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Radio Tadamon! Racism, religion and reasonable accommodation

    Produced for Radio Tadamon! by Stefan Christoff

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Listen to an edition of Radio Tadamon! featuring a critique on a state-sponsored series of hearings in Quebec on ‘reasonable accommodation’, which has placed the cultural and religious rights of immigrant communities in the political spotlight.

Radio Tadamon! features a presentation from Gada Mahrouse, academic and social justice activist, who offers an anti-racist view on the issue in a lecture in Montreal, in the context of a grassroots event organized in Montreal north examining the impacts of the current debate on ‘reasonable accommodation’ in Quebec on immigrant communities specifically addressing the impacts of the debate on Muslim women.

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Palestine: Rebel from a bygone era

    Karma Nabulsi, Electronic Intifada, 1 February 2008

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    Photo: George Habash.

“His very name scatters fire through ice,” wrote Byron of an 18th-century revolutionary leader, and so it has always been with the name of that extraordinary Palestinian George Habash. For those in anti-colonial movements across the world who learned and trained under him, his name embodies that inextinguishable human demand for justice and freedom. His exhilarating emancipatory model of resistance to injustice, his radical optimism and, above all, his tight political organization scorched the consciousness of young people across the Arab world, mobilized masses and inspired a huge wave of talented artists and intellectuals.

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Lettre ouverte au service de police de Montréal

2 février 2008 | Posté dans Canada, Politique, Quebec, Répression, Résistance, Solidarité

    Plusieurs médias indépendants montréalais condamnent l’arrestation du
    journaliste indépendant Stefan Christoff.

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    Montréal, 2007.

Le mardi 27 novembre 2007, la police de Montréal a arrêté le journaliste indépendant Stefan Christoff au moment où il quittait une manifestation publique se déroulant devant le Palais des Congrès de Montréal, dans le cadre de latenue des audiences de la Commission Bouchard-Taylor sur les accommodements raisonnables.

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