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/ron-williamson-not-a-licensed-archaeologist/

Source: http://edrh.rhpl.richmondhill.on.ca/figures.asp?ID=f1-3

Lake, river and trail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/history-runs-deep-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.htm

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 violenceApril 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 storiesCLASP (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-funds-for-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_blackcreek.html

Black Creek Community Collaborative -- http://blackcreekcapacity.ca/about-2

How will we get together to tell new stories?