[tadamon-l] Montreal: Thursday! WEST BEIRUT: Film Screening & Discussion.

[Tadamon!]

Media, Culture & Solidarity: BRIDGES to BEIRUT....!
Tadamon! MONTREAL - Popular Event Series May / June 2006.

Join Tadamon! for a series of cultural / political events in Montreal.... 
This event series will consist of presentations, performances, 
film-screenings, readings & visuals that address the historical & 
contemporary political situation in Lebanon from a perspective of social 
justice. Importantly, these events aim to raise funds in support of 
Tadamon! Montreal's first delegation to Lebanon in June 2006. Join us to 
support Tadamon!'s efforts to build international solidarity between 
Montreal and Beirut....


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----> THURSDAY, May 11th:
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WEST BEIRUT: Film Screening & Discussion.
Virus Cafe, 3672 St. Laurent blvd.
Doors 7:30pm / Suggested Donation 5$.

West Beirut is a drama by Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiry that paints a 
dramatic picture of children's lives during the Lebanese civil-war. The 
film begins as the first events which sparked the Lebanese civil war begin 
in April, 1975. Doueiry represents the partitioned Beirut along sectarian 
lines through the lives of Tarek and his friend Omar. While Tarek makes 
Super 8 movies with his friend, the backdrop of war and division haunt the 
camera. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to 
tragedy.

West Beirut:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/west_beirut.shtml


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----> THURSDAY, May 18th:
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Culture & Resistance of Lebanon....
Cafe Esperanza. 5490, St-Laurent, blvd.
[Corner of St. Viateur]
Doors 8pm / Suggested Donation 5$.

Join us for a cultural evening with the screening of SOUHA SURVIVING HELL, 
a cinematic journey into Khiam Prison with Souha Bishara, a reading from 
Lebanese writer & artist RAWI HAGE & performance from Montreal musician 
HASSAN el-HADI....

The subject of Chahal Sabbag's latest film is the charismatic Souha 
Beshara.... In 1989 at the age of twenty-one, Souha - a devoted communist 
- agreed to attempt the assassination of Lebanese General Antoine Lahad, 
who was collaborating with the Israeli Army in the South of Lebanon. Lahad 
survived, but Souha was quickly arrested and thrown in the Khiam prison 
where she spent ten years for the attempt on Lahad's life. Conditions in 
Khiam were horrific, and Souha endured six of those years in solitary 
confinement.

Rawi Hage will be reading from his recently published book 'De Niro's 
Game'. The cinematic reportage of Bassam's day to day experiences as he 
tries to survive during the civil war in Lebanon are both vivid and 
paltapable. Rawi's reading with be followed by a musical performance by 
Oudist Hassan el-Hadi, a famous Morrocan musician who draws inspiration 
from musical styles and forms from throughout the Arab world, especially 
Lebanon and Palestine. - [http://www.hassanelhadi.net]

Souha Surviving Hell:
http://www.frif.com/new2002/sou.html

De Niro's Game: http://www.anansi.ca/titles.cfm?pub_id=593


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----> THURSDAY, May 25th:
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Entry, Exclusion and Resistance:
Syro-Lebanese Immigration History in Canada
[1880's to 1950's]

A Lecture by Brian Aboud.

School of Community & Public Affairs
Concordia University - 2149 MacKay St.
Doors 7pm / Suggested Donation 5$
[Metro Guy-Concordia]

A slide-show presentation by sociologist / community activist Brian Aboud, 
Humanities professor at Vanier College, on the first seventy years or so 
of Syrian-Lebanese immigrant entry and settlement in Canada (and 
especially Montreal). The presentation will focus on migration patterns, 
on governmental efforts to control immigration from Syria and Lebanon & on 
the long struggle of Syrian and Lebanese immigrants in Canada against what 
they perceived to be discriminatory controls.

ALSO featuring a presentation from Ahmad Mustafa, Palestinian Refugee from 
Lebanon & organizer with the Coalition Against the Deportation of 
Palestinian Refugees, concerning the present day struggles of Palestinian 
refugees from Lebanon taking place today in Canada....

the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees:
http://refugees.resist.ca

A Community's History - Montreal Gazette 2003
http://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/main/faculnws/aboud/gaz_story.html


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----> MONDAY, June 5th:
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Film Screening: Leaded/Unleaded - the State Unleashed.
In Collaboration with No One is Illegal & the Suoni Per Il Popolo

Terrasse of Casa Del Popolo
4873 St. Laurent
Doors 8:30pm / Suggested Donation 5$.

A film Screening of Leaded/Unleaded - the State Unleashed, a documentary 
film produced by the Independent Media Center of Beirut, on the May 2004 
labour demonstrations in the poorest neighborhoods of Beirut that were 
violently repressed by the army. It focuses on the perpetual economic 
crisis in Lebanon, where upwards of 40% of the country's population lives 
below the poverty line.

the Independent Media Center of Beirut:
http://www.beirut.indymedia.org

the Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival:
www.casadelpopolo.com/suoni/

for Information Contact Tadamon! in Montreal:
514 690 8499 / tadamon[at]resist.ca


----> Tadamon! MONTREAL - 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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