[Imc-beirut] April 2008: Middle East Popular Education Project.

[Tadamon!]

* Middle East Popular Education Project: Quebec April 2008
Tadamon! & ASSÉ present...

http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1345

A popular education initiative in Montreal emerging from social justice 
networks struggling against racism, war and occupation from the Middle East to 
Montreal...

* Monday, April 21st, 12Noon, Cégep Bois de Boulogne
student-run café: le Caféinné
10 555 ave du Bois-de-Boulogne, Montréal
Hosted by Comité d'action pour la lutte étudiante boulonnaise (CALEB)

* Tuesday, April 22nd, 12:30, Cégep Drummondville
960 rue St-Georges, Drummondville
Hoted by l'Association générale étudiante du Cégep de Drummondville

* Wednesday, April 23rd, 11am Cégep de St-Jérôme
455 rue Fournier, St-Jérôme
Hosted by l'Association étudiante du Cégep de St-Jérôme (AGES)

* Wednesday, April 23rd, 12Noon Collège de Lionel-Groulx
100 rue Duquet, Ste-Thérèse
Hosted by
l'Association générale étudiante du Collège de Lionel-Groulx (AGECLG)

* Wednesday, April 23rd, 7pm, Sherbrooke
Le Tremplin, 97 rue Wellington Sud, Sherbrooke
Une présentation de l'Association étudiante du Cégep de Sherbrooke (AÉCS)

* Thursday, April 24th, 6pm, QPIRG McGill
3647 University St. (metro McGill)
Hosted by Grassroots Association for Student Power (GRASP)

* Saturday, April 26th, 2:30 - 4:30pm @ MUCS
Hosted by Montreal Freeschool
2000 Northcliffe x. Maisoneuve, #218, Metro Vendome
(enter by the driveway at the north side of the building)


As the military shock of the US-lead "War on Terror" consumes entire nations 
across the Middle East, the Canadian government is playing a critical political 
and military role.

This popular education initiative aims to build collective knowledge on 
Canada's role in the Middle East, while creating spaces within the context of 
Quebec's student movement for developing collective strategies to confront war 
and racism both at home and abroad.

In Palestine, Canada openly supports Israel's colonial military occupation, in 
Lebanon the Conservative government endorsed the 2006 Israeli attack, labeling 
the bombardment, in which numerous Canadians died, a "measured response". Today 
in the Middle East Canada is not neutral.

Tadamon! Montreal, L'Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ) 
with the support of the Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG) and 
Fédération nationale des enseignantes et enseignants du Québec (FNEEQ) started 
organizing a series of workshops in November 2007 as the world marked the 60th 
anniversary of the partition of Palestine, a foundational moment to the ongoing 
dispossession of the Palestinian people...

At a time of war this popular education initiative will attempt breakdown the 
political, economic and military motivation for Canada's participation in the 
"War on Terror", while building solidarity within the Quebec student movement 
with anti-colonial struggles in the Middle East, which the Canadian state plays 
a role in suppressing.

Canada's political support for Israeli apartheid, silent complicity towards the 
US-lead military occupation of Iraq and major military role in southern 
Afghanistan, place the Canadian state on the front-lines of an international 
war which attacks the self-determination of the people of the Middle East.

* Central points which will be presented within this workshop series are the 
following...

1: Introduction from a member of L'Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale 
Étudiante (ASSÉ) illustrating the importance / role of Quebec's student 
movement within the context of international solidarity struggles, specifically 
the struggle for Palestinian self-determination & against Israeli apartheid.

2: Outline on Canada's role in the Middle East historically & currently, from 
Canada's support for the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, to the 2006 
attack on Lebanon. Drawing connections between the historical / present 
realities of Canada as a nation founded on a colonialism.

3: Outline on the realities of Israeli apartheid, it's impacts on the people of 
Lebanon and Palestine within the framework of historical & current event. 
Drawing links between the historical reality of apartheid in South Africa & the 
dominant international neo-liberal economic system which maintains the 
separation of the majority of the world's wealth from the majority of the 
world's people through a system of global economic apartheid...

4: Outline on the political framework of Tadamon! Montreal's two major 
political campaigns aimed at building solidarity with anti-colonial struggles 
in the Middle East within Quebec's student movement, full title / links to 
campaigns linked below...

* Tadamon!: De-listing Hezbollah
http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/campaigns/de-listing-hezbollah

* Tadamon!: Boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid
http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/campaigns/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-against-israeli-apartheid

Tadamon! Montreal:
514 664 1036 / tadamon[at]resist.ca / tadamon.resist.ca

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