CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
“Counterspin: Deepening our understanding of genuine settlement and integration”
By As emailed for posting by Romeo Ayson Zetazate
Toronto-Canada
Wed 25th May 2011
Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues
University of British Columbia
6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver BC
Date: June 18th to 19th, 2011
For info:
The National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada (NAPWC) welcomes and encourages all to partake in Counterspin: Deepening our understanding of genuine settlement and integration a nation-wide conference taking place on June 18th to 19th, 2011 in the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia.
Under the auspices of the Congress of Progressive Filipino Canadians (CPFC), Counterspin will embark upon the momentous task of reconceptualizing and building the movement to counter and transform the social reality of the Filipino Canadian community - a transnational community caught in a cyclical state of permanent impermanence, induced by the ever-intensifying threats of neo-liberal globalization and imperialism.
As a continuation of the first Counterspin titled Towards a just and genuine settlement and integration: Link arms and unite for freedom, held in the City of Montreal on April 30th to May 1st of 2010, women, workers, and youth, from the Filipino Canadian community, will once again gather to deepen and strengthen their resolve to realize our communitys entitlements of fully participating in the broader Canadian society as makers of history and as a people for social transformation.
Organized by the nationally formed organizations housed under the Kalayaan (Freedom) Centre in Vancouver, The Magkaisa (Unity) Centre in Toronto, and the Kapit Bisig (Link Arms) Centre in Montreal, the two-day conference will usher in a new phase in the rich history of our educating, mobilizing, and organizing work in the Filipino Canadian community. Armed with the challenge to proactively advance our successful development, empowerment, and community building in Canada, this vital undertaking is all the more paramount for the coming future generations to inherit our communitys legacy of resistance.
As Filipinos have been coming to Canada for over 5 decades, becoming the third largest immigrant group in the country, the call for a just and genuine settlement and integration have taken the centre focus in valiantly tackling our issues as workers, women, youth, and as peoples of colour - systematically pushed to the physical, cultural, social, economic, and political peripheries of society by the very system that boasts of diversity and multiculturalism. We have arrived at a new dawn of identifying with a truly progressive perspective that expressively and assertively places the struggles and the best interests of the most oppressed and exploited at the forefront of self-recognition, community representation, and cultural affiliation.
Thus, as we sharpen our tools in creating a progressive movement for the future of the Filipino Canadian community, this two-day conference will be indicative of our communitys renewed vigour and political will to take action towards countering economic marginalization, systemic racism and social exclusion. Counterspin will provide the venue for us to share and learn from one another as we deepen our understanding of our current collective realities, as well as our roles in changing and shaping our communitys future in Canada. Counterspin is and will be a symbol of the progressive Filipino Canadian communitys assertion for the advancement of the struggle for genuine settlement and integration towards our full participation and entitlement in Canadian society! Let us live-out history by taking part in its creation!
Registration fee: $25.00 (includes 2 meals and conference materials)
Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues
University of British Columbia
6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver BC
For more information or to register, please contact the Conference Secretariat:
Krystle Alarcon; 778-321-8275;
Jon Nieto; 778-384-7378;
Arlene Oropel; 778- 317-5265;
Philippine Women Centre of Ontario (PWC-ON) Member of the National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada (NAPWC) Telephone: 416-519-2553
“Counterspin: Deepening our understanding of genuine settlement and integration”
By As emailed for posting by Romeo Ayson Zetazate
Toronto-Canada
Wed 25th May 2011
Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues
University of British Columbia
6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver BC
Date: June 18th to 19th, 2011
For info:
The National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada (NAPWC) welcomes and encourages all to partake in Counterspin: Deepening our understanding of genuine settlement and integration a nation-wide conference taking place on June 18th to 19th, 2011 in the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia.
Under the auspices of the Congress of Progressive Filipino Canadians (CPFC), Counterspin will embark upon the momentous task of reconceptualizing and building the movement to counter and transform the social reality of the Filipino Canadian community - a transnational community caught in a cyclical state of permanent impermanence, induced by the ever-intensifying threats of neo-liberal globalization and imperialism.
As a continuation of the first Counterspin titled Towards a just and genuine settlement and integration: Link arms and unite for freedom, held in the City of Montreal on April 30th to May 1st of 2010, women, workers, and youth, from the Filipino Canadian community, will once again gather to deepen and strengthen their resolve to realize our communitys entitlements of fully participating in the broader Canadian society as makers of history and as a people for social transformation.
Organized by the nationally formed organizations housed under the Kalayaan (Freedom) Centre in Vancouver, The Magkaisa (Unity) Centre in Toronto, and the Kapit Bisig (Link Arms) Centre in Montreal, the two-day conference will usher in a new phase in the rich history of our educating, mobilizing, and organizing work in the Filipino Canadian community. Armed with the challenge to proactively advance our successful development, empowerment, and community building in Canada, this vital undertaking is all the more paramount for the coming future generations to inherit our communitys legacy of resistance.
As Filipinos have been coming to Canada for over 5 decades, becoming the third largest immigrant group in the country, the call for a just and genuine settlement and integration have taken the centre focus in valiantly tackling our issues as workers, women, youth, and as peoples of colour - systematically pushed to the physical, cultural, social, economic, and political peripheries of society by the very system that boasts of diversity and multiculturalism. We have arrived at a new dawn of identifying with a truly progressive perspective that expressively and assertively places the struggles and the best interests of the most oppressed and exploited at the forefront of self-recognition, community representation, and cultural affiliation.
Thus, as we sharpen our tools in creating a progressive movement for the future of the Filipino Canadian community, this two-day conference will be indicative of our communitys renewed vigour and political will to take action towards countering economic marginalization, systemic racism and social exclusion. Counterspin will provide the venue for us to share and learn from one another as we deepen our understanding of our current collective realities, as well as our roles in changing and shaping our communitys future in Canada. Counterspin is and will be a symbol of the progressive Filipino Canadian communitys assertion for the advancement of the struggle for genuine settlement and integration towards our full participation and entitlement in Canadian society! Let us live-out history by taking part in its creation!
Registration fee: $25.00 (includes 2 meals and conference materials)
Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues
University of British Columbia
6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver BC
For more information or to register, please contact the Conference Secretariat:
Krystle Alarcon; 778-321-8275;
Jon Nieto; 778-384-7378;
Arlene Oropel; 778- 317-5265;
Philippine Women Centre of Ontario (PWC-ON) Member of the National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada (NAPWC) Telephone: 416-519-2553