[Indigsol] Global Apartheid Conference - Saturday Workshop Descriptions

[Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement -Ottawa]

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OPIRG Carleton and OPIRG-GRIPO Ottawa present::

*RACE, SPACE AND (IN)JUSTICE :: Global Apartheid from South Africa to Turtle
Island: A panel discussion with Shawn Brant, Rozena Maart, Chris Ramsaroop,
and Jaggi Singh*
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*Friday, January 22nd :: 7 pm :: Carleton University, Azrieli Theatre 102
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*and please join us Saturday for more... *

The *Global Apartheid *conference will continue on Saturday with a number of
workshops and panel discussions on similar themes. Check out the
descriptions below!

>> *Workshops and Panels :: Building Movements to End Apartheid*
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**Saturday January 23rd, 10:00 am – 5:30 pm, University of Ottawa, Morisset
Hall, 65 Université Pvt*
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*Advance registration required - PWYC, $5-10 suggested (includes breakfast,
lunch, and conference materials)*


BUILDING MOVEMENTS TO END APARTHEID
Workshops, Panels, Skillshares
9:30 am – 5:30 pm
University of Ottawa, Morisset Hall, 65 Universite Pvt
To register for the Saturday workshops, click here: http://tiny.cc/wHyHf

10:30 am – 11:20 am

*OPENING PLENARY: Global Apartheid: What Can Organizing Do?
Rozena Maart, Ben Powless, and Yafa Jarrar

*Rozena Maart was born in District Six, Cape Town, South Africa. She is an
anti-apartheid activist from the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, and
has addressed interconnections between and among South Africa, Palestine,
Canada, the United States and the UK for the past twenty years.

Ben Powless is Mohawk from Six Nations Territory, and a student of
Indigenous Rights/Human Rights/Environmental Studies at Carleton, when not
organizing with the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Canadian Youth
Climate Coalition.

Yafa Jarrar was born in Jerusalem, Palestine. She moved to Canada in 2003 to
attend Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific. She is currently continuing
her MA degree in Political Science at Carleton University, and is a member
of Students Against Israeli Apartheid. Yafa represented Palestine in the
Arab League of Nations in Cairo in 2001, addressing the effects of the
Israeli occupation on the Palestinian educational process; and, also in
2001, was elected to represent Palestine to speak at the United Nations.

11:30 am – 12:50 pm

*Resisting Apartheid in Palestine: Reflections on the Current State of the
BDS Movement
Presenters: Yafa Jarrar and Aidan Macdonald (Students Against Israeli
Apartheid-Carleton)
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This workshop will explore the origins, principles, and development of the
Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, with a
particular focus on campus activism. The session will begin with a look at
the 2005 call for BDS, and will also discuss the importance of developing
strategies of anti-normalization as an alternative to the empty and
ineffective “peace process.” The workshop will then move on to examine what
can be termed the “methodology” of BDS, through an overview of the key
components that have defined successful campaigns and advocacy work in the
past. Finally, the workshop will finish off by looking at how these
principles of BDS have been put into practice on campuses around the world,
including the recently launched divestment campaign at Carleton University.

*The Classroom as a Revolutionary Landscape: Fighting Injustice on the
Thai-Burma Border
Presenter: Nisha Toomey

*This workshop will focus on how educators everywhere can empower their
students to fight oppression and injustice. Participants will learn about
and discuss critical pedagogy (with reference to Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of
the Oppressed), and experience tried, tested and true techniques which help
give voice to people living under oppressed circumstances. Telling the story
of my illegal school, an institution created by young adults living on the
Thai-Burma border, I will explore why and how we embraced critical pedagogy,
which saw teachers and students working as a team to explore possibilities
for fighting the unjust regime in whose shadow we lived, for understanding
cultural differences and globalization, and for the transformative journey
of self-discovery that only a wonderful learning experience can afford.

2:00 pm – 3:20 pm

*Global Apartheid, the G8/G20, and Migrant Justice
Presenters: No One Is Illegal-Ottawa and -Toronto, the Colletif du Chat Noir

*No One Is Illegal (NOII) Ottawa presents a three part workshop about the G8
and G20 and what they mean for the migrant justice movement. Hussan SK from
NOII Toronto will talk about the G20 and how it relates to migrant justice
organizing, a member of NOII Ottawa will talk about the work being done in
Ottawa to link NOII’s work with anti G8/G20 work, and a member of the
Collectif du Chat Noir will present the local anti-G8 organizing that is
happening in Ottawa and how YOU can get plugged in. For more info, check:
http://tiny.cc/FxQrc

*Indigenous Solidarity for Settlers
Presenters: Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement-Ottawa

*The goal of the workshop is to educate non-indigenous people about the
importance of indigenous solidarity and to teach people and learn from them
about what solidarity means and how to do it. The IPSM Ottawa is a
predominantly settler organization that works toward building a movement of
non-indigenous people actively supporting indigenous people struggling for
justice and decolonization. For more information, visit:
http://tiny.cc/vXgJa

*Profile This! Racial Profiling in Montreal
Presenter: Project X
*
Montreal is known to be a diverse and accepting city. But in reality,
Montreal has always had a serious issue with racist authoritative figures
misusing their powers and ripping Montrealers of their rights and freedoms.
This goes from day to day harassment in metro stations to the unpunished
murder of 18 year olds in the park; as was the case with Fredy Villanueva in
the summer of 2008. This workshop aims to present the real story of racial
profiling in Montreal, and how it is falsely presented in the media. We are
two members of Project X, a group working with youth dealing with racist
authorities. We will be giving a break-down of racial profiling in our city;
whether it’s in the metros, in the parks, at the schools, from not only the
police, but school administration and other city representatives. We will
also present what is being done by youths and other engaging people who have
been affected by racial profiling and have decided to fight back in a
creative and progressive manner. When police and school systems are the
oppressive force then Montrealers (and people world wide) have no choice but
to organize, educate themselves and kick some ass. Say what? Kick some ass.

3:30 pm – 4:50 pm

*Resisting Canada’s National ‘Security’ Agenda
Presenters: Mary Foster (People’s Commission on Immigration ‘Security’
Measures), Sophie Harkat (Justice for Mohamed Harkat Campaign), Rania Tfaily
(Hassan Diab Support Committee)*

The terms “national security” and “terrorism” are consistently used by the
Canadian government to justify invasive surveillance, arbitrary detention,
deportations, exile, the withholding of entry visas, funding cuts, torture,
the criminalization of dissent, and occupation. This discussion will focus
on how these terms have served to attack social movements and stifle
international solidarity in Canada, and the ways that groups and individuals
have found to resist.

*Tamil Eelam: Global Apartheid & Global Resistance
Presenters: Canadian Humanitarian Appeal for the Relief of Tamils
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The main goal of the workshop will be to track the current and historical
role that International actors have played in enforcing an Apartheid system
through the propagation of war crimes, occupation, disenfranchisement,
oppression, marginalization, mass murder, and finally the mass internment of
the Indigenous Tamil population of Tamil Eelam. Also to be examined is the
resistance offered by the Tamil Diaspora on a global scale and the telling
Apartheid tinged reaction in Canadian mainstream media.

*Organizing the Third World in the First: Immigrant Workers in the Global
Economy
Presenter: Mostafa Henaway (Immigrant Workers Centre)
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Immigrant workers have long been crucial to the daily life of cities such as
Montreal. Yet they often constitute the most vulnerable of workers, without
little or no protection. Many are non-unionized, and for the thousands
without immigration status, and/or are forced to accept sweatshop conditions
to provide for families here and abroad. In the new global economy,
remittances have become critical sources of income to the global south from
migrants in the North. Organizations like the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC)
have been critical in supporting these workers, (whether it be in the
textile industry, temporary foreign farmworkers, temp agency workers, and
domestic workers) through casework, political campaigns, and education. The
IWC’s work includes a focus on health and safety for im/migrant workers, and
fights for collective dismissal laws that protect textile workers, and other
works who have been facing lay-offs during the current global economic
crisis.

to register for the saturday workshops:
http://tiny.cc/wHyHf

for more info:
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