Tadamon! et ASSÉ présentent…

Une initiative d’éducation populaire émergeant de la lutte pour la justice sociale
et contre le racisme, la guerre et l’occupation, au Moyen-Orient et au Québec…

Lundi le 21 avril, à midi, Cégep Bois de Boulogne
au café étudiant le Caféinné
10 555 ave du Bois-de-Boulogne, Montréal
Une présentation du Comité d’action pour la lutte étudiante boulonnaise (CALEB)

Mardi le 22 avril à 12h30, au Cégep Drummondville
960 rue St-Georges, Drummondville
Une présentation de l’Association générale étudiante du Cégep de Drummondville

Mercredi le 23 avril à 13h00, au Cégep de St-Jérôme
455 rue Fournier, St-Jérôme
Une présentation de l’Association étudiante du Cégep de St-Jérôme (AGES)

Mercedi le 23 avril à midi, au Collège de Lionel-Groulx
100 rue Duquet, Ste-Thérèse
Une présentation de l’Association générale étudiante du Collège de Lionel-Groulx (AGECLG)

Mercredi le 23 avril à 19h, à Sherbrooke
Au local Le Tremplin, 97 rue Wellington Sud, Sherbrooke
Une présentation de l’Association étudiante du Cégep de Sherbrooke (AÉCS)

Jeudi le 24 avril à 18 heures Au GRIP-McGill
3647 rue University, 3ème étage, métro McGill
Une présentation du Groupe d’action et de sensibilisation au pouvoir étudiant (GRASPé)

Samedi le 26 avril de 14h30 à 16h30 au MUCS
Une présentation du Montreal Freeschool / l’École libre de Montréal
2000 rue Northcliffe, suite 218 (coin De Maisonneuve), métro Vendôme
(entrer par le stationnement situé sur la face nord de l’édifice)

JEUDI 17 AVRIL à 18 h 30
Cinéma De Sève
1400, boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest
Université Concordia, Immeuble de la bibliothèque
(métro Guy-Concordia)

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Lebanon’s Nahr el-Bared refugee camp, once home to an estimated 30,000 Palestinian refugees, remains in ruins, almost completely destroyed. Reconstruction efforts of the camp have been slow in the past months. As the military battle between the Lebanese military and the shady armed organization Fatah al-Islam raged, news of Nahr el-Bared filled the pages of newspapers across the world. Now military combat has halted in September 2007, Nahr el-Bared lies in rubble as displaced Palestinian refugees in Lebanon slowly are returning to their former home destroyed by an often indiscriminate military campaign lead-by the Lebanese army.

Today, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon continue to live as second-class citizens, without basic legal rights, a symbol of the continued dispossession of the Palestinian people. 2008 marks the 60th year of the Palestinian Nakba (“catastrophe”)– 60 years of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and exile for Palestinians resulting from the creation of the state of Israel. The Palestinian refugees of Nahr el-Bared present one of the clearest symbols of the continued dispossession of the Palestinian people around the world, the largest documented refugee population on earth.

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The General Labor Confederation (GLC) on Monday called a one-day general strike in Lebanon for May 7 because of the government’s refusal to raise the minimum wage from LL300,000 to LL960,000 per month. While an economist labeled the minimum wage “atrocious,” the GLC’s strike call also has political overtones, as GLC chief Ghassan Ghosn organized a series of sparsely attended demonstrations last year in front of various ministries. He has long been a vocal critic of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora’s government, while the minimum wage has sat at LL300,000 for more than a decade.

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Tyre, Lebanon — Soon after the U.S. destroyer USS Cole was deployed off Lebanon’s shore Feb. 28 to “preserve political stability”, a group of young men gathered around in the embattled agricultural town Qana in south Lebanon, and voiced their fears.

“Everyone feels there is a war coming,” said Salman Ismael, a 22-year-old university student. “Especially after the killing of (Hezbollah commander) Imad Mughniyeh and what is happening in Gaza. And now U.S. ships come to the waters of Lebanon. Israel wants to improve her army in the Middle East after its defeat in 2006, she wants the Arabs to be scared of her.”

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assemblée publique pour participer aux campagnes de Tadamon!

DIMANCHE, 6 AVRIL, 13:30
School of Community & Public Affairs
Université Concordia, 2149 rue Mackay
(métro Guy-Concordia)

On March 27, 2008 Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York University (SAIA-York) organized a rally in Vari Hall (the central campus space) in order to: (1) commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, (2) call for an end to the starvation policies and siege imposed on Gaza by the Israeli apartheid regime with Canadian complicity and (3) demand that the university hold a debate on the boycott of Israeli academic institutions that are complicit in the perpetuation of apartheid.

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BEKAA VALLEY: A ploughed field and a dirt road form the walls of Atieh Ahmad’s “prison”, belying its setting in the sweeping expanse of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.

“I can’t go as far as the main road because I don’t have an ID,” said the 64-year-old father of two, perched on sofa cushions spread on the grass outside his tent-like shack.

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Representatives of 25 Egyptian and Arab syndicates, led by Mohamed Salmawy and Ibrahim El-Moalem, chairman of the Arab Publishers Union, submitted a memorandum to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 24 February explaining the reasons behind the Arab protest at Israel’s invitation as guest of honour at this year’s Paris Book Fair, which opened in the French capital last week.

“Honouring Israel, and celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of Israel’s independence, a state which constantly violates international peace and the basic human rights of the Palestinian people, can only be seen as an unjustified provocation for Arab and international public opinion,” the memorandum read.

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On March 11th 2008 Montreal’s experimental band Jerusalem in My Heart and crew crammed into the CKUT studios and pulled off an incredible live set in a room that, I guarantee you, was a lot smaller than they make it sound…

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