Apathy into Action: Exploring Issues and Organizing Actions
All sessions are FREE and open to students and the public. Registration is encouraged, and required if attending the Saturday workshops.

Friday, January 27 – Issue Sessions

10:30 – 4:30, URSU Boardroom, U of R

Come for one or all six!  These 50-minute sessions will be introductions to important current issues, given by some of Regina’s most outstanding facilitators.

10:30 a.m. What is the Crime Bill Really About? – Dr. Michelle Stewart

11:30 a.m.  Action Not Reaction: Feminist Principles at Work – Dr. Brenda Anderson

12:30 p.m. The Gender and Sexuality Top Ten List – Lisa Smith, ED of UR Pride

1:30 p.m.  Capitalism and the Global Economic Meltdown – Dr. Simon Glezos

2:30 p.m.  Three Vignettes on Activism and Citizenship – Dr. Marc Spooner

3:30 p.m.  Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions Campaign – John Malhot, Halena Seiferling

Saturday, January 28 – Full-day Skills Workshops

10:00 – 3:30, RIC 208 & 209, U of R

Pick one of two.  Due to the nature of these amazing workshops, participants will have to choose ONE and stay in that workshop all day.  Lunch will be provided by RPIRG for registered participants.

10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. - Anti-Oppression Training – Dr. Alex Wilson                            

Alexandria Wilson is an assistant professor at the University of Saskatchewan in the College of Education’s Foundational Education department.  Alex came to Saskatoon from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  She is Swampy Cree from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation and is involved in a number of research and community projects including: the Aboriginal Education Research Centre’s community consultations on the creation of a Virtual Health Human Resources Centre of Excellence; developing  methods for assessing violence and safety in schools; gay, lesbian and two-spirit narratives from Northern Canada; and the criminal and civil justice systems response to Native American women who have experienced domestic violence.

10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. - Effective Organizing: Getting People to Care – Tracey Mitchell

Tracey Mitchell runs a community-based facilitation practice through which she helps engage people and organizations in creative and courageous conversations toward building a sustainable, equitable and joyful society. She is also the Saskatchewan Coordinator for Next Up, a leadership training and support program for young social change leaders. Though Tracey’s formal education is in History and Sociology, she relies more on experiential learning and also finds endless ways to apply her training in Theatre for Living from Vancouver’s Headlines Theatre. See: www.nextup.ca and www.facilitrace.com.

Registration is not required for the Friday sessions, but is required for the Saturday workshops.  To register, please fill our short, online registration form.

RPIRG is hosting its Annual General Meeting on Thursday, October 13th at 5:00 p.m. in the URSU Boardroom to provide information to our membership (U of R students and community members who have opted-in).  Pizza will be provided!  A link to the proposed agenda can be found HERE.

For any additional information, please give us a call at 337.2420, or email us at info@rpirg.org.

RPIRG is having an open house and space warming party from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on October 13th to officially mark the opening of our new space on campus – Room 222 Dr. William Riddell Centre, University of Regina.

There will be cake and free t-shirts available for everyone who stops by.  We will be making “Seeds of Change” signs, creating buttons, and having a great time. Stop by and hang out, chat, sign up to volunteer, peruse our alternative library, and get more information about RPIRG!

Thursday, March 10 @ 7:30 p.m. – Classroom Building 110  U of R

What happens in the Arab world now that American troops have pulled out of Iraq? Would terrorism really get worse if the West just pulled out of Afghanistan too? What needs to be done about Iran? About oil? What will happen to Israel?  And can Obama really deliver on the climate front?

This is a free event brought to you by SCIC and RPIRG.

Social Justice Mini- Sessions – facebook

Friday, March 11- 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. – U of R – Research and Innovation Building Atrium

FULL SCHEDULE

There will be 7 sessions, for 50 minutes each.  These are drop in and open to everyone. Come for the session you are most interested in, or stay all day!  Topics include: poverty in Regina, slow food, transitioning off oil, sexual health and more!

Apathy Into Action Full Day Skills Workshops

Saturday, March 12 -10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Two workshops are being offered.  Conflict Transformation and Anti- Oppression Training. Due to the nature of the workshops participants will have to choose one, and they will be in that session all day. In order to have enough food for lunch, and to ensure sessions are not to large, we are asking that those attending a Saturday workshop pre-register. Please Register Here.

Please contact Vicki at 757-4669 or by email if you have any questions.

Any U of R student who has not chosen to opt-out of RPIRG can run for the Board of Directors.  For a nomination form, please clickHERE for the PDF.

2011 Election Timeline:

Nomination Period: Monday, March 7 – Friday, March 11

Campaigning Period: Monday, March 14 – Friday, March 18

Voting Days: Monday & Tuesday, March 21 & 22

Please contact Jenn at 337-2420 or by email if you have any questions!

If you are not a student at the University of Regina anymore, don’t fret!  Community members can now opt-in to RPIRG to gain access to the funding application process, for $20.00 per year.  To download an opt-in form, click HERE.

A presentation by Yves Engler, author of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, on how Stephen Harper’s government destroyed Canada’s reputation as an honest broker and lost the vote for a seat at the UN Security Council.

Yves Engler has been dubbed “one of the most important voices on the Canadian Left today” (briarpatch magazine) and “in the mould of I. F. Stone” (Globe and Mail). His books have been praised by Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Rick Salutin and many others.

“Everywhere you go in the beleaguered countries, people are immensely hungry. It’s just unbearable. How do you reach a point in 2010 where there is such unfathomable injustice? The G7 countries … are not making a difference.”

Great steps forward have been made in the world wide hunger crisis and AIDS crisis, he argued, but there is still much that needs to be done. Why isn’t Canada truly stepping up to the international plate and making its contribution to a world that so desperately needs it, whether by fulfilling millennium goals or by making larger contributions to the fight against AIDS? These questions – as well as a sentiment of hope that the younger generation would realize the critical importance of these issues, were the highlights of his engaging and much-needed discussion.