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<\/a>No One Is Illegal\/Solidarity Across Borders Panel Presentation and Community Discussion\npart of the Month Against Prisons<\/span> <\/span>
\nSunday, January 11, 2015, 5-7pm <\/span>
\n1500 de Maisonneuve West, #204 <\/span>
\n(m\u00e9tro Guy-Concordia)<\/span> <\/p>\n
As part of the Month Against Prisons, members of No One Is Illegal-Montreal and Solidarity Across Borders will present on issues linked to criminalization, detention, incarceration and prisons.<\/i><\/b> <\/p>\n
Presentations include: About the presentations and presenters: <\/p>\n Robyn Maynard will be presenting on Carceral Feminism: The Failure of Sex Work Prohibition.\u00a0Robyn is a writer, activist, outreach worker, and musician based in Montreal. She has previously worked at youth organization Head & Hands helping run a needle-exchange program, working with group home youth, and doing harm-reduction education surrounding safe(r) sex and substance use for youth and drug users. She is currently employed at Stella, a sex workers\u2019 rights organization in Montreal, doing street-based outreach, and coordinating Stella Deboutte, a research project on the effects of criminalization on sex workers lives. She co-hosts CKUT\u2019s No One Is Illegal Radio and plays a supportive role in anti-police brutality organizing and migrant justice movements.<\/b> <\/p>\n Arash Aslani will be presenting on his experiences as a refugee and a detainee. Arash, a political refugee to Canada from Iran, spent 10 months as a detainee inside the Laval Immigration Detention Center, just north of Montreal. He will share his first-hand experiences as a detainee, as well as expose the reality of immigrant detainees in Montreal. At any one time, there can be upwards of 100 detainees at the Laval Immigration Detention Center. Arash is a member of Solidarity Across Borders.<\/b> <\/p>\n free – welcome to all <\/i> Info:<\/b> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No One Is Illegal\/Solidarity Across Borders Panel Presentation and Community Discussion part of the Month Against Prisons Sunday, January 11, 2015, 5-7pm 1500 de Maisonneuve West, #204 (m\u00e9tro Guy-Concordia) As part of the Month Against Prisons, members of No One…<\/p>\n
\n– Carceral Feminism: The Failure of Sex Work Prohibition <\/span>
\n– Ten Months In An Immigration Jail<\/span> <\/p>\n
\nchildcare on-site <\/i>
\naccessible to wheelchairs <\/i>
\npresentations in English (with whisper translation to French) <\/i>
\nsnacks and drinks <\/i>
\nplease get in touch about any accessibility needs<\/i> <\/p>\n
\n nooneisillegal@gmail.com <\/b>
\nwww.solidarityacrossborders.org<\/b>
\n<\/p>\n