upcoming events
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- Published on Monday, 26 January 2015 11:22
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Dear Friends of SJS,
Below are some upcoming events that may be of interest to you:
From Rights to Responsibilities to Decolonization: Shifting Political Discourses
Professor Joyce Green is the editor of Making Space for Indigenous Feminism (Fernwood Publishing and Zed Books) and of Indivisible: Indigenous Human Rights (Fernwood Publishing 2014).
Thursday, February 5, 2015 – First Peoples House Ceremonial Hall
(see the link for a campus map http://www.uvic.ca/home/about/campus-info/maps/pdf/3d-map-latest.pdf)
All Welcome!
Feb. 15th, 2015
From
Charity to Social Justice:
The Conversation Continues
Addressing Child and Family... Poverty
According to the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, BC has the highest poverty rate in Canada and no plan to tackle it directly. First Call BC reports in their 2014 Report Card that 1 out of 5 children in BC are poor. This is higher than the national average.
In October 2014 members of various communities came together in a conference entitled From Charity to Social Justice: Addressing Child and Family Poverty which was held at Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria. This event was sponsored by Christ Church Cathedral, Community Action Plan on Poverty, the Community Social Planning Council, Together Against Poverty Society, Umbrella Society for Addictions and Mental Health, and University of Victoria Social Justice Studies.
We would now like to invite you to join us on February 15th, 2015 at the University of Victoria from 1:30 to 4:30 (Clearihue A127) to continue the conversation we began in October. While federal and provincial government programs and policies are extremely important tools to begin to address poverty, some policies and practices actually do little to address poverty and may actually serve to impoverish people. We hope to spend the afternoon exploring some of the policies and practices that aid and abet poverty or what is often referred to as legislated poverty or the relationship between poverty and legislation. We also hope to formulate some concrete plans of where we as a group or as individuals alone or in cooperation with other ongoing initiatives can begin to move forward on this issue.
Trish Garner of the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition will be our key note speaker. We will be sending out some more information shortly, but in the meantime we ask that you save the date and join us in this important conversation.
Stolen Sisters Memorial:
While the date for the volunteer meeting on the 25th has passed, please see the message below if you are able to volunteer your time for the memorial on Feb. 14th:
The Stolen
Sisters Working Group is putting out a call to allies to help with this year's
Stolen Sisters Memorial March, taking place Saturday February 14 from
11-2 on Coast Salish/ Lkwungen territories.
We need help with a wide variety of tasks, with different levels
of time commitment, before, during, and potentially after the day of the march.
Things that you could help with include: driving elders, distributing posters,
road marshalling, among lots of other tasks.
The intention of the Stolen Sisters Memorial March is to honour and remember
the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Turtle Island. If you would like
to help us create a space for this and are committed to this shared goal, we
invite you to attend our next planning meeting onJanuary 25 at 12:30
pm in the chapel of Our Place Society (919 Pandora). At this
meeting the core organizing group will be distributing tasks and coordinating
allies/volunteers.
If you are unable to make it to the meeting but would still like to help out, send an email toThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. after the 25th and we will let you know of any roles we still need to fill.
Margo MatwychukDirector
Social Justice Studies ProgramUniversity of Victoriaweb.uvic.ca/socialjustice/@UVicSJS on TwitterUVicSJS on FacebookUVicSJS on YouTube
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