[Indigsol] Fwd: [nouranium-ottawa] Indigenous Solidarity Group Forming in Ottawa

[Angela Schleihauf]

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From: Jesse Freeston <jfreeston at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 5:54 PM
Subject: [nouranium-ottawa] Indigenous Solidarity Group Forming in Ottawa
To: nouranium-ottawa at production.jungle.ca


For those at OCAMU interested in participating in a broader indigenous
solidarity network stretching accross all issues which threaten the
self-determination of regional indigenous populations. We will be having a
meeting this Tuesday at Jack Purcell Community Centre...the call-out is
located below.

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Ottawa Decolonization and Native Solidarity
Formative meeting
Tuesday Aug 12, 6pm-8pm
Jack Purcell Community Centre
near corner of Elgin and Gilmour Streets
A group of people have come together around the solidarity work with the
Algonquins of Barriere Lake, and we are now proposing to form a collective
of people in Ottawa-Outaouais to work in alliance with Native activists,
primarily in the local region but also elsewhere as circumstances arise.
 We believe that, as an immigrant/settler population, we need to work with
the original peoples of this land to organize and stand up for their rights
and to undo the process of colonialism and genocide that has been and
continues to be enacted upon them. We recognize their status as nations
equal in relations to the Canadian (or American) state and not subjects of
it, as the First Nations that they are.
 To this end, a formal gathering will occur this coming Tuesday to bring
together people who are interested in forming this broader coalition to work
with various specific initiatives (ie Barriere Lake, uranium mining,
Victoria Island Asinabka, ...) while also having a more holistic approach to
building supportive and collaborative long-term relations with the
Indigenous peoples of this land.

Please consider attending and participating in the discussion as we come
together to form this group's initial vision and strategy.

If you can't make it, we still welcome your input and/or involvement
Please contact (613) 263-9330 / lia.tarachansky at gmail.com

Websites of interest:
http://barrierelakesolidarity.blogspot.com
http://www.ccamu.ca/
http://asinabka.com/
http://www.ocap.ca/supporttmt
http://solidarityfestival.wordpress.com

-- 
Telling the Untold Story of the 20th Century Genocide of Aboriginal Peoples
in Canada:
http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org

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