CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO:

NO TO BUDGET CUTS IN TORONTO:

The following call out for protest against proposed budget cuts in the City of Toronto comes from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).

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[ocap] Stop the Cuts - Final Ford Budget Showdown!‏

Important Update on City Cuts:

1) January 17th Mobilization: Final Budget Showdown

2) What you need to know about the 2013 City Budget

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1) Final Budget Showdown

Toronto vs Ford!

Toronto Stop the Cuts Rally and Action

January 17, 5:30pm

City Hall

**Join OCAP and the Downtown East Committee as we meet up and march together to City Hall: 4:30 pm at Moss Park (Queen and Sherbourne)

On January 17th-19th, City Council will vote on the 2012 budget. Ford and his buddies want to cut nearly $90 million in services, even though the city has a surplus of at least $140 million. They plan to slash services, hike fares and user fees, and lockout or layoff workers when there is actually enough money to improve life in this city.

Toronto Stop the Cuts has been organizing in neighbourhoods across the city to build powerful resistance against Ford and his cuts. On January 17th, we are all coming together for a Final Budget Showdown - a rally and actions to oppose the cuts and demand an expansion of city services for all!

Join us - together we can Stop the Cuts!

More info:

www.torontostopthecuts.com

www.facebook.com/stopthecuts

www.twitter.com/tostopthecuts

tostopthecuts@gmail.com

Get involved:

Join a neighbourhood committee

Learn more about the cuts

To endorse, email tostopthecuts@gmail.com

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2) What you need to know about the 2012 Toronto City Budget?

First, there is no $774 million deficit. In fact, there is a $154 million surplus.

Second, the Budget Committee votes on a draft Budget on January 9th. This budget is amended by the Executive Committee on January 12th and then sent to the full Council. All City Councilors debate the Budget on January 17th and will vote on the budget on the 17th, 18th, or 19th.

This is not just about stopping cuts and layoffs or ensuring that there are no more user fees in the city. The fight now is to ensure that the 2012 Toronto Budget invests more in services for poor people and undocumented people, in immigrant neighbourhoods, for disabled people, for youth and the elderly. It is to roll back the 10% budget cuts that have taken place.

Here are three things you can do to make this happen. Remember, now is the time.

1. Come to Final Budget Showdown: Toronto Vs Rob Ford Rally and Action& bring friends! January 17, 2011, 5:30pm

City Hall

Share! http://www.facebook.com/events/294553420588331/ & http://clicktotweet.com/auabo

2. Take time off work, school or other commitments and go to City Hall.

January 17, 18 & 19

9:30 am onwards.

Council Chambers

This is when they will be discussing the City Budget.

More info: http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/meetingCalendarView.do?function=meetingCalendarView#current

3. Visit, call and write these 9 Councilors

Tell them that you are part of the Toronto Stop the Cuts Network, a neighbourhood organization with 10 chapters in all corners of the city.Tell them that they should not support any cuts, layoffs, reduction of services, or user fees in the Toronto City Budget 2012. In fact, with a Budget surplus, now is the time to invest in services for poor people, undocumented people, disabled people, elderly and children. It's time to build a Toronto for all.

(See see http://www.torontostopthecuts.com/uncategorized/read-and-sign-the-toronto-declaration/ for more ideas)

(If you live in one of these wards, try and get your entire street, or building to sign a petition and drop it off at their offices.

Sample petition: http://goo.gl/YucNn

Online Petition also available:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/maketorontobetterbudget2012/)

1. Michelle Berardinetti Scarborough West

Phone: 416-392-0213 Email: councillor_berardinetti@toronto.ca

2. Mike Thompson- Scarborough Centre

-Phone: 416-397-9274 Email: councillor_thompson@toronto.ca

3.Chin Lee- Scarb-Rouge River

-Phone: 416-392-1375 Email: councillor_lee@toronto.ca

[These coucillors will be at Scarborough Civic Centre on Tuesday, January10 at 7:30 p.m. Register to speak: scc@toronto.ca or 416-396-7287]

4.Josh Colle- Eglinton and Lawrence

Phone: 416-392-4027 Email: councillor_colle@toronto.ca Meeting: January 11, 6:30 p.m. at Glen Long Community Centre, 35 Glen Long Avenue (west of Dufferin, north of Glencairn)

5. Josh Matlow - Trinity St. Pauls

Phone: 416-392-7906 Email: councillor_matlow@toronto.ca Meeting: January 11, 7-9 p.m. at North Toronto Memorial Community Centre,200 Eglinton Avenue West

6.Jaye Robinson

Phone: 416-395-6408 Email: councillor_robinson@toronto.ca

7.Mary-Margaret McMahon

Phone: 416-392-1376 Email: councillor_mcmahon@toronto.ca

8.Gloria Lindsay Luby

Phone: 416-392-1369 Email: councillor_lindsay_luby@toronto.ca

9. Cesar Palacios- Davenport-Perth

Phone: 416-392-7011 Email: councillor_palacio@toronto.ca

(This info has also been posted here: http://www.torontostopthecuts.com/petition-to-councillors/ )

4. Check the Stop the Cuts Web Calendar For Other Upcoming Events/Meetings:

Davenport Public Meeting - Voice your concerns! Stop the Cuts!

Location: Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood & Community Health Centre, 1900 Davenport Rd.

Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Co-Hosted by: Bread & Bricks Davenport West Social Justice Group and Davenport Stop the Cuts Committee

CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO:
NO MORE WORKPLACE DEATHS:

Following the recent deaths of two migrant agricultural workers in Ontario people are organizing to demand an end to such tragedies. Tonight there will be a public meeting in Toronto to educate and organize opposition to unsafe workplaces. Here's the info from No One Is Illegal Toronto.
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No More Deaths: People's Resistance to Undocumented and Precarious Work
Start: Nov/04/2010 - 6:00 pm
End: Nov/04/2010 - 8:00 pm
please participate in a Community-Labour discussion hosted by No One Is Illegal – Toronto

November 4, 2010
6:00pm – 8:00pm
OPSEU Union Hall, 31 Wellesley Street
(across from Wellesley Subway Station)

supported by: Justicia for Migrant Workers, Industrial Accident Victims Group of Ontario, OPSEU Workers of Color, Caregiver Action Centre, Labor Education Centre, Workers Action Centre, Health for All, Latin American Trade Unionist Coalition

speakers:

FRANCA IACOVETTA is Professor of History and author of “Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto” that focused on the Hoggs Hollow disaster.

TZAZNA MIRANDA LEAL is an organizer with Justicia for Migrant Workers

MOHAN MISHRA is an organizer with No One Is Illegal – Toronto

also remarks by Cosmo Mannella (Director of The Labourers International Union of North America (LIUNA) Canadian Tri-Fund); Elizabeth Ha (OPSEU Workers of Colour & OFL VP Workers of Colour); Jessica Ponting (Community legal worker with Industrial Accident Victims Group of Ontario); Pura Velasco (Caregiver Action Centre); Jojo Geronimo (Executive Director, Labor Education Centre) and members of the Workers Action Centre

on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159718884061029

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On September 10, 2010 two migrant workers Ralston White and Paul Roach died after inhaling toxic fumes at Filsinger's Organic Foods appleorchard and processing facility near Owen Sound, Ontario. On December 24, 2009, Alexander Bondorev, Aleksey Blumberg, Fayzullo Fazilov, Vladimir Korostin, migrant workers without full status, fell to their deaths when the scaffolding they were working on collapsed in half. Though these deaths made the mainstream news, migrant workers and undocumented workers continue to be hurt, to get ill and to die both in Canada or upon being deported to countries they have citizenship in. This injustice must end.

50 years ago, five Italian construction workers, Pasquale Allegrezza, Giovanni Correglio, Giovanni Fusillo, and Alessandro and Guido Mantella, died while working in a dangerous tunnel near Yonge Street in Toronto, remembered as the Hoggs Hollow disaster. Knowing
that workers without full status were facing flagrant workplace violations, negligent employers and little legislative protection from occupational hazards, workers across the city rose up, and carried out a series of actions and strikes in a fight to organize the
building trades.

Today as migrant workers continue to die, labour activists and community groups must gather together, to reignite a new fight. A fight that creates far-reaching changes and challenges the very root of people's inability to access real safety – immigration status and racism.

Join community groups and labour activist to discuss and demand:

** Moratorium on deportations for all workers with WSIB claims and MOL complaints
** Access to Health and Safety without Fear
** Status for injured workers and their families
** Status for All!

Please email nooneisillegal@riseup.net to endorse.

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For background

** Criminal charges not enough, more needs to be done to ensure migrant workers come home alive, say community organizations:
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/490 (Oct 19, 2010)

** Stop the killing of migrant workers, end exploitative temporary work programs: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/483 (Sep 16, 2010)

** Hundreds mourn migrant worker deaths: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/391 (Jan 8, 2010)

** Justice for migrant workers killed at work: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/397 (Jan 7, 2010)

CANADIAN POLITICS MONTRÉAL:

SOLIDARITY WITHOUT BORDERS OPEN MEETING:

The following notice of an open meeting with Solidarity Without Borders next Monday in Montréal comes from No One Is Illegal/Personne n'est pas illégal Montréal.

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Solidarité sans frontières: Réunion Ouverte/Open Meeting/Encuentro Abierto
Time

Monday, November 8 · 6:30pm - 8:30pm

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Location

1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, #204
Montreal, QC

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Created By No One Is Illegal Personne n'est illégal MONTRÉAL

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More Info

Solidarité sans frontières - Réunion Ouverte
Solidarity Across Borders - Open Meeting
Solidaridad sin Fronteras – Encuentro Abierto

[English below / español abajo]
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Lundi 8 novembre 2010
18h30 à 20h30
1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, #204
(métro Guy-Concordia)

Vous êtes invitées à venir découvrir Solidarité Sans Frontières et comment vous impliquer dans les luttes en faveur de la justice pour les immigrantes à Montréal

-> Léger goûter et rafraichissements seront servis
-> Service de garde disponible (S.V.P., confirmer 24 heures d'avance)
-> Traduction vers le français et l'espagnol offerte
-> Accessible aux fauteuils roulants

Depuis 2004, Solidarité Sans Frontières lutte pour la justice et la dignité des immigrantes arrivant et vivant au Canada. Nous revendiquons activement la fin des déportations, l'arrêt des détentions, et la régularisation de toutes et tous les immigrantes sans-papiers. Venez découvrir et participer aux différentes campagnes et autres projets qui nous unissent :

* Cité Sans Frontières (une campagne pour assurer un accès sécuritaire à tous les services publics, incluant le système de santé, l'éducation et la possibilité de gagner sa vie en dignité, pour tous et toutes les sans statut)
* Travail de soutien individuel pour personnes sans statut
* Actions exigeant un «Statut pour Toutes et Tous» couronnées par la marche annuelle de Solidarité Sans Frontières en mai 2011
* Les luttes que nous supportons, en autre, la lutte contre la brutalité policière, la lutte contre le profilage racial, la lutte contre les certificats de sécurités et mesures de « sécurité » en matière d'immigration.

Si vous avez des questions ou désirez plus d'information, S.V.P. contacter : 514-848-7583 or solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com

À propos de Solidarité Sans Frontières:
Solidarité Sans Frontières est un réseau et un collectif montréalais luttant pour la justice et la dignité des immigrantes et des réfugiées. Nous sommes des émigrantes, immigrantes, réfugiées et alliées combattant sans cese les lois discriminatoires et inhumaines des gouvernments pour exiger: un Statut pour Toutes et Tous!, la fin des déportation et l'arrêt des détentions. Certaines d'entre nous portent enocre les cicatrices de ce système d'immigration raciste; d'autres encore sont issuEs de familles d'immigrantes. Nous luttons collectivement pour la justice et la dignité. Pour nous, il n'y a pas de personnes « illégales », seulement des lois injustes et des gouvernements illégitimes. Nous n'organisons pas cela par charité ou par pitié, mais pour l'entraide mutuelle et la solidarité.

Solidarité sans frontières est un groupe de travail du GRIPQ à Concordia.
www.solidaritesansfrontieres.org


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Solidarity Across Borders - Open Meeting
Monday, November 8th 2010
6:30-8:30pm
1500 de Maisonneuve ouest, #204
(métro Guy-Concordia)

Come find out about Solidarity Across Borders and how to get involved in migrant justice organizing in Montreal

-> Light food and beverages provided
-> Childcare available (Please confirm 24 hours in advance)
-> Translation available in French and Spanish
-> Wheelchair accessible

Since 2004, Solidarity Across Borders has been organizing for justice and dignity for migrant people living in Canada. Our main demands are: An end to deportations and detentions, and status for all undocumented migrants. Come find out about the campaigns and work we do, including:

* Solidarity City (A campaign to ensure safe access for non-status people to work, education, and services, while building networks of mutual aid and solidarity)
* Individual support work for non-status people
* Status for All actions in May 2011
* Struggles that we support, such as issues around police brutality, racial profiling, security certificates, and "immigration security" measures

For questions and other information, please get in touch:
514-848-7583 or solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com

About Solidarity Across Borders:
Solidarity Across Borders is a Montreal-based network engaged in the struggle for justice and dignity of immigrants and refugees. We are comprised of migrants, immigrants, refugees and allies, and come together in support of our main demands: the regularization of all non-status people (Status for All!), an end to deportations and detentions. Some of us have direct experiences with the immigration and refugee system; some of us come from immigrant backgrounds; all of us organize as part of a collective struggle for justice and dignity. For us, there is no such thing as “illegal” human beings, only unjust laws and illegitimate governments. We organize not on the basis of pity or charity, but rather solidarity and mutual aid.

Solidarity Across Borders is a working group of QPIRG Concordia.
www.solidarityacrossborders.org


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Solidaridad sin Fronteras – Encuentro Abierto
Lunes, el 8 de Noviembre 2010
De 6:30 a 8:30 de la tarde
1500 de Maisonneuve oeste, #204
(métro Guy-Concordia)

Estan invitadas a un encuentro abierto de Solidaridad sin Fronteras, aquí podrán enterarse sobre cómo involucarse en la lucha por la justicia de las migrantes montrealenses.

-> Comida y bebidas para todas
-> Guardería disponible (por favor confirmar 24 horas antes)
-> Traducción disponible al francés, ingles y español.

Desde el 2004, Solidaridad sin Fronteras ha estado luchando por la justicia y dignidad de las personas migrantes que viven en Canadá. Nuestras demandas principales son: el fin a las deportaciones y las detenciones, y el estatus para todos los que están sin papeles. Vengan a entérese de las campañas y trabajo que hacemos, lo cual incluye:

* La Ciudad Solidaria (une campaña para asegurar el acceso a todos los servicios públicos incluyendo la salud, la educación, y el trabajo digno para todas las personas sin documentos).
* Trabajo de apoyo para las personas sin documentos.
* Acciones llamando el Papeles para Todas en mayo del 2011.
* El trabajo que apoyamos, como la lucha contra la violencia policiaca, el racismo, y las medidas de "seguridad de inmigración".

Por cualquier duda u otra información, comuníquese al :
514-848-7583 o solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com

Acerca de Solidaridad sin Fronteras:
Solidaridad sin Fronteras es una red Montrealense que lucha por la justicia y la dignidad de las inmigrantes y las refugiadas. Somos un grupo de emigrantes, inmigrantes, refugiadas y aliadas que se reúnen bajo las demandas: la regularización de todas las personas sin papeles (¡Papeles para Todas!), y el fin a las deportaciones y las detenciones. Algunas de nosostras tenemos experiencias directas con el sistema de inmigración y refugio; algunas venimos de familias inmigrantes; todas organizamos la lucha colectiva para la justicia y la dignidad. Nosotras creemos que no hay seres humanos "ilegales", las leyes son injustas y los gobiernos ilegítimos. Nosotras organizamos por la solidaridad y el apoyo mutuo, y no por la compasión ni la caridad.


www.solidarityacrossborders.org
514-848-7583
solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com

CANADIAN POLITICS ONTARIO:
UPCOMING EVENTS FROM OCAP:


Here's a notice of two upcoming events from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).
CPCPCPCPCP


Upcoming: CUPE Educational Nov.8th + Rob Ford 'Welcome' Dec.1st‏
Hello Everyone,
Two Important upcoming events listed below..
1) CUPE Raise the Rates Educational: for CUPE Members who are interested in hearing about and getting involved in the Raise the Rates Campaign
2) Give Rob Ford the Welcome He Deserves!
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1)
**please forward
Why are Social Assistance Rates a Workers Issue?
Join us for the Raise the Rates & Special Diet Campaign Educational
Monday November 8, 2010 from 6 to 9 pm
CUPE 4400: 1482 Bathurst St, Suite 200
**On-Site Childcare and Food Provided

At the 2010 Spring CUPE Ontario Convention, we took an important step in continuing to build solidarity with our community allies and fighting poverty by voting to support an emergency resolution to endorse and actively support the campaigns to raise social assistance rates and to stop the McGuinty Government's cut to the Special Diet program.
Join fellow CUPE members for an educational on the Raise the Rates and Special Diet Campaign to get the word out in our workplaces about why raising social assistance rates is a workers issue and what can be done to take this issue on.
For more information, contact: 416-596-7927 / cupe4308@gmail.com
CUPE Ontario: Save the Special Diet and Raise the Rates: http://cupe.on.ca/doc.php?document_id=1114&lang=en
CUPE Ontario Statement on the Special Diet Allowance: http://cupe.on.ca/doc.php?subject_id=227&lang=en
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2) PLEASE POST WIDELY -
On Dec. 1, Rob Ford becomes Mayor of Toronto. A public event is being organized by community groups and grassroots activists to keep watch on Rob Ford and his anti-people agenda.
Further details will be announced shortly, please invite all your friends.
Keep visiting http://ocap.ca/ and http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/ for updates.

CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO:
IN THE WAKE OF THE G20:



Here's an upcoming event down Toronto way in the wake of the massive arrests surrounding the G20 summit in that city.
G20G20G20G20


Strengthening Our Resolve
Time September 17 · 6:30pm - 11:30pm

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Location Ryerson University - Rogers Communication Centre, room RCC 204 (Eaton Lecture Theatre), (80 Gould Street, Toronto ON)

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Created By Toronto Community Mobilization Network
(or the website -Molly)

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More Info
Strengthening Our Resolve: Movement Building and Ongoing Resistance to the G20 Agenda

http://g20.torontomobilize.org/node/486

Speakers include Alex Hundert, Jen Meunier, Judy Rebick, Liisa
...Schofield, Ro Velasquez, Harsha Walia, and a representative from the
Greater Toronto Workers Assembly

This is a Pay What You Can event. All contributions go to the G20
Legal Defence Fund (http://g20.torontomobilize.org/support )

While 40,000 demonstrated and over 1000 were arrested in the streets of Toronto, so-called leaders met behind a security fence and 10,000 police to further their exploitation of people and the Earth. Hundreds face G20-related charges stemming from an unprecedented coordinated police operation, and political dissent remains criminalized as arrests of community organizers have occurred as recently as September.

Meanwhile, across the globe we see G20 austerity measures snatching away health, educational and social services, while the governments of G20 countries continue to bail out banks and corporations. Locally, we witness racist criminalization of migrants and refugees becoming more vicious, while colonization and destruction of Indigenous nations and their lands continues. Many of us daily experience the entrenchment of a racist, ableist, patriarchal, queer-phobic, profit-driven culture, while countless bodies bear the violence of an oppressive police state that enforces these norms.

Join us in this event with speakers and discussion about responses the G20 agenda, and making linkages across issues and ongoing struggles. With courage and with care, this event is about building solidarity and understanding, about creating real alternatives to this
exploitative and destructive system, and to strengthen our resolve to
continue resisting.

For more information email alex.hundert@gmail.com or call 416 922 4595.

Sponsored by: Toronto Community Solidarity Network, the 247 G20
Defence Committee, CAW Sam Gindin Social Justice and Democracy Chair, OPIRG York, OPIRG Toronto, CUPE 3903 First Nations Solidarity Working Group, CUPE 3907

- Alex Hundert is a G20 defendant charged with “conspiracy” who was arrested in a violent pre-emptive house raid. He has been targeted as a “ringleader” for his role in Indigenous solidarity and anarchist networks including AW@L, SOAR and the Six Nations Solidarity Network.

- Jen Meunier is an Anishinaabekwe (Algonquin) Indigenous
sovereigntist who has been involved in land defense struggles from
Site 41 and Six Nations to the No Olympics on Stolen Native Land
campaign.

- Judy Rebick is an author, past CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social
Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University, past president of the
National Action Committee on the Status of Women, media commentator, and founding publisher of rabble.ca.

- Liisa Schofield is a documentary filmmaker, an anti-poverty activist
with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, and an activist for
Palestinian rights.

- Ro Velasquez is an artist, York University student, and a member of
the Queer Resistance Network. She is active in movements rooted in
racialized, immigrant, and queer communities of resistance.

- Harsha Walia is an organizer with No One Is Illegal-Vancouver. She
is involved in migrant justice, Indigenous solidarity,
anti-imperialist, anti-poverty, feminist organizing. She has been
active in the 2010 Olympics and G20 convergences.

CANADIAN POLITICS:

G20 FORUM AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY:

Tomorrow, Augst 28, there will be a public forum at McGill University in Montréal focusing on the movement against the g8/g20 and its present relevance today. Here's the promo.>>>

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Summit Up: Reflections on the Movement against the G8/G20
Time

Tomorrow · 3:30pm - 5:30pm

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Location

Saturday August 28th at 3:30 pm Shatner Ballroom (3rd floor, 3480 McTavish)

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Created By Rad Frosh, A.p. Mals, Qpirg McGill, Andrea Figueroa

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More Info Summit Up: Reflections on the Movement against the G8/G20

Saturday August 28th at 3:30 pm
Shatner Ballroom (3rd floor, 3480 McTavish)

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This panel will be focusing on the events of this summer in Toronto, an attempt to get beyond the media’s one-sided coverage and hear from those directly involved in mobilizing efforts. By giving historical context to the summit against the G8/G20, panelists will discuss how the anti-globalization movement arrived at this moment.

The intention of the panel is;
to highlight why different groups became involved in the movement
against the G8/G20,
to share their analysis of the movement as it stands today,
to highlight successes and/or lessons that have been learned this year.


Featuring speakers from QPIRG McGill, No One is Illegal, PolitiQ, and CLAC 2010.

This panel is part of Rad Frosh 2010, organized by QPIRG McGill. Find out more at http://radfrosh.qpirgmcgill.org and http://qpirgmcgill.org!

LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG:
BLACK AND RED TALKS:



Molly just got an interesting notice about a new talk series hopefully starting soon here in Winnipeg...the Black and Red Talks. Here's the info from Viva Mondragon. >>>
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Black & Red Talks #1
Public Event
Time August 27 · 6:30pm - 7:30pm
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Location
Mondragon Bookstore & Coffee House
91 Albert
Winnipeg, MB
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Created By Viva Mondragon
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More Info
This is the kickoff/planning session for the Black and Red Talks series. Every month we're bringing together local smart-folk, the odd "expert" and you for a sit down style panel discussion about a whole range of topics. This first meeting will be for planning the next several months of speakers and topics.

Come out and help us spread knowledge and points of view through out the community.

CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO:
DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST G20 DETAINEES:


The following notice of a public meeting to demand that charges against those arrested at the G20 summit in Toronto be dropped comes originally from the G20 Toronto Mobilize group. It came Molly's way via the Ontario Coalition against Poverty (OCAP).
G20G20G20G20


Drop G20 Charges!
Resisting the Criminalization of Dissent
Date: August 17th
Time: 6pm - 7:30pm
Location: Room 116, Wallberg building, 200 College Street, Toronto, ON

Speakers include Lesley Wood, Syed Hussan and organizers from OCAP. Full list of speakers and video statements to be announced!

For ten days at the end of June, the Police led a coordinated armed assault against Toronto's civilian population. Community organizers were in particular targeted. Mobilizations for justice, for dignity and for self-determination were infiltrated, harassed and intimidated. A Canada wide response is at hand... as people fight to have the criminal charges dropped and to continue the struggle against the G20's anti-people and anti-environment policies. (Support the Legal Defence Fund! http://g20.torontomobilize.org/support )

To understand why people mobilized against the G20 and how organizers were targeted; to hear accounts of police brutality and repression; and to understand the political nature of the bail conditions, the criminalization of dissent and ways to support the people facing charges, join us for an informative panel and discussion.

This event is focused towards activists, grassroots organizers and people who are interested in knowing more and acting in solidarity with local struggles and defendants.
Endorsers: Ontario Coalition Against Poverty No One Is Illegal - Toronto Rainforest Action Network - Toronto Common Cause - Toronto Branch Sponsored by: Hussan Freedom Committee, Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Toronto
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LESLEY WOOD is a Professor of Sociology at York University and a member of the Toronto Community Mobilization Network and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. Lesley will be speaking about G20 policies, police violence during the summit and the role of global justice movements and community struggles. Read her latest movement article at: http://bit.ly/bT5LdB
SYED HUSSAN is a member of the Toronto Community Mobilization Network and No One Is Illegal-Toronto. He was arrested on the morning of June 26, 2010 and held for 12 days. Hussan will speak about his arrest, bail conditions, and the need for solidarity and ongoing organizing. Read statements from No One Is Illegal at http://bit.ly/9xt45c and http://bit.ly/dkQ8hG

ONTARIO COALITION AGAINST POVERTY is a grassroots anti-poverty organization that faced increasing police repression following mass demonstrations in 2001. Organizers will be speak about the targeting of various community groups in 2001 and during the G20 and the need to struggle against the G8/G20 policies in the coming years. Read more at http://bit.ly/bKZfyu and http://ocap.ca/node/904

LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG:

PANEL ON G20 AND CIVIL LIBERTIES:

Thursday, August 19...a panel discussion on the recent g20 summit in Toronto and its effect on civil liberties. Here's the blurb.

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G20 Perspectives:

A Panel Discussion on Civil Liberties and Global Justice
Time August 19 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm

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Location Carol Shields Auditorium, Millennium Library, 2nd Floor
251 Donald St.
Winnipeg, MB

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Created By Canadians Demanding a Public Inquiry into Toronto G20 (Winnipeg Chapter)

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More Info Join us for a panel discussion on issues pertaining to the recent G20 Summit in Toronto.

The panelists will be:
-David Camfield: Member of the editorial board of New Socialist webzine
-Joan Grace: Professor of Politics at U of W specializing in civil society and policy advocacy, state architecture and political engagement.
...-Chris Powell: Professor of Sociology at U of M
-Dan Lett: Political Opinion columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press
-Robert Chernomas: Professor of Economics at U of M and board member of the Council of Canadians

The above list is subject to change.

LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG:

CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE PROVINCES FORUM:

Here's an upcoming public forum to be held here in Winnipeg on August 4. I have to say that this sort of thing makes me somewhat "itchy" and not just because its sponsors such as the 'Council of Canadians' are in most other circumstances advocates of centralization in the Canadian federation. It's also because their presumed "strategy" of reducing carbon emissions via delegation of responsibility to the provinces would only get 'self-interested support' in an unequivocal manner in two Canadian provinces - Québec and Manitoba. Their invocation of Ontario is, in my mind doubtful even with Ontario's commitment to nuclear power thrown in for good measure, and as for the other provinces..forget it. I could go on and on about the "political illusion" here, but I'll leave that to the readers' imagination. I also think that arguments about provincial/federal responsibilities in terms of power generation are very much beside the point as the real argument is local/municipal versus all other levels of government. The old anarchist argument about localism versus statism. All that aside here's the promo for the meeting.

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Public forum on Trade threats to provincial leadership on climate change

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Location Buchwald room, Millenium Library .
251 Donald St.
Winnipeg, MB

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Wednesday, August 4

7:00 – 9:00 pm

Buchwald Room, Millennium Library ( 251 Donald Street )
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Faced with federal impotence on the climate file, Canada 's provinces are taking independent steps to reduce their carbon consumption. At the same time, new international trade agreements, such as the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), that the provinces are actively negotiating alongside the Harper government threaten to undermine these new provincial efforts to mitigate climate change.



The Ontario Green Energy Act, which prioritizes locally produced renewable energy, is one example of the kind of forward-looking policy the provinces should be adopting. But European trade negotiators are putting enormous pressure on federal and provincial governments to get rid of local content or sustainable sourcing requirements that are necessary to help Canadian communities and companies transition away from dirty energy, and create good, green jobs. Efforts to phase-out tar sands production are also compromised by these trade agreements.



On the eve of the 2010 meeting of the Council of the Federation in Winnipeg, come learn more about this provincial contradiction -- between a need to move further and faster than the Harper government on climate change and a willingness to compromise environmental policy in trade deals -- and why the provincial governments need to reject any trade deals with Europe or other countries that threaten their shift toward sustainability.


Featuring:
Steve Guilbeault, Co - Founder and Deputy Director, Equiterre
Brendan Reimer, Prairies & Northern Territories Coordinator, CCEDNet
Stuart Trew, National Trade Campaigner, Council of Canadians


Presented by the Council of Candians Winnipeg Chapter and Climate Action Network Canada - Reseau action climat Canada

MOUVEMENT ANARCHISTE DU CANADA/CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:

LA LUTTE EN MARTINIQUE/THE STRUGGLE IN MARTINIQUE:







Bientôt à Montréal ... Rencontre avec l'auteur Matinik Doubout. Parrainé par l'Union Communiste Libertaire.
Coming soon in Montréal...meeting with author matinik Doubout. Sponsored by l'Union Communiste Libertaire.

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Conférence et discussion avec l'auteur du livre Matinik Doubout.
Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Studio Levier Noir (Métro Place St-Henri)
Street: 4525 rue St-Jacques
City/Town: Montreal, QC

Description.Matinik Doubout: Lutte anticolonialiste et lutte de classe en Martinique et dans les Antilles.

L’Union Communiste Libertaire-Montréal vous convie à une conférence estivale.

En février-mars 2009, la Martinique a été secouée par le plus puissant mouvement populaire du siècle dernier. Des milliers de Martiniquais-es se sont retrouvé-es dans un mouvement de grève générale qui s’est étendu comme une trainée de poudre dans les Antilles Françaises.

Nemo, enseignant, témoin et acteur de ces événements et militant d’Alternative libertaire présentera une conférence qui traitera de la lutte anticolonialiste et de la lutte des classes en Martinique ainsi que dans les Antilles. Il est l’auteur du livre Matinik Doubout, qui raconte au jour le jour le mouvement de 2009 et analyse les perspectives politiques et économiques qu’il a ouvertes.

Cette conférence abordera l’historique de ces luttes, la situation actuelle ainsi que les perspectives à l’ombre de la crise économique mondiale. Cette conférence sera suivie d’une période de discussion et de questions.

http://www.causecommune.net/
http://nefacmtl.blogspot.com/

Un billet portant sur le bouquin:
http://nefacmtl.blogspot.com/2010/07/chronique-litteraire-matinik-doubout-le.html

(english version)

Conference: Matinik Doubout - The anti-colonialist, class struggle in Martinique and the Antilles

The Montreal branch of the Union Communiste Libertaire invites you to a summer conference with the author of the book "Matinik Doubout".

When? Thursday 22 July 2010 at 7.00pm

Where? 4525 Rue St-Jacques, Montreal (metro Place St-Henri)

In February and March 2009, Martinique was shaken by the strongest popular movement seen in the country since the last century. Thousands of Martinicans found themselves as part of a general strike movement which spread like a powder-trail throughout the French Antilles.

Nemo, a teacher and member of Alternative Libertaire Martinique, was a witness to and participant in these events. He will be presenting a talk on the anti-colonialist struggle and the class struggle in Martinique and the rest of the Antilles. He is also the author of the book "Matinik Doubout", which gives a day-by-day account of the 2009 movement and analyses the political and economic conditions which lay at its root.

This conference will cover the history of these struggles and the current situation, also in the light of the global economic crisis. The talk will be followed by an opportunity for questions and debate.

CANADIAN POLITICS - TORONTO:

SATURDAY EVENTS IN TORONTO:

Like in many other cities people will be protesting the recent Israeli attack on the 'Gaza Flotilla'. In TO this happens this Saturday, the same day as the 'G20 Teach In'. Here's news about both events from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).

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Saturday: Solidarity with Gaza and G20 Teach-in‏
This coming Saturday, June 5th, 2 Important Events:

1) Emergency Demonstration in Solidarity with Gaza: 1pm

2) Toronto vs. G20 Mass Teach-in

*all details below

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1) Gaza Freedom Flotilla

Global Day of Action:

Saturday, June 5

On Saturday, June 5, human rights and community organizations will mobilize to join an emergency Global BDS Day of Action called by the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC). In Toronto, join us to protest the fatal attacks by apartheid Israel on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip (please see full BNC call-out below).

R A L L Y & M A R C H

Date: Saturday, June 5

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Location: Israeli Consulate, 180 Bloor Street West

June 5 also marks the 43rd anniversary of the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Our action aims to draw the world’s attention to Israel’s continuing illegal occupation, its refusal to abide by international law, and its massacre of innocent humanitarian workers.

Please join us, and stand with Palestine! Tell your friends and family. Bring Palestinian flags. Organized by:

Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid

Palestine House Community Centre

Canadian Arab Federation

Toronto Coalition to Stop the War

Canadian Peace Alliance

Find us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/dBPiGY

To endorse, please email endapartheid@riseup.net.

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2) Toronto vs. the G20

Community action for global justice

Saturday, June 510:30am-6pm

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

252 Bloor Street West

What are we protesting, again? It’s a good impulse to feel contempt for the G20. It’s a better impulse to want to talk about it. Join student and community activists to learn about the G20 and current social and environmental justice campaigns in Toronto, and to get involved. Free citywide teach-in. Lunch included!

PROGRAM

10:30 WAKE UP. COFFEE.

11:00 INTRODUCTION: What is the G20 and why should we care about it? OISE Auditorium 11:30 OPENING PLENARY - OISE Auditorium Economic Justice in Ontario: Poverty, Disability, and Workers’ Rights The theme of this G20 summit is “recovery and new beginnings.” But the G20 isn’t pursuing anything new. The G20 has used the economic crisis to reinforce the myth of its own legitimacy, on the backs of poor and working people around the world. In Canada, austerity measures have already provoked outrage and opposition. Why should poor and working people pay for a crisis that capitalism imposed ? Hear from anti-poverty activists,union organizers and workers.

1:00 FREE LUNCH Join the *Free Gaza Flotilla Rally* directly after the opening plenary outside the Israeli consulate (180 Bloor St West, one block from OISE). Lunch will be extended by 30 minutes in solidarity with this action.

For information: http://www.caiaweb.org/node/1476 .

2:15 SESSION ONE (choose one)

Migrant Justice, Imperialism and the G20 – Room 5260

Food and Water Security – Room 5180 At Home and Beyond: Gender Justice in a Neoliberal World – Room 5170

G20 and the University – Room 5280

3:45 SESSION TWO (choose one)

Climate and Environmental Justice – Room 5170

Indigenous Sovereignty and the G20 – Room 5280

Apartheid and the G20: Palestine Solidarity in Canada – Room 5260

5:15 CLOSING PLENARY - Room 2214

On the Ground in June: Know your rights! Massive demonstrations, black blocs, human chains and nonviolent resistance, police brutality, tear gas, and mass arrests. Sound dramatic? Romantic imagery of protests and demos can obscure the realities of the work that goes into making them happen and the range of skills and knowledge that make them successful. From Seattle WTO to Quebec FTAA; from Pittsburgh G20 to Vancouver anti-Olympics; and finally in Toronto this June, prepare for what’s coming by learning from the past.

Join us for an historical workshop on demos, a primer to your legal rights on the street,and an overview of possibilities for participation, presented by the Toronto Community Mobilization Network. [[ All events are wheelchair accessible. Regrettably, ASL interpretation is not available. ]]

FULL PROGRAM AVAILABLE AT http://g20.torontomobilize.org/torontoVSG20 .

ON FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111541778889778&ref=ts

RSVP to toronto.vs.g20@gmail.com

Sponsored by University of Toronto Students’ Union * Ontario Public Interest Research Group * Toronto Community Mobilization Network * Sierra Youth Coalition * Science for Peace * Canadian Youth Climate Coalition *University of Toronto Graduate Students' Union * Health Studies Students' Union * Diaspora and Transnational Student Union * Native Students' Association * Caribbean Studies Students' Union * Equity Studies Students' Union * Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3902 * No One Is Illegal- Toronto * Ontario Coalition Against Poverty * And others!

CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-WINNIPEG
ANARCHISM AND NON-VIOLENCE WORKSHOP:




Coming up soon here at the Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre, 91 Albert St...a workshop on anarchism and non-violence. Here's the details.
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Anarchism & Non-Violence Workshop
Date: Sunday, June 6, 2010
Time: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre
Street: 91 Albert St. - 3rd Floor above Mondragon
City/Town: Winnipeg, MB


Description.
Please join us at the Rudolf Rocker Cultural Center for an exciting and timely workshop this coming Sunday, June 6th, on an interesting (and perhaps controversial) topic and an important topic to Winnipeg: Anarchism and Nonviolence followed by Urban Ecologies and Homeless Geographies.

We will be welcoming activist and socio-political scholar Randall Amster, who has generously offered to share his knowledge and expertise of Anarchism and Nonviolence with us, in the spirit of finding commonality and practical balance between these two important, grassroots-based, and often misunderstood philosophies. Randall is an author, activist, and educator in areas including peace, ecology, homelessness, and anarchism, and he puts on a great workshop — you will leave his talk entertained but also informed. The early part of the day will be focused on Anarchism and the second half will lead into a discussion of homelessness and activism.

to RSVP please email eton11@hotmail.com

ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS:

TWENTY YEARS SINCE OKA:

It's been 20 years since the 'Oka Crisis' where the Canadian army was called in to supress an occuption of native lands in and around the town of Oka. The occupiers had previously forced the Sureté de Québec (the Québec provincial police) to withdraw from the area. Where does the struggle for native self government stand today 20 years after this event ? As part of the Montréal Festival of Anarchy speakers from the various first nations involved will be holding a public meeting next Wednesday May 12. Here's the details.

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20 Years Since Oka: Kanienkehaka Communities in Resistance
Informational Meeting
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: de Sève Cinema
Street: 1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest
City/Town: Montreal, QC
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20 Years Since Oka: Kanienkehaka Communities in Resistance
with speakers from Kanehsatake, Kahnawake, Akwesasne, Tyendinaga & Six Nations

WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 7pm
de Sève Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest
(métro Guy-Concordia)

Free. Wheelchair accessible.
Presentations in English with whisper translation available into French.
If you need childcare, please contact 514-848-7583 48 hours in advance.
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Speakers include:

-> RUBY MONTOUR: Ruby is a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, Mohawk nation, Turtle Clan. She faces a multi-million dollar lawsuit for her actions to reclaim her land and stop illegal development that annexes un-ceded Indigenous territory.

-> SHAWN BRANT: Shawn is a member of the Tyendinaga Mohawk Community, active in the defense of the land and rights of his people, for which he has been targeted for arrest and prison, as well as a lawsuit by CN Rail.

-> JOE DEOM: Joe is a member of the Bear Clan and a member of the Longhouse in Kahnawake. He was a negotiator on behalf of Mohawks during the events of 1990.

-> CLIFTON ARIHWAKEHTE: Clifton is a member of the Kanehsatake Mohawk Community and a participant in the events of 1990.

[Speaker from Akwesasne to be confirmed shortly.]
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Twenty years ago this July, the people of Kanehsatake and Kahnawake rose up in defense of their ancestral lands, facing off against government officials, the police, and the Canadian Army. Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) communities have been on the forefront of resistance to colonialism in Canada. The events at Kanehsatake and Kahnawake were a crucial landmark in the history of Indigenous resistance to colonialism, and in the assertion of Indigenous self-determination.

This event brings together community members from Kanehsatake, Kahnawake, Akwesasne, Tyendinaga and Six Nations. The panelists will reflect together about the impact of the events of 1990 as well as current struggles for justice in their communities.

Presented by the Indigenous Solidarity Committee & No One Is Illegal-Montréal.
Part of the Festival of Anarchy during the month of May in Montreal.
Co-sponsored by the Quebec Public Interest Research Groups (QPIRG) at Concordia & McGill.
The Indigenous Solidarity Committee is a working group of QPIRG Concordia.

INFO:
indigenoussolidaritymontreal@gmail.com
514-848-7583


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20 ans après Oka : les communautés Kanienkehaka en résistance
Avec des conférenciers de Kanehsatake, Kahnawake, Akwesasne, Tyendinaga et de Six Nations.

MERCREDI, 12 MAI, 19h
Cinéma de Sève, 1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest
(métro Guy-Concordia)

Accessible aux chaises roulantes. Gratuit.
Présentations en anglais avec traduction chuchotée vers le français.
Si vous avez besoin d’un service de garde, svp contactez-nous 48h avant l’événement au 514-848-7583.
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Les conférenciers incluent :

-> RUBY MONTOUR : Ruby est membre du Clan de la Tortue de la nation Mohawk du territoire des Six Nations. Elle fait face à une poursuite de plusieurs millions de dollars suite à ses actions de réclamation de sa terre et de blocage d’un développement illégal annexant un territoire autochtone non cédé.

-> SHAWN BRANT : Shawn est un membre de la communauté Mohawk de Tyendinaga. Il est actif dans la défense du territoire et des droits de son peuple, raisons pour lesquelles il a été arrêté et incarcéré ainsi que poursuit par CN Rail.

-> JOE DEOM : Joe est un membre du Clan de l’Ours et de la Maison longue de Kahnawake. Il a agi en tant que négociateur pour les Mohawks lors des événements de 1990.

-> CLIFTON ARIHWAKEHTE : Clifton est un membre de la communauté Mohawk de Kanehsatake et un participant aux événements de 1990.

[Un conférencier d’Akwesasne sera confirmé sous peu.]
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Il y a aura 20 ans ce mois de juillet, les peuples de Kanehsatake et de Kahnawake se soulevaient pour défendre leurs territoires ancestraux, affrontant ainsi les fonctionnaires, la police et l’armée canadienne. Les communautés Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) ont été au front de la résistance contre le colonialisme au Canada. Les événements de Kanehsatake et de Kahnawake furent des jalons cruciaux dans l’histoire de la résistance autochtone au colonialisme et de l’affirmation de l’autodétermination autochtone.

Cet événement rassemblera des membres des communautés de Kanehsatake, Kahnawake, Akwesasne, Tyendinaga et de Six Nations. Les panélistes réfléchiront collectivement sur les impacts des événements de 1990 ainsi que sur les luttes actuelles de leurs communautés.

Présenté par le Comité de Solidarité Autochtone et Personne n’est illégal – Montréal.
Cet événement s’inscrit dans le Festival de l’anarchie tenu au mois de mai à Montréal.
Endossé par le Groupes de recherche d'intérêt publique (GRIP) à Concordia et à McGill.
Le Comité de Solidarité Autochtone est un groupe de travail du GRIP à Concordia.

INFO :
indigenoussolidaritymontreal@gmail.com
514-848-7583