Mikail Malik
I am completing my Bachelor's Degree in Political Science with a double minor in South Asian studies and World Islamic and Middle East Studies at McGill University. From 2019-2021 I worked as the Project Manager at Junior Peacemakers McGill. I spearheaded events raising money for the Native Women’s Shelter along with other local organizations supporting the unhoused Indigenous community in Montreal. Moreover, I created educational projects such as video series with local activists and politicians alike.
In the summer of 2021, I joined SOC Films for a 4-month internship program as a third-year McGill University student. I was interested in exploring documentary filmmaking as the medium to express the issues I am most passionate about. I was able to be exposed to vital skills in the production process and contributed to several projects, including a film being screened at the Dubai Film Festival. The highlight of my internship was having my project approved by Sharmeen for SOC’s Minority Digital Platform in which I interviewed four groundbreaking authors and activists on the challenges facing religious minorities in Pakistan.
My interests are in international politics, human rights, social movements, identity and inequality and documentary filmmaking. In addition, I am passionate about writing and other forms of social advocacy. My experience includes working at the grassroots level in Montreal, as well as 2 summers of experience at a leading legal firm in Toronto, Ontario.
I am currently working as a field research intern at the Society for Social Support and Education, based in Beirut Lebanon. I am helping with social media engagement, fundraising efforts and photographing refugees at the camps in the Bekka Valley and in the 3 schools that the NGO has constructed to help alleviate some of the burdens facing Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
I’m an incoming investigative intern at the Global News. I will work alongside journalist Carolyn Jarvis’ investigative team to pitch, develop, and deliver projects to air and online. Tasks will include pitching stories, researching, setting up interviews, submitting Freedom of Information requests, writing, reviewing interviews and much more.
Phone: 6474496871
In the summer of 2021, I joined SOC Films for a 4-month internship program as a third-year McGill University student. I was interested in exploring documentary filmmaking as the medium to express the issues I am most passionate about. I was able to be exposed to vital skills in the production process and contributed to several projects, including a film being screened at the Dubai Film Festival. The highlight of my internship was having my project approved by Sharmeen for SOC’s Minority Digital Platform in which I interviewed four groundbreaking authors and activists on the challenges facing religious minorities in Pakistan.
My interests are in international politics, human rights, social movements, identity and inequality and documentary filmmaking. In addition, I am passionate about writing and other forms of social advocacy. My experience includes working at the grassroots level in Montreal, as well as 2 summers of experience at a leading legal firm in Toronto, Ontario.
I am currently working as a field research intern at the Society for Social Support and Education, based in Beirut Lebanon. I am helping with social media engagement, fundraising efforts and photographing refugees at the camps in the Bekka Valley and in the 3 schools that the NGO has constructed to help alleviate some of the burdens facing Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
I’m an incoming investigative intern at the Global News. I will work alongside journalist Carolyn Jarvis’ investigative team to pitch, develop, and deliver projects to air and online. Tasks will include pitching stories, researching, setting up interviews, submitting Freedom of Information requests, writing, reviewing interviews and much more.
Phone: 6474496871
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the courage of few men and women who oppose discrimination and challenge hateful bureaucracies. In the following analysis, three distinctive leaders will be used to understand the difference between non-violent civil disobedience and violent resistance. Following this, they will be used to determine, if ever, an individual faced with an unjust law in moving from non- violent disobedience to violent action is deemed justifiable. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Captain John Brown all share the fundamental experience of being an African American in the United States. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King’s fight for liberty was to not only end the racial segregation in everyday life, but to eliminate the systemic disadvantages the African American community experienced. In contrast, Captain John Brown’s advocacy, justified by leading transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, relied solely on portraying the “willful and wicked” (Thoreau, 1859) violent oppression against African Americans in the United States. This paper will reveal that there is a difference in degree between non-violent civil disobedience and violent resistance. Moreover, that in moving from non-violent to violent action is not a question “about the weapon, but the spirit [and situation] in which you use it” (Thoreau, 1859). Through comparing Martin Luther King’s diplomatic approach for justice with Captain John Brown’s violent resistance, it will become clear that Brown’s violence was required and unavoidable. Revealing that Martin Luther King’s philosophy was not applicable within the society Brown was in. This paper will then compare Malcolm X’s Ballots or the Bullets with Thoreau’s Plea for Captain John Brown. Through using A Theory of Justice by John Rawls, it will become clear that violent resistance was not justifiable in Malcolm X’s case, and that the degree of injustice and consequences of violent action must first be evaluated.
the courage of few men and women who oppose discrimination and challenge hateful bureaucracies. In the following analysis, three distinctive leaders will be used to understand the difference between non-violent civil disobedience and violent resistance. Following this, they will be used to determine, if ever, an individual faced with an unjust law in moving from non- violent disobedience to violent action is deemed justifiable. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Captain John Brown all share the fundamental experience of being an African American in the United States. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King’s fight for liberty was to not only end the racial segregation in everyday life, but to eliminate the systemic disadvantages the African American community experienced. In contrast, Captain John Brown’s advocacy, justified by leading transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, relied solely on portraying the “willful and wicked” (Thoreau, 1859) violent oppression against African Americans in the United States. This paper will reveal that there is a difference in degree between non-violent civil disobedience and violent resistance. Moreover, that in moving from non-violent to violent action is not a question “about the weapon, but the spirit [and situation] in which you use it” (Thoreau, 1859). Through comparing Martin Luther King’s diplomatic approach for justice with Captain John Brown’s violent resistance, it will become clear that Brown’s violence was required and unavoidable. Revealing that Martin Luther King’s philosophy was not applicable within the society Brown was in. This paper will then compare Malcolm X’s Ballots or the Bullets with Thoreau’s Plea for Captain John Brown. Through using A Theory of Justice by John Rawls, it will become clear that violent resistance was not justifiable in Malcolm X’s case, and that the degree of injustice and consequences of violent action must first be evaluated.