Full Conference Schedule
January 17, 2010
>> FRIDAY JANUARY 22
Opening Plenary :: Race, Space, and (In)Justice
Global Apartheid from South Africa to Turtle Island
A panel discussion with Shawn Brant, Rozena Maart, Chris Ramsaroop, and Jaggi Singh
Friday, January 22nd :: 7 pm :: Carleton University, Azrieli Theatre 102
Shawn Brant is a citizen of the Mohawk Nation living in the community of Tyendinaga.
Rozena Maart was born in District Six, Cape Town, South Africa. She is an anti-apartheid activist from the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, and has addressed interconnections between and among South Africa, Palestine, Canada, the United States and the UK for the past twenty years.
Chris Ramsaroop is an organizer with Justicia for Migrant Workers, a grassroots collective of community, labour and migrant activists. J4MW works with migrant workers employed under the seasonal agricultural workers and temporary foreign workers programs.
Jaggi Singh is an anarchist organizer, based in Montreal, active on indigenous solidarity, migrant justice, no border, anti-poverty and anti-police brutality issues. He organizes with No One Is Illegal, Solidarity Across Borders as well as many related campaigns and initiatives.
Moderated by Abla Abdelhadi, an organizer with Students Against Israeli Apartheid
The opening plenary is free and open to the public (no registration required).
>> SATURDAY JANUARY 23
Building Movements to End Apartheid :: Workshops & Panels
9:30 am – 5:30 pm, Morisset Hall, 65 Universite Pvt, University of Ottawa
*Advance registration required – PWYC, $5-10 suggested (includes breakfast, lunch, and conference materials)
>> Click here to register
*draft schedule, subject to change – workshop descriptions will be posted early this week
11:30-12:50: Workshop Block 1
Defenders of the Land from Turtle Island to Copenhagen (Ben Powless and Corvin Russell) – MRT 219
Resisting Apartheid in Palestine: Reflections on the Current State of the BDS Movement (Students Against Israeli Apartheid) – MRT 221
The Classroom as a Revolutionary Landscape: Fighting Injustice on the Thai-Burma Border (Nisha Toomey) – MRT 250
1:00-2:00: Lunch (courtesy of the Garden Spot)
2:00-3:20: Workshop Block 2
Profile This! Racial Profiling in Montreal (Project X) – MRT 219
Indigenous Solidarity for Settlers (Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement-Ottawa) – MRT 221
Global Apartheid, the G8/G20, and Migrant Justice (No One Is Illegal) – MRT 250
3:30-4:50: Workshop Block 3
Resisting Canada’s National ‘Security’ Agenda (Mary Foster, Sophie Harkat, and Rania Tfaily) – MRT 219
Tamil Eelam: Global Apartheid & Global Resistance (Canadian Humanitarian Appeal for the Relief of Tamils) – MRT 221
Organizing the Third World in the First: Immigrant Workers in the Global Economy (Mostafa Henaway) – MRT 250
5:00-5:20: Closing Remarks (MRT 256)
6:00-9:00: Dinner on your own, or at East African Restaurant (376 Rideau) – please indicate if you would like us to include you in the group reservation on your registration form
Artists Against Apartheid :: No One Is Illegal-Ottawa Fundraiser
9 pm, East African Restaurant, 376 Rideau Street
PWYC // suggested $5 at the door – all proceeds to No One Is Illegal-Ottawa
To wrap up the Global Apartheid conference – words, voices, and beats come together as an amazing selection of artists perform against apartheid. Come and join the resistance chorus!
Featuring the Ottawa debut of Palestinian spoken word artist Rafeef Ziadah
performing poems from her critically acclaimed CD “Hadeel”
www.rafeefziadah.ca
PLUS
Free Will (Ottawa)
Faye Estrella (Ottawa)
Readnex Poetry Squad (New York)
Beats by DJ yalla!yalla! and DJ Mikkipedia
Poster design by Nadijah Robinson
