 more each year on their paycheques (in 2005 dollars).
Instead, corporations - not workers - have been banking the lion's share of the benefits of economic growth and improved productivity.
"Corporate profit shares are the highest they've been in 40 years - and we're not talking peanuts here," says Russell. "In 2005, corporations banked $130 billion more in gross profits than they would have if the profit share had remained at 1991 levels. Sharing those earnings with workers could have gone a long way to reducing Canada's growing income gap."
3. CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: THE 2010 HANDBOOK OF ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION
Editors: Carol Kasworm, Amy D. Rose, and Jovita Ross-Gordon
This Handbook will present the contemporary landscape of practice and research in adult education. It will be a foundational volume, offering both an orientation to the field and an analytic examination of current practice and research, as well as delineating larger contextual trends and issues.
Key components of the volume will include:
· A synthesis of foundational principles, practices, and related theory and research of adult learning and its facilitation;
· An overview of key contemporary organizational structures and programs reflecting the profession of adult and continuing education;
· An overview of key touchstone perspectives framing current debates, advocacy, and commitments to social justice;
· An examination of current issues reflecting the nexus of global forces and the contemporary practices and beliefs within adult and continuing education.
Letters of interest - Due September 1, 2007
Respondents will identify specific chapter or chapters of interest and provide contact information (including e-mail) and current vitae of contributors. While this letter is not obligatory, it will greatly assist the Handbook development process.
Request for outline of specific book chapters - Due November 15, 2007.
Proposals should include a narrative description of no more then 300 words, detailing the authors´ vision of the chapter, along with a skeletal outline of chapter contents (one to two pages). Current vitae and contact information should be included (if not previously sent).
For further information regarding the outline of chapters, timelines, and intent of the 2010 handbook, please visit our website at: http://www.cedu.niu.edu/~rose
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4. SPONSOR "NAFTA FROM BELOW" BOOK TOUR
The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (CJM), a non-profit organization that fights for Mexican and Central American workers' rights, needs your support. CJM has been a leader in many immigrant campaigns, from the Mexican Duro bag workers' fight for a union to Latino immigrants' ongoing struggle for workplace rights in the U.S. Most recently, CJM published "NAFTA From Below," a book detailing NAFTA's impact on Mexican workers
and farmers -- and those workers and farmers organized resistance to NAFTA's effects.
Unfortunately, CJM suffers from the same problems that many other nonprofts currently face: inadequate resources and staff to do all the things the workers and the movement for global justice demand of us. Despite the grants and other support it receives, CJM is currently in a critical situation.
To help CJM cope with this crisis, readers can sponsor "NAFTA From Below" with donations of $200, $500, or $1,000, or by helping organize a book tour. As attacks on workers in the U.S. and abroad intensify, groups like CJM become more and more vital. For more on CJM and NAFTA From Below, visit http://www.coalitionforjustice.net.
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5. DOCUMENTARY “OCCUPATION 101” IN TORONTO THIS JULY
The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) is showing this educational documentary that explains the reality of Israeli Apartheid and the struggle for Palestinian freedom.
Friday July 27 (9:00 pm), Saturday July 28 (9:00 pm), and Sunday July 29 (7:00 pm)
Trade Unionists Free of Charge. $10 waged, $5 students, seniors and unwaged
The Brunswick Theatre (296 Brunswick Ave at Bloor, west of Spadina)
Advance tickets will be available at the Brunswick Theatre (296 Brunswick Ave) and OPIRG (563 Spadina
Ave.)
In celebration of the courageous resolutions taken by the international union movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israeli Apartheid (COSATU, CUPE Ontario, UNISON among others) CAIA invites all trade unionists to attend these film showings free of charge (just show your union card at the door). The film showings will be followed by discussions and question/answer periods on the current situation in Palestine and the BDS campaign.
About the Film
Occupation 101 is a thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict --'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.
The film covers a wide range of topics which include: the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880's, the 1920 tensions, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the first Intifada of 1987, the Oslo Peace Process, Settlement expansion, the role of the United States Government, the second Intifada of 2000, the Apartheid wall and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as well as many heart wrenching testimonials from victims of this tragedy.
6. SUPPORT THE EARLY LEARNING AND CHILD CARE ACT (BILL C-303)
With the Early Learning and Child Care Act (Bill C-303) past committee and second reading, we are now gearing up for a showdown with the Conservatives on the bill in the fall when Parliament resumes.
Now is the time to tell Stephen Harper to have his MPs join with all the other parties and speak out loudly for a nation wide high-quality, accessible and affordable child care program. We need all of you to encourage parents and all citizens to contact their MPs and call for support of Canada’s Early Learning and Child Care Act. Summer is a good time because MPs are out in their ridings to meet with Canadians - it's time they face parents that are desperately waiting for child care.
8. WORKERS’ ACTION CENTRE RELEASES NEW REPORT – WORKING ON THE EDGE
A fair day's pay for a hard day's work? Not in Ontario. Not for the growing number of us pushed into jobs with low wages, bad working conditions and no protection when we don't get paid our wages.
Our new report, Working on the Edge (released May 30, 2007), is just one part of our campaign to improve wages and working conditions for people in precarious work. This report documents workers’ experiences of precarious work, and features stories from those who live with the grim daily realities of working on the edge. The report is the work of a team of academics, researchers, staff from Parkdale Community Legal Services, and members of the Workers’ Action Centre.
In the report, workers describe what it’s like to work in low-paid temporary agency and contract jobs where employers fail to meet minimum labour standards. For increasing numbers of workers, it means low pay, income instability, few employments benefits or protections against unpaid wages. It means that employment standards are not enforced, leaving workers to bear the cost of job loss when they are pushed out of work by substandard conditions or are fired while trying to enforce their rights. It means outdated labour laws that trap people in poverty and deny workers fair standards.
The report concludes with detailed and comprehensive policy recommendations, including reformed employer-practices, equality for all workers, amendments to the Employment Standards Act to cover temp agency workers, changes to minimum wage policy, and more effective enforcement of the Employment Standards Act.
Part time Contract Position
(September 2007- April 2008)
RiPAL-BC is partnering with The Centre for Literacy, the Movement for Canadian Literacy and Literacy BC on a project that will apply research-in-practice approaches to consolidate and exchange knowledge about current accountability policy and practice in adult literacy from Canada and abroad; find a common language between the community and government and other funders to talk about accountability; and build on this knowledge to develop innovative models that can satisfy the needs and requirements of both providers and funders and improve accountability in positive ways.
Accountability project overview (after July 4, 2007).
In the first year, practitioner researchers will collect data, analyze and report on accountability policies and practices by regions. This field review will offer a description and comprehensive analysis of the types of accountability models currently being used in adult literacy/basic education in different parts of Canada, and how funders and providers perceive them.
Responsibilities
We are seeking 5 practitioner researchers who will work with Marina Niks, field research coordinator, and each carry out the following tasks:
· Familiarize themselves with key documents of the literature on accountability being used in the project.
· Collect information about current policies and practices in one or two regions of Canada. This will entail phone, electronic and in person conversations with policy makers, advocates, administrators and practitioners as well as other forms of data collection such as questionnaires or interviews. Any policy documents currently in place or in available draft version will be collected prior to the interpersonal data collection.
· Analyze the information.
· Contribute to the collaborative writing of the field review report.
· Actively participate in the online conversations among the field researchers as the project develops.
Each of the five contracts involves a total of 350 hours at the rate of $35/hour (total value $12,250) to be worked between September 2007 and April 2008. Practitioner researchers will be expected to dedicate an estimate of 40-45 hours each month.
For further information, contact Marina Niks at mailto:mniks@....
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10. EACH FOR ALL – THE CO-OPERATIVE CONNECTION: BROADCASTING THE CO-OPERATIVE MESSAGE
The British Columbia Institute of Co-operative Studies broadcasts Each For All: The Co-operative Connection on Community Radio CFUV 101.9 FM. The show serves as an educational tool to introduce people to the possibilities in co-operative solutions.
11. SIMPLY PEOPLE – CELEBRATING OUR LIVES & IDENTITIES: 4TH ANNUAL DISABILITY CELEBRATION IN TORONTO
July 17
5:30PM to 8:30PM
Nathan Philips Square (Queen and Bay Street) Toronto
This FREE outdoor event features several guest speakers and a diversity of interesting performers. This year’s event will feature:
Guest Speakers:
· Toronto City Councillor Adrian Heaps
· David Onley (City TV)
Performers:
· Singer Emma Cook + Band
· Libby Thaw (Humourist)
· Singer Christina Doyle
· Writer Julie Devaney (Performer of Narrative Non-Fiction)
· DJ Ken
· Andre Arruda (Comedian)
· Limitless Dance Performance
This event is brought to you by Canada-Wide Accessibility for Post-Secondary Students (CanWAPSS) with the assistance of the University of Toronto Access Centre / Students For Barrier-free Access (UTAC/SFBA).
ASL interpretation, attendant care and transcription services available onsite. To request any other accessibility requirements, please contact us before July 9th.
12. JOB POSTING – USW RESEARCH DEPARTMENT: STAFF REPRESENTATIVE
The United Steelworkers Canadian National Office is considering hiring a full time staff person for the Union’s Research Department.
The Union is seeking a person with the following qualifications:
· University degree in economics (or related field), preferably a graduate degree and / or
· Extensive collective bargaining experience, particularly in the area of pensions and benefits
· Commitment to improving lives of working people
· Excellent communication and problem solving skills
The following would be assets:
- Experience working as part of a team in a fluid, fast-paced environment, with minimal supervision
- Ability to work in both official languages
The responsibilities of the Research Position will include:
Collective Bargaining Support
· Provide bargaining support for negotiations, including evaluation of economic impact of improvements, valuation of specific contract clauses (for example, job evaluation / classification, training) and preparation and presentation of submissions for interest arbitrations.
The ideal candidate would have:
- Expertise in calculating cost of improvements in collective agreements in the context of collective bargaining
- Ability to work as part of a team in the context of collective bargaining
Pension Funding and Design
· Provide bargaining support for the negotiation of pensions, including analysis of pension plans and plan financing, and estimating cost of plan improvements.
The ideal candidate would have:
- Understanding of basic concepts of pension and benefit plan financing and pension and benefit design;
- Ability to use simple computer software to calculate estimated costs of pension plan improvements
- Ability to communicate basic pension and benefit funding concepts to staff and members of bargaining committees.
- Experience in collective bargaining.
Corporate and Sectoral Analysis
· Produce reports on the finances, performance, and strategy of companies.
· Produce reports analyzing performance and prospects in various economic sectors.
The ideal candidate would have:
- Understanding of basic accounting concepts, corporate finance, and economics
- Ability to research corporate structure, evaluate corporate financial statements, and analyze business plans
Public Policy
· Support the Union in the analysis of public policy, particular in areas of public finance, labour market programs and international trade.
· Drafting speeches for Union leadership
· Drafting submissions, policy papers, and briefing notes
The ideal candidate would have:
- Understanding of current public policy debates and experience in the development of alternative policy prescriptions from the perspective of the Canadian labour movement
- Familiarity with basic concepts of economic policy, and able to communicate these in simple, understandable terms to union members
As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applications from women, people of colour, people living with disabilities and aboriginal persons.
This is a bargaining unit position covered by the Staff Representatives’ Union, with a starting rate of $76,180.06 to a top rate of $98,296.85, plus lease vehicle, per diem and a generous benefit package. This position will be located in Toronto, with frequent travel across Canada and occasionally into the United States.
Candidates should submit their application and résumé by Tuesday, July 31, 2007 to the address below. All applications will be kept confidential. Only applicants to be interviewed will be contacted.
Charles Campbell or Ken Neumann
United Steelworkers
234 Eglinton Ave East, Suite 800
Toronto, Ontario M4K 1P7 mailto:ccampbell@... or mailto:kneumann@...
Fax: 416-487-6235
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13. ONLINE VIDEO – PEDAGOGY, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIALISM: THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION
A conversation between Peter McLaren and Michael Lebowitz
Peter McLaren, originally from Toronto, is internationally recognized as one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy. He has developed a reputation for his uncompromising political analysis influenced by a Marxist humanist philosophy and a unique literary style of expression. McLaren is currently Professor of Education at UCLA in Los Angeles. He is author of Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism: A Critical Pedagogy (2005), and many other books.
Michael A. Lebowitz has taught for over 30 years at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, specialising in Marxian Economics. Lebowitz is the author of Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class, winner of the 2004 Deutscher Prize, and of Build It Now: Socialism for the Twenty-first Century (2006). He is now based in Caracas, Venezuela.
15. CONFERENCE: LABOR AND FREEDOM IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Twenty-Ninth Annual North American Labor History Conference – Labor and Freedom in Global Perspective
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
October 18-20, 2007
Wayne State University is proud to sponsor the annual North American Labor History Conference (NALHC). Drawing leading scholars in labor history from around the globe, this conference explores the work conditions and lives of the working class, the history of the labor movement, and the impact of the labor movement on society as a whole.
The NALHC is a three-day conference, Thursday through Saturday, normally scheduled for the third weekend in October, and is held at the McGregor Conference Center on the main Wayne State Campus in the heart of Detroit's Cultural Center. Participants are encouraged to explore the Center during their visit, as sites such as the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Historical Museum, and the Museum of African American History are within walking distance of the McGregor Conference Center. Labor historians may want to extend their stay to work in the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, which is the official repository for many labor unions. Researchers should consult the extended hours schedule for the Reuther Library available in the program for the conference. The Reuther collection and the Burton Historical Collection, located in the Detroit Public Library, also offer rich resources for historians working on the history of Detroit, Michigan, or the recent United States.
For more information, contact the conference coordinator, Prof. Janine Lanza:
Professor Janine Lanza
Coordinator, North American Labor History Conference
Department of History, 3094 Faculty Administration Building
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202 USA
Phone: 313/577-2525; Fax: 313 577-6987
Email: mailto:ao1605@...
16. OPPOSE SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP OF NORTH AMERICA (SPP) SUMMIT Bush-Harper-Calderon Meet in Montebello, Quebec August 21st, 2007
Call for Toronto and Ontario Activists to Organize for the Convergence
The SPP is being presented as an integration plan for 'prosperity' through continental cooperation on trade and border relations. The founding premise of the SPP is that economic prosperity is dependant on security. Broken down, the SPP is merely NAFTA by another name. SPP was founded in March 2005, in Cancun, at a summit of the Heads of State of Canada, the US, and Mexico. Since then, there have been several meetings for the SPP, including a summit in March 2006 in Texas and a preparatory meeting in Ottawa in February 2007.
We know that the real face of SPP is to further an agenda of free trade, border 'security', repression, and cooperation in war and occupation. SPP is not an official treaty; it is not an official law and will never be debated in the House of Commons.
On August 21st 2007, the three Heads of State will meet for a third tri-national Summit to forward the SPP agreements. People in Montreal, Ottawa, and Quebec City have already begun organizing to confront this Summit in Montebello, to confront the agenda of SPP and the agenda of George W Bush, Stephen Harper, and Felipe Calderon.
Groups involved in organizing for the Summit are considering a large-scale mobilization in Montebello as well as localized actions in the week before August 21st.~Toronto is being asked to participate in this mobilization.
Questions? Ideas? Contact the Ontario Public Interest Research Group – Toronto Confront the SPP Committee at mailto:Opirg.Toronto@..., 416-978-7770.
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17. ANOTHER U.S. IS POSSIBLE – REPORT FROM THE U.S. SOCIAL FORUM
From the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Ga.: The people here understand their responsibility to bring down the empire that's destroying the world but it's also destroying their communities and therein lays a new basis of solidarity.
People who think these super-hospitals will cost less must believe in fairy tales. The experience in the rest of Canada and in Europe is conclusive, and it won't be any different here.
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. " - Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) - http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) - http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-978-0515, Fax: 416-926-4751
East—West Differences in Employment Relations, Organizational Justice and Trust: Possible Reasons and Consequences
Thomas Rigotti, Kathleen Otto, and Gisela Mohr http://eid.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/2/212
NEW BLOG – AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
The Academy Blog provides a forum for ideas and research in the social sciences, intended to inform public understanding and improve public policies – http://blog.aapss.org/
An example:
The Overlooked Costs of Immigration
Alejandro Portes considers the effects of Mexican migration on towns and regions in Mexico itself. http://blog.aapss.org/index.cfm?commentID=16
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FORUM – YOUR FAMILY PAYCHEQUE: IS IT KEEPING PACE?
The third in a series of FORUMS presented with The Toronto Star as part of its War on Poverty series.
Tuesday May 8, 7:30-9:30 pm
St. Lawrence Centre Forum, Toronto
27 Front Street East, 2 blocks east of Union Station
Admission is Free
· Bob Rae:~Former Premier of Ontario, Liberal Candidate for Toronto Centre.
· Armine Yalnizyan: Economist and author of the Rich and the Rest of Us, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives; Research Director for the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto.
· Finn Poschmann: Research Director, C.D. Howe Institute.
· Parbattie Shirley Ramsarran: Chair, Centre for Social Justice and community activist; teaches Sociology at York University.
· Moderator: Thomas Walkom: Political columnist, the Toronto Star.
Questions and comments from the audience will follow the panel discussion.
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MOVIE – RAISE THE RATES
Friday, May 11th, 2007
7 PM
296 Brunswick Ave, 2nd Floor
Cost: $5 - 10 (pay what you can)
Proceeds going to Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
Following the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty's (OCAP) campaign to raise social assistance rates in Ontario in 2005-2006, this documentary features first-hand accounts of 5 women involved in the campaign as well as footage from special diet clinics, demonstrations, and occupations. From powerful voices of people directly affected by the welfare system comes a demand to raise the rates, and a determination to fight back.
Followed by discussion with the filmmakers, OCAP and members of the Raise the Rates campaign on what is next in the fight against poverty in Ontario.
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REMINDER – SASKATCHEWAN LABOUR HISTORY WORKSHOP
Sunday 27 May 2007
Albert Community Centre, 610 Clarence Avenue South, Saskatoon
The workshop includes sessions on Women Workers and the Left, Labour and Municipal Politics and New Books on Saskatchewan Labour as well as lunch, music and a bus tour. The event is co-sponsored by the Canadian Committee on Labour History (CCLH) and the Society for Socialist Studies.
Early registrations are helpful to the organizers and are accepted until 9 May at the CCLH office; on-site registrants also welcome. More details at http://www.mun.ca/cclh/workshop.html.
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ICAE ACADEMY OF LIFELONG LEARNING – THREE-WEEK SEMINAR
The International Council for Adult Education (ICAE)
Montevideo, Uruguay
September 24 to October 12, 2007
This seminar aims to give emerging leaders in adult learning and social movement activists the opportunity to empower themselves and acquire the skills to advocate for and support adult learning for active citizenship.
Our objective is to help them generate a broader vision of adult education and lifelong learning within the framework of human rights, developing linkages with the most important globalization issues that are currently affecting the world, and support the emergence of a new leadership in adult education.
The course will involve lectures and discussions, case study presentations and analysis, as well as debates. Participants will be trained to work as a global team, by experienced and high-level experts from different regions who will give their perspectives on advocacy issues.
For more information or to apply, contact:
Celia Eccher
Secretary General, ICAE
Av. 18 de Julio 2095 / 301
11200 Montevideo - Uruguay
Tel/fax: (598 - 2) 409 79 82
E-mail: secretariat@... http://www.icae.org.uy/
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MOVIE – TOGETHER WE WIN: THE FIGHT TO ORGANIZE STARBUCKS
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
7:00 pm
Brunswick Theatre, 296 Brunswick Ave., Toronto
Admission: pay what you can
For more information: email postmaster@... or 416-364-0050 ext. 305
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NEW BOOK – POVERTY AND POLICY IN CANADA
Poverty and Policy in Canada by Dennis Raphael provides a unique perspective on poverty and its importance to the health and quality of life of Canadians. This original volume considers a range of issues that will be of great interest to a variety of audiences.
Throughout the book, particular emphasis has been placed on the lived experiences of poverty.
Dennis Raphael is Professor and Undergraduate Programme Director at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University. He serves as a consultant to the Canadian Public Health Agency and is an advisor to an upcoming PBS series on social inequalities and health in the USA.
Distributed by Georgetown Terminal Warehouses Limited
ANNIVERSARY OF PAULO FREIRE’S DEATH – STORIES WANTED
As you might know, May 2nd was the anniversary of Paulo Freire's death and
we would like to make a special edition of the electronic bulletin VOICES
RISING. For that purpose we would like you to send us memories, anecdotes
and stories regarding Paulo Freire, to publish them in this bulletin.
Please send this information to the following e-mail address:
voicesrising@...
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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS – INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHING WORK AND LEARNING
CONFERENCE RWL5
· 15 May 2007 – Deadline for submission of Paper Abstracts and Symposium
proposals
· 15 June 2007 – Notification of acceptance of abstracts
· 16 July 2007 – Submission of papers for refereeing (optional). Where
necessary, authors revise in September and resubmit for inclusion in
Conference Proceedings.
· 14 September 2007 – Submission of revised and non-refereed papers for
inclusion in Conference Proceedings
Wednesday May 30, 2007, 1pm - 4pm
East Common Room, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle,
University of Toronto
Workers' voices reveal the grim realities of life for workers in unstable
jobs: low wages, discrimination, employers who break the law, and poverty.
Workers have been pushed to the limit by low wages and outdated and
unenforced labour laws. "Working on the Edge" not only will
expose the key issues facing workers but will also put forward
recommendations for change.
THIS IS A CALL FOR ACTION NOW!
Our report launch panel features:
· Tania Das Gupta
Chair, School of Social Sciences, Atkinson Faculty, York University
· Ratna Omidvar
Executive Director, The Maytree Foundation
· Armine Yalnizyan
Director of Research, Community Social Planning Council of Toronto
· Wayne Lewchuk
Professor of Economics and Labour Studies, McMaster University
From the Workers'Action Centre:
· Lucya Pirapakaran, member
· David Reyes, member
· Deena Ladd, Co-ordinator
Join policy makers, government representatives, organizers, community
workers, workers, labour and community leaders and members of the Workers'
Action Centre in a discussion focusing on recommendations for action.
IMPORTANT: Space is limited. Registrations accepted on a first come first
served basis. To register and for more information about this event please
contact Nadira Gopalani at 416-531-0778 ext. 223.
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YOUTH-AT-WORK PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT, TORONTO
Monday April 30 - Thursday May 31
Yorkdale Community Arts Centre
3401 Dufferin Street, Lower Level
Youth-at-Work is a photography exhibit by young artists between the ages
of 12-17 who live in the Lawrence Heights community. The exhibit will
consist of photographs of young people at work - youth who work at the
Community Centre, at the Library, at the mall, and various other
workplaces in their community. Where do young people work and what kind of
working conditions do they endure? Youth-at-Work gives young people the
tools to represent and voice these experiences.
Co-sponsored by Shades Photography, Yorkdale Community Arts Centre, CUPE
Toronto District Council, Lawrence Heights Community Centre and 32
Division Toronto Police.
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WORK HERSTORY: RECOGNIZING LIFE AND WORK WITH WOMEN ON THE MARGINS, TORONTO
May 1 to 31, 2007
Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre
341 Oakwood Ave. (north of St. Clair Ave. West)
Opening reception: Saturday, May 5, 2pm-4pm
An exhibit of mixed media artwork created by diverse women from Sistering,
Parkdale Project Read, and ArtHeart Community Art Centre highlighting
their work experiences, interests, and life situations-from jobs held, to
opportunities given up, to challenges faced, to dream jobs envisioned. How
are life struggles and job struggles interrelated? The show explores the
women's contributions, desires, and barriers in the world of work as well
as their perspectives on women's work.
MANUFACTURING MATTERS! JOIN THE FIGHT FOR GOOD JOBS
Thursday, May 17th
7:00 p.m.
Toronto City Hall, Council Chambers
In the last five years, tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs have been
lost in greater Toronto. These were good paying jobs, providing decent
wages and benefits. Thousands more are at risk unless we get our
provincial and federal politicians to start taking action.
Come to this public forum - the first step in letting our politicians know
these are jobs worth fighting for.
SOCIAL ECONOMY WORKSHOP – THE MENTORS CIRCLE WITH ELIZABETH VERWEY
People always find time to work. Elizabeth Verwey guides people to greater
organization success through effective space and time management - and
finds them time to play.
Join us in this workshop and learn:
· How to build a supportive group for your organization
· New perspectives and Action Goals that will help your organization to
grow
· How to strengthen Circles of Support around any project
· Key templates and exercises that will help clear the path to greater
success
Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Cost: $100 + GST; Cost includes the book The Mentors Circle, all resource
materials and refreshments. Each additional participant from the same
organization will receive a $15 discount.
Location: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of
Toronto, room 5-175
252 Bloor Street West, Toronto (St. George subway station).
To register, please contact Lisa White at secworkshops@... .
Bill Barrett, Planet Bean Coffee
Gavin Fridell, Trent University
Graeme Hussey, Karma Co-Op
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
252 Bloor St. West, Toronto
Room 12-199
While the Fair Trade movement was originally an exclusively social economy
movement, there has been increasing participation by traditional
businesses, most notably large corporations, in recent years. Some would
suggest that this increased participation by corporations has been a good
development as it has contributed significantly to the movement’s
tremendous growth. Others are less sanguine about the role that
corporations have been playing, suggesting that it is altering the nature
of Fair Trade and perhaps undermining its long term survival. This panel
will examine the current state of Fair Trade in Canada, especially the
opportunities that Fair Trade present for social economy actors and the
challenges that corporate involvement in Fair Trade create for them.
"Beyond the Picket Line: Academic Organizing after the Long NYU
Strike" features essays gathered by Michael Palm (Chair of the
Graduate Student Organizing Committee at New York University), all of
which address the implications of graduate worker activism for the future
of higher education. The graduate union at NYU has the distinction of
being the first to bargain a contract at a private university, and the
first to see negotiations terminated by a private university
administration.
“Workplace 14” provides various critical accounts of the administration's
renunciation of the union, and a series of in-depth analyses of the strike
that followed. Written by the strikers themselves---with one important
contribution by a unionist at the City University of New York---these
articles comprise one of our most urgent releases to date.
Contents include:
·"The Future of Academia is On the Line: Protest, Pedagogy,
Picketing, Performativity"
by Emily Wilbourne
·"Making It Work: Audre Lorde's ‘The Master's Tools’ and the
Unbearable Difference of GSOC"
by Elizabeth Loeb
·"Another University is Possible: Academic Labor, the Ideology of
Scarcity, and the Fight for Workplace Democracy"
by Ashley Dawson
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JOIN THE CANADIAN COMMITTEE ON WOMEN’S HISTORY
We would like to encourage everyone with an interest in women's history,
especially independent scholars and graduate students, to become members
of the Canadian Committee on Women's History (CCWH). For more information
about our organization and for a membership form, please contact CCWH
secretary-treasurer, Lara Campbell, at lcampbel@... .
The Canadian Committee on Women's History promotes teaching and research
in the field of women's history; disseminates information about sources,
current research and publications; encourages the preservation of archival
sources; links professors, teachers and students with each other and with
other similar organizations in other countries and monitors the status of
women in the historical profession and works to increase that status.
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WOODBINE LIVE DEAL GALVANIZES COMMUNITY
Residents hold out for tangible benefits from $350 million development
The Toronto Star – May 10, 2007
Laurie Monsebraaten, staff reporter
Something is growing in Rexdale. It is a $350-million expansion plan for
Woodbine racetrack on the largest swath of undeveloped, individually owned
land in Toronto. A coalition of 35 community groups known as CORD
(Community Organizing for Responsible Development) has been busy in
Rexdale to spread the word. With the prospect of 5,000 construction jobs
and 9,000 permanent jobs in the proposed hotel, shops, restaurants,
cinemas and concert space, residents at a local meeting saw an
opportunity. "Too often we see the promise of good jobs bypass the
local community or turn into low-wage jobs with no benefits or
future," said Janet Dassinger, a job training specialist with the
UNITE HERE union, Local 75, which represents about 1,600 hotel and
hospitality workers in Rexdale, including about 400 food servers at the
Woodbine racetrack
WHAT GROWS OUT OF THE $10 MINIMUM WAGE CAMPAIGN? THE FIGHT FOR RESPECT!
One million people make less than $10 an hour in Ontario. Our communities
are changing. Not just the faces or languages spoken, but the
opportunities are different than before. We are tired of being told that
this is a just-in-time economy and a disposable society. We want those in
power to value who we are and what we do.
·RESPECT my right to a minimum wage of at least $10.00 now!
·RESPECT my right to have a stable full-time job.
·RESPECT my skills and experience, wherever I gained them.
·RESPECT my right to have housing and childcare.
·RESPECT my right to have a union voice at work.
·RESPECT my right to social benefits, if I need them.
The Toronto & York District Labour Council and our community allies
are holding public meetings to engage working families in this important
dialogue. Please join us at any of the following events:
·Thorncliffe, June 11th at 6:30pm, East York Town Centre, 45 Overlea Blvd
# 108
·Rexdale, June 18th at 7:00pm, Microskills, 1 Vulcan Drive
·** Scarborough, June 23rd at 2:00pm, Location TBC – The campaign for
RESPECT will be supporting this community meeting being planned by the
Workers’ Action Centre
·Weston-Mt Dennis, June 25th at 7:00 pm, Location TBC
The Canadian Autoworkers have published a booklet to help make workplaces
safer and fairer for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and the transgendered. The
booklet provides “basic answers to basic questions” about sexual
minorities.
We are asking everyone to go to the site and send a message to Dalton
McGuinty – if you have a spare sec – go to the site and send him a message.
This site is all about the massive number of manufacturing jobs that have
been lost in Ontario – and there’s no sign that this crisis will let up
any time soon.
Dana Boettger
Communications Director
Ontario Federation of Labour
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WORKING ON THE EDGE: REPORT LAUNCH AND PANEL
Workers' voices reveal the grim realities of life for workers in unstable
jobs: low wages, discrimination, employers who break the law, and poverty.
Workers have been pushed to the limit by low wages and outdated and
unenforced labour laws. "Working on the Edge" not only will
expose the key issues facing workers but will also put forward
recommendations for change.
This Is A Call For Action Now!
Wednesday May 30, 2007
1pm - 4pm
East Common Room
Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto
Our report launch panel features:
·Tania Das Gupta - Chair, School of Social Sciences, Atkinson Faculty,
York University
·Ratna Omidvar - Executive Director, The Maytree Foundation
·Armine Yalnizyan - Director of Research, Community Social Planning
Council of Toronto
·Wayne Lewchuk - Professor of Economics and Labour Studies, McMaster
University
From the Workers'Action Centre:
·Lucya Pirapakaran, member
·David Reyes, member
·Deena Ladd, Co-ordinator
Join policy makers, government representatives, organizers, community
workers, workers, labour and community leaders and members of the Workers'
Action Centre in a discussion focusing on recommendations for action.
IMPORTANT: Space is limited. Registrations accepted on a first come first
served basis
To register and for more information about this event please contact
Nadira Gopalani at 416-531-0778 ext. 223.
·The Relationship Among Organizational-Based Self-Esteem and Various
Factors Motivating Volunteers
Brad W. Mayer, Katherine A. Fraccastoro, and Lisa D. McNary http://nvs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/2/327
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CANADIAN POLICY RESEARCH NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS: PATHWAYS FOR YOUTH TO THE
LABOUR MARKET AND ADULT LEARNING
Pathways for Youth to the Labour Market – one of CPRN’s signature research
projects – was the focus of a roundtable discussion on Monday, May 14,
2007 in Ottawa. The Pathways project was started in 2006 to identify
policies and practices to enable more young Canadians to find sustained
employment with decent pay, good working conditions and career potential.
The event was an opportunity to review key findings, to obtain feedback on
work in progress and to seek advice on future elements of the project. Ron
Saunders, CPRN’s Director, Work and Learning, and Patrice de Broucker,
Centre for Education Statistics at Statistics Canada, gave a presentation
providing the background of the Pathways project and an overview of the
findings to date. To download the presentation, go to http://www.cprn.org/doc.cfm?doc=1709&l=en
.
It has been almost a year since CPRN released the report Too Many Left
Behind: Canada’s Adult Education and Training System, by Karen Myers and
Patrice de Broucker. Since then, the authors’ findings have been the
subject of four roundtable discussions across the country, sponsored by
the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre of the Canadian Council on Learning.
The authors, along with Ron Saunders, CPRN’s Director, Work and Learning,
summed up key conclusions of the report and the outcomes of the earlier
roundtables in a presentation entitled Towards Effective Adult Learning
Systems in Western Canada. To download the presentation, go to http://www.cprn.org/doc.cfm?doc=1710&l=en
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ATLANTIC NETWORKS FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH – CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, WORKSHOPS
AND CONFERENCE SESSIONS
In December 2001, faced with a collapsing economy and a government that
failed to respond to the people’s needs, Argentina exploded into massive
protests. What we saw were 4 successive presidents thrown out of power,
dramatic roadblocks called piquetes, and the masked protesters who
organized them. But behind some of the piquetes lay an intricate network
of neighborhood organizations that had as their ultimate goal autonomy and
self-sufficiency for their community.
This video is a compilation of interviews and visits with four Unemployed
Workers’ Movements of Argentina. Come hear about their projects:
everything from bakeries and soup kitchens, to organic farms and gardens,
even their own schools and neighborhood health centers. And listen to the
organizers discuss their operating principles—autonomy, horizontal
decision-making and direct democracy—and the day-to-day challenges they
face.
We are very happy to announce that the edu-factory website is up and
working: http://www.edu-factory.org .
On the site there are three video interviews on conflicts in knowledge
production and transformations of the university available for download.
The interviews, which were recorded at the Global Meeting in Venice, Italy
in late March 2007are with:
·Ranabir Samaddar, Calcutta Research Group
·Stanley Aronowitz, City University of New York
·Wang Hui, Tsinghua University, Beijing
We are very happy to be able to present these interviews about changes to
the university in three key sites: India, the USA and China.
As we hope to build the edu-factory website into a resource for
edu-factory and other linked projects we would be very happy if list
members could send suggestions for links, bibliography, multimedia
materials etc. Please send all suggestions to this address.
Also we ask you to spread news of the site through your networks.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT ONLINE
Human Development and Practice – Michael A. Lebowitz
(Opening comments at Conference on Participation, Change and Human Development at Centro International Miranda in Caracas, Venezuela on 27 March 2007)
[The Bolivarian Constitution states that] the goal of a human society must be that of ‘ensuring overall human development’… that ‘everyone has the right to the free development of his or her own personality’”… Underlying this focus is a theory…which stresses the gap between what is and what ought to be. Implicit is the recognition that the full development of our creative potential is not occurring but that it is possible…what we observe now in the capacities of human beings is not all that is possible [but is] a fraction of what we can be. It is a clear recognition that human development is not fixed and that we do not know its boundaries. It is a political statement – because it implies that there is an alternative.
IN SEARCH FOR JUSTICE IN INDONESIA:~JUSTICE FOR MUNIR IS JUSTICE FOR ALL
Memorial and Fundraising Dinner
Saturday, May 26 4:00-9:00pm
OISE, University of Toronto, 7th Floor Peace Lounge
252 Bloor Street West (at St. George Subway Stn)
Canadians Committed to Ethnic Voice in Indonesia (CCEVI) invites you to support the campaign for justice for Munir Said Thalib and all victims of human rights violations in Indonesia. Munir, who was Indonesia's leading human rights defender, was murdered over two years ago, but no one has been held accountable for his death because a culture of impunity still reigns in Indonesia. As Munir's widow, Suciwati, argues: "This case is not just about Munir, It's about the human rights situation in this country."
Memorial for Munir and All Human Rights Victims in Indonesia
with Presentations by Indonesian Human Rights Defenders Suciwati & Usman Hamid
4:00-6:00pm
Suciwati is a labour and human rights activist, and widow of Munir. Despite threats to her life, she has lobbied officials at home and abroad for a just resolution to her husband's murder. In November 2005, Time magazine's Asian edition named Suciwati one of its Asian heroes.
Usman Hamid is the coordinator of Kontras-Jakarta, a leading Indonesian human rights organization founded by Munir. Usman was a member of the Fact-Finding Team created by President Yudhoyono to look into Munir's death, and is coordinating the ongoing campaign in search of justice for Munir.
Fundraising Dinner with Indonesian Food
6:00 -9:00pm Tickets are $10-20 (sliding scale)
Co-sponsors: Transformative Learning Centre, OISE/UT; York Centre for Asian Research, Asian Solidarity Network of Toronto (ASNT), CUPE 3907 & many other individual supporters.
To reserve dinner tickets & for more information, please contact: Ayrini Undyantara 416-494-2844; Seh Ching Wen, 416-888-8119; or Nira Bagoes 416-502-8745.
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REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL ONLINE
Researching Race/Ethnicity and Educational Inequality in English Secondary Schools: A Critical Review of the Research Literature Between 1980 and 2005
Peter A. J. Stevens http://rer.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/77/2/147
CO-OPERATIVES AND INNOVATION: INFLUENCING THE SOCIAL ECONOMY
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Canada
May 28-June 1, 2007
Three organizations will come together for the first time in a joint conference. The International Co-operative Alliance Committee on Co-operative Research (ICA), the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation (CASC), and the Association for Cooperative Educators (ACE) will together host one unified conference in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
This event will combine the approaches and audiences of the respective organizations and will be held in conjunction with the 2007 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Panels and workshops include the following:
· Co-operatives and Innovation
· The Financial Sector
· Social Responsibility
· Community Economic Development
· Co-operatives and Health Care
· Sustainable Development
Book Review: Activist Wisdom: Practical Knowledge and Creative Tension in Social Movements: Sarah Maddison and Sean Scalmer. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006, xiv + 284 pp., $39.95 (paperback) http://jos.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/43/2/213
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POPULAR THEATRE WORKSHOP: WORKING WITH WOMEN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED VIOLENCE
June 21, 2007
Hart House, University of Toronto (will provide room details, directions and parking tips upon registration)
Fee: $149.00 per person
Earlybird Bonus: Register by May 25, 2007 Only $125.00 per person
Bonus Gift: Extra copy of the resource manual
Group rate: 4 or more registering together: $125.00
Includes refreshment breaks, lunch (eat and mingle under the trees) and a copy of Popular Theatre and Working with Women who have experienced Violence: A Resource Manual
Come to a fun, energizing and creative professional development day! In this dynamic workshop, you will learn to facilitate easy and powerful Popular Theatre exercises to use with your clients.
Popular Theatre, or Theatre of the Oppressed, as developed by Augusto Boal, has been used as a tool for community development, anti-oppression work and transformational healing all over the world for over 30 years.
Popular Theatre tools can help the women you work with:
· Tell their stories in a safe, creative and empowering way.
· Grow and heal in an energizing environment.
· Potentially create a theatre piece that can transform them and an audience.
If you have any questions, please call 416 686-6343 or email: mailto:agolden@...
STATISTICS ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN CANADA FROM THE WOMEN’S FUTURE FUND BREAK THE GLASS CAMPAIGN
[Adapted from the DAWN Ontario Issues Listserv]
Women make about 71% of what men earn for full-year, full-time work. This wage gap ranks Canada 38th in the world, behind countries such as Switzerland, Cambodia, Kenya, and the Czech Republic.
41.5% of single, widowed or divorced women over 65 are poor. 51.6% of women raising families by themselves are poor.
29% of Canadian women have been assaulted by their spouse. Of these, 45% suffered physical injuries, ranging from bruises to broken bones and miscarriages.
21% of Canada's current MPs are female. This ranks Canada 47th in the world, behind Rwanda and Iraq, among other countries. At this rate, women will achieve equal representation in the House of Commons in another 117 years.
A Snapshot of Community-Based Research in Canada
Author: The Wellesley Institute
Community Based Research (CBR) is increasingly being recognized as important in yielding concrete knowledge and understanding that can guide policies and programmes to reduce health and social disparities. There is a growing movement of Canadians engaged in CBR. The Wellesley Institute conducted a web-based survey of community and university CBR practitioners to learn more about the context and efficacy of CBR in Canada. http://www.learningwork.ca/node/211
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LABOR NOTES ARTICLES ONLINE
Labor Notes is a monthly magazine putting the movement back in the labor movement. Every month we post a small selection of our articles on our website. To subscribe to the newsprint edition, or to find out about other resources we offer, go to http://labornotes.org/subscribe.
McDonald’s agrees to higher pay for Florida farmworkers: next target is Burger King
by Tiffany Ten Eyck http://labornotes.org/node/798
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) won a major victory April 9 when McDonald's agreed to higher pay and better working standards for the Florida farmworkers that CIW represents. This article describes how CIW pulled off this victory and their plans for the future, which include a similar campaign against Burger King.
Santiago Rafael Cruz, an organizer for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), was found murdered in the union's Monterrey, Mexico office on the morning of April 9. This article explores the circumstances surrounding Cruz's death.
Transnational Tradeswomen (2006, USA, dir Vivian Price, distributor Women Make Movies)
Film website: http://www.hardhatvideo.com/
Using footage that shatters any stereotypes of delicate, submissive Asian women, Transnational Tradeswomen shows that women in many parts of Asia have been doing construction labor for centuries. From the historic Taj Mahal to present day housing complexes in Lahore and Bangkok, women laborers go about their day transporting concrete and wood, and in some places, try to break into skilled trades.
Shot in construction sites, union halls, the city streets and homes, workers, activists and union folk talk about their lives, and the film reveals the beauty, the power, and the pain of working for a living in the construction industry.
Conversations reveal that development and the resulting mechanization are now pushing women out of a job, into even lower paid work.
The film's stories disturb the notion of “progress” that many people hold and show how globalization, modernization, education and technology don’t always result in gender equality and the alleviation of poverty.
Canada’s independent labour magazine’s latest issue has a focus on health, safety and the environment, with a special feature on global warming and labour’s response.
Cover Story: Going Green Collar: Labour Responds to Global Warming
In its presentation to the House of Commons Committee on Bill C-30 (Canada’s Clean Air Act), the Canadian Labour Congress stated: “There will be no good jobs on a dead planet,” rejecting the idea that there is a fundamental conflict between jobs and environmental sustainability. The good news is, according to unionist and environmentalist Cliff Stainsby, “dealing with global warming is a job-creator.”
Book Review: Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning (2nd ed.), by P. Cranton. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006
Lisa M. Baumgartner http://aeq.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/57/3/264
Book Review: Capitalists and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy Against Empire, by Peter McLaren. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 368 pp., $29.95 (paper)
John D. Holst http://aeq.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/57/3/266
COMMUNITIES AND LABOUR: BUILDING UNITY AND JUSTICE THROUGH DIVERSITY
· JOB POSTING – COMMUNITY WORKER
· LABOUR FOR PALESTINE RALLY
· THE NORTH BY NORTH EAST 2007 WHITE RIBBON BENEFIT CONCERT
· REVIEW OF RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS JOURNAL ONLINE
· COMMUNITY SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL OF TORONTO AGM
· WORK, EMPLOYMENT & SOCIETY JOURNAL ONLINE
· ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY – PRIOR LEARNING ASSESSMENT AND
RECOGNITION (PLAR) VIRTUAL PORTFOLIO
· CANADIAN JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ADULT EDUCATION NEW
EDITORIAL BOARD & CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS
· COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES CAMPAIGN FESTIVAL
· TRADING UP – GETTING VOCATIONAL TRAINING RIGHT REPORT
· LESS TALK, MORE ACTION! – JUNE 13
· THE JOURNAL OF WORKPLACE LEARNING ONLINE
· 2007 URPE SUMMER CONFERENCE & CALL FOR PAPERS
· COMMUNITY GUIDE FOR NON-STATUS IMMIGRANTS
· FULL ONLINE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CASAE/ACEEA – AERC JOINT CONFERENCE
· ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY – FORGING FREEDOM CONFERENCE
· GLOBAL UNION RESEARCH NETWORK (GURN) WORKING PAPERS ONLINE
· BUILDING IT NOW IN VENEZUELA: SOCIALISM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
· FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY JOURNAL – CALL FOR PAPERS
· THE JOURNAL FOR CRITICAL EDUCATION POLICY STUDIES (JCEPS) ONLINE
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COMMUNITIES AND LABOUR: BUILDING UNITY AND JUSTICE THROUGH DIVERSITY
Start: Oct 18 – 20, 2007
Sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Education and Work, Learning
Community Unionism Working Group (CSEW) - OISE/UT
Location: 89 Chestnut Residence Conference Centre
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Details to follow.
For more information, contact tomeesojourner@... or visit
http://www.learningwork.ca/CSEW.
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JOB POSTING – COMMUNITY WORKER
Mennonite New Life Centre
1774 Queen St East, Toronto ON
The Mennonite New Life Centre is a vibrant multi-service community
centre for newcomers to Canada. The Centre provides settlement
services, language instruction and child-minding, art therapy, anger
management and supportive counseling, translation and interpretation
services. Following upon an organizational visioning process the New
Life Centre is seeking to develop new programming in the areas of
employment supports and community organizing.
The Community Worker will participate in the development of new
program work, particularly two workshop series on issues related to
employment and civic participation. The Community Worker will report
to the Administrative Assistant and the Executive Director.
This position is a summer student position, beginning in June and
continuing through the end of August. Applicants must be students
between the age of 15-30, who have studied during the past calendar
year and will be returning to school in September.
Responsibilities:
· Participate in delivery of settlement services. Escort and
interpret for clients at medical and/or social services appointments.
· Organize group workshops on employment themes such as: career
planning (interests, skills and opportunities), job search skills
(resumes, cover letters, interviews), employment rights, health and
safety at work, and injured workers. Develop evaluation questionnaire
for workshop series.
· Contact resource persons to present on topics such as: culture
shock and the challenge of belonging, civic participation and gender
roles, volunteerism and the community, getting involved in the school
system, participating on a Board of Directors, starting your own
community association, and participation in the political system.
Develop evaluation questionnaire for workshop series.
· Client outreach. Marketing of workshop series and other services.
· Develop a newcomer advocacy committee to identify policy
issues of concern and work on strategies for response.
· Write advocacy letters and web articles.
· Some reception, clerical and administrative work.
Selection Criteria:
· Student between the ages of 15-30
· Has studied during the past calendar year and will return to
school in September.
· At least one year of post secondary education in a field
related to Community Work
· Understanding of settlement issues and experience working in a
multi-cultural environment
· Second language an asset
All applications welcome. Newcomers encouraged to apply. Please note
that only candidates to be interviewed will be contacted.
Please send resume and cover letter by June 8 to:
Tanya Chute Molina, Executive Director, tmolina@...
For more information about the New Life Centre, visit:
http://www.mnlct.org/.
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LABOUR FOR PALESTINE RALLY
Join Toronto and York Region Labour Council delegates and other labour
activists in commemoration and solidarity with Palestinian workers on
the 40th anniversary of Israeli occupation. Join us in demanding an
end to the siege on the Palestinian people!
WHEN: June 7, 6pm (just before Labour Council meeting)
WHERE: OFL Building, 15 Gervais Drive (Don Mills & Eglinton)
SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Issam Al Yamani (activist in Palestine House),
Herman Rosenfeld (retired CAW activist, member of Trade Unionists
Against the War and Labour for Palestine), and John Humphrey
(Steelworkers Council).
In early June, Palestinians will mark 40 years of Israel's illegal
military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip and the
Syrian Golan Heights. This year, the anniversary coincides with a
campaign of siege against the Palestinian population that has created
an unprecedented humanitarian crisis including:
· Eliminating the salaries, wages and livelihood of one-third of
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza;
· Dragging two-thirds of the Palestinians of the West Bank and
Gaza below the poverty line (less than $2 a day);
· According to the UN World Food Program, more than half of the
Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza are food insecure
(live with hunger and fear starvation).
For more information, please contact labour@....
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THE NORTH BY NORTH EAST 2007 WHITE RIBBON BENEFIT CONCERT
The North by Northeast Music & Film Festival and Conference and the
White Ribbon Campaign have joined forces once again and are proud to
present the 9th Annual White Ribbon Benefit Concert taking place
Tuesday June 5th, 2007 at Toronto's Phoenix Concert Theatre.
MC'd by Jian Ghomeshi, Host of 'Q' on CBC Radio One, confirmed artists
include: Luke Doucet, Justin Rutledge, Ron Sexsmith, Chris Brown,
Kathryn Rose, and Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies
Plus many more ...
Tickets available through Ticketmaster ONLINE at
http://www.ticketmaster.ca/ or by calling 416-870-8000.
The White Ribbon Campaign invites you get involved with a much talked
about and long existing issue and help to prevent future violence
against women.
For more information please contact:
Miriam Wexler, Director, Development & Events
White Ribbon Campaign
(416) 920-6684
http://www.whiteribbon.ca/mwexler@...
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REVIEW OF RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS JOURNAL ONLINE
· Hedonistic Consumerism: Patterns of Consumption in
Contemporary Capitalism
Andrea Migone
http://rrp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/39/2/173
· Saving, Spending, and Self-Control: Cognition versus Consumer
Culture
Martha A. Starr
http://rrp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/39/2/214
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COMMUNITY SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL OF TORONTO AGM
Please note that the date and location of the Community Social
Planning Council of Toronto's Annual General meeting has changed to
the following:
Location: Scarborough Civic Centre Rotunda, 150 Borough Drive
Date: June 19, 2007
Time: 6 p.m.
Please RSVP to Maria Serrano at smaria@... or
416-351-0095 x223.
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WORK, EMPLOYMENT & SOCIETY JOURNAL ONLINE
· The concept of occupational community revisited: analytical
and managerial implications in face-to-face service occupations
Peter Sandiford and Diane Seymour
http://wes.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/209
· Conceptualizing breadwinning work
Tracey Warren
http://wes.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/317
· Why a citizens' basic income? A question of gender equality or
gender bias
Ailsa McKay
http://wes.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/337
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ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY – PRIOR LEARNING ASSESSMENT AND RECOGNITION
(PLAR) VIRTUAL PORTFOLIO
Athabasca University's innovative Prior Learning Assessment and
Recognition (PLAR) process has taken a giant virtual leap forward!
Compiling a portfolio for prior learning assessment and recognition is
a daunting task for adult learners, requiring a mature combination of
complex cognitive, writing, and organization skills. One of the
largest hurdles facing learners has been to envision the shape and
organization of the final product.
Learners can now view a finished portfolio online, virtually turning
the pages to see how the many parts of the portfolio are organized in
relation to each other. From cover to cover – from the learner's
detailed demonstration of learning to the extensive documentation
provided to substantiate learning claims – the online portfolio offers
real-world insight into portfolio preparation.
Check out Athabasca's virtual portfolio here:
http://priorlearning.athabascau.ca/index.php. We'd be happy to receive
your feedback.
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CANADIAN JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ADULT EDUCATION NEW EDITORIAL BOARD
& CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS
The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education (CJSAE) is
pleased to announce its new editorial board:
· Tom Nesbit, Simon Fraser University
· Shauna Butterwick, University of British Columbia
· Budd Hall, University of Victoria
· Ian Hunt, University College of the Fraser Valley
· Katherine McManus, Simon Fraser University
and a new publisher: the University of Calgary Press.
The new team will assume responsibility for Volume 20 of the
Journal...which is expected to be published in Fall 2007.
Manuscripts to be considered for publication and all editorial
correspondence should now be sent to:
Tom Nesbit PhD, Editor
Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education
Continuing Studies
Simon Fraser University
515 West Hastings St.
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6B 5K3
Phone: (604) 291-5090
Fax: (604) 291-5159
Email: tnesbit@...
Guidelines For Contributors - 2007 are available on the CASAE website at:
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/CASAE/cjsae/CJSAE-RCEEA_Guidelines For
Contributors - 2007.html
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COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES CAMPAIGN FESTIVAL
Join us at Queen's Park on June 5!
Community services play a critical role in strengthening the economic
and social well-being of our city. Each day, thousands of people in
Toronto depend on quality services like child care, home care,
children and youth recreational programs, crisis intervention, family
counselling, employment/skills training, and immigrant and refugee
programs.
Join us at Queen's Park on June 5 from 1:30 – 5 p.m. to celebrate
Community Social Services! Various community agencies will be bringing
their programs to the park, including resume workshops, live theatre,
adult drop-ins, ESL classes, information sessions, arts & crafts and more.
If you would like more information about the "Community Social
Services Campaign," and our plans for June 5th and beyond, please
contact Campaign Coordinator, Tanya Gulliver at
gullivertanya@... or 416-351-0095 ext 256, or check out our web
site at http://www.socialplanningtoronto.org/cssc.
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TRADING UP – GETTING VOCATIONAL TRAINING RIGHT REPORT
Canadian Policy Research Networks Report
In Trading up – High School and Beyond: Five Illustrative Canadian
Case Studies, authors Mame McCrea Silva and Susan M. Phillips examine
vocational programs at five schools in British Columbia, Alberta and
Ontario in order to share best practices and identify some stumbling
blocks to sustainability of programs.
For example, the authors identified these common elements as
contributing to the effectiveness of vocational programs: active
partnerships; flexible delivery options, program design and scheduling
of instruction; marketing, recruitment and selection processes; and
early career awareness and development programs.
The report offers details about each school's programs including how
the programs fit into the local community, and the authors conclude
with recommendations to educators and policy-makers. To download the
report, visit: http://www.cprn.org/doc.cfm?doc=1714&l=en.
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LESS TALK, MORE ACTION! – JUNE 13
Do you want to make changes in your community? Do you want to build
your leadership skills? How can community members come together and
make social change?
What does social change look like?
Nine Wednesdays, from 6 – 8 p.m., starting on June 13, at Scadding
Court Community Centre. Dinner and child care included.
For more information: Call Mohsin or Maya (416) 392-0336 or e-mail:
maya@...~
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THE JOURNAL OF WORKPLACE LEARNING ONLINE
· Student assessment in exemplary work-based education programs
Berg, Derek H.; Taylor, Jennifer; Hutchinson, Nancy L.; Munby, Hugh;
Versnel, Joan; Chin, Peter
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/086/2007/00000019/00000004/art00001
· An exploratory study of corporate universities in China
Sham, Clare
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/086/2007/00000019/00000004/art00004
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2007 URPE SUMMER CONFERENCE & CALL FOR PAPERS
(Union for Radical Political Economics)
Global Migration and the Logic of Capitalism
Friday, Aug. 10 - Monday, Aug. 13
Camp Deer Run, Pine Bush, New York
This year's URPE Summer Workshop/Retreat, August 10 – 13, will focus
on the politically current issue of immigration.~As always, we will
fill the weekend with workshops on all aspects of Radical Political
Economy (not just immigration). Some workshops will focus on
theoretical work, while others will keep us all abreast of active
struggles in the US and around the world.
If you'd like to generate and participate in some dialogue on your
work with others engaged in the same theoretical and real world
struggles, please propose a workshop on it – with a group of one or
two others if you know some people working on the same topic, or by
yourself if not. The workshop coordinator this year is Graham Cassano.
Please send your proposal to Graham@....
See the URPE website -- http://urpe.org/urpesumm.html -- for
information on the camp: location, directions, facilities, rates,
registration form, etc.
Contact the URPE National Office if you have further questions:
urpe@... or 413-577-0806. Please register by July 27! Later
registration involves an extra fee.
Download our flyer -- let others know about our conference:
http://urpe.org/URPESumConf07B.pdf
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COMMUNITY GUIDE FOR NON-STATUS IMMIGRANTS
Community Guide for Non-Status Immigrants now available online!
~A comprehensive guide to social service access for non-status
immigrants is now available on the CSPC-T web site at
http://www.socialplanningtoronto.org/.
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FULL ONLINE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CASAE/ACEEA – AERC JOINT CONFERENCE
Can't attend the 2007 CASAE/ACEEA - AERC Joint Conference?
While the conference is being held in Halifax, Nova Scotia June 5-9,
you can scan the programme, or read the proceedings papers online at:
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/CASAE/cnf2007/cnf2007.html
The full proceedings are available:
Learning In Community: 2007 Proceedings of the Joint International
Conference of the Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) (48th
National Conference) and the Canadian Association for the Study of
Adult Education (CASAE)/l´Association Canadienne pour l´Étude de
l´Éducation des Adultes (ACÉÉA) (26th National Conference). Edited by
Laura Servage and Tara Fenwick, June 2007
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ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY – FORGING FREEDOM CONFERENCE
The Ontario Historical Society, in partnership with the Ontario Black
History Society, The City of St. Catharines, and the Central Ontario
Network for Black History is very proud to present:
Forging Freedom: A Conference in Honour of the Bicentennial of the
Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade
June 22nd and June 23rd, 2007
Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario
Highlights include a series of cutting-edge papers offered by noted
scholars such as Rosemary Sadlier, President of the Ontario Black
History Society, Dr. Afua Cooper, Dr. Bryan Walls, Dr. Fred Armstrong,
and Dr. Karolyn Smardz Frost. Special performances and presentations
include Leslie McCurdy's award-winning one-woman show, "The Spirit of
Harriet Tubman;" keynote speaker Kate Clifford Larson, author of
"Bound For the Promised Land," the widely acclaimed biography of
Harriet Tubman; and "Road to Freedom," an historical drama by Bryan
and Shannon Prince of the Buxton National Historic Site and Museum
accompanied by accomplished vocalist Denise Pelley and pianist Stephen
Holowitz.
To register, visit:
http://www.ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/forgingfreedom/index.html and
click on "Sign Up."
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GLOBAL UNION RESEARCH NETWORK (GURN) WORKING PAPERS ONLINE
· The Employment Relationship
"The ILO Recommendation on the Employment Relationship and its
Relevance in the Republic of Korea"
Ms. Aelim Yun, Research Director of the Korean Solidarity against
Precarious Work
http://www.gurn.info/papers/dp4.pdf
The Social Dialogue Branch of the ILO published an annotated guide on
the Recommendation:
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/ifpdial/downloads/guide-rec198.pdf
· The Current Pension Debate for Trade Unionists
"Current Pension Debate for Trade Unionists: A Brief Canvass of the
Issues"
Bob Baldwin, former Director of Social and Economic Policy, Canadian
Labour Congress
http://www.gurn.info/papers/dp5.pdf
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BUILDING IT NOW IN VENEZUELA: SOCIALISM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Speaker Michael Lebowitz
SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2:30 P.M.
OISE (252 Bloor W., St. George Subway)
Room 2-212
Venezuela under President Hugo Chavez has re-opened the discussion of
political alternatives, in Latin America and beyond, in spectacular
fashion.
Based in Caracas, Michael Lebowitz has been intensively involved in
discussion of the government's political direction. His reflections
from inside the Venezuelan revolution have been widely praised inside
Venezuela –including by President Chavez – and across the spectrum of
the Left.
Michael is the author of "Build it Now: Socialism for the 21st
Century" (2006) and the Deutscher Prize-winning "Beyond Capital"
(2003). To read his recent speech on human development and practice,
visit the CSEW website: http://www.learningwork.ca/node/214.
Sponsors: Socialist Project, Venezuela We Are With You Coalition
(CVEC), OISE Transformative Learning Centre.
For more information, visit the Hands Off Venezuela website:
http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/.
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FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY JOURNAL – CALL FOR PAPERS
Special International Issue: Backlash and Gender-Relevant Crime
Initiatives in Global Context
http://sintrap.sagepub.com:81/t/117264/8724922/8354/0/
Feminist Criminology invites manuscript submissions for a forthcoming
Special Issue on the impacts of backlash on gender-sensitive policy
responses to women's offending, women's imprisonment, and women's
victimization. In particular, submissions on empirical research,
theoretical analysis, and practice-oriented papers are sought that
address efforts by feminist academics, service providers, legal
professionals, and activists to come to terms with efforts by
anti-feminist entities to discredit and reverse feminist-inspired
policy on a range of criminal and social justice initiatives. Both
qualitative and quantitative submissions are encouraged which draw
from international, comparative or country based data, including data
from jurisdictions outside the United States. The aim is to build
understandings on what we see as an ongoing globalization of backlash,
so as to better counter its impacts on supports and services for women
victims and women offenders.
Submit your manuscripts to: ruthm@... and kjoe@...
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2007
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THE JOURNAL FOR CRITICAL EDUCATION POLICY STUDIES (JCEPS) ONLINE
· Bernard Regan
Campaigning Against Neo-liberal Education in Britain
http://www.jceps.com/index.php?pageID=article&articleID=82
· Nigel M. Greaves, Dave Hill, and Alpesh Maisuria
Embourgeoisment, Immiseration, Commodification - Marxism Revisited: a
Critique of Education in Capitalist Systems
http://www.jceps.com/index.php?pageID=article&articleID=83
· Lawrence M Lesser and Sally Blake
Mathematical Power: Exploring Critical Pedagogy In Mathematics and
Statistics
http://www.jceps.com/index.php?pageID=article&articleID=94
NEW ON THE LEARNING & WORK BLOG
· NEW ON THE LEARNINGWORK WEBSITE
· NATIONAL ABORIGINAL DAY OF ACTION: BROKEN PROMISES IN PROMISED
LAND
· CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: STUDY OF ONLINE SOCIAL ECONOMY
ORGANIZATIONS
· LABOUR VOLUNTEERS WANTED – UNITED WAY TORONTO ALLOCATIONS PANEL
· NEW FROM THE MAYTREE FOUNDATION
· FROM ALL SIDES: CHALLENGES FACING QUEER YOUTH IN EDUCATION
· NEW FROM CANADIAN POLICY RESEARCH NETWORKS (CPRN)
· EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ONLINE
· ONLINE ACTION – SUPPORT CUPE WORKERS AT COMMUNITY LIVING
DURHAM NORTH
· THIS WEEK FROM STRAIGHTGOODS ONLINE
· COMMUNITY SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL OF TORONTO (CSPC-T) 2007 ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING
· STUDY ABROAD IN MEXICO – MEXICO SOLIDARITY NETWORK (MSN)
· JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES ONLINE
· GIANT BOOK SALE AT OISE – ONE DAY ONLY!
· EDUCATION, CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL JUSTICE JOURNAL ONLINE
· INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE – LIFELONG LEARNING
· NEW JOURNAL – STUDIES IN VOCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
· NEW FROM THE CENTRE FOR EDUCATION AND WORK, WINNIPEG
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NEW ON THE LEARNING & WORK BLOG
Commentary: Supreme Court Recognizes Labour Rights
In a judgment rendered June 8, the Supreme Court of Canada has reversed
itself and recognized that freedom of association includes the right to
collective bargaining.
http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/2007/06/labour-rights-recognized.html
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NEW ON THE LEARNINGWORK WEBSITE
Trends, Opportunities, Priorities in Training in Toronto
Toronto Training Board TOP Report, 2007
The Trends, Opportunities and Priorities Report is the basis for an action
plan based on current local labour market trends and issues. The data
collected for the 2006-2007 Trends, Opportunities and Priorities in
Training in Toronto Report comes from many sources. These include
Statistics Canada, local labour market information, an online survey, key
informants, community consultations and other relevant reports.
http://www.learningwork.ca/node/224
Why Are Youth from Lower-income Families Less Likely to Attend University?
Statistics Canada, 2007
Compared to students from lower-income families, youth from well-to-do
families generally perform better on standardized reading, mathematics and
science tests; generally report higher marks; are far more likely to live
with two birth parents and far less likely to live with only one parent;
are more likely to have university-educated parents; are more likely to
have parents who expect them to complete a university degree; and a larger
proportion of their friends plan on furthering their education following
high school.
http://www.learningwork.ca/node/223
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NATIONAL ABORIGINAL DAY OF ACTION: BROKEN PROMISES IN PROMISED LAND
June 27, 2007
2:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Ontario Institute of Education Auditorium, Main Floor
252 Bloor Street West, Toronto
A Public Forum is being held on June 27, 2007 preceding the National Day
of Action for the First Nations (June 29) to educate and inform faculty,
students and Canadians about the plight of the First Nations People.
All the research on determinants of health indicates that the major
improvement on health and social conditions for the Aboriginal population
will be only made by addressing issues related to self government,
education, employment and income. The tentative agenda will be as follows:
· Prayer and Greetings by Elder: Mr. Joe Hester
· Introduction: Dr. C. P. Shah
· Greetings from University of Toronto: TBA
· Promises Made: Treaties: Mr. Don Maracle, Chief, Mohawk of the
Bay of
Quinte (Tyendinaga); Legacy of Colonialism: TBA; Kelowna Accord: TBA
· Steps to Redress and Reconciliation: TBA
A light lunch will be served.
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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: STUDY OF ONLINE SOCIAL ECONOMY ORGANIZATIONS
Looking for participants for a study attempting to identify and describe
online organizations that meet the broad criteria applied to social
economy enterprises.
Social economy enterprises are ones that have a strong social mission, are
member or public oriented, depend in varying degrees on voluntary
participation and support member engagement in democratic decision-making.
This study is searching for organizations or voluntary associations that
subscribe to most of the above criteria and that also carry out a majority
of their work online.
This study is interested in organizations that communicate, organize,
provide goods or services, fundraise, advocate, etc., primarily using
information and communication technologies. Although many of these
organizations engage in some face-to-face activity and may have geographic
addresses, their defining characteristic is that they rely on
internet-based technology to achieve organizational objectives.
Participation is entirely voluntary and participants are encouraged to
provide only information that they are comfortable sharing. If privacy and
confidentiality are of concern, please be assured that all respondents and
responses will remain anonymous in any presentation of this research.
If you belong to, or know of, any such groups or if you think of any that
might fit the above criteria, please contact sryan@....
Sherida Ryan
Doctoral Student
The Social Economy Centre
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
(OISE/UT)
http://sec.oise.utoronto.ca/english/index.php
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LABOUR VOLUNTEERS WANTED – UNITED WAY TORONTO ALLOCATIONS PANEL
Greetings,
I am looking for new Labour Volunteers to fill the vacancies on the
Allocations Panels at the United Way. Please circulate this invitation to
all your Union contacts who you think would make Labour proud.
Many Thanks
Marcia Lopez
United Way Services Coordinator
15 Gervais Drive, Suite 603
Toronto, ON M3C 1Y8
Tel: 416 445 5819
Fax: 416 445 5146
E-mail: mlopez@...
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NEW FROM THE MAYTREE FOUNDATION
Read the 2006 Annual Report
The 2006 Maytree annual report is now available online. This year's
report spotlights a number of Maytree leaders and their social change work
including Raja Khouri from the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Laura
Cowan from Street Health, and Deena Ladd from the Worker's Action Centre.
http://www.maytree.com/PDF_Files/06_Annual_Report.pdf
Apply Now to Fundraising 101
Fundraising 101: A Strategic Approach to Building Financial Sustainability
is designed to increase resource development capacity resulting in
enhanced financial sustainability for your organization. The program will
run from September 2007 to May 2008 and will include nine fundraising
training sessions. One-on-one mentoring during the course ensures that
participants have personalized advice and support during the development
and initial implementation of a three-year resource development plan. The
program will be led by fundraising consultant Suzanne Gibson and is open
to nonprofit staff who are directly responsible for fundraising and
resource development within their organizations. The application deadline
is Friday, August 17, 2007.
http://www.maytree.com/index.asp?section=2&art=fundraising101
Apply Now to Leaders for Change 2007
Once again, Leaders for Change (LFC), a leadership development program for
social justice activists is being offered this fall with a focus on
action-based poverty reduction initiatives. This program is geared towards
emerging leaders who are innovative, action-oriented, and committed to
social change and poverty reduction. LFC takes place from October 2007 to
June 2008 and includes a variety of learning opportunities, including
retreats, training and self-directed action projects. LFC was launched in
1999 and now includes an alumni of over 120 community leaders from the
GTA. If you are interested in applying take a look at our 15 Leadership
Journeys webpage which showcases a number of community leaders who have
participated in the LFC program over the last seven years. The application
deadline is Friday, September 14, 2007.
http://www.maytree.com/index.asp?section=2&art=leadersforchange
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FROM ALL SIDES: CHALLENGES FACING QUEER YOUTH IN EDUCATION
Wednesday, June 20
2:30 - 4:30
George Brown College
Room 420A, St James Campus
200 King St East, Toronto
· How are these challenges different from, similar to challenges
faced by
other youth?
· What educational strategies have been successful for LGBTQ youth?
· What are the consequences of not addressing their issues
directly?
· What kinds of issues do queer youth from immigrant or racialized
communities experience in a college setting?
RSVP: Glenn Walsh 416 415 5000 x 4609 or email: gwalsh@....
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NEW FROM CANADIAN POLICY RESEARCH NETWORKS (CPRN)
Go West and Test Canada's Labour Mobility
Alberta's economy is like a giant magnet, drawing people from thousands of
communities across Canada to work and live. Last year, net interprovincial
migration to Alberta reached 57,106 people, the highest ever recorded for
a single province. It's no wonder that Alberta's GDP growth was 6.8%, more
than double the national level of 2.7%.
Despite this remarkable movement, there are still obstacles to individuals
trying to cross provincial borders to work. A new study entitled Moving in
the Right Direction? Labour Mobility, Labour Shortage and Canada's Human
Potential examines efforts that have been made to remove these barriers.
While significant progress has been made, the authors discovered many
professionals are held back from movement because of impenetrable
barriers.
http://www.cprn.org/doc.cfm?doc=1719&l=en
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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ONLINE
The Importance of Employment Protection for Skill Development in
Coordinated Market Economies
Mark Harcourt and Geoffrey Wood
http://ejd.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/2/141
Labour Standards and Migration in the New Europe: Post-Communist Legacies
and Perspectives
Charles Woolfson
http://ejd.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/2/199
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ONLINE ACTION – SUPPORT CUPE WORKERS AT COMMUNITY LIVING DURHAM NORTH
Please take a moment right now to send an email at
http://cupe.ca/action/cupe2936/. These members are in mediation June 13 to
try to win a fair collective agreement.
About 200 full- and part-time staff at Community Living Durham North,
members of CUPE 2936, will be in a legal strike/lockout position on June
23, 2007.
They need your help.
After intensive lobbying by CUPE members, employers, parents and families
of supported individuals, and other unions, the provincial government
committed $200 million over four years for community living agencies in
Ontario.
Almost half of that money is earmarked specifically to close the wage gap
within the sector.
But the employer at Community Living Durham North is offering a wage
increase that's less than the increased funding they will get from the
province, less than the wage pattern established in other recent
settlements - even though they are one of the three lowest-paying
associations in the province.
You can help the workers at Community Living Durham North by sending a
message to their employer. Tell him to stop fighting his staff at the
bargaining table. Tell him to negotiate a fair collective agreement so the
association and the union can continue to work together to lobby the
province for new resources to strengthen supports and services for persons
with an intellectual disability.
http://cupe.ca/action/cupe2936/
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THIS WEEK FROM STRAIGHTGOODS ONLINE
THE HIDDEN JOB CRISIS, by Andrew Jackson. Most workers do not share in the
GDP growth caused by the resource boom.
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=315
HEALTH WORKERS DESERVE COMPENSATION, by Bill Tieleman. Supreme Court
overrules Premier's attempt to shred collective bargaining.
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=324
FACING UP TO WORKPLACE BULLYING, by Ginette Petitpas-Taylor. Women are
more likely than men to be targets.
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=313
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COMMUNITY SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL OF TORONTO (CSPC-T) 2007 ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
6 p.m.
Scarborough Civic Centre
150 Borough Drive, Toronto
Guest Speaker: Donna Tichonchuck, Citizens' Assembly Member for
Scarborough Centre
In the Provincial election this October citizens of the Province of
Ontario will be asked to make a choice about our electoral system. Will we
keep the status quo system or move to a system that allows for more
proportional representation? It is very important to be well informed
about the advantages and disadvantages in order to make an informed
decision. The CSPC-T is using the occasion of our Annual General Meeting
to inform Council members about Electoral Reform.
After months of learning, consulting and deliberating, the province's
first Citizens' Assembly (comprised of one member from each of the 103
Provincial ridings) decided to recommend a new electoral system for
Ontario: Mixed Member Proportional. They issued their Report to the
province on May 15. The government will hold a referendum in conjunction
with the next provincial election on October 10, 2007 so that all voters
can decide whether to accept the Assembly's recommendation for a Mixed
Member Proportional voting system. Copies of the Assembly's Report can be
found at http://www.citizensassembly.gov.on.ca/ and will be available at
the AGM.
RSVP: Maria Serrano 416-351-0095 ext. 223 or email:
smaria@....
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STUDY ABROAD IN MEXICO – MEXICO SOLIDARITY NETWORK (MSN)
Application Deadline: June 30, 2007
Info: http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/site/studyabroad/apply
Looking to learn new skills, ideas, and tactics for social change?
Interested in learning and sharing with other activists in the global
justice movement? Want to be part of developing alternatives to neoliberal
globalization?
Join the MSN Study Abroad Program! The courses are open to college
students and activists who want to investigate the theoretical groundings
and actual manifestations of Mexican social movements, with important
lessons for international solidarity work and US-based movements.
· Juarez-Chihuahua City-Chiapas Program: September 8 - December 14
· Chiapas-Tlaxcala-Mexico City Program: September 2 - December 15
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JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES ONLINE
Bridging the Gap: African and African American Communication in
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Kehbuma Langmia and Eric Durham
http://jbs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/37/6/805
Social Correlates of Psychological Distress Among Adult African American
Males
Jonathan S. Gaines
http://jbs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/37/6/827
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GIANT BOOK SALE AT OISE – ONE DAY ONLY!
Saturday, June 23
10am to 3pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
252 Bloor Street West, Room 2198, 2nd floor
Politics – Socialism – Fiction – History – Marxism - Science Fiction -
Latin America – Biography
and much, much more
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EDUCATION, CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL JUSTICE JOURNAL ONLINE
Citizenship and the Assessment of Trainees
Ian Davies, James Arthur, Stephen Fairbrass, Paula Mountford, Lynn Revell,
and Liz West
http://esj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/2/83
Now What?: Rethinking Civic Education in the Netherlands
Frans H. Doppen
http://esj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/2/103
Researching Cultural Harmony Through the Student Voice
Sally Inman and Nola Turner
http://esj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/2/119
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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE – LIFELONG LEARNING
Faculty of Education
University of Malta
18-19 September 2007
Speakers: Professor Peter Jarvis, Professor Margaret Ledwith, Professor
Peter Mayo (convenor), Professor Kenneth Wain
An international two-day summer institute on lifelong learning will take
place in Malta in September 2007. This will be an intensive programme
consisting of brief keynote talks, discussions and workshops focusing on
some of the important issues concerning lifelong learning in this day and
age. A broad overview of the concept will be provided. There will also be
detailed focus on such themes as Lifelong Learning and the Community,
Lifelong Learning and Work, Lifelong Learning and Older Adults, Lifelong
Learning and Migration.
A selection of themes will be introduced by a brief talk from one of the
speakers followed by a discussion and workshops, each group focusing on
one selected theme. Every effort will be made to render this seminar as
participatory as possible.
Fees: The registration fee for this two-day institute is 75 euros (Lm32).
In the case of locals, payment is to be made by cheque payable to
University of Malta. International participants will pay on the first day
of the Institute.
Registration: Application forms have to be received by not later than 1st
September 2007. Local applications need to be accompanied by the cheque.
Contact information: Professor Peter Mayo, Coordinator, Adult Education
Programme, Faculty of Education, University of Malta, Msida MSD 2080,
Malta
Email: peter.mayo@...
For accommodation:
Contact Peter Lawson, General Manager/Director, University Residence,
Robert Mifsud Bonnici Street, Lija, Malta (356)21417600
E Mail: peter@...
Website: http://www.universityresidence.com/
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NEW JOURNAL – STUDIES IN VOCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
Studies in Vocational and Professional Education is a new international
peer-reviewed journal published by Springer that provides a forum for
strongly conceptual and carefully prepared manuscripts that inform the
broad field of vocational learning. This field includes vocational
education, professional education and development, learning through and
for work (paid and unpaid) and working life.
The journal will pay attention to such topics as the initial learning and
further development of the capacities and dispositions required for work
and working life and their remaking and transformation of these capacities
and the tools and technologies required for these activities. Accounts of
the development of these capacities within individuals and collectives
through experiences in schools, colleges, workplaces, universities and
other settings will strongly feature in the contributions to the journal.
They will be complemented by an equally strong attention to studies of the
changing contexts and policy approaches for vocational learning. In
addition, books, reports and policies associated with vocational learning
will also be reviewed.
The journal will be published three times a year and will comprise between
four and five articles of up to 8000 words in length. Please direct
submissions to:
Dr. Stephen Billett, Editor
School of Vocational, Technology and Arts Education
Faculty of Education
Griffith University, NATHAN 4111 AUSTRALIA
Email: S.Billett@...
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NEW FROM THE CENTRE FOR EDUCATION AND WORK, WINNIPEG
How Do Workers Really Learn? Informal and Secretive Learning in the
Workplace
by Dr. Robin Millar, Centre for Education and Work
The Centre for Education and Work conducted an audit of informal learning
in six workplaces. These assessments were done in collaboration with over
48 individual workers in entry-level positions. The results of the
research indicate that considerable informal learning takes place in all
sectors and workplaces. However, not all workplaces acknowledge, value or
recognize this learning. Ultimately, in some workplaces, learning is
secretive or hidden. This paper provides a theoretical framework for
examining secretive learning as well as some potential directions for
recognizing learning in the workplace.
http://www.cewca.org/documents/SecretiveLearningPaper_000.pdf
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only
that which his mind craves. " - Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) -
http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) -
http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-923-6641 x. 2392, Fax: 416-926-4751
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1. NEW ON THE CSEW WEBSITE
2. WORK & LIFELONG LEARNING RESOURCE BASE NOW PART OF U OF T'S
ONLINE LIBRARY
3. ONLINE AUDIO & VIDEO – BUILDING IT NOW IN VENEZUELA: SOCIALISM
FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
4. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – THE SIXTIES: A JOURNAL OF HISTORY,
POLITICS, AND CULTURE
5. "PRECARIAT" WORKERS ARE STARTING TO FIGHT FOR A LITTLE STABILITY
6. CANADIAN FORUM ON CIVIL JUSTICE – RESEARCH COORDINATOR POSITION
7. SHADES OF BROWN: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, CHALLENGES, MYTHS AND
PROMISES
8. RACE & CLASS JOURNAL ONLINE
9. TORONTO SUMMER INSTITUTE
10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS – COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS:
CONNECTING FOR CHANGE
11. ONLINE VIDEO: VOICES OF IRAQI WORKERS
12. CALL FOR PAPERS – INTERNATIONAL LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS
HISTORY (ILWCH)
13. STATEMENT FROM A COALITION OF ACADEMICS OF COLOUR
14. THIS WEEK FROM STRAIGHT GOODS, CANADA'S LEADING INDEPENDENT
ONLINE NEWSMAGAZINE
15. THE CRISIS IN MANUFACTURING JOBS: STRUGGLING FOR ANSWERS
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1. NEW ON THE CSEW WEBSITE
Union Workload: a Barrier to Women Surviving Labour-Movement Leadership
http://www.learningwork.ca/node/232
Union Leadership Development - Leading Change for Working People
http://www.learningwork.ca/node/231
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2. WORK & LIFELONG LEARNING RESOURCE BASE NOW PART OF U OF T'S
ONLINE LIBRARY
1. Go to the University of Toronto's Library home page:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/.
2. Click the green tab at the top left (Resources & Research),
then "Research tools", and then "Research guides by topic".
3. The WALL Resource Base is listed under "E – Education".
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3. ONLINE AUDIO & VIDEO – BUILDING IT NOW IN VENEZUELA: SOCIALISM
FOR THE 21ST
CENTURY
Speaker: Michael Lebowitz
Venezuela under President Hugo Chavez has re-opened the discussion of
political alternatives, in Latin America and beyond, in spectacular
fashion.
Based in Caracas, Michael Lebowitz has been intensively involved in
discussion of the government's political direction. His reflections
from inside the Venezuelan revolution have been widely praised inside
Venezuela -- including by President Chavez -- and across the spectrum
of the Left.
Audio and video from this very successful event in Toronto is
available on the Socialist Project website at
http://www.socialistproject.ca/theory.
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4. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – THE SIXTIES: A JOURNAL OF HISTORY,
POLITICS, AND CULTURE
Routledge is pleased to announce The Sixties: A Journal of History,
Politics, and Culture. A peer-reviewed journal, The Sixties will print
its premier issue in spring 2008.
Featuring cross-disciplinary and cutting-edge scholarship from
academics and public intellectuals, The Sixties is the only academic
journal devoted to this most extraordinary, celebrated, and
controversial decade. In addition to research essays and book reviews,
The Sixties will include conversations, interviews, graphics, and
considerations of the ways that the 1960s continues to define global
politics and popular culture.
The Sixties is co-edited by Jeremy Varon, Drew University; Michael S.
Foley, City University of New York; and John McMillian, Harvard
University.
For more information, please visit http://www.informaworld.com/thesixties.
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5. "PRECARIAT" WORKERS ARE STARTING TO FIGHT FOR A LITTLE STABILITY
The new rallying cry of nonregular workers may become "Precariats of
the world, unite!"
"Precariat" is a new Japanese word combining the English words
"precarious," referring to the insecurity of part-time and contract
work, and "proletariat."
Read more: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070621f2.html
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6. CANADIAN FORUM ON CIVIL JUSTICE – RESEARCH COORDINATOR POSITION
Alberta Legal Services Mapping Project (http://www.cfcj-fcjc.org/)
Applications are being accepted for a full-time, two-year term
position (with the possibility of a 24 - 30 month extension).
The Research Coordinator will be an integral part of an action
research team, working closely with Research Directors, and
coordinating a large research alliance of justice system stakeholders.
The project takes a collaborative approach to creating a map of
existing legal services and how these are experienced by providers and
clients, with the goal of enhancing current services, identifying gaps
in services and increasing access to justice for all Albertans.
The full job description is available at
http://cfcj-fcjc.org/docs/2007/mapping-coordinator.pdf.
Candidates are asked to submit a current resumé and the names of three
people who may be contacted for references. Please submit applications
by July 9th to:
Diana Lowe
Executive Director, Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
110 Law Centre, University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2H5
ph. (780) 492-2470, fax (780) 492-6181
e-mail: mailto:dlowe@...
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7. SHADES OF BROWN: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, CHALLENGES, MYTHS AND
PROMISES
July 8-12
Toronto, Canada
This conference would begin to fill the gap and develop a sound
understanding of the challenges and myths around the lived realities
of the South Asian diaspora locally and internationally.
The growth of the South Asian populations around the world has
dramatically increased, yet there is little reflection on who the
South Asians are, where they are from and what their experiences are.
The South Asian contributions in education have not been acknowledged
across the curriculum. In an attempt to integrate the South Asian
experience across the curriculum this conference will pull human
resources, role models, research, images, visual resources, books and
experiences. It will provide educators, youth and the community with
strategies to integrate these resources and experiences into the
curriculum, classrooms, policies, administration and leadership.
For more information, visit http://www.shadesofbrown.org/index.htm.
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8. RACE & CLASS JOURNAL ONLINE
Bolivia and Venezuela: the democratic dialectic in new revolutionary
movements
Jerry Harris
http://rac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/49/1/1
Indigenous knowledge and western science: the possibility of dialogue
Arun Bala and George Gheverghese Joseph
http://rac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/49/1/39
Jonathan Scott
Review: Failures and frauds of the American cultural left
http://rac.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/49/1/105
The forced marriage debate and the British state
Amrit Wilson
http://rac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/49/1/25
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9. TORONTO SUMMER INSTITUTE
July 7 - 12, 2007
Ryerson University, Pitman Hall
Marsha Forest Centre is hosting the Toronto Summer Institute at
Ryerson University. Come be part of this unique and extraordinary
learning community of people from around the world exploring inclusion.
Topics addressed will include:
· Person-centred planning
· Asset-based community development
· Inclusion
· Transition to adult life
· MAPS, PATH, CIRCLES
· Inclusive education
Please check out http://www.inclusion.com/toronto7-07.pdf which
includes all the detailed information you need. Please distribute
widely, and contact Melanie Redman: 416-921-4608 ext 2 with any questions.
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10. CALL FOR PROPOSALS – COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS:
CONNECTING FOR CHANGE
May 4-7, 2008
University of Victoria, BC
You are cordially invited to participate in the Community-University
Exposition 2008, to be held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada May
4 - 7, 2008. CUexpo 2008 will be located on the traditional territory
of the Salish peoples, and will offer a rich opportunity for visits to
community research projects in areas of Aboriginal culture and
concerns, health promotion, community mapping, food security, culture
and tourism, ecological stewardship, community economic development,
poverty and more.
Themes of the exposition:
· Community-university engagement, partnerships and ethics
· Life-long learning, adult and popular education
· Environmental and social justice
· Youth engagement
· Green economic development, community/green mapping and/or
climate change
· Aboriginal perspectives and issues of cultural diversity
· Women, social change, equity and inclusion
· Homelessness, housing, poverty or food security
· Health promotion and well-being
We are accepting proposals for:
· workshops
· paper presentations
· oral and audio-visual presentations
· round-tables
· storytelling sessions
· arts-based research exhibitions
· poster sessions
· symposia
For more information, visit
http://www.uvic.ca/research/ocbr/cuexpo/call.html.
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11. ONLINE VIDEO: VOICES OF IRAQI WORKERS
with Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, Pres. Electrical Utility Workers Union,
and Faleh Abood Umara, General Sec. of the Federation of Oil Unions
Two leaders of Iraq's labor movement address the impact the U.S.
occupation has had on the labor movement and the daily lives of
working people in Iraq. They'll speak about the reconstruction and
will explain why the labor movement is opposed to the proposed
hydrocarbon law favored by the Bush administration, the Democratic
Congress and oil corporations which would put foreign oil corporations
in effective control of 2/3 of Iraq's undeveloped oil reserves. They
will also describe the likely consequences if the occupation abruptly
ends and prospects for a stable, democratic, non-sectarian future for
Iraq.
To download or listen to this 27 minute program, go to
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=3D23641.
For more information contact Ken Nash - mailto:knash@...
Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI, 99.5 FM in the
N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from 7-8pm EST and is streamed,
archived and podcast at http://www.wbai.org/.
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12. CALL FOR PAPERS – INTERNATIONAL LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS
HISTORY (ILWCH)
Special Issue: "Labor History and Public History"
ILWCH is soliciting articles for a special thematic issue that will
analyze initiatives in labor history that extend beyond the academic
world to a broader public audience. The issue will engage questions
that deal directly with the political and public aspects of the
discipline of labor history. What is the relation of public labor
history projects to academic research and debate? What is the impact
of these projects? What are their political, historiographical, and
theoretical implications? This issue will include both articles and
shorter descriptions of initiatives in public and labor history,
including reviews of films, plays, books, photo collections, and
museum exhibits.
Possible topics for articles might include educational and cultural
projects organized by trade unions, governments, and immigrant and
civil rights organizations, for example, and might include analyses of
labor history websites, photo exhibits, labor and labor history
museums, labor history tours and tourism, labor archives, oral history
projects, labor maps, labor education projects, music, art, film, and
theater, public celebrations and labor history, photo and video
exhibits, public history projects related to the history of slavery,
and academic programs in public history.
The issue will include articles on labor and public history projects
in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, the United
States, and Europe.
For more information and queries about this thematic issue, please
contact the editors of this issue: Thomas Klubock
mailto:(tklubock@...) and Paulo Fontes
(mailto:pfontes@...).
All submissions should be sent to:
ILWCH
New School for Social Research
80 Fifth Avenue, #519
New York, New York 10011
Attn: Labor and Public History Special Issue Editors
phone (212) 229-5921
fax (212) 229-5929
mailto:ilwch@...
The deadline for receiving the articles and contributions is February
28, 2008.
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13. STATEMENT FROM A COALITION OF ACADEMICS OF COLOUR
The following Statement originally was circulated at the "Anti-Racist
Equity Hiring and Accountability in Canadian Universities" panel,
co-organized by Donna Pennee (U of Guelph) and Malinda Smith (U of
Alberta) at the May 2007 Congress in Saskatoon.
If you would like your name added to the below petition as a
signatory, including as a white anti-racism ally, please email us. We
would appreciate it if you would forward this Statement to any
academic whom you think might also wish to sign this petition. We
would also appreciate if you would let us know if you support the
Statement, but do not feel able to sign for whatever reason(s) (e.g.
untenured, sessional). Thanks in advance.
Dr. Maria Wallis: mailto:wallismariarose@...
Dr. Malinda Smith: mailto:malinda.smith@...
Dr. Donna Pennee: mailto:dpennee@...
Statement from a Coalition of Academics of Colour
Racism and discriminatory hiring practices continue to exist in
Canadian universities. In the February 2007 issue of Academic Matters
(Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations' [OCUFA]
publication), Frances Henry and Carol Tator highlight the
under-representation of Aboriginal and people of colour in academia.
In their Academic Matters article, Henry and Tator conclude: "The
experiences of racialized students, faculty of colour, and Aboriginal
academics across this country reflect the failure of administrative
policies, programs, and everyday practices to address racism, to
create a more equitable learning and working environment, and, above
all, to vigorously challenge the "culture of whiteness" still so
dominant at most Canadian universities."
Systemic racism exists by privileging white dominant interpretations
of "standards". Teaching Evaluations, the criteria and process by
which tenure and promotion are granted, the type of publications that
are recognized as being refereed as well as the criteria by which
research and teaching excellence are measured are some of the ways in
which universities systemically recreate the status quo in academia.
The lack of support from colleagues, chairs of departments and deans
reinforce, to varying degrees, this social marginalization, and, in
some cases, social exclusion.
We call on CAUT, OCUFA, and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities
and the Social Sciences to put these issues on the political agenda.
The Federal Employment Equity Act and the Federal Contractors'
Compliance Programme have proved to be inadequate.
As Canadian scholars, we call for accountability and justice.
Signatories (in alphabetical order):
Dr. Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez (University of Alberta)
Prof. Carol Alyward (Dalhousie University)
Dr. Sedef Arat-Koc (Ryerson University)
Dr. Jaya Chauhan (Independent Scholar, Edmonton)
Dr. Tania Das Gupta (York University)
Dr. George Sefa Dei (OISE, University of Toronto)
Dr. Enakshi Dua (York University)
Dr. Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar (Ryerson University)
Dr. Yasmin Jiwani (Concordia University)
Dr. Audrey Kobayashi (Queen's University)
Dr. Kiran Mirchandani (OISE, University of Toronto)
Dr. Arun Mukherjee (York University)
Dr. Charmaine Nelson (McGill University)
Dr. Onookome Okome (University of Alberta)
Dr. Gordon Pon (Ryerson University)
Dr. Sherene Razack (OISE, University of Toronto)
Dr. Ahmad Sabetghadam (Sessional, University of Alberta)
Dr. Meenal Shrivastava (Athabasca University)
Dr. Malinda S. Smith (University of Alberta)
Prof. Joanne St. Lewis (University of Ottawa)
Dr. Sunera Thobani (University of British Columbia)
Dr. Rinaldo Walcott (OISE, University of Toronto)
Dr. Maria Wallis (Independent Scholar, Toronto)
White Anti-racism Allies (in alphabetical order):
Dr. Karyn Ball (University of Alberta)
Dr. Katherine Binhammer (University of Alberta)
Dr. Janine Brodie (University of Alberta)
Dr. Lisa Comeau (University of Regina)
Dr. Lois Harder (University of Alberta)
Dr. Helen Hoy (University of Guelph)
Dr. Michael Keefer (Guelph University)
Dr. Donna Pennee (Guelph University)
Dr. Julie Rak (University of Alberta)
Dr. Debra Shogan (University of Alberta)
Dr. Heather Zwicker (University of Alberta)
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14. THIS WEEK FROM STRAIGHT GOODS, CANADA'S LEADING INDEPENDENT
ONLINE NEWSMAGAZINE
A HEAVY BURDEN AT GRADUATION, by Ginette Petitpas-Taylor. Student loan
debt hinders economic development.
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=350
NAFTA TRICKLES DOWN, by Maggie Hughes. Hamilton residents scramble
even for temp jobs.
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=358
COURT PUTS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING INTO THE CONSTITUTION, by Roy J
Adams. Some implications of the Supreme Court's BC Health Services
decision.
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=356
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15. THE CRISIS IN MANUFACTURING JOBS: STRUGGLING FOR ANSWERS
by Labour Committee, Socialist Project
The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), spurred on by initiatives from the
Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), United Steelworkers (USW) and
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP), has
moved to place Canada's devastating loss of manufacturing jobs on the
national agenda.
Judging from the CAW, where the campaign has, by spring 2007, been
more developed, the enthusiastic membership response seems to have
breathed some new life and hope into the union. It is clear that a
good many local leaders, disheartened with the never-ending demands of
concessions and frustrated with waiting for the next corporate threat
or devastating announcement, have been anxious for such fightback
campaigns.
But will the campaigns deliver?
Read more: http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/bullet050.html
The Socialist Project seeks to bring together individual workers and
intellectuals, as well as groups and movements, who share an
anti-capitalist orientation. Our intent is to offer some hopefully
constructive ideas, and contribute to an open discussion with labour
activists about how we can move ahead.
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only
that which his mind craves. " - Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
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Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) -
http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) -
http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-923-6641 x. 2392, Fax: 416-926-4751
The Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) is a community
of practice, engaged in dialogue, research and action on learning and
work issues. Its active steering committee and working groups bring
together academic, labour and community researchers and practitioners.
All contribute to the internal life of Ontario Institute for Studies
in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT), both in the
graduate program and the pre-service program. They also support the
organizational capacity of the labour movement, and develop practical
alternative tools to the dominant neo-liberal discourses on learning
and work.
Visit our website at http://www.learningwork.ca/
Work and Lifelong Learning Research Project (WALL):
http://www.wallnetwork.ca/
Learning and Work blog: http://www.learningandwork.blogspot.com/
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1. NEW FROM THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EDUCATION AND WORK
2. U OF T STUDENT UNION FACES EVICTION – AGAIN
3. THIS WEEK FROM STRAIGHT GOODS, CANADA'S LEADING INDEPENDENT
ONLINE MAGAZINE
4. CALL FOR SUPPORT: FUNDING FOR "RESOURCES FOR FEMINIST RESEARCH
(RFR)" CUT
5. FIRST NATIONS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION, JUNE 29TH
6. NEW FROM CANADIAN POLICY RESEARCH NETWORKS (CPRN): WHO IS
TAKING CARE OF OUR NURSES?
7. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: "NEW VOICES IN LABOUR STUDIES"
8. ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, ANOTHER U.S. IS NECESSARY: UNITED
STATES SOCIAL FORUM
9. NORTHLAND POSTER COLLECTIVE CLOSING?
10. NEW CANADIAN COUNCIL ON LEARNING (CCL) REPORT: CANADA MUST
"UNLOCK POTENTIAL" IN ADULT LEARNING
11. HANDS OFF OUR MAIL: NAFTA TRIBUNAL REJECTS UNITED PARCEL
SERVICE'S COMPLAINT
12. SUPPORT THE UN DRAFT DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES
13. NEW FROM ACTEW: CHILD CARE AND THE LABOUR MARKET
14. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL ONLINE
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1. NEW FROM THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EDUCATION AND WORK
Integrating Equity, Addressing Barriers: Innovative Learning Practices
by Unions
Who faces barriers - in the workplace, in the union, in education and
training? What can the union do differently once aware of these
barriers? What results are achieved? Is there a broader impact within
the union? These are some of the questions answered in a new report
prepared by the Labour Education Centre and Centre for the Study of
Education and Work (CSEW).
The report provides examples of the barriers identified and addressed,
barriers which may exist in any and every aspect of education programs:
· How learning takes place: the approach to learning, the
methodology.
· What is the subject of learning: the content, the curriculum.
· Who is and is not participating: the diversity of union
members, reflected in recruitment and facilitation.
· Where the programs are conducted: at the workplace, the union
hall, the community, in workers' homes.
· When programs are scheduled: on work time, on workers' own
time while juggling shifts, more than one job, personal responsibilities.
· Why unions initiate programs: the purpose, how unions shape
and define their programs, program planning and design.
Download the report in English:
http://www.learningwork.ca/files/FINAL_REPORT_E_LEC-CSEW.pdf
Download the report in French:
http://www.learningwork.ca/files/FINAL_REPORT_F_LEC-CSEW.pdf
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2. U OF T STUDENT UNION FACES EVICTION – AGAIN
University of Toronto Part-time Union fighting second eviction within
the year due to Bloor St. gentrification; students expected to pay for
these building developments through ancillary fees!
Join us Monday June 25th 4pm, at Simcoe Hall, 27 Kings College Circle,
to say this is unacceptable!
The Association of Part time Undergraduate Students (APUS) is again
fighting an eviction from its new office space located at 100
Devonshire Place (the Margaret Fletcher Building).
The Governing Council, U of T's highest decision making body, will
unilaterally be deciding on this issue this coming Monday June 25th.
The University will be voting on a plan to build several buildings in
the area including a `Centre for High Performance Sport' directly on
top of our current student union office.
This project coupled with further development of the Varsity Stadium
sets the tone of what the future has in store for the area: continued
gentrification of public space at the expense of our members' basic needs.
For more Information please contact APUS at 416 978-6234 or refer to
our website at http://www.apus.utoronto.ca/.
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3. THIS WEEK FROM STRAIGHT GOODS, CANADA'S LEADING INDEPENDENT
ONLINE MAGAZINE
AS UNJUST AS APARTHEID, by Ginette Petitpas-Taylor. Acts of homophobia
as cruel as racism or other hate crimes.
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=337
Editorial: LOVE + EDUCATION = POLITICS, by Ish Theilheimer. Thanks to
the teachers in our lives.
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=343
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4. CALL FOR SUPPORT: FUNDING FOR "RESOURCES FOR FEMINIST RESEARCH
(RFR)" CUT
Dear feminist colleagues,
As you may already have heard, OISE recently cut its financial support
to the journal Resources for Feminist Research with only a month's
notice, citing new budgetary models at the University of Toronto and
overall budgetary restraints at OISE.
Although RFR has received decreases in funding over the past 5 years
along with other OISE departments and units, it is RFR alone that is
suffering a total withdrawal of support. The amount cut is roughly
half the journal's overall budget.
The loss of funding puts the journal at risk in a number of ways.
While the journal still has its SSHRC 3-year funding, and revenues
from subscriptions, it was the operational funding that allowed the
journal to pay editors to carry out the work of editing and
production. RFR has always operated on a feminist model with an
egalitarian structure that relies on staff editors rather than faculty
or student volunteer labour. This structure will be difficult to
continue if the journal is forced back into traditional ways of operating.
With virtually no notice, RFR is unable to put an effective transition
in place, to allow it to continue without an editor and other
operating funds.
And that is our concern right now. At risk is the journal's role in
sustaining feminist research and dissemination for both new scholars
and senior scholars, in providing an international forum for diverse
feminist views, and as a leading journal for feminist knowledge
production in Canada.
We are asking that you write to Dean Jane Gaskell, urging her to
demonstrate her commitment to feminist scholarly research in Canada by
reinstating the funding to RFR. She can be reached by email at
mailto:jgaskell@... (and please send a copy to the
journal's editor Philinda Masters at
mailto:pmasters@...). It is important that we let Dean
Gaskell know that there is a strong interest on the part of the
feminist academic community in sustaining feminist scholarship and
supporting RFR's role in disseminating feminist research.
Thank you for your support,
The RFR Editorial Board
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5. FIRST NATIONS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION, JUNE 29TH
On June 29th 2007, First Nations are reaching out to all Canadians to
show their support in peaceful marches and rallies across the nation.
For the Association of First Nations main Day of Action page:
http://www.afn.ca/nda.htm
For ways to show your support: http://www.afn.ca/nda/wcid.htm
For a listing of events across the country: http://www.afn.ca/nda/es.htm
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6. NEW FROM CANADIAN POLICY RESEARCH NETWORKS (CPRN): WHO IS
TAKING CARE OF OUR NURSES?
June 21, 2007 – It's called the caring profession. Popular quotations
play on its strengths: "nurses are patient people" – or "nurses can
take the pressure." But a new research paper by CPRN, Not There Yet:
Improving the Working Conditions of Canadian Nurses, has found that
not enough is being done to help the people who help us when we use
the health care system.
The alarm was sounded in the 2005 National Survey of the Work and
Health of Nurses (by the Canadian Institute for Health Information,
Statistics Canada and Health Canada), which gave us a first look at
how the work environment of nurses affects their health. Nurses
reported stress, violence and strain on the job. They experienced high
rates of depression and injuries, worked long hours, were
short-staffed and many performed their jobs without adequate supports
(e.g. lifts or safeguards against sharps injuries).
To download a copy: http://www.cprn.org/doc.cfm?doc=1726&l=en
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7. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: "NEW VOICES IN LABOUR STUDIES"
A Labour Studies Workshop at McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
October 19th – 20th, 2007
Workshop Objectives and Themes
Scholars in the field of Labour Studies continue to expand the depth
and breadth of research taken up, and studied, in relation to labour
market trends. Increasingly, the interdisciplinary nature of labour
studies programs broaden as new connections are made between fields of
study. This workshop will explore these new developments within the
field of labour studies, and provide the "new voices" of labour
studies an opportunity to present their research and work. During a
series of panels and presentations, scholars receiving their PhD
within the last 5 years, along with post-doctoral fellows, and senior
PhD students will be provided with an informal venue in which to
present their research. The workshop will bring together researchers,
union and social movement leaders, activists, and academics to examine
the connections between the field's foundational knowledge and the new
developments to be presented. Workshop panels and discussions will be
centered on the theme derived from participant's submission.
Call for Panelists and Discussants
Panelists: The goal of the workshop is to foster reflection and
discussion on the new developments and research within the field of
labour studies, as they are encountered by academics, activists, and
leaders of union and social movements. As such, each panel discussion
will have four to five speakers (15-20 minutes per speaker)
representing a cross-section of the field of labour studies.
Discussants: Each panel will also have a discussant, whose role will
be to pull together the themes emerging from the presentations and
subsequent discussions, and summarize key points arrived at during the
session.
If you are interested in participating in the workshop as a panelist
or discussant, please email a short (250 word maximum) outline of what
you would like to contribute to the workshop. The deadline for
submitting an intent to participate is August 6th, 2007.
For more information and to submit a proposal, please contact:
Dr. Charlotte Yates.
Director, Labour Studies Program
mailto:yatesch@...
KTH 717, McMaster University
1280 Main St W. Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M4
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8. ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, ANOTHER U.S. IS NECESSARY: UNITED
STATES SOCIAL FORUM
June 27-July 1
Atlanta, Georgia
The US Social Forum is more than a conference, more than a networking
bonanza, more than a reaction to war and repression.
The USSF will provide space to build relationships, learn from each
other's experiences, share our analysis of the problems our
communities face, and bring renewed insight and inspiration. It will
help develop leadership and develop consciousness, vision, and
strategy needed to realize another world.
The USSF sends a message to other people's movements around the world
that there is an active movement in the US opposing US Policies at
home and abroad.
We must declare what we want our world to look like and begin planning
the path to get there. A global movement is rising. The USSF is our
opportunity to demonstrate to the world Another World is Possible!
For more information visit https://www.ussf2007.org/en.
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9. NORTHLAND POSTER COLLECTIVE CLOSING?
Northland Poster Collective online gallery and catalogue store
features the art of social justice, the tools of grassroots organizing
and activism, and the craft of union workers. In the beginning of May
we sent a letter to a circle of our closest and oldest supporters to
inform them of our decision to close Northland Poster Collective. This
was a hard choice, given that we love what we do and believe that we
are being more effective than ever at it. As we put it in that letter,
though, "bad cash flow trumps good politics."
We have gotten enough indications of possible financial support that
we have decided to test the waters and have given ourselves until the
end of June to make our decision final. To keep going, we would need
to raise enough money to pay off our debts and invest a substantial
sum into marketing and outreach. That would mean bringing in the
amount of $200,000.
To raise the sum we are talking about involves mobilizing more than
the $25 or $50 membership donations from our base that we have raised
in the past. It means getting support from people who have access to
greater assets. We don't know who they are. Maybe you do. Generous
donors have offered to establish a challenge fund on our behalf. They
will match any gift (of $300 or more) up to a total of $75,000! This
would turn it into $150,000. (That this is even possible takes our
breath away!) It is still a very steep climb. Also, we must mention
that contributions are not tax-deductible although we are in
discussion with a potential fiscal agent.
In practical terms we will need to know in the next few weeks how much
tangible support is out there for us. Our web site is now equipped
with a way to make donations. We must count on our friends to spread
the word so that potential allies who are not on our own limited lists
will hear about us. As we are often reminded, there are large numbers
of people who have been touched by our work, even if they didn't know
we were the source. While reaching larger donors will determine the
outcome of this story, this does not mean that the smaller ones don't
add up! We will be grateful for any help that we can get.
To make a donation, visit http://www.northlandposter.com/donations.html.
To order from their online catalogue, visit
http://www.northlandposter.com/catalog/p785.html.
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10. NEW CANADIAN COUNCIL ON LEARNING (CCL) REPORT: CANADA MUST
"UNLOCK POTENTIAL" IN ADULT LEARNING
Ottawa, June 19, 2007—A new report by the Canadian Council on Learning
is tackling the thorny and complex problem of adult learning in Canada.
Unlocking Canada's Potential, CCL's 2007 Report on the State of
Workplace and Adult Learning, describes a country where training,
which can be a powerful lever for workplace productivity, is not a
priority for many adults and most Canadian businesses. The report
reveals that:
· Most learning by adults takes place in the workplace; however,
two-thirds of Canadians do not take part in any formal learning
activities
· While most Canadians recognize the benefits of learning,
Canada lacks a sustained effort to establish a culture of learning
across Canadian society
· Significant barriers exist that prevent Canadian workers from
participating in learning and training. Those barriers include a lack
of resources devoted to training by businesses, labour and government,
as well as individual attitudes
To download a copy of the report:
http://www.ccl-cca.ca/CCL/Reports/StateofLearning/UnlockingCanadasPotential.htm
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11. HANDS OFF OUR MAIL: NAFTA TRIBUNAL REJECTS UNITED PARCEL
SERVICE'S COMPLAINT
from the Council of Canadians
Thanks to a recent NAFTA tribunal decision, courier giant UPS will
have to keep its hands off our mail. The Council of Canadians and the
Canadian Union of Postal Workers are pleased that United Parcel
Service's complaint under the North American Free Trade Agreement was
rejected by the tribunal hearing the case. Still, we remain unhappy
with the tribunal process and particularly object to NAFTA's Chapter 11.
UPS sued Canada over six years ago under Chapter 11, which allows
corporations to challenge governments if they think their investments
are restricted by government measures. UPS claimed that its
investments were being threatened by Canada's publicly funded network
of mailboxes and post offices because this network allegedly provided
Canada Post with an unfair advantage.
"We are very happy that the tribunal rejected UPS's complaint, but
that doesn't mean we think NAFTA works," said CUPW National President
Deborah Bourque. "NAFTA allowed UPS to put the public postal service
and jobs on trial. A secret trial."
Jean-Yves LeFort, trade campaigner for the Council of Canadians said,
"Investment rules such as Chapter 11 need to be removed from NAFTA and
all other trade agreements signed by Canada."
Visit
http://council-of-canadians.c.topica.com/maagMVOabzjfPaBI2pgeaeQy7T/
to read more details about the case, including a chronology of UPS's
NAFTA complaint. And check out Council board member Steven Shrybman's
interview with CBC Radio, where he explains the significance of the
tribunal's ruling.
(http://council-of-canadians.c.topica.com/maagMVOabzjfEaBI2pgeaeQy7T/)
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12. SUPPORT THE UN DRAFT DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES
As some of you may know, Canada actively campaigned to block the
passage of this Declaration at the UN last year, so as Canadians, we
have an important role to play in pressuring our government to take a
principled position on Indigenous Rights.
We are entering into a critical period with the UN General Assembly
poised to decide whether to go ahead with a vote on the current text
or to reopen negotiations – and potentially discard two decades'
struggle to bring the Declaration forward.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the initial adoption of the
Declaration by the UN Human Rights Council, and Canada's campaign
against it, it would be very helpful for a wide cross section to speak
out.
An online petition campaign with the Grand Council of the Cree is in
operation and Amnesty International has just renewed our letter
writing appeal. Both can be found at:
http://www.amnesty.ca/take_action/actions/ip_un_draft_declaration.php.
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13. NEW FROM ACTEW: CHILD CARE AND THE LABOUR MARKET
Our newest fact sheet demonstrates that child care, or the lack of it,
plays a key role in Ontario's labour market stability and development.
Canada's child care system is not keeping up to the record numbers of
employed mothers. Furthermore, many women are employed part-time,
seasonally or in shift work, yet there is little scheduling
flexibility in the child care that is available. Child care is also
essential for women as they look for work, upgrade skills, or
volunteer to gain Canadian experience.
To read more, visit:
http://www.actew.org/projects/pwpsite/snapshots/childcare.html.
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14. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL ONLINE
High-Commitment Work Practices and Downsizing Harshness in Australian
Workplaces
Roderick D. Iverson and Christopher D. Zatzick
pages 456–480
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-232X.2007.00477.x
Labor Market Outcomes of Persons with Mental Disorders
Marjorie L. Baldwin and Steven C. Marcus
pages 481–510
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-232X.2007.00478.x
New Evidence on Gender Differences in Promotion Rates: An Empirical
Analysis of a Sample of New Hires
Francine D. Blau and Jed Devaro
pages 511–550
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-232X.2007.00479.x
Defending Dock Workers: Globalization and Labor Relations in the
World's Ports
Peter J. Turnbull and Victoria J. Wass
pages 582–612
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-232X.2007.00481.x
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only
that which his mind craves. " - Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
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The Work & Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) -
http://www.wallnetwork.ca
Centre for the Study of Education & Work (CSEW) -
http://www.learningwork.ca
Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
252 Bloor St. West, #12-254
Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 Canada
Tel: 416-923-6641 x. 2392, Fax: 416-926-4751
NEW PAPERS ON THE WORK AND LIFELONG LEARNING WEBSITE
Livingstone, D.W. and Raykov, M. (2005). Union Influence on Worker
Education and Training in Canada in Tough Times. Just Labour, vol. 5
(Winter 2005).
http://www.wallnetwork.ca/resources/Livingstone-RaykovJustLabour2005.pdf
Myles, John and Myers, Karen. (2007). Who Gets What and Why? Answers
From Sociology. American Behavioral Scientist (50)5: 579-583.
http://www.wallnetwork.ca/resources/Myers_Myles_WhoGetsWhat&Why2007.pdf
Butterwick, Shauna and Harper, Lynette. (2006). An `Inter-cultural'
View of Community-Academic Partnerships: Tales from the Field.
Presented at the 36th Annual SCUTREA (Standing Council on University
Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults) Conference, July.
http://www.wallnetwork.ca/resources/Butterwick_etalSCUTREA2006.pdf
Sawchuk, Peter. (2006). Bringing Inter-cultural Clashes of Knowledge
Production into View: the Case of Organizational Change and
Participatory Design in Social Benefits Work in Canada. Presented at
the 36th Annual SCUTREA (Standing Council on University Teaching and
Research in the Education of Adults) Conference, July.
http://www.wallnetwork.ca/resources/SawchukSCUTREA2006.pdf
Liu, Willa Lichun. (2007). Unveiling the Invisible Learning from
Unpaid Household Work: Survey on Work and Lifelong Learning. Presented
at Learning In Community: Joint International Conference of the Adult
Education Research Conference (AERC) and the Canadian Association for
the Study of Adult Education (CASAE)/ l'Association Canadienne pour
l'Étude de l'Éducation des Adultes (ACÉÉA), June.
http://www.wallnetwork.ca/resources/AERC-CASAE-Liu-2007.pdf
Duguid, Fiona; Slade, Bonnie; and Schugurensky, Daniel. (2006). Unpaid
Work, Informal Learning and Volunteer Cultures. Presented at the 36th
Annual SCUTREA (Standing Council on University Teaching and Research
in the Education of Adults) Conference, July.
http://www.wallnetwork.ca/resources/Duguid_etalSCUTREA2006.pdf
Duguid, Fiona; Mündel, Karsten; and Schugurensky, Daniel. (2007).
Learning to Build Sustainable Communities through Volunteer Work in
Urban and Rural Settings: Insights from Four Case Studies. Presented
at Learning In Community: Joint International Conference of the Adult
Education Research Conference (AERC) and the Canadian Association for
the Study of Adult Education (CASAE)/ l'Association Canadienne pour
l'Étude de l'Éducation des Adultes (ACÉÉA), June.
http://www.wallnetwork.ca/resources/AERC-CASAE-Duguid-etal-2007.pdf
Adult Learning in Canada in an International Perspective, by Kjell
Rubenson (WALL International Advisory Committee)
http://www.wallnetwork.ca/resources/AERC-CASAE-Rubenson-2007.pdf
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INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN PUBLIC POLICY – RECENT PUBLICATIONS
In "Making the Connections: Ottawa's Role in Immigrant Employment,"
Naomi Alboim and Elizabeth McIsaac conclude that there is a lack of
coherence as a result of too many stakeholders working on different
aspects of the problem. They argue that the role of the federal
government should be to improve collaboration and make the connections
among the various parties involved.
http://www.irpp.org/choices/archive/vol13no3.pdf
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION,
ECONOMY & SOCIETY
Paris (France)
17-19 July 2008
The Conference will be held at the Novotel Paris Tour Eiffel, in
central Paris, It is intended to be a forum, discussion and networking
place for academics, researchers, professionals, administrators,
policy makers and industry representatives interested in Education.
All areas of Education are invited, as well as economic, political,
cultural and social themes relating to Education.
Proposals will be in the form of abstracts. Presentation formats will
include individual and panel paper sessions, symposia, workshops and
roundtables. The languages of the Conference will be English and French.
The closing date for early bird registration is 1 July 2007. Deadline
for abstracts submissions: 10 October 2007. Further details can be
found on the Conference website at: http://www.education-conferences.org.
Contact: Conference-2008@...
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GENDER, WORK & ORGANIZATION JOURNAL ONLINE
Defining Expertise in Software Development While Doing Gender
Esther Ruiz Ben
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2007.00346.x
Gendered Work Ideals in Swedish IT Firms: Valued and Not Valued Workers
Helen Peterson
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2007.00347.x
Does Gender Still Matter? A Study of the Views of Women in the ICT
Industry in New Zealand
Barbara J. Crump, Keri A. Logan and Andrea McIlroy
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2007.00348.x
Men at Work and at Home: Managing Emotion in Telework
Katy Marsh and Gill Musson
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2007.00353.x
`Allowed into a Man's World' Meanings of Work–Life Balance:
Perspectives of Women Civil Engineers as `Minority' Workers in
Construction
Jacqueline H. Watts
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2007.00352.x
Management in/as Comic Relief: Queer Theory and Gender Performativity
in The Office
Melissa Tyler and Laurie Cohen
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2007.00351.x
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DYNAMICS OF VIOLENCE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
The United Steelworkers Local 1998 Pride Committee presents:
Dynamics of Violence and the Struggle for Social Change
Featured Speaker: Jim Loney
Jim Loney was a member of a Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT)
delegation that was kidnapped in Baghdad in November 2005. CPT Iraq
team member Tom Fox was murdered on March 9, 2006, two weeks before
Jim, Harmeet Singh Sooden and Norman Kember were rescued. Jim has been
a member of CPT since 2000 and has served on CPT projects in
Palestine, Esgenoopetij/Burnt Church, NB; Kenora, ON, and Iraq.
Tuesday June 12, 2007
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Sidney Smith Hall Rm 1084
100 St. George Street
A light lunch will be provided.
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THIS WEEK FROM STRAIGHTGOODS ONLINE NEWSLETTER
Women in Post-Sec, by Ginette Petitpas-Taylor. Women are chronically
under-represented in programs that lead to better employment prospects.
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=307
Public Health in the Workplace, from International Trade Union
Confederation. The WHO adopts 10-year action plan for workers' health.
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=297
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ROUSE: RABBLE RE-LAUNCH CAMPAIGN DRIVE
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To stir somebody into action or a more active state, or to become more
active
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daily stories about labour, social justice and real environmental
action? One steady source for the past six years has been rabble.ca
featuring 'news for the rest of us'. Please join me in supporting
rabble's re-launch – adding new features and voices to a vital and
progressive news site."
George Heyman, President, BCGEU
Change is in the air at rabble.ca and we are rousing people to be a
part of it. rabble.ca is undergoing a redesign to provide a better
product, highlight more voices and promote more interaction on
Canada's site for alternative news and views. With this redesign
comes a re-launch and we are asking you to be part of Canada's new
rabble.
You can contribute right now by making a secure donation at
http://www.rabble.ca/donate. Plus you can win cool prizes like a
guided canoe trip for two in Algonquin Park, a $500 shopping spree at
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REVIEW OF PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION JOURNAL ONLINE
Federal Labor-Management Relations Reforms Under Bush: Enlightened
Management or Quest for Control?
James R. Thompson
http://rop.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/2/105
Do Age, Gender, and Sector Affect Job Satisfaction? Results From the
Korean Labor and Income Panel Data
Kwangho Jung, M. Jae Moon, and Sung Deuk Hahm
http://rop.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/2/125
IT Employee Work Exhaustion: Toward an Integrated Model of Antecedents
and Consequences
Soonhee Kim and Bradley E. Wright
http://rop.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/2/147
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only
that which his mind craves. " - Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
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Learning and Work blog - http://learningandwork.blogspot.com/
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