[imc-ottawa] November 2007: Montreal Middle East Popular Education Project. Tadamon!, FNEEQ & l'ASSE Present...

[Stefan Christoff]

From: Tadamon! <tadamon at resist.ca>


Montreal Middle East Popular Education Project: November 2007
* November 2007: Tadamon!, FNEEQ & l'ASSÉ Present...

http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/986

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

* Wednesday, November 14th. 10am, UQÀM,
Room J-1120 (Pavillon Judith-Jasmin)
In the context of a day of l'Université populaire à Montréal (UPAM) organized
by L'Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ).

* Tuesday November 20th, 12:30pm Collège de Maisonneuve.
Hosted by the Société générale des Étudiantes et
des Étudiants du Collège de Maisonneuve (SOGEECOM).

* Tuesday November 20th, 12:30pm Marianopolis College.
Hosted by the 3rd World Studies Department of Marianopolis College.

* Tuesday November 27th, 11am. CEGEP Saint-Laurent.
Hosted by the Mobilization Committee of the
Association étudiante du Cégep de St-Laurent (AÉCSL)

* Wednesday November 28th, 12Noon. Collège Marie-Victorin.
Hosted by the Syndicat étudiant du
Collège Marie-Victorin (SECMV)

* Wednesday, December 5th 12:30pm Cégep de Sherbrooke.
Hosted by the Mobilization Committee of the
Association étudiante du Cégep de Sherbrooke (AÉCS)


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), Fédération nationale des enseignantes et enseignants du Québec (FNEEQ) 
with the support of the Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG) are 
organizing a series of workshops in November 2007 as the world marks 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 
seperation 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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