Relevant upcoming events: National Campus-Community Radio Conference www.ckut.ca/ncrc The NCRC is an opportunity for a diverse and representative range of community broadcasters from all parts of Canada to converge, talk all things radio, get hands-on training, confront our challenges, celebrate our victories, and develop momentum to bring back to each station, strengthening Canada's campus and community broadcasting sector. We strongly encourage participation from people marginalized by race, ethnicity, Aboriginal heritage, gender, age, ability, class, or sexual orientation! The conference will also be a unique opportunity for anglophone and francophone community broadcasters to come together. Tadamon! Artists Against Apartheid VIII http://www.tadamon.ca/post/3558 SUNDAY JUNE 7 20h00 $8 in advance | $10 at door La Sala Rossa 4848 St. Laurent Montreal, Quebec This is the eighth Artists Against Apartheid concert occurring within the international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid. Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work event info Director: Cheikh Djemai From: Martinique/France/Algeria/Tunisia Year: 2001 Language: French with English Subtitles Genre: Documentary Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, originally from Martinique, a spokesman for the Algerian Revolution against French colonialism, and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. Embittered by his experience with racism in the French Army, he gravitated to radical politics, Sartrean existentialism and the philosophy of black consciousness known as Negritude. His 1952 book, Black Skin, White Masks, offers a penetrating analysis of racism and of the ways in which it is internalized by its victims. While secretly aiding the rebels of the Algerian anti-colonial war as a doctor in Algeria, Fanon cared for victims and perpetrators alike, producing case notes that shed invaluable light on the psychic traumas of colonial war. Expelled from Algeria in 1956, Fanon moved to Tunis where he wrote for El Moudjahid, the rebel newspaper, founded Africa's first psychiatric clinic, and wrote several influential books on decolonization including The Wretched of the Earth. This classic book examines the social, political, and psychological challenges of decolonization while calling upon the Third World to liberate itself, and the world, from the legacy of Euro-Western domination. Frantz Fanon, His Life, His Struggle, His Work traces the short and intense life of Fanon, one of the great thinkers of the 20th century. |