A public forum organized by YUFA Community Projects on University, Union, & Community Coalition-Building for Social Change.

Date:  Friday, April 20, 2012 ~ 8:30 – 6:00

Location: York University, Vari Hall D

*** Participation is free, but pre-registration is required @ http://pushingforward2012.eventbrite.com

Coming from off-campus?

Shuttle to York U from Yorkgate Mall & Black Creek Community Health Centre, see website for schedule

Questions? pushingforward2012@gmail.com

The panel discussions and keynote address will be recorded and podcast.
The afternoon breakout sessions, which we invite panelists to participate in, will focus on opportunities for building coalitions between the university, unions, and community groups in York’s neighbouring communities. YUFA-CP has committed $10,000 in start-up funds to help launch one or more of the initiatives identified in these sessions. And other unions have been invited to join us in making a similar financial commitment.

York University Faculty Association (YUFA) Representing 1400 Faculty and Librarians.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
8:30  Registration

9:15 – 9:30 Introductions and Welcome

9:30 – 10:45  Panel 1: Mapping the Terrain: the impact of neo-liberalism, economic inequality, and cutbacks on marginalized communities
• Uzma Shakir, Director, Office of Equity, Diversity & Human Rights, City of Toronto
• Vanessa Hunt, President, York Federation of Students (YFS)
• Sam Tecle, graduate student, teacher, member of Success Beyond Limits
• Kulsoom Anwer, teacher, Westview Centennial Secondary School

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee

11:00 – 12:30  Panel 2 Mobilized Resistance, Coalition Building
• Alan Sears, Professor, Sociology, Ryerson, organizer OCCUPY TORONTO
• Danny Beaton, Turtle Clan Mohawk Nation, environmental activist
• Pam Frache, Education Director, Ontario Federation of Labour
• Maria Augimeri, City of Toronto Councilor, Ward 9 York Centre
• Andria Babbington, Vice-President, Toronto & York Region Labour Council

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 1:45  Performance: Nomanzland
1:45 – 2:15  Public Dialogue through Arts & Culture
Keynote Speaker: Andrea Boucard, West Side Arts Hub

2:15 – 2:30 Coffee

2:30 – 3:45  Breakout Sessions. Taking Action: Connecting Resources & Issues

3:45 – 4:00 Break

4:00 – 4:45  Reflections, Next Steps: Summary of breakout sessions.

5:00 Wine and Cheese Reception

Please note that YorkSpace and York Digital Journals will not be
accessible for the better part of today (Monday, April 2nd)  due to a scheduled database
upgrade.

Thank you for your patience.

OCUL is pleased to announce the release of Scholars GeoPortal

Scholars GeoPortal is an award-winning geospatial data discovery tool allowing Ontario’s university students and researchers to enrich their teaching and research by engaging with OCUL’s growing collection of geospatial data. The portal offers search, preview, query, download and sharing functionality for datasets licensed by Ontario university libraries, covering such topics as land use, transportation networks, census boundaries, geology, soils, points of interest (such as healthcare facilities, schools, and airports), air photos, and more.

Scholars GeoPortal’s features include:

• full-text searching
• geographic searching by place names and addresses, or by drawing a box on the map
• adding data to the map view & manipulating the transparency and draw order of layers on the map
• selecting from a variety of base maps
• identifying individual features on the map
• viewing and querying attribute tables
• annotating the map by marking and labeling points and shapes of interest
• saving maps to your user account
• printing, exporting, or sharing (linking to) your map
• downloading data in a variety of formats and projections
• both French and English language interfaces

For more information on OCUL’s Scholars GeoPortal, please contact:

Rosa Orlandini
Map and GIS Librarian
York University Libraries
416-736-2100 ext. 88863

Scholars GeoPortal’s collections currently include data from Statistics Canada (through the Data Liberation Initiative), Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (through the Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange), and DMTI Spatial Inc. Data from these providers is continually being added to the portal – check out the latest additions under “New Data” on the Scholars GeoPortal website.

There’s no more need for the FAS (File Access Service) account any more: no-one needs to set it up specially or maybe remember a different password for it. No more FAS! FAS is gone!

Your Passport York account will now let you log in to all the library computers (and all the other computers on campus).

All you need to do to get it working is to log in to Manage My Services and reset your Passport York password.

(See Simplify your access to key York computing resources and services for more information.)