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Local activists
by Julie Guard 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

Another idea for local activists for our panel on Making Labour a Social Force. Lynne Fernandez has for some years worked with the Migrant Workers Solidarity Network in Manitoba, and they did interviews with Mexican workers about abuses on some of the farms. When they reported those abuses to ES, one of the officers was able to audit farmers' books and establish that workers were not being paid properly. The Manitoba legislation passed by the previous government allowed them to do that, and to demand a remedy. On Poverty and the Fight for a Material Existence, I recommend Kirsten Bernas, who is without doubt a community activist. Here are just two entries about her: Kirsten Bernas chairs the Provincial Working Group of The Right to Housing Coalition, a CCPA Manitoba Research Associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba and is the Researcher and Policy Manager for The Canadian Community Economic Development Network in the Manitoba office. Kirsten Bernas is a Research and Policy Manager with the Canadian Community Economic Development (CED) Network in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Kirsten represents the Canadian CED Network on the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative's Alternative Federal Budget Steering Committee, Make Poverty History Canada's Steering Committee, and Right to Housing Coalition's Provincial Committee. She has been an active member of Make Poverty History Manitoba. julie

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local activists
by Julie Guard 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

Hi everyone: I found a website by that neighbourhood organization I mentioned at the meeting, of local people engaged in self-help, neighbour to neighbour. It's called Fearless R2W. Here's the url: https://www.ayomovement.com/fearless-r2w.html julie From: 1919-conference-bounces(a)lists.umanitoba.ca [mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] On Behalf Of James Naylor Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2018 4:40 PM To: 1919 conference organizing committee Subject: Re: [1919-Conference] proposals received Here you go, We got a couple more proposals on Feb.1. I've started a spreadsheet. As you can see, we have 7 proposals plus one roundtable proposal. In most cases, they tend to address the Wpg strike pretty directly. Jim James Naylor Professor Department of History Brandon University 270 18th Street Brandon, MB R7A 6A9 Canada Office: 204 727 9664 Cell: 204 720 2117 Naylor(a)BrandonU.ca<mailto:Naylor@BrandonU.ca> people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/<https://people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/> [cid:image001.png@01D1CCA7.E31D2D80] From: 1919-conference-bounces(a)lists.umanitoba.ca<mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca> [mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] On Behalf Of Julie Guard Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2018 12:17 PM To: 1919 conference organizing committee <1919-conference(a)lists.umanitoba.ca<mailto:1919-conference@lists.umanitoba.ca>> Subject: [1919-Conference] proposals received Hi All: I was about to start contacting my friends and acquaintances individually to urge them to submit a paper proposal or, better, put together a panel, but I realized that I don't know who has already submitted a proposal. Would whoever has that information please circulate a list of the names of people who have submitted proposals and the titles of their papers or panels? I am anxious to begin soliciting(!) Thanks kindly, julie From: 1919-conference-bounces(a)lists.umanitoba.ca<mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca> [mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] On Behalf Of James Naylor Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 5:47 PM To: 1919 conference organizing committee Subject: [1919-Conference] Wpg General Strike Conf. Ctte. meeting on Saturday Hi all, The next meeting of Winnipeg General Strike Conference Committee is this Saturday, February 3, at 1:30 p.m. in our usual location: 2B23, the Oral History Centre, in Bryce Hall at University of Winnipeg. There are a small number of important discussions to be had -- particularly around the keynote speakers and setting up the roundtables. Please review the lists of potential roundtable participants prior to the meeting.: Agenda: * Reports * Call for Papers: increasing responses * Keynote Speaker(s) decision * Roundtable composition * Friday night event at the Conference See you on Saturday, Jim James Naylor Professor Department of History Brandon University 270 18th Street Brandon, MB R7A 6A9 Canada Office: 204 727 9664 Cell: 204 720 2117 Naylor(a)BrandonU.ca<mailto:Naylor@BrandonU.ca> people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/<https://people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/> [cid:image001.png@01D1CCA7.E31D2D80]

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proposals received
by Julie Guard 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

Hi All: I was about to start contacting my friends and acquaintances individually to urge them to submit a paper proposal or, better, put together a panel, but I realized that I don't know who has already submitted a proposal. Would whoever has that information please circulate a list of the names of people who have submitted proposals and the titles of their papers or panels? I am anxious to begin soliciting(!) Thanks kindly, julie From: 1919-conference-bounces(a)lists.umanitoba.ca [mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] On Behalf Of James Naylor Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 5:47 PM To: 1919 conference organizing committee Subject: [1919-Conference] Wpg General Strike Conf. Ctte. meeting on Saturday Hi all, The next meeting of Winnipeg General Strike Conference Committee is this Saturday, February 3, at 1:30 p.m. in our usual location: 2B23, the Oral History Centre, in Bryce Hall at University of Winnipeg. There are a small number of important discussions to be had -- particularly around the keynote speakers and setting up the roundtables. Please review the lists of potential roundtable participants prior to the meeting.: Agenda: * Reports * Call for Papers: increasing responses * Keynote Speaker(s) decision * Roundtable composition * Friday night event at the Conference See you on Saturday, Jim James Naylor Professor Department of History Brandon University 270 18th Street Brandon, MB R7A 6A9 Canada Office: 204 727 9664 Cell: 204 720 2117 Naylor(a)BrandonU.ca<mailto:Naylor@BrandonU.ca> people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/<https://people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/> [cid:image001.png@01D1CCA7.E31D2D80]

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Keynote Speaker survey
by Paul Jenkins 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Hi all. Yesterday was the original deadline to complete the Keynote Speaker survey. If you have not already done so, and there are about 10 of you, could you complete it today/this evening (the average completion time is about 2 minutes). Thank you kindly, Paul Jenkins, PhD Instructor, Department of History, & Program Developer/Coordinator & Assistant to the Director Institute for the Humanities, University of Manitoba

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Wpg General Strike Conf. Ctte. meeting on Saturday
by James Naylor 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Hi all, The next meeting of Winnipeg General Strike Conference Committee is this Saturday, February 3, at 1:30 p.m. in our usual location: 2B23, the Oral History Centre, in Bryce Hall at University of Winnipeg. There are a small number of important discussions to be had -- particularly around the keynote speakers and setting up the roundtables. Please review the lists of potential roundtable participants prior to the meeting.: Agenda: * Reports * Call for Papers: increasing responses * Keynote Speaker(s) decision * Roundtable composition * Friday night event at the Conference See you on Saturday, Jim James Naylor Professor Department of History Brandon University 270 18th Street Brandon, MB R7A 6A9 Canada Office: 204 727 9664 Cell: 204 720 2117 Naylor(a)BrandonU.ca<mailto:Naylor@BrandonU.ca> people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/<https://people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/> [cid:image001.png@01D1CCA7.E31D2D80]

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We want your opinion
by umih＠umanitoba.ca via surveymonkey.com 26 Jan '18

26 Jan '18

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1919 Conference - Keynote Speaker survey
by Paul Jenkins 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

A friendly reminder to all conference committee members to complete the survey ranking your preferences for keynote speakers. The deadline to do so is January 29th, one short week from today. Best, Paul Paul Jenkins, PhD Instructor, Department of History, & Program Developer/Coordinator & Assistant to the Director Institute for the Humanities, University of Manitoba

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Keynote Speaker survey
by U Of M Institute For The Humanities 17 Jan '18

17 Jan '18

Hi all. As some of you may have experienced, Survey Monkey did not really like the conference list email address and it might have denied you access to the survey. I have resent the survey to your individual email addresses. This should resolve any difficulties. Apologies for the extra step and, of course, please let me know if you have other problems. Best, Paul Paul Jenkins, PhD Program Developer/Coordinator & Assistant to the Director Institute for the Humanities & Instructor, Dept. of History University of Manitoba 407 Tier Building 204 474 9599 umih(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca> umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>

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Wpg Strike Committee meeting - January 13
by James Naylor 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

Hi everybody, As I hope you remember, the Winnipeg General Strike Conference Committee is meeting this Saturday, January 13, at 1:30 p.m. in our usual location: 2B23, the Oral History Centre, in Bryce Hall at University of Winnipeg. This is an important meeting... Agenda: * Reports * Call for Papers: report on proposals to date, and the next step * Website * Keynote Speaker(s) * Roundtable composition * Fundraising * Friday night event at the Conference Let me know if there's anything you'd like to add. See you on Saturday, Jim James Naylor Professor Department of History Brandon University 270 18th Street Brandon, MB R7A 6A9 Canada Office: 204 727 9664 Cell: 204 720 2117 Naylor(a)BrandonU.ca<mailto:Naylor@BrandonU.ca> people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/<https://people.brandonu.ca/naylorj/> [cid:image001.png@01D1CCA7.E31D2D80]

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Fw: Basic Income In The Neoliberal Age
by Paul Moist 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

Hi everyone. Attached are various documents associated with the debate around Basic Income. John Clarke of the ON Coalition Against Poverty is one of the names recommended for our roundtable, his position on Basic Income is for us to be careful what we wish for. Fyi. Paul Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Original Message From: Socialist Interventions <info(a)socialistproject.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2018 9:58 PM To: Paul Moist Subject: Basic Income In The Neoliberal Age Socialist Interventions Pamphlet No. 16: ‎ Basic Income In The Neoliberal Age Ontario Coalition Against Poverty From the very first days of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), at the beginning of the 1990s, we have found ourselves on the front lines of a war on the poor that has been of central importance to the implementation of broader neoliberal austerity. In Canada, the undermining of these income support systems, both at the federal and provincial level, has continued to be vigorously pursued and the poverty and insecurity that this has generated has created the vulnerability and desperation needed in order to weaken workers’ bargaining power, reduce the capacity of unions to resist and to facilitate a veritable explosion of low wage precarious work. In light of this dogged pursuit of austerity based agenda over so many years, news that the Ontario government was likely to set up a Basic Income (BI) pilot, supposedly so as to put in place a measure that would decrease poverty and provide more adequate and secure income, struck us as a gift horse whose mouth we should carefully examine. While our particular concern was to look at what was unfolding in Ontario, a critical look at the whole BI concept was also in order. As we began to explore the various versions of this social policy that are put forward, it became clear that the neoliberal right has its own sense of the possibilities of BI. This pamphlet explores the concept of BI and particularly its deployment as part of state welfare policies today, and the challenges being posed for the struggles of the anti-poverty movement in Canada. https://socialistproject.ca/pamphlets/basic-income-neoliberal-age/ If you do not want to receive any more newsletters: http://socialistproject.ca/lists/?p=unsubscribe&uid=baf942d81636b7d0241a93f… Forward to a friend: http://socialistproject.ca/lists/?p=forward&uid=baf942d81636b7d0241a93f3cd4… To update your preferences: http://socialistproject.ca/lists/?p=preferences&uid=baf942d81636b7d0241a93f… -- powered by phpList, www.phplist.com --

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