Date & time
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Registration is closed
Registration is closed
Dr. Jen Gobby, Concordia Geography Department affiliate professor
This event is free
SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation
Room LB 145
Yes
These are some of the questions at the heart of a two-year research project led by Dr. Jen Gobby, Concordia Geography Department affiliate professor, in partnership with the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation and community organizers across Montréal. We sat down with folks involved in mutual aid efforts and those fighting for food security, housing rights, anti-racism, social inclusion, access to healthcare and more to learn about how the pandemic affected their work.
The report concludes that:
“Shining through all these insights is the profound importance of relations. We hear a loud call to take the social relations currently characterized by deep inequities and transform them to relations of accountability, solidarity, mutual aid and shared power; to attend to our relationships like our lives depend on it. Because as one organizer put it, “When there is a real collective will, a collective effort that goes in the same direction, we can do things that are gigantic.”
On December 8, 2022, we will be launching the report that shares the wealth of community reflections and insight. The event will include a presentation by Jen Gobby about the findings of the research as well as a panel discussion featuring community organizers who were involved in the project.
To join the event
- In person: at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (LB 145 – 1400 Blvd de Maisonneuve, ground floor southeast corner)
- Online: via Zoom
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