[tadamon-l] [Montreal] Study In Action: Opening Event, Thursday, April 17th.

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QPIRG Concordia presents:
2nd Annual Study In Action Conference at Concordia

Linking Undergraduate Students with Community Activism
April 17th - 20th

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Opening Keynote Panel
THURSDAY APRIL 17th, 6:30pm
de Sève Cinema
Concordia Library Building (LB) - 125
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co-sponsored by Tadamon! Montreal
http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1309

* Salim Vally: "Apartheid: from South Africa to Palestine"

Vally is a South African activist and a former regional executive member 
of the high school South African Student's Movement (SASM). He is the 
chairperson of the Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Anti-War 
Coalition in South Africa and currently a visiting scholar at the School 
of Social Sciences at York University.

* Harsha Walia: "De-constructing Knowledge from an Activist Perspective"

Walia is involved in migrant justice organizing, feminist and anti-racist 
collectives, South Asian community organizing, indigenous solidarity, and 
anti-imperialist networks. She is also a writer and researcher with work 
appearing in numerous alternative and mainstream journals, magazines, and 
newspapers.

* Vivian Namaste:
Community Based Research; Principles and Practices of Knowledge for Change

Namaste is acting principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at 
Concordia University and from time to time teaches courses in Feminist 
Action Research.

* Panels (P) + Workshops (W) - April 19th and 20th:

* Saturday, April 19th: 7th Floor Hall Building - Concordia

10 - 11am: Registration + Breakfast

11 - 1pm:
Cultural Imperialism(s) and the Colonial Project (P)

Critiquing and Creating Discourses on Health (P)

1 - 2pm: Lunch

2 - 4pm:
From Queer Theory to Queer Communities

Solidarity with Migrant Labor
presented by the Immigrant Workers Centre (W)

4 - 4:30pm: Break

4:30 - 6pm:
Resource (Mis)management: Terrains of Struggle* (P)

Activism Film-making on a Shoestring - presented by CUTV* (W)
(note: this workshop will start at 4:15pm)


* Sunday, April 20th
7th Floor Hall Building - Concordia


10:30 - 11am : Breakfast

11 - 1pm : Art as Sites of Social Transformation* (P)

The Tars Sands and their Impact on Everything - presented by a member
of No one Is Illegal and Block The Empire* (W)

1 - 2pm : Lunch

2 - 4pm:

Patrolling Race; Securing the Nation* (P)

Sex Workers' Rights - Theory and Practice: Making the Links, 
Becoming an Ally Organization; Stella l'aime de Maimie
presented by Stella (W)

4 - 4:15pm : Break

4:15 - 6pm:
Plenary: Building Student Social and Environmental Justice Movements

* Pre-registration:

The conference is free and open to all, but please call or e-mail (contact 
info below) to pre-register and reserve your spot. If you don't register, 
no worries, you can still attend. Pre-registration simply allows us to 
know how many people to expect and reserves you a spot in the event that 
the conference becomes full.

* A Word about the Conference Theme
Why Social and Environmental Justice?

Movements for social justice include all peoples' struggles for 
self-determination and against any form of social and economic domination, 
whether appearing as global power imbalance or local injustice. 
Environmental justice-based approaches recognize that the effects of 
environmental degradation are not equally distributed across the world's 
peoples; instead, the brunt of environment-based harm is borne by 
racialized communities, working class and impoverished people, indigenous 
peoples, and other populations marginalized by global systems of 
domination and inequality. Therefore, environmental justice requires that 
analysis and organizing around environmental issues follow principles of 
anti-oppression (or, anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-sexist, 
anti-classist, and anti-neoliberal principles), and seeks pro-environment 
solutions that help redress inequality along all axes of domination. The 
organizers of Study in Action hope to bring these two approaches together, 
first, to counter the belief that struggles against environmental 
destruction and social domination must be held apart, second, to highlight 
the concrete ways in which these struggles already play out together, and 
third, to point to potentials for increasing understanding, solidarity, 
and cooperation between social movements and pro-environment movements.

The organizers of Study in Action hope to bring these two approaches 
together, first, to counter the belief that struggles against 
environmental destruction and social domination must be held apart, 
second, to highlight the concrete ways in which these struggles already 
play out together, and third, to point to potentials for increasing 
understanding, solidarity, and cooperation between social movements and 
pro-environment movements.

* Accessibility: All venues are wheelchair accessible...

* Free childcare and whisper translation (to and from English and French) 
will be available *with 48 HOURS NOTICE* for the conference on the 19th 
and 20th. Please e-mail (studyinaction at gmail.com) or call QPIRG Concordia 
514-848-7585, before Thursday April 17th, 1pm.

For any accessibility questions please call or e-mail us.

* Information about Study in Action:
http://www.qpirgconcordia.org/studyinaction 
email: studyinaction at gmail.com / 514 848 7585

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