[tadamon-l] [Montreal] THURSDAY! Entry, Exclusion & Resistance: Syro-Lebanese Immigration History in Canada

[Tadamon!]

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

A Lecture by Brian Aboud.

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THURSDAY, May 25th:
School of Community & Public Affairs
Concordia University - 2149 MacKay St.
Doors 7pm / Suggested Donation 5$
[Metro Guy-Concordia]
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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

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 organizers & media activists, working to build 
relationships of solidarity with grassroots political movements for social 
and economic justice between Beirut & Montreal.

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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