People of Colour and Indigenous Peoples Zine Making party!

This Friday, May 10th
3755 Wellington (near Lasalle metro)
5-9 pm

Description:
At the last Midnight Kitchen POC and Indigenous peoples potluck, we expressed interest in hanging out more and doing projects together. The IPOCs of MK are hosting a zine making party! This session, we will be for writing or making artwork etc to put into the zine. This will be a fun work party and potluck where we can have another opportunity to hangout and work on something together. We’ll have a follow up session later to do the layout if you can’t make it to this one.
And if you can’t come, you can also submit something on your own time!

midnightkitchencollective@gmail.com

Bring art supplies if needed, but we’ll also have gluesticks and sharpies! 

Bring laptops if you’d prefer to type out your writing!

Ideas for the zine:
- The importance of POC spaces
- Reconciling respecting our cultures and community while also being critical of it
- Personal narratives about growing up racialized
- POC and radical politics
- Why it’s important for POC to be anti-capitalist
- Calling out racism/microaggressions
- Growing up in an immigrant family
- Tokenization/Fetishization
- POC organizing – our definitions of it
- etc. etc. etc.

*You can also submit work that has been previously published in other places, as well!

*******This is a space for self-identified people of colour, indigenous people, and non-white people ONLY. We are asking white allies not to come, but to help us spread the word amongst their friends and networks. *

MK Collective Orientation

If you’re interested in joining the Midnight Kitchen summer collective, we will be having an orientation meeting at 2pm in the Clubs Lounge (4th floor of the SSMU building) on May 8th. 

 

Projects that you can get involved in the summer:

- Organizing workshops

- Working on the MK library

- Solidarity Servings (including the Anarchist Bookfair)

- Activities for Rad Frosh

- MK zine

- Other events that you want to organize

- Long-term projects to make MK run better!

 

If you’re interested in joining the collective but cannot make this meeting, send us an email and we can schedule a meeting with you another time.

 

midnnightkitchencollective@gmail.com

LAST DAY OF SERVING

Our last day of serving will be on Tuesday, April 16th! Please check the website for further information on how to volunteer for our solidarity servings and summer events and projects. We will also continue to do solidarity servings upon request. Have a great summer everyone, and see you in the fall !

POC Dinner Night and Discussion Night.

Friday, April 12th
5:00pm until 8:00pm
The Midnight Kitchen
3480 rue McTavish 3rd Floor

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The Midnight Kitchen would like to invite all self-identified people of colour, indigenous, or non-white people to join us for an evening of free food and refreshments, discussions, and short films. We would like to create a space where we can hangout, meet other POC, network, talk about issues of race and racism, how politics fits with our identities as POC, community building, healing, creating spaces for ourselves, representation etc. Though there will be a strong discussion aspect to this hangout, this can also be a low-key time to get to know each other, enjoy food and plan other events for the future if we’d like. So, please do not feel intimidated by the discussion aspect, we encourage people who are new to race/radical politics to come as well.Food will be provided by the Midnight Kitchen, but everyone is welcome to bring a vegan dish or snack to share if they’d like.We’ll also bring zines to share.
*******This is a space for self-identified people of colour, indigenous people, and non-white people ONLY. We are asking white allies not to come, but to help us spread the word amongst their friends and networks. ********

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La Cuisine de Minuit voudrez invitez toutes les personnes qui s’identifient comme personne de couler, indigènes, ou non-blanc, pour venir nous rejoindre pour une soirée de nourriture gratuite , des discussion, et quelques films courts. Nous voudrons créer un espace sur lequel nous pouvons tous être ensemble, connaitre d’autre personnes de couler, discuter sur des problèmes de race et de racisme, comme nos politiques sont influencées par notre identité comme personne de couler, comment créer et fortifier une communauté, créer des espaces pour nous, représentations etc. Même s’il y aura des fortes discussions pendant cette soirée, ça sera aussi un opportunité pour mieux ce connaitre, en profitez pour manger et parlez d’autre possible événements dans le futur. S’il vous plait, ne vous sentez pas intimidées par l’aspect de la discussion, on encourage surtout celles personnes qui sont nouveau aux politiques concernant la race et le racisme.

******Il s’agit d’un espace pour des personnes qui s’identifient comme personne de couleur, des indigènes, les non-blancs SEULEMENT. On demande a nos alliés de race blanche de ne pas venir, mais de nous aider a communiquer cette annonce a tous leurs amis et a leurs réseaux. *****

MK EASTER CLOSURES!

Due to both McGill and SSMU Easter closures, MK servings will be cancelled on the following days:

March 29th

April 1st

Sorry for the inconveniences! We hope you all have a wonderful long weekend

EDIT: No other closures beyond Easter Weekend 2013 this month

the Midnight Kitchen and People’s Potato presents…

A week of food talk, teach-ins, skill sharing around food justice on campus and beyond. Workshop series by The People’s Potato & The Midnight Kitchen. Monday, March 18th “Food Access and Migrant Justice in Montréal” with the Solidarity Across Borders Food For All Committee 1:30 pm in the Madeline Parent room (2nd floor of the SSMU building, 3480 rue McTavish) Tuesday, March 19th Seed Bomb Making with Campus Crops 2:30 pm in room B29 (Basement of the SSMU building, 3480 rue McTavish) Description: “No time for planting your favorite native flowers? Tired of all those vacant lots not being put to better use? Learn how to make seed bombs using only clay, compost, seeds and water, and start sowing seeds without effort at home or anywhere you want! Great for quick, “no-work” seed-sowing of vigorous plants for the embellishment of public and private spaces (not necessarily your own)! Slingshot not included.” Soda Making Workshop with the People’s Potato 4:00 pm in the People’s Potato Kitchen (7th Floor Hall building, 1445 de Maisonneuve W) Description: Learn how to make your own fizzy soda at the People’s Potato! Wednesday, March 20th Make Your Own Bread with Adrian (our very own MK cooking coordinator!) 3:00 pm in the Midnight Kitchen (3rd floor of the SSMU building, 3480 rue McTavish) Description: “Hi all, we will be baking from scratch a batch of bread! And I am sure enjoying more than a bit of it afterwards. This will be a bit of a longer workshop but I am sure you will enjoy the results.” Workshop is limited to 10 spots! Please RSVP at themidnightkitchencollective@gmail.com. Challenging Fatphobia with Nathalie Cohen 1 pm at the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy (1500 de Maisonneuve W suite 404) Description: This workshop is designed to teach participants about the meaning of fatphobia – the oppression of, discrimination against and prejudices about fat people based on their size – understand how they themselves, no matter their actual body size, may have been affected by fatphobia, and challenge social and health-related myths about fatness and fat people. Thursday, March 21st Migrant agricultural workers in Quebec with le Centre D’Appui de St Rémi 4pm at the People’s Potato Kitchen (7th Floor Hall building, 1445 de Maisonneuve W) Description: People from the Agriculture workers alliance from St Remi and St Eustache will talk about seasonal workers, working conditions, and food production in Quebec Friday, March 22nd Pavillion Judith-Jasmine, UQAM Campus (405, rue Sainte-Catherine Est) 5:30 pm – Free Food Serving 6:30 pm – Anti-Capitalist Food Justice Organizing in Montreal with the People’s Potato, Midnight Kitchen, le Frigo Vert, and Ras-le-Bol

“Motion Regarding Daily Publications Society Winter 2013 Referendum Question Endorsement:

Whereas the Daily Publication Society (DPS) is an independent, not-for profit, student-run organization that publishes The McGill Daily and Le Délit;

Considérant que Le Délit est le seul journal étudiant francophone de McGill;

Whereas, for more than 100 years and 35 years respectively, The McGill Daily and Le Délit have provided a forum for students to express their opinions and keep informed of important campus events;

Whereas all registered students on the downtown campus except for students in the School of Continuing Studies, and students in Graduate Medicine and Dentistry are members of the DPS; 

Whereas the DPS hosts annual general meetings every Spring, in which any and all DPS members can propose changes to the society or constitution, as well as raise questions about both publications;

Whereas both newspapers welcome writing and artistic contributions from the entire McGill 
community;

Considérant qu’aucune expérience précédente n’est nécessaire afin de participer aux deux journaux;

Whereas McGill does not have a journalism program and The McGill Daily and Le Délit provide a journalistic learning environment, exposure and training for design and publishing software, and an annual journalism week, all of which can lead – and have led – to future employment;

Considérant qu’une presse libre et critique est essentielle à une communauté étudiante active et à une 
saine démocratie;

Whereas both papers are supported by a non-opt outable student DPS fee of $6 per undergraduate student per fall and winter term and $3.35 per graduate student per fall and winter term, without which both papers would cease to exist at McGill;

Resolved, that the Midnight Kitchen Collective endorse a “yes” vote to the DPS existence referendum question in the winter 2013 Referendum.

Resolved, that starting january 18th this endorsement will be  posted prominently on the Midnight Kitchen website during the campaign period from 9am on Jan 18, 2013, until 5pm on Jan 31, 2013.

Moved by: the Midnight Kitchen Collective