Category Archives: Events
UBC’s Alternative Orientation Booklet: Resisting the University 2019/2020 (Downloadable PDF)
At the Social Justice Centre and the Women’s Centre, we are reviving old traditions with this year’s new alternative orientation booklet. We envision this booklet as an opportunity to situate students, introduce them to powerful groups, both on campus and off, and speak to the myriad ways that resistance and resurgence is taking place in and around us. We invite you to engage in and reflect on your roles on this campus, recognizing that this is unique to each person, and to broaden your imagination of what is possible. We wish that this booklet sparks hope and empowers our communities.
“Police don’t make us safe”: Surrey residents rally against skyrocketing police budgets
When: Saturday, Nov. 24 at 2:00pm Where: Surrey City Hall, 13450 104 Avenue Longtime Surrey resident and APPS member, Lenée Son, explains, “We’re told the police make us safe, but in our experience, they are a threat to our safety. They surveill and harass homeless people, enforce the catastrophic war on drugs, and terrorize racialized and […]
Community Eats
Community Eats, an offshoot of Sprouts, runs a weekly by-donation bring-your-own-container lunch and produce pick-up service currently taking place on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm land in the Walter Gage Residence, Student Union Boulevard on Fridays from 11:30 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. We ask that you donate what you can and take what seems fair – individuals with significant […]
Build the Student Movement: The Fight For Free Education
Students in Canada are under severe attacks that need to be met with the strongest and the broadest fightback. In the last 20 years, tuition fees have tripled. For the academic year 2017-2018 alone, tuition in Canada rose to $6,571, an increase by 3.1% compared to the previous academic year, and all odds indicate that […]
Residents Of Iconic High Rise Resist Mass Eviction, Demand Government Accountability
VANCOUVER, COAST SALISH TERRITORIES – The tenants of Berkeley Tower (1770 Davie St) are holding a press conference and rally at Morton Park outside their residence to bring attention to their critical situation, and to highlight the loopholes at the provincial and municipal government levels that contribute to the housing crisis in Vancouver. New owner Reliance […]
“Pictures in Protest” by Zoe Hertz at the Hatch Art Gallery
“Pictures in Protest” put on in collaboration with the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights Group by Zoe Hertz, will be showcasing a series of photographs depicting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The exhibition will seek to explore the often-marginalized Palestinian perspective as a result of biased Western media sources and the implications that this has caused. The […]
resisting the university: an alternative orientation booklet (Downloadable Digital Version)
In this alternative orientation package, we aim to provide a map for the engagement of incoming and returning students and community members of UBC, especially since youth and students are commonly written off as apolitical and apathetic. Through this alternative orientation, we provide a platform for student movements and innovative groups to reach out to […]
Coming From Genocide
Yasmin Ullah’s parents left their village of Sinya Pra, Buthidaung township in Rakhine, in 1995, slightly more than a decade after Myanmar’s generals had stripped the Rohingya ethnicity of their citizenship. That year was 1982. It would be seven years before Aung San Suu Ki would be put under house arrest, thirty four years after […]
Respectability Politics doesn’t Protect Us
“After all the work I’ve done, after all the work our people have done, they don’t want us?” Those were my mother’s words the morning of Trump’s immigration ban. My mother is a chemical engineer who has greatly contributed to the field of wood pellet size reduction for their use in renewable energy. I couldn’t […]
The Post-Truth Politics of Jordan Peterson’s Gender Nonbinary Pronoun Debate
Is there some legitimacy in what he brings up about free speech and a culture of polarization that we too are concerned about? Absolutely. But what Peterson is using his “free speech” towards is the suppression of minority rights that he takes ideological issue with. We don’t support such “intellectual” thinking, or argument.
