Upcoming SJS Events

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Published on Wednesday, 19 February 2014 10:00
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Dear Friends of SJS,
SJS is sponsoring or co-sponsoring a couple of exciting events:
Please join us next Tuesday evening, Feb. 25th, for our Conversations with Activists. at 7-8:15 pm in Cornett A120:
You don't just get to choose to be an ally: Complexities of Intersectionality, Social Justice, and Solidarity
a conversation with Sabina Chatterjee.
Sabina is a racialized settler who is an activist, artist, and academic currently completing a graduate degree in Dispute Resolution at the University of Victoria. She has held leadership positions in service provision agencies focused on providing support for street-involved youth for 17 years and is the Director of *antidote: Multiracial and Indigenous Girls and Women's Network*. Social cohesion, intersectionality, social justice, and decolonization are themes that are deeply woven within Sabina's support provision, activist work and research.

Next Thursday, Feb. 27th, please join us for:

SILENCE IS GOLD (77 minutes)
French (subtitles) & English
7:00 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27
UVIC BOB... WRIGHT CENTRE A104
Free admission + Door prize

What are the limits to freedom of speech? Can we put a price on our spoken and written words? Following the release of the book “Noir Canada,” author Alain Deneault, his co-writers and his publisher grappled with these questions at great personal expense after being sued for defamation in Quebec and Ontario courts by two large Canadian mining companies. Deneault and his publisher fought back. "Silence Is Gold" is a thriller of a documentary that tells their story, set against the backdrop of the Canadian justice system.
Filmmaker Julien Frechette's camera and his questions lead us through this little-understood legal territory without judging or wading into the merits of the cases. “Silence Is Gold” raises crucial questions about Canada’s role and responsibilities in the global mining sector, the limits of free speech and equitable access to the Canadian justice system. Watch the trailer: www.nfb.ca/film/silence_is_gold
Copies of Deneault’s recent English-language book, “Imperial Canada, Inc.” will be available for purchase. In his article in the February 2013 Focus Magazine, Rob Wipond called this book a "shocking analysis". The court case which ordered the removal of “Noir Canada” is referenced on the Freedom to Read website, under “Challenged Books.”

This event is taking place during FREEDOM TO READ WEEK and is sponsored by
· Mining Justice Action Committee (see our web and/or Facebook page)
· CUPE 410 (Library Workers)
· Vancouver Island District Councils International Solidarity Committee
· UVic Social Justice Studies
· Victoria Development and Peace

info: Jane Brett <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>



and on Tuesday, March 4th, Social Justice Studies and Sociology are co-sponsoring:


Four Good Reasons to Commit Sociology

7 p.m. Hickman 105


This event responds to Stephen Harper’s statement last spring that, ‘This is not the time to commit sociology’ – implying that exercising one’s sociological imagination may have criminal undertones. Our panel will include two UVic Sociology faculty members (Helga Hallgrimsdottir and William Carroll), a recently-graduated Sociology PhD (Connie Carter) and Sociology doctoral student and VIPIRG research coordinator Seb Bonet. The event will be chaired by Dr. Margo Matwychuk, Director of Social Justice Studies, and refreshments will be served beforehand.


I'll send the posters for these three events in a separate email. Hope to see you there.


regards, Margo


Margo MatwychukDirector
Social Justice Studies ProgramUniversity of Victoriaweb.uvic.ca/socialjustice/ @UVicSJS on TwitterUVicSJS on FacebookUVicSJS on YouTube
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