Tadamon! appeal for your financial support and solidarity

Photo: Demonstration against the ongoing Israeli siege on Gaza.

2009 has been a year of intense and sustained effort as well as many achievements for the Tadamon! Montreal Collective. We are now advancing through the autumn months with a full agenda of events and initiatives and looking forward to further achievements. We are also turning to supporters, friends and well-wishers of Tadamon! to ask for financial solidarity.

Tadamon’s activism takes as its focus the struggle for social justice, liberation and equality for the people of Palestine, Lebanon and the larger Middle East. Doing this work is a collective effort. It includes those who are active in our regular planning and organizing work, but also those who participate in Tadamon’s public events and who follow Tadamon’s work and provide support through financial contributions.

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CKUT community radio special broadcast

Monday January 18th 15h00 – 17h00
live broadcast on CKUT radio, 90.3fm
tune-in globally via live stream at www.ckut.ca

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photo essay by photographer Claudia Espinosa

Photo: Claudia Espinosa. DAM performs in Montreal with Narcicyst

Hundreds gathered in Montreal for the ninth Artists Against Apartheid concert featuring DAM, the celebrated Palestinian hip-hop group, who took the stage in Montreal for the first time at Café Campus.

Joining DAM at the concert was Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist the Narcicyst, along with MCs from the celebrated local hip-hop group Nomadic Massive

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criminalization of social movements & the anti-terrorism crusade

Thursday, November 5th 2009
6:30 pm Pavillon J-A-DeSève (DS)
UQAM, Rm DS-1580
320 Sainte-Catherine Street E.
graphic obey

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featuring celebrated Palestinian hip-hop ensemble DAM with Iraqi rapper Narcicyst

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 28th, 20h00
$10 in advance | $15 at door
purchase tickets admission.com
Café Campus
57 rue Prince-Arthur Est
Montreal, Quebec

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July / August 2009: screenings outside at 2035 St Laurent

Join Tadamon! for a summer film series exploring the best films of the Middle East. The Algerian revolution, the Lebanese civil war and the Palestinian struggle are the themes for this summer.

All screenings talking place at 2035 St. Laurent, near Ontario street and metro St. Laurent, all beginning at 9pm, free! Read below for the screening dates for each film. Feel free to bring your own chair or blanket! If it is raining, the film will be screened the week after at the same location.

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evening of Arab-Middle Eastern food & musical performance in support of Tadamon!

SATURDAY 11 JULY, 20h
Bar Populaire
6584 boul. St-Laurent
entrance: $5
(metro Beaubien)
Montreal, Quebec.

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photo essay from Claudia Espinosa and Valerian Mazataud.

Photo: Valerian Mazataud. Opening the evening is Colin Stetson.

Excitement is building around the ongoing Artists Against Apartheid concert series, which unites ground breaking artists and musicians in Montreal in solidarity with Palestinian human rights. As part of the annual Suoni per il Popolo music festival the eighth edition of Artists Against Apartheid featured some of the most celebrated grassroots artists in Montreal.

Esmerine headlined the concert with a quartet performance that included an appearance from singer Lhasa de Sela, while saxophonist Colin Stetson opened the concert stunning the audience at La Sala Rossa with a performance that clearly outlined the reasons for the growing hype surrounding Stetson’s music. Also joining the evening was Jean the Hatchet a collaboration between violinist Sarah Neufeld of Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre, percussionist Shahzad Ismaily from New York City and Colin Stetson.

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Deborah Guterman, Electronic Intifada, 11 June 2009.

Photo: Bilin: Palestinian with son in arms in front of Israeli soldier.

The small Palestinian village of Bilin will face-off this month against two Canadian corporations accused of aiding and abetting the colonization of the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Bilin has charged Green Park International and Green Mount International with illegally constructing residential buildings and other settlement infrastructure on village territory, and marketing such structures to the civilian population of the State of Israel. The condominiums in question are located in a settlement neighborhood known as Matityahu East.

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lecture with: Mohammed Khatib from Bil’in with Emily Schaeffer Israeli lawyer

FRIDAY JUNE 19, 19h00
donations encouraged
De Sève Cinema
Concordia University
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd.
Montreal, Quebec

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