As we hunker down to the heat this month, we’re continuing to think about deeper and wider issues around economic and civil security. This month we’re looking at parallels between community organizing and movement-building here and in the People’s Movement Assembly in Atlanta, Georgia, from which COCo staff member Spencer Mann recently returned. What are your thoughts on these important issues? How do they affect your community organizing work? Drop us a line at info@coco-net.org, join us on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/90518783206/, or find us on twitter – @COCoQC. We look forward to hearing from you!
COCo Note
Connecting the dots between people’s movements
There’s been a lot of talk in community organizations about the student movement and the movement to resist Bill 78, but what do we really mean when we say “movement”? Are we talking about a local group, a provincial regroupement, a national coalition, or something broader? How does the work of our individual organizations connect to the efforts of Canadian or Quebec-wide social movements, and how do these provincial or national movements then link into even larger global movements?
COCo staff-member Spencer Mann recently returned from a year of organizing in Atlanta, Georgia, where he focused on learning about US-based social movements through an effort called the Peoples Movement Assembly (www.peoplesmovementassembly.org).
One of the most striking parts of this movement building work was the emphasis that it placed on understanding the current socio-economic political moment, while also situating the moment historically. Movement organizers would often map out a timeline of key advances and attacks that their movements had faced and would analyze the different “fronts of struggle” that were connected to their current organizing work.
When Spencer returned from Atlanta and arrived in the midst of the student strike and the outcry around Bill 78, he was struck by the parallels between these struggles in Quebec and similar fronts of struggle in Georgia, 2000 km away.
In March, the Georgia legislature was debating Senate Bill 469, an anti-protest and anti-union bill that threatened fines and imprisonment for unauthorized protests near businesses or private residences. The bill was largely understood to be a response to the Occupy Movement’s protests targeting of corporate headquarters and the residences of corporate executives. Just as Bill 78 is understood to be a response to the tactics and advances of the Quebec student strike.
What are the connections between Bill 78 and Bill 469? Certainly the following statement by the President of the Quebec Bar Association could apply to both Bills: “The scale of [Bill 78’s] restraints on fundamental freedoms isn’t justified by the objectives aimed by the government.” What is our analysis of the bigger picture that links both of these Bills in a global political moment dominated by emergency austerity measures, emergency laws, and emergency financial managers?
Organizers involved in the Peoples Movement Assembly define Social Movements as “connections between struggles across boundaries to build power.” Last month, we explored the importance of the student movement for the future of the Quebec community sector. If our student groups, unions, and community organizations are facing similar struggles from Athens to Atlanta to Montreal, then how can we unite to build the power of all our communities?
Stay tuned for future COCo events and publications on Movement Building and check out the Peoples Movement Assembly organizing kit and other resources in the section below.
The Big Picture
People’s Movements: Tools for theory and practice
These resources won’t answer all of our questions about Movement Building, but they are a really helpful start. The People’s Movement Assembly organizing kit is a great concrete tool that we could consider using in our own movement building work. On a more theoretical level, the Building a Movement Project recently came out with a new series of resources on non-profits and social movements. An exciting challenge for all of us over the coming months and years is to find or create resources like these, but focused on the Canadian and Quebec context.
Close Up
Local responses to Law 78
QPIRG Concordia is using its website (www.qpirgconcordia.org) to compile information about autonomous neighborhood assemblies that are being organized all over Montreal in the context of Quebec’s ongoing student general strike, as well as the neighborhood casseroles protests organized in response to the special law against student organizing and protests. Information about assemblies can be also be shared with them via: info@qpirgconcordia.org).
Finally, Juripop, a non-profit legal information organization whose services are known and used by many in the community sector, have a href=”http://www.juripop.org/medias/nouvelles/projet-de-loi-78-un-veritable-manifeste-contre-les-libertes-fondamentales-de-tous-les-citoyens-quebecois/”>this this to say about the law.
Community Postings
If you have a community posting that you would like to submit to the next e-Bulletin, please email us 100 words or fewer by June 23rd.
1. Workshop: Mosaic Summer Workshops on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation and Gender Training
2. Conference: Friends for Mental Health
3. New Resource: Free Artist Coaching Drop-In Sessions at YES Montreal
4. New Resource: Compte rendu de la conférence “Les défis de la famille immigrante : Perspectives de soutien pour éviter l’exclusion”
5. New Resource: Safe Haven for Girls
6. New Resource: Chambre disponible
7. New Resource: Premium Memberships to Non-Profit and Charitable Organizations
8. New Resource: New web portal for NPOs
9. New Resource: Appel de projets aux organismes culturels
10. New Resource: Programme préparatoire à l’emploi pour une clientèle ayant vécu des difficultés liées à la santé mentale
11. New Resource: Upcoming training on rights and discrimination
12. Job Offer: Treatment Information Facilitator
13. Job Offer: Outreach Coordinator
14. Job Offer: Executive Director, Mile End Community Mission
15. Job Offer: QPIRG Concordia
16. Job Offer: Agent de Mobilisation, La Coalition jeunesse montréalaise de lutte à l’homophobie (CJMLH)
17. Job Offer: Adjoint(e) à la direction, l’AMECQ
18. Volunteer Opportunity: Montreal Healing Arts Community
19. Social Action: Organize! Book-launch and panel discussion
20. Other: FRIENDS FOR MENTAL HEALTH – COMMUNIQUÉ June 2012 For Caregivers of People with a Mental Illness
21. Other: 4 1/2-room Flat for Rent in Lower NDG Housing Co-op July 1rst
22. Other: Office space for rent – Saint-Léonard
23. Other: Call-out for photographs
24. Other: Invitation to employers to complete CEDEC survey on mature workers
1. Workshop: Mosaic Summer Workshops on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation and Gender Training
2011 Mosaic summer workshop series:
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation with 2 day Community PracticumHeld at: University of Ottawa , Ottawa , CanadaJuly 18 -23, 2011
Friends for Mental Health an association of families and friends of people with mental illness is presenting a conference: What to do when our adult child with a mental illness lives in the family home and there are serious conflicts. Can we ask him to leave? What is the procedure?
Guest Speakers:Law student from the Legal Information Clinic at McGill University and
Claude-Catherine Lemoine, lawyer – Centre de justice de proximité du Grand Montréal
3. New Resource: Free Artist Coaching Drop-In Sessions at YES Montreal
Drop – in coaching services for artists are now available every other Thursday at the YES Centre (666 Sherbrooke Street West, Suite 700). A YES Artist Coach will be available from 2:00PM-4:00PM for a 15-minute session. This service is free and appointments are on a first come, first served basis. One-on-one sessions with the YES artist coach can be one-time, occasional or on-going and are intended to help artists define and attain their goals based on short and long-term action plans. For more information call 514-878-9788 or visit www.yesmontreal.ca
4. New Resource: Compte rendu de la conférence “Les défis de la famille immigrante : Perspectives de soutien pour éviter l’exclusion”
La Société de recherche en orientation humaine (SROH) organisait le 9 mai dernier la première d’une série de conférences sur ce thème avec la intervenante auprès de la famille et de la jeunesse Micheline Létourneau, également directrice de la revue Psychologie préventive et ancienne présidente de la SROH. Les autres conférences sur ce thème sont prévues pour l’automne 2012 en Outaouais et en Estrie.
Girls between the ages of 9-12 are falling through the cracks. They need a safe haven to learn about the challenges they will encounter and develop skills to become empowered and confident women. You can help change a girl’s life with Go Girls; you can give them the tools to succeed.
Refer, advertise and promote.
Help the Family Resource Center create a brighter future; change a girl’s life today.
Le Centre Scalabrini pour Réfugiés et Immigrants offrira une chambre disponible à la fin du mois d’Août. Pour de plus amples informations, contactez-nous.
Centre Scalabrini 514-387-4477
7. New Resource: Premium Memberships to Non-Profit and Charitable Organizations
Website Directory for Healing Arts The Montreal Healing Arts Community / Réseau des arts de la santé Website (www.mtlhealingarts.org) offers free Premium Memberships to Non-Profit and Charitable Organizations. A member can create a directory profile for their NPO, post public event listings for events, workshops and trainings and publish informative blog articles, all of which are visible to the public. Our vision is to encourage health, provide networking opportunities and to do community outreach in the healing community of Montreal. For more information: design@mtlhealingarts.org.
Recently launched by Imagine Canada, this new portal presents all CNPO’s within Canada and reflects the T3010 information as provided to Revenue Canada. Its purpose is to simply and visually show information for each CNPO while reflecting the specific “character” of the organisation. The data contained in the portal is directly downloaded from the CRA (T3010) and is public knowledge. Accessing, finding and using the information in the CRA on-line website can be a challenge. To make this tool come to life, we need to have you input your information and tell your story your way. There are a few points that are important to note: As all CNPO’s T3010 information is public domain – all 86,000 Canadian CNPO’s can be found in Charity Focus. An important feature of each organisation’s visibility is that the personalized information speaking to the mission, vision, and distinct capacity can be featured. But it is up to the organisation to go in and populate the various sections. It is as simple as attaching a document to an e-mail. We are sure that the public will find this an extremely attractive tool when reflecting on where to donate, and to further simplify the donation process we have included the capability of donating through Canadahelps.com directly on line. To obtain additional support when completing the upload of your particular organisation’s information, contact charityfocus@imaginecanada.ca
9. New Resource: Appel de projets aux organismes culturels
Culture pour tous invite les artistes et les organismes culturels de toutes les disciplines et de toutes les régions du Québec à proposer leurs projets d’activités culturelles adaptés au monde du travail (entreprises privées, publiques et parapubliques). Les activités peuvent prendre la forme d’un atelier, d’une conférence, d’une prestation artistique, d’une création collective, d’une visite spéciale de votre organisme, etc.
Si vous avez un intérêt, veuillez nous transmettre par courriel un bref aperçu de votre démarche et de
votre travail, quelques images, ainsi qu’un ou des exemples de projets potentiels qui pourraient
intéresser le milieu du travail. Nous archiverons vos propositions dans notre banque de projets. Seules les activités retenues seront présentées dans le catalogue en ligne de notre site. Pour plus de détails, communiquez avec Geneviève Marsan au 514 873-4838 ou au genevievemarsan@lacultureenentreprise.ca.
Si vous êtes intéressé mais ne savez pas comment définir votre offre,
inscrivez-vous à notre atelier – coaching avec Martin Choquette
le jeudi 14 juin 2012, de 13 h à 17 h 30
Lieu: 4750, avenue Henri-Julien à Montréal
Coût: 40 $
10. New Resource: Programme préparatoire à l’emploi pour une clientèle ayant vécu des difficultés liées à la santé mentale
L’atelier offre un programme préparatoire à l’emploi pour une clientèle ayant vécu des difficultés liées à la santé mentale par le biais du programme « Transart vers l’emploi ».
Ce programme de retour au travail offre des ateliers de connaissance de soi, de bilan de compétences et de recherche d’emploi. Parallèlement, l’apprentissage d’un métier d’art permet au participant de développer sa créativité et sa confiance en soi.
La session débutera le 17 septembre 2012.
Pour ceux qui ont vécu des difficultés liées à la santé mentale et qui désirent réintégrer le marché du travail ou retourner aux études contacter :
3680, rue Jeanne-Mance, 2e étage,
Montréal (Québec) H2X 2K5
11. New Resource: Upcoming training on rights and discrimination
ACCÉSSS, in partnership with Génération Emploi (one of our members) is organizing a half-day training on Monday, June 18th at 13:15 aimed to empower you and help you be more knowledgeable about rights issues and discrimination and also to become more familiar with the Charte des droits et libertés du Québec. Training will be conducted by Ms Shirley Sarna, Coordinator of the Department of Education-Cooperation at the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (CDPDJ).
Limited places available ! Please ensure to book yours today by calling Mr. Gennaro Stabile at 514-948-0000ext. 224. Training will be held at 7000 Park Avenue, Suite 414B (next to the offices of ACCÉSSS, just in front of the elevator).
12. Job Offer: Treatment Information Facilitator
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Research, develop, run, evaluate, and disseminate a Facilitator’s Guide and Participants’ Handbook for a support group designed for PHAs considering/starting treatment.
Act as a resource for People Living with HIV/AIDS to acquire and utilize treatment information.
Fulfill the requirements of ACCM’s InfoTx collaboration: meet with the Provincial Treatment committee, organize conferences, update web page, and provide HIV 201.
Provide 1:1 consultations (intake meeting, exit interview) with My Life participants.
REQUIREMENTS:
In-depth knowledge of HIV treatment information, and/or relevant background in Sciences or Public Health (or demonstrated ability to obtain this vital knowledge).
Demonstrated experience in developing, running and disseminating a support group.
Proven experience in negotiating partnerships and relationships with other organizations.
Fluent French and English, spoken and written.
PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION
HOURS: 35 / week, contract through March 31, 2014
SALARY: $16.32 / hour (after probationary period)
Please send your curriculum vitae before 5:00 pm, Friday June 15, 2012
Full posting here: http://accmontreal.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/JP-TIF.pdf
13. Job Offer: Outreach Coordinator
articule is an open-access artist-run centre.
The Outreach Coordinator works to engage articule’s direct community as well as new groups and communities with the center’s activities. They also work with the Programming Coordinator and Administrative Coordinator by developing communications strategies for the center and by sharing daily office tasks.
People from marginalized communities, including but not limited to women, Aboriginal people, differently-abled people, people of colour, queer and trans people, and working class people are especially encouraged to apply.
articule’s washroom is not wheelchair accessible.
Position starts: August 15
Application deadline: July 28
26 hours a week
Salary: $24 375
14. Job Offer: Executive Director, Mile End Community Mission
We are looking for someone who values support over efficiency, empowerment, collective decision making, justice, compassion, patience and commitment and has demonstrated these qualities in their career. Someone who has a vision for the future of the Mission that acknowledges the backgrounds of the people involved and involves learning from their experiences
Responsibilities include managing daily operations, supervising staff, volunteers, programs and finances, liaison and communication with community, government and donors.
Qualifications include bilingual, experience working with a Board of Directors and government agencies, experience writing reports and grant applications in the context of a not-for-profit community organization, minimum 2 years front-line management supervision, experience working with people dealing with the effects of urban poverty including mental health and addiction, experience in therapeutic support/ pastoral care for members, active listening and advocacy, experience in managing an organizational budget.
This is a permanent full-time position that will begin in October 2012 with a salary commensurate with experience and qualifications. Only candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. Please send a CV, cover letter and references, by June 22, 2012 to hiringcommittee@mileendmission.org.
For full description please visit: http://www.mileendmission.org/now-hiring-maintenant-lembauche/
15. Job Offer: QPIRG Concordia
The Quebec Public Interest Research Group at Concordia is a resource centre for student and community research and organizing. We strive to raise awareness and support grassroots activism around diverse social and environmental issues. Our work is rooted in an anti-oppression analysis and practice. We seek to make campus-community links and inspire social change through engaging, inclusive and non-hierarchical approaches.
Pour postuler, envoyez votre lettre de présentation et votre c.v. avant le 18 juin à 17h au : cjmlhmycah@gmail.com
Seules les candidatures retenues seront contactées.
La Coalition jeunesse reconnait la contribution des personnes s’identifiant aux communautés marginalisées, et invite les autochtones, les personnes de couleur, les femmes, les lesbiennes, les personnes bisexuelles, transgenres et transsexuelles, les personnes handicapées ou séropositives à postuler. La Coalition jeunesse, en tant qu’organisation jeunesse, invite tout particulièrement les candidatures de personnes se situant dans ou près du groupe d’âge cible de l’organisme (30 ans et moins).
17. Job Offer: Adjoint(e) à la direction, l’AMECQ
L’Association des medias écrits communautaires du Québec recherche un(e) adjoint(e) au directeur général pour remplacement de congé de maternité. Durée 10 mois. 17 $/h. 35 h/sem. Baccalauréat en communication ou expérience pertinente. Excellent français. Connaissance du logiciel In Design, du Web 2.0 et des médias sociaux. Faire parvenir C.V. à medias@amecq.ca avant le 30 juin 2012. Plus d’infos ici: http://www.amecq.ca/nouvelles_de_l_association/2012/6/4/offre_d_emploi_a_l_amecq/
18. Volunteer Opportunity: Montreal Healing Arts Community
The Montreal Healing Arts Community / Réseau des arts de la santé is a local organization that promotes healing and community. We organize and host public events, provide outreach and have an online directory. We are looking for people as passionate as we are about Healing and Community to join our organization. Go to www.mtlhealingarts.org/contributors for more information or contact us at info@mtlhealingarts.org.
19. Social Action: Organize! Book-launch and panel discussion
Organize! Building from the local for global justice – Resistance in Montreal in 2012
2012 has seen unprecedented student mobilization and the growth of a social movement against austerity in Quebec which has already made an international impact. This mass movement was not born overnight but is the product of the hard work of long-term organizing.
This panel discussion brings together several contributors to a new book with strong connections to activism and organizing in Quebec and beyond: Organize! Building from the local for global justice (Oakland/Toronto: PM Press/Between the Lines Press). Books will be available for sale at a special price of $21. All booksales will benefit the Immigrant Workers Centre, Montreal (www.iwc-cti.ca).
5-7pm, Tuesday 19 June 2012
School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University, 2149 Mackay (Metro Guy-Concordia)
20. Other: FRIENDS FOR MENTAL HEALTH – COMMUNIQUÉ June 2012 For Caregivers of People with a Mental Illness
Summer Camp Workshop For Children – June 26-29, 2012
“Mommy, what’s wrong with Daddy?”
A week of free summer camp workshops will be offered at Friends for children
dealing with the mental illness of a parent or sibling.
This workshop camp of educational activities is geared for children between
the ages of 7 to 12 years.
· The camp runs for 4 days from 9:30-4:00p.m. each day.
· A series of pre established themes are incorporated into each day.
· A portion of the day is carried out in the form of games and discussion.
Another portion encourages self expression through artistic means.
Must register: 514-636-6885
PSYCHOSIS SUPPORT GROUP (English & French)
For families that have a loved one with psychosis. Must register.
Tuesday, June 5, 7:00 — 9:00 p.m.
BIPOLAR SUPPORT GROUP (English & French)
For families that have a loved one with bipolar disorder. Must register.
Tuesday, June 19, 6:30—8:30 p.m.
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER SUPPORT GROUP(English & French)
For families that have a loved one with borderline personality disorder. Must register.
Tuesday, June 26, 6:30 — 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, June 27, 1:00 — 3:00 p.m.
Information and registration: (514) 636-6885
750, AVENUE DAWSON, DORVAL, QC H9S 1X1
WEB: www.asmfmh.org
21. Other: 4 1/2-room Flat for Rent in Lower NDG Housing Co-op July 1rst
Housing Co-op in Lower in NDG seeks new member(s)
We have a 4 1/2-room flat available for mid-June, or July 1rst 2012.
The flat has a small laundry room, two bedrooms (1 regular, 1 small), an average-size kitchen, a large double living room, and lots of closet/cupboard space.
Flats are modern, large and in excellent condition. Rents are below market value and very reasonable.
Located in Lower NDG (Upper Lachine area), 10 minute walk west of Vendôme metro, on major bus lines as well.
We are looking for committed and responsible member(s) who are flexible and able to co-operate with others.
Presently, preference will be given to couples or room-mates with good maintenance skills/knowledge/experience.
We keep our rents low by each contributing to the ongoing functioning of our buildings.
All members spend some of their time volunteering on a committee (administrative knowledge, bookkeeping skills or maintenance experience are very useful for the co-op).
We are taking applications, so please don’t delay.
(For more info about housing co-ops, please check: http://www.chfc.ca/ and http://www.fechimm.coop/)
Please inquire only if you are serious about living in a co-operative environment and have some time to contribute to the co-op. Interested persons will need to fill an application and participate in an interview.
Thank you.
Contact: elizabethpn@hotmail.com
22. Other: Office space for rent – Saint-Léonard
A community organization is renting office space during evenings from 5 to 10 pm and all day Saturday and Sunday. The office space consists of two interconnected offices, the larger is 240 sq feet (16.5 ft X 14.5 ft), and the smaller is 115 sq feet (10 ft X 11.5 ft). The office is furnished with a round conference table, four office chairs, two sofa chairs, a fridge and microwave. The space is ideal for professionals holding meetings, client consultations, etc.
The rates are: $ 35 per evening and $ 50 for a full weekend day.
The office is located at the Leonardo Da Vinci centre in the heart of Saint-Léonard. Please contact us by email at fguemiri@scciq.com or call 514-955-8370 ext 2217.
23. Other: Call-out for photographs
The Spirit of the Mountain Through Colour in All Its Forms
From gardens to parks to one of Montreal’s most sacred and serene landscapes, The Friends of the Mount Royal Cemetery invites you to display your photographs of Montreal and the Mount Royal Cemetery during our sixth annual photography exhibition and sale.
Join us in celebrating the beautiful gardens of Montreal and the magnificent colours of this renowned garden cemetery.
Exhibition at 1297 Chemin de la Forêt in Outremont.
September 22 and 23, 2012 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
Opportunity for prizes and promotion of your photos.
24. Other: Invitation to employers to complete CEDEC survey on mature workers
Quebecers aged 45 and over are educated, reliable, experienced and loyal workers. Are you tapping into this market? CEDEC invites EMPLOYERS in the Greater Montreal Area to participate in a 10-minute anonymous survey, which will help us to develop long-term strategies to retain and re-integrate mature workers into the labour market. This fall, with the survey findings we will publish a report outlining strategic recommendations. Do not miss the chance to make a long-term positive impact and benefit from a competent and eager labour force. To learn more about the initiative, please visit www.cedec.ca/mwi.
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