CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EDUCATION AND WORK – UPDATE 25th NOVEMBER 2011
EVENTS
CLiFF TORONTO (CANADIAN LABOUR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL) – DAY 3 AND 4 (NOV. 26-27)
Imagine a world where thousands of films are made about workers and the conditions under which they live, work, fight, and succeed in their daily lives!
2009 marked the first-ever Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF). This also marked the first ever labour-oriented film festival in Canada.
See the 2011 CLiFF Toronto schedule here: http://labourfilms.ca/?page_id=2031
Just added!
Labour and the Occupy Movement
What is the connection between Labour and the Occupy Movement? Come and join a discussion at CLiFF Toronto with Jesse McLaren – doctor, socialist, and activist, who has been an active participant among the organizers at Occupy Toronto.
Saturday, November 26, 7:00 PM
Innis Town Hall
2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto
5 minutes south of St. George subway
(wheelchair accessible)
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BOOK LAUNCH – BRAVE NEW TEACHERS: DOING SOCIAL JUSTICE WORK IN NEO-LIBERAL TIMES
For 15 years York University’s Urban Diversity teacher education program has been training teachers with an equity, diversity and social justice focus. The founder of the program, Dr. Patrick Solomon, died in October, 2008. Before his death he saw the need for a study of the impact of the program on its graduates. He carried out this study with a group of associates and the result is this book.
Book: Brave New Teachers: Doing Social Justice Work in Neo-liberal Times
Authors: Patrick Solomon, Jordan Singer, Arlene Campbell, and Andrew Allen
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
When: December 1 5:30 – 8:00
Where: OISE Library
Panel: Jordan Singer, Andrew Allen, Sharron Rosen, Karen Murray
Moderator: John Portelli
Light refreshments
For more info: http://bit.ly/uffEZi
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OUR TIMES MAGAZINE 30TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY
Our Times, Canada’s independent, bi-monthly labour magazine, is 30 years old this year, and we’re throwing a party to celebrate three decades of stories about workers’ rights and social justice. Please join us on December 3 at the Steelworkers Hall ( 25 Cecil Street ) in Toronto. Doors open at 7 p.m.
The celebration will include a light buffet, cash bar, silent auction, and a whole lot of dancing.
Our guest speaker is NDP MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan.
Rabia Syed’s talented children “HHSB” will do a number about Our Times early in the evening. Don’t miss them! And Jojo Geronimo and company will present a brief but creative verdict from the recent People vs. Harper People’s Court.
To wrap things up before we dance the night away, members from Toronto’s beloved Common Thread Community Chorus will sing songs with us to raise the rafters, including “Carry It On” in honour of Jack Layton’s wish that we all retain our love, hope and optimism in the struggles ahead for justice and dignity for all.
ACTRA member Bryn McAuley (on the cover of the current issue of Our Times) will be MCing the event, along with Our Times advisory board member Jorge Garcia-Orgales. It’s going to be a blast!
Tickets $50. Available in advance. (For students, low-waged and unwaged there is a $20 or pay-what-you-can option.)
You can get your party invitation online at http://www.ourtimes.ca
For more information or to buy tickets send an email to staff@ourtimes.ca or call 416.703.7661. Toll-free: 1.800.648.6131.
Hope to see you there!
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NEWS AND VIEWS
NEW CCPA PUBLICATION – OUR SCHOOLS, OUR SELVES: INSTRUMENTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
The fall 2011 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves asks: “If schools are truly to be instruments of social change, how we can ensure that the change we build together is inclusive, empathetic, just and empowering; that it serves students, educators and communities; that it broadens horizons rather than narrowing them; and finally, that its “strings” connect and engage rather than bind and limit?”
“The violin is a powerful image — strings and bridges evoke the act of making connections between students and their classrooms, and between schools and wider communities — and is a useful starting point into an exploration of what we must help schools do in order to build progress in a range of areas: gender equity; creating sustainable communities; media education and analysis; a school system that values experience, and cultural and social relevancy over standardization and evaluation; social justice, and accountable public institutions.”
For more info and to order: http://bit.ly/vPqNBE
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BEHIND THE NUMBERS
CCPA’s national blog, Behind the Numbers, delivers timely, progressive commentary on issues that affect Canadians, including the economy, poverty, inequality, climate change, budgets, taxes, public services, employment and much more. Go behind the numbers with these latest posts:
– Naomi Klein on Capitalism vs. the Climate, by Erika Shaker
– A Progressive Alternative to the Harper Agenda, by Andrew Jackson
– Challenging Capitalism: a 12-step program, by Marc Lee
– The Mowat Centre and Employment Insurance, by Andrew Jackson
– An Inconvenient Occupation, by Christopher Majka
– Who Occupies the Skies? by Marc Lee
Visit the blog: http://www.behindthenumbers.ca/
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THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT: A LESSON IN THE RISK OF INEQUALITY
Maytree Opinion, November 2011
By Alan Broadbent
The Occupy movement may be the harbinger of more serious discontent, writes Alan Broadbent in this month’s Maytree Opinion. The gap between society’s richest and poorest has indeed been growing. And in the developed world the middle class is all but disappearing. This inequality breeds instability which can have unpredictable outcomes. But we can find solutions in the work of think tanks such as Caledon, Mowat and others.
Read more: http://bit.ly/tjvVjQ
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ABOUT CSEW (CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EDUCATION & WORK, OISE/UT):
Head: Peter Sawchuk
Co-ordinator: D’Arcy Martin
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.
Our major project is APCOL: Anti-Poverty Community Organizing and Learning. This five-year project (2009-2013), funded by SSHRC-CURA, brings academics and activists together in a collaborative effort to evaluate how organizations approach issues and campaigns and use popular education. For more information about this project, visit http://www.apcol.ca
For more information about CSEW, visit: http://www.csew.ca
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‘I believe in the afterlife.
It starts tomorrow,
When I go to work’
Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Human Herbs’ at: http://www.myspace.com/coldhandsmusic (recording) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h7tUq0HjIk (live)
‘Maximum levels of boredom
Disguised as maximum fun’
Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Stagnant’ at: http://www.myspace.com/coldhandsmusic (recording) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLjxeHvvhJQ (live, at the Belle View pub, Bangor, north Wales)
‘Cheerful Sin’ – a new song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8
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