Events
- Sat 5 May
- Sat 5 May – Sun 3 Jun
- Kahwa Café 263 Mont-Royal Ave. E., (at Laval) Mont-Royal metro station
Tadamon presents Exhibition: A Child’s View From Gaza
May 5 to June 3, 2012
Vernissage with live music and snacks on May 10, 2012 from 6pm to 10pm.
Tadamon invites you to an exhibition of drawings made by children from Gaza following Israel’s attack on Gaza in 2008-2009. This exhibition previously survived an attempted ban when it was first shown in Oakland, California.
“A Child’s View from Gaza” is a collection of 25 drawings created by children who lived through “Operation Cast Lead,” Israel’s 2008-2009 attack on the Gaza Strip that killed 1,400 Palestinians, including 320 children. The Gazan students whose works make up this exhibit were participants in after-school art therapy programs aimed at helping children in Gaza deal with the overwhelming physical and psychological stress created by Cast Lead.
May 5 to June 3, 2012
Vernissage with live music and snacks on May 10, 2012 from 6pm to 10pa
www.tadamon.ca/post/10139
facebook event
Exhibition organized by Tadamon! in collaboration with Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME)
This is a CKUT Radio co-presentation
Tadamon is a working group of QPIRG McGill.
- Fri 18 May
- Fri 18 May 20:00 – 22:00
- à l’Alizée, 900 Ontario est
CABARET ANARCHISTE
Le vendredi 18 mai c’est le Cabaret d’ouverture du Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal. Sur scène:
Monk.E (http://monk-e.bandcamp.com/)
Webster (http://www.myspace.com/websterls)
FrankPoule (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuZ76cHpVtU)
Action Sédition (https://www.facebook.com/actionsedition)
Mise en demeure (www.miseendemeure.org)
Les Sofilanthropes (http://lessofilanthropes.bandcamp.com)
Brass Band de Grève
5$ ou contribution volontaire
accessible aux fauteuils roulants
info: www.salonanarchiste.ca
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/145364115588628/
part of the Festival of Anarchy
- Sat 19 May
- Sat 19 May – Sun 20 May
MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2012
The Anarchist Bookfair will take place in two buildings across from each other in Parc Vinet: – Centre d’éducation populaire de la Petite-Bourgogne et de St-Henri (CEDA), 2515 rue Delisle – Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV), 2450 rue Workman A short walk from Lionel-Groulx metro.
- Sat 19 May
- Sat 19 May 19:00 – 23:00
- Ste- Emilie Skillshare, 3942 rue Ste. Emilie
Anarcho-Indigenists & APOC Potluck / Souper communautaire anarcho-autochtone et APOC / Comida informal anarcho-indigenista y gente de color anarquista
At the previous Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (www.anarchistbookfair.ca) we identified a need for us as Anarchist People of Colour (APOC) as well as anarcho-indigenists to know each other work together share experiences and show each other love. Come hang out and share food with us after the Bookfair and before heading out to a Bookfair party. This potluck is open to people who self-identify as Anarchists and People of Colour or Indigenous + our friends/cats. Bilingue, anglais-français. Sorry, not wheelchair accessible.
info: http://steemilieskillshare.org/ part of the Festival of Anarchy!
- Sun 20 May
- Sun 20 May 22:00 – Mon 21 May 3:00
- Il Motore, 179 Jean-Talon O. Metro Parc.
qteam presents the last Glamarchist Lookfair
Glamarchist Lookfair; Sunday, May 20th at 9pm. Il Motore, 179 Jean-Talon O. Metro Parc.
http://www.facebook.com/events/387195197991961/
qteam presents:
the fifth and final installment of the
GLAMARCHIST LOOKFAIR:
a fundraiser party part of the Festival of Anarchy
http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/
A GOOD DAY TO GLAM HARD
qteam’s blowout end-of-an-era goodbye party. party de levée de fonds queer/ queer dance party fundraiser
One last chance to make it real.
It’s the 2012 gaypocalypse. The end of qteam’s rule as the sketchiest queer collective in montreal. The end of our purple reign of terror. The end of an era. The end of time itself?
QTEAM has been committed to anti-imperialism, anti-racism, short shorts, queering activist spaces and politicizing queer space… the downfall of single-issue politics, raging pervy queer dance parties, destroying all prisons, opening all borders, burning pink dollar$, and keeping on keeping on.
This is the end. the apocalyptic end. The magnificent and tragic death. throw yourself in the sadness. It is real. Celebrate and pay tribute to the glory.
Wear your best. Wear your worst. The dance floor will be stained with tears. Dance through the pain.
Lose yourself in drunken nostalgia. Relive the trauma of old drama. Bring it on the dancefloor like it’s 2007.
Dress Code/ Code Vestimentaire : anarcrust vests, bras-as-shirts, femme-dom in jeans, plaid crop-tops, jean genet stripes, the rich people in hunger games, red square pasties, solidarity fishnets, gold,diamonds, dollarama couture, bedazzled jean jackets, pearl necklaces, diamond, enCRUSTed heels, circle As in glitter, pleather chaps, black and red and metallics all over. Glitter is cheap!
Forget the past. Forget the future. Forget your underwear.
It’s a good day to glam hard. We’re going out with a bang.
qteam is dead! long live qteam!
Featuring DJs
SAM & DON DE DIEU
REZURRECTION
TAMIKA
LEILA P
5$ or pay what you can, no one turned away for lack of $$/
at
IL MOTORE
179 Jean Talon West, Montreal, QC
*il motore is a wheelchair-accessible venue with wheelchair-accessible washrooms
(please note that due to facebook’s annoying event policies, there are two facebook events for this real life event. sorry if you get two invites!
- Mon 21 May
- Mon 21 May 16:00 – 18:30
- Café l’Artère, 7000 Parc ave. (métro Parc)
Book Launch & Panel: “Decolonizing Anarchism”
An Anti-colonial Victoria Day!
Monday, May 21, 4pm-6pm
Café l’Artère, 7000 Parc ave. (métro Parc)
Free! Welcome to all!
The venue is wheelchair accessible, but the bathrooms are not.
Childcare available on request (phone 514-848-7585 to reserve)
Présentation en anglais avec traduction chuchotée en français.
Book launch: “Decolonizing Anarchism: An antiauthoritarian history of India’s liberation struggle”
Panel discussion “Anarchism and anti-colonial struggles from South Asia to Turtle Island”
Participants: – Clifton Nicholas – Mohawk anarchist activist from Kanehsatake – Ponni Arasau – Queer feminist organizer from New Dehli, India – Maia Ramnath – Author of “Decolonizing Anarchism”
Moderated by Indu Vashist
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About “Decolonizing Anarchism”:
Decolonizing Anarchism examines the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures. What emerges is an alternate narrative of decolonization, in which liberation is not defined by the achievement of a nation-state. Author Maia Ramnath suggests that the anarchist vision of an alternate society closely echoes the concept of total decolonization on the political, economic, social, cultural, and psychological planes. Decolonizing Anarchism facilitates more than a reinterpretation of the history of anticolonialism; it also supplies insight into the meaning of anarchism itself.
About the panelists:
Clifton Nicholas – Clifton Arihwakehte Nicholas is a Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) from Kanehsatake. Clifton is active in his community as both an activist and as a defender of his people. Clifton was one of the people who defended the community of Kanehsatake in 1990, he has been a staunch advocate of Indigenous resistance throughout Canada and the Americas.
Ponni Arasau – Ponni Arasu is a queer feminist activist from Chennai, India. She has worked with the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore, India, as well as with the Law and Society Trust in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her work involves a range of human rights issues including gender, sexuality, labour and conflict. Since 2003, Ponni has worked with Voices Against 377, a coalition of women’s groups, child rights groups, human rights groups and sexuality groups formed to initiate discussions on sexuality and the law. Voices Against 377 filed an affidavit to strike down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, the section that criminalizes gay sex.
Maia Ramnath – Maia Ramnath is a teacher, writer, activist, and dancer/aerialist living in New York City. She is the author of The Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire—in many ways a companion volume to this one. She is currently a member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies board, and is active with South Asia Solidarity Initiative, Adalah-NY, and the (OWS-affiliated) Global Justice Working Group.”
Indu Vashist – Indu Vashist is a queer feminist, community activist, and an independent scholar. She currently works as a freelance journalist in both India and North America. Her work has featured in 2B Magazine, New Indian Express, and Kafila. She is on the editorial collective of SAMAR magazine (South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection) and hosts a weekly radio show on CKUT 90.3 FM called Desi Dhamaka.
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Presented by QPIRG Concordia (www.qpirgconcordia.org) & No One Is Illegal-Montreal (nooneisillegal.org)
Part of the Montreal Festival of Anarchy (www.anarchistbookfair.ca)
Endorsed by CKUT 90.3fm and the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS)
INFO: 514-848-7585 – info@qpirgconcordia.org
- Thu 24 May
- Thu 24 May 18:00 – 21:00
- Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier
2450 rue Workman (métro Lionel-Groulx)
“Disability Politics and Theory”: Book Launch & Panel
with AJ Withers, Anna Malla & Laurence Parent
THURSDAY, MAY 24, 6pm
at the Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier
2450 rue Workman (métro Lionel-Groulx)
The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Childcare available on request (phone 514-848-7585 to reserve)
Whisper translation into English & French
Get in touch about access needs and requests (info@qpirgconcordia.org)
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About “Disability Politics and Theory”:
An accessible introduction to disability studies, Disability Politics and Theory provides a concise survey of disability history, exploring the concept of disability as it has been conceived from the late 19th century to the present. Further, A.J. Withers examines when, how and why new categories of disability are created and describes how capitalism benefits from and enforces disabled people’s oppression. Critiquing the model that currently dominates the discipline, the social model of disability, this book offers an alternative: the radical disability model. This model builds on the social model but draws from more recent schools of radical thought, particularly feminism and critical race theory, to emphasize the role of intersecting oppressions in the marginalization of disabled people and the importance of addressing disability both independently and in conjunction with other oppressions. Intertwining theoretical and historical analysis with personal experience this book is a poignant portrayal of disabled people in Canada and the U.S. — and a radical call for social and economic justice.
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About the panelists:
AJ Withers is a Toronto-based anti-poverty and disability justice organizer and author. They have worked with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) for many years and their book Disability Politics and Theory will be out this spring through Fernwook Publishing.
Anna Malla has lived in Montreal for the past ten years, and until recently, was the full-time Coordinator at QPIRG McGill. Prior to her job at QPIRG, Anna was a union organizer and support staff member at the Migrant Farmworkers’ Support Centre in St-Remi. She is also a long-time member of the Justice for Adil Charkaoui Coalition, and has worked on various other migrant justice and anti-racism campaigns. For the past four years, Anna has been contending with a long-term, chronic pain condition diagnosed as Fibromyalgia. She is committed to challenging herself and those around her to re-vision the ways in which chronic illness impacts our relationships to each other and the world around us.
Laurence Parent is a PhD student in Humanities at Concordia University. She holds a MA in Critical Disability Studies from York University and a BA in Political Science from Université du Québec à Montréal. She lives in Montréal and is involved within the Québec Disability Rights Movement. In 2009, she co-founded a disability rights organization called RAPLIQ which aims to challenge ableism by doing direct actions and using creative means.
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Part of the Montreal Festival of Anarchy (www.anarchistbookfair.ca)
Presented by QPIRG Concordia
INFO: www.qpirgconcordia.org
514-848-7585 – info@qpirgconcordia.org
- Sat 26 May
- Sat 26 May 12:00 – 15:00
- Gathering at Jean-Talon &Boyer, metro Jean-Talon.
Status For All March
STATUS FOR ALL!
March for justice and dignity for all migrants and refugees
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2012
Gathering at NOON
Jean Talon & Boyer, just east of métro Jean-Talon
MONTREAL
We live here! We work here! We’re staying here!
We march together to demand an end to deportations and detentions, and in opposition to the double punishment of migrants with criminal records. We demand Status for All, and organize for a “Solidarity City” for all residents of Montreal.
A child-friendly march. Bring your kids!
Get in touch about any accessibility needs.
More info below or www.solidarityacrossborders.org——-
WHY WE MARCH
This year, we march in opposition to the Conservative government’s relentless attacks on people here and abroad. We take to the streets to assert our dignity as workers, students, refugees, immigrants, and queers.
We reject the militarization of borders, the criminalization of migrants, the institutionalization of wage-slavery through temporary worker programs, and the dominant xenophobic and racist ideology. We also denounce Bill C-31, the “Refugee Exclusion Act”, an immigration law that jails asylum seekers, entrenches a two-tier refugee system discriminating against the majority based on their nationality, and gives the Immigration Minister enormous discretionary powers to take away people’s permanent residency after they have been granted refugee status. This law advocates intrusive biometrics data collection on all migrants in the country, and gives increased powers of arrest and detention to border guards that will affect tourists, permanent residents, students and refugees alike. It will also force many more people to live underground, with no access to labor standards or essential services like healthcare and education.
The march is organized in support of four main demands:
STATUS FOR ALL! We demand a full, comprehensive and ongoing regularization program for all people living in Montreal, Quebec and Canada who do not have full status (ie. permanent residence or citizenship). Simply put, Status for All means that all residents of Canada will get the documentation they need so they can access basic services and the same rights as anyone else. Status for All means we struggle and organize so that all residents, regardless of their origins, can have full dignity as human beings.
NO TO DEPORTATIONS! We stand in solidarity with those who struggle to resist their deportations and forced removals. We denounce the violence of deportations that breaks up families and uproots people from their communities. We believe that everyone has the right to migrate, the right to resist forced displacement, and the right return to their homelands if they so choose.
NO TO DETENTIONS! On any given day in Canada, there are upwards of 500 people in immigration detention centres, including up to 100 individuals and families at the Centre de prevention de l’immigration de Laval. We demand the immediate release of all detainees in immigration detention facilities, and organize for the closing of all detention centres.
NO TO DOUBLE PUNISHMENT! “Double punishment” is the term used to describe the unjust policy used against non-citizens who face deportation after being punished for a criminal conviction. Double punishment is often the direct result of racial profiling. The reality of double punishment in our communities often provokes feelings of shame and isolation, due to the stigma of a criminal conviction. We aim to break this isolation by taking a clear stance against double punishment, to expose this injustice, and to support the individuals fighting to remain with their families, friends and community here in Montreal. We believe that double punishment is an extension of the prison-industrial-complex that profits from the criminalization and incarceration of entire populations. ——-
We are also demonstrating to affirm a SOLIDARITY CITY in Montreal:
For thousands of undocumented migrants across the country cities such as Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are sweatshops. Immigrants and refugees work the most precarious and dangerous jobs. The Canadian economy cannot survive without this work force that is exploited due to the lack of permanent status and the threat of forced removal. Instead of the city being a sweatshop, we organize to build a Solidarity City.
A Solidarity City is the creation of a community that rejects a system that engenders poverty and precarity, not solely for immigrants and refugees, but also for other Montrealers confronting these same realities. We are opposing fear, isolation and division and we strike back with solidarity, organized mutual aid, and direct action.
The “Solidarity City” campaign is an attempt to generalize and broaden some key organizing principles that have been applied in migrant justice work in Montreal: networking and unifying around common and straightforward demands; practicing autonomous mutual aid and solidarity in contrast to charity or service approaches; holding decision-makers accountable for their actions and policies; and using direct action to achieve justice.
All individuals and groups in Montreal can be part of contributing to and building a Solidarity City by providing support to undocumented residents, and by linking your efforts to our larger campaigns for social justice. Get in touch to learn more.
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HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT OUR EFFORTS
- ENDORSE: By endorsing our demonstration and campaign you are agreeing with our demands and you will help to publicize our events within your networks.
- PUBLICIZE & PROMOTE: We have posters, flyers, as well as e-mail callouts, in French, English and Spanish. Get in touch about getting access to our publicity materials, or to join one of our door-to-door outreach teams in Côte-des-Neiges, Parc Extension, Villeray, St-Michel & Hochelaga.
- DONATE: We are an all-volunteer effort and rely on modest donations to sustain our campaign. You can donate by making a cheque out to “Solidarité sans frontières” and include “Status for All” in the memo line. You can mail your cheques to:
Solidarity Across Borders
1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, #204
Montreal, QC H3G 1N1Contact us if you want to make a cash donation or to organize a benefit.
- GET INVOLVED: We have committees that are doing active outreach and mobilization, as well as preparing art and other materials. Just e-mail or phone to lend your support.
- LEARN MORE: Invite us to make a presentation about the Status for All campaign to your group or organization, to learn more about our demands and the Solidarity City campaign.
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Organized by Solidarity Across Borders, No One Is Illegal-Montreal, Dignidad Migrante, the Immigrant Workers Center, JOC-Montreal, and Mexicans United for Regularization. (Dignidad Migrante & Solidarity Across Borders are working groups of QPIRG Concordia.)
TO STAY IN TOUCH:
solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com
Tel: 438-933-7654
www.solidarityacrossborders.org
