BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Nova Scotia Advocate - ECPv6.9.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Nova Scotia Advocate
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://nsadvocate.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Nova Scotia Advocate
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Glace_Bay
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0300
TZNAME:ADT
DTSTART:20210314T060000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0300
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:AST
DTSTART:20211107T050000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210206T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210206T163000
DTSTAMP:20260422T172923
CREATED:20210204T195547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210204T195548Z
UID:19153-1612623600-1612629000@nsadvocate.org
SUMMARY:Connecting Abolitionist Struggles: Settler Colonialism\, Mass Incarceration\, and the "War on Terror"
DESCRIPTION:Connecting Abolitionist Struggles: Settler Colonialism\, Mass Incarceration\, and the “War on Terror” \n\n\n\nFacebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2105041156293424 \n\n\n\nPanel in commemoration of the Quebec mosque shooting \n\n\n\nFeaturing Shady Hafez\, El Jones\, and Arun Kundnani \n\n\n\nThis panel will bring together three scholar-activists working at the intersections of intertwined abolitionist struggles\, to discuss: What are the relationships between settler colonialism\, mass incarceration\, and the “war on terror” as projects of state violence? What connections are being forged between movements\, and what are points of tension? How do we build ideas and practices of safety and security\, beyond state concepts of “public safety” and “national security” premised on racial violence? What might futures of justice and liberation look like\, beyond the settler colonial\, mass incarceration\, national security state? \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nShady Hafez | Algonquin and Syrian Indigenous rights advocate\, and Yellowhead Institute fellow (https://yellowheadinstitute.org/research-fellows/) \n\n\n\nEl Jones | poet\, academic\, and prisoners’ justice advocate (https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/poets/el-jones….) \n\n\n\nDr Arun Kundnani | author and critical scholar of the “war on terror” (https://www.kundnani.org/about/) \n\n\n\nModerated by: Azeezah Kanji\, legal academic and journalist \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by: International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group; Muslim Societies\, Global Perspective program at Queen’s University; Noor Cultural Centre; UNIFOR Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University; United Jewish People’s Order; World Beyond War; Yellowhead Institute
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/connecting-abolitionist-struggles-settler-colonialism-mass-incarceration-and-the-war-on-terror/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Glace_Bay:20210206T173000
DTSTAMP:20260422T172923
CREATED:20210204T134604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210204T134605Z
UID:19139-1612627200-1612632600@nsadvocate.org
SUMMARY:From the Pacific to the Atlantic: A forum on defending Indigenous fishing rights
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/217015363451086 \n\n\n\nFrom the Pacific to the Atlantic: A forum on defending Indigenous fishing rightsJoin us for this livestream event with two guests\, from the West and East coasts.  \n\n\n\nWe welcome a native grassroots organizer and fisherman who would like to remain anonymous. He will use the name “Jim” for this event\, and will be discussing salmon fishery issues in British Columbia. We also welcome Nova Scotia’s Chris Frazer\, a settler professor of Latin American history at StFX University living and working in Mi’kma’ki\, the unceded land of the Mi’kmaq people. He is actively in solidarity with Mi’kmaq and other indigenous peoples. During the recent struggles to assert the right to moderate living by fishing lobster\, Frazer helped bring together solidarity activists to raise money and rallies to support Mi’kmaq fishers. Born in Vancouver and raised in Alberta\, Frazer has been a member of the Communist Party for more than 40 years\, and served as the central organizer and then leader of the Young Communist League from 1985-1990. Frazer is also a drag performer and queer activist in the east-coast LGBTQ2SIA community. \n\n\n\nSaturday\, Feb. 6 @ 12 noon Pacific Time (3 pm Eastern\, 4 pm Atlantic). \n\n\n\nA web link will be posted closer to the event.The Centre for Socialist Education is located on the traditional\, unceded\, occupied territories of the səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. This event is also in solidarity with the struggles of the peoples of the territory in which we occupy.Sponsored by the Centre for Socialist Education and Communist Party of BC. Phone 604-255-2041 for more information.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/from-the-pacific-to-the-atlantic-a-forum-on-defending-indigenous-fishing-rights/
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR