Right to Exist: Right to Resist

In honour of the International Human Rights Day and International Migrant Day, join us in conversation about critical human rights challenges we face as a global community while working to mobilize and organize across our communities.

Migration, poverty, exclusion, racism, climate, justice.

Together we can strengthen the narrative and call for human rights. We are stronger when we confront the issues together.

All abilities, ages and backgrounds welcome!

This event has been brought to you by Migrante Alberta, the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights, and Roots4Change Youth Network, with the support of the Moffatt Family Fund, Catherine Donnelly Foundation, and Government of Canada (Anti-Racism).

Saturday, December 7 2019

Doors at 9 am

Program from 9:30 am - 4:30 pm

Lunch Provided.

PROGRAM PLAN

9 am Doors Open

9:30 am Opening and Welcome 

10:00 am Timeline Exercise

10:30 am Roots 4 Change Calls to Action

11 am Racism and Poverty Panel

The intention of this panel is to highlight the complexities of racism locally. The present days’ realities. Look at the criminalization of racialized/marginalized identities.

Noon Lunch

1 pm Refugees and Migration Panel

The intention of this panel will also connect us to the locals about the conditions and how profiling happens, as well as exclusion. But brings a global context and around the roots of migration and refugees (economic, war and displacement, climate).  What the realities are for these communities in Edmonton. Shifting the discourse - is it opening the borders, stopping refugees, or stopping a war?

2 pm Solidarity Workshops: Shift 2019

The intention of the workshops is to give space for exploring solidarity and allyship and focus on building unity across difference.

3 pm Fight Back Panel

The intention of this panel is to highlight current movements for human rights and to build on them. Our objective is to unite the many regardless of their political shades.

4:15 pm End with Indigenous Dance