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TADAMON! Launch: Photos & Audio Online!
Voice for Justice from BEIRUT to MONTREAL.

Tadamon! Montreal launch event, featuring music, visuals, presentations & 
films, brought together upwards of 250 people on January 22nd, 2006. 
Movements for social and economic justice in Lebanon were highlighted 
during the event, which created an important space for political 
discussion & debate on the historic political changes that Lebanon has 
witnessed throughout the last year.

Tadamon! [Solidarity in Arabic], is an social justice initiative based in 
Montreal, aimed at supporting movements for social & economic justice in 
Lebanon, while also working within the Lebanese Diaspora in Montreal, to 
address struggles facing the Lebanese community, such as immigration, 
racism, poverty and labour rights.

The Tadamon! launch in Montreal featured a performance from the Hassan 
el-Hadi band, featuring Oud, Arabic Flute, Banjo & Arabic Percussion. Also 
the Tadamon! launch featured the screening of 'War Generation', a 
documentary film by Jean Chamoun & Mai Masri filmed on the streets of 
Beirut during the country's 15 year civil-war. Finally the launching event 
featured a presentation from independent journalist & member of Tadamon!, 
Stefan Christoff, who spent the summer of 2005 in Lebanon, reporting on 
movements for social and economic justice.

----> To view photos of the Tadamon! launch in Mnontreal visit the 
Independent Media Center of Quebec at: http://gallery.cmaq.net/tadamon

----> To listen / download selected songs from a live performance of the 
Hassan el-Hadi band at the Tadamon! launch visit: 
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/8405.php

----> To listen to the presentation given by Stefan Christoff, independent 
journalist & member of Tadamon! in Montreal visit: 
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/8409.php

For more information or to get involved with Tadamon! in Montreal contact: 
tadamon[at]resist.ca / 514 690 8499


TADAMON!: Basis of Unity....

Tadamon! [solidarity in Arabic], is a Montreal based collective of social 
justice activists, working to lend support and solidarity to grassroots 
political movements for social and economic justice in Lebanon.

In the context of historic political changes taking place in Lebanon, 
Tadamon! through it's political work, aims to support struggles for social 
justice and human rights of ALL people living in Lebanon, through direct 
coordination and organization between activists in Beirut & Montreal.

In Montreal, Tadamon! aims to organize within the Lebanese Diaspora, 
through popular education, cultural work and political action, which 
address struggles facing the Lebanese community, such as immigration, 
racism, poverty and labour rights.

Through organizing work both locally and internationally, Tadamon! aligns 
itself with social justice movements in Lebanon, Canada and 
internationally which are anti-capitalist & anti-authoritarian in nature.

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