BLACK HISTORY MONTH FILM NIGHT

THE LITTLE BLACK SCHOOL HOUSE AND STOLEN FROM AFRICVILLE

When: Wednesday Feb 25th @ 7 pm
Where: Sadleir House Lecture Hall
751 George St N (north of Parkhill)
Free!

Please join us for an evening of films on Black pasts and presents in Canada:

The Little Black School House (2007)
The Little Black School House unearths the story of the women, men, and children who studied and taught at Canada's racially segregated schools. Compelling personal stories illustrate that many of the students who attended Canada's all-Black schools look back on the experience with conflicting feelings: fondness for the dedication of their Black teachers, and outrage at being denied equal access to education, a right fundamental to democracy in Canada. The Little Black School House provides an historical perspective on recent calls to create "Black-focused" schools, after ongoing claims from within the Black community that their students are being ill-served by the education system.

Stolen from Africville (2007)
Stolen From Africville outlines the rise and fall of the historic Black community of Africville, Nova Scotia. Africville was a peaceful and thriving community whose roots can be traced back to the mid 1700s and the historic Underground Railroad. However, under the guise of "development", the Nova Scotia government bulldozed the land in 1969. In 2004, the United Nations conducted an assessment of this tragic injustice and recommended reparations for the Africville community. To this day, nothing has been done.

*Featuring Q & A with Stolen from Africa
STOLEN FROM AFRICA is a Toronto Based Movement used to promote cultural and historical awareness through education, fashion, music and the arts. We hope to empower society by confronting issues surrounding black/indigenous oppression and humanity as a whole. We are merely people of various ethnicities, who are inspired by the effects of colonialism wit aspirations of connecting and learning from the communities in which we live in world wide.

*Discussion of racialized poverty in Peterborough with PCAP.

Presented by the Community and Race Relations Committee of Peterborough, OPIRG-Peterborough, and the Peterborough Coalition Against Poverty.

For the full list of Black History Month 2009 events in Peterborough, please visit http://www.racerelationspeterborough.org/calendar.html

"The Harris Years Were a Dress Rehearsal for What's Coming”

When: Thursday, February 26, 2009
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: Sadleir House (751 George St. N.) - Hobbs Library

What: A public lecture by John Clarke, member of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, addressing ongoing anti-capitalist and anti-poverty struggles. Reflecting upon the Mike Harris years, Clarke will speak to the need for a renewed resistance against the powerful as the economic crisis increases inequality, violence and suffering.discussing the ongoing struggles of middle and working-class people under the oppression of the Canadian State.

Sponsored by the Canadian Studies Department, CUPE 3908 and PCAP

For more information please visit the following links:
http://trentarthur.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1208&Itemid=47
http://www.ocap.ca/archive/short_history_of_ocap.html