ANTI-CAPITALIST TEACH-IN
THEME: MAY DAY AND LABOUR
SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2013, 10am-5pm
At the Centre d’éducation populaire de la Petite-Bourgogne et de St-Henri (CEDA)
2515 rue Delisle (métro Lionel Groulx) - MONTREAL
Free. Welcome to all.
Whisper translation available for English and French.
The teach-in is accessible to wheelchairs.
Free childcare on site.
More details about workshops and presentations will be posted shortly.
The ANTI-CAPITALIST TEACH-IN is organized by the popular education committee of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal (CLAC).
INFO:
www.clac-montreal.net
banqueateliers@gmail.com
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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
(deadline extended to February 17, 2013)
As part of a mobilization towards the 2013 Anti-capitalist May Day march, we are calling for workshop proposals for a one-day anti-capitalist teach-in, which will take place on April 7, 2013. This call out is aimed at any individual or group who would like to submit a workshop proposal for this teach-in.
We are looking for workshops related to May Day and/or labour, from an anti-capitalist perspective. Workshops can be introductory or more in-depth and either participatory or more of a presentation. They should be two hours in length.
Here are some potential topics:
- May Day, international workers day;
- History of workers' struggles in Quebec;
- The abolition of work;
- Alternative work (coops, worker-run factories, etc.);
- Critical view of unions; supporting workers' struggles while being against work; general strike; solidarity among workers' struggles;
- Temporary foreign workers, undocumented/non-status workers, Live-in care-giver programme, international division of labour / global apartheid, free trade zones (maquiladoras);
- Patriarchy, racism and labour;
- Domestic work; affective and/or immaterial labour;
- Plan north and labour, environmental issues, indigenous sovereignty and resource sector workers;
- Precarity, austerity and labour; changes to unemployment insurance; new forms of struggle in a time of austerity and workers' struggles outside unions; unemployed and poor people's struggles; changing nature of labour and social class;
- Work in prison; unemployment and prison system;
- Schools as a factory for the workforce.
Only anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian, anti-colonial and anti-oppression workshops will be considered!
Groups are also invited to collaborate to put together a workshop.
Deadline for submitting a proposal: February 17, 2013.
Send your workshop proposal to banqueateliers@gmail.com with the following information:
- Title of workshop;
- Who will be presenting the workshop;
- Workshop description;
- Briefly explain the way in which your perspective is anti-capitalist.
- Will your workshop be participatory or more of a presentation? If it is participatory, explain how you will make it participatory.
- Will your workshop be an introduction to anti-capitalism or more in-depth?
- Would you like your workshop to be added to the Workshop Database*?
- Are you open to collaborating with others in the context of this workshop if we propose teaming you up with others?
- Your contacts (email or telephone)?
- Main language(s) to be used in the workshop?
For more info: banqueateliers@gmail.com
This teach-in is the second in what we hope will become a series. If you would like to get involved in organizing the teach-in, please contact us! You can also contact us if you would like to have an info-table during the teach-in: banqueateliers@gmail.com.
* Visit our database of anticapitalist workshops to see what is available or register your own workshop: this is a popular education tool aimed at making anti-capitalist workshops available from various activist groups more accessible to anyone interested in holding one of the workshops (eg student movement, neighbourhood assemblies, community centres, etc.).
For more information:
http://ateliersanticapitalistes.wordpress.com
banqueateliers@gmail.com
In solidarity,
The Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC) Popular Education Committee