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Une lettre ouverte du Conseil d'administration du GRIP-Concordia en appui à notre employé et ami Jaggi Singh
Le lundi 5 juillet dernier, le Groupe de recherche en intérêt public (GRIP) de l'Université Concordia a reçu un courriel de la part de notre Coordonnateur des groupes de travail et de la programmation Jaggi Singh nous informant de son intention de se rendre à la police tôt mardi matin, conformément à un mandat d'arrêt émis contre lui en lien avec la résistance contre le sommet du G20 à Toronto.
Plusieurs d'entre nous avaient les larmes aux yeux en recevant ce courriel, qui nous apprenait que notre bien-aimé employé, ami et membre infatigable de notre communauté nous serait enlevé pour une période de temps indéterminée.
Le GRIP-Concordia travaille à tisser des liens entre la population étudiante et la communauté montréalaise plus large, tout en faisant la promotion de la justice sociale et environnementale. Jaggi occupe officiellement le poste de Coordonnateur des groupes de travail et de la programmation au GRIP-Concordia depuis août 2008. Officieusement, on pourrait dire qu'il travaille au GRIP depuis beaucoup plus longtemps. En effet, cela fait plusieurs années que Jaggi utilise régulièrement notre espace, y fait du bénévolat et s'implique dans nos groupes de travail. Dès qu'il a commencé en tant que coordonnateur, il s'est lancé avec enthousiasme dans ses tâches. Il a organisé d'innombrables événements très réussis pour le compte du GRIP et a oeuvré sans relâche pour rendre plus accessible le militantisme pour la justice sociale et environnementale. Avec ses collègues Tasha et Ashley, Jaggi a grandement contribué au rayonnement du GRIP-Concordia, à sa visibilité et à son accessibilité, tant à Concordia qu'à l'extérieur des murs de l'université.
An open letter from the QPIRG Concordia Board in support of our employee and friend Jaggi Singh
On Monday, July 5th, the QPIRG Concordia Board of Directors received an email from our Working Groups and Programming Coordinator Jaggi Singh informing us that he was planning to turn himself in early Tuesday morning in compliance with a warrant that had been put out for him in relation to the resistance to the G20 summit in Toronto. The shock of receiving this email brought many of us to tears, learning that one of our valued employees, our close friend, and a tirelessly hard-working member of our community would be taken from us for an undetermined amount of time.
The Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG) at Concordia University works to create links between students and the broader Montreal communities, encouraging social and environmental justice on and off campus. Jaggi has been working as the Working Groups and Programming Coordinator of QPIRG Concordia since August 2008, though one could easily assume it has been much longer than that, as he has been a regular space-user, volunteer, and eager working group member for many years prior. As soon as he started the job, Jaggi threw himself into the position, coordinating innumerable highly successful events for QPIRG and striving to make social and environmental justice organizing more welcoming for people of all backgrounds. He has, along with his co-workers Tasha and Ashley, pushed QPIRG Concordia into a position of greater prominence, visibility, and accessibility within Concordia University and beyond.
This Weekend: Anti-Capitalist Teach-in Against the G8/G20
Teach-in anticapitaliste contre le G8/G20
Anti-capitalist Teach-in against the G8/20
Día de enseñanza Anticapitalista contra del G8/G20
SATURDAY, June 5, 2010, 12:30pm-5:30pm:
Workshops and panels
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SUNDAY, June 6, 2010, 12:30pm-5pm:
trainings (legal, medical, direct action, civil disobedience)
UQÀM, Pavillon Hubert-Aquin (A), A-2885
400 rue Ste-Catherine est (coin St-Denis)
métro Berri-UQÀM - MONTRÉAL
INFO: www.clac2010.net/teach-in
Montreal Anarchist Bookfair: May 29-30!
QPIRG Concordia will be tabling at the upcoming Montreal Anarchist Bookfair this weekend. Several of our working groups and solidarity groups will also be tabling, as well as presenting workshops. Booksellers, films, presentations, workshops, art and more. Curious about anarchism? Check out the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair! INFO: www.anarchistbookfair.ca
The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair collective is a working group of QPIRG Concordia.
If CSIS comes knocking ...
A community advisory by the People's Commission Network
[The community advisory below is endorsed by QPIRG Concordia. The People's Commission Network is a working group of QPIRG Concordia.]
Updated May 2010, MONTREAL
Since the fall of 2009 there have been ongoing visits by members of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) to various local social justice organizers and activists. These visits are in addition to CSIS’ ongoing harassment of targeted communities. This community advisory is in response to those visits.
Visits by CSIS and the RCMP to activists are nothing new; they have taken place before around specific events or projects. In general, these visits can have different purposes: they are not only about information-gathering but can also be attempts to create or exploit divisions between activists, plant misinformation, intimidate, develop psychological profiles, and recruit informers.
If CSIS comes knocking, we strongly encourage total and complete non-cooperation. A CSIS visit to your home or workplace will be a surprise, but we encourage you to be ready to not cooperate with them in any way, which means not speaking with them or listening to them.
Continue reading the advisory HERE.
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