Vigil and distribution PAJU Palestine:   THURSDAY MARCH 12 at  METRO SHERBROOKE

RadMedics is an activist medic group that hosts workshops on how to provide first aid in protest and street settings. The group is organizing a hands on experience for protest first aid, specifically focusing on moving people and dealing with chemical contaminants in the eyes. Bring a buddy, your first aid kits, and some clothing to be dragged around in! We'll have light snacks to have at the break et la traduction envers le français est possible, si nécessaire. 

Heure à déterminer!

Les édition Mémoire d’encrier et la Livrerie vous invitent au lancement d’Aussi étrange que toi, Frida de Christine Gosselin. Le livre sera présenté par l'éditrice, Mélikah Abdelmoumen, suivi d'une lecture par l'autrice elle-même.

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Contemplant les oeuvres de Frida Kahlo, la narratrice se confie à l'artiste. Non-maternité, révolte, fragilité du corps. Dans cette conversation imaginaire, deux femmes se rejoignent à travers le temps et les blessures. Une constellation de voix se tissent et se répondent. Toutes, elle résistent et se réinventent d'autres manières d'aimer, de désirer, d'exister.

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Christine Gosselin est une autrice et rédactrice sportive vivant à Montréal. Ses écrits explorent les rapports entre le corps et la vulnérabilité comme force littéraire. Elle aborde les expériences invisibles ou marginalisées, notamment la maladie chronique et les injonctions faites au corps féminins. Elle a publié Larves de vie (Hamac, 2021), Regarder les coulisses se répandre (Hamac, 2023) et a co-dirigé 11 brefs essais sur le sport : allez au batte avec nos idées (Somme Toute, 2025).

***This event is FREE*** Register so we can guestimate food. Link in bio

Co-Organized with @sustainable_concordia , QPIRG McGill @qpirgmcgill , QPIRG Concordia, Le Frigo Vert @lefrigovert , and @curemontreal

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In 1996, the Aboriginal Rights Coalition worked with Indigenous elders, Knowledge Keepers, and educators to develop an interactive way of learning the history most Canadians are never taught. The KAIROS Blanket Exercise was the result; an interactive and experiential teaching tool that explores the historic and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in so called Canada. It has since been offered thousands of times and the fourth edition was released in 2016.

During this 2 to 3-hour workshop, participants step on blankets representing the land and into the role of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. They are guided by trained facilitators, including Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers, who work from a script that covers pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization, resistance and much more. Participants read scrolls and respond to cues in the script. The KBE concludes with a debriefing, conducted as a talking circle, during which participants discuss the learning experience, process their feelings, ask questions, share insights, and deepen their understanding.

Facilitators:

Tealey Ka'senni:saks and Dominick Mikkelson

ACCESSIBILITY

March 12, 6pm @shiftconcordia

If you have any other questions or requests to make this workshop more accessible to you, please reach out to info@qpirgconcordia.org

Les soirées tricots et crochets militantes continuent sur leur lancée! 🖤

Rejoignez-nous un jeudi sur deux à l'Achoppe à partir de ce jeudi 12 février. On décidera ensemble quel podcast écouter ou quelle jase avoir.

Tous les niveaux sont bienvenus. C'est un espace pour apprendre et partager nos skills! On a de la laine, des aiguilles et des crochets à donner sur place.

On vous offre du thé et des petites collations aussi! 🍪🍵

THE RIGHT TO HUG / Constitutionnaliser le droit aux câlins

Date: March 13, 2025

Time: 13:05 PM – 2:25 PM

Location: Maxwell Cohen Moot Court, Faculty of Law, McGill University

Format: Public conversation

Co-sponsored by: Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill Faculty of Law

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This event explores how carceral bureaucracies and corporate telecommunications interests have transformed family contact into a profit-driven system. Drawing on Michigan’s groundbreaking “Right to Hug” litigation, it challenges the erosion of in-person visits amid mounting pressures on due process. 

Grounded in recent litigation by Civil Rights Corps, investigative reporting from NBC News, and critical scholarship on punishment bureaucracy, the conversation asks: Is there—and should there be—a constitutional right to hug one’s child or parent while incarcerated? What does this litigation signal about the protection of fundamental rights in an era of expanding carceral governance and corporate profiteering?

• How bans on in-person visitation generate millions in “kickbacks” for sheriffs and counties while extracting wealth from low-income families


• The documented psychological harms of severing physical contact between children and incarcerated parents


• How corporate surveillance systems—including voice biometrics and AI-based monitoring—transform family communication into data extraction


• Comparative implications for Canadian constitutional and human rights law: what would a “right to hug” look like within Canada’s legal framework?


• The role of media narratives in normalizing or challenging these practices

Register for the event here: https://bit.ly/righttohug

Room 100, New Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, Montreal, QC, Canada

Alec Karakatsanis is the Founder and Executive Director of Civil Rights Corps. A leading civil rights attorney, he has pioneered constitutional litigation challenging the scale, power, profit incentives, and everyday practices of the U.S. punishment bureaucracy.

His cases have secured substantial relief, contributing to the release of hundreds of thousands of people from jail, returning tens of millions of dollars to low-income individuals and families, and preventing the separation of thousands of families. His litigation includes the “Right to Hug” cases challenging video-only jail visitation policies that separate children from incarcerated parents while generating significant corporate profits.

Alec graduated from Yale College and Harvard Law School (2008), where he served as a Supreme Court Chair of the Harvard Law Review. Prior to founding Civil Rights Corps, he was a federal public defender in Alabama and co-founded Equal Justice Under Law. He is the author of Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System (2019) and Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (2025). He has received numerous recognitions, including the 2016 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award and the 2023 New Frontier Award.

Learn more: https://civilrightscorps.org/team/alec-karakatsanis/

Cet événement examine comment les bureaucraties carcérales et les entreprises de télécommunications ont transformé les contacts familiaux en un système axé sur le profit. S’appuyant sur le litige novateur « Right to Hug » au Michigan, il interroge l’érosion des visites en personne dans un contexte de pressions croissantes sur les garanties procédurales.