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*********CULTURE SHOCK 2010*************<\/strong><\/p>\n

October 3rd<\/sup> \u2013 15th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n

On McGill Campus and in the Community<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/events\/culture-shock\/<\/a> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Culture Shock<\/em><\/strong> is an annual event series dedicated to exploring the myths surrounding immigrants, refugees,\u00a0indigenous people and communities of colour, and is co-organized by the Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG) at McGill<\/strong> and the Students\u2019 Society of McGill University (SSMU).\u00a0Culture Shock<\/em><\/strong> seeks\u00a0to bring together members of these communities to engage in dialogue about issues relevant to their lives, as well as to educate non-members around some of the issues faced by communities of colour in Canada.<\/p>\n

All events are free and open to the public<\/strong>. The two fundraisers (the booklaunch and show during the first week, and the dance party taking place during the second week) involve suggested donations.<\/p>\n

Culture Shock<\/em><\/strong> is an annual collaborative project between the Students\u2019 Society of McGill University (SSMU) and the Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG) at McGill. \u00a0For childcare, please notify us 48 hours in advance. All venues are wheelchair accessible EXCEPT the Cultural Studies Screening Room. For full schedule, visit\u00a0http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/events\/culture-shock\/<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0send us an e-mail at\u00a0qpirg@ssmu.mcgill.ca<\/a> or call 514-398-7432.<\/p>\n

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

—————————————<\/strong> Sunday, October 3rd at 4pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Informal Discussion on Labor and Migration with Robyn Rodriguez
\nHosted by the Immigrant Workers Center<\/strong>
\n4755 Van Horne, Bureau 110 (Metro Plamondon)<\/p>\n

Please join us for an informal discussion on labor and migration with Robyn Rodriguez.<\/p>\n

Robyn Magalit Rodriguez<\/strong> is an assistant professor in sociology at Rutgers University. She has been actively involved as an immigrant-rights activist and advocate in the US-Filipino community. In her first book, \u201cMigrants for Export: How the Philippine state brokers labor to the world\u201d Rodriguez examines the Philippines\u2019 emergence as one of the top labor-exporting countries in the world. She will be presenting at the first four events of Culture Shock 2010. (See more complete bio below.)<\/p>\n

The discussion on October 3rd at 4pm will address the reality of the Philippines as a “labor brokerage state” that mobilizes, exports and regulates gendered and racialized Philippine workers for labor markets world-wide. And will also be an opportunity to discuss broader issues of migration and labor, and mobilizing for justice for migrant workers.<\/p>\n

For more information call the Immigrant Workers Center 514 342-2111, or visit http:\/\/iwc-cti.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Monday, October 4th 12pm <\/strong><\/p>\n

On the question of expertise: A critical reflection on \u201ccivil society\u201d processes<\/strong>
\nA Guest Seminar on Globalization, Education and Change with Dr Robyn Magalit Rodriguez<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
\nRm 233, Faculty of Education, 3700 McTavish<\/p>\n

In October 2008, the Philippine government hosted the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD). While not formally part of the UN process, the GFMD is aimed at providing a space for labor receiving and labor sending countries to trade strategies around instituting temporary labor migration programs. In addition to meetings of government officials, the GFMD instituted a series of civil-society meetings aimed putatively to represent the concerns of migrants themselves. Grassroots migrant activists, however, claimed that the GFMD was in fact, the \u201cglobal forum on modern-day slavery\u201d and countered both the government meetings, and the \u2018civil-society\u2019 meetings with their own International Assembly for Migrants and Refugees where they declared that they would \u201cspeak for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drawing on her contribution to Learning from the ground up: Global perspectives on social movements and knowledge production (Eds. Aziz Choudry and Dip Kapoor, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Dr Rodriguez examines the knowledge mobilized and deployed by migrants themselves alongside that mobilized and deployed by their so-called \u201cadvocates\u201d in official civil society meetings. She asks how notions of \u201cexpertise\u201d and \u201cauthority\u201d are defined by different actors and to what political ends are particular forms of expertise, authority and knowledge used.<\/p>\n

All are welcome to attend. Organized by Dr Aziz Choudry, Assistant Professor, International Education, Department of Integrated Studies in Education. Phone: 514 398 2253 \/ Email: aziz.choudry@mcgill.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMonday, October 4th at 3pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMigrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World.\u201d
\n<\/strong>Sociology Speaker Series
\nLeacock Building, McGill Campus, 655 Sherbrooke St. W., Rm. 738<\/p>\n

Robyn Magalit Rodriguez<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Sociology
\nRutgers Univesrity<\/p>\n

Robyn Magalit Rodriguez <\/strong>earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She works on globalization and development; political sociology; international migration; race, ethnicity and nationalism; gender; and ethnographic methods. She is also faculty affiliate of the Department of Women and Gender Studies and has been part of faculty-student initiatives to increase the visibility Asian American scholarship at
\nRutgers.<\/p>\n

Her recent book, Migrants for Export (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) examines how the Philippine state has emerged as one of the largest labor exporting countries in the world. Her publications on Philippine migration and Filipino migrant transnationalism have appeared in the journals Citizenship Studies, Signs, and the Peace Review as well as several edited anthologies. She is currently working on a second book project tentatively titled, \u201cIn Lady Liberty’s Shadow: Race, Immigration and Belonging in New Jersey after 9\/11.\u201d<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>———————————–<\/strong> Monday, October 4th <\/sup>6pm<\/strong> <\/strong> From Arizona to Montreal: Migrants fight back!<\/strong>A Panel Discussion with Professor and activist Robyn Rodriguez,\u00a0Ramani Balendra of the Canadian Tamil Congress, and Farha Najah Hussain from No One Is Illegal. Moderated by Dr. Aziz Choudry. Leacock Building, McGill Campus, 655 Sherbrooke St. W. Rm. 232<\/p>\n

A roundtable discussion presenting the ways that migrant and racialized communities in Canada and the United States experience state repression and alienation. From the effects of Arizona\u2019s new immigration law (SB 1070) to the detention of Tamils in Vancouver to the criminalization of communities of colour in Ottawa and Montreal, this panel will attempt to shed light into the ways that the state fails these communities and the how these communities struggle and fight back.<\/p>\n

Bios:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robyn Magalit Rodriguez<\/strong> (see bios above)
\nFarha Najah Hussain<\/strong> is a social-justice organiser based in Montreal. She has been actively involved with the No One Is Illegal Campaign since 2007.
\nRamani Balendra<\/strong> has been a community worker at the South Asian Women’s Community Centre for the past fifteen years. She is also a founding member of the Canadian Tamil Congress in Quebec and was previously president of the Canadian Tamil congress from 2001-2006. \u00a0This panel is a co-presentation with the School of Community and Public Affairs (SCPA Concordia), Sociology Department of McGill University, East Asian Studies (McGill University), QPIRG McGill and the SSMU. \u00a0————————————-
\nTuesday Oct 5th – 1pm<\/strong>
\nFilm Screening: Food Inc.
\nShatner Building (3480 McTavish), Room 302, McGill University<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hosted by: The Midnight Kitchen – Food provided!
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\n<\/strong> Food, Inc.<\/em> lifts the veil on our the US food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. American food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bio:<\/strong> The Midnight Kitchen<\/strong> is a non-profit, volunteer and worker run food collective dedicated to providing affordable, healthy food to as many people as possible. Based out of McGill University in Montreal, QC we provide free\/by donation vegan lunches 5 days a week, Monday through Friday, at 12:30 in the Shatner building on McGill campus.<\/p>\n

————————————-<\/strong>Tuesday, October 5th<\/sup> 6pm<\/strong> <\/strong>Community and Resistance: Katrina, Jena Six and Prisoner Justice<\/strong> A panel discussion with journalists and community organizers Jordan Flaherty, Jesse Muhammad, and Victoria LawChancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, Moot Court \u00a0This panel is one stop on a book and speaking tour, COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE<\/strong>, of which all three panelists are a part, and which has been organized in part to launch Jordan Flaherty\u2019s recently published\u00a0Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six<\/em> (Haymarket books, on sale in Montreal at the panel and booklaunch). \u00a0The COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE<\/strong> tour seeks to communicate about current struggles for justice and liberation, from nooses hung in the northern Louisiana town of Jena to women organizing inside prisons, from resistance to school privatization to post-Katrina community organizing and cultural resistance. The tour also seeks to connect communities of liberation, and to build relationships between grassroots activists and independent media. \u00a0This discussion will include contributions from local activist\u00a0Scott <\/strong>Weinstein<\/strong> (who volunteered with Common Ground Health Clinic after Katrina hit New Orleans) and will be facilitated by Professor\u00a0Gada Mahrouse<\/strong> (Simone de Beauvoir Institute).\u00a0\u00a0The event will be an opportunity for community organizers to come together and have discussions around issues raised during the panel. \u00a0Co-sponsored by CKUT, Media@McGill, 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, QPIRG McGill and the SSMU. \u00a0Bios:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesse Muhammad<\/strong>: Energetic, inspiring and effective are just some of the words audiences have used to describe the writings and messages delivered by writer, news reporter, artist, publicist and photojournalist Jesse Muhammad. Jesse, a native of Houston, has been an official staff writer for the\u00a0Final Call Newspaper (FCN)<\/em> the only national Black-owned newspaper. Since that time, he has gained worldwide recognition for his consistent coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the continuing struggle of its survivors. In 2007, he was credited with bringing national and international attention to the case of the “Jena Six”, and helped to mobilize the 50,000 plus attendees to the historic “Jena Six” rally in September of that year.<\/p>\n

Jordan Flaherty<\/strong> is a journalist and community organizer based in New\u00a0Orleans. His new book,\u00a0FLOODLINES: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six<\/em> was released this summer from Haymarket Press. For more information on the book, see\u00a0floodlines.org<\/a>. Jordan has been a regular correspondent on both\u00a0Democracy Now <\/em>and News and Notes<\/em>. As a white southerner who speaks honestly about race, Jordan Flaherty has been regularly published in Black progressive forums such as\u00a0BlackCommentator.org<\/a><\/em> and\u00a0Black Agenda Report<\/em>, and is a regular guest on Black radio stations and programs such as\u00a0Keep Hope Alive With Reverend Jesse Jackson<\/em>. Jordan is also an editor of\u00a0Left Turn Magazine<\/em>, a national publication dedicated to covering social movements.<\/p>\n

Victoria Law<\/strong> is a writer, photographer and mother. In 1996, she helped start\u00a0Books Through Bars-New York City<\/em>, a group that sends free books to prisoners nationwide. Since 2002, she has worked with women incarcerated nationwide to produce\u00a0Tenacious: Art and Writings from Women in Prison<\/em> and has facilitated having incarcerated women’s writings published in larger publications. Her book\u00a0Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women<\/em> (PM Press 2009) is the culmination of over seven years of listening to, writing about and supporting incarcerated women nationwide and resulted in Victoria winning the 2009 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award. \u00a0—————————————-<\/strong> Wednesday Oct 6th – 1:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Workshop: A Radical Look at Jewish History and Identity
\nLev Bukhman, 2nd floor Shatner Building (3480 McTavish), McGill University<\/strong>
\n<\/strong> Come for some radical perspectives on Jewish history, and analyses on the diversity of ideas and thought within Jewish communities historically. Stay for discussions on identity formation and how changing systems of race and racialization have effected and influenced the Jewish community, now and in the past!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elise Eisenkraft Klein, creator and facilitator of this workshop, is one of the founders of Young Jews for Social Justice.
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Wednesday, October 6th – 3:30pm.<\/p>\n

Question and Answer Session with journalist Jordan Flaherty, author of Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six (Haymarket Books 2010)
\nArts W-220 (McGill University, 853 Sherbrooke Street West)<\/p>\n

This session is for campus and community journalists, who are seeking knowledge and experience around covering community issues.<\/p>\n

“As the floodwaters rose in New Orleans, Jordan Flaherty began to write, rescuing precious truths about the reality of racism and solidarity in his city that risked being washed away in the tide of formulaic corporate journalism. I can think of no journalist that writes with deeper knowledge or more love about this highly contested part of the United States.”
\n\u2013 Naomi Klein, author \u201cThe Shock Doctrine\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bio:<\/strong> <\/strong>Jordan Flaherty<\/strong> <\/strong>is a journalist and community organizer based in New\u00a0Orleans. His new book,\u00a0FLOODLINES: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six<\/em> was released this summer from Haymarket Press. For more information on the book, see\u00a0floodlines.org<\/a>. Jordan has been a regular correspondent on both\u00a0Democracy Now <\/em>and News and Notes<\/em>. As a white southerner who speaks honestly about race, Jordan Flaherty has been regularly published in Black progressive forums such as\u00a0BlackCommentator.org<\/a><\/em> and\u00a0Black Agenda Report<\/em>, and is a regular guest on Black radio stations and programs such as\u00a0Keep Hope Alive With Reverend Jesse Jackson<\/em>. Jordan is also an editor of\u00a0Left Turn Magazine<\/em>, a national publication dedicated to covering social movements.
\n<\/strong>Hosted by QPIRG McGill, The McGill Daily, and CKUT Radio.
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\n<\/strong>———————————————————–<\/strong> Wednesday, October 5th<\/sup>, Doors at 7:30pm<\/strong> Fundraising concert, featuring the Fat Tuesday Jazz Band and members of<\/strong> Kalmunity Vibe Collective, and the Booklaunch of\u00a0Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six<\/em><\/strong> by Jordan Flaherty.<\/strong> Il Motore, 179 Jean Talon West, Metro Parc$5-10, pay what you can \u00a0Bringing a little piece of New Orleans to Montreal, this multi-media book launch will feature musical performances by the Fat Tuesday Jazz Band and members of Kalmunity Vibe Collective. Jordan will show videos and his book will be on sale at the venue. \u00a0All proceeds will go to a Pakistani grassroots organization called Hirrak (www.hirrak.org<\/a>), who have set up a camp to house and feed 3-4,000 people since the floods and underwhelming international response to the crisis in Pakistan. \u00a0This event is co-sponsored by CKUT, Media@McGill, QPIRG McGill and the SSMU. \u00a0—————————————————<\/strong> <\/strong>Thursday October 7th at 1pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Film Screening and discussion:\u00a0\u00a0Film TBA, hosted by G-CARE Lev Bukhman, 2nd floor Shatner Building\u00a0(3480 McTavish),\u00a0McGill University\u00a0(Metro McGill)<\/p>\n

Bio: <\/strong>The Graduate Collective Against Racism and for Equity (G-CARE)<\/strong> is a diverse group of graduate students working in collaboration with their undergraduate and community allies to identify and take action against institutional racism and\u00a0intersecting forms of systemic\u00a0oppression\u00a0at McGill and in the wider Montreal community. We engage in activist support for racialized students, and\u00a0work to strengthen relationships with activist groups on and off campus, in order to challenge dominant Eurocentric, neo-liberal and\u00a0racist ideologies\/culture through research and action. Presently, we are developing critical consciousness-building workshops, policy research, and a media justice campaign. Please contact us\u00a0at\u00a0gcare.info@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a> to get involved!
\n<\/strong>——————————————<\/strong> <\/strong>Tuesday October 12th at 3pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Workshop:\u00a0Landed Resistance: How Land Rights Struggles Fight\u00a0Climate\u00a0Change\u00a0 Lev Bukhman, 2nd floor Shatner Building\u00a0(3480 McTavish),\u00a0McGill University\u00a0(Metro McGill)
\nThis workshop will examine this question by attempting to connect us to some of the histories of land based struggles and forced displacement that have been erased in the creation of “North America”.\u00a0 Building on these histories we will examine how land rights, indigenous solidarity and migrant justice tie into the notion that supporting communities in protecting their land and their livelihoods is one of the most strategic ways to fight the drivers of climate change<\/p>\n

Bio: <\/strong>Climate\u00a0Justice\u00a0Montreal works in Montreal and surrounding communities to confront the root causes of\u00a0climate\u00a0change. We are committed to environmental\u00a0justice, recognizing that only with broad social transformation will we be able to effectively confront the\u00a0climate\u00a0crisis. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n<\/strong>——————————————-<\/strong> Tuesday, October 12th<\/sup> 6:30pm<\/strong> <\/strong>Film Screening of\u00a0Injustice<\/em><\/strong>, a documentary about police violence in the U.K.<\/strong> Cultural Studies Screening Room, 3475 Peel (NOT wheelchair accessible)\u00a0 This documentary depicts the relentless struggles of families who have lost loved ones at the hands of police in the U.K. Each family is met with a wall of official secrecy and the film documents how they unite and challenge this together. The documentary uses powerful exclusive footage filmed over a five-year period and witnesses the families\u2019 pain and anger at the killings. It documents the fight to retrieve the bodies for burial, the mockery of police self-investigation and the collusion of the legal system in the deaths. \u00a0Injustice<\/em> is being screened during Culture Shock 2010 in honour of the October 22nd<\/sup> International Day to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. \u00a0This screening is a co-presentation with the October 22nd<\/sup> Coalition to Commemorate Victims of Police Killings, a Working Group of QPIRG McGill. \u00a0—————————————–<\/strong> Wednesday, October 13th<\/sup> 1pm<\/strong> Voices Against 377: Decriminalizing same-sex activity in India<\/strong>A Presentation by Delhi-based legal rights activist Ponni Arasu Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, Rm. 200<\/p>\n

Ponni will speak to her experiences as one of the core activists who worked on having gay sex decriminalized in India. Ponni will focus her talk on the legal aspects of queer rights struggles in India, and will reflect on how effective this approach is, both in India and internationally.<\/p>\n

Bio:<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Ponni Arasu<\/strong> is a queer feminist activist from New Delhi, 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.\u00a0Since 2003, Ponni has worked with Voices Against 377, a coalition of women\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

This panel is a co-presentation with Rad Law and Outlaw (two radical law groups at McGill), QPIRG McGill, the Law Faculty of McGill University, Queer McGill, Human Rights Working Group at McGill, the Social Equity and Diversity Education (SEDE) Office of McGill, 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy and the SSMU.
\n<\/strong>————————————————<\/strong> Wednesday, October 13th<\/sup> 6:00pm<\/strong> Resisting the Neoliberal Gay Agenda: Queer Organizing in an International Context<\/strong>KEYNOTE PANEL with Ponni Arasu, Joshua Pavan, and Natalie Kouri-Towe, moderated by Indu Vashist Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, Moot Court\u00a0This panel will look at the different ways queers organize around a variety of issues and across borders. The panelists will seek to look critically at the ways in which queers engage with or resist the corporate, mainstream gay agenda. Ponni Arasu will talk about her experience with the India specific context, having worked within various queer collectives, including the Nigah media collective that is based in Delhi. The collective has organised the annual Nigah Queer Fest in Delhi for the past three years. \u00a0Joshua Pavan, a Montreal-based community organizer who has worked for the past few years with the Prisoner Correspondence Project and is part of the Pervers\/cite collective, will address some of the ways that queer organizing in Montreal has evolved over the past few years, namely through looking at Pervers\/cite as an alternative to pride. Natalie Kouri-Towe will focus on her experiences with queer solidarity work, both in Montreal and Toronto.
\nThis panel is a co-presentation with the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, QPIRG Concordia, QPIRG McGill and the SSMU. \u00a0———————————————–<\/strong> <\/strong>Thursday October 14th\u00a0\u00a0at 1.30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Workshop: Racism in Canada:\u00a0From Colonialism to Border Control Lev Bukhman, 2nd floor Shatner Building\u00a0(3480 McTavish),\u00a0McGill University\u00a0(Metro McGill)<\/p>\n

Racism has been part of the history of the `making of Canada` since its inception on indigenous land when the first settlers arrived.\u00a0 It continues today in many new forms.\u00a0 This workshop goes beyond common understandings of racism as `hating` people of colour, it is an on the ground phenomenon that affects a large portion of the world`s ability to live their lives with dignity.\u00a0 Starting with timelines of the colonization of Canada and the white supremacist nature built into immigration law for most of Canadian history, this workshop continues into the ways that Canada promotes more\u00a0implicitely <\/em>racist policies into the present.\u00a0 This includes an examination of racial profiling, the incarceration of indigenous communities, the on-going theft of native land, the use of restrictive border policies, exploitative temporary workers programs, Islamophobia and `national security` legislation, and much more.\u00a0 It is meant as an introduction of the topic of the hsitory and the current reality of `Racism in Canada`.<\/p>\n

Bio:\u00a0Robyn\u00a0Maynard organizes, writes and does popular education around racial profiling, police violence, and migrant justice.\u00a0 She believes in standing up and fighting back against the indignities caused by racism and colonialism.\u00a0 She is part of No One Is Illegal Montreal and co-hosts No One Is Illegal radio.<\/p>\n

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Workshop:\u00a0Say Your Piece:\u00a0creating culture that speaks to you<\/strong> Lev Bukhman, 2nd floor Shatner Building\u00a0(3480 McTavish),\u00a0McGill University\u00a0(Metro McGill)<\/p>\n

This workshop aims to talk about cultural appropriation, discuss it in contemporary terms that make the discussion engrossing and hopefully not guilt laden. \u00a0From there, we will ask participants to examine\u00a0their own histories and cultures to find those stories that the world needs so badly. \u00a0All of our lives are full of intersecting oppressions, and, where that shit piles up highest, that is where we can meet the rest of the world on even footing.<\/p>\n

Participants will leave with a piece of art they’ve made, either out of collage or spray paint.
\nBio:\u00a0The Ste-Emilie SkillShare is a group of artists and activists, primarily people of colour and queer people, committed to promoting artistic expression and self-representation in our communities.\u00a0The Skillshare collective runs<\/strong> an art studio for people to learn new skills, share their skills, and create art in the spirit of revolution and anti-oppression (anti-racism\/ sexism\/ classism\/ homophobia\/ transphobia\/ ableism\/ sizeism\/ etc).\u00a0Our space is open to all<\/strong>. Long live skill-sharing!<\/p>\n

—————————————-<\/strong>Friday, October 15th<\/sup> 10:30pm<\/strong> Q-Team Queer Dance Party<\/strong>Il Motore, 179 Jean Talon West \u00a0Get your dance on at our final Culture Shock closing party. This event is co-sponsored by qteam, Queer McGill, QPIRG McGill and the SSMU.
\nAll proceeds will go to a Pakistani grassroots organization called Hirrak (www.hirrak.org<\/a>), who have set up a camp to house and feed 3-4,000 people since the floods and underwhelming international response to the crisis in Pakistan.<\/strong>
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\n<\/strong>Le GRIP-McGill et l\u2019A\u00c9UM pr\u00e9sentent\u2026<\/strong> <\/strong>*********CULTURE SHOCK 2010**************<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Du 3 au 15 octobre<\/strong> Sur le campus de McGill et dans la communaut\u00e9<\/strong> <\/strong> http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/events\/culture-shock\/<\/a> <\/strong> <\/strong> Culture Shock<\/em><\/strong> est une s\u00e9rie annuelle d\u2019\u00e9v\u00e9nements d\u00e9di\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019exploration des mythes qui entourent les communaut\u00e9s immigrantes et r\u00e9fugi\u00e9es, les peuples autochtones et les communaut\u00e9s de couleur. Elle est organis\u00e9e par le Groupe de recherche en int\u00e9r\u00eat public (GRIP) de McGill et l\u2019Association \u00e9tudiante de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 McGill (A\u00c9UM).\u00a0Culture Shock<\/em><\/strong> vise \u00e0 rassembler les membres de ces communaut\u00e9s pour les encourager \u00e0 discuter des enjeux qui influencent leur quotidien ainsi que d\u2019\u00e9duquer les non-membres des enjeux que font face les communaut\u00e9s de couleur au Canada. \u00a0Tous les \u00e9v\u00e9nements sont gratuits et ouverts au grand public. Les deux lev\u00e9es de fonds (le lancement de livre et le spectacle durant la premi\u00e8re semaine et le party durant la deuxi\u00e8me semaine) seront \u00e0 contribution sugg\u00e9r\u00e9e. \u00a0Pour la halte-garderie, veuillez nous notifier 48 heures d\u2019avance. Toutes les salles sont accessibles aux fauteuils roulants SAUF le Cultural Studies Screening Room. Pour l\u2019horaire complet, incluant les ateliers et les \u00e9v\u00e9nements durant la journ\u00e9e, visitez\u00a0http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/events\/culture-shock\/<\/a>. \u00a0Vous pouvez \u00e9galement nous envoyer un courriel \u00e0\u00a0qpirg@ssmu.mcgill.ca<\/a> ou composez le 514-398-7432. Pour la traduction chuchot\u00e9e vers le fran\u00e7ais, contactez-nous 48 heures en avance.
\n(Pour le moment, les ateliers sont exclusivement en anglais. Contactez-nous si vous aimeriez participer dans un des ateliers d\u00e9crits en anglais en haut de cette page.) \u00a0Culture Shock<\/em> est un projet collaboratif annuel entre l\u2019Association \u00e9tudiante de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 McGill (A\u00c9UM) et le Groupe de recherche en int\u00e9r\u00eat public (GRIP) de McGill.
\nHORAIRE DES \u00c9V\u00c9NEMENTS :<\/strong> <\/strong>———————————-<\/strong> Le lundi 4 octobre 18 h<\/strong> <\/strong> De l\u2019Arizona \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al\u00a0: les migrant-e-s ripostent!<\/strong>Un panel avec la professeure et militante Robyn Rodriguez,\u00a0Ramani Balendra du Congr\u00e8s Tamoul Canadien, et Farha Najah de Personne n’est illegal Pavillon Leacock, campus de McGill, 655 rue Sherbrooke O., salle 232 \u00a0Une discussion \u00e0 table ronde qui pr\u00e9sentera les fa\u00e7ons que les communaut\u00e9s migrantes et racialis\u00e9es au Canada et aux \u00c9tats-Unis subissent la r\u00e9pression de l\u2019\u00e9tat et l\u2019exclusion. Des effets de la nouvelle loi de l\u2019Arizona sur l\u2019immigration (SB 1070) \u00e0 la d\u00e9tention des Tamoul-e-s \u00e0 Vancouver \u00e0 la criminalisation des communaut\u00e9s racialis\u00e9es \u00e0 Ottawa et \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, ce panel tentera d\u2019illuminer les fa\u00e7ons que l\u2019\u00e9tat n\u00e9glige ces communaut\u00e9s et comment ces communaut\u00e9s luttent et ripostent. \u00a0ROBYN MAGALIT RODRIGUEZ<\/strong> est professeure de sociologie \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Rutgers. Son livre intitul\u00e9\u00a0Migrants for Export\u00a0: How the Philippine State Brokers Labour to the World<\/em> fut publi\u00e9 par la presse de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 du Minnesota en 2010. Elle s\u2019implique comme militante et partisane de la communaut\u00e9 philippine-am\u00e9ricaine, incluant le Forum philippin bas\u00e9 \u00e0 New York. \u00a0Ce panel est une pr\u00e9sentation de l\u2019\u00c9cole des affaires publiques et communautaires de Concordia (\u00c9APC Concordia), le d\u00e9partement de sociologie de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 McGill, le d\u00e9partment d\u2019East Asian Studies [\u00c9tudes du sud-est Asiatique] (Universit\u00e9 McGill), le GRIP-McGill et l\u2019A\u00c9UM. \u00a0———————————-<\/strong> Mardi 5 octobre, 18h00<\/strong> Katrina, le Jena 6, et justice prisonnier<\/strong>Un panel avec journalistes et activistes\u00a0communautaires Jordan Flaherty, Jesse Muhammad, et Victoria Law. Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, Moot Court\u00a0 La tourn\u00e9e communaut\u00e9 et r\u00e9sistance arrive \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al!<\/strong> Cette tourn\u00e9e vise\u00a0\u00a0\u00e0 partager les luttes actuelles de justice et de lib\u00e9ration qui se d\u00e9roulent \u00e0 Jena, ville du nord de la Louisiane: del’organisation des femmes dans les prisons, au mouvement de r\u00e9sistance \u00e0 la privatisation de l’\u00e9ducation, \u00e0 la r\u00e9sistance culturelle et l’organisation post-Katrina des communaut\u00e9s. La tourn\u00e9e vise \u00e9galement \u00e0 faire mettre enr\u00e9seau des processus collectif de lib\u00e9ration, en \u00e9tablissant des relations entre les communaut\u00e9s locales, les militantEs et les m\u00e9dias ind\u00e9pendants. \u00a0 Le panel anim\u00e9 par Gada Mahrouse, professeure \u00e0 l’institue Simone deBeauvoir inclura une intervention de l’activiste local Scott Weinstein qui a entre autres \u00e9t\u00e9 volontaire aupr\u00e8s de la clinique Common Ground Health apr\u00e8s les ravages de l’ouragan Katrina \u00e0 la Nouvelle Orl\u00e9ans. \u00a0Cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement sera une chance pour les militant-e-s de se rejoindre et de discuter les enjeux soulev\u00e9s durant ce panel. \u00a0Commandit\u00e9 par CKUT, M\u00e9dia@McGill, 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, le GRIP-McGill et l\u2019A\u00c9UM. \u00a0Bios\u00a0:<\/strong> Jesse Muhammad <\/strong>: \u00c9nerg\u00e9tique, inspirant et efficace sont quelques-uns des adjectifs que le public a utilis\u00e9 pour d\u00e9crire les \u00e9crits et les messages livr\u00e9s par l\u2019\u00e9crivain, reporter, artiste, publiciste et photojournaliste Jesse Muhammad. Jesse, un originaire d\u2019Houston, est un journaliste au\u00a0Final Call Newspaper (FCN)<\/em>, le seul journal national avec des propri\u00e9taires afro-am\u00e9ricains. Depuis ce temps, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 reconnu pour sa couverture m\u00e9diatique r\u00e9guli\u00e8re de l\u2019ouragan Katrina et des luttes actuelles de ses survivant-e-s. En 2007, il fut reconnu pour attirer l\u2019attention nationale et internationale au cas des \u00ab\u00a0six de Jena \u00bb et il assista \u00e0 la mobilisation de plus de 50 000 participant-e-s \u00e0 la manifestation historique en appui aux \u00ab\u00a0six de Jena\u00a0\u00bb en septembre 2007. \u00a0Jordan Flaherty<\/strong> est un journaliste et militant bas\u00e9 en Nouvelle-Orl\u00e9ans. Son nouveau livre,\u00a0FLOODLINES\u00a0: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six<\/em> est sorti cet \u00e9t\u00e9 chez Haymarket Press. Pour plus d\u2019information sur ce livre, consultez\u00a0http:\/\/www.floodlines.org<\/a>. Jordan est un correspondant r\u00e9gulier aux \u00e9missions\u00a0Democracy Now<\/em> et\u00a0News and Notes<\/em>. Un blanc originaire du sud des \u00c9tats-Unis qui parle franchement de la race, Jordan Flaherty est publi\u00e9 fr\u00e9quemment dans des forums progressistes afro-am\u00e9ricains comme\u00a0Blackcommentator.org<\/a><\/em> et\u00a0Black Agenda Report<\/em>, et il est un invit\u00e9 habituel des stations de radio et programmes afro-am\u00e9ricains comme\u00a0Keep Hope Alive With Reverend Jesse Jackson<\/em>. Jordan est aussi un r\u00e9dacteur de\u00a0Left Turn Magazine<\/em>, une publication nationale qui se d\u00e9die \u00e0 la couverture de mouvements sociaux. \u00a0Victoria Law<\/strong> est une \u00e9crivaine, photographe et m\u00e8re. En 1996, elle contribua \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tablissement de\u00a0Books Through Bars \u2013 New York City<\/em>, un groupe qui envoie des livres gratuitement aux prisonni\u00e8res et prisonniers \u00e0 travers les \u00c9tats-Unis. Depuis 2002, elle a travaill\u00e9 avec des femmes incarc\u00e9r\u00e9es \u00e0 travers le pays pour produire\u00a0Tenacious\u00a0: Art and Writings from Women in Prison<\/em> et a facilit\u00e9 la publication des \u0153uvres de femmes incarc\u00e9r\u00e9es dans des publications plus importantes. Son livre\u00a0Resistance Behind Bars\u00a0: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women<\/em> (PM Press 2009) fut le produit de plus de sept ans d\u2019\u00e9coute, d\u2019\u00e9criture et de soutien des femmes incarc\u00e9r\u00e9es \u00e0 travers les \u00c9tats-Unis et mena \u00e0 son obtention du prix PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society Award [prix de la pr\u00e9vention pour une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 plus s\u00e9curitaire]) en 2009. \u00a0———————————————————–<\/strong> Mercredi 6 octobre, Portes ouvertes 19h30<\/strong> Concert de lev\u00e9e de fonds, avec The Fat Tuesday Jazz Band et membres du Collectif Kalmunity Vibe, et Lancement du livre:\u00a0 “Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six” de Jordan Flaherty.<\/strong> Il Motore, 179 Jean Talon West, Metro Parc\u00a0 Pour apporter un petit peu de la Nouvelle-Orl\u00e9ans \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, ce lancement de livre va inclure des performances musicales du Fat Tuesday Brass Band et de quelques membres du Kalmunity Vibe Collective. Jordan va pr\u00e9senter des courts-m\u00e9trages et son livre sera en vente \u00e0 la salle. \u00a0Toutes les recettes vont \u00eatre contribu\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019organisme pakistanais Hirrak (http:\/\/www.hirrak.org<\/a>) qui a am\u00e9nag\u00e9 des camps pour loger et nourrir 3 000 \u00e0 4 000 personnes depuis les inondations au Pakistan pour compenser le manque d\u2019assistance internationale durant cette crise. \u00a0Cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement est commandit\u00e9 par CKUT, M\u00e9dia@McGill, le GRIP-McGill et l\u2019A\u00c9UM. \u00a0————————–<\/strong>————-<\/strong> Le mardi 12 octobre 18 h 30<\/strong> <\/strong> Pr\u00e9sentation du film\u00a0Injustice<\/em><\/strong>, un documentaire \u00e0 propos de la violence polici\u00e8re au Royaume-Uni<\/strong> Cultural Studies Screening Room, 3475 rue Peel (PAS accessible aux fauteuils roulants)\u00a0 Ce documentaire pr\u00e9sente les luttes implacables des familles qui ont perdu des proches aux mains de la police au Royaume-Uni. Chaque famille fait face \u00e0 un mur de silence officiel et le film documente comment elles s\u2019unissent et le contestent ensemble. Le documentaire utilise des s\u00e9quences exclusives tourn\u00e9es au cours d\u2019une p\u00e9riode de cinq ans et t\u00e9moigne la douleur et la col\u00e8re envers les meurtres. Le film documente la lutte pour r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer les corps pour les enterrer, la moquerie des enqu\u00eates internes du corps policier et la collusion du syst\u00e8me judiciaire dans ces morts. \u00a0Injustice<\/em> sera pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 durant\u00a0Culture Shock<\/em> 2010 pour honorer la Journ\u00e9e internationale pour arr\u00eater la brutalit\u00e9 polici\u00e8re, la r\u00e9pression et la criminalisation d\u2019une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration du 22 octobre. \u00a0Ce visionnement est une co-pr\u00e9sentation avec le\u00a0October 22nd<\/sup> Coalition to Commemorate Victims of Police Killings<\/em>, un groupe de travail du GRIP-McGill. \u00a0—————————————-<\/strong> Le mercredi 13 octobre 13 h<\/strong>Voices Against 377<\/em><\/strong>: d\u00e9criminaliser les activit\u00e9s de m\u00eame-sexe en Inde<\/strong> Une pr\u00e9sentation de Ponni Arasu, militante pour les droits l\u00e9gaux bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Delhi Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 rue Peel, salle 200\u00a0Ponni discutera de ses exp\u00e9riences comme l\u2019une des militantes les plus importantes dans la lutte pour la d\u00e9criminalisation des relations sexuelles gaies en Inde. Ponni va se concentrer sur les aspects juridiques des luttes\u00a0queer<\/em> en Inde et va revenir sur l\u2019efficacit\u00e9 de cette approche en Inde et \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle internationale. \u00a0Ce panel est une co-pr\u00e9sentation de Rad Law et Outlaw (deux groupes radicaux d\u2019\u00e9tudiant-e-s en droit \u00e0 McGill), le GRIP-McGill, la facult\u00e9 de droit de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 McGill, Queer McGill, Human Rights Working Group de McGill, Social Equity and Diversity Education (SEDE) Office de McGill, 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy et l\u2019A\u00c9UM. \u00a0Bio\u00a0:<\/strong> <\/strong> Ponni Arasu<\/strong> est une militante\u00a0queer<\/em> et f\u00e9ministe de New Delhi. Elle a travaill\u00e9 avec l’Alternative Law Forum<\/em> en Bangalore ainsi qu\u2019avec le\u00a0Law and Society Trust<\/em> de Colombo, Sri Lanka. Son travail inclut une vari\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019enjeux en droits humains qui incluent le genre, la sexualit\u00e9, le travail et le conflit. Depuis 2003, Ponni collabore avec\u00a0Voices Against 377<\/em>, une coalition compos\u00e9e de groupes de femmes, groupes pour les droits d\u2019enfants, groupes pour les droits humains et groupes de sexualit\u00e9 cr\u00e9\u00e9e pour initier des discussions sur la sexualit\u00e9 et la loi.\u00a0Voices Against 377<\/em> a fait une d\u00e9claration par \u00e9crit et sous serment pour abolir la section 377 du code p\u00e9nal indien qui criminalise les relations sexuelles gaies. \u00a0—————————————<\/strong> Le mercredi 13 octobre 18 h<\/strong>R\u00e9sister le n\u00e9olib\u00e9ralisme gai\u00a0: le militantisme\u00a0queer<\/em><\/strong> dans un contexte international<\/strong> PANEL PRINCIPAL avec Ponni Arasu, Joshua Pavan et Natalie Kouri-Towe; anim\u00e9 par Indu Vashist Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 rue Peel, Moot Court\u00a0 Ce panel discutera des diff\u00e9rentes d\u00e9marches que les\u00a0queer<\/em> emploient pour s\u2019organiser autour d\u2019une vari\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019enjeux et \u00e0 travers des fronti\u00e8res. Les invit\u00e9-e-s vont observer de fa\u00e7on critique les mani\u00e8res dont les\u00a0queer<\/em> s\u2019engagent avec ou r\u00e9sistent le plan politique du courant principal, capitaliste du mouvement gai. Ponni Arasu racontera ses exp\u00e9riences en Inde, qui incluent militer avec quelques collectifs\u00a0queer<\/em>, comme le collectif m\u00e9diatique Nigah bas\u00e9 en Delhi. Le collectif a organis\u00e9 les festivals annuels\u00a0queer<\/em> de Nigah pendant les trois derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es. \u00a0Joshua Pavan est un militant bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al qui travaille avec le\u00a0Prisoner Correspondance Project<\/em> depuis quelques ann\u00e9es et fait partie du collectif Pervers\/cit\u00e9. Il va adresser quelques-unes des fa\u00e7ons dont la militance\u00a0queer<\/em> a \u00e9volu\u00e9 depuis quelques ann\u00e9es, notamment en pr\u00e9sentant Pervers\/cit\u00e9 comme une alternative \u00e0 la fiert\u00e9 gaie. Natalie Kouri-Towe va discuter de ses exp\u00e9riences de solidarit\u00e9\u00a0queer<\/em> \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al et \u00e0 Toronto.
\nCommandit\u00e9 par\u00a02110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, QPIRG Concordia, QPIRG McGill et l’A\u00c9UM.
\n<\/strong>——————————————-<\/strong>Le vendredi 15 octobre 22 h 30<\/strong> Q-Team pr\u00e9sente\u2026Party queer et lev\u00e9e de fonds<\/strong> Il Motore, 179 rue Jean-Talon Ouest, 22h30\u00a0Venez danser \u00e0 la f\u00eate de fermeture de\u00a0Culture Shock<\/em>. Cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement est commandit\u00e9 par le Q-Team, Queer McGill, le GRIP-McGill et l\u2019A\u00c9UM.
\nToutes les recettes vont \u00eatre contribu\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019organisme pakistanais Hirrak (http:\/\/www.hirrak.org<\/a>) qui a am\u00e9nag\u00e9 des camps pour loger et nourrir 3 000 \u00e0 4 000 personnes depuis les inondations au Pakistan pour compenser le manque d\u2019assistance internationale durant cette crise.
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