BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Embark Sustainability Society - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.embarksustainability.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Embark Sustainability Society REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250721T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250725T170000 DTSTAMP:20260424T071420 CREATED:20250616T055314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250719T025437Z UID:10000796-1753095600-1753462800@www.embarksustainability.org SUMMARY:Liberation Summer: Organizers' Bootcamp 2025 DESCRIPTION:Liberation Summer: Organizers’ Bootcamp\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Date & Time\n Mon July 21st – Fri July 25th11:00 AM – 5:00 PM PDT (each day) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Location\n Embark Studio (SUB 1310) – SFU BurnabySFPIRG Lounge (SUB 1410) – SFU Burnaby \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Click to Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Are you ready to win freedom for yourself\, your family\, and your communities? Are you ready to unite and organize ALL oppressed and exploited peoples? \nJoin Embark Sustainability & SFPIRG for Liberation Summer: a week-long\, bootcamp-style program for emerging and veteran organizers. From July 21st to July 25th\, we’ll be bringing you workshops\, skill-building\, and political education that will empower your organizer self.  \nWhether you are brand new to organizing or have years of experience\, this bootcamp is a space to grow\, reflect\, and strategize together. Capacity is limited – register now to secure your spot.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Land Acknowledgement\nThis program takes place on the unceded homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish)\, səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)\, and kʷikʷəƛw̓əm (Kwikwetlem) Nations. \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE FACILITATORS\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Adrian D'Alessandro (he/him)\n   \n\n \nMeet Adrian\nAdrian is an ancient and mysterious organizer who’s done everything from winning fossil fuel divestment at the University of Guelph to getting arrested and convicted for blockading the TMX pipeline. His organizing roots also include anti-pipeline resistance with Guelph Anti-Pipeline\, the Space Campaign\, and grassroots student advocacy through OPIRG-Guelph and SFPIRG. He’s now wrangling children with Parents for Palestine. \n\nDay 4 Workshop: Story-telling as an Organizing Principle (July 24)\n To build a movement\, we need stories that shape our shared imagination of what’s possible. In this workshop\, we’ll explore storytelling as both an explicit and implicit organizing principle: from shifting public narratives\, to living our values through action. Let’s learn how to tell stories that move people and build the future we want! \n\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Kabir Madan (he/him) & Cameron Gilbert (he/him)\n   \n\n \nMeet Kabir\nKabir is an anthropologist and soccer coach in-training. He has been organizing on unceded Coast Salish territories for the past 3 years through various labour unions and coalitions including TSSU\, CWJ\, and the Vancouver Tenants Union\, as well as with independent South Asian organizers in conjunction with larger migrant alliances. \n \nMeet Cameron\nCam Gilbert is a white settler of mixed-European ancestry\, born and raised in Deep Cove\, North Vancouver on the unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh Peoples. He is a member-organizer with the Vancouver Tenants Union\, primarily in his neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant. He has been a member of the VTU since 2022. He is also a PhD Candidate in the UBC philosophy department. At UBC\, Cam organizes with the teaching assistant and academic assistant union on UBC campus (CUPE 2278)\, Graduate Students for Palestine\, and the newly formed UBC-VTU chapter. \n\nDay 2 Workshop: Building Power HERE! (July 22)\nIn this session\, tenant and labour organizers will share experiences building fights from the ground up. We will go over how to get in touch with your neighbours and find common ground\, organize a building\, and use our collective power to escalate and build—not only campaigns\, but long-term organizing relationships which go beyond single-issue mobilizing. \n  \n\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Kanksha (she/her) & Dina (she/her)\n   \n\n \nMeet Kanksha\nKanksha is a labour organizer at Students\, Staff and Faculty for Democratic University (SDU+)\, an independent\, grassroots organization at SFU that brings together workers and students to struggle against the administration with the goal of democratic control over our conditions of work and study. \n  \n \nMeet Dina\nDina is an undergraduate student at SFU studying biomedical physiology. She first got involved in organizing through the Palestine movement at SFU in early 2024. She is a passionate anti-Zionist Jew organizing with IJV SFU. As a student living on residence\, Dina strongly believes in organizing students for better living conditions and standing in solidarity with dining workers. \n  \nDay 2 Workshop: The Mass Line & SICA (July 22)\nIn this session\, folks will explore the theory of The Mass Line: a form of political leadership that aims to expand and consolidate our movements for liberation through mass campaigns and mobilizations that reflect the subjective readiness and the objective interests of the masses. \nFolks will also learn about how to concretely determine the mass line through Social Investigation and Class Analysis (SICA). \n  \n\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Tiara Cash (she/they)\n   \n\n \nMeet Tiara\nTiara is a Black American & Indigenous (non-enrolled Choctaw & Cherokee descendant) queer woman born and raised in Memphis\, TN. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Exercise and Wellness (Arizona State University)\, a Master’s degree in Kinesiology (Western Illinois University)\, and a Master’s degree in Psychology (SFU). She is currently completing her doctorate in Social Psychology at SFU (August 2025) and is a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar. \nTiara is also a TEDxSpeaker who has worked in many community settings as an organizer and accomplice\, including: speaking and coordinating anti-Black racism events\, supporting anti-pipeline movements\, presenting on community care using mindfulness and collective care practices\, and being present on many advisory committees that support systemically and intentionally marginalized groups (i.e.\, PoGM\, 2SLQBQQIA+\, Disabled communities\, and many more). \n \nDay 3 Workshop: Cultivating Collective Care and Accountability during Organizing (July 23)\nUsing the Equitable Mindfulness Framework for awareness of self and others\n  \nWe often forget the benefits of supporting our comrades behind the scenes of our movements and revolutions. This session is about building a culture of care. By centering our self-awareness and awareness of others and focusing on increasing our compassion for the movement collective\, we can pause and respond in a more grounded way to stressful events and conflict. We’ll discuss and activate the Equitable Mindfulness framework to create the conditions for a culture grounded in respect\, accountability\, and collaboration. \nThis session will be highly experiential\, as the best way to engage in mindful action is by practicing! Bring your notebook\, your curiosity\, and your willingness to set outside the norm. \n  \n\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Hannah (she/her) & NoName (they/them)\n   \n\n \nMeet Hannah\nHannah is the Director of Research and Education at the Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group (SFPIRG). She thrives on community work and THE various ways in which she can support and care for students and community members. \nHaving been a teacher for over ten years\, Hannah loves to organize events and facilitate workshops for students in order to help them find calmness in a chaotic world and resist the systems that actively oppress our bodies. \n  \n \nMeet NoName\nNoName is a student organizer on the stolen Coast Salish lands of so-called “Vancouver”. \nThey organize for Palestinian liberation while providing political education on the working class. \n  \n  \n  \nDay 1 Workshop: Becoming Scientists (July 21)\nIn this session\, we’ll learn how to carry out a scientific investigation of society for ourselves. \nWe’ll start by outlining the process of a social scientist’s study. Then\, we’ll look at how to ground our study in concrete material conditions and the struggle between the social classes. \nFinally\, we’ll review state-of-the-art attempts made by academics to mystify society and undermine scientific investigation and analysis. Expect a murder mystery activity! \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Noëll Cousins (she/her) & Lawrence Rowland (he/him)\n   \n\n \nMeet Noëll\nNoëll works as the Director of Engagement at the Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group and\, in her role\, seeks to strengthen the community of organizations on SFU’s campus fighting for social and economic justice. \n  \n   \n \nMeet Lawrence\nNoName is a student organizer on the stolen Coast Salish lands of so-called “Vancouver”. \nThey organize for Palestinian liberation while providing political education on the working class. \n  \n  \n  \nDay 1 Workshop: Becoming Scientists (July 21)\nIn this session\, we’ll learn how to carry out a scientific investigation of society for ourselves. \nWe’ll start by outlining the process of a social scientist’s study. Then\, we’ll look at how to ground our study in concrete material conditions and the struggle between the social classes. \nFinally\, we’ll review state-of-the-art attempts made by academics to mystify society and undermine scientific investigation and analysis. Expect a murder mystery activity! \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Parsa Alziraei (he/him)\n   \n\n \nMeet Parsa\nParsa is a research assistant at the SFU Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies. \n \nDay 5 Workshop: Palestine at SFU and Beyond (July 25)\nThe local scene since 2021\nThis workshop aims to map the local organizing scene for Palestinian liberation through: \n\nunderstanding movements and organizations in solidarity or opposition to Palestinian liberation and their specific campaigns and goals; and\nunderstanding these actors historically and in their political-geographic context.\n\nBy collectively putting together what we know about the local scene\, we can act with more clarity and precision. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Chanelle (she/her)\n   \n\n \nMeet Chanelle\nChanelle organizes with Anakbayan BC\, a comprehensive Filipino youth organization that fights for National Democracy in the Philippines. The National Democratic movement is the largest united anti-imperialist socialist movement in the Philippines\, having existed for over half a century with thousands of people organizing and fighting every day for freedom from imperialism\, feudalism\, and bureaucrat capitalism. \nFor decades\, the National Democratic movement has been agitating\, organizing\, and mobilizing the Filipino people for their rights\, as well as cultivating a revolutionary Filipino culture that is mass-oriented\, scientific\, and liberatory. \nShe brings to us the lessons that this movement has learned in hopes that we may cultivate this revolutionary spirit in so-called “Canada”! “Onward\, my friends\, tomorrow is ours to make!” – Chanelle \n \nDay 3 Workshop: Propaganda for the Masses (July 24)\nHow to do cultural work in service of the People’s Revolution\nHow do we raise the consciousness of the masses? How do we get the people to see themselves in the international workers’ struggle? What is the role of propaganda work and why is it important for developing a culture for mass struggle and resistance? In the words of Toni Cade Bombara\, “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people\, my job is to make revolution irresistible.” \nAs the new world struggles to be born\, we\, as organizers\, must take up the task of being cultural workers. The apple of revolutionary culture does not just fall from nowhere; we plant the seeds for it. It is more imperative than ever to combat reactionary ideologies\, expose the enemies of the revolution\, oppose their anti-people schemes\, analyze and illuminate the struggle of the masses\, and put forth our revolutionary goals. \nJoin us at our workshop as we explore and discuss these questions\, understand and grasp our tasks\, and remain principled and steadfast. \n\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Serena (they/them)\n   \n\n \nMeet Serena\nSerena is a Punjabi\, disabled\, queer settler and the Director of Development at Embark Sustainability. They came into organizing through disability justice and the community they built as a co-founder of the Simon Fraser University Disability and Neurodiversity Alliance (DNA). \nGrounded in the principles of disability justice\, Serena’s work has grown to include cross-movement organizing and advocacy for equity-seeking communities in a range of contexts. \n\n \nDay 5 Workshop: Get off the Sidelines (July 25)\nWhere to start as an organizer\nIn this session\, folks will learn how to navigate the inertia of inaction. We’ll talk about the barriers to getting started with organizing and create solutions together according to our capacities. \nWe will go over creating a strong foundation for the fight you’re preparing for\, finding accomplices to join the movement\, and how to apply the lessons you learn along the way. \n\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event Accessibility\n\n\nThis event will be held indoors the at rooms #1310 and #1410 of Student Union Building (SUB)\, SFU Burnaby. Accessibility details include: \n\nThe venue is wheelchair accessible\, with gender-inclusive and accessible washrooms on-site.\nLight snacks\, tea/coffee\, and vegan lunch options will be provided daily.\nWe aim to create a scent-reduced environment. Please avoid wearing strong fragrances. \nIf you have specific access needs\, please contact access@sfpirg.ca or engagement@embarksustainability.org by July 10th.\n\n  \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Health & Safety\nParticipants who register are agreeing to release Embark Sustainability Society from any liability related to COVID-19. Masks are optional but encouraged.\n \n \n \n \n \n Community Agreement\nBy registering to attend this event\, you are agreeing to be respectful when listening to and communicating with others\, and be mindful of the space you are taking up amongst your peers. There is no tolerance for violence or aggression against others on the basis of race\, ethnicity\, place of origin\, sexual orientation\, gender identity\, religious affiliation\, or ability. Please also refer to people using the introductions they provide and do not assume pronouns/gender/knowledge based on someone’s name or appearance. If these agreements are broken by someone\, we will have to ensure the safety of our community members by removing them from the event. \n \n \n \n \n \n Questions\nIf you have any questions about this event\, please contact Embark Sustainability’s Director of Engagement at engagement@embarksustainability.org or SFPIRG’s Director of Engagement at engagement@sfpirg.ca. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for this Event\nget reminders & event details now URL:https://www.embarksustainability.org/event/liberation-summer-2025/ LOCATION:Student Union Building – SFU Burnaby\, 8888 University Drive\, Burnaby\, British Columbia\, V5A 1S6\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.embarksustainability.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/bootcamp-2025-banner.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250724T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250724T144500 DTSTAMP:20260424T071420 CREATED:20250602T205924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250728T223413Z UID:10000803-1753363800-1753368300@www.embarksustainability.org SUMMARY:Food Rescue DESCRIPTION:Embark Sustainability’s\nFood Rescue Program\nWe collect healthy yet imperfect-looking produce that does not meet the selling criteria of supermarket chains and redistribute it to Simon Fraser University (SFU) students for free or by donation. Food is collected from Nesters Market and distributed at SFU Burnaby. \nStop by and grab some brain food between classes! Distribution takes place throughout each academic term and does not occur during exam periods or breaks between terms. \nSummer 2025 Distribution Schedule\n\nMay 22 – August 7\nThursdays 1:30PM to 2:45PM\nBlusson Hall (SFU Burnaby) URL:https://www.embarksustainability.org/event/food-rescue-7/2025-07-24/ LOCATION:Blusson Hall – SFU Burnaby\, Burnaby\, British Columbia\, V5A 1S6\, Canada CATEGORIES:Food Justice,Food Rescue ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.embarksustainability.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Website-Banners-2.webp END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR