Indigenous Education in the Quebec Curriculum?

About the Project Missing Justice is looking to target education in our coming campaigns and projects.  We recognize that the discrimination and violence that affects Indigenous people in Quebec has roots in the miseducation of our young people.  We are interested in demanding changes in the education provided in the Quebec education system. We will [...]

Solidarity Across Borders: Non-status migrants and shelters

About the project: The goal of this project is to research shelters in Montreal for women and trans* folks and their accessibility for non-status migrants. Many shelters require identification or other documents to gain access. The student(s) would interview shelters in Montreal for women and trans* folks to understand what documents each shelter requires for [...]

Solidarity Across Borders: Non-status women and access to birthing services

About the project: The goal of this project is to research midwifery and doula birthing services in Montreal as an alternative to attending a hospital for non-status pregnant women. It is an upward $5000 fee to pay upfront in order to give birth in a hospital as a pregnant women without status in Montreal, which [...]

Birth and Marginalized Women in Montreal: Where are the resources?

Project Overview: Women in Montreal have little access to good, non-sexist, non-judgmental, and respectful health care during their childbearing year. Women who belong to a minority of any type, whether she is a recent refugee or immigrant, or a no-status woman, a single mother, a teen, a sex worker, incarcerated, or just poor, have even [...]

Surviving on the Inside-Out

Organization: Life after Life Collective Project Duration: One semester(with the possibility of future collaborations) Project Description: Our first goal achievable for 2013 is to collaborate with formerly and currently incarcerated collective members to create a “Surviving on the Inside-Out Resource Guide” by, for, and about incarcerated girls, women, transgender, and gender non-conforming people.  Life After [...]

Trans cultural production inside prisons, Prisoner Correspondence Project

Project title: Trans cultural production inside prisons Organization: Prisoner Correspondence Project Type of project: Research Paper Project Description: Larger (More than One Semester) The student completing this project will conduct primary research on trans cultural production inside prisons. This could be either from the angle of HIV prevention within incarcerated communities (trans cultural production in [...]

Media Monitoring Project, The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, (MIGS).

Project Title: Media Monitoring Project Organization: The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, (MIGS).   About the Project: Smaller (One Semester) The Media Monitoring Project provides early warning of genocide and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Cote d’Ivoire, Libya, [...]

Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS): Crime & Impunity

  This project will compile information on criminal and scandalous activities of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) from its founding in 1984 to the present. It will attempt to track the consequences for CSIS of each scandal which has come to light. Finally, it will analyse the data according to a set of questions [...]

The collective is just as important as the cooking: Organizing student and youth based collective kitchen groups

Organizing student and youth based collective kitchen groups Group: Réseau D’Entraide De Verdun  Issues addressed: The project is based on community organizing and food solidarity. It addresses issues such as poverty, food insecurity, isolation, marginalization, class, gender and race. Size of project: We would like to have someone work with us for the duration of a [...]

Queer McGill: A History

Organization: Queer McGill Project description: Queer McGill has operated at McGill in various forms since the early 1970’s, and has played its own particular role in queer history. Being able to access and reflect on this aspect of our local queer history would be incredibly meaningful to present and future generations of queers and activists. [...]

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