mercredi 19 septembre 2012
mardi 18 septembre 2012
lundi 17 septembre 2012
samedi 15 septembre 2012
What does London owe to slavery? (26 Oct 2010)
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: What does London owe to slavery?
Dr Nick Draper (UCL History)
For Liverpool and Bristol much work has been done in tracing the role of the slave-trade and slavery in shaping the cities' histories, but the scale and complexity of London's growth in the 18th and 19th centuries has obscured the contribution of slavery to the formation of the modern capital. This lecture explores the evidence for the centrality of slavery in understanding how London became what we know it as today.
Dr Nick Draper (UCL History)
For Liverpool and Bristol much work has been done in tracing the role of the slave-trade and slavery in shaping the cities' histories, but the scale and complexity of London's growth in the 18th and 19th centuries has obscured the contribution of slavery to the formation of the modern capital. This lecture explores the evidence for the centrality of slavery in understanding how London became what we know it as today.
jeudi 13 septembre 2012
The Black Man Don't Care - At the Gas Station ( Montreal 2,sep,2012 )
BLACK MAN DON’T CARE: L’ANGLE SOCIOLOGIQUE
Pourquoi cette vidéo est-elle si grandiose? Pourquoi cette vidéo est selon moi, la vidéo qui sera la plus marquante de l’histoire du web québécois, voire, de l’homme noir.
Black man don’t care. Black man don’t care… anymore.
Cet homme, se dénudant pour smashé un dépanneur quelconque, semble au premier coup d’oeil être un crackhead tout à fait standard. Mais il en est rien. Cet homme, c’est Rosa Parks, Martin Lutherking, Malcom X. En se dénudant ainsi pour déconcrisser un symbole du capitalisme occidental, ici: un dépanneur/station de gaz, il détruit la société que nous avons construit sur 400 ans d’esclavage. Il porte simplement l’habit que ces ancêtres portaient lorsque les négriers sont venus les voler à la mère Afrique.
Vous voyez un junkie, je vois un homme qui exprime sa colère de la façon la plus épurée possible. Cet homme, c’est Dali, Warholl, Gainsbourg. Ce vidéo de 10 minutes est une grande performance artistique en soi.
Black man don’t care. Black man don’t care… anymore.
Cet homme, se dénudant pour smashé un dépanneur quelconque, semble au premier coup d’oeil être un crackhead tout à fait standard. Mais il en est rien. Cet homme, c’est Rosa Parks, Martin Lutherking, Malcom X. En se dénudant ainsi pour déconcrisser un symbole du capitalisme occidental, ici: un dépanneur/station de gaz, il détruit la société que nous avons construit sur 400 ans d’esclavage. Il porte simplement l’habit que ces ancêtres portaient lorsque les négriers sont venus les voler à la mère Afrique.
Vous voyez un junkie, je vois un homme qui exprime sa colère de la façon la plus épurée possible. Cet homme, c’est Dali, Warholl, Gainsbourg. Ce vidéo de 10 minutes est une grande performance artistique en soi.
mardi 11 septembre 2012
lundi 10 septembre 2012
Left wing or right wing? It's written in the brain
28 December 2010
If you listen to Radio 4's Today Programme on any given day, you'll inevitably hear a spectrum of politic views from socialist through liberal to conservative. You may find yourself agreeing with the interviewee or irked by their politics depending on your own political persuasion.
Liberals and conservatives may find themselves disagreeing on issues as wide-ranging as the future of the NHS, the UK's involvement in Afghanistan and whether students should pay tuition fees at university, but could these differences be a result of different brain structures? New research commissioned by the Today Programme and led by Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow Professor Geraint Rees suggests that this may be so.
Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, Professor Rees and his colleague Dr Ryota Kanai at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL (University College London) analysed the brain structures of ninety young adults who had reported their political attitudes on a scale from 'very conservative' to 'very liberal'. They found a strong correlation between an individual's view and the structure of the brain, particularly two regions.
People with liberal views tended to have increased grey matter in the anterior cingulated cortex, a region of the brain linked to decision-making, in particular when conflicting information is being presented. Previous research showed that electrical potentials recorded from this region during a task that involves responding to conflicting information were bigger in people who were more liberal or left wing than people who were more conservative.
Conservatives, meanwhile, found increased grey matter in the amygdala, an area of the brain associated with processing emotion. This difference is consistent with studies which show that people who consider themselves to be conservative respond to threatening situations with more aggression than do liberals and are more sensitive to threatening facial expressions.
Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior WriterDate: 26 January 2012
There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.
dimanche 9 septembre 2012
Driving While Black
In July 2009, a black Québécois named Joel Debellefeuille was pulled over by Longueuil police because, according to documents, "his Quebecois name did not match his skin tone."[2] He refused to provide identification or car insurance documents when requested by the officer, and was accordingly fined by a municipal court.[3] Debellefeuille filed complaints with the Human Rights Commission and the police, seeking $30,000 in damages. [4]Crown prosecutor Valérie Cohen defending the police claimed that officers were in their rights to check the ownership of the car on a reasonable suspicion: "the officers’ actions were comparable to stopping a man for driving a car registered to a woman called 'Claudine'."[5]
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samedi 8 septembre 2012
vendredi 7 septembre 2012
Quebec election shooting suspect faces 16 charges
By ROB GILLIES
The masked gunman, wearing a bathrobe, was shown on television ranting and shouting "The English are waking up!" in French as police dragged him away after Tuesday's shooting.
Quebec election shooting suspect faces 16 charges
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 8:56 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012
Published: 12:12 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012
MONTREAL — The suspect in a deadly shooting at a rally following the election of Quebec's new separatist premier was arraigned Thursday on 16 charges, including murder, attempted murder and possession of explosives.
Richard Henry Bain, 61, of La Conception, Quebec, made his first appearance in court behind protective glass after being accused of opening fire outside the midnight victory rally Tuesday for Pauline Marois of the Parti Quebecois. Prosecutors said that after the shooting, Bain used a flare to light a small fire.
The heavyset Bain, dressed in white, appeared calm and alert during his appearance in the highly secured courtroom. He spoke briefly with his court-appointed lawyer but did not address the court, and there was no plea. Bain is scheduled to return to court Oct. 11.
The shooting killed Denis Blanchette, 48, and wounded a 27-year-old just outside a Montreal theater. The suspect's gun jammed after the initial shots were fired, a Quebec police official said Thursday, possibly saving lives.
Prosecutor Eliane Perreault said outside the courtroom that Bain had two weapons on him and three more in his car nearby. She said the weapon used in the shooting was a legally registered long gun.
Weapons charges include negligent storage of weapons and ammunition. Among the weapons in his possession were a 9 mm Luger, a Beretta, a Ceska Zbrojovka carbine, a semi-automatic 22LR and .357 Magnum revolver.
Bain, who owns a hunting and fishing lodge, had many more guns at home including shotguns, almost all of which were registered, Perreault said.
When asked if Bain targeted the premier, Perreault said only that there might be additional charges. She said authorities were continuing to investigate the motive.
Bain was in a "proper state of mind" to appear in court after spending some time in a hospital, she said.
Elferide Duclercville, Bain's court-appointed lawyer, said she had not been able to meet her client before court and was rushing after the hearing to continue their brief discussion of a few seconds while he was in the box.
Police have said there is no reason to believe anyone else was involved in the shooting.
Marois was whisked off the stage by guards and was not injured. She called the shooting an isolated event and said it was probably a case of a person who has "serious health issues."
The attack shocked Canadians, who are not used to such violence at political events and have long worried that gun violence more often seen in the U.S. could become more common in their country.
Neighbors and acquaintances of Bain said he was a friendly but often frustrated businessman who had overseen several failed ventures but never had any public outbursts, leaving them to wonder how he could be charged with such crimes.
The masked gunman, wearing a bathrobe, was shown on television ranting and shouting "The English are waking up!" in French as police dragged him away after Tuesday's shooting.He didn't put up any resistance, said Lieut. Guy Lapointe of the provincial police.
People who know Bain, whose lodge is 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Montreal, recalled his complaints about bureaucracy but could think of no political grievances he held.
The mayor of La Conception, Maurice Plouffe, said he was "very surprised" to hear Bain was tied to the shooting and said the images of the suspect being dragged away by police "were not easy to watch."
Plouffe said Bain was sometimes frustrated in his dealings with the city after seeing a number of zoning requests were rebuffed, but he added, "I have never seen him become aggressive; he was quite normal."
A man full of ideas and proposals, Bain, however, seemed unlucky in his business ventures.
"He had many projects, but not many of them materialized," Plouffe said.
A list of members of the Mont Tremblant Chamber of Commerce describes Richard Bain as the owner of Les Activités Rick, which promotes itself as a major fly-fishing destination.
The shooting victims worked at production company Productions du Grand Bambou Inc, a person answering the phone at the Montreal company confirmed. Friends of Blanchette, a lighting technician, packed a downtown Montreal street Wednesday night for a candlelight vigil outside the hall where he was killed.
It was still not clear if the gunman was trying to shoot Marois, whose party favors separation from Canada for the French-speaking province. Marois had just declared her firm conviction that Quebec needs to be a sovereign country when she was pulled off the stage.
"What's going on?" she asked her security detail. The crowd apparently was unaware of what had happened.
The separatist Parti Quebecois party's victory is unlikely to signal a new push for independence. Opinion polls show little appetite for a separatist referendum. Previous referendums on separatism were rejected by voters in 1980 and 1995.
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Gillies reported from Toronto.
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September 06, 2012 09:56 PM EDT
Quebec election shooting suspect faces 16 charges
Francis Grenier poursuit le SPVM
Le cégépien a perdu l’usage d’un oeil lors d’une manifestation étudiante
Francis Grenier, qui a perdu l’usage d’un oeil dans une manifestation étudiante, exige 350 000 $ de la police de Montréal.
L’étudiant du cégep de Saint-Jérôme n’a toujours pas retrouvé la vue dans son oeil droit, six mois après avoir été atteint par une grenade assourdissante lors d’une manifestation en face des bureaux de la Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Québec, le 7 mars.
« Ça fait six mois qu’il ne voit pas de cet oeil. Ça ne reviendra pas », se désole Alain Arsenault, son avocat.
Le jeune Grenier aurait été atteint par une grenade assourdissante lancée juste au-dessus de la foule par un agent du Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), contrairement aux indications du fabricant. En effet, ces grenades doivent être lancées nettement au-dessus de la foule, au risque de provoquer des blessures graves ou même la mort.
mercredi 5 septembre 2012
samedi 1 septembre 2012
Conrad Black: Quebec’s real revolution will come when it looks itself in the eye
Conrad Black | Sep 1, 2012 12:20 AM ET | Last Updated: Aug 31, 2012 8:03 PM ET
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Hon. Jean Lesage, Prime Minister in Quebec during the 1960s and credited with sparking the province's Quiet Revolution.
The Quebec election campaign, which will end with Tuesday’s election, reflects a modern campaign tradition in which leaders ambiguously go to and fro, nibbling at the edges of issues and then retracing their steps. This past week, for instance, Liberal premier Jean Charest said he would urge Ottawa to apply Bill 101’s language strictures to the federal presence in Quebec — before backtracking. For her part, Pauline Marois dusted off a radical plan to exclude non-French speakers from elected office — before she too backed down.Immigration et communautés culturelles - Vers une politique de lutte contre le racisme et la discrimination
Immigration et communautés culturelles - Vers une politique de lutte contre le racisme et la discrimination
« On ne peut pas se permettre de garder des gens en marge de la société alors qu'ils ont été sélectionnés pour leurs compétences »
Thierry Haroun 18 octobre 2006
Lise Thériault, ministre de l’Immigration et des Communautés culturelles. Source: MICC
D'ici 2009, il y aura 680 000 emplois à pourvoir au Québec. Afin d'honorer ce défi de taille, l'État québécois a, par l'entremise notamment du ministère de l'Immigration et des Communautés culturelles (MICC), procédé à la mise en place de diverses mesures et à l'adoption d'une nouvelle législation.
Québec adoptait en juin dernier un projet de loi modifiant le Code des professions. On rendait ainsi possible la délivrance d'un permis ou d'un certificat de spécialiste au titulaire d'une autorisation d'exercer une profession en dehors du Québec, tout en satisfaisant aux conditions prévues par règlement de l'ordre professionnel contrôlant l'exercice de cette profession au Québec. Le permis restrictif était aussi autorisé aux mêmes conditions.
Un ordre doit donc maintenant aussi déterminer une procédure de reconnaissance d'une équivalence dont les normes sont fixées par règlement. Cette procédure doit prévoir la révision de la décision par des personnes autres que celles qui l'ont rendue.
Ce dernier point est une avancée notable aux yeux de la ministre du MICC, Lise Thériault. Car désormais, «chacun des ordres professionnels va se doter d'une instance de révision indépendante», se réjouit-elle. Il faut savoir que, si auparavant les ordres professionnels s'étaient dotés de mécanismes de révision des décisions pour les cas où la reconnaissance de l'équivalence de diplôme, de formation ou de stage a été refusée, il reste que la révision des décisions n'était pas effectuée par un comité indépendant (Le Devoir, 15 octobre 2005).
Québec adoptait en juin dernier un projet de loi modifiant le Code des professions. On rendait ainsi possible la délivrance d'un permis ou d'un certificat de spécialiste au titulaire d'une autorisation d'exercer une profession en dehors du Québec, tout en satisfaisant aux conditions prévues par règlement de l'ordre professionnel contrôlant l'exercice de cette profession au Québec. Le permis restrictif était aussi autorisé aux mêmes conditions.
Un ordre doit donc maintenant aussi déterminer une procédure de reconnaissance d'une équivalence dont les normes sont fixées par règlement. Cette procédure doit prévoir la révision de la décision par des personnes autres que celles qui l'ont rendue.
Ce dernier point est une avancée notable aux yeux de la ministre du MICC, Lise Thériault. Car désormais, «chacun des ordres professionnels va se doter d'une instance de révision indépendante», se réjouit-elle. Il faut savoir que, si auparavant les ordres professionnels s'étaient dotés de mécanismes de révision des décisions pour les cas où la reconnaissance de l'équivalence de diplôme, de formation ou de stage a été refusée, il reste que la révision des décisions n'était pas effectuée par un comité indépendant (Le Devoir, 15 octobre 2005).
The Full Participation of Black Communities in Québec Society
Consultation Document
August 2005
A WORD FROM THE MINISTER OF IMMIGRATION AND CULTURAL
COMMUNITIES
For a number of years now, the Government of Québec has been working to promote the integration and full participation
of citizens of all origins in Québec society. The contribution of immigrants in all spheres of activity in Québec is now indisputable and our society is becoming increasingly open to diversity. Moreover, the face of Québec has changed significantly in the past few decades and the integration of newcomers into the host society has generally been harmonious. Their participation has undeniably enriched and strengthened Québec, which is expecting to face serious demographic and economic challenges in the future. That being said, members of the black communities, including those born in Québec and who have lived here for more than a generation, face more challenges than other Quebecers in developing their full potential. Many of them are confronted with specific difficulties in areas such as employment, academic achievement, youth issues, and underrepresentation in decision-making positions or are the targets of discriminatory attitudes and behaviour. Their talent, determination and training are not always sufficient to overcome these obstacles.
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August 2005
A WORD FROM THE MINISTER OF IMMIGRATION AND CULTURALCOMMUNITIES
For a number of years now, the Government of Québec has been working to promote the integration and full participation
of citizens of all origins in Québec society. The contribution of immigrants in all spheres of activity in Québec is now indisputable and our society is becoming increasingly open to diversity. Moreover, the face of Québec has changed significantly in the past few decades and the integration of newcomers into the host society has generally been harmonious. Their participation has undeniably enriched and strengthened Québec, which is expecting to face serious demographic and economic challenges in the future. That being said, members of the black communities, including those born in Québec and who have lived here for more than a generation, face more challenges than other Quebecers in developing their full potential. Many of them are confronted with specific difficulties in areas such as employment, academic achievement, youth issues, and underrepresentation in decision-making positions or are the targets of discriminatory attitudes and behaviour. Their talent, determination and training are not always sufficient to overcome these obstacles.
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