Amandla

Doug a demandé à Mouloud d’expliquer le contexte de la nomination de notre amie d'Amandla, Bochra Manaï, au poste de Commissaire à la lutte au racisme et à la discrimination systémique pour la ville de Montréal. Sa nomination avait suscité une certaine controverse, notamment dans les milieux politiques provinciaux. Mouloud explique le contexte et souligne comment il est important que Bochra soit la première nomination à haut niveau d'une personne directement issue du continent africain et que l'unité de l'Afrique soit une composante essentielle de la lutte contre le racisme.

Last year a wave of militant protests spread across North Africa and West Asia, in a sustained, historic series of popular struggles. Firoz Manji of Daraja Press organised an online book launch with many of the co-authors who contributed to this comprehensive review of the uprisings that took place in Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran.

Samir, the author, is a front-line pediatrician in the Emergency Room of Montreal Children's Hospital and an activist in the struggle for equity for native children and their families in their access to the same health care as everyone else in Canada. By placing indigenous people's relations with the medical system in the context of an overall colonial policy and practices, he confronts those who deny the existence of systemic racism and challenges them to change the situation.

Farid Omar is a long standing member of the Group for Research and Initiatives for the Liberation of Africa and has contributed frequently to Amandla Radio with analysis about the Horn of Africa. He was formerly a Research Fellow at York University’s Centre for International and Security Studies, and is currently a Political/Security Analyst based in Ottawa, Canada. His article Conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray risks escalating out of control and threatening regional stability <https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-11-15-conflict-in-ethiopias-tigray-risks-escalating-out-of-control-and-threatening-regional-stability/> in the Daily Maverick of 15 November led to this interview in which he also covers how neoliberalism has contributed to the conflict the region faces today.

The focus of Remembrance Day is on all the victims of war. Africa has suffered more than anywhere else as a playground for the military adventurism of the western countries with the US Africom having established bases or entered into military agreements with almost every country on the continent. The struggle for peace is also one for development and justice. Support the White Poppy Campaign of Echec à la guerre and take action to curb Canada's barbarous involvement in the arms industry that perpetuates war around the world.