Have you registered for the Activist Assembly yet? Its happening this weekend on Saturday and Sunday! Register at: eventbrite.ca/e/ryerson-students-union-cesar-activist-assembly-tickets-11806203673?aff=eac2 Heres some info on our opening panel! Panel: Decolonising Our Campuses, Minds and Organising Presented by: Lee Maracle & Akua Benjamin | Location: SCC115 The history and ongoing process of colonisation has deep roots in our campuses, our minds and our organising structures. Everything that we do has some relation to histories of oppression, patriarchy and colonisation. This panel – featuring two amazing activists, organisers and community leaders – will attempt to introduce the concept of colonisation and its daily impacts, and challenge us to envision new ways of thinking, organising and envisioning our campuses. Most importantly, it will give every participant an opportunity to think about, criticise and reimagine our own relationship to colonisation and oppression in our organising structures for the remainder of the weekend, and hopefully onwards. LEE MARACLE Lee Maracle is a celebrated author, poet, educator, storyteller and performing artist. She is one of the countrys most prolific First Nations writers, and was first published in the early 1970s. Among her novels are Ravensong, Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel and Daughters Are Forever. Lee is a member of the Stó:lo Nation of British Columbia, and is a descendant of Mary Agnes Joe Capilano, known as the Princess of Peace of Capilano Reserve. She is also the granddaughter of the renowned Chief Dan George, and two of her four children are performers, Sid Bobb and daughter Columpa, a multi-disciplinary artist, who is also a playwright, songwriter and Artisitc Director of the largest Aboriginal Theatre school in Canada. Lee is currently the Aboriginal Writer-in-Residence for First Nations House, and an Instructor in the Aboriginal Studies Dept. at University of Toronto. She is one of the founders of the Enowkin International School of Writing in Penticton, BC, and Cultural Director of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto. She mentors young people on personal and cultural healing and reclamation. Her own difficult youth left indelible marks, she says. I got beat up at school every day because they didnt want Indians. AKUA BENJAMIN Akua Benjamin has been in social work her for most of her life in varying formal and informal capacities. She began her formal social work career after graduating from the University of Toronto in the early 1980s. In 2003, she received her PhD in Sociology of Education and Equity Studies from the University of Toronto, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education. Following employment in the fields of psychiatric social work and addictions, she has been teaching at Ryerson University since 1988. Along with these formal employment undertakings, Akua has worked with varying community members and groups on issues of immigration, employment, education, criminal justice, feminism, anti-racism, health and other critical issues impacting many individuals and groups . As such, her research interests and community work continue to address the structural and complex issues that impede social justice and equitable treatment for many racialised and marginalized populations.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:12:44 +0000
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