[Bloquez l'empire!] [Montreal] Middle East Popular Education Project. December 11th. College de Maisonneuve.

[Tadamon!]

Middle East Popular Education Project.
Tadamon! & ASSÉ Present.

* Tuesday, December 11th Collège de Maisonneuve.
Hosted by the Comité de mobilisation de la Société générale
des étudiants et des étudiantes du Collège de Maisonneuve (SOGÉÉCOM)

http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/986/

As the military shock of the US-lead 'War on Terror' consumes entire nations 
across the Middle East, the Canadian government is playing a critical political 
and military role.

This popular education initiative aims to build collective knowledge on 
Canada's role in the Middle East, while creating spaces within the context of 
Quebec's student movement for developing collective strategies to confront war 
and racism both at home and abroad.

In Palestine, Canada openly supports Israel's colonial military occupation, in 
Lebanon the Conservative government endorsed the 2006 Israeli attack, labeling 
the bombardment, in which numerous Canadians died, a 'measured response'. Today 
in the Middle East Canada is not neutral.

Tadamon! Montreal, L'Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante 
(ASSÉ), with the support of the Fédération nationale des enseignantes et 
enseignants du Québec (FNEEQ) and the Quebec Public Interest Research Group 
(QPIRG) are organizing a series of workshops in November 2007 as the world 
marks the 60th anniversary of the partition of Palestine, a foundational moment 
to the ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people.

At a time of war this popular education initiative will attempt breakdown the 
political, economic and military motivation for Canada's participation in the 
'War on Terror', while building solidarity within the Quebec student movement 
with anti-colonial struggles in the Middle East, which the Canadian state plays 
a role in suppressing.

Canada's political support for Israeli apartheid, silent complicity towards the 
US-lead military occupation of Iraq and major military role in southern 
Afghanistan, place the Canadian state on the front-lines of an international 
war which attacks the self-determination of the people of the Middle East.

Central points which will be presented within this workshop series are the 
following.

1: Introduction from a member of L'Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale 
Étudiante (ASSÉ) illustrating the importance / role of Quebec's student 
movement within the context of international solidarity struggles, specifically 
the struggle for Palestinian self-determination & against Israeli apartheid.

2: Outline on Canada's role in the Middle East historically & currently, from 
Canada's support for the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, to the 2006 
attack on Lebanon. Drawing connections between the historical / present 
realities of Canada as a nation founded on a colonialism.

3: Outline on the realities of Israeli apartheid, it's impacts on the people of 
Lebanon and Palestine within the framework of historical & current event. 
Drawing links between the historical reality of apartheid in South Africa & the 
dominant international neo-liberal economic system which maintains the 
seperation of the majority of the world's wealth from the majority of the 
world's people through a system of global economic apartheid.

4: Outline on the political framework of Tadamon! Montreal's two major 
political campaigns aimed at building solidarity with anti-colonial struggles 
in the Middle East within Quebec's student movement, full title / links to 
campaigns linked below.

* Tadamon!: De-listing Hezbollah

* Tadamon!: Boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid

Tadamon! Montreal:
514 664 1036 / tadamon[at]resist.ca

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