[IPSM] some workshops of interest ... Anarchist Workshops and Presentations (May 21-22, MONTREAL)
Jaggi Singh
jaggi at resist.ca
Fri May 13 23:59:03 PDT 2011
hi folks -- i thought some of the workshop and presentations at next
weekend's Montreal Anarchist Bookfair might interest you, including:
*- Social struggles in Indigenous communities of South America (Mapuche
Support Committee and Nicolas Van Caloen)
- Anarchism, Colonialism, and Aboriginal Dispossession in the Canadian West
(Paul Burrows)
- Decolonizing our Solidarity (Projet Accompagnement Solidarité Colombie,
PASC)*
more info below.
in anarchist solidarity,
jaggi (montreal)
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From: Salon Anarchiste Bookfair MONTRÉAL
[en français ici: www.salonanarchiste.ca]
*There will be twenty-six workshops and presentations throughout the weekend
of the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 21-22), in English and French. There
will be four introductions to anarchism, for those who are new to anarchy,
while the other presentations explore an anarchist-themed subject in some
depth. Full details, including descriptions, are included below, and also
linked on our website: www.anarchistbookfair.ca
**
SCHEDULE:
Introductions to Anarchism – SATURDAY, MAY 21*
- 1pm: Anarchism without Anarchists / Anarchism with Anarchists: The
Practice and Relevance of Anarchism (Jaggi Singh)
- 1pm: Discovering Anarchism Through Music (Philippe Morin)
*Introductions to Anarchism – SUNDAY, MAY 22*
- 1pm: Wage Labour and Alienation: An Anarchist Critique of Work (Camille
Robert)
- 1pm: Embracing Brazen Laziness: Introduction to Anarchism (Adrienne
Hurley)
*Workshops & Presentations – SATURDAY, MAY 22*
- 11am: The importance of struggle at the workplace (Industrial Workers
of the World)
- 11am: Transforming Harm: Supporting Survivors and Confronting Sexual
Assault in Our Communities (SACOMSS & Philly Stands Up)
- 11am: Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement for a New Society
(Andrew Cornell)
- 12pm: Anarchist Writers Bloc Workshop (Anarchist Writers Bloc-Montreal)
- 1pm: Anarchist responses to “austerity” measures (l’Union communiste
libertaire and others)
- 1pm: Social struggles in Indigenous communities of South America
(Mapuche Support Committee and Nicolas Van Caloen)
- 3pm: An Introduction to Animal Liberation & Anarchism: How Animal
Liberation Attacks the Roots of the Capitalist System (Love & Rage
Liberation Collective)
- 3pm: Orwell, the Anarchist-Tory (Eric Martin)
- 3pm: Support and Self-Defence in the Face of State Repression: The
example of the G20 in Toronto & Montreal (La Convergence des luttes
anticapitalistes, CLAC)
- 3pm: Contemporary Anarchist Perspectives: Introduction to Contemporary
Anarchisms (Christian Labrecque)
*Workshops & Presentations – SUNDAY, MAY 22*
- 11am: Anti-authoritarian perspectives on the ongoing revolutions from
the gulf to the ocean: Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain,Libya, Iran, Iraq,
Palestine (Tadamon! Montreal)
- 11am: Lessons in Solidarity: The Oscar Grant rebellions and the
movement against police terror in Oakland, CA. (Oakland 100 Support
Committee)
- 11am: Physical Proximity, Neighbourhood Life and Anarchist Struggles:
The Experience of la Pointe Libertaire (La Pointe Libertaire)
- 12pm: Towards an International Anarchist Gathering in St. Imier
(Switzerland) in 2012 (La coopérative Espace noir)
- 1pm: Philosophy is child's play! (Louise Caroline Bergeron, Mubeenah
Mughal & Marike Reid-Gaudet)
- 1pm: Round-table: 10 years after the Summit of the Americas: What
impact on anarchists? (Hélène Nazon, Maxime Fortin, Sarita Ahooja and
others)
- 1pm: The Struggle for Reproductive Autonomy: From underground abortion
collectives to the fight to decriminalize sex work (Emily Davidson & Kaley
Kennedy) - *Women & trans only*
- 3pm: Anarchism, Colonialism, and Aboriginal Dispossession in the
Canadian West (Paul Burrows)
- 3pm: Fifty Years of Struggle Against Police Brutality in Montreal,
Fifteen March 15 Demonstrations, New Strategies Against the Oppressive
State? (Collectif Opposé à la Brutalité Policière, COBP)
- 3pm: Todos Somos Japon and Planetary Anarchism (Go Hirasawa, Adrienne
Hurley & Sabu Kohso)
- 3pm: Parole Sans Parole (the termite collective)
- 3pm: Decolonizing our Solidarity (Projet Accompagnement Solidarité
Colombie, PASC)
*Workshops and presentations will take place on BOTH Saturday, May 21 and
Sunday, May 22, from 11am-5pm.*
*Workshops will take place either in French (fr.) or English (eng.) or are
bilingual (bil.). There is whisper translation available into French or
English for every workshop.*
*This year we present four introductory style workshops for people who are
new to, or curious about, anarchism and anarchist ideas and practice. The
other workshops (20 in total) go in greater depth into various currents of
anarchism and issues facing anarchists. We have also provided space for the
Anarchist Writer’s Bloc and an info-session about the Rencontres
internationales de l'anarchisme in St Imier (Switzerland).*
*Workshops take place either at the main Bookfair space – the CEDA at 2515
rue Delisle – or at the Georges-Vanier Cultural Center located across from
the CEDA.*
*Rooms A & B at the Georges-Vanier Cultural Center, and rooms 123 & 125 are
wheelchair accessible. Rooms 302 and 305 at CEDA are not wheelchair
accessible. We can move workshops in order to meet accessibility needs of
Bookfair participants.*
---
*SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2011*
*The Importance of Workplace Struggle **(fr.)
11am-12:45pm, Saturday May 21
CEDA - Room 123*
Within the historical framework of revolutionary syndicalist and
anarcho-syndicalist movements, we will present the strategy of solidarity
syndicalism as it is developing today. We will show how groups acting within
this tradition carry out effective workplace struggles, in harmony with
important anarchist principles.
*Presented by Andrew Fletcher and Paule Lespérance, members of the
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).*
---
*Transforming Harm: Supporting Survivors and Confronting Sexual Assault in
Our Communities (eng.)
11am-12:45pm: Saturday, May 21
Georges-Vanier Cultural Center (across from CEDA) – Room A*
How can we confront sexual assault in our communities in ways that both
support survivors of violence and hold people who have caused harm
accountable, without relying on oppressive criminal legal systems? This
panel will feature members of two collectives working to address sexualized
violence in their communities: the Sexual Assault Centre of McGill, which
focuses on supporting survivors, and Philly Stands Up, which also works with
people who have caused harm through a transformative justice framework.
*SACOMSS (the Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students Society) is a
volunteer-run organization which offers support to survivors of sexual
assault and their allies through both direct support, as well as education
and outreach. Philly Stands Up is a collective working in Philadelphia to
confront sexual assault, and working to restore trust and justice within our
community by working with both survivors and perpetrators of sexual assault.
*
---
*Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement for a New Society (eng.)
11am-12:45pm, Saturday, May 21
Georges-Vanier Cultural Center (across from CEDA) – Room B*
Movement for a New Society (MNS), a feminist radical pacifist organization
active in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s, pioneered forms of consensus
decision making, communal living, direct action, and self-education now
central to antiauthoritarian movements. We will explore the history of MNS
as a means of drawing out lessons regarding leadership, movement building,
counterculture, and prefigurative politics relevant to radical organizers
today.
*Presented by Andrew Cornell, an educator, organizer, and writer living in
Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement
for a New Society (AK Press and Institute for Anarchist Studies, 2011).*
---
*Anarchist Writers Bloc Workshop (bil.)
12pm-1pm, Saturday, May 21
CEDA – Room 305*
A workshop for all interested anarchist writers of fiction (literature,
theatre, film, poetry, etc.) to come together, meet each other and discuss
projects of common interest. Last year's workshop, for example, resulted in
a first-ever published collection of new anarchist fiction and an on-going
anarchist writers bloc.
*Presented by the Anarchist Writers Bloc (Montreal chapter), a group of
anarchist writers who met at last year's Bookfair.*
---
*Anarchism without Anarchists / Anarchism with Anarchists: The Practice and
Relevance of Anarchism (eng.)
1pm-2:45 pm, Saturday May 21
CEDA -- Room 123
*
This workshop will outline the basic principles of anarchism, from its
historical origins, to inspirations and antecedents from diverse cultures
and movements. From support work with prisoners, migrants and victims of
police brutality, to inspiring insurrections and uprisings world wide, we’ll
explore the tangible practice of anarchist values of self-organization,
mutual aid, solidarity and autonomous action. We will look at meaningful
examples of self-organization and resistance from Kabylie & Chiapas to
Mapuche territories & the Iroquois Confederacy, including local examples in
Montreal. Whether through anarchism by self-identified anarchists, or
“anarchism without anarchists” who practice the values of anarchism in the
day-to-day, this workshop will provide a basic overview of anarchist ideas
and practice, and the uncompromising struggle against capitalism, state and
all forms of oppression. This workshop is intended for Bookfair participants
who are new to, or curious about, anarchist ideas and practice (not
forpeople already quite familiar with anarchism).
*Presented by Jaggi Singh. Jaggi is an organizer with the No One Is Illegal,
Solidarity Across Borders and the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC), as
well as a member of the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair Collective.*
---
*Discovering Anarchism Through Music (fr.)
1pm-2:45pm, Saturday May 21
CEDA -- Room 302*
This workshop is designed for people curious about but not necessarily very
familiar with anarchism. Its goal is to discover the origins, central ideas
and historical figures and movements of anarchism through the medium of
French-language music.
*Facilitated by Philippe Morin. Philippe is a member of the Montreal
Anarchist Bookfair Collective and has been involved in a variety of other
collectives over the last ten years. He wants to change society.*
---
*Anarchist responses to “austerity” measures (bil.)
1pm-2:45pm, Saturday May 21**
**Georges-Vanier Cultural Center (across from CEDA) – Room A*
Since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, governments have tried
to download the costs of business shut-downs and financial market failure
onto the people. Resistance is everywhere, including in Quebec and across
Canada. Through this panel, the Union communiste libertaire (UCL) seeks to
highlight convergences and share reflections on the state of mobilization
against the Charest government’s austerity measures, and open a space of
discussion with anarchists from across Canada on these important questions.*
*
*A bilingual panel organized by the Union communiste libertaire with the
participation of other anarchist organizations from across Canada.*
---
*Social struggles in Indigenous communities of South America **(fr./esp.)
1pm-2:45pm, Saturday May 21
Georges-Vanier Cultural Center (across from CEDA) – Room B*
The struggle of indigenous communities has intensified since the creation of
independent states. Currently, the fight continues as their rights are
violated and the struggle to reclaim land is far from over. In Latin
America, we are witnesses to great repression, from both the State and from
multinational corporations, in order to evict indigenous peoples from their
lands and freely exploit the natural resources. In Chile, the State is
attempting to crush indigenous demands by criminalizing them through
anti-terrorist laws.
*Presented by the Mapuche Support Committee and Nicolas Van Caloen. The
Mapuche Support Committee is an organization made up primarily of people
living in Montreal struggling in support of the cause of the Mapuches in
Chile. Nicolas Van Caloen holds a degree in economics and has been a
filmmaker, independent journalist and environmental activist for over ten
years. He has been involved with Liberterre, Earth First, Sos-Levasseur and
continues to be active with the Abya Yala anti-mining coordination network.*
---
*An Introduction to Animal Liberation & Anarchism: How Animal Liberation
Attacks the Roots of the Capitalist System (eng.)
3pm-4:45pm, Saturday, May 21
CEDA – Room 123*
This workshop will discuss the connections between anarchism and animal
liberation. We will look at how the capitalist system deepens the oppression
of animals and how the current capitalist system depends upon the property
status of animals to thrive. Using past examples, we will look at how the
animal liberation movement attacks the roots of capitalism and challenges
the property system itself, building connections between human, earth, and
animal liberation movements.
*Presented by The Love & Rage Liberation Collective, an anarchist animal
liberation collective. Our education is anti-capitalist and anti-state and
our actions directly confront the institutions that harm animals. We are
based in Toronto, Canada.*
---
*Orwell, the Anarchist-Tory (fr.)
3pm-4:45pm, Saturday May 21
CEDA -- Room 302*
George Orwell liked to jokingly refer to himself as an “anarchist-tory.”
Orwell, who participated in the Spanish Civil War in the POUM militia, had a
particular conception of socialism and anarchism in which the defense of
culture held an importance place. This workshop will present the ideas of
George Orwell.
*Facilitated by Eric Martin, political science student at the University of
Ottawa.*
*---
*
*Support and Self-Defence in the Face of State Repression: The example of
the G20 in Toronto & Montreal (fr.)
3pm-4:45pm, Saturday May 21
Georges-Vanier Cultural Centre (across from CEDA) - Room A*
There were over 1100 arrests in Toronto during the G20. In the face of these
arrests, and broader state repression, groups and individuals organized
support networks to defend our comrades who were harassed, beaten, jailed
and/or charged with serious offenses. In Montreal, the CLAC Legal Support
committee was active in the immediate aftermath of the G20 protests to
return comrades back home, and also to provide tangible long-term moral and
legal support, while maintaining our public campaigns. This workshop and
discussion will share the lived experiences and learned lessons, based in an
anti-authoritarian/anti-capitalist/anti-oppression framework, about
responding to state repression, including police and state disruption and
infiltration of our movements. We will put forward a support model that is
contrasted with NGO & civil liberties approaches, a model that strives to
put into practice anarchist ideals of mutual aid and solidarity, and rejects
the false dichotomies between "innocence" and "guilt" or "good" versus "bad"
protesters.
*Presented by members of the CLAC (Anti-Capitalist Convergence) Legal
Support Committee, comprised of people who were both arrested and detained
at the G20, and also involved in legal support efforts. CLAC Legal Support
continues to be active in Legal Support efforts related to the G20,
including the support of Quebec protesters who still face serious charges.*
---
*Contemporary Anarchist Perspectives: Introduction to Contemporary
Anarchisms (fr.)
3pm-4:45pm, Saturday May 21
Georges-Vanier Cultural Centre (across from CEDA) - Room B*
What are the anarchist tendencies that break with classical anarchism, what
are their central animating questions that differentiate them from classical
perspectives: anti-civilisation, perspectives in solidarity with indigenous
struggles, communization, placing in question of the revolutionary subject,
critiques of activism, radical ecological struggles, anti-patriarchy, queer
struggles...This workshop will address contemporary anarchist tendencies and
the discussions and debates driving them. The workshop will be a
presentation followed by open discussion.
*Facilitated by Christian Labrecque, who has been involved in different
anarchist struggles, including recently the campaign against the 2010
Olympics.*
---
*SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011*
*Anti-authoritarian perspectives on the ongoing revolutions from the gulf to
the ocean: Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Palestine
(eng.)
11am-12:45pm, Sunday, May 22
CEDA - Room 125*
As revolution spreads from Tunisia, to Egypt and now in Libya, Yemen,
Bahrain, how doe we as anti-authoritarians and anarchists, understand the
nature of these revolutions, in how they encompass an anti-authoritarian
spirit in terms of their organizing, and how they challenge power
structures, hierarchy and capitalism, and a continual process of
decolonization in the region. This workshop will also discuss how do we as
anti-authoritarians and anarchists movements relate to the ongoing struggles
, and how we envision our solidarity with these struggles.
*This workshop will be presented by members of Tadamon! Montreal, an
anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial collective that works in
solidarity with social justice movements in the Middle East.*
---
*Lessons in Solidarity: The Oscar Grant rebellions and the movement against
police terror in Oakland, CA (eng).
11am-12:45pm, Sunday, May 22
Georges-Vanier Cultural Center (across from CEDA) – Room A*
Reflecting on the last two years of anti-police terror organizing in Oakland
CA, members of the Oakland 100 Support Committee will discuss and analyze
the work of anarchists to keep momentum from being co-opted by liberal and
reformist groups. Topics will include solidarity, messaging, and race.
*Presented by the Oakland 100 Support Committee, a group of arrestees,
organizers, and community members committed to locating arrestees,
participating in a drop charges campaign, and helping to generate a pool of
funds and resources for the over 100 arrested during the January Rebellions
after the Transit Police murder of unarmed Oscar Grant in Oakland, CA.*
---
*Physical Proximity, Neighbourhood Life and Anarchist Struggles: The
Experience of la Pointe Libertaire (fr.)
11am-12:45pm, Sunday May 22
Georges-Vanier Cultural Centre (across from CEDA) - Room B*
Neighbourhood activism is often associated in our scene with micro-local
struggles, often reformist and without significant relevance. From the basis
of a critical analysis of six years of organizing in our neighbourhood, we
will develop a contrasting argument: that physical proximity in a
neighbourhood gives direction to our actions and facilitates the
organization and diffusion of an “anarchist culture.” Up for discussion:
gains, challenges, pleasures, fears, frustrations, possibilities, anarchy...
and debates!
*Facilitated by the Pointe Libertaire collective, an anarchist group that
concentrates its actions in the Montreal neighbourhood of Pointe-St-Charles.
*
---
*Towards an International Anarchist Gathering in St. Imier (Switzerland) in
2012 (fr).
12pm-12:45pm, Sunday May 22
CEDA -- Room 302*
On the 140th anniversary of the Anti-authoritarian Iternational, we would
like to propose an international anarchist gathering. We will present the
history of the Jurassian Federation and AIT.
Facilitated by Michel Nemitz and May Dubuis, anarchist activists active in
the Espace noir cooperative (in Saint-Imier, Switzerland).
---
*Wage Labour and Alienation: An Anarchist Critique of Work** **(fr.)
** ** 1pm-2:45pm, Sunday, May 22*
* CEDA -- Room 123
*
Wage labour has not always been the primary form of work; if it seems today
like the only means of existence, it’s because it was instilled by violence
and repression. While it was considered of little value in practically all
societies before the 19th century, wage labour was imposed through the
disruption of social ties and pre-capitalist solidarities in the name of
profits. This workshop retraces the historical development of wage labour by
looking at the specific case of Quebec.
*Facilitated by Camille Robert, history student, member of the Union
Communiste Libertaire, and an activist in student and union movements.*
---
*Embracing Brazen Laziness: Introduction to Anarchism (eng.)
** 1pm-2:45pm, Sunday, May 22
CEDA -- Room 302
*
We tend to be taught from an early age to work hard and that hard work is a
virtue. We may get the message that work is the best way or maybe even the
only way to be successful or find happiness. Laziness, in contrast, is
presented to us as a vice, as not good for us, or possibly as treasonous.
We may be praised by employers when we work overtime (particularly without
pay). We may even be expected to do so. We may be admonished, punished, or
fired if we don’t. If we are not working – if we are unemployed,
underemployed, or irregularly employed, we may feel like we are somehow
“failing.” We might be made to feel like there is something wrong with us.
But along the way, something doesn’t feel right in all this working, this
drive to work. What does it serve? What does it do to us? Bookfair
participants who are curious about or new to anarchism are invited to this
workshop, which will introduce some basic anarchist ideas that offer
different ways of thinking about the meaning of work.
*Facilitated by Adrienne Hurley, who teaches who teaches East Asian Studies
at McGill University.*
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*Philosophy is child’s play! (fr.)
1pm-2:45 pm, Sunday May 22**
CEDA -- Room 125
*
This two-part workshop is designed for children and teens aged 9-15 as well
as their parents and other curious people. The first part, “Anti-Sophist
Kung Fu,” is a practical session for 9-15 year-olds to help them fight
against demagogy and to knock out the arguments of those who seek to
manipulate us. The second part — “Developing Critical Thinking in Children”
— is a space for reflection and sharing, designed for parents seeking
examples of philosophy applied to children’s daily lives, as well as
suggestions for further reading. Sharing experiences is encouraged!
*Facilitated by Louise Caroline Bergeron, Mubeenah Mughal and Marike
Reid-Gaudet.*
*---*
*Round-table: 10 years after the Summit of the Americas: What impact on
anarchists?** (fr.)
1pm-2:45 pm, Sunday May 22
** Georges-Vanier Cultural Center (across from CEDA) – Room A*
A round-table discussion with different activists who were involved in
organizing against the Summit of the Americas. This is not a panel: everyone
is invited to speak and participate. What impact did the Summit have on
anarchist movements in Quebec? The Summit of the Americas: a spark or
burn-out? Amongst anarchists, can we speak of a “before” and “after” Quebec
City 2001?
*With diverse participants including Hélène Nazon, who was involved in the
CASA (Summit of the Americas Welcoming Committee), Maxime “Tony” Fortin,
also involved with the CASA, Jaggi Singh, member of CLAC (Anti-Capitalist
Convergence), Sarita Ahooja, member of CLAC; Anna Kruzynski, who was
involved with Operation salAMI (1998-2001); Aaron Lakoff, who was a member
of Youth for Socialist Action, and you!*
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*Struggles for Reproductive Autonomy: From underground abortion collectives
to the fight to decriminalize sex work (eng.)
1pm-2:45pm: Sunday, May 22
** Georges-Vanier Cultural Center (across from CEDA) – Room B*
This women and trans- only workshop will look at several struggles around
reproductive health for women and trans- people in North America that go
beyond a struggle with the state for specific reproductive rights. The
workshop will explore common themes and tensions in these struggles, and
provide participants time to strategize ways to integrate struggles for
reproductive autonomy into other community struggles.
*Presented by Emily Davidson and Kaley Kennedy of *go it alone (together)*,
a zine duo that focuses on advocating feminism and supporting people in our
communities. You can see our work at www.goitalonetogether.ca.*
---
*Anarchism, Colonialism, and Aboriginal Dispossession in the Canadian West
(eng.)
3pm-4:45pm, Sunday, May 22
CEDA -- Room 123*
Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, and Rudolf Rocker all visited Canada, and
traveled through the Prairies, beginning with Kropotkin's cross-country tour
in 1897. This presentation sketches these late-19th and early-20th century
visits and explores the travellers' views on colonization and indigenous
peoples, in an effort to grapple with classical anarchism's contradictory
relationship to settler-colonialism.
*Presented by Paul Burrows, an activist and writer based in Winnipeg, and a
founder of the Mondragon collective, the Winnipeg A-Zone, and the Rudolf
Rocker Cultural Centre, all of which can be read about at www.a-zone.org*
---
*Fifty Years of Struggle Against Police Brutality in Montreal, Fifteen March
15 Demonstrations, New Strategies Against the Oppressive State? (fr.)
3pm-4:45pm, Sunday May 22**
CEDA -- Room 125
*
The goal of this workshop is retrace the history of struggle against police
brutality in Montreal and to discuss different strategies and alternatives
in denouncing police abuses. In public opinion as well as in activist and
anarchist spaces, debate around this topic is ongoing. We want to create a
space to exchange ideas and listen to different points of view, discussing
new paths of struggles against the armed wing of capitalism -- the police
and the legal system.
*Facilitated by the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (COBP), an
autonomous and anti-authoritarian group that brings together survivors,
witnesses and those concerned with police brutality and all abuses committed
by the police.*
---
*Todos Somos Japon and Planetary Anarchism (eng.)
3pm-4:45pm, Sunday, May 22
CEDA -- Room 302*
What is happening in Japan cannot be deemed merely a situation particular to
one nation-state, but a new phase of human history, an opening toward a
future unknown equally for the global powers and the people. It is a
universal experience in the sense not only of its economic and environmental
impact but also in terms of the self-destruction of the apparatus that the
modern world has been building up on a planetary scale. While the Japanese
government is desperately attempting to sustain its sovereignty, it is
revealing its incapacity to solve the amassing problems. Its national
territory is being divided up into enclaves of inaccessible regions, the
national economy is sinking into the abyss, and all this could result in a
fundamental disequilibrium, the possibilities of which we will discuss in
this panel.
*Participants include: Go Hirasawa, a Tokyo-based cinema researcher and
movement historian; Adrienne Hurley, who teaches East Asian Studies at
McGill University; and Sabu Kohso, a New York-based critic and translator
who has written on urban space and social movements.*
---
*Parole Sans Parole (eng.)
3pm-4:45pm, Sunday, May 22
Georges-Vanier Cultural Center (across from CEDA) – Room A*
The termite collective we will be presenting a number of multi media skits
that revolve around issues of 1) prep for parole, 2) the parole hearing, 3)
the rules of living in a halfway house post parole, and 4)parole revocation
testimonials followed by a group discussion. We will attempt to demonstrate
through theatre the enormous surveillance and heavy conditions that
parolees are subjected to. We basically want people to get a sense of how
difficult it is to get parole and to stay out of prison once you are on
parole. All the stories are true- just the names and faces have been
changed.
*Presented by the termite collective- a prisoner initiated lifers group that
was created in 1999.*
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*Decolonizing our Solidarity (fr.)
3pm-4:45pm, Sunday May 22
Georges-Vanier Cultural Centre (across from CEDA) - Room B*
Designed for activists involved in international solidarity initiatives,
this workshop seeks to question the relations of power and privilege at play
in “North-South” solidarity networks, from an anti-colonial feminist
analysis. We want to share with other activists the contradictions and
dilemmas that drive these forms of solidarity in order to better root them
in an international anti-colonial movement, breaking with paternalist
(humanitarianism, development) or “alternative” (exchanges, ethical
consumption) approaches.
*Presented by Projet Accompagnement Solidarité Colombie (PASC), a group that
works to create a network of direct solidarity with Colombian organizations
and communities in resistance.*
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