How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Reading Group Part 1)
2024-07-31 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Vancouver) | SFPIRG Lounge SUB 1410, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
In this 3-part facilitated reading group, participants will be diving into Walter Rodney’s book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. In the first session, folks will be exploring who Walter Rodney was as a guerilla intellectual and looking at the first two chapters of the text. We’ll get to discuss some of the basic concepts that ground Rodney’s study of the encounter between Europe and Africa, and we’ll also get to dive deeper into some of the case histories he provides of pre-colonial African development.

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Workshop: Learning from Palestinian Resistance
2024-08-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Khalida Jarrar Library, 515 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 5K3, Canada
In this workshop on Palestinian Resistance, participants will be exploring Palestine’s national liberation movement and reflecting on the different tactics its made use of at different points in its history. The goal of this session is to draw out lessons in this rich history of activism that can be applied to our movements today, here and now: Palestine solidarity work, anti-colonial movements in so-called “canada,” and so much more.

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Reading Group Part 2)
2024-08-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Fraser Library, 250 - 13450 102nd Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3T 0A3, Canada
In this 3-part facilitated reading group, participants will be diving into Walter Rodney’s book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.
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Teach-in: Marxist Fundamentals
2024-08-20 18:00 - 20:00 | SFPIRG Lounge SUB 1410, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
In this teach-in on Marxist Fundamentals, participants will be reviewing some of the basic concepts in Marx’s theory of history. We’ll be discussing concepts like “base and superstructure”, “mode of production”, and “class”, and reflecting on how these concepts can deepen our understanding of the world around us and inform our political work.

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Reading Group Part 3)
2024-08-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Khalida Jarrar Library, 515 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 5K3, Canada

SFPIRG 2024 Annual General Meeting
2025-03-10 08:00 - 17:00 | BC
Join SFPIRG for our Annual General Meeting!
Every year we gather together as an organisation to think about where we have been and where we are going. This is an opportunity to recognise amazing community work we have supported and led, talk about finances and funding of a non-profit organisation, and recognise the work we have ahead.
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As a student-funded organisation, we love opening up our doors to share the work we have done together as a community! Every year at our AGM we review what we have done in the past year, reflect on what works, what doesn’t, and think through how we use student funds to fuel change in the world – and in students! This year, we ware excited to be joined by sχɬemtəna:t St’agid Jaad Audrey Siegl of Musqueam Nation to welcome us to the territory.
Once again, we will be hosting this event online for the safety of the communities we work with. We will not have ASL available for this event, but will have closed captioning available. We are also committed to making spaces emotionally accessible for folks, which includes supporting generative conversations (even/especially when its difficult) and providing trigger warnings. If you have other accessibility needs we can work to meet, please let us know by emailing Noëll at engagement@sfpirg.ca
We will be updating the meeting documents as we get them prepared:

the SFPIRG AGM Agenda
the meeting minutes from our previous AGM
the Annual Report for 2023-2024 of our activities and relationships
Financial reports for the reporting period
