>> Sunday: APARTHEID IN CANADA: Frontline voices of Indigenous resistance
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 04:33 AM
SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 7pm
1455 de Maisonneuve West, H-110
near Guy-Concordia métro
Wheelchair accessible. Event is free.
Opening Panel of Israeli Apartheid Week (Montreal)
March 1-9, 2009
This special panel features frontline Indigenous activists who are resisting the destruction and displacement of their lands on Turtle Island (occupied "North America").
Speakers include:
Elizabeth (Tshankuesh) Penashue
Innu elder from Nitassinan (Labrador)
Elizabeth was born and raised into a traditional hunting and trapping family whose way of life was devastated by the flooding of their lands and the destruction of hunting equipment. Elizabeth has raised awareness and resisted the militarization and appropriation of Innu territory by NATO low-level military flying exercises out of Goose Bay over land that the Innu use for hunting and fishing. She has also opposed the further development of the Churchill River to power mainly settler communities in the south.
Judy Da Silva
Anishinabekwe from Grassy Narrows, northwestern Ontario
Judy is the mother of 5 children, fighting to protect the way of life of the Anishnabe people. She is active in resisting the environmental devastation and destruction of the land, animals and people, by logging and mining companies and the provincial and federal governments. She is currently involved in an environmental contaminants study of three northwestern Ontario Indigenous communities.
Introduced by
Laith Marouf of
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR). Laith has visited and worked in solidarity with various First Nations across Turtle island and has lectured on the similarity of the struggles for self-determination here and in Palestine. For the past decade he has organized with SPHR and currently is the Branches Coordinator at the National Office of the organization.
INFO: info@qpirgconcordia.org - 514-848-7585
Full Schedule of Israeli Apartheid Week events: www.iawmontreal.org
The following groups have endorsed Israeli Apartheid Week in Montreal (updated February 24, 2009):
- Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiant (ASSÉ)
- Association étudiante de la culture arabe de l'UQÀM
- Association facultaire des Sciences humaines de l'UQÀM (AFESH)
- Association des Étudiants Musulmans de L'Université de Montréal
- Association Générale des Étudiant-e-s du Cégep de St-Jérôme
- Alternatives
- Bloquez l'empire-Montréal
- Canadian Arab Federation/La Fédération Canado-Arabe
- Canadian Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Canadian Union of Postal Workers/Syndicat des travailleurs et travailleuses des postes (STTP)
- Centre Communautaire Musulman de Montréal
- Centre des femmes d'ici et d'ailleurs
- Centre for Philippine Concerns
- Centre Social Autogéré/Autonomous Social Center
- Cinema Politica
- Coalition pour la justice et la paix en Palestine (CJPP)
- Coalition pour la justice en Palestine (UQÀM)
- Collectif féministe les Sorcières
- Collectif opposé à la brutalité policière (COBP)
- Collectif de recherche sur l'autonomie collective
- College and University Workers United (CUWU)
- Comité d’action pour la lutte étudiante boulonnaise (CALEB)
- Comité des sans-emploi Montréal Centre
- 8 March Coordination and Action Committee of Women of Diverse Origins
- Frigo Vert Concordia
- Immigrant Workers Center
- Iranian Women's Association
- McGill Arab Law Students Association
- Midnight Kitchen McGill
- Muslim Students Association (MSA) Concordia
- Muslim Students Association (MSA) McGill
- No One Is Illegal/Personne n'est illégal-Montréal
- Opération Objection
- La Otra Campaña de Montréal
- Palestiniens et Juifs Unis (PAJU)
- People's Potato Concordia
- PINAY - The Filipino Women's Organization in Quebec
- Projet Accompagnement Solidarité Colombie (PASC)
- La Pointe Libertaire
- Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG)-Concordia
- Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG)-McGill
- Q-Team
- Radlaw - McGill University Radical Law Community
- Solidarité sans frontières/Solidarity Across Borders
- Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR)-Concordia
- Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR)-McGill
- Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR)-National
- Student Association for Muslim Awareness (SAMA) at Concordia
- Syndicat étudiant Cégep Marie-Victorin
- Tadamon
- Tamil Action Committee-Montreal
- 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy
- Voix juives indépendantes/Independent Jewish Voices
[to add your endorsement: iaw-mtl@riseup.net]
Israeli Apartheid Week (Montreal), March 1-9, 2009
Full Schedule of Israeli Apartheid Week events: www.iawmontreal.org
