OPIRGatYorkUniversity

The Ontario Public Interest Research Group presents...

(1) PANEL DISCUSSION:
How will the current economic crisis impact workers rights?
with Michael Parenti, David McNally & Marco Luciano

6pm - Wednesday, May 6th
Vanier College Lecture Hall: Rm 135
York University

(2) TALK:
Capitalism's Prosperity and Poverty
with Michael Parenti

Thursday, May 7th
7pm
OISE Auditorium: 252 Bloor St. W
University of Toronto
Suggested Donation $5

Michael Parenti is an internationally known award-winning author and lecturer. He is a leading progressive political analyst. His highly informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range
of audiences in North America and abroad.

Parenti will deal with the crisis of the corporate global system of investment, how it undermines democracy and prosperity and fosters poverty and instability, and how only strong popularly supported
government ownership can treat the ongoing crisis.

David McNally is a professor of Political Science at York University and a founding member of the New Socialist Group. He is the author of a number of books, including Another World is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism.

Marco Luciano is the coordinator for Migrante Ontario, an alliance of Filipino migrant organization in Ontario. The organization advocates for the rights of migrants and their families. Marco is also a community and labour activist and currently a staff of CUPE Local 1281.

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Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG)
Research - Education - Action for Social and Environmental Justice
www.opirgyork.ca
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For more info contact:
opirg@yorku.ca
opirg.toronto@utoronto.ca

Special thanks to our co-sponsors: CUPE 3903, York University Political Science Department, rabble.ca, CHRY 105.5FM, CUPE 1281 and many more.

York Animal Rights Group (YARG) presents:

The (not so nice) Milk of Human Kindness:
Harold Brown on the environmental implications of the dairy industry

2 PM - Friday, 24 April 2009
GSA Conference Room (430 Student Centre)

As part of OPIRG's Workshop and Speaker Series, York Animal Rights Group has invited Harold Brown to come and speak on the environmental implications of the dairy industry. Harold Brown was raised on a cattle farm in Michigan and spent half of his life in agriculture. As Outreach Coordinator for Farm Sanctuary, Harold coordinates a campaign to encourage farmers to adopt sustainable farming practices.

OPIRG AGM + Guest Talk by Yves Engler on
Canadian Foreign Policy and Economic Crises

4 to 6pm,
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
GSA Conference Room
(Rm 430, Student Centre)

Ontario Public Interest Research Group at York invites all undergraduate and graduate students to join us for OPIRG's Annual General Meeting with a review and celebration of this year's OPIRG's activity. Come find out about board and staff reports, audit and election results. Meet OPIRG's volunteers, new and outgoing Board of Directors, and our membership.

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GUEST TALK:
Canadian foreign policy and the economic crisis

Contrary to the mythology of Canada as a force for good in the world, this country has been part of the command and control apparatus of the world economic system from its beginning. At first, Canada served as an arm of the British Empire, but, given the country's location and economic and racial makeup, quickly became intertwined with the USA.

In recent years Ottawa has helped overthrow Haiti's elected government, quietly supported the US war in Iraq and is currently waging an intense counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan. Simultaneously, Canadian mining companies operate socially and environmentally damaging projects around the world.

While not fundamentally changing the nature of Canadian foreign-policy, the economic crisis provides social movements with an opportunity to win over growing numbers of Canadians to an alternative vision of Canada's role in the world.

Yves Engler is the author of the forthcoming The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy and two other books: Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority (with Anthony Fenton) and Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical.

And there will be snacks and refreshments!

Come out to support your student and community social justice and environmental organization - OPIRG York