10am-6pm
2515, rue Delisle
metro Lionel-Groulx
FREE!
Childcare on site. Bring your kids!
OPENING PANEL: FRIDAY MAY 14
Anarchy & Solidarity: Anti-Authoritarian Support for Liberation Struggles
with panelists Andrea
Schmidt, Graciela monteagudo, Mostafah Henaway, Soledad Delgado
7 pm: 1710 Beaudry (metro Beaudry)
by donation * translation in English and
French * Wheelchair accessible
SATURDAY MAY 15 2004...
The first floor of the building is wheelchair accessible from an
entrance around the back. This floor includes the main room of vendors, the childcare room, the solidarity room and the washrooms (which are also
wheelchair accessible). For info on the accessibility of the Montreal metro system to get to the bookfair click
here. For allergy reasons we ask that you refrain from using scented products and from bringing products with nuts into the building.
This year's bookfair will include:
SOLIDARITY ROOM (#119)
A series of presentations highlighting local and international struggles
for social justice. All presentations to take place in room #119. This room is wheelchair accessible.
11am-12pm: The Gujurat Genocide -- Justice and Action
On 27 February 2002 a massacre of Muslims in the western Indian state of
Gujarat began and continued for 12 days. At the end of that time period
more than 2,000 people were killed in terrible ways, many remain missing,
hundreds were injured and thousands lost homes and all sources of income.
Women and girls were especially targetted in the most brutal and inhuman
ways. Numerous fact-finding teams from India and abroad have since then
documented what occurred and the consensus is that what happened was
genocide because of the pre-planned nature of the event and the active and
complicit involvement of the state and state actors. The danger of a
recurrence is very real and a 'genocidal alert' that has been declared.
Come learn more about what happened, and why and what is being done to
prevent further recurrences and bring the perpetrators to justice. Help
break the silence on Gujarat. Be complicit in preventing further
massacres.
Presented by Dolores Chew. Dolores is a member of the South Asian WomensÍ
Community Center and a local professor, researcher and activist.
12pm-1pm: AlcanÍt in India: Working Through Solidarity
Alcan't in India is a Montreal-based solidarity project working with the
indigenous and low-caste peoples' of Kashipur in their 12-year struggle
around an Alcan-backed mining and refining project on their traditional
lands. Alcan is one of the world's largest aluminum corporations, and is
based in Montreal.
This presentation will introduce participants to the issue of Alcan's
operations in the Kashipur region of eastern India as well as to details
of the peoples' various responses to the proposed mining project.
Participants will bring together their various experiences, thoughts and
ideas about solidarity work in order to brainstorm about how the Alcan't
campaign should proceed given the challenges presented in recent meetings
with Alcan executives.
This presentation is open to anyone anyone. Especially encouraged to
attend are aboriginal peoples and desis, as well as anyone who has
experience doing solidarity work with people of these backgrounds.
1pm-2pm: Creating Links of Solidarity with Indigenous Communities in
Resistance
This presentation will focus on the resistance of the Anishnaabe community
of Grassy Narrows (northern Ontario) against the clear-cutting of their
traditional land use area by the Montreal corporation
Abitibi-Consolidated. On December 3rd, 2002, the youth of the community
erected a road blockade to stop the clear-cutting, and the blockade still
stands to this day.
The discussion will be facilitated by indigenous solidarity activists from
Friends of Grassy Narrows (Winnipeg) and the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity
Movement (IPSM -- Montreal).
2pm-3pm: Opposing Racial Profiling: Black Youth in Action
This presentation will address the issue of racial profiling in Montreal,
Quebec and Canada, with members of the advocacy group Black Youth in
Action. In particular, this presentation will outline the campaign for
answers concerning the case of Rohan Wilson, a young black man who died in
February this year at the hands of the Montreal police.
Black Youth in Action is a youth advocacy and action group advocating for
black youth in Montreal and raising awareness about the issue of racial
profiling.
3pm-4pm: The Collective Opposed to Police Brutality
Since 1995, the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality has been active in
defending basic rights while opposing and exposing police brutality. They
helped initiate the annual International Day Against Police Brutality, and
have been very active in legal support for demonstrators in Montreal. This
presentation will outline the work of COBP, while also analyzing the
nature of the police in Montreal.
4pm-5pm: Direct Solidarity in Palestine and Iraq
This presentation will hear from activists recently involved in direct
solidarity organizing with anti-occupation struggles in the Middle East,
specifically in Palestine and Iraq. This presentation will interest those
who would like to support the direct solidarity efforts of the
International Solidarity Movement and the Iraq Solidarity Project, or who
would like to learn more about the nature of direct support work in the
Middle East.
The Iraq Solidarity Project is a Montreal-based grassroots initiative to
provide direct non-violent support to Iraqis struggling against the
occupation; strengthen the mobilization against economic and military
domination and anti-war work in Quebec and Canada; and build links of
solidarity between struggles against the occupation of Iraq and struggles
against oppression in Canada and Quebec.
The International Solidarity Movement is a Palestinian-led movement of
Palestinians and internationals working to raise awareness about the
Palestinian struggle for liberation and an end to Israeli occupation.
FILM ROOM (#202)
10:00 Red Pill. A scratch video which reappropriates hollywood footage in proud guerilla, hip hop tradition, to produce a post-modern call to battle for
our planet, communities, and freedom. English, 25 min.
10:25 Kick. A short critique of the practise of Òkicking people out of the sceneÓ designed to open discussion on dealing with personal and political
conflicts within the movement. English, 4 min.
10:35 Ë Tivaouane - Des alternatives sociales et Žducatives au SŽnŽgale. Documentaire sur Tivaouane, une ville du SŽnŽgal o des activistes ont crŽe le
Centre Actions utiles pour l'enfance et la jeunesse, un projet d'Žducation et d'organisation fondŽ sur des bases autogestionnaires et libertaires.
Franais, 45 min.
11:25 Zapatista women. A film made in 1995 by Mexican women about the women Zapatista soldiers in the EZLN. Basically interviews with different women
about a variety of subjects. Modern revolutionary feminism in action. Spanish with English subtitles, 30 min.
12:00 Collection du collectif des Lucioles. Quelques courts-mŽtrages sur les luttes actuelles par le collectif montrŽalais de vidŽaste engagŽEs Les
Lucioles. A collection of shorts about current struggles from MontrealÕs Lucioles collective of engaged cinematography. Franais/English, 60 min.
1:00 De Toda La Vida (All our lives). About the anarchist feminists of the Mujeres Libres (Free Women) organization during and after the Spanish
revolution of the late 1930s. Features interviews with some of the women. Spanish with English subtitles, 52 min.
2:00 Irakiens et Irakiennes sous occupation : points de vue. Six entrevues d'hommes et de femmes de diffŽrents milieux et expŽriences, qui confient leur
vision de Saddam, de l'invasion et de l'occupation de leur pays. Shot in Baghdad in August 2003. English and Arabic, quelques sous-titres franais, 15
min.
2h20 Daniel GuŽrin - Combats dans le sicle (1904-1988). NŽ le 19 mai 1904, Daniel GuŽrin est une des grandes figures du mouvement rŽvolutionnaire du
XXe sicle. Il a militŽ dans l'Organisation rŽvolutionnaire anarchiste, puis dans l'Union des travailleurs communistes libertaires dont il resta membre
jusqu'ˆ sa mort. Franais, 80 min.
3:45 Weather Underground. The excellent 2003 film about the urban guerrilla organisation, Weather Underground, as told by various former members.
English, 90 min.
LIVE BROADCAST
Between 1 and 5 pm, CKUT 90.3fm will be hosting a live broadcast from the bookfair. Feel free to drop by the broadcast table in the main hallway to get
info or to participate int he bilingual broadcast. There will be an open mic session from 3:30-4pm, so make your voice be heard!
plus workshops, art exhibits, theatre, a mural project and more!