Jeudi le 15 novembre à 17h30
à l’Université McGill (855 Sherbrooke Ouest)
Pavillon Leacock, salle 232

Projection de film et discussion à propos des représentations contemporaines de la sexualité en Iran, et leur lien avec les discours impérialistes de la soi-disant “guerre au terrorisme”. La discussion aura lieu en présence de Sima Shakhsari, de la Faculté d’anthropologie de l’Université Stanford.

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Samedi le 10 novembre
Rassemblement au Square Cabot, Metro Atwater
11 heures : soupe populaire
13 heures : départ en autobus vers le centre de détention

Pour réserver une place dans l’autobus: nobordersmontreal@no-log.org

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Terrorism is a contested terrain, a political landscape on which the highest levels of international military power engage in a deadly war. In 2007 terrorism remains an ominous threat, a political ghost invoked in the foreign policy rhetoric of Canada’s Conservative government surrounding the ‘War on Terror’.

In 2002 Canada unveiled an official list of ‘terrorist’ organizations, strikingly similar to the US governmental list of an equivalent nature. Today the Lebanese political movement Hezbollah, both the military and political wings, is officially considered a ‘terrorist’ organization by the government of Canada, a policy only endorsed by two additional countries internationally, the US and Israel.

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Ecoutez l’édition spéciale Tadamon! de World Skip the Beat sur CKUT, pour entendre de la bonne musique et de la bonne politique.

La musique du monde entier porte en elle un message de lutte et Tadamon veut célébrer cette expression populaire, ces cris de douleurs, de combats et de victoires. Cette émission comprend de la musique d’Algérie, d’Ouganda, du Mali, du Sénégal, du Congo, de Côte d’Ivoire, du Mexique, du Brésil, de Jamaïque, du Liban et du Cap Vert.

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Une soirée de films palestiniens pour commémorer 60 ans d’occupation et célébrer la voix palestinienne.

Le 29 novembre 1947, l’assemblée générale de l’ONU vote la résolution 181 qui ‘’recommande’’ le partage de la Palestine en 2 Etats, l’un juif, l’autre arabe. Cette solution est en opposition avec le principe d’auto-détermination des peuples et Particulièrement inégale puisque refusée par le peuple arabe autochtone qui n’en négociera pas le tracé, très favorable à la partie juive. Le partage impliquait une injustice qui aboutira inévitablement à la guerre de 1948 et à la Naqba : l’expulsion d’environ 800 000 Palestiniens et l’occupation de leurs terres par le nouvel État colonial israélien.

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Photo: Lebanon Oil Spill 2006.

UNITED NATIONS: When the Israeli Air Force destroyed a slew of oil storage tanks and a key power station during its war against Lebanon in July 2006, the environmental damage was described as devastating. And now, more than 15 months later, the United Nations has released a report detailing the extent of the destruction caused by that oil spill to human health, biodiversity, fisheries and tourism.

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Lebanon’s feuding political leaders have a long history of digging their country into holes from which it can only emerge by climbing over piles of dead bodies. The current impasse is just the latest example of this tendency, but at least a few cooler heads are determined to avoid the errors of those who went before. It remains to be seen which “side” will prevail – not between the government and the opposition, but between the sane and insane factions in each camp. Not content with this level of uncertainty, however, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stepped back into the fray in defense of past traditions and future bloodshed.

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BEIRUT: International donors have not sent any money for the Palestinian refugees and Lebanese affected by the conflict at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, more than six weeks after Premier Fouad Siniora asked a donor conference for $55 million, a number of relief officials said. The hundreds of refugee families returning to the battle-scarred camp are facing desperate conditions, although their departure from public schools near the camp has at least begun to release the tensions between the displaced and the Lebanese locals, said Ambassador Khalil Makkawi, head of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee. Over three months of fighting between the Lebanese Army and Fatah al-Islam militants largely destroyed the camp and its environs, while the camp’s 31,000-plus residents fled soon after the hostilities began.

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Last weekend, thirteen bodies, most likely of Palestinian refugees from Iraq, were recovered on the coast of Italy after their boats, carrying at least 127 persons in search of safety, had broken apart. These tragedies highlight the failure of the international community to protect Palestinian refugees.

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A Palestinian Camp in Lebanon is Burned and Destroyed and the World is Silent.

Nahr Al Bared is a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of Lebanon which has been home to about 40,000 Palestinian people, most of whom are the children and grandchildren of those who left Palestine in 1948. Some like Abu Mohammad were born in Palestine. He was ten years old, and next year it will be sixty years since the formation of the State of Israel was achieved through the ethnic cleansing of Abu Mohammad and so many others from their home in Palestine. He told me this as the two of us sat alone in the pitch dark while rats ran around beside our chairs at his house. As I left he went in to sleep alone amongst ashes and rodents, with no neighbours around him, trying to believe that he still has something left to protect.

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