Transcript York University, Black Creek, Jane

York University, Black
Creek, Jane-Finch
Stories of Displacement, Disruption,
Desentendimento (Misunderstanding)
Ellie Perkins
FES workshop on “York University’s Invisible Fence”
23 October 2012
One story: Why are we here?
From Longhouse to Highrise…. Pioneering in our corner of
North York (Downsview Weston Action Community with
assistance from York University’s Community Relations
Department et. al. and with funding from the Secretary of
State, Government of Canada, 1986)
http://www.canada.com/technology/Scrap+European+iron
+unearths+year+Canadian+mystery/6833185/story.html
(2012)
http://news.utoronto.ca/ron-williamson-and-curse-axe
http://taiaiakon.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/ronwilliamson-not-a-licensed-archaeologist/
Source:
http://edrh.rh
pl.richmondhil
l.on.ca/figures.
asp?ID=f1-3
Lake, river and trail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/history-runsdeep-in-torontos-humber-river/article588348/
http://www.therealronces.com/history/72-carrying-place-trail
http://edrh.rhpl.richmondhill.on.ca/figures.asp?ID=f1-3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Carrying-Place_Trail
http://www.thekingshighway.ca/PHOTOS/Hwy400photos2.ht
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Another story: Bridges across
Black Creek
March 2007
May 2009
Any new bridges?
Source: “University plans future development beyond the subway,” Yfile, 30 March
2010, http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=14564
Stories of violence
April 24, 2012
To the Editor:
Outgoing Excalibur Editor-in-Chief Michael Sholars alleges in his March 28 editorial that the
York campus is unsafe and that "the problems are coming from the area immediately
surrounding our campus, one of the most infamous high-crime areas in the country." This is an
inflammatory, unsubstantiated, and misleading statement; Excalibur must correct it and
accurately report the facts. For example: Two Frosh Week dorm rapists convicted in 2010 were
white guys from campus -- a student and an ex-student. Eighteen-year-old Junior Manon was
tackled by police, beaten with walkie-talkies, held down, and died of asphyxiation on campus
near Founders College in May, 2010; one of the policemen involved also took part in the beating
of G20 protestor Adam Nobody seven weeks later at Queen's Park. A white male ex-student
and campus politico was charged with the rape and murder of a Chinese woman student last
year in The Village. A male first-year law student was charged with firing a shotgun through a
woman student's dorm-room door in February. The facts would seem to indicate that York
may be bringing violence to the neighbourhood, not the other way around.
But Sholars says, "I don't care what statistics are brought up to argue that the York campus is
just as safe as any other city...." This astounding and wilful disregard of facts is simply
unacceptable in any newspaper. Excalibur should immediately apologize to our neighbours
across Black Creek! And a thorough, factual, and impartial investigation of York's role in the
area's safety is long overdue.
Ellie Perkins
New stories
CLASP (Community and Legal Aid Services Programme of Osgoode
Hall Law School -- http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/clasp
York University - TD Community Engagement Centre (opened 2008) - http://cec.info.yorku.ca/
Jane Finch Action Against Poverty -- http://jfaap.wordpress.com/
FES Accessibility, Community, Equity (from 2009) -http://aceatyorku.wordpress.com/
FES Equity Committee (from 2010)
Chantel Dunn scholarship (2011) -http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=8730
;http://ylife.news.yorku.ca/2011/03/14/gospel-concert-raises-fundsfor-student-memorial-award/
Research as story
Sister Watersheds -- http://www.yorku.ca/siswater/
Art Gallery of York University -http://www.yorku.ca/agyu/archive/archive/o2007_blackcre
ek.html
Black Creek Community Collaborative -http://blackcreekcapacity.ca/about-2
How will we get together to tell new stories?