WORKSHOP: Resisting Canada’s National ‘Security’ Agenda

Learn about Dr. Diab's case at the Workshop:

"Resisting Canada’s National ‘Security’ Agenda"

• Date: Saturday January 23, 2010
• Time: 3:30 pm – 4:50 pm
• Place: University of Ottawa, Morisset Hall, Room 219, 65 Universite Pvt, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Presenters:

• Mary Foster (People’s Commission on Immigration ‘Security’ Measures)
• Sophie Harkat (Justice for Mohamed Harkat Campaign)
• Rania Tfaily (Hassan Diab Support Committee)

The terms “national security” and “terrorism” are consistently used by the Canadian government to justify invasive surveillance, arbitrary detention, deportations, exile, the withholding of entry visas, funding cuts, torture, the criminalization of dissent, and occupation. This discussion will focus on how these terms have served to attack social movements and stifle international solidarity in Canada, and the ways that groups and individuals have found to resist.

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