Political Policing of Social Movements: Celebrating UTA #20
7:00 PM on Thursday Feb. 7th, 2019
Jack Purcell Community Centre - Rm 101, 320 Jack Purcell Ln.
7:00 PM on Thursday Feb. 7th, 2019
Jack Purcell Community Centre - Rm 101, 320 Jack Purcell Ln.
In celebration of Upping the Anti issue #20, join us for a panel discussion in Ottawa on political policing and the suppression of social movements.
Wheelchair Accessible
Snacks will be provided
=========================
The panel discussion will feature Professor Christabelle Sethna, Mariful Alam and Matt Cicero. Professor Sethna will be speaking about the history of RCMP infiltration of the Women's Liberation Movement. Alam and Cicero will be focus on the infiltration of activist communities in Ottawa and Southern Ontario that were engaged in opposing the 2010 Olympics and the G8/G20 Toronto.
This event is being organized in collaboration with the Ontario Public Interest Research Group - OPIRG Carleton and the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group - CSILC
Copies of Upping the Anti issue #20 will be available at a discounted rate of $10.
-----------------------------------------
Dr. Christabelle Sethna is a historian and professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa. She researches and publishes in the areas of sex education, contraception, and abortion. As principal investigator, she has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her research includes a first-time study on the domestic travel of Canadian women to abortion clinics and a current study on the international travel of women for abortion services. Her most recent book, coauthored with Dr. Steve Hewitt, is Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada (McGill-Queens 2018). Forthcoming with Dr. Gayle Davis is Abortion Across Borders: Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services (Johns Hopkins 2019).
Mariful Alam is a labour organizer, editorial board member with Upping the Anti, and a PhD candidate in the Socio-Legal Studies program at York University.
Matt Cicero is a ritual abuse survivor, activist, artist and journalist. He wrote an article about police infiltration for the magazine Briarpatch, and co-authored an essay about political policing with Mariful Alam for Upping The Anti. He is currently working on an essay about the two months he was imprisoned in the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre for Kersplebedeb publishing.
Upping the Anti (UTA) publishes theoretical and critical articles, interviews, and roundtables. UTA also includes a book review section where activists assess new writing on the Left. “Upping the Anti” refers to the interest in assessing the interwoven tendencies that define the politics of today’s radical left: anti-capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism. Although inexact in their proclamations, these positions point toward a radical politics outside of the “party building” exercises of the sectarian left and the dead-end of social democracy. UTA is interested in stories that reflect these concerns. UTA publishes pieces that actively engage with and intervene in contemporary movement debates.
Wheelchair Accessible
Snacks will be provided
=========================
The panel discussion will feature Professor Christabelle Sethna, Mariful Alam and Matt Cicero. Professor Sethna will be speaking about the history of RCMP infiltration of the Women's Liberation Movement. Alam and Cicero will be focus on the infiltration of activist communities in Ottawa and Southern Ontario that were engaged in opposing the 2010 Olympics and the G8/G20 Toronto.
This event is being organized in collaboration with the Ontario Public Interest Research Group - OPIRG Carleton and the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group - CSILC
Copies of Upping the Anti issue #20 will be available at a discounted rate of $10.
-----------------------------------------
Dr. Christabelle Sethna is a historian and professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa. She researches and publishes in the areas of sex education, contraception, and abortion. As principal investigator, she has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her research includes a first-time study on the domestic travel of Canadian women to abortion clinics and a current study on the international travel of women for abortion services. Her most recent book, coauthored with Dr. Steve Hewitt, is Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada (McGill-Queens 2018). Forthcoming with Dr. Gayle Davis is Abortion Across Borders: Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services (Johns Hopkins 2019).
Mariful Alam is a labour organizer, editorial board member with Upping the Anti, and a PhD candidate in the Socio-Legal Studies program at York University.
Matt Cicero is a ritual abuse survivor, activist, artist and journalist. He wrote an article about police infiltration for the magazine Briarpatch, and co-authored an essay about political policing with Mariful Alam for Upping The Anti. He is currently working on an essay about the two months he was imprisoned in the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre for Kersplebedeb publishing.
Upping the Anti (UTA) publishes theoretical and critical articles, interviews, and roundtables. UTA also includes a book review section where activists assess new writing on the Left. “Upping the Anti” refers to the interest in assessing the interwoven tendencies that define the politics of today’s radical left: anti-capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism. Although inexact in their proclamations, these positions point toward a radical politics outside of the “party building” exercises of the sectarian left and the dead-end of social democracy. UTA is interested in stories that reflect these concerns. UTA publishes pieces that actively engage with and intervene in contemporary movement debates.