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Organizer	Students for Barrier-Free Access, University of Toronto
Title	Organizing Inclusive Movements In the Face of Austerity
Category	Accessibility
Location	Toronto, Ontario
Date	June 19, 2012
Telephone	416-967-7322
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Event Description	Tuesday June 19th, 7:00pm: Organizing Inclusive Movements in the Face of Austerity, OISE (252 Bloor St West) Room 5260 St. George Subway Station * Free * Childcare available * Wheelchair accessible venue * ASL interpretation provided * Attendant care available * Please refrain from wearing scented perfumes or products. How do we build movements across identities & tactics? How do we harness the current political unrest and demands for change within the borders of Canada and across the globe to ensure lasting victories for marginalized communities? This event will bring long time community organizers into conversation about building resistance against cuts, about creating social justice. From the Quebec student strike to organizing against austerity in Toronto, this discussion will focus on why building inclusive movements makes struggles for social justice more meaningful and effective. Featuring: A.J. Withers is the author of Disability Politics and Theory, an accessible and radical history of disability and proposal for moving disability politics forward. A longtime organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, A.J. has worked to make the left more accessible and the disability movement more left for years. A.J. is also the author of the If I Can't Dance is it Still My Revolution? zine series and website. Lesley Wood is the author of Direct Action, Deliberation, and Diffusion: Collective Action after the WTO Protests in Seattle, an in-depth examination of political organizing in New York and Toronto. Lesley is a long-time community organizer in anti-poverty and anti-globalization movements and an Associate Professor of Sociology. She is also a regional editor for the international, peer-reviewed, online journal Interface, a journal for and about social movements. -- Students for Barrier-free Access, University of Toronto 215 Huron Street, Suite 924 Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A2 T: 416-967-7322 http://sba.sa.utoronto.ca/ ----- SBA is a student run organization that advocates for equity, access and the rights of Dis-Abled students at U of T. SBA works towards eliminating physical, informational and attitudinal barriers on campus. The SBA Centre is open Monday to Thursday from 9 AM to 5 PM.
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