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{Editors Note: this is an adaptation of an announcement for the “Resisting the University” festival starting March 3rd to the 7th — we saw it as legitimate to circulate; so here goes.}

SDS at UBC are hosting a Week of Resistance! They’ll be discussing a slew of social issues relevant to “student life” or “academic life” like the privatization and commodification of education with an anti-military, anti-gentrification and direct-action bent! Join them if you’re a student activist, a wanna-be student activist or simply intrigued by student activism and open to learn more about it! This conference is open to everyone as the issues explored are consequential for society at large.

email sds.ubc@gmail.com to get involved.

bookface group: http://ubc.facebook.com/event.php?eid=20667840135&ref=nf

SCHEDULEOF EVENTS:

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Monday, March 3:

Opening Ceremony + Keynote
Time: 12:00-2:00 p.m., SUB Party RoomOpening Ceremony: Kat Norris, Indigenous Action Movement
Opening Keynote: “From Whining to Winning: Winning the Battle with the University—Dummy Corporations and all!” – David Noble, York University Professor
David Noble is a critical historian of technology, science and education. He is best known for his seminal work on the social history of automation. He currently teaches in the Division of Social Science, and the department of Social and Political Thought at York University.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_F._Noble

Military-free Campus/ City
Time: 5:00-7:00 p.m., SUB 213
Speakers: Thomas Radcliff (UVIC anti-military recruitment), SDS Tacoma, Jasmine Ramze Rezaee (International Relations and military funding), and UBC professor George B. Spiegelman (militarization of the sciences and Sciences for Peace).

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Tuesday, March 4:

Faculty, Students and Governance in My Dream University
Time: 12:00-2:00 p.m., SUB 205
Speaker: William Bruneau
Bill Bruneau taught at UBC from 1971 to 2003. He specializes in the history and politics of universities, and generally in British, French, and Canadian history, 1800-present. With Donald Savage, he wrote in 2003 a long, long book about the evils of performance indicators and other similar devices of so-called university accountability (Counting Out the Scholars: How Performance Indicators are Undermining Universities and Colleges).

Bill has been president of the UBC Faculty Association, and president of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT). He remains a full member of the CAUT’s Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee.

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Corporatization of Campus
Time: 5:00-7:00 p.m., SUB 205
Speakers: Petra Ganzenmueller (CAUT representative talking about rise of sessionals); UBC professor Wendy Frisby (Women’s and Gender Studies), Larry Kennis (labour issues on campus), AMS VP Administration Tristan Markle, and UBC professor Robert Miller (funding for African Studies).

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Wednesday, March 5:

Unschooling Oppression: Critical Pedagogy and Alternative Models of Education
Time: 12:00-2:00 p.m., SUB 205
Speakers: Representatives from the Colour School, Bruce Baum (UBC professor of political science), Am Johal (community activist), Linc Kesler (director of UBC First Nations Studies Program).

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Examining “Academic Freedom”
Time: 2:30-4:00 p.m., SUB 205
Speakers: Kevin Annett and former UBC assistant professor Robert Fredricks

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Deconstructing “Progress:” Housing, Gentrification and Olympic resistance
Time: 5:00-7:00 p.m., SUB 212
Speakers: Gord Hill (Indigenous resistance to the Olympics), UBC professor Chris Shaw (2010 Watch), Margaret Orlowski (history of development at UBC), Mariana Payet (UBC and Musqueam land claims) and Tom Malenfant (APC, autonomous action).

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Thursday, March 6:

Demystifying the Power Structure at UBC
Time: 12:00-2:00, SUB Party room
SDS-UBC guided Presentation

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The Apathetic Grad Student – What is it really all about?
Time: 2:00-4:00 p.m., SUB Party room
Speakers: Grad students: Ed Durgan, Devon Lougheed, Manuela Valle, Brian Ganter, and Rodrigo Ferrari Nunes.

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History of Activism in UBC/ Vancouver
Time: 5:00-7:00 p.m., SUB 205
Speakers: from SDS, UBC, community, and SFU.

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Friday, March 6:

PROTEST! The 100^th Anniversary of UBC
Time: 12:00-2:00 p.m. – Meeting Place: Grassy Knoll (hill outside SUB).

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Closing Keynote: Anarchism in Academia Now!!!
Time: 3:00-5:00 p.m., Michael Smith Labs 101
Speaker: Denis Rancourt, University of Ottawa
Radical professors are needed to indoctrinate progressive students. Anarchist professors are needed to make sanity. If they’re not trying to stop you, then you’re not making a difference. Denis G. Rancourt is a physics professor, environmental researcher, activist, and anarchist.
http://www.science.uottawa.ca/~dgr/

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**The Anti 100^th Anniversary of UBC Party: A Celebration of Student Resistance, Music and Art**
Time: 7:00-11:00 p.m. Place: Rhizome Café – 317 East Broadway, at Main St.
A celebration of student art, music and resistance. Entrance by donation; no one turned away.

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