Janet Hatcher Roberts is the executive director of the Canadian Society for International Health, where she has overseen the design and implementation of global health systems strengthening projects since 1997. She is also the co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Technology Assessment, Knowledge Translation and Health Equity with the Centre for Global Health, assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine and an affiliate scientist at the Institute for Population Health with the University of Ottawa.
Roberts has extensive experience in international public health policy, health systems capacity building and research. Over the past three decades, she has been involved in global health and development and gender health projects at the International Development Research Centre, the Canadian International Development Agency, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada. She has also served as director of the Migration Health Department with the International Organization for Migration in Geneva.
Toronto vs. the G20
Community action for global justice
Saturday, June 5
10:30am-6pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
252 Bloor Street West
What are we protesting, again?
It’s a good impulse to feel contempt for the G20. It’s a better impulse to want to talk about it. Join student and community activists to learn about the G20 and current social and environmental justice campaigns in Toronto, and to get involved. Free citywide teach-in. Lunch included!
PROGRAM
10:30 WAKE UP. COFFEE.
11:00 INTRODUCTION: What is the G20 and why should we care about it?
11:30 OPENING PLENARY
Economic Justice in Ontario: Poverty, Disability, and Workers’ Rights
The theme of this G20 summit is “recovery and new beginnings.” But the G20 isn’t pursuing anything new. The G20 has used the economic crisis to reinforce the myth of its own legitimacy, on the backs of poor and working people around the world. In Canada, austerity measures have already provoked outrage and opposition. Why should poor and working people pay for a crisis that capitalism imposed? Hear from anti-poverty activists, union organizers and workers.
1:00 FREE LUNCH
1:45 SESSION ONE (choose one)
Migrant Justice, Imperialism and the G20
Food and Water Security
At Home and Beyond: Gender Justice in a Neoliberal World
G20 and the University
3:15 SESSION TWO (chose one)
Climate and Environmental Justice
Indigenous Sovereignty and the G20
Apartheid and the G20: Palestine Solidarity in Canada
4:45 CLOSING PLENARY
On the Ground in June: Know your rights!
Massive demonstrations, black blocs, human chains and nonviolent resistance, police brutality, tear gas, and mass arrests. Sound dramatic? Romantic imagery of protests and demos can obscure the realities of the work that goes into making them happen and the range of skills and knowledge that make them successful. From Seattle WTO to Quebec FTAA; from Pittsburgh G20 to Vancouver anti-Olympics; and finally in Toronto this June, prepare for what’s coming by learning from the past. Join us for an historical workshop on demos, a primer to your legal rights on the street, and an overview of possibilities for participation, presented by the Toronto Community Mobilization Network.
[[ All events are wheelchair accessible. ]]
FULL PROGRAM AVAILABLE AT http://g20.torontomobilize.
ON FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.
RSVP to toronto.vs.g20@gmail.com
Sponsored by University of Toronto Students’ Union * Ontario Public Interest Research Group * Toronto Community Mobilization Network * Sierra Youth Coalition * Science for Peace * Canadian Youth Climate Coalition * University of Toronto Graduate Students' Union * Health Studies Students' Union * Diaspora and Transnational Student Union * Native Students' Association * Caribbean Studies Students' Union * Equity Studies Students' Union * Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3902 * No One Is Illegal - Toronto * Ontario Coalition Against Poverty * And others!
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