Noam Chomsky’s recent address on the Israeli atrocities in Gaza.
Jan. 13th, 2009
Wong Auditorium, MIT Cambridge, MA
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Questions & Answers: Part 1 of 7
Questions & Answers: Part 2 of 7
Questions & Answers: Part 3 of 7
Questions & Answers: Part 4 of 7
Questions & Answers: Part 5 of 7
Questions & Answers: Part 6 of 7
Questions & Answers: Part 7 of 7
Why we resist…
Of related interest, a very poignant presentation on Guanaguanare:
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From TADAMON!
Around the world, major demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine are taking place, from Europe, to the Middle East, to Latin America. In response to the Israeli military invasion into the Gaza Strip, the grassroots movement in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation has been reignited.
Since December 27th, over 800 Palestinians have been killed and approximately 4000 injured, the majority civilians, sparking international outrage against Israel. Israeli military actions have consistently targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure throughout Gaza, a war crime under international law; from U.N. schools, to apartment buildings, nowhere in Gaza is now safe from Israeli military aggression.
Join us for a major demonstration building on previous protests which have united tens of thousands in Montreal in solidarity with Palestine and against Israeli apartheid. Join us to denounce the ongoing Israeli occupation in Palestine and to continue to build the solidarity movement with Palestine.
On the streets in Montreal we will call for an immediate end to the ongoing assault on Gaza, and to the direct complicity of the US and Canadian governments with the Israeli war crimes currently taking place.
The complicity of the Canadian government has been extremely clear, outlined in statements from Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon, who have consistently defended Israel’s war crimes, whether against civilians in Lebanon in 2006 or in Palestine in 2008.
Both the governments of Quebec and Canada stand in direct complicity with the Israeli apartheid system, which systematically discriminates against the indigenous Palestinian population. The Quebecois and Canadian governments have recently heightened bilateral relations with Israel, increasing bilateral economic, military and political links. This fall, Jean Charest’s Liberal government inked a bilateral trade deal with Israel, an action which stands in stark contrast to the growing international calls for an economic boycott of the Israeli government in light of ongoing Israeli war crimes and systematic discrimination in Palestine.
At this moment, we must instead reaffirm our commitment to continue mobilizing friends and allies in progressive social movements to respond to the call by over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations for a comprehensive international campaign of boycott, sanctions and divestment (BDS).
Join us on the streets in Montreal in solidarity with the Palestinian people of Gaza and to call for an end to Israeli apartheid!
Initiated by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) and Tadamon! Montreal
SPHR is a non-profit, student-based organization that advocates on a strong social justice platform to uphold the rights of the Palestinian people in the face of human rights violations and all forms of racism, discrimination, misinformation and misrepresentation. Through awareness raising, advocacy work, non-violent direct actions, solidarity building, and the promotion of Palestinian identity, culture and history, SPHR works to support and protect Palestinian human rights both locally and internationally.
Tadamon! (Arabic for “solidarity”), is a Montreal-based collective which works in solidarity with struggles for self-determination, equality and justice in the ‘Middle East’ and in diaspora communities in Montreal and beyond. Tadamon’s ongoing political campaigns operating in Canada include the campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid. Tadamon! is a working group of QPIRG-Concordia and QPIRG-McGill.
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Saturday, January 10, 2009, was a global day of action to show solidarity with the people of Gaza and to protest the Israeli invasion and its murder of hundreds of civilians. See the Stop the War Coalition site for some more details. Today, (Sunday, 11 January, 2009) more protests continue in London: see here for more. Update: According to AP, many tens of thousands of protesters have gone to the streets today in cities across Europe and Asia, in what is quickly becoming a massive global movement against the Israeli slaughter in Gaza. As if to dismiss world opinion altogether, today Israel promised to escalate its offensive against Gaza, where already at least 400 civilians have been killed.
International Day of Gaza Outrage in Toronto
Montreal Solidarity with Gaza, 10 Jan. 2009
Montreal Demonstration for Gaza
Montreal Solidarity with Gaza
Montreal Protest Against Israel
Vancouver Free Palestine, Protest Against Israel
Frederiction: Informative Protesters Against the Gaza War, at the Farmers’ Market!
Winnipeg: Stop the Genocide in Gaza
Winnipeg Demonstration to End the Gaza Siege
Victorians in Solidarity with Gaza (Victoria, BC)
Global Gaza Peace Protests
London Gaza Protest
London: Stop the Gaza Massacre
London, Hyde Park
London Gaza Demonstration: George Galloway MP Speaks
London Gaza Demonstration: Tariq Ali Speaks
Washington D.C.: “Let Gaza Live” Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Today is the first anniversary of the death of Dr. Roi Kwabena, someone whose presence in my own work and evolution was fundamental, a mentor and guide, a great example of a publicly engaged anthropologist — completely public, in the sense of not being tied to any academic position, and inspiring some to call themselves and see themselves as “cultural anthropologists” even without the formal “disciplining” meted out by a university program. I will not write another eulogy. I will instead quote his own words from one of his great spoken word pieces, Whether or Not: “We still thinkin’ ’bout yuh.” And by we, I mean we, since today we collaborated to set up a special ring of commemoration, between myself, Blackgirl on Mars, and Guanaguanare (and on Guacara Dreamtime), all of our lives having been touched directly by you Roi, each of us remembering you in our own way on our respective blogs. As some already know, this blog is dedicated to your memory.
The video below is an animation I made many months ago of one of Roi’s longer hybrid productions as featured on his Y42K album, part spoken word poem, part story, part melody. I was reserving featuring this video on this blog until I was ready for the next installment of (Video) Notes from the Indian Diaspora, which I began and then interrupted several months ago (see here, here, and here). Not to delay further, and to have something to commemorate Roi’s work, I present it now.
This is Sour Chutney, a story whose content is sadly like many that were told of the pains suffered personally and communally as part of the social ruptures of Indian indentureship in Trinidad. It is a story of the ardent defense of tradition and male domination in face of new realities, and the violence that is visited upon one “unlucky” young bride. Most chilling for me was the appearance of the “sin eater,” and the whole piece raised the many hairs on my back.
On this day last year, Dr. Roi Kwabena passed away from lung cancer, just one day after it was diagnosed. He had been hospitalized for suspected pneumonia. His loss weighed deeply on me, but today we celebrate his work, we don’t mourn his passing. Thank you so much Roi, for all you have done, and all you have inspired to be done in the future. You live on!
These are some surviving links to his work, still online:
Also see, Dr. Roi Kwabena: Indigenous & African Heritages, when I first had the pleasure to introduce our friendship to readers online.
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