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ROM Exhibiting Stolen Artifacts – Picket this Friday (July 10)

Dead Sea Scrolls Illegally Removed from Occupied Palestinian Territories


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Date: Friday July 10
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park
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Join the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) and Women in Solidarity
with Palestine for a picket of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) this coming
Friday July 10. Help us protest the ROM’s failure to comply with
international law and its ethical obligations by:

- Demanding the ROM recognize the Scrolls are looted Palestinian artifacts.
- Demanding the ROM dissociate itself from the Israeli Antiquities Authority
which has systematically looted millions of Palestinian artifacts.

We have tried every avenue to avoid a picket – representatives from the
Palestinian community and other organizations have attempted dialogue with the
ROM – but none of the concerns have been addressed. We are left no choice but
to publicly protest, as the ROM has refused to make public the documents it
claims prove the legality of the exhibit. It has also refused to seek a UNESCO
opinion on the matter.

Please join us for this important picket! Bring noise makers!

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Ode'min Giizis

Strawberry Moon Festival

June 17-24 2009

The Ode'min Giizis Festival will celebrate this auspicious time of year and traditional Anishnaabe territory with a seven day multi-disciplinary arts festival in Peterborough, Ontario featuring local and visiting artists from the four directions. The O'Kaadenigan Wiingashk Collective and Public Energy invite you to come out to experience a diversity of Indigenous artistic expression and events from an Aboriginal perspective - including gallery exhibitions, talks, dance, film presentations, musical cabaret and concert.

Check out the events schedule here

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CRRC proudly presents . . .

THE TAXI PROJECT

a play about exile

Saturday May 9th @ 7 pm

Prince of Qales Public School

by four members of PEN Canada's writers in exile program:
emma beltran, martha kuwee kumsa, sheng xue and goran simic

directed by weyni mengesha

An original play exploring issues of freedom of expression and the complex realities of living in exile, the play follows four characters forced to leave their home countries and the struggle to create a new life in Canada.

When: Saturday May 9th at 7 pm
Where: Prince of Wales Public School Auditorium, 1211 Monaghan Rd (at Sherbrooke)
FREE + all-ages

for more information, please contact
racerelation@gmail.com / 742-9658

part of peterborough's first annual asian heritage month

For more information, please click here

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International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21

Clip from CRRC press conference, March 18, 2009

 

Clip from Talk by Sharry Aiken, "From Slavery to Expulsion: Racism and Canadian Immigration Law", March 20, 2008

 

 

Black History Month

Peterborough Events for 2009: Calendar

Why a Black History Month? by Rosemary Sadlier

"In the 1950's the Canadian Negro Women's Association brought  the celebration to Toronto, Ontario. By 1978, Ontario Black History Society successfully petitioned the City of Toronto to have the monthly celebration formally recognized. This celebration is currently proclaimed across Canada." Read more

 
Black History Month 2009 Events in the City of Peterborough

Thursday Feb 5th
"The Great Divide"

A discussion on issues that affect African, Caribbean, Canadian and international students at Trent in light of Black History Month
When: 7 pm - 9 pm
Where: Trent University, Gzowski College rm 345
FREE
Presented by the Trent African and Caribbean Students' Union

Friday Feb 6th
Black History Month Celebration

Featuring Zaki Ibrahim, DL Incognito, Motion Live, Klyde Broox, Chet Singh, Ziy, Soul Natural and special guests DJ WHO, DJ talk is cheap,and DJ Techtwelve
When: 7 pm - 1 am
Where: Market Hall, 336 George St
Cost: $10, all-ages
Sponsored by Jamaican Self-Help, Community and Race Relations Committee, Happy Days, Trent Central Student Association, Trent African and Caribbean Students' Union

Saturday Feb 7th
Live broadcast of "Roots to Resistance: Diasporic Experiences of Black History Month"

Featuring interviews with special guests from the Peterborough community
When: 2 pm - 3 pm
Where: 92.7 CFFF FM, live streaming at www.trentradio.ca
Presented by the Women's Centre Weekly Broadcast

Wednesday Feb 11th
Documentary screening of AfroPunk
Explores race and identity within the punk scene across America and abroad
When: 7 pm - 9 pm
Where: Sadleir House Lecture Hall, 751 George St N
FREE
Sponsored by OPIRG and Decolonization and Anti-Racism Coalition

Thursday Feb 12th
"Honouring Canadian Black Histories: Beyond the Underground Railroad"

Conversations with David Austin, Saron Ghebressellassie, and Paula Madden on Blackness in Canada
When: 7 pm - 9 pm
Where: Showplace lounge, 290 George St N
FREE
Sponsored by the City of Peterborough, the Community and Race Relations Committee, Showplace, and the New Canadians Centre

Wednesday Feb 25th
Documentary screening of Stolen from Africville

Focusing on the Nova Scotian Black community, a story of community, identity, culture, displacement and human rights violations
Featuring Q & A with Stolen from Africa
When: 7 pm - 9 pm
Where: Sadleir House Lecture Hall, 751 George St N
FREE
Sponsored by OPIRG and the Community and Race Relations Committee

Friday Feb 27th
Live performance of "Freedom Belles"

Written and directed by Phil Oakley and Beau Dixon
When: 7 pm, doors at 6:30 pm
Where: Prince of Wales Elementary School Auditorium, 1211 Monaghan
Cost: $5/person, $10/family, or pay-what-you-can
Sponsored by the Kawartha World Issues Centre, Heritage Pavilion Stage, OPSEU Local 352, Kawartha Pine Ridge Elementary Teacher's Federation of Ontario, Prince of Wales Elementary School, Trent Canadian Studies Department, and the Community and Race Relations Committee

The Community and Race Relations Committee is also screening the documentary Speakers for the Dead to various elementary and high schools in Peterborough.  Contact CRRC at racerelation@gmail.com or 742-9658 for info.  And watch for more events on the community calendar athttp://kwic.info!

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Frederick Douglass, 1857


Spaces of Racism II - May 16th, 2008 - News Conference and release of study

Ontario Human Rights Commission - News Conference and release of study: Fishing Without Fear, May 13th, 2008

Partnership Council on Immigrant Integration - Meeting April 3rd, 2008 - New Canadians Centre


Partnership Council on Immigrant Integration - Meeting April 30th, 2008 - Peterborough Public Library 


 
Black History Month Activities - February 2008:

� Feb 14th, 5:30pm, St. John's Anglican Church - Potluck dinner with a BHM focus,. Hosted by New Canadian Centre. Afrocentric HoHhhsdfAwareness Network of the Kawarthas (AANK) will present a participatory fun activity. FREE.

� Feb 23rd, 11am � 3pm, Market Hall - Blues Festival Family day with music, art, and face painting. AANK will participate. FREE.

� Feb 23rd, 7pm, Market Hall � Fundraiser for Zimbabwian school � Hosted by Africville and DJ. Featuring Adam Solomon and his full-force band, MC Eternia, Chet Singh, Klyde Broox, and others. Admission: $20.

� Feb 28th, 7pm, Prince of Wales Elementary School - Live Performance: �And Freedom For All. (Featuring Beau Dixon and others). PWES, 1211 Monaghan Road (corner of Sherbrooke). Presented by Kawartha World Issues Centre and Heritage Pavillon Stage. $5/person, $10/family, or pay what you can.

� Feb 27th, 7pm, Sadlier House - OPIRG is screening two movies: Journey to Justice & Black Mother, Black Daughter. FREE.

� Community and Race Relations Committee are showing Speakers for the Dead to various elementary and high schools in Peterborough. If you or your school are interested, please contact Mike at racerelation@gmail.com

Watch for Black History Month displays at the Peterborough Public Library � Downtown Branch (Afrocentric Awareness Network of the Kawarthas), Fleming College - Brealey Campus (Fleming College Diversity Office), and Trent University Bata Library (Trent African and Caribbean Students' Union.

For more information, , http://racerelationspeterborough.org/, http://www.kwic.info/, http://aank.org/ or please contact the Community and Race Relations Committee at 742-9658 or racerelation@gmail.com
 


November 30th and December 1st, 2007 � Roots of Freedom

Black History Month Activities

November 30th and December 1st, 2007 � Roots of Freedom

Roots of Freedom: Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire


1) Public Talk: "Blacks and the Law in Slavery and Freedom"

Who: Barrington Walker, Department of History, Queen's University

Where: Gzowski lecture hall 114, Trent University

When: Friday, 30 November, 2:00 pm.

2) Panel talk: "Slavery in Canada and the British Empire"

Who: A) Barrington Walker, Department of History, Queen's University

B) Rosemary Sadlier, President, Ontario Black History Society

C) Afua Cooper, Author, Poet, and Historian

Where: Peterborough Public Library Auditorium, 345 Aylmer Street North

When: Friday, 30 November, 7pm

3) Roots of Freedom: Videos and musical performance

What: Video Screenings and Musical Performance by Chet Singh from the Dub Trinity Project and Jarred Prescott of the Fireflower Review

Where: Sadlier House, 751 George street North

When: Saturday, December 1st, 7pm


Sponsors: CRRC, TrentU Canadian Studies Program, Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies, PRCSA, and the Government of Ontario



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