Digging up the Dirt
A radical research workshop

Wednesday, March 12th
6:00 PM
At OPIRG
563 Spadina Ave, 1st Floor
University of Toronto
*Space is Wheelchair Accessible

Every successful campaign is based on solid research and a few stunning, outraging and evocative facts. But how do you go about digging up the dirt that exposes corporate plunder, government corruption, foreign intervention, or anti-student university policies for what they are?

There's no single way to do good research, but this two-hour long workshop will suggest some basic research strategies and share useful tools and resources with participants. Consider it less a how-to session than an orientation session at the beginning of a long, messy and vital journey intopower, money, and politics; both local and global.

(Please bring a laptop if you have one, but laptops are by no means a requirement to participate in this workshop.)

Andrea: is an independent researcher and writer. Over the past decade, she has been involved in a number of campaigns, from a campus-based fight against Coke and Pepsi to a neighborhood battle against condoficationlii, and from a regional mobilization against the G8 to a struggle against deportation and for regularization led by non-status
people. In between, she's learned a couple of things about using search engines, and about not being scared of what you don't yet know.

Part of the OPIRG - Toronto Tools 4 Change skills sharing and building series. For the schedule of workshops, visit: www.opirguoft.org