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Dear Friends of SJS,
The Equity and Human Rights Office at UVic is putting together an event that aims to combat discrimination and foster inclusion through multi-media art. Attached is a document including both an Event Proposal as well as an outline for Volunteer Roles. They are hoping to have their first work session, where they'll be producing installations for the event, this Friday, March 20th from 2 pm - 3 pm (location to be announced shortly). Any Volunteers would have the chance of acquiring Volunteer Hours if needed. (see the poster and information package attached) or contact Brendan at <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> for more information.
An evening with Angélica Choc
How a small Mayan village is taking on a mining giant
Date: Friday, March 20, 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: First Metropolitan United Church, Room 119
932 Balmoral Road, Victoria
Angélica Choc... is an indigenous Mayan Q’eqchi’ from El Estor, Guatemala and
one of the plaintiffs in a groundbreaking court case, Choc v. HudBay Minerals
Inc.
As featured in the film Defensora, Angélica has filed a lawsuit in Ontario
courts against Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals over the brutal killing
of her husband Adolfo Ich.
Angélica will share her story and her community's fight for justice.
Sponsored by the Mining Justice Action Committee (MJAC). See the MJAC website for more information and printable leaflets and posters for the event.
Say YES2SCS, Click to make a safe consumption site a priority:
We’ve done it!
The establishment of Supervised Consumption Services (SCS) has been listed as a strategic plan priority in the City of Victoria Draft Strategic Plan 2015-2018! This is a result of the work we’ve done together to make SCS an issue to care about!
YES2SCS is looking for your support to have SCS included in the final City of Victoria Strategic Plan.
There are 2 ways for you to support YES2SCS:
1/ Take the Survey [Deadline is March 29!] to provide feedback on the draft strategic plan. Click here to take the survey!
2/ Attend the Town Hall at City Hall on March 23 at 7pm to provide your feedback via in-person, Facebook, Twitter or email questions and comments. Click here for more information.
The Details:
The establishment of SCS and support of YES2SCS is listed in Objective 7: Facilitate Social Inclusion and Community Wellness on page 8 of the Draft Strategic Plan.
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▪ 2015 ACTIONS: • The City facilitates a collaboration among Island Health, VicPD, YES2SCS, and City of Victoria to create supervised consumption services embedded in a continuum of health care services, including harm reduction.
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▪ 2016 ACTIONS: • Establish a Councillor-facilitated process with regard to supervised consumption services, with occasional staff contributions as required, for specific issue-based advice; e.g. land use, zoning, maintenance, etc.
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▪ 2017 OUTCOMES: • Created accessible health services for Victoria’s most marginalized people.
As Always:
* Sign our petition for SCS in Victoria
* Visit our website for resources about SCS (under the 'resources' tab)
* Like and share content from our Facebook Page
* Follow us and re-tweet us on Twitter
please join SJS on March 26th for:
Plundering Tibet a film by Michael Buckley
Screening & Panel Discussion
Thursday March 26th 7:00pm
UVic David Strong Building, room C118
How much can an ecosystem take before it collapses? Plundering Tibet
is a short documentary about the dire consequences of China's ruthless mining in Tibet and Canada's role in the devastation. (see attached poster)
Sponsored by SJS, Canada Free Tibet Committee, Students for a Free Tibet and MJAC
The City Talks
Spring 2015: Racism, Memory, and Politics in the European City
Sponsored by the UVic
Committee for Urban Studies and the European Union Centre of Excellence
Contested Places, Contested Pasts: Race,
Place, and the Politics of Memory in Contemporary Budapest
Ken Foote
Professor and Department Head, Department
of Geography, University of Connecticut
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Legacy Art Gallery & Cafe, 630 Yates Street
Doors Open at 7:00pm
Lecture Begins at 7:30pm
The focus of my presentation is the way sites of the Holocaust, racial oppression, and political violence have been memorialized in Budapest's cityscape. Some sites have developed into major memorials, while others remain almost invisible. My interest is exploring the public, often highly political debates surrounding these sites and why they have been treated so differently. In part the debates revolve around race, violence and political repression, but they also raise even larger issues about how many events of the twentieth century are remembered and commemorated, from the First World War through the fall of communism in 1989 and beyond. The complexities of memory and meaning are particularly acute in nations like Hungary with complex political histories that spill across national borders.
This is a free public event at the Legacy Art Gallery ~ 630 Yates Street
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Run by the Committee for Urban Studies at the University of Victoria, The City Talks is a free public lecture series featuring distinguished scholars drawn from the University of Victoria, across Canada, and beyond. Co-sponsored by the European Union Centre of Excellence, the theme for the Spring 2015 series is Racism, Memory, and Politics in the European City.The Canadian Sex Workers Research Hub:
In response to what some of us perceive to be a need to facilitate the sharing of knowledge in the post-Bedford era we have started The Canadian Sex Work Research Hub. This is a clearinghouse of research, reflections, legal analysis and other information about what the post-Bedford legal context means for sex workers, the industry, clients, third parties etc. On the website there are links to background materials, in-progress research projects, publications, commentaries, and reviews.
The Research Hub is also intended to be a space for community organizations and researchers to meet, build collaborations and exchange ideas (for example there is a space for community groups to post research projects they would like to undertake – this may be of interest for student researchers interested in undertaking community based research). ideally this virtual space will be useful for students, academics, community groups and of course lawyers. It should also be a good place to ensure student researchers get some exposure
The website will only be effective if people post –papers and in-progress projects can be sent via the buttons under the "submit" tab or simply send me a link and/or the reference and we will get it up on the site (it is meant as a biblio as well so not all posts have links to the papers although we try to include them when doing so does not violate copyright law).
Please forward this to anyone who may be interested, who has written on the topic or is currently researching in the area of sex work. The focus is exclusively on Canada post Bedford - John Lowman's prostitution page is an amazing repository of all things pre Bedford and there is a link on the Hub website to his page.
Check it out – there is not that much on there yet but it is a start
http://www.canadiansexworkresearchhub.com/
Please note that currently the website is only in english but with some french articles – if this is successful we will be launching a french site inn the coming months
Thank you -
Chris Bruckert
Professor
Associate Chair
Department of Criminology
University of Ottawa
The Pacific Peoples Partnership PPP is seeking your support in highlighting the critical stories emerging from Vanuatu following Cyclone Pam. Canada has a significant connections to this South Pacific country and they desperately need the international communities help. Our organizations is pushing for a deeper Canadian response. Attached please find a press release with additional information.
Please let us know if we can be of support in raising awareness of this humanitarian crisis.
Thanks for your response,
April
April Ingham
Executive Director
Pacific Peoples' Partnership
Suite 407, 620 View Street
Victoria, BC V8W 1J6
Ph. 250-381-4131
Fax. 888-812-7346
www.pacificpeoplespartnership.org
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Margo MatwychukDirector
Social Justice Studies ProgramUniversity of Victoriaweb.uvic.ca/socialjustice/@UVicSJS on TwitterUVicSJS on FacebookUVicSJS on YouTube
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