BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cd6b8b6d314 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T183000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T200000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/theorypractice-lab/events/person-workshop-how-star t-tenants-association SUMMARY:In Person Workshop: How to Start a Tenants' Association CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:IN PERSON SDC WORKSHOP: HOW TO START A TENANTS' ASSOCIATION WIT H MEG\nWALKER AND LYNN INTINI!\n\nTHURSDAY\, APRIL 23RD\n\n6:30-8PM\n\n23 WATER ST. N\, KITCHENER\n[https://www.google.com/maps/search/23+Water+St.+ N\,+Kitchener?entry=gmail&source=g]\n\nST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST CHURCH BASE MENT\n\nFOOD PROVIDED\n\nREGISTRATION\nREQUIRED: HTTPS://WWW.EVENTBRITE.C A/E/IN-PERSON-WORKSHOP-HOW-TO-START-A-TENANTS-ASSOCIATION-TICKETS-19860332 13805\n[https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-person-workshop-how-to-start-a-tena nts-association-tickets-1986033213805?aff=oddtdtcreator]\n\nThis session i s for tenants who are thinking about organizing in their\nbuildings or com munities—and for anyone wanting to better understand\nhow tenant associa tions are formed\, sustained\, and used to resist\ndisplacement. Join us f or a practical\, grounded workshop led by local\norganizers:\n\nMEG WALKER  has been organizing in Waterloo Region for over a decade\naround housing and climate justice. She works with the Social\nDevelopment Centre’s Ev iction Prevention Team alongside tenants\nresisting mass evictions and dis placement.\n\nLYNN INTINI brings extensive experience supporting tenant o rganizing\nand community-led advocacy efforts\, with a focus on building\n collective capacity.\n\nTogether\, they will walk through: how tenant asso ciations get started\;\nwhat it takes to organize with neighbours\; common challenges and how\nto navigate them\; strategies for building collective power in the face\nof displacement.\n\nThis is a participatory session so please come with questions\,\nexperiences\, and a willingness to think to gether about what organizing\ncan look like where you are. We’ll end wit h time to connect\ninformally with others over light refreshments. We’re grateful to be\nbuilding these conversations together. As always\, please invite\nlike-minded relations to join us!  \n\nAll events are supported by the UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO FACULTY OF\nHEALTH EDI-AR SEED FUND. DTSTAMP:20260401T190131Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cd6b8b70644 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260303T173000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260303T203000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/theorypractice-lab/events/tenant-rights-and-housin g-justice-conversation-ricardo SUMMARY:Tenant Rights and Housing Justice: Conversation with Ricardo Tranja n &\nMeg Walker CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Political economist Ricardo Tranjan will introduce the central\ nargument of his book _The Tenant Class_\, which reframes the so-called\n “housing crisis” as a site of class struggle between tenants and\nland lords. Meg Walker\, a local tenant organizer with the Social\nDevelopment Centre\, will then guide discussion using questions\ngathered through her organizing work\, followed by audience Q&A.\nAfterward\, we’ll continue upstairs in the lounge for food\,\nconversation\, and relationship-buildin g.\n\nRegistration\nRequired: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/housing-justice -and-tenant-rights-with-ricardo-tranjan-and-meg-walker-tickets-19832786809 23\n\nAbout the book:\n_The Tenant Class_ places tenants and landlords on opposite sides of\na class divide and challenges dominant myths about ren ters\,\naffordability\, and housing markets. Drawing on Canada’s history of\ncollective action\, Tranjan argues that organized tenants have the\np ower to fight for decent homes and fair rent.\n\nSupported by the UNIVERS ITY OF WATERLOO FACULTY OF HEALTH EDI-AR SEED\nFUND and the Faculty of He alth Teaching Fellows. DTSTAMP:20260401T190131Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cd6b8b72615 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260225T173000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260225T193000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/theorypractice-lab/events/housing-justice-online-t each-bill-60-tenant-rights-meg SUMMARY:Housing Justice Online Teach-In: Bill 60 & Tenant Rights with Meg\n Walker CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual session with local tenant organizer MEG\ nWALKER to learn how Bill 60 weakens tenants’ rights and access to\nhou sing justice\, affecting you\, your neighbours\, and the wider\ncommunity. The session includes one hour of teaching followed by\nQ&A. \n\nMeg Walk er has been organizing in Waterloo Region for a decade around\nhousing and climate justice. She works with the Social Development\nCentre’s Evicti on Prevention Team alongside tenants resisting mass\nevictions and displac ement.\n\nResources to explore: ACTO’s One Pager (attached) and Social\ nDevelopment Centre’s Resource Page\n[https://www.waterlooregion.org/bil l-60-myth-busting-and-tenant-education] \n\nRegistration\nrequired: http s://www.eventbrite.ca/e/housing-justice-online-teach-in-bill-60-tenant-rig hts-with-meg-walker-tickets-1983276124276 DTSTAMP:20260401T190131Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cd6b8b739de DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260224T120000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260224T133000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/theorypractice-lab/events/tenant-class-study-group -dr-adra-raine SUMMARY:The Tenant Class Study Group with Dr. Adra Raine CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join us for donuts\, coffee\, and critical conversation as we p repare\nfor _The Tenant Class_ author Ricardo Tranjan\n[https://www.pol icyalternatives.ca/people/ricardo-tranjan/]’s March\n3 in-person visit w ith the Lab (see details below). Through selected\nreadings\, reflection\, and discussion\, we’ll explore key ideas\nfrom _The Tenant Class_\, in cluding narratives\, class struggle\,\nhousing as a political issue\, and the history of tenant organizing in\nCanada. We’ll also generate questio ns for Tranjan and local\norganizers.\n\nRegistration Required: https://w ww.eventbrite.ca/e/1983274656887 DTSTAMP:20260401T190131Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cd6b8b75162 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260128T173000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260128T190000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/theorypractice-lab/events/virtual-teach-venezuela- dr-justin-podur SUMMARY:Virtual Teach-in on Venezuela with Dr. Justin Podur CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Please join us online with the Theorypractice Lab\n[https://uw aterloo.ca/theorypractice-lab/] in collaboration\nwith Textile [https:// textilekw.ca/about] for A VIRTUAL TEACH-IN\nINTO THE HISTORY AND CURRENT CONTEXT IN VENEZUELA with Dr. Justin\nPodur [https://jpodur.blog.yorku. ca/]\, co-author with Joe Emersberger\nof _Extraordinary Threat: The US E mpire\, the Media\, and 20 Year of\nCoup Attempts against Venezuela._ On January 3\, the US mounted a\nsurprise attack\, capturing the Venezuelan p resident and First Lady and\nkilling over 100 Venezuelan military personne l and civilians. Why has\nthe US\, regardless of administration\, exerted such pressure to try to\noverthrow Venezuela's government? How does Venezu ela fit into other US\nplans and interventions? Is it oil? Or the politics of what\nVenezuelans call the \"Bolivarian Revolution\"? This talk will a ddress\nthese questions. Don't miss this chance to learn and engage with\n others passionate about global topics. Come ready to ask questions and\nex pand your understanding!\n\nJustin Podur is a professor at York University 's Faculty of\nEnvironmental and Urban Change. His on-going work can be fo und\nat: https://podur.org/ DTSTAMP:20260401T190131Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cd6b8b767ea DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251118T183000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251118T203000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/theorypractice-lab/events/interventions-101-overwh elm-action SUMMARY:Interventions 101: From Overwhelm to Action CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:INTERVENTIONS 101: FROM OVERWHELM TO ACTION\nTUESDAY\, NOVEMBER 18 | 6:30–8:30PM | ONLINE (ZOOM)\nFacilitated by educator\, writer\, or ganizer\, and our Lab’s community\npartner DR. ADRA RAINE\, this online session offers space to think\nthrough what issues matter to you and how we can effectively move from\nanalysis to action. Together\, we’ll explo re pathways for\nintervention: investigating dilemmas\, mapping obstacles\ , and\nconnecting to movements in the region. Bring your questions\,\nfrus trations\, and ideas. Your input will help shape future Lab events.\n\nSee here for more info & registration\n[https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/theorypra ctice-lab-interventions-101-from-overwhelm-to-action-tickets-1909942422199 ?aff=oddtdtcreator] DTSTAMP:20260401T190131Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cd6b8b77dce DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251111T173000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251111T203000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/theorypractice-lab/events/free-public-screening-co st-growth-documentary SUMMARY:Free Public Screening of \"The Cost of Growth\" Documentary CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:THE COST OF GROWTH: FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION\nTUESDAY\, NO VEMBER 11 | 5:30–8:30PM | EC5 1101\, UNIVERSITY OF\nWATERLOO\nJoin us fo r the Ontario screening of _The Cost of Growth_\, a new\ndocumentary link ing local struggles against resource extraction in\nSerbia\, Italy\, and S apmi to broader questions of justice\, democracy\,\nand war. After the fil m\, join us for food and conversation. Organized\nin collaboration with UW alum\, Samuel Casais. Masks available.\nSee here for more info & registra tion\n[https://tpl-tcog.eventbrite.ca/] DTSTAMP:20260401T190131Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cd6b8b79020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250404T173000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250404T213000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/theorypractice-lab/events/laundering-black-rage-au thors-talk SUMMARY:Laundering Black Rage Authors’ Talk CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Authors’ Talk: Too Black and Rasul Mowatt  DTSTAMP:20260401T190131Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cd6b8b79f04 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250327T123000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250327T143000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/theorypractice-lab/events/laundering-black-rage-st udy-group SUMMARY:Laundering Black Rage Study Group CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Library reading group\, co-hosted by The Libraries w/ Jermal Jo nes DTSTAMP:20260401T190131Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cd6b8b7b4d4 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250205T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250205T143000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/theorypractice-lab/events/organizers-workshop-dr-s tuart-schussler LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven ue West Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:An Organizer's Workshop with Dr. Stuart Schussler CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join the Theorypractice Lab for a hands-on workshop with Dr. S tuart\nSchussler for students interested in community organizing towards\ nliberation for all. Together participants will learn about Zapatista\npra xis (theory and practice in action)\, participate in small group\nactiviti es to consider community organizing practices\, and join in\nconversation with Dr. Schussler about his twenty years of experience\norganizing for In digenous autonomy\, migrant and refugee justice\, and\nhuman rights. Plea se join us from 1-2:30pm in room DC-1568. In\nperson: Masks appreciated.  Registration required. DTSTAMP:20260401T190131Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR