Celebrate Biodiversity! 

Faculty of Environmental Studies invites you to a special screening of GHOST BIRD  a documentary by Scott Crocker
www.ghostbirdmovie.com
Wednesday, February 2, 2011   5:45PM  
Nat Taylor Cinema, Ross Bldg. N102

Every year another bird species vanishes forever.  What are the chances of one coming back?

"Beautifully crafted, heartbreaking, ironic and frustrating...It's a stunner." ...NPR San Francisco

"a witty, wistful documentary that turns a bird-watching tale into a multilayered story that will fascinate practically everybody." ...New York Times.

When: February 7th, 4:00-5:00

Where: HNES 140

Dear BES and Other York Undergraduate Students,

Learn how green building design can provide solutions to climate change and sustainable community development.  This summer the Faculty of Environmental Studies, along will collaborations from York International, the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS), and the World Green Building Council, will once again offer ENVS 4230 6.0,  Design for Sustainability in the Built Environment: Interactive Workshop.  The course will be held July 4, 2011 to July 29, 2011.  The workshop is hosted by the Faculty of Environmental Studies, but is open to third and fourth year students from all disciplines.

Highlights of the Workshop Include:

unique interactive workshop

practice design methodologies & tools

collaborate with students from around the world

field trips and cross-disciplinary design charrette

guest lectures by Ontario experts in green building

Where: Hamilton [carpool will depart from York]

When: February 5, 2011 at 12:00pm

Join us for a tour of the Hamilton Workers Arts and Heritage centre to engage in some of Hamilton’s rich working class labour movement, followed by an afternoon social. Please e-mail wlssa@yorku.ca for carpool details.

For more information on the Work and Labour Students Assciation please visit: http://www.yorkulssa.com/.

Where: TEL Building

When: Thursday, January 27, 2011, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Come by and learn about your rights as an employee! Feel free to pick up your Factsheet or help us spread the word while checking out prospective employers. Volunteer shifts are open to anyone who wants to join in on the Know Your Rights Campaign. Please message WLSSA exec at wlssa@yorku.ca if you are interested.

For more information please visit: http://www.yorkulssa.com/

Every year for the past 19 years the Toronto Environmental Alliance
(TEA) has held the Ecobunk Awards that honours adverstising excellence
in greenwashing. The who's who of the environmental community gets
together to laugh, network and have a good time. In return, TEA gets
some needed money that helps us campaign on important environmental
issues at City Hall.
This year marks the 20th Anniversary Ecobunk. It's on February 2nd at
the Lula Lounge (details here).
Tickets are $40 each or $320 for a table of 8. In return, you get a
great evening's entertainment, you get to meet fellow Torontonians who
care about the environment, and you get to help TEA continue our work.
Finally, as you all know, the new Mayor and his supporters are wanting
to dismantle some of the important environmental accomplishments we've
won in the past few years. We need your help to make sure this doesn't
happen. Coming to Ecobunk is one way you can do this.

For more information: www.torontoenvironment.org

Thursday, January 20, 7 p.m.
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street
(East of Spadina, South of College)

Speakers:
• Andrea Harden: Energy Campaigner, Council of Canadians
• Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu: JustEarth, Toronto Climate Campaign, Post Carbon  
  Toronto
• John Dillon: Economic Justice Program Coordinator, KAIROS
• Statements by Bolivia's Ambassador, Pablo Solón (video)
 and by Gerry LeBlanc, USW Injured Workers' program (video)
• Daniel T'seleie, Canadian Youth Delegation, hopefully by skype
• See video footage of Cancún protests (by Allan Lissner)

Moderator:
• Dorothy McDougall, Ecological Justice Program Coordinator, KAIROS

Over 190 countries, developed and developing, met late 2010 at COP16 in Cancún to come up with an agreement to respond to the world climate crisis. Come and listen to the reports of Canadian experts who went there to protest or to witness the negotiations. Vigorous protests inside and outside the conference spoke for the world's peoples in our struggle for climate justice.

Co-organizers: Toronto Climate Campaign; Council of Canadians (Toronto Chapter); Toronto Bolivia Solidarity

On January 28-29, 2011, a new NGO - the Alliance Against Modern Slavery (AAMS) is celebrating its launch by bringing together international experts, government officials, law enforcement personnel, survivors of slavery and more to York University’s campus for a freedom concert and conference.
 
There are a staggering 27 million slaves in the world today. This number is equivalent to the entire population of Canada in the early 1990s. Slavery in the 21st Century is a $32 billion global industry on par with drug trafficking and illicit arms sales. While most nations have anti-human trafficking laws, enforcement is erratic and, in some countries, non-existent.
 
Public awareness of modern slavery is low, enabling traffickers to lure thousands of victims into forced labour situations. Canada, for instance, is a source, transit and destination country for human trafficking. According to the United Nations, an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked internationally each year, with as many as 17,500 people trafficked into the United States alone.
 
The vision of AAMS is to combat modern slavery in Canada by collecting resources, building programs, and creating alliances among a network of local and global partners so that every person has the opportunity for sustainable freedom. Co-founder, President and CEO Karlee Sapoznik says “Modern-day slavery is arguably the most underpublicized human rights crisis of our time. As a historian who studied the slave trade and the Holocaust, I was shocked to learn that practices that I thought died out centuries ago continue today. The more I learned about modern slavery, the more compelled I was to start doing something about it. The Alliance Against Modern Slavery targets this scourge on our society.”
 
The NGO’s launch on January 28-29 will bring together survivors of modern slavery, politicians, law enforcement officials, activists and academics.
 
On Friday January 28th AAMS will be holding a benefit concert to raise funds of this new NGO.  Well-known President of Free the Slaves, TED Speaker and consultant to the United Nations Global Program on Human Trafficking Kevin Bales will be the keynote speaker along with survivor testimony by Natasha Falle and music by Kate Todd, Jeff Gunn, Janelle Belgrave, and Samba Elegua drummers.
 
The conference will feature presentations by Marty Van Doren (RCMP Human Trafficking Awareness Coordinator for Ontario), MP Joy Smith (Conservative – Kildonan – St. Paul, Manitoba), MP Glen Pearson (Liberal – London North Centre, Ontario – Video Message), Peggy Nash (NDP Federal President).
 
The Alliance Against Modern Slavery was created by graduate students in York University’s Department of History.  Kevin Bales and Paul Lovejoy, an accomplished historian of slavery and director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, sit on the organization’s board.
 
For more information, or to schedule an interview, contact Karlee Sapoznik at (647) 637-6350 or babazada@yorku.ca;karleesapoznik@yahoo.ca

 
EVENT SPECIFIC INFORMATION
 
FREEDOM CONCERT
When: January 28, 7:00-10:00pm
Where: Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre,
Accolade East Building, York University
Cost: $19 or $14 for students
Tickets can be picked up at the York University Box Office
Box Office Information: http://www.yorku.ca/perform/boxoffice.htmBox Office Phone Number: 416-736-5888.
Online Ticket Purchase: https://secure1.tixhub.com/yorku/procurement
SLAVERY IN THE 21st CENTURY CONFERENCE
When: January 29, 9:00am-5:30pm
Where: Founders Assembly Hall, Founders College,
York University
Register: http://allianceagainstmodernslavery.org/confreg
HELPFUL RESOURCES
Keven Bales’s talks at TED 2010: http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_bales_how_to_combat_modern_slavery.html
Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples: http://tubman.apps01.yorku.ca/

When: Every Monday of the term (with the exception of February 7th and 21st) , 5-7 p.m

Where: Student Centre room 307 but location may change based on availability.

The Justice Cafe is a place for like minded seekers of justice to meet, network, socialize, learn and teach. We do our best to create a safe and anti-oppressive space for people to share ideas, dialogue and debate.

Join Us! The Justice Cafe is weekly event. For more information please visit: http://www.yorku.ca/gyn/Global_%40_York/Justice_Cafe.html