[Indigsol] Dick Pound resignation campaign

[Lia Tarachansky]

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Subject: [qpirgmcgill] Dick Pound resignation campaign [Please forward far
and wide]
From:    "QPIRG McGill" <qpirg at ssmu.mcgill.ca>
Date:    Wed, October 22, 2008 8:32 am
To:      qpirgmcgill at lists.riseup.net
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Hello everyone,

My name is Fred, and I'm a Board Member of QPIRG-McGill. Recently,
McGill's Chancellor Dick Pound has been in the news for racist
comments made about indigenous peoples: apparently he thinks it's
acceptable to refer to the original and rightful owners of this land
as "savages". Thus far, he's refused to apologize.
(For more info, see: http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?
id=1acb6487-4f6c-4e03-abf2-f18e880f2a0d<http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1acb6487-4f6c-4e03-abf2-f18e880f2a0d>
).

The Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador is calling for
Pound's resignation as Chancellor. This seems only appropriate. Those
of us familiar with organizing in the McGill context know that this
type of comment is emblematic of the generally ignorant and nasty
attitude of those in power at the university. Pound can't be allowed
to get away with his disgusting racism.

Furthermore, the comments were made in the context of Pound's
position as Canadian International Olympic Committee representative.
As the 2010 Vancouver Olympics get set to roll ahead on stolen
indigenous land, and as mobilization and resistance meets with the
Olympic "Spirit Train" at every stop it makes, it seems like a good
opportunity to make some noise around this issue.

So, I'm hoping that people will be interested in organizing a broad
campaign calling for Pound's full apology and resignation as
Chancellor of McGill University. I'm proposing that anyone interested
meet at QPIRG McGill (3647 University) at 2PM this Saturday, October 25.

If you have any ideas or can think of others who might want to be
involved, let me know!

In Solidarity,

Fred Burrill


Quebec Public Interest Research Group at McGill University
3647 University, 3rd Floor
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2P3
Tel. 514-398-7432
Fax. 514-398-8976
www.qpirgmcgill.org
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