Emily Carr Faculty Association

Please pitch in if you can to support Tom Zuber's family - this is a huge loss

In memory of Tom Zuber❤️, organized by Linda Zuber The Zuber Family has suffered a great loss. Tom’s passing was both sudden and tragic. To say thi… Linda Zuber needs your support for In memory of Tom Zuber❤️

"it's not who you love--it's do you love" - Michael Franti

We invite you to read this open letter:

AI Open Letter — CAIR  Restrict AI Illustration from Publishing: An Open Letter Published May 2, 2023 ︎Add your signature Since the earliest days of...

Well worth a read:

Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society Study shows the proportion of musicians, writers and artists with working-class origins has shrunk by half since the 1970s

Please support the arts at TRU:

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Save the BFA at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, B​.​C.

Please take a moment to sign on to protect the Fine Arts program at TRU from being eliminated.

Can you spare a minute to help Rita Wong? 149 signatures are still needed! Save the BFA at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, B​.​C.

Press Release: BC First Nations highlight Canadian banks’ pattern of supporting Trans Mountain Expansion through preferential rates                 xʷməθkʷəy̓əm

Colour Crusader: How the ‘Robin Hood’ of the art world is liberating colour for everyone - National | Globalnews.ca Artist Stuart Semple from Bournemouth, England, is on a mission to free colour from corporate control.

Budget 2023: Canada Student Grants are Getting Cut By $1,800 Per Year, Not ‘Enhanced’ Federal Budget uses creative math and confusing language to present an $1,800 cut for lower-income students as an ‘increase’ in support

solidarity with the actors and the cultural workers! https://www.actra.ca/

https://www.caut.ca/node/12195

Are contract academic staff having a moment? | CAUT By John Lorinc In August 2022, the contract academic staff (CAS) at Open University (OU), a sprawling UK institution with 180,000 students studying both remotely and at six sites a

https://dogwoodbc.ca/news/bc-ndp-fixer-quietly-changed-leadership-rules-mid-race/

BC NDP ‘fixer’ quietly changed leadership rules mid-race Elections BC has now confirmed it will not investigate Dogwood’s signup drive in the BC NDP leadership race.

We support fair pay & job security for all workers, including our colleagues at OCADU https://www.change.org/p/fair-pay-and-job-security-for-ocad-u-sessionals-0abd8e87-61a8-4516-b80f-77a9293199fa

Sign the Petition Fair Pay and Job Security for OCAD U Sessionals

We stand with the BCGEU who are out on a strike for a cost-of-living-allowance (COLA). Send a message to your MLA here: https://bcgeu.good.do/publicsector/email-your-mla/

Stand with B.C. Public Sector Workers B.C.’s 33,000 direct government workers kept our province functioning through the pandemic and continue to work hard every day to keep our families and communities safe and healthy. But with dramatic increases in the cost of living, these workers are falling further and further behind—some can n...

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/07/07/news/how-move-your-money-good-planet

How to move your money — for the good of the planet Since launching our Financing Disaster series, we’ve heard from readers who want to know more about switching banks. How do you get your money out? What should you do first? What things are important to consider when you’re making a move?

Banking for a Better Future & Whey-ah-Wichen Canoe Festival - https://mailchi.mp/66337514c602/climate-action-network-at-emily-carr-8893385

Banking for a Better Future & Whey-ah-Wichen Canoe Festival It’s 2022, and the Big 5 Banks have reaffirmed their love of fossil fuels by pouring $10 billion into the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Today, we have a call to action for you: join our youth Organizing Crash Course from July 11-12 to skill up and mobilize with us for the TMX week of ac...

https://www.polygon.com/what-to-watch/23153049/best-labor-union-movies-to-watch-streaming

14 labor union movies to organize your summer Collective action gets the goods, in real life and on screen

Folks are calling for the defunding of the TMX & CGL pipelines & the funding of a just transition on the one-year anniversary of the deadly heat dome last year: https://act.350.org/event/climatedelay/25479/

RBC: Defund CGL & TMX [Vancouver] – End Climate Delay Day of Action It’s been one year since we experienced the deadliest weather event in Canada’s history – the Heat Dome. Extreme heat took more than 600 lives last summer, but Trudeau continues to avoid meaningful action on the climate emergency. That’s why on June 29th, communities across the country will ...

Hug Burnaby Mountain May 7 - https://mailchi.mp/656b9c27b8dd/climate-action-network-at-emily-carr-8793325

Hug Burnaby Mountain May 7

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/16/opinion-mills-college-financial-crisis-due-to-bloated-administration/

Opinion: Mills College spent more on administration than instruction Because of mismanagement, leaders are now trying to force the sale of the school, but it could and should be saved.

https://policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/news-releases/major-partnership-receives-funding-study-how-british-columbians-are-impacted

Major partnership receives funding to study how British Columbians are impacted by precarity, develop solutions for post-COVID era (Vancouver) A six-year initiative to study the impacts of precarious work on the lives of British Columbians kicks off today, with the announcement of a $2.5 million Partnership Grant awarde

Canadian universities are quietly being repurposed — University Affairs It is difficult to see performance-based funding as anything but an ideologically based attempt to redesign the fundamental mission of our universities.

Excellent articles on open bargaining, academic freedom & land protectors in this issue of DCFA’s newsletter:https://www.dcfa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2021-Fall-issue-f.pdf

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https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/case-renewal-post-secondary-education

The Case for Renewal in Post-Secondary Education Over the past 15 years, revenue from student tuition has tripled, public student debt has ballooned (reaching $28 billion by 2012) and working conditions for campus staff have deteriorated. It's

"The challenge for all of us affected by the increasing monetization of higher education is to resist the unfortunate tendency of unionization to solidify already well-entrenched status hierarchies." https://www.thenation.com/article/society/columbia-university-strike/

Columbia University Has Lost Its Way The Ivy League institution’s approach to the contract negotiations with its grad student workers reveals how it has evolved into a predatory business.

considering the ways in which the public sphere gets privatized & corporatized at various scales and levels, neoliberalism 101 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-liberals-spend-billions-more-on-outsourced-contracts-since-taking/

Liberals spend billions more on outsourced contracts since taking power Ottawa spent $11.8-billion on outsourcing tasks from management consulting to IT in 2020-21, compared to $8.4-billion in the 2015-16 fiscal year

we call on post-secondary institutions to implement the same 50% capacity limits in lecture halls, classrooms, and labs as the provincial orders require for social gathering spaces https://www.cufa.bc.ca/post-secondary-unions-call-for-safer-return-in-january/

» Post-Secondary Unions Call for Safer Return in January Created 22 December 2021 14:12 MEDIA RELEASE (For immediate release – Vancouver, BC, December 22, 2021) – With the Omicron variant, faculty and staff at BC’s post-secondary institutions are seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases among students and campus communities. As this year wraps up, some ...