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“RIGHT TO EXIST, RIGHT TO RESIST” – NOVEMBER 8-10, TORONTO
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MORNING/AFTERNOON
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2012
Official Program
ILPS Canada 2nd General Assembly
ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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November 9, 2012
9am-4pm
$10 for each participant / Lunch provided
LOCATION:
San Lorenzo Latin American Community Centre
22 Wenderly Drive
Toronto, ON M6B 2N9 Canada
PROGRAM FURTHER BELOW
The Second General Assembly of ILPS-Canada will take place November 9 from 9am to 4pm, on the eve of the ‘Right to Exist, Right to Resist’ Conference. Advance registration is required and can be found here. Each member organization of ILPS-Canada ‘In Good Standing’ – including payment of dues – may send up to two delegates to participate as Voting Members of the Assembly.
ILPS-Canada is requesting all participating organizations to pay their back dues, if owing. Payment of organizational dues at Assembly is necessary for participation. Organizational dues are $150 to ILPS and a sliding scale payment of $50-$150 for the chapter in Canada – therefore, a sliding scale of $200-$300.
Additional delegates from member organizations may participate as non-voting members with full speaking rights.
Individuals who are not part of member organizations or who are part of organizations looking to join are welcome to participate as OBSERVERS – which means participation will be limited to observation and speaking rights will be prioritized for official delegates.
Organizations interested in joining ILPS-Canada should review the Charter and By-Laws, the 18 concerns of ILPS, and the ILPS-Canada Constitution and By-Laws and submit a membership application join ILPS-Canada.
The Second General Assembly of ILPS-Canada will consist of a review of our activities of past 18 months of the Chapter and ILPS broadly, including the outgoing Executive’s evaluation of the work, deciding on a general plan of activities, and elections.
MORNING SESSION
9am -12:00pm
9:00am
Coffee / Registration of Participants and Delegates
9:30am-10:15am
Roundtable Introductions
10:15am-10:30am
Accepting new member organizations
10:30am-11:00am
Opening Remarks / Q & A
Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International League of Peoples’ Struggle
11:00am-11:30am
Executive Committee ILPS-Canada Report by Malcolm Guy and Steve daSilva
11:30am-12:00am
Finance Report by Steve daSilva
LUNCH (provided)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Finalize Registration of Member Organization
AFTERNOON SESSION
1pm—4pm
1:00pm-1:30pm
Constitutional Amendments of ILPS-Canada Chapter
1:30pm-2:00pm
Elections
2:00pm-3:30pm
Action Planning (Proposals) and Resolutions
3:30-4:00pm
Closing Remarks
FRIDAY NIGHT
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
Registration: 8:30am to 9:15am
Opening Plenary: 9:15am to 10am
Track Sessions: 10:00am to 3:30pm
Lunch Break: 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Refreshment Break*: 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Closing Plenary: 4:00pm to 7:00pm
cultural performances will be held throughout the day
* Our extended refreshment break will accomodate to the best of our abilities the memorial of Charles Roach,held nearby at Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, 31 Kings College Circle.
The break will also allow for the Secretariat to prepare for Closing Plenary and for the caucasing of participants.
CONFERENCE ROOMS
Track 1: The War on Resistance
OISE Room 2-214
Track 2: The War on Working People
OISE Room 2-279
Track 3: The War on Communitites
OISE Auditorium
Track 4: The War on Land Defenders and the Environment
Resource Speakers:
- Rana Bose – “Aboriginal land rights and mining companies”
- Charlotte Kates, SAMIDOUN Palestinian Prisoners Support Network – “Criminalization the Palestinian Resistance”
- Hugo Bonin, Former CLASSE Executive – “Criminalizing Resistance & Direct Democracy: The Quebec Student Strike”
- Julian Ichim, G20 Legal Defendant & community organizer – “Fighting Political Charges on a Political Basis”
- Francine “Flower” Doxtator, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
- Krisna Saravanamuttu – “The criminalization of the Tamil Freedom Struggle”
Track 2: The War on Working People
Rebuilding the movement of militant labour in the face of ‘austerity.’
Resource Speakers:
- Shawn Smith, private sector (airline) organizing
- Pamela Dogra, Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario
- Connie Sorio, Migrante Canada & International Migrants Alliance (IMA)
- Mostafa Henaway, Immigrant Workers Center (IWC)
- Liisa Schofield, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)
Track 3: The War on Communities
Block the mass incarceration agenda & the containment of the people.
Resource Speakers:
- Natasha Brien, Supporting Ourselves Supporting Our Loved Ones
- Kevin Yake, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users & Western Aborginal Harm Reduction Society
- Jenn Allen, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Copwatch
- Yuly Chan, Alliance for People’s Health
- Geatan Heroux, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
- Mike Brito, BASICS
- Suzanne Baustad, paralegal working with immigrants and refugees
- Besh Caron, Vancouver Renter’s Union
- Immigrant Worker’s Centre
- Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty
Track 4: The War on Land Defenders and the Environment
Building an anti-imperialist environmentalist movement and uniting with indigenous people’s land and self-determination struggles
Resource Speakers:
- Francine “Flower” Doxtator (Six Nations)
- Melissa Elliott (Six Nations) – On organizing around Line 9 in Ontario
- Ruby Montour (Six Nations) – The Brantford Injunction and the situation at Tutelo Heights
- Steve Watson (CAW) – On working class and indigenous unity on the Haldimand tract
- Rhonda Martin (Six Nations) on the “Supplies not Lies” campaign and struggles since the Six Nations reclamation
- Laura Lepper (CUPE 3903 FNSWG) on the alliance building with indigenous struggles that the FNSWG
- Tom Keefer (CUPE 3903 FNSWG)
- Erin Marie of the Mishkeegoggamang First Nation in the Treaty 9 area near Thunder Bay
- Darlene Block (Ojibway Nation of Saugeen Indian Tribe #258 in the Treaty 3 and Treaty 9 area Thunder Bay
- Richard Peters (Anishinaabe Nation – Beausoleil First Nation,Christian Island)
- Chandu Claver (Philippines)
- Susana Caxaj (Mining Injustice Solidarity Network / People’s Health Tribunal in Central America)
SATURDAY NIGHT – November 10, 2012: MASS ARTILLERY!
Concert at the Annex Wreckroom, featuring:
d’bi young, LAL, Acalanto, True Rez Crew, Rise Up and Spins by black-rap.com DJs!
$10 in advance, $15 at door
Tickets available at:
Accents Bookstore 1790 Eglington Avenue West (Dufferin X Eglington)
A Different Booklist 746 Bathurst Street (Bathurst X Bloor)
