Introductory Note:
The Sociology and Equity Studies in Education (SESE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Graduate Student Conference this year took place on April 3, 2010. It had the theme “Contested Spaces: The (Re)Organization of Schooling Under Neoliberalism”. From the conference program:
The lecture hall slowly filled up as slides of families of the 200,000 farmers who committed suicide in India between 1997-2005 played on the flat screens on the side of the room. P Sainath, the day's speaker, was the journalist who brought the farmer suicides to wide attention. He opened his talk by updating information on that story: between 2004-2010, an Indian farmer committed suicide every 30 minutes.
I'll be speaking with Dan Freeman-Maloy on Haiti in Toronto on Tuesday Feb 2.
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Relief, Occupations and the Haiti Crisis:
Canada/US policy and the regional response
with Justin Podur and Dan Freeman-Maloy
Tuesday, February 2
Centre for Social Justice
489 College St (W of Bathurst), Suite 303
7 - 9pm
Everyone agrees that the Haiti earthquake is a serious situation. Serious enough for the US to send thousands of Marines, to take over the airport, to suspend Haiti's sovereignty and take over the operation. Serious enough to unify the bitter partisan divide and put Bush, Clinton, and Obama together to raise funds. Serious enough for benefit concerts and the invention of new forms of philanthropy, where people can donate through their cell phones. But the Haiti earthquake is apparently not all that serious:
I recorded this video last night (using my new flip HD and PiTiVi editing suite).
Part 1
Part 2
If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief efforts I would recommend either of these two organizations:
The Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
or