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EDITORIAL: ADVOCATING FOR CHANGE IN THE LOCKER ROOM P.15 volume 35, issue 6 • tuesday, september 30, 2014 • thelinknewspaper.ca • If we were green we would die since 1980 would green we were • If we • thelinknewspaper.ca 30, 2014 september 35, issue 6 • tuesday, volume CONNECTCONNECT WITH YOURYOUR PASSIONS,PASSIONS, ENGAGEENGAGE WITH YOURYOUR COMMUNITY!COMMUNITY! Big Screens Big Movies Low Prices Admission - $2.50$ 2.50 Snacks - everything else! 1$$ 1 +tax ConnectConnect with 50 organizationsorggaanizations at the VOLUNTEERVOLUNTEER FAIR FFAAIR &''%$'%'&&' '%$'%'&%#' OctoberOctober 2, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.p.m., J.W.JWJ.WWW. McConnellMcConnell (LB)(LB) BuildingBuilding AtriumAtrium ""'$'"'&#' %&"&$ AttendAttend a workshop wwoorkshop CLASSIFIED OctoberOctober 30: LAUNCHLAUNCH YOUR YYOOOUR CAREER,CAREER, VOLUNTEER!VOLUNTEER! DOLLARCINEMA.CA NovemberNovember 5: STRATEGICSTRAATTEGIC VOLUNTEERING VOLUNTEERING VisitVisit your on-campuson-campus VolunteerVVoolunteer ResourceResourrcce Centre! 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Room H-649 Like us on facebook facebook.com/thelinknewspaper WHAT’S INSIDE? 4 45 6 8 CURRENT AFFAIRS CURRENT AFFAIRS CURRENT AFFAIRS FRINGE ARTS LINE 9 OPPONENTS GATHER LGBT RIGHTS GLOBALLY AND LOCALLY RCMP IN CONCORDIA’S HALLWAYS THIS IS EVERYONE’S PROBLEM Environmental activists camped over An academic conference taking place at Documents reveal RCMP had their eyes on A new dance performance titled Enbridge’s Line 9, where a spill occured, Concordia next week will seek to imagine two discussions at the university. “Unrelated” tackles the subjects of abuse to decry tar sands and other harmful oil the future of LGBT rights, as well as discuss and interconnection. exploration methods. topics ranging from marriage equality to parental rights. 9 10 11 13 SPORTSFRINGE ARTS SPORTS SPORTS OPINION STORYTELLING THROUGH IMAGES THRICE AS NICE THE HEARTBEAT GOES ON SEX & PANCAKES Le Cinéclub will screen the 1923 silent film The Concordia Stingers baseball team won Stingers defender Odaine Demar shares Sexpert Melissa Fuller’s guide on how to The Hunchback of Notre Dame in a bid to three of their four games this past weekend his inspiring story of perservering through find your baseline. broaden classic movies’ appeal to a wider against Ottawa and McGill. racism, a medical condition affecting his public. heart and a reassertion of faith. What’s the most effective way to combat rape culture? Madeleine Black, majoring in Studio Stephanie Medalsy, Bialik High Arts with a minor in Interdisciplinary Sunnie Sanaz, volunteer at the School student Studies of Human Sexuality Centre for Gender Advocacy “To really advertise it, “Creating awareness “I mean what we’re doing so that people get edu- around the fact that it here is a creative and funny cated and are aware of exists. I think a lot of times way to […] make people ask what can happen, how to people don’t realize how questions. In our Centre protect themselves, which ingrained it is in everyday [for Gender Advocacy], we neighbourhoods are safer society, [...] and starting try to incorporate a lot of to walk alone, what girls or conversations that are games, and fun, and also boys can do in order to feel safe, even for people to ask with splashy flyers.” safe, and to be safe.” problematic questions, and allowing space for people to learn.” WHAT’S UP AT THELINKNEWSPAPER.CA FRINGE BLOG NEWS NEWS SPORTS ONLINE JAMES BROWN AND CHUCK BERRY HAVE A LOYOLA HIVE LAUNCH UNIVERSITY BUDGET CUTS WHAT’S THE BUZZ? SON: HE WAS A TROUBLEMAKER The Loyola Solidarity Cooperative Cafe Concordia unveils plans to address Catch up on the Concordia Stingers’ past Vintage Trouble, an American blues-rock finally opens its doors this week. provincial budget cuts, including a week through our online recaps. band, ignite the revival of rock n’ roll. program which aims to reduce Concordia administration jobs. photos Shaun Michaud the link • september 30, 2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS 4 thelinknewspaper.ca/news Activists Decry Harmful Oil Exploration on Spill Site Camp 9 Brings Together Environmental, Anti-Colonial Activists About 200 people gathered above Line 9 in the Laurentians to protest tar sands. by Noelle Didierjean @noellesolange on a range of topics related to environmental guilt,” she continued. bench to speak about environmental racism to and anti-colonial activism were held. Scanlon told an anecdote of getting the sup- attentive campers spread out on the ground. At first glance, Camp 9 resembles a summer port of an indigenous group for a three-day Environmental racism is the placement of camp in the 1960s. Colourful tents are spread BLOCKADING 101 blockade, but losing it on the second day. polluting facilities near low-income minority out beneath the bones of an abandoned green- “If they withdraw their support, you have to communities. house in rows a dozen long, and the strumming Because Line 9 is several decades old, be prepared to pack up and leave,” she said. Gray began the panel by drawing a com- of a guitar seems ever-present in the back- Enbridge periodically runs “integrity digs” Non-native neighbors were also listed as parison between the living conditions in her ground. to check the valves on the pipeline and make important allies by Scanlon, who suggested indigenous community and those in wealthier The camp was formed by many of the same repairs if necessary. Some activists disrupt handing out flyers that explain what the block- non-indigenous areas. people who attended the “People’s Walk for Enbridge’s activities by halting work on the ade aims to do, and even handing out cookies. “Many of the people that work in the chemi- Mother Earth,” a march held in Quebec City digs with blockades. “If they say we can stay there, it takes longer cal refineries that I live right next door to, this summer which protested tar sands and Two activists from an anarchist group in for the police to kick us off.” they live in the north end […] where the nicer pipelines. Guelph, Ont., held a workshop on the 10 basic The final step was planning exit strategies. houses are, where they don’t have to be worried “It was an amazing way to create […] a stron- steps of setting up a pipeline blockade. Wolf The activists stressed the importance of having about spills and releases, the way the indige- ger force to show that there are many people Chrapko and Sarah Scanlon helped organize multiple plans in mind in case of emergencies. nous people of our area do.” against these projects and that we have to “Dam Line 9” and “Swamp Line 9,” two such Chrapko explained that people who were Gray explained that she, like many indige- keep on fighting,” organizer Alyssa Symons- actions held in Ontario this summer, which okay with getting arrested at the blockade nous children in the community, had suffered Bélanger said. temporarily stopped work on the pipeline. should plan together, and that those who from asthma as a child due to the toxic releases Tree nursery owner Claire Durocher They opened the workshop by highlighting intended to leave before police intervention from the chemical refinery close by. She con- invited activists to her land in Saint-André- the importance of acknowledging traditional should avoid knowing those plans. trasted her own experience with that of the d’Argenteuil, where the pipeline Line 9, buried indigenous ownership of the land that many She specified that people choosing to be ruling class. beneath her soil four decades ago, leaked last pipelines run through and seeking acceptance “locked down”—meaning locked to something “I don’t imagine [Stephen Harper] would be year and ruined her harvest. from those communities. on the site—should remain visible to others okay with his kids suffering the same way as When Durocher went to court to claim com- Scanlon spoke of the necessity of obtain- “because police brutality is real, and going many of the indigenous kids do. pensation for her lost crops, “Enbridge [Inc.] ing approval from indigenous communities through pain compliance techniques when no “It’s just a difference [of] class and race that tried to blame it on her, saying that the oil came when organizing a blockade on their land. She one can see you isn’t fun.” creates this issue of industrial genocide in my from her tractors or that it wasn’t really a spill,” emphasized the importance of going further back yard and not many of yours,” she told the Symons-Bélanger told The Link. in discussion than a simple last-minute con- INDIGENOUS RIGHTS PANEL crowd. The camp, which includes a makeshift sultation. kitchen and communal library, was set up Sept. “You need to be building these relationships Walter David, a member of Kanehsatake 20 and is set to run until Oct. 4. Three vegetar- [with indigenous communities] constantly, First Nation, and Vanessa Gray, an Anishi- photos Noelle Didierjean ian meals a day are provided, and workshops and not in reaction to not wanting to feel white nabe-kwe community organizer, sat on a the link • september 30, 2014 thelinknewspaper.ca/news 5 Imagining the Future of LGBTQ Human Rights Academic Conference Taking Place at Concordia to Examine LGBT Rights in Canada and Abroad Data from the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association by Michael Wrobel @michael_wrobel in focusing so much on marriage equality.