Whose Camp(us)? Reimagining Community Safety Together
4700 Keele St
4700 Keele St, North York, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Ontario
43.7750059
-79.4942155
Description
Join us to hear from long-time activists for an engaging discussion followed by a community discussion as we delve into the critical issues surrounding community safety on the York University campuses and beyond. In this panel, participants will learn about the history of surveillance and policing on our campuses and the broader community, effective community alternatives that have been put in place in different contexts, and come together to imagine what community safety means for us, by us.
This collaborative event marks the beginning of an ongoing conversation and action plan to build alternative community models. Don't miss this opportunity to be part of a transformative dialogue that goes beyond addressing the symptoms to envisioning lasting solutions for community safety. Your presence and input are crucial as we embark on this journey together.
This event is organized by Reimagining Community Safety (an Action Group of OPIRG York), The York Federation of Students and The York University Graduate Students’ Association.
Skip the Dishes Vouchers:
The first 25 people to log into the event will receive a $20 Skip the Dishes voucher!
Speaker Bios:
Lived Experiences and Context:
Butterfly GoPaul (Organizer, Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty) is a resident member of JFAAP and Jane and Finch Housing Coalition. She has been a frontline worker for more than 20 years primarily in the Jane and Finch community and recently joined Parkdale Community Legal Services. She is a mother and grandmother who believes that her family and community are safer without the police and that the money/ resources going into policing should be reallocated immediately. For this event, Butterfly will offer insightful and lived experience of broader community members, students, faculty, and researchers, shedding light on the challenges faced by those who are unhoused and their interactions with policing, as well as successes and challenges of alternative community safety models that they have worked with.
Campus and Community Overview:
Ashley D’Souza (President, York Federation of Students) has spent many years in the student movement; through his involvement within the student movement and in student organizing he has gained a firm understanding of the importance of community building, student organizing, and the importance of solidarity amongst all marginalized peoples. Lynn LaCroix (Frontline worker, MA student in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies) will provide a comprehensive context of the current situation on our campus and the broader community concerning unhoused individuals.
Community Alternatives:
Andrea Vásquez Jiménez (she/her/ella) M.Ed is the Director of Policing-Free Schools and convenes the National Campaign for a Policing-Free Schools Canada. She will be speaking to the multiple ways policing-in-schools shows up and what actually works in creating healthy educational and community spaces, which in and of themselves are safe.
Local Action and Organizing:
John Clarke (Anti-poverty organizer) was one of the founding members of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty and has recently served as the Packer Visitor in Social Justice in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. John will explore how we might mobilize to get the York Administration and student body to become involved in imagining alternative approaches to community safety, particularly for people with lived experiences of being unhoused/ street-involved/ homeless.
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Start:
2023-11-22T16:00:00-05:00
End:
2023-11-22T17:30:00-05:00
Category
Other
Tickets
General Admission
0.0
CAD
