UNDOING BORDER IMPERIALISM: Book Launch & Panel Discussion featuring Adil Charkaoui, Robyn Maynard, Mostafa Henaway, & Harsha Walia When: 5pm on Friday November 22nd Where: 7th floor lounge of the Concordia Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve West), Montreal, Kanienkehá:ka/Mohawk territories Join us for a panel discussion on Undoing Border Imperialism with social justice activists and authors Harsha Walia, Robyn Maynard, Mostafa Henaway and Adil Charkaoui. Undoing Border Imperialism is an exciting new book that situates immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire. By providing the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization, this work offers relevant insights for all grassroots and social movement organizers on effective strategies to overcome the barriers and borders within our movements in order to cultivate fierce, loving, and sustainable communities of resistance striving toward liberation (AK Press/IAS 2013). ABOUT THE PANELISTS: Adil Charkaoui is a Montreal-based teacher, author and activist. He spent over six years of his life trying to free himself from a security certificate, on the streets and in the courts, and won. He is currently an organizer with the Collectif Québécois Contre LIslamophobie (CQCI). Robyn Maynard is a writer, activist and outreach worker based Montreal. She co-hosts No One Is Illegal Radio in Montreal and plays a supportive role in Justice for Families of Victims of Police Killings. She helped found Project X, a group helping youth combat racial profiling in N.D.G. She is currently writing her first book, Policing Migrants, for Fernwood Publishing, (working title) Mostafa Henaway is a Montreal-based community organizer with the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC) and Tadamon! Montreal, and was a member of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist, writer, and popular educator rooted in migrant justice, Indigenous solidarity, Palestinian liberation, antiracist, feminist, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist movements and communities for over a decade (*for more about the author, see below). - This event is free - For on-site childcare, please call 24 hours in advance: 514-848-7585 - Wheelchair accessible - Il y aura un service de traduction chuchotée vers le français Copies of Undoing Border Imperialism will be be on sale at the event (cash-only), along with other anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-racist literature. The author and local contributors will be available for a book-signing following the event. This event will be followed by the Take Back the Night March, which begins at 7pm at Bethune Square. We strongly encourage everyone to attend! https://facebook/events/620283324700958/?fref=ts ADVANCE PRAISE: “Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new move-ments. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.” —Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine “Walia is an outstanding organizer who has done a lot of thinking and can write—not a common combination. Besides being brilliantly conceived and presented, this book is the first extended work on immigration that refuses to make First Nations sovereignty invisible.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Indians of the Americas and Blood on the Border “One of the most rewarding things about this book is its capaciousness—astute insights that emerge out of careful organizing linked to the voices of a generation of strugglers, trying to find their own analysis to build their own movements to make this world our own. This is both a manual and a memoir, a guide to the world and a guide to the organizer’s heart. —Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World “This book belongs in every wannabe revolutionary’s war backpack. This book is a breath of fresh air and offers an urgently needed movement-based praxis. Undoing Border Imperialism is too hot to be sitting on bookshelves; it will help make the revolution. —Ashanti Alston, Black Panther elder and former political prisoner For more information on the book, including ordering information: akpress.org/undoing-border-imperialism.html goodreads/book/show/16057173-undoing-border-imperialism ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Harsha Walia is a South Asian author and activist who resides in Vancouver, on the lands of the Indigenous Coast Salish people. Over the past decade, Harsha has organized in a number of social justice movements, particularly within anti-racist, feminist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements. Currently she is active in the migrant justice group No One Is Illegal, the February 14th Womens Memorial March Committee for Missing and Murdered Women, the South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy, the provincial Social Housing Coalition, as well as regular support for communities in the Indigenous Assembly Against Mining and Pipelines. Harsha is also a youth mentor for Check Your Head and an editorial collective member at Feminist Wire. Harsha has been named one of the most influential South Asians in BC by the Vancouver Sun and one of the ten most popular left-wing journalists by the Georgia Straight in 2010. She is the winner of the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives Power of Youth award.
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