[Indigsol] Minutes from September 14th

[Angela Schleihauf]

Hi Everyone,

Please disregard the word file attached to the message. Our full minutes are
in the body of the e-mail.

Thanks,
Angela

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Angela Schleihauf <aschleihauf at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Here are the minutes from the meeting on Tuesday. Sorry I couldn't get them
> out sooner.
>
> Our Next Meeting: Tuesday, September 21, 1 Stewart. The room the first one
> on the right. (David, could you send the Room Number?)
>
> A question that arose at the meeting was whether anyone had a car that
> could be used for a trip to Brantford (About a 6 hour drive) to support
> Six Nations. Please reply if this is a possibility so that those who are
> interested in going down can contact you.
>
> *Agenda Items moved to next meeting*- Ottawa U. IPSMO; Follow-up for Walk
> for Justice; IPSMO pamphlet
>
>
>
> *IPSMO Meeting*
>
> Tuesday September 14, 2008
>
>
>
> In Attendence: Sylvia, Matt, Greg, Pei-ju, Nico, David, Alex, Graeme,
> Angela
>
>
>
> *Agenda*
>
> 1) Report from Fundraisers
>
> 2) Tyendinaga
>
> 3) E-mail List
>
> 4) Brantford Land Reclaimation
>
> 5) Mission Statement and Goals
>
> 6) Followup Walk for Justice
>
> 7) IPSMO pamphlet
>
> 8) Potential guest speakers for meetings
>
> 9) Event Ideas
>
> 10) Announcements
>
>
>
> Follow up for Walk for Justice and IPSMO pamphlet were moved to the agenda
> at our next meeting.
>
>
>
> *1) Fundraisers Report* - Both were a great success. The film was shown to
> 38 people and we raised $220. The Umi fundraiser was very well attended and
> featured poets from Ottawa's Aboriginal Poetry Circle. The event raised
> $325.
>
>
>
> *2) Tyendinaga*:
>
> *Background briefing*- A quarry was illegally developed on unceded land
> known as the Culbertson Tract. 800 tonnes of gravel are removed from the
> site each year.
>
> The Mohawks of Tyendinaga have shut down the company by occupying the
> quarry. Since then there has been an ongoing legal battle as the company
> places charges on protestors such as Shawn Brant.
>
>
>
> *Things we can do to help*
>
> A) Fundraise: film night, guest speaker event
>
> Peter Rosentahl is Shawn Brant's lawyer. In the past, Rosenthal visited
> Ottawa to give a presentation for cinema politica- maybe we can have him
> here with a video/doc as an educational and fundraising event
>
> Potential films include- one about Ipperwash (Sylvia)
>
>                                     - one about Algonquins of Barriere
> Lake- those on the Quebec side (NFB film, David may have it)
>
>                                     -we can also ask Rosenthal for
> suggestions
>
>                                     -There is a new one, also about
> Barriere Lake that is more recent than Blockade, it comes up to 2007.
>
> -John Trudell is an American Native activist and spoken word poet. He may
> support the screening. We could host an event featuring him. National
> Library and Archives is a possible venue. It will cost some money, but if we
> advertise in advance, we should be able to cover it.
>
> - We might be able to do another Green Door fundraiser. *Angela will check
> into this.*
>
>
>
> *Nico- will contact cinema politica regarding the possibility of having a
> film night with Rosenthal.*
>
>
>
> *Working group to take on Fundraising event and Speaker/Film event:
> Pei-ju, Greg, Alex. They will come back next week with proposal of events
> *
>
>
>
> B) Day of Action: Currently, people in Montreal are planning a Day of
> Action on October 18th under the slogan "CN Rail, drop your racist lawsuit".
> They are calling for actions. (This is the same day as the Anti-war
> demonstrations here in Ottawa so maybe we should do it on a day before or
> after that.)
>
> We brainstormed ideas of potential actions including holding a rally or
> deputation ("deputation" is defined as an event where a small group of
> people to give a letter to the company- in practice it is usually a
> low-level official- which states the what the group wants from the company,
> it can be a media event)
>
> *Day of Action Working Group-* Matt and Nico have formed a working group
> to look into a range of possible actions. They will report back to the group
> with logistics of actions.
>
>
>
>
>
> Motion to hold two events *1) Movie night with speaker  2) Day of Action *
>
>
> *Consensus with one abstention. We will hold both events.* Reason for
> Abstention: we could separate Movie and Rosenthal in order to hold three
> events.
>
>
>
> Greg made a proposal to have discussion before the vote rather than after
> the motion is made. We had general agreement on that process point.
>
>
>
> C) Court Support (needed in January or February). We will discuss this
> again at a later date.
>
>
>
>
>
> 3) *E-mail list*- Everyone is now on the Indigsol list. Matt applied for
> list on resist. This will be better for security (hotmail is open and gmail
> is owned). We can take this from the IPSMO Carleton budget - $30. (Members
> of IPSMO Carleton have indicated that they would like to combine groups for
> the ease of meeting. If there are specific Carleton events, separate
> meetings can be held for that. *This relationship needs to be approved by
> the community group members.* IPSMO Carleton has a budget of $300.)
>
> Note- Indigsol list goes to 100 people, so don't send everyone messages
> that are intended for an individual. General discussions are OK. Below is a
> copy of everyone's e-mail addresses and names gathered at the first meeting.
> I will have tangible copies for the next meeting so that people can keep one
> to for reference.
>
> * *
>
> *4) **Brantford-** **Land** Reclamation* Six Nations, near Caledonia,
>
> - Reclamation has been expanded to another site, many people have been
> arrested
>
> - They would like a permanent settler presence. There is interest from
> IPSMO members to go down on weekend. Finding a vehicle is a problem. *Angela
> will send out request for vehicles with the minutes*. We could possibly
> rent a vehicle.
>
> -They need financial and material support and will especially need this in
> winter too
>
> -We are unsure whether they are receiving funds from Six Nations.
>
> -* The fundraising working group will discuss whether to have a fundraiser
> for this as well, or to split proceeds with Tyendinaga*.
>
> -We will passed around the hat for donations. *Matt delivered $200 when he
> went down a few weeks ago. He has volunteered to collect and deliver money
> again.*
>
> * *
>
>
>
> * 5) Mission statement and Goals*
>
> -discussion on the term "cultural revitalization".
>
> -David had concern about the questions it provokes about how we, as partly
> non-Aboriginal people can accomplish this and as to what "revitalization"
> means.
>
> -Sylvia pointed out that by supporting women, the knowledge carriers of the
> culture, we are also participating in cultural revitalization. Angela
> mentioned that we can also support cultural revitalization through
> publicizing and fundraising to support initiatives, not to take on the role
> of teacher ourselves (eg: Algonquin/ Anishinabek language classes were held
> last year here in Ottawa. They could have been better publicized)
>
> -discussion on term Aboriginal and Indigenous, re: Lia's e-mail. David
> explains that the current language in Canada is "Aboriginal"; if we're
> going for International language than the UN's Indigenous is appropriate.
> Found contents of article circulated a bit ambiguous and suspects that
> Aboriginal and Indigenous might both be problematic as they are both global
> terms.
>
> -*Consensus Decision: use Indigenous*
>
> -Motion made to show Matt's statement with some edits to Aboriginal people
> for their feed back.
>
> -Positive feedback for Matt's proposed statement.
>
> *Consensus Decision: It is not necessary to show statement. Instead we can
> send out an introduction to groups while we work with them and if there are
> any issues, they will let us know. We will use Matt's statement.*
>
> Our Goals are Educational, Social, Political, Spiritual and Culural and try
> to change the legal/political structure which is occurring
>
> The goals and actions inform one another.
>
>
>
> * *
>
> *6) Speakers*
>
> *-We would like to have guest speakers come to meetings for the sake of
> our own education and awareness.*
>
> -Pei-ju has heard an Aboriginal activist speak at a number of events. She
> suggests that we have Eli come to speak to our group in order to exchange
> experiences and learn from him. He might have suggestions about the way we
> work together. We can also invite him to join.
>
> -*Pei**-ju will invite him to speak at our next meeting.* If he can't make
> it, we will invite him to the next. We might skip a week in between the next
> week and have one the week after in order not to burn people out.
>
> -*Graeme will get in touch with the Indigenous local poetry circle they
> may come and share their poetry. He will also invite them to join.*
>
>
>
> *7) Shabot Obaadijwan and Ardoch Update*
>
> -Shabot Obaadijwan have walked out of negotiations with Ministry of Natural
> Resources and Frontenac Ventures Corporation due to misleading statements
> slanted towards a pro-mining situation that FVC gave to the press. As this
> effects the public's perception of the situation, FVC has bargained in bad
> faith.
>
> *- David has offered to give the power point presentation of the history
> behind the struggle at one of our meetings as the "speaker"*
>
>
>
> Early November 7-9th the Outaouis Social Forum will take place
>
> *Consensus: We want a table at the Outaouais Social Forum if it can be
> staffed. *
>
> *Angela can do it if it is a Friday night or Saturday.*
>
> October 8th is the deadline to ask for a table.
>
>
>
> *8) Announcements*
>
> Tuesday, September 21th at 7pm there is a talk on Brazilian Mining and
> Food Security at Ottawa U down the hall from our meeting.
>
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