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FRIDAY, MARCH 11TH @ 6:30pm
Opening Panel: CUTBACKS? FIGHT BACK! Capitalism, Austerity & Political Repression
Location: H-110 Auditorium, 1455 de Maisonneuve West
Featuring:
* Amélie Châteauneuf: welfare rights spokesperson for the Front commun des personnes assistées sociales du Québec, and a Toronto G20 protestor and prisoner
* John Clarke: organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) in Toronto
* Véronique Laflamme: community organizer with Quebec national housing rights organization FRAPRU (Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain)
* Jean Saint-Vil: radio journalist, community organizer and founding member of the Haitian self-help organization AKASAN (Ayisyen ki ap soutni Ayisyen nètalkole)
SATURDAY MARCH 12th – 10am to 5:30pm
on the 7th Floor of the Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve West
10am: Registration
11am:
PANEL – “Grounds for Action on Resource Extraction”
WORKSHOP – “Making Your Research (More) Relevant: How to turn an academic paper into a news story”
12:30pm: Free Lunch from the People’s Potato**
1:30pm:
PANEL – “Education for Transformation in Montreal”
WORKSHOP – “Parole Sans Parole: An Interactive Experience” presented by the Termite Collective
3:15pm:
PANEL – “Migration and the ‘Citizen’: From Solid Borders to Solidarity City”
WORKSHOP – “QUEERS MADE THIS: reflections on the queer archive zine & archiving community organizing” presented by Qteam
5:30pm (At Burritoville – 2055 Bishop Street, 2nd floor):
“Divine Interventions and The Geography of Loss: Research, Experimental Documentary, and Slow-motion Video In Action” A Performative Lecture and Visual Essay with Kandis Friesen and Kerri Flannigan
6:30pm (At Burritoville – 2055 Bishop Street, 2nd floor):
All conference participants and presenters are invited to join us for drinks and dinner at Burritoville. Drink tickets will provided.
**Study In Action expresses its solidarity with the community demonstration against the Charest government cutbacks. The demonstration on Saturday begins at Place Canada (René-Lévesque & Peel) after 12:30pm. If you would like to join the demonstration for part of the afternoon, a Study In Action contingent will gather at the People’s Potato on the 7th floor of the Hall Building at 12:30pm (sharp) and travel together to the protest which is just a few blocks from Concordia.
SUNDAY, MARCH 13th – 11am to 5:30pm
on the 7th Floor of the Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve West
11am:
PANEL – “Food (In)security: Policy and Practice”
12:30pm: Free Lunch from the People’s Potato
1:30pm:
PANEL – “Distorted images: sex work, tar sands, war, and anti-terrorism in the media”
WORKSHOP – “La morale conservatrice VS les Sites d’Injection Supervisés” presented by ADDICQ
3:15pm:
CLOSING PANEL on “Community-based Social Justice Research”
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LE VENDREDI, 11 MARS à 18h30
Panel d’ouverture : LUTTER POUR GAGNER! Le capitalisme, les mesures d’austérité et la répression politique
Auditorium H-110, 1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest
Avec:
* Amélie Châteauneuf: militante pour les droits des personnes assistées sociales et porte-parole du Front commun des personnes assistées sociales du Québec. Amélie a été manifester à Toronto contre le G20 et s’est vu incarcérée.
* John Clarke: organisateur à Toronto avec la Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).
* Véronique Laflamme: organisatrice communautaire avec une organisation nationale pour le droit au logement, le FRAPRU (Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain).
* Jean Saint-Vil: journaliste à la radio, organisateur communautaire et membre fondateur de l’organisation d’aide mutuelle haïtienne AKASAN (Ayisyen ki ap soutni Ayisyen nètalkole)
LE SAMEDI 12 MARS: 10h à 17h30
1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest, 7e étage
10 h : Inscriptions
11 h :
TABLE-RONDE – « Gagner du terrain : L’activisme VS l’extraction des ressources »
ATELIER – « Pour rendre vos recherches plus pertinentes : Comment transformer un travail académique en reportage d’actualité »
12 h 30 : LUNCH – gracieuseté de la Patate du Peuple**
13 h 30 :
TABLE-RONDE – « L’Éducation transformative à Montréal »
ATELIER – « Parole Sans Parole : Une expérience interactive » présenté par le Termite Collective
15 h 15 :
TABLE-RONDE – « La migration et le ‘citoyen’ : Des frontières rigides à la Cité sans frontières »
ATELIER – « CRÉÉ PAR DES QUEERS : réflexions sur un fanzine qui documente l’organisation communautaire queer à Montréal ces dernières années »
17 h 30: (À Burritoville, 2055 rue Bishop, 2e étage)
« L’Intervention divine et la Géographie de la perte : Recherche, documentaire expérimental et vidéo-action au ralenti. Une conférence-performance et dissertation visuelle » par Kandis Friesen et Kerri Flannigan.
18 h 30: (À Burritoville, 2055 rue Bishop, 2e étage)
TouTEs les participantEs et présentateurs-TRICES sont invitéEs à se joindre à nous pour prendre un verre et manger à Burritoville. Des tickets-cocktails seront distribués.
**Études en action exprime sa solidarité avec la manifestation communautaire contre les compressions budgétaires du gouvernement Charest. La manifestation aura lieu le samedi et débutera à la Place du Canada (René-Lévesque & Peel) après 12 h 30. Si vous aimeriez participer à la manifestation pour une partie de l’après-midi, un contingent d’Études en action se rassemblera à la Patate du peuple, au 7e étage de l’édifice Hall, à 12 h 30 pile, pour se déplacer ensuite vers la manif, qui aura lieu à quelques rues seulement de l’Université Concordia.
LE DIMANCHE 13 MARS 11h à 17h30
1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest, 7e étage
11 h :
TABLE-RONDE – « (In)Sécurité alimentaire : Politiques et Pratiques »
12 h 30 : LUNCH – gracieuseté de la Patate du Peuple
13 h 30 :
TABLE-RONDE – « Images faussées : Le travail du sexe, les sables bitumineux, la guerre et l’anti-terrorisme dans les médias »
ATELIER – « La morale conservatrice VS les Sites d’Injection Supervisés » presenté par l’ADDICQ
15 h 15 :
TABLE-RONDE DE CLÔTURE – « La recherche communautaire portant sur la justice sociale »
DESCRIPTIONS:
Grounds for Action on Resource Extraction
Saturday, March 12, 11am-12:30pm – H767
Forests for Saving or Forests for Herding: from clashing to compromising discourses on indigenous and environmentalist identities, by Jacinthe Briand-Racine
The case study which will be presented focuses on the association of the Greenpeace old-growth forest campaign with Sami reindeer herders’ struggle to oppose commercial logging on state owned forests and important pasture grounds in Finnish Lapland. Jacinthe will analyze the strategic use of discourse and the identity negotiations which are at once the result and the condition of the collaboration. Jacinthe questions the impacts of the campaign by setting the internationally acclaimed success story against the versions of it as told by different local voices.
Jacinthe Briand-Racine is a 4th year undergraduate student in Anthropology at Laval University.
Under-Mining Canada: Using Spoken Word and Discourse Analysis to Understand a Canadian Mine in Guatemala, by Rachel Small
Despite government assertions that “Canadian mining companies are on the vanguard of high technology, environmental protection and social responsibility,” our mines are far more renowned worldwide for the atrocities they commit. Rachel conducted a discourse analysis as a way of uncovering and analyzing the unstated principles that support Canada’s relationship with its extractive industry overseas. Rachel explores how the discourses used by groups such as the Canadian government, Canadian nonprofits and the mining companies themselves advance, complicate, or challenge dominant societal discourses and relationships of power. Rachel will also perform a spoken word piece that presents the story of a Guatemalan community living near a Canadian mine, and of her experience coming to terms with the impact that Rachel and her country have had on this community.
Rachel Small is a youth program coordinator with an anti-poverty nonprofit in Ottawa, and a queer environmental justice organizer in love with creative activism projects like community mural-making, independent publishing, and spoken word.
Failure in devolution? The case of Yukon First Nations, Free Entry mining, and the Peel Watershed basin, by Gwendolyn Muir
In outlining the current conservation/exploration debate of the Yukon’s Peel Watershed basin – one of the largest intact mountain ecosystems in North America – Gwen examines how the Free Entry system for mineral exploration has repeatedly undermined the land claims of Yukon First Nations communities and the Yukon people, all in the name of territorial ‘economic development’.
Gwendolyn Muir is finishing up her International Development Studies/ Spanish degree from Dalhousie University at Concordia via being a temporary Geography student.
Making Your Research (More) Relevant: How to turn an academic paper into a news story
by members of the Montreal Media Co-op and CKUT 90.3 FM Radio
Saturday, March 12, 11am – 12:30pm – H763
While a great amount of work goes into social justice related research on Montreal’s campuses, the information gathered doesn’t necessarily go beyond the university. This workshop aims to present researchers with tools and hands on tips to make their work more accessible through community and independent news outlets.
The Montreal Media Co-op is a new, bilingual, open publishing site and grassroots news outlet, online at http://mediacoop.ca. CKUT’s Community News Collective, made up of Montreal community members and McGill students, puts together a weekly community news program, Off the Hour and En Profondeur, every Monday thru Friday, 5-6pm, and events like an annual 14 hour radio marathon on homelessness.
Education for Transformation in Montreal
Saturday, March 12, 1:30pm – 3pm – H767
A Freeschool in Montreal! / Pour une école libre à Montréal! by Mubeenah Mughal and Marike Reid-Gaudet
Comment l’éducation contribue-t-elle à la reproduction du système capitaliste basé, essentiellement, sur les notions de domination et de compétition? En quoi l’école libre permet-elle un véritable changement de paradigme?
How does education contribute to the reproduction of the capitalist system based essentially on the concepts of domination and competition? Why is freeschool is a real paradigm shift?
Marike is doing a Master degree in Sociology of Education, working on the freeschool project, and the mother of a happy unschooler! Mubeenah is an activist, working also on the freeschool project, and the mother of 3 happy children and, yes, the older one is an unschooler!
HIV 101: Education and Prevention as a means of Humanizing HIV, by Jade Cambron
This presentation looks at the importance of HIV Education and Prevention as a means of reducing stigma towards people living with HIV/AIDS. It is based on field-work at an ASO (AIDS Service Organization) and Jade’s work as an HIV/Safer Sex Workshop Facilitator in secondary schools and community based organizations.
Jade is a third year Honours Anthropology student at Concordia with an interest in HIV Education and Prevention and she will be going to Uganda this year with CVAP to do just that!
Sites of struggle, development & creation: Contemporary spaces for queer youth in Montreal, by Julia de Montigny
Drawing on traditions within the discipline of queer geography as well as cultural studies on youth I will be exploring spaces as they are imagined, represented and function as sites of cultural and social production for queer youth.
Julia de Montigny is an undergraduate student in Human Environment at Concordia and a dedicated member of the Prisoner Correspondence Project.
Real learning for a real world, by Cameron Stiff
This presentation will talk about how we figure out what we really need to learn now and how universities can become centres for that: responsive, engaged, transformative people genuinely engaged in living and working.
Cameron Stiff is a Pisces who likes long walks on the beach and loves to swim and thinks Loyola could make a kick ass farm.
Parole Sans Parole: An Interactive Experience
presented by the Termite Collective
Saturday, March 12, 1:30pm-3pm – H763
The Termite Collective will be presenting a number of multimedia skits that revolve around issues of 1) prep for parole, 2) the parole hearing, 3) the rules of living in a halfway house post parole, and 4) parole revocation testimonials followed by a group discussion. They will be handing out a mock theatre program which will have a word glossary for the terms used, some stats on parole and a list of conditions that parolees are subjected to and things that parolee are forced to provide at any time. The collective basically wants people to get a sense of how difficult it is to get parole and to stay out of prison once you are on parole as well as the ludicrous conditions that are imposed.
Migration and the ‘Citizen’: From Solid Borders to Solidarity City
Solidarity City: Migrant justice and the everyday practice of mutual aid and direct action, by Aaron Lakoff
Saturday, March 12, 3:15pm – 4:45pm, H767
This presentation and workshop explores the idea of organizing for a “Solidarity City,” a model of mutual aid in action for migrants and refugees. It will provide a background to migrant justice struggles in Montreal, and how tangibly migrants and allies are constructing support networks for non-status migrants. Aaron will highlight campaigns for Health Care for All, Education for All, and the organizing steps to achieve a “Solidarity City” while providing tangible support for people who are defined as “underground.”
Aaron Lakoff is a DJ, community organizer, and Concordia student who is attempting to map the constellations between reggae, soul music, and a world without bosses or borders. He has been organizing with Solidarity Across Borders since 2005, and probably won’t stop any time soon.
Recruiting for Export: Agency Abuse of Foreign Domestics, by Matthew Casbourne
The presentation will outline the Live-In Caregiver program in Canada and why the overwhelming majority of those who enroll are Filipinas, the unique challenges foreign domestics experience as a result of being enrolled in the program, and focus on the role Recruitment/Placement Agencies play in the lives of those who participate in the program.
Matthew Casbourne is a 3rd year undergraduate student, Major in Political Science and Minor in Philosophy at Concordia.
Neo-colonial and Patriarchal Queer Tourism: Queer Migration, Cuba’s Mariel Boatlift Incident and the Gay Tourism Industry, by Fraser MacPherson
This paper was written as a required component of a course on Cuban history, society, and culture, which involved spending a period of two weeks in Havana, Cuba to “study.” It strives to explore the patriarchal and colonial underpinnings of the gay tourism industry in the Cuban context through an examination of queer migration and the Cuban Mariel Boatlift incident.
Fraser MacPherson is a white, queer, settler and a third year undergraduate history student at Queen’s University. Fraser is involved in OPIRG Kingston, Queen’s Coalition Against Racial and Ethnic Discrimination, No Homonationalism, and CFRC Radio.
CRÉÉ PAR DES QUEERS MADE THIS: reflections on the queer archive zine & archiving community organizing
Saturday, March 12, 3:15pm – 4:45pm, H763
Through the CRÉÉ PAR DES QUEERS MADE THIS 2005-2010 archive zine project, taking place in the summer of 2010, QTEAM hoped to create a record of some of the work that has been done in recent years in queer contexts in Montreal. The collective would like to present its process, reflect on its challenges and successes, gather feedback, and discuss how such archiving projects can be both welcoming and potentially alienating, based on a number of factors. As Qteam envisions potentially embarking on a 2000-2005 archive zine project, it particularly values community feedback on how it did this one.
Qteam is a Montreal-based radical queer collective committed to anti-imperialism, anti-racism, short shorts, queering activist spaces and politicizing queer spaces, the downfall of single-issue politics, raging pervy queer dance parties, destroying all prisons, opening all borders, burning pink dollar$, and keeping on keeping on. Qteam is a working group of QPIRGs McGill and Concordia.
Divine Interventions and The Geography of Loss: Research, Experimental Documentary, and Slow-motion Video In Action
a Performative Lecture and Visual Essay with Kandis Friesen and Kerri Flannigan
Saturday, March 12, 5:30pm-6:30pm, Burritoville (2055 Bishop St).
This event is a live performative lecture presentation comprised of two separate 20-minute long visual essays. These lectures are art pieces or performances unto themselves, and can be considered within a number of frameworks: narrated research papers, active visual archives, art-historic articles, academic poetry/poetic academics, and experimental documentaries. These slideshow/lectures propose an alternative way of presenting academic, activist, arts-based and art-historic knowledge within the context of the conference. These research-based presentations reflect the mandate of the conference as well as our work as artists involved in social justice movements in Montreal.
These works ask: what is the role of art in learning, research, and archive? How does art generate and reflect knowledge within an academic and community context? In what ways does art and art-making contribute to our understanding and knowledge-bases of popular history, political theory, and social movements?
Divine Interventions: Depicting/Resisting/Queering/Appropriating ‘God’ in Art, Kerri Flannigan (projection, sound, live narration)
This visual essay will show artists responding to the ‘church’ in a diverse range of roles from ally to occupier. This presentation examines the representation of ‘the sacred’ in artworks, from historical motivations to depict heaven and hell, to Naji Al-Ali’s depictions of Jesus resisting Israeli occupation, to Alma Lopez’s Queering of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Death: The Architecture of Dying and The Geography of Loss, Kandis Friesen (projection, sound, live narration)
This slide show with soundtrack and live narration is a reflection on death, a question about what death and dying can mean; the death of a neighbourhood through gentrification, the loss of a homeland/refugee living, memorial and migration, lost cemeteries and postmortem photography, trauma and aftermath, and the geography of mourning. It is at once a family album, an artist talk, a documentary, and an archive, looking at how we engage with memory, nostalgia, and loss.
Food (In)security: Policy and Practice
Sunday, March 13, 11am – 12:3opm – H767
People’s Potato: Reclaiming students’ autonomy, by Gustavo Rodriguez and Catherine Delisle L’Heureux
This presentation focuses on how the presence of soup kitchens (and community gardens) on campus can be agents of resistance against corporatization and student poverty in the university.
Gustavo Rodriguez is alumni at Concordia with a bachelor in Sociology and People’s Potato collective member. Catherine Delisle L’Heureux is a bachelor student in anthropology at Concordia and is also a People’s Potato collective member.
Practical tips for Alternative Food Distributors in using donated food stuffs in Canada, by Morgan Ambrose
This presentation will be looking at the best-practices of alternative food distributors re: using donated food stuffs in the context of student run food kitchens. Morgan’s intention is to disseminate information about using donated food stuffs that will help to strengthen and inform student groups who are looking to contribute to food security by using donated foods, but aren’t sure about the accepted practices or health/ safety issues of doing so.
Morgan Ambrose is a 4th year undergraduate student in Geography at Concordia and the volunteer coordinator for Sustainable Concordia (who recognizes the importance of alternative food distributors in food security)!
Top-Down or Bottom-Up? Creating Food Security Policy in Victoria, BC, by Maggie Knight
This research looks at the different efforts to influence, create, and implement food security policy in Victoria, BC. Maggie focuses on interactions between stakeholders, policy options, gentrification of the local food movement, and whether or not First Nations’ access to traditional foods is included in the food security problematic.
Maggie Knight is a fourth-year McGill Environment & Economics student and sustainability organizer.
Distorted images: sex work, tar sands, war, and anti-terrorism in the media
Sunday, March 13, 1:30pm – 3:0opm – H767
Tepid Dispatches: Newspaper Coverage of Aboriginal Oil Sands Protest, by Yannic Wolfe
This presentation discusses how Canadian newspapers respond to protest action by Aboriginal protest movements. In a six-month study of coverage in the Calgary Herald and the Globe and Mail, Aboriginal groups protesting oil sands development in northern Alberta received consistent, but understated coverage, which is in line with previous research on the subject.
Yannic Wolfe is a 4th year Concordia undergraduate student in Communication Studies and Political Science.
Iraq to Iran: Is the media failing us again? by Anthony Garoufalis
Anthony will be discussing the build up to the war in Iraq, the fall out and the media’s role in selling the war. He will then look at how the media have been reporting the Iranian nuclear issue and ask if they are doing a better job this time around.
Anthony Garoufalis is a first year undergraduate political science student at Concordia University.
Criminal or victim, the representation of sex work on television, by Marcia Burnier
This presentation compares the different ways the media represent sex work on French and Quebec television. In both societies, the media portray sex workers as either criminals, victims of men or manipulators but never as free women.
Marcia Burnier is a Concordia exchange student from Paris 8 University, majoring in Media studies.
Anti-terrorisme au Chili: la criminalisation des mouvements sociaux, présenté par Natacha
Natacha vous mentionnera de quelle façon le gouvernement chilien criminalise les mouvements sociaux et ce, par le biais de la loi antiterroriste et aussi comment les médias jouent un rôle préponderant pour manipuler la population à l’égard de ces mouvements sociaux. Natacha fera un survol sur les différents cas de manipulation médiatique de l’année 2010 et on abordera d’une manière plus profonde la lutte du peuple Mapuche.
Natacha est membre du Comité d’Appui au Peuple Mapuche, groupe formé à Montréal depuis quelques années et qui travaille en coordination avec plusieurs autres groupes à travers le monde qui luttent pour les droits du Peuple Mapuche au Chili.
La morale conservatrice VS les Sites d’Injection Supervisés
Sunday, March 13, 1:30pm – 3:0opm – H763
L’atelier se veut un outil de réflexion et de mobilisation sur l’enjeu du droit à la santé, en particulier autour de la question des Services d’Injection Supervisés (SIS). Nous donnerons un aperçu des nouveaux enjeux politiques et judiciaires avec l’arrivée fracassante de la police et du parti conservateurs.
L’ADDICQ est une association qui regroupe majoritairement des personnes qui consomment des drogues par injection au Québec.
TABLE-RONDE DE CLÔTURE – La recherche communautaire portant sur la justice sociale / CLOSING PANEL on Community-based Social Justice Research
Sunday, March 13, 3:15pm – 4:45pm – H767
avec/featuring:
Émilie Breton (Collectif de recherche sur l’autonomie collective), Chris Dixon (auteur de Against and Beyond: Radical Organizers Building Another Politics in the U.S. and Canada), Cleve Higgins (GRIP Concordia) & Siji Kompanal (Community-University Research Exchange – CURE).
