New Venue Announcement and Response to Criticism

Time: 7pm (Doors open at 6pm)
After dinner refreshments will be served

Date: April, 26th, 2019

Venue: The Ukrainian Labour Temple, 591 Pritchard Avenue.
Please note as renovations are pending, this venue is not fully accessible. Please contact info@spcw.mb.ca for more details. ASL interpretation will be provided.

All tickets sold for the original venue will be honoured at the door.

Our original venue cancelled our booking due to one of our speakers, Linda Sarsour.

Please see our full media release here: https://spcw.mb.ca/…/2…/04/Sorry-Not-Sorry-MEDIA-RELEASE.pdf

Please check out our website, www.spcw.mb.ca, for our full response and to learn more about our event. We have added new links to add to the discussion. For anyone who simply wants to know more, as always, please consider the source of any links (including ours!) for explicit, complicit, conscious or unconscious bias and, most importantly, please read past the headlines. There is a great deal of media coverage both critical and supportive of Ms. Sarsour. We will not engage further by listing more and more links. The ones we have chosen to share offer perspective and/or context on the most prevalent criticisms of Ms. Sarsour.

We invite you once again to this discussion about working together to create a truly just society. This amazing panel of activists will share their successes and perspectives on making the changes that challenge the status quo and addresses bias. A moderated question and answer session is scheduled to allow the conversation to be community based.

100 years and counting!

The Social Planning Council of Winnipeg is proud to celebrate 100 years by partnering with the Canadian Muslim Women’s Institute in a discussion about working together to create a truly just society. Please join an amazing panel of activists, Linda Sarsour, Nora Loreto, and Tasha Spillett, to hear about their successes and perspectives on making the changes that challenge the status quo and addresses bias. A moderated question and answer session to follow the presentation.

Come out, get energized and be part of that change!

SPCW began as an organization that sought to bring cohesion to the sector but still with the charity mindset to address the same social conditions that brought about the General Strike of 1919. However, we have evolved into one that focuses more on systems change as the only way to create true equity and social justice. At our 100th, we are looking forward rather than back.

Canadian Muslim Women's Institute (CMWI), a charitable organization that works towards empowering women, was founded in 2006 to fill the demand felt by newcomer Muslim Women. Since then it grew in capacity, the services offered and the clients served. By empowering women we empower their families, and consequently the whole community. CMWI is pleased to partner with Social Planning Council of Winnipeg in celebrating their 100th Anniversary.

Panel Speaker bios:

Tasha Spillett draws her strength from both her Nehiyaw & Trinidadian bloodlines. She is a celebrated educator, poet and emerging scholar, but is most heart-tied to contributing to community lead work that centers land and water defence, and the protection of Indigenous women and girls.

Tasha is currently working on her PhD in Education through the University of Saskatchewan, where she holds a Vanier Canada Award. In her work as a doctoral student, she is weaving in her cultural identity, and commitment to community to produce a body of research that echoes Indigenous women’s demands for justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit People, and is a continuation of the resistance against the assault of colonialism that she has inherited.

Nora Loreto is a writer, musician and activist based in Québec City. She is the author of From Demonized to Organized, Building the New Union Movement and is the editor of the Canadian Association of Labour Media. She writes regularly for blogs and magazines, and wrote a chapter in Canada After Harper, released by Lorimer Publishers in August 2015.

Linda Sarsour is an award winning racial justice and civil rights activist, community organizer, every Islamophobe's worst nightmare and mother of three. She is a Palestinian-Muslim-American born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She is the former Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York and the co-founder of the first Muslim online organizing platform, MPower Change. She is a member of the Justice League NYC, a leading force of activists, artists, youth and formerly incarcerated individuals committed to criminal justice reform through direct action and policy advocacy.

Most recently, she was one of the national co-chairs of the largest single day protest in US history, the Women’s March on Washington. She has been named amongst 500 of the most influential Muslims in the world. She has won numerous awards including Champion of Change from the Obama Administration. She was recognized as one of Fortune’s 50 Greatest Leaders and featured as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2017. She is a frequent media commentator on issues impacting Muslim communities, Middle East affairs and criminal justice reform and most recognized for her transformative intersectional organizing work and movement building.

TICKET INFORMATION

Choose to support the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg by purchasing the $60 Premium ticket and get an income tax deductible tax receipt for the price difference or purchase the regular $35 ticket for general admission only. Be sure to provide complete details of contact information on the registration form to receive tax receipts.

Tickets can either be purchased online (Eventbrite service fees may apply) or directly from the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg at 432 Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg MB. Please contact 204-943-2561 ext 1229 or info@spcw.mb.ca for more information.

Low-income tickets also available for $15 at SPCW office only.

BONUS OFFER

Select 'yes' on the ticket registration form to receive FREE 1 year membership at the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg with any ticket purchase. At the end of your first year, you will be contacted by our office to review your membership terms.