Radical Criminology

A Panel Discussion
Featuring
* Micheal Vonn, BC Civil Liberties Association, on the implications of turning CBSA raids into entertainment commodities
* Jose Figueroa, We are Jose, a refugee from El Salvador, on his three-year struggle to resist being mis-characterized as a terrorist and the “We are Jose” campaign against deportation

The Seriously Free Speech Committee & the Critical Criminology Working Group invite you to join us for a public talk
Title: Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire
by Dr. Deepa Kumar
(Associate Professor of Media Studies and Middle East Studies, Rutgers University)
Author of Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike and Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire

Dr. Kumar will discuss how racism is as central to contemporary American imperialist policies now as it was when war was waged against North America’s original inhabitants. She explores historical encounters between Islam and the west, debunking the myth that these can be understood in terms of a “clash of civilizations”.

Monday, March 4th
7pm - 9pm
in the Conference Centre --Room A
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Surrey Campus (12666 72 Avenue)
(Cedar Bldg. 1205A) See the MAP HERE.

Enabling Truths: Exploring the Shared Experiences of Institutionalization of Residential School Survivors and People with Disabilities.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9th: 11am-3pm

Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Surrey Campus)
Conference Centre (Room G1205)

Please join us for this important conversation between our students, Elders, scholars and community members.
Click here for more details!

Just released! From Carolina Academic Press: a sharp collection of essays analyzing police and state repression of demonstrations in neo-liberal democracies [ 1-pg Info Sheet ]

294 pages | Paperback | Index
ISBN: 9781611630886
LCCN: 2011052597
List of Contributors
APA Citation: Shantz, J. (2012). Protest and punishment: The repression of resistance in the era of neoliberal globalization. Durham, N.C: Carolina Academic Press.

Table of Contents

Protest and Punishment: An Introduction (Jeff Shantz)

Featuring: Jerome Raza has been a student activist and organizer since 2004 and is a former member of the l'ASSE executive board and a founding delegate to CLASSE. He will speak on the events in Quebec, the role of CLASSE in the strike and the methodology behind the student strike.

The purpose of the speaking tour is to give an in-depth look at why radical politics in Quebec have taken the shape of a rank and file, direct action based movement capable of posing a very real threat to the state and its capitalist proponents of education privatization.

[This is a notice for an upcoming DEMONSTRATION / EVENT in Surrey: ]

The BC Liberals and private contractor Brookfield Int are building a expanded and privatized (P3) 216 cell remand centre in Surrey BC. Christy Clark recently announced the construction of another 360 cell facility to be built on Native land in the Okanagan. These prisons are part of a massive expansion of Canada's prison system,

Kwantlen criminology Prof. Lisa Monchalin lectures on: "The Continued Struggle, Sexualization and Subjugation of Native Women: Deconstructing Pop Culture Depictions" - Mar.1st @ 1pm Kwantlen Polytechnic University

SOCIAL STRUGGLES AGAINST PRISONS, SURVEILLANCE & REPRESSION

Please join us
TUESDAY JANUARY 31st for
Speakers + Music + LAUNCH of 2 BOOKS....
- political prisoner David Gilbert's memoirs "Love and Struggle"
and "Whose Streets: The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest"

Homes Not Jails! Community Organizer AIYANAS ORMOND
with info on the expansion of Surrey Remand (and many other prisons) through "P3s" (public-private partnerships)
The Mass Incarceration Agenda in Canada: The View from Vancouver

Toronto-based rapper TESTAMENT
of Test Their Logik on his 'Action Raps Louder' Tour...
Sharing words, music & images from his experiences,
just returned from Athens, Greece & Tahrir Square, Cairo
[ http://www.testtheirlogik.com/ ]

AND

East Van hacker/info activist JOE BOWSER
On how the Canadian government has developed its
apparatus of surveillance and refined its methods of
control and repression; Presenting a summary of his
intriguing findings based on Access to Information
requests & extensive research following the 2010
G20 meetings in Toronto
[ http://paroxysms.ca/ | MediaCoop - G20 Papers ]

John S. Milloy, author of the best-selling book: _A National Crime: The
Canadian Government and the Residential School System_ will be giving a
talk on Wed. November 16th at 4 - 5:30pm at the Kwantlen Polytechnic Richmond Campus
(Campus Conference Rome 2550, B side).

This event is hosted by the working group for a Social Justice Centre and the Critical Criminology
Working Group at Kwantlen. (Also the Dept's of Sociology & Criminology.)

ON THURSDAY OCTOBER 20 --
Join the march to disrupt their $600/plate luncheon @ the Sheraton Hotel

MEET @ 11AM in Guildford, at the corner of 104 Ave. & 152 St.

THEY ARE FEW * WE ARE MANY