[Bloquez l'empire!] Radio Tadamon! Racism & "Reasonable Accommodation" in Quebec.

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* Radio Tadamon! Racism & "Reasonable Accommodation" in Quebec.
http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/895

Listen to an interview with Nazila Bettache of No One is Illegal Montreal on 
"Reasonable Accommodation" in Quebec. Currently a governmental commission is 
commencing this week in Canada, on the growing racism faced in Quebec by 
immigrants. In Quebec a series of government-initiated public hearings on 
cultural differences and immigrant integration has commenced this week.

Immigrants in Quebec have faced a growing political storm throughout the past 
year, as a Provincial debate on what is referred to as "reasonable 
accommodation" has attracted international headlines.

A series of public hearings will occur throughout the coming months in Quebec, 
as part of the state commission lead by two Quebec academics who are not new 
immigrants. These government initiated take place within the context of growing 
racism toward new immigrants in Quebec, a pattern of racism directly targeting 
the Arab / Muslim community.

"Using the term accommodation simply put really, sort of implies to me a 
hierarchy of identities, where by, the identity the one that has been framed in 
the mainstream media as the so-called Quebcoies national identity," explains 
Bettache within the interview.

Debate on immigration in Quebec reached extremes in the past year, when the 
rural town of Herouxville passed a resolution which demanded that "new 
arrivals, abandon the way of life from their countries of origin, as it cannot 
be recreated" in Quebec. Civil liberties groups throughout Canada slammed the 
resolution as racist.

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* Radio Tadamon! is produced by the Tadamon! collective in Montreal, a social 
justice group focusing on building solidarity with movements for social / 
economic justice in the Middle East and Montreal, while also working within 
Diaspora communities in Canada. Information at: http://tadamon.resist.ca

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