[IPSM] (March 13-15) STUDY IN ACTION: Linking students with community activism | with Lee Maracle (MONTREAL)

[Jaggi Singh]

From: QPIRG Concordia <qpirgsprouts at gmail.com>

*STUDY IN ACTION*
*An undergraduate conference linking students with community activism.
March 13-15, 2009
Concordia University, MONTREAL*

*KEYNOTE PANEL: "Occupation and Resistance"
**Friday, March 13, 6:30pm
de S¨¨ve Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve West*

Featured Speakers:
*Lee Maracle; Zainab Amadahy; Sarita Ahooja & Helen Hudson*


CONFERENCE PANELS, DISCUSSIONS, WORKSHOPS & ART EXHIBITION:
Saturday, March 14 (10am-6pm) & Sunday, March 15 (10:30am-6pm)
7th Floor, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve West
THEME: "Occupation and Resistance"

Topics include:
*Militarization and the University; Research in Action; Hip Hop
Education; Voices of Prisoners in Academia; Defiant and Self-Determined
Bodies;  Migration, Identity and Indigenous Solidarity; Indigenous Worldview
for Allies; Decriminalizing Public Space; Independent Media Centres in
Resistance; and more!*

-> More details below.
-> The Study In Action conference is free. Welcome to all!
-> Breakfast, lunch and beverages are provided free during the conference.
-> Wheelchair accessible.
-> Childcare available on-site (please phone 48 hours in advance).
-> Whisper translation available for all panels and workshops in English and
French.

-> Please pre-register by e-mail at studyinaction at gmail.com
<studyinaction at gmail.com>(students:
please indicate your name, school and field of study; community members: let
us know who you are) or visit the website.

*For more information: <studyinaction at gmail.com>*
*studyinaction at gmail.com*
*tel: 514-848-7585.*
www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction
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*STUDY IN ACTION Keynote Panel:
¡°Occupation and Resistance¡±
FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 6:30pm
de S¨¨ve Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve West (metro Guy-Concordia)*

*Featured speakers: Lee Maracle, Zainab Amadahy, Sarita Ahooja and Helen
Hudson*

*LEE MARACLE* is the author of Sojourner's and Sundogs, Ravensong, Bobbi Lee,
Daughters Are Forever, Will's Garden, Bent Box, I Am Woman, and many other
works. She is an award-winning writer and teacher, and an occasional editor,
film story editor, dramaturge, stage actor and a gifted orator. Lee is of
Salish and Cree ancestry and a member of the St¨®:l¨­ Nation.

*ZAINAB AMADAHY* is a writer and community worker.  She is a contributor to
the anthology Strong Women¡¯s Stories: Native Vision & Community Activism as
well as authoring Moons of Palmares. Zainab is a Board member of the
Association of Native Development in the Performing & Visual Arts and is the
Executive Director of Community Arts Ontario.

*SARITA AHOOJA & HELEN HUDSON* are respected organizers based in Montreal.
Helen is active with the Certain Days Political Prisoner Calendar Project,
the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair and other groups and campaigns. Sarita is
active with No One is Illegal, Solidarity Across Borders, as well as other
groups and campaigns. They are both involved with solidarity struggles and
campaigns related to political prisoners, migrants and Indigenous peoples.
Helen and Sarita are both former coordinators of QPIRG-Concordia.



*SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 10am-6pm
Hall Building, 7th Floor, 1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest (metro Guy Concordia)*

Scheduled topics:
Class Warfare: Militarization and the University
Defiant and Self-Determined Bodies
Knowledge from the Inside: The Voices of Prisoners in Academia
Migration, Identity and Indigenous Solidarity
Indigenous Worldview for Allies of Indigenous Struggles
*
SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 10:30am-6pm
Hall Building, 7th Floor, 1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest (metro Guy Concordia)*

Scheduled topics:
Writing Our Rhymes Down: Interactive workshop on Hip Hop Education
¡°Fuck the Police¡±: Decriminalizing Public Space
Independent Media Centres in Resistance Internationally and in Quebec
Research in Action: Radicalizing our Methodologies
* Demonstration Against Police Brutality: Contingent from Study In Action *


INFO:
www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction
514-848-7585 - info at qpirgconcordia.org

*STUDY IN ACTION is a project of the Quebec Public Interest Research Group
(QPIRG) at Concordia.*