[Indigsol] Press Release for Walk4Justice Fundraising Events

[Pei-Ju Wang]

Press Release

 

Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa presents two fundraising
events on the night of September 10 and 12, 2008 in support of
“Walk4Justice”, a campaign to bring awareness to the issue of missing and
murdered Aboriginal women.

 

 

Movie Fundraiser- “Finding Dawn” 
Directed by acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh

Where: Jack Purcell Community Center

When:  Wednesday, Sept. 10 at 7:00 pm 

Suggested donation $5-15

 

 

Good Vibrations- Music and Spoken Word Poetry
Featuring local poets and artists including Ottawa's Young Griot Collective
and First Nations spoken-word poet Tom Powless and musician Chris Herodier

Where: Umi Café, 610 Sommerset St. West

When: Friday, Sept. 12 at 8 pm.

Suggested donation $5-10 

 

Some of the walkers from the Walk4Justice group will be present at the music
event to tell their personal stories. 

 

 

Background Info

 

Walk4Justice is a group of brave women and men that left Vancouver, BC on
June 21, 2008 and is marching to Ottawa to demand an effective action from
Parliament Hill to address systemic violence against Indigenous women.

 

The Walk4Justice group is expected to arrive in Ottawa on September 12,
2008.  

 

On Monday, September 15, 2008, the Walk4Justice Finale will be held on
Parliament Hill from 10 am to 4 pm with a march from Minwaashin Lodge
starting at 9 am.  For detailed program on September 15, please click
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/media/2008/09//8257.pdf
<http://ottawa.indymedia.org/media/2008/09/8257.pdf> .

 

In the last decade, over 3,000 women have gone missing, 80% of whom are
Aboriginal.  The niece of Gladys Radek (one of the Walk4Justice organizers),
Tamara Chipman, is one of the women who went missing on BC's “Highway of
Tears”, the Yellowhead Highway. 

 

 

“It is Amnesty International’s view that the role of discrimination in
fuelling this violence, in denying Indigenous women the protection they
deserve or in allowing the perpetrators to escape justice is a critical part
of the threat faced by Indigenous women.”
– Stolen Sisters: Discrimination and Violence against Indigenous Women in
Canada, Amnesty International October 2004

 

 

The Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa is a local community group
that supports Indigenous peoples' struggles for justice.  We do this by
supporting Indigenous groups directly and by working within non Aboriginal
communities to foster accurate knowledge of Indigenous groups.

 

For more information on the fundraising events, please contact: 

David Welch David.Welch at uottawa.ca, 613-562-5800 ex 6386 (for Sept .10), 
Graeme O’Farrell onecocoon at gmail.com (for Sept. 12)

 

 

Walk4Justice
 <http://walk4justice.piczo.com/?cr=6> http://walk4justice.piczo.com/?cr=6

Online Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/glradek/petition.html 

Walk4Justice Launch Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxyRXfYAWxU

Native Women’s Association of Canada
http://www.nwac-hq.org/ 

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/indigsol/attachments/20080904/d87a279e/attachment.html>