Community voices against Bill 31 and for housing justice
Le lundi 17 juillet 2023, à 18h00.
Lien vers l'événement Permalien sur Résistance Montréal
Casa del Popolo, 4873 St-Laurent (métro Laurier)
Community voices against Bill 31 and for housing justice.
Monday, July 17, 2023
6 à 8
Casa del Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent
Montreal
Donations encouraged
(All funds collected will go toward a street poster art series called Artists United Against Bill 31.)
6 à 8
Casa del Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent
Montreal
Donations encouraged
(All funds collected will go toward a street poster art series called Artists United Against Bill 31.)
A conversation moderated by Stefan Christoff featuring
Bengi Akbulut, an associate professor at Concordia University and co-directs the Social Justice Centre.
Sandra Wesley, Stella
Moh Abdalreza Zadeh, a community activist focused on poverty and precarious communities in both Montreal and Iran.
Pierre Parent., Indigenous street outreach worker
Hubert Gendron-Blais, convenor of Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal
A community gathering and panel discussion to bring different voices together to hear different perspectives on taking action against Bill 31. This proposed legislation aims to seriously attack the capacity of tenants in Quebec to express solidarity through the practice of lease transfers. Community groups and networks in the city have been vigorously opposed to this proposed violent neoliberal legislation that aims to benefit the corporate real estate sector and landlords. This panel is hosted by a network of activists and artists that I am coordinating called Artists United Against Bill 31. Look forward to seeing you on Monday, take care. -- Stefan.
Speaker bios
Bengi Akbulut is an associate professor at Concordia University and co-directs the Social Justice Centre. Her academic work is at the intersection of political economy, ecological and feminist economics. She has written extensively on the political economy of development and critiques of developmentalism, with particular reference to the contemporary development regime in Turkey. Her more recent work focuses on economic alternatives, including economic democracy, commons and degrowth. Before moving to Tiohtià:ke/ Montréal in 2017, she was closely involved in urban and ecological movements in Istanbul, as well as numerous non-capitalist economic initiatives, both in Turkey and Kurdistan.
Sandra Wesley is the executive director of Stella, l’amie de Maimie, an organization by and for sex workers based in Montreal since 1995. Stella aims to improve living and working conditions of sex workers through direct services, education, advocacy and mobilization. Stella is involved in many ways in the fight against gentrification, for the right to occupy public space and, of course, for the full decriminalization of sex work.
Moh Abdalreza Zadeh is a passionate researcher and activist designer imagining a world where everyone feels at home in their cities regardless of their gender, race, worldview, and social status. He is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Individualized Program at Concordia University. His research is about the role of art in empowering unhoused people. He has diverse experience in design, Art Hive facilitation, and community outreach.
Hubert Gendron-Blais is a sound artist, musician and community activist based in Montreal. Hubert convened the Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal project that explores the ways that the housing crisis in Montreal is expressed in sound and the ways that housing rights activists can articulate demands in sound and music. https://www.reverberationscriselogement.org
Pierre Parent is an Anishinaabe street outreach worker working with frontline Indigenous peoples struggling with housing precarity and addiction.
Moderator
Stefan Christoff is a Montreal based musician, community activist and media maiker.
Événements
dim.
8
sep.
8
sep.
Toute la journée
Bâtiment 7
Bâtiment 7
mar.
10
sep.
10
sep.
mar.
10
sep.
10
sep.
mer.
11
sep.
11
sep.
mer.
11
sep.
11
sep.
mer.
11
sep.
11
sep.
19h00
Online
Online
jeu.
12
sep.
12
sep.
jeu.
12
sep.
12
sep.
jeu.
12
sep.
12
sep.
19h00
Parc Lafontaine
Parc Lafontaine