Category Archives: Statements/News Releases

Clarification: Upon SANSAD’s request, its name removed from list of signatories of a statement on Punjab issued by Poetic Justice Foundation

Forum, Solidarity Links, Statements/News Releases

Follow up to our statement posted on SANSAD website on 30 March 2023 (listed immediately below this statement)

Thank you Poetic Justice Foundation for removing SANSAD’s name from the list of signatories of your statement on Punjab issued on 28 March 2023, including on twitter; and for letting us know that a SANSAD board member had endorsed the statement. The said member took it upon themselves to endorse your statement without sharing, consulting, or discussing with the rest of the Board. SANSAD does not endorse this statement.

We appreciate your help. Thank you.

SANSAD does NOT endorse the statement on Punjab issued by Poetic Justice Foundation on 28 March 2023

Bulletin Board, Solidarity Links, Statements/News Releases

It was brought to SANSAD’s attention that it was listed as one of the signatories in a statement put out by Poetic Justice Foundation on 28 March 2023. Immediately, SANSAD emailed contact@poeticjustice.foundation making it clear that SANSAD, as an organization, has not endorsed the statement and its name should be removed from the list of signatories. We noted that SANSAD’s name was not removed from the said list and the statement was distributed, including on Poetic Justice’s twitter account.

SANSAD categorically states that it does not endorse the statement on Punjab issued on 28 March 2023 by the organization Poetic Justice Foundation.

Please see the updated follow up statement from 6 April listed immediately above this statement.

Book Release and Panel Discussion

Bulletin Board, Forum, SANSAD Events, Solidarity Links, Statements/News Releases

“the un-surmounted 1500 feet

between the scuttled Komagata Maru

and One-Couver’s brazen shoreline

have yet to be breached“

Join us on Saturday, 15 October at 2:30 pm at Surrey City Centre Library to celebrate the release of Exit Wounds, Tariq Malik’s collection of poems. The afternoon gathering will begin with a Land Acknowledgement followed by introductions. Then, Tariq Malik will read from Exit Wounds; his readings will be interspersed by discussion of selected poems by Ajmer Rode, Surjeet Kalsey, and Sadhu Binning. Themes such as displacement, racism, and belonging in Malik’s poetry will lead us to Ian Rocksborough-Smith joining the discussion to highlight the recent floods in Pakistan and the compelling need for climate justice.

Chin Banerjee Memorial Lecture on Anti-Racism

Bulletin Board, Forum, SANSAD Events, Statements/News Releases

Robyn Maynard to deliver the inaugural Lecture titled “Rehearsals for Living”

Join us on 13 October 2022, 7-9 pm, Room 1420-1430, SFU Harbour Centre

The annual Professor Chin Banerjee Memorial Lecture in Anti-Racism, co-hosted by SFU’s Institute for the Humanities, Dr. Hari Sharma Foundation,  West Coast Coalition Against Racism (WCCAR), and South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD), is to commemorate the life, work, and political activism of Professor Chin Banerjee, who passed away on July 29, 2020. Chin leaves behind a legacy of activism in the service of the humankind. He inspired many people to fight for a better world of secular democracy and human rights, and his example and inspiration lives on. This year’s inaugural lecture will be given by Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives. Robyn will be talking about her new book (coauthored by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson), Rehearsals for Living, a captivating book that is part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial between two razor-sharp writers convening on what it means to get free as the world spins into some new orbit.
SPEAKER
Robyn Maynard is an author and scholar based in Toronto, where she holds the position of Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms in Canada in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto-Scarborough.
MODERATOR
Glen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and an Associate Professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.
EVENT DETAILS: Thursday, October 13, 2022
7:00PM–9:00PM, Room 1420–1430
SFU Harbour Centre (registration not required) Learn More
CONTACT: Huyen Pham Communications Coordinator insthum@sfu.ca
The Institute for the Humanities respectfully acknowledges the traditional, unceded and continually occupied territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), kʷikʷəƛ ̓ əm (Kwikwetlem) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples.