[Indigsol] IPSMO Newsletter - Jan. 4 - Jan. 10

[Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement -Ottawa]

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IPSMO Newsletter - Jan. 4 - Jan. 10

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Meetings, Events, Articles

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The Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement of Ottawa acknowledges that

the city of Ottawa exists on stolen Omàmìwinini (Algonquin) land.

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IPSMO is a grassroots organization that directly supports indigenous

peoples in diverse struggles for justice. We also work within communities

to challenge the lies and half-truths about indigenous peoples and

colonization that dominate Canadian society. The organization is open to

both indigenous and non-indigenous people, and focuses on local and

regional campaigns.

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Newsletter Table of Contents:

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1)   IPSM Ottawa Updates & Meetings



1a)  Next IPSMO General Meeting in January, date TBA



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2)  Events



2a)  Jan 10: IPSMO Decolonial Study Group

2b)  Jan 11-14: Aboriginal Awareness Week at Carleton University

2c)  Jan 22-23: Global Apartheid Conference

2d)  Global Apartheid Conference Callout for Workshops

2e)  Everyone's Downstream III:
     January 15, 16, 17, 2010

2f)  NEW DATE - Canadian HR Tribunal
     on FN child welfare - January 19

2g)  Update: FORUM Against Police
     Violence and Impunity (MONTREAL)



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3)   No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!



3a)  Join the 2010 Corporate Campaign for 2 upcoming actions against 2010
     Olympic sponsors: General Electric and the Hudson’s Bay Company.

3b)  Winnipeg core disrupts torch



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4)   Articles/Media



4a) Right wingers line up to offer shopworn advice on Indian policy;
    Fraser Institute fellow advising Gitxsan Treaty Office

4b) Protesters demand inquiry into missing aboriginal women

4c) Victory for KI an Expensive Lesson for Ontario

4d) Canadian First Nations at COP 15 Roll Out the Welcome Mat for Stephen
    Harper in Rally at Canadian Embassy

4e) Murdered and missing women a 'national disgrace'



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5)  Calls for support



5a) Call for cross-Canada mobilizing: Extinguish the Olympic torch!

5b) National Call to Action Against 2010 Olympic Sponsors

5c) Send Ecard - Support Chapters/Indigo Boycott Campaign

5d) Join the Organizing for Justice listserv and online forums



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6)  Opportunities

6a) WMAN/IEN Grassroots Communities
    Mini-Grant Program*

NEXT DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 1, 2010

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Newsletter

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1) IPSMO Updates & Meetings



1a) Next IPSMO general meeting to be held in January; date and location TBA.



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2) Events



2a)  Jan 10: IPSMO Decolonial Study Group



Decolonial Study Group

Sunday, Jan. 10 at 1pm

Exile Infoshop, 256 Bank St. (2nd Floor)

Sorry this location is not wheelchair accessible

Everyone Welcome!

ipsmo at riseup.net

http://www.ipsmo.org



The reading for the study group on Sunday, Jan. 13 will focus on "British

Colombia".



The Decolonial Study Group is a new project of the IPSM Ottawa. We will be

deepening and broadening our understanding and analysis of indigenous

struggles for decolonization, social justice and revolution. We will be

doing this through readings, workshops, oral presentations, movies and so on.



Some of the readings for the next study group are to be determined.



For this study group there will be core articles which we ask everyone to

read, as well as additional articles and information for people who have

the time and the interest to get deeper into the subject matter. And

everyone is welcome whether they've done the readings or not!



Core reading:



"Oppose the BC Treaty Process: BC Treaty Monster Grows 3 Heads"
Warrior

Publications & "New Relationship or 'Final Solution'" by Arthur
Manuel:

both posted at http://noii-van.resist.ca/?page_id=37



"Domestic Laws versus Aboriginal Visions: An Analysis of the Delgamuukw

Decision" by Candice Metallic and Patricia Monture: posted at

http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol1no2_2002/metallic_angus.html



Additional reading:

http://csc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1997/1997scr3-1010/1997scr3-1010.html





2b)  Jan 11-14: Aboriginal Awareness Week at Carleton University



The Aboriginal Service Centre, Equity Services, and the Centre for

Aboriginal Culture in Education present

ABORIGINAL AWARENESS WEEK

JAN 11-14, 2010, Porter Hall (Second floor of Unicentre), Carleton University



Aboriginal art work, movies, drumming, panel discussions, lectures and

cuisine including making your own bannock on a stick!  It’s all
part of

Aboriginal Awareness Week at Carleton University.



Monday: The Child Welfare System: Past and Present Realities

11:30- Opening Ceremonies with Elder Paul Skanks, and President Reilly

Runte's Opening Remarks.

Discussion with Cindy Blackstock, President of the First Nations

Child and Family Caring Society on contemporary issues affecting
First Nations children

3:00- Join individuals from Every Woman's Drum as we march through the
tunnels

5:00- Aboriginal art work available at Mike’s Place

6:00- Aboriginal movies showcasing in the Aboriginal Service
Centre Lounge (316A Unicentre)



Tuesday: Metis Traditions, Identity and Legal Challenges

12:00Â  Join Ida Meekis at the Teepee (outside of Loeb) and make your own
Bannock on a stick!

1:00- Interactive discussion with Ottawa Métis Council President, Robert
Pellerin

2:00- Cultural Crafts

3:00- Panel on Metis identity and contemporary legal challenges. The

Alberta Metis Settlements and the Métis Nation
of Ontario talk about the significance of cases such as Powley
and Peavine v. Alberta

5:00- Aboriginal Art Work available at Mike’s Place

6:00- Aboriginal movies showcasing in the Aboriginal Service Centre
Lounge

(316A Unicentre)

Wednesday: Inuit Communities and Anti-Poverty Policy

12:00  Come out to enjoy Inuit cultural expressions and a sampling of
traditional Inuit Cuisine

2:30- Inuit Communities and Anti-Poverty Policy Lecture

5:00- Aboriginal Art Work Available at Mike’s Place

6:00- Aboriginal movies showcasing in the Aboriginal Service Centre
Lounge (316A Unicentre)

Thursday: Ikwewag: Issues Affecting Aboriginal Woman

12:00- National Aboriginal Showcase in the Galleria (4th floor Unicentre)

1:30-  Native Woman's Association, Pauktuutit and Assembly of First
Nations, Woman Council panel on violence against women and gender-based
analysis

3:00- Jessica Yee, Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network
talks about working at the only sexual health network, that isnt
disease-controlled focused, and is for and by Native youth

5:00- Aboriginal art work available at Mike's Place

7:00- After-Party Concert, with headliners "Digging Roots",
Lakota Jonez and many more to be confirmed

For more information, please contact:

Sheila Grantham, Aboriginal Cultural Liaison Officer, Tel: 613-520-2600,

ext. 1787, sheila_grantham at carleton.ca

2c)  Jan 22-23: Global Apartheid Conference OPIRG Carleton and
OPIRG-Ottawa/GRIPO-Ottawa present

GLOBAL APARTHEID: a conference/convergence

"apartheid"
 A system of global inequality that dictates access to wealth,
power and basic human rights based on race and place.

origin Afrikaans, "separateness"

January 22-23, 2010 - Ottawa

panels // workshops // skillshares // actions // art

feat. presentations by shawn brant, rozena maart, jaggi singh, harsha
walia and others

for updates:

globalapartheid2010 at gmail.com

613 520 2757

http://opirgcarletonpis2010.wordpress.com


2d)Â  Global Apartheid Conference Callout for Workshops


Every year, the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) organizes a

weekend of workshops about environmental and social justice issues,

providing activists the opportunity for skills development and cooperative

learning.  This year, OPIRG Carleton and OPIRG-Ottawa/GRIPO-Ottawa have

teamed up to organize a conference focusing on Global Apartheid: the

system of global inequality that dictates access to wealth, power and

basic human rights based on race and place*.  Apartheid, an

institutionalized system of racial subjugation which means "separateness"

in Afrikaans, did not end when South African apartheid formally ended in

1994, but continues to manifest itself today in many local and global

contexts: Indigenous struggles for justice from Turtle Island to

Palestine; Canada's system of unfree migrant labour; struggles against

colonial borders and racist citizenship regimes around the world; and

racialized economic apartheid, to name but a few examples.



We are currently soliciting workshops for the conference from community

organizers and activists.  The Global Apartheid conference will take place

on January 22 and 23, 2010 in Ottawa, Ontario, and the workshop component

will take place from approximately 11 am to 4 pm on Saturday January 23rd,

in 1.5 hour blocks. Workshops which discuss how the concept of 'global

apartheid' pertains to your particular movement are encouraged.  Workshops

are an important way to offer conference attendees the ability to tune

into the issues, movements, groups, and ideas that most invigorate them,

as well as making all of us aware of the thread that ties our struggles

together, and closing in on the solution of cutting the cord, so to speak.

Suggested workshop topics could include: no borders organizing;

anti-Olympics organizing; the anti-Israeli apartheid movement; Canada's

economic apartheid; Indigenous solidarity; gendering the apartheid

analysis; anti-G8/G20 organizing from an anti-colonial perspective;

opposing the national security agenda; queer struggles against apartheid;

and opposing the prison industrial complex, to name a few.



We would like to encourage a level of critical analysis that can still be

fun and interactive. We are open to a variety of formats, keeping in mind

that we are committed to an anti-oppressive and accessible forum for all

participants (i.e. workshops should be interactive/participatory for all

participants). Workshop facilitators should expect between 10-20 people

per workshop.  If you want to cap the number of participants attending

your workshop, please let us know.



Workshop proposals must be typed, and include the following:

  * The title of your workshop

  * A summary of the goals/focus of the workshop

  * A detailed outline of your workshop

  * Any props, equipment or space requirements you might need

  * A short (2-3 sentences) biography of the individual or group

presenting the workshop

  * Subject matter that may trigger painful experiences of participants



We are also open to creating a panel session made up of shorter 20-minute

presentations by organizers or groups, if you do not wish to organize a

full 1.5 hour workshop.



While OPIRG is a student-funded social justice organization with a limited

budget, we will do our best to subsidize travel costs and provide

honoraria to all presenters. If you require travel assistance or an

honorarium, please include that in your workshop proposal.



**Please forward workshop submissions to: Globalapartheid2010 at gmail.com

The deadline for submitting workshop proposals is January 15th, 2010.



Any questions? Email globalapartheid2010 at gmail.com or call (613) 520 2757.



In solidarity and thanks,

The Global Apartheid Conference Organizers



Stay updated: http://opirgcarletonpis2010.wordpress.com/

*For the formal definition of the crime of apartheid in international law,

visit http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/res/3068(XXVIII)

2e) Everyone's
Downstream III: January 15, 16, 17, 2010 (Edmonton, Alberta)

 Friday to Sunday, January 15-17, 2010 (related
events begin January 12,

see below) Edmonton, Alberta. Organized by OilSandsTruth.org with the

Indigenous Environmental Network and the Rainforest Action Network.



Come for a tar sands focused conference that discusses the true meaning of

'corporate responsibility" as it relates to development. Many large

players will be explored with discussions of Suncor, Enbridge, BP, Royal

Bank as well 2010 Winter Games Sponsorship and the impacts on near and far

communities with representatives speaking from affected communities. Space

for planning a response collectively will be provided.



Everyone's Downstream III is to be held in Edmonton once again, this time

occurring in January, 2010.



ALL Friday to Sunday events (January 15, 16, 17.)to be held at Strathcona

Community League,

10139 87 Avenue (five blocks north of Whyte Ave)





EDSIII Launch event

The Green Shift & the global Capitalist Economy:

Can Capitalism be made Green?

Is it a viable strategy?



post Copenhagen discussion of market-based environmental solutions and

offsets with:



Ricardo Acuña, executive director, Parkland Institute

Tom Goldtooth, executive director, Indigenous Environmental Network



Saturday, Jan 16:



Everyone's Downstream III:

>From the Front Lines to the Finish Lines-- Races to the Bottom



9am: conference opening.



Opening Panel

time: 9:30-12pm (break if/as needed)



SUNCOR across Turtle Island



Arnold Yellowman, Aamjiwnaang First Nation (near Sarnia, Ontario)

Billie Pierre, Nlaka'Pamux Nation (speaking on 2010 Olympics and sponsorship)

George Poitras, Mikisew Cree First Nation (Fort Chipewyan, Alberta)

Shannon Walsh, Montréal, QC (PetroCanada/Suncor Refinery)



12:00-1:00pm: lunch



Second Panel:

ENBRIDGE & Royal Bank of Canada:

Financing and flowing across Turtle Island

time: 115pm -330pm



Mel Bazil, Wet'suwet'en Nation (north-central BC).

Warner Naziel, Wet'suwet'en Nation (near Smithers BC).

Laurent Busseau, resident of Dunham, QC. (Enbridge Trailbreaker/ Portland

Montreal Pipeline reversal)

RBC Toronto: Taylor Flook (Rainforest Action Network-- Toronto, tar sands

and 2010 campaigns)



final Saturday panel: 3:45-5pm

WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THIS? action/organizing planning.



Sunday, January 17, 2009



First Panel

time: 9am-1030am

The Social Impacts of Development



tar sands and the anti-war struggle:

Clayton Thomas-Muller, Indigenous Environmental Network-- Canadian

Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign.

Palestine/Israel and the Tar Sands:

Macdonald Stainsby, OilSandsTruth.org

March for Missing and Murdered Women, Edmonton:

Danielle Boudreau, founder and march organizer



Second Panel:

Alberta Community level impacts-- presenters invited from:

10:45-12:30pm:

Little Buffalo (Lubicon Lake First Nation, northern Alberta)

Beaver Lake Cree Nation (south of Lac La Biche, northern Alberta)



LUNCH



BP[former British Petroleum]:

taking resistance beyond Canada.

1:30-3:15pm

Alaskan nations -- tbd.

BP headquarters in London, England-- Jess Worth (New Internationalist, UK

Tar Sands Campaign) via skypecast.

Whiting/East Chicago, Indiana BP refinery-- Debra Michaud (RAN-Chicago)



3:30-5pm

What do we do now?

Action planning and/or strategy session



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Other events, from earlier in the week associated with Everyone's

Downstream III.



NOTE THAT THE DATES PRECEDE MAIN CONFERENCE AND ARE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF

ALBERTA:

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Tuesday, January 12:



Launch of Dominion special issue on the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in

Vancouver/Whistler with editor Dawn Paley and Billie Pierre from the

Nlaka'Pamux Nation speaking on the 2010 Winter Olympics in the evening.



facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=209662892090&index=1



Time: 6pm

Location: University of Alberta,

Education building, rm 128



Thursday, Jan 14.



Offsetting Resistance launch.

discussion of environmental NGO accountability and democracy



location: University of Alberta,

Education Building, Room 128

Time: 6pm until 9pm.



Qwatsinas (Ed Moody),

hereditary chief, Nuxalk Nation (speaking on Great Bear Rainforest deal)



Maude Prud'homme, Réseau Quebecois des Groupes Ecologistes (RQGE)

(speaking on influence of foundation funding on emerging campaigns in

Quebec)



Petr Cizek, Land Use Planner (speaking on Pew/Sunoco, the Canadian Boreal

Initiative and the Protected Areas Strategy deal in the North West

Territories)



facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210607287390&index=1



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More on Everyone's Downstream III, as well as the Dominion and Ofsetting

Resistance launch events below.

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In the shadow of many successful and ascendant campaigns against the

world's largest industrial project-- the gigaproject-- this year

Everyone's Downstream will highlight several of the corporate campaign

targets and the communities most directly affected.



With developments (the Alberta tar sands and the 2010 Winter Olympic

Games) that cause displacement, land dispossession, massive climate

footprint and dislocation of entire communities, resistance always

emerges. Add in militarism-- both in cause as well as result-- and the

human toll is vast and the resistance extremely fertile.



All of these issues will be highlighted for discussion and planned

resistance in a horizontal network at the community level. We host this in

Alberta but we plan for the world.



Corporations like Suncor Energy mine here and refine tar sands across the

continent and sponsor the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.



BP (formerly British Petroleum) extracts in Alberta, refines in the United

States and produces products for North America-- yet headquarter their

operations in Europe.



Royal Bank of Canada invests more than any other financial institution in

tar sands operations and is the third largest sponsor of the Vancouver

2010 Olympic Winter Games, yet is based in Toronto.



Enbridge wishes to link up the entire continent with pipelines of poison

across waterways of life in the East, West, North and South.



A map of all of these developments is also a map of our natural allies.



For these reasons and many more,



Everyone's Downstream III: From the front lines to the finish lines--

races to the bottom.



is set to take place from January 15, 2010 to January 17, 2010 in

Edmonton, Alberta. Supported and associated events begin on Tuesday,

January 12, 2010.



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The Dominion Special issue on 2010 Winter Olympic Games



Everyone's Downstream along with Ap!rg in collaboration with *The

Dominion* will be hosting a launch event in Edmonton to celebrate the

publication of the special issue on The Olympics. Join us in an informal

setting where we will have snacks and be chatting about strengthening

grassroots media and distributing the new special issue!



"*In Canada, you will find a nation that works every day towards creating

the conditions of the Olympic ideal.*" --Jean Chretien



*The "Olympic Ideal" is part of one of the world's most successful

marketing campaigns, built around concepts that almost everyone can agree

upon: world-class amateur sport and peaceful competition.*



But a rising chorus of critical voices say that the Olympics are deeply

implicated in the expropriation of land, money and resources. From

movements demanding "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land" to angry
business

owners, resistance to the Olympics economic and social agenda is

growing.The Olympics budget includes a billion dollars for security. A

billion dollars each will be spent on a new convention centre, a larger

highway to Whistler, and SNC Lavalin's rail link from the Vancouver

airport to downtown.In the political and economic manoeuvres leading up to

the 2010 Olympics, a different "ideal" has been revealed – one of

exclusive contracts, sponsorship deals, displacement, social cleansing,

and corruption. At times, sport seems like an afterthought.



Many of the real stories behind the Olympics remain to be told.*

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Billie Pierre is from the Nlaka'Pamux Nation and will speak about the

impacts of the 2010 on her and others traditional lands, and how the

Superhighway being built from the Tar Sands to the Vancouver Port is

impacting local indigenous communities.



She is a co-founder of Redwire Magazine, has strong ties with the Native

Youth Movement, and has actively organized with the International

Indigenous Youth Network.



Dawn Paley is a journalist based in Vancouver, BC. Fluent in English,

French and Spanish, she writes for magazines and newspapers across Canada.

Her work has appeared in the *Vancouver Sun*, *The Globe and Mail*, *BC

Business Magazine*, the *Georgia Straight*, the *Tyee* and *This

Magazine*.



Dawn works as a contributing editor with *The Dominion*, and is currently

pursuing her Masters in Journalism at the University of British Columbia.



She will be speaking on the issues related to the olympics, media coverage

and sponsorship, and the importance of national resistance to the games.



*The Special Issue:*



Thousands of copies of the Olympic special issue will be printed and

distributed through grassroots networks across Turtle Island in November

2009. As you might be aware, previous special issues of *The Dominion*

have received critical acclaim for their coverage of Canadian foreign

policy, the Athabasca tar sands, and the Canadian mining sector.



Please visit http://www.dominionpaper.ca



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Offsetting Resistance Launch:

discussion of environmental NGO accountability and democracy





With movements around climate change in general and tar sands in

particular reaching larger and more sympathetic audiences than ever

before, what kind of accountable, democratic structures are formed in

response is more and more a critical question.



Yet as more people become concerned with these issues and look to

participate in that movement, avenues for funding, accountability,

participation and basic grassroots democracy are being smothered by a

secretive, hierarchical coalition of professional insiders.



This is not a new occurrence in the environmental world. Among many

places, it has taken place in British Columbia and the Northwest

Territories and had anti-democratic results.



Qwatsinas (Ed Moody), herditary chief from the Nuxalk Nation (located

within the recently dubbed Great Bear Rainforest) will discuss what

transpired in negotiations with environmental organizations, the

government and logging corporations. The Great Bear Rainforest deal was

cut and signed behind closed doors and without larger democratic

oversight.



The implications of such on self determination for his and other First

Nations communities dealing with tar sands, pipelines and refineries makes

this discussion critical.



Maude Prud'homme has been organising on environnmental issues for more

than 12 years. She has been working specifically on the case of the Rene

Levasseur Island in Nitassinan, Innu territory, for the last 7 years as

well as forging ecofeminism tools and networking. She is currently working

as coordinator of the Reseau quebecois des groupes ecologistes, a

network formed by grassroots groups in 1982 to provide collective tools of

support and representation on common issues.



She will address the impacts, so far, of financing by big foundations in

Quebec, and in what context it occurs. What have been the reactions of the

different groups, and what are the differing perspectives as the whole

forestry regime is being revamped. There will be a historical background

introduction and some hypothesis as to which interests are at sake in

regards to big energy interests and Quebec's forests.



Petr Cizek, land use planner and former employee of several first nations

involved with ENGO's, larger foundation funded coalitions and government

negotiations, will discuss the role of foundation and industry grants to

environmental groups and the possible threat to democracy of such funding,

including personal reference to his experience in the Northwest

Territories working with first nations in relation to the Mackenzie Gas

Project.



Copies of http://offsettingresistance.ca
will be available.

To receive one before the event, contact macdonald at oilsandstruth.org



All events listed at:

http://oilsandstruth.org/edsiii

 

2f) NEW DATE - Canadian HR Tribunal
on FN child welfare - January 19

Dear Friends.

The federal government is once again trying to derail the Canadian Human

Rights Commission tribunal on its treatment of First Nations children by

asking the tribunal to dismiss the complaint filed by the Assembly of First

Nations and the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society.

The Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) motion to dismiss will be

heard on January 19, 2009.

Please attend this public hearing and bring your friends! We need to let the

tribunal know this issue is too important to dismiss!

You'll recall that just over a week after being appointed by Justice Minister

Hon. Rob Nicholson on November 2, new tribunal chair Shirish P. Chotalia

issued a surprise order to cancel the tribunal hearings scheduled for

November 16, 2009.

The tribunal is now scheduled to convene at 9:30 a.m. on January 19th
at 160 Elgin Street 11th Floor, Ottawa, Ontario. Â 

More information about the complaint and the tribunal can be found at

www.fnwitness.ca.

Sincerely,

Ed Bianchi

Indigenous Rights Program Coordinator

KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives

211-211 Bronson Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario   K1R 6H5

613.235.9956 ext 221 /Â  fax 613.235.1302

ebianchi at kairoscanada.org

www.kairoscanada.org


2g) Update: FORUM Against Police
Violence and Impunity

(MONTREAL)

!! NEW !! -- Watch the promo video
for the Forum:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PEMPJh8ZCg



*Forum Against Police Violence and Impunity

January 29-31, 2010

Centre communautaire de Parc-Extension

419 rue St-Roch (métro Parc)



FREE. Welcome to all!

(No police, no corporate media)

Childcare available on-site.

Not completely wheelchair accessible;

please get in touch with access needs.



Friday, January 29, 6pm-9pm

Saturday, January 30, 10am-9pm

Sunday, January 31, 10am-6pm*

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The Forum Against Police Violence and Impunity is a Montreal-based

collaborative effort by grassroots social justice activists and community

organizers to create a space that will allow for discussion, sharing

experiences, and developing strategies in the on-going struggle to live free

of police violence.



The most effective way to combat police harassment, profiling and violence

is by building meaningful relationships of solidarity and mutual aid in our

various campaigns and struggles. Together, we hope to strengthen our

movements against police violence and impunity in the here and now, while

simultaneously working towards building a future society without police

violence.



*WHAT IS THE FORUM?:*

http://forumcontrelaviolencepoliciere.wordpress.com/what-is-the-forum

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The Forum will aim to reach out to various groups of people through

different formats, including film screenings, musical & spoken-word

performances, hands-on skill-sharing sessions, workshops, panel discussions

and testimonials.



The following activities, among others, will take place during the Forum:

*- Round-table: No Justice, No Peace -- Why People Leave the Police

- Panel: A people's history of police repression against social movements in

Montreal

- Know your rights workshop

- Workshop: At Risk Youth: At risk from whom? Police profiling of street

youth and youth of colour

- "Rude Awakening": Interactive theatre presentation about police
violence

against people who use drugs

- Skillshare workshop: Writing our rhymes down

- Panel: Never again! Families speak out against police killings and

impunity

- Workshop: The gender of police violence

- Skillshare workshop: Making film

- Skillshare workshop: Stenciling & Wheatpasting 101

- Strategizing session: Taking care of our communities: Justice without

Police*



For the *COMPLETE SCHEDULE* visit:

http://forumcontrelaviolencepoliciere.wordpress.com/schedule-january-29-31

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*HOW TO GET INVOLVED?*: Endorse the Forum¦ Promote the Forum¦ Meet with
us¦ Tell us how you would like to be involved¦ Contribute ... Volunteer.
More

details available here:

http://forumcontrelaviolencepoliciere.wordpress.com/how-to-get-involved

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*DOWNLOADS: *Colour and black&white posters for the Forum Against Police

Violence and Impunity are available for download here:

http://forumcontrelaviolencepoliciere.wordpress.com/telechargementsdownloads

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*INFO:

forumcontrelaviolencepoliciere at gmail.com

www.forumcontrelaviolencepoliciere.net

514-398-3323*

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3) No Olympics 2010



3a) Join the 2010 Corporate Campaign for 2 upcoming actions against 2010
Olympic

sponsors: General Electric and the Hudson's Bay Company.



*1) Flyering outside the Hudson's Bay Company Olympic Store*



*Saturday, January 9*



1:00 pm-4:00 pm



Meet outside the Bay on Georgia street



The 2010 corporate campaign be flyering for 3 hours outside the Hudson’s
Bay Company to inform people about HBC, the Olympics and their links to
colonialism.



*Blood on your hands: Are you wearing HBC's history of colonialism? *



The Hudson's Bay Company is the oldest commercial corporation in North

America. HBC forcefully controlled the fur trade throughout much of

British-controlled North America for several centuries.  The corporation

took control over several areas of Canada, forcing their rules of trade,

immigration, settlement and governance onto indigenous people.



*2) Skate-in and flyering at GE Plaza at Robson Square*



*Saturday, January 16*



1:00 pm- 4:00 pm



GE Plaza at Robson Square



Meet on Robson side of the Vancouver Art Gallery



Join us for an ice-skate while we hand out information on General Electric,

another Olympic sponsor with a shameful track record. Non-skaters are

welcome as well to distribute information to people outside of the rink.

Please bring skates if you have them, otherwise skate rentals are $3.00

each.



*General Electric: Imagining War Profiteering and Privatizing Rivers*



General Electric is a worldwide partner of the Games but is also one of the

world's top 3 producers of jet engines, supplying Boeing, Lockheed Martin

and other military aircraft makers for the powering of airplanes and

helicopters. The war on terrorism has seen GE's military contracts rise

substantially.



GE is also involved in the privatization of BC's rivers. "Run of
river"

private power projects are destructive to river ecologies, cause roads and

power lines to intrude on wilderness areas, and undermine public control

over power supply. General Electric is involved with Plutonic Power in the

1,027 megawatt project in Bute Inlet.



For more info:

2010corporatecampaign at gmail.com<http://2010campaign.wordpress.com/>



http://2010campaign.wordpress.com/

3b) Winnipeg core disrupts torch

January 5 - The Olympic torch relay
was successfully disrupted in

Winnipeg this evening. The torch and parade were blockaded for fifteen

minutes, after which time the relay was forced to extinguish the torch,

and the torch and relay team were transported forward in a truck.



The demonstration began when approximately 50 people assembled at the Forks

and handed out literature to people attending the torch event.


The demonstration marched from the Forks down Broadway on the sidewalk, and

then on the boulevard, to meet the torch relay from the opposite

direction, posting "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land" stickers along

the way.


Five people were dressed as Olympic rings and carried torches that were lit

as the demonstration approached the official Olympic torchbearer.


Each ring represented an issue associated with the Olympics: Homelessness

and the criminalization of the poor, massive police spending and the

criminalization of dissent, environmental destruction, missing and murdered

women, and the theft of native land.


When the demonstration reached the torchbearer, protestors took the street

and blockaded the torch parade for fifteen minutes, chanting slogans and

distributing leaflets.


The torch was extinguished and transported forward in a truck.

Demonstrators were pushed out of the street by the Winnipeg Police Service.

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4) Articles/Media


4a) Right wingers line up to offer shopworn advice on Indian policy; Fraser
Institute fellow advising Gitxsan Treaty Office

Rabble, January 4th, 2010



I thought it was weird last fall when, out of the blue, the National Post
ran an editorial heaping praise on a discussion paper put out by the
Gitxsan Treaty Office. My reaction at the time: clearly the right wing
knows whose interests this proposal serves.

The proposal is effectively a "self-termination" model which would, in the
name of the Gitxsan becoming "the same" as other Canadians, abolish the
Crown's fiduciary obligations to the Gitxsan, and abolish Gitxsan
collective rights, with the exception of some say for hereditary
leadership in land use on Gitxsan traditional territory.

Self-determination would be abandoned for a limited property interest
covering the whole of their traditional territory, as defined in impact
benefit and resource revenue sharing agreements. This residual interest in
the land would be circumscribed by the limited concept of accommodation
set out by the courts, who at the end of the day still see Aboriginal
title as contingent on the ongoing pleasure of the Crown. The proposal is
a market solution that reduces Gitxsan title and rights to an economic
stake in development. Not only the National Post loved this idea; the
Globe and Mail also gave space to Gitxsan Treaty negotiator Elmer Derrick
to extol the virtues of the proposal. An earlier article by Derrick,
arguing that privatization of Crown lands might be a good thing, shows his
line of thinking.

See full article at :

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/corvin-russell/2010/01/right-wingers-line-offer-shopworn-advice-indian-policy-fraser-



4 b)Protesters demand inquiry into missing aboriginal women

Vancouver Sun, January 3, 2010



VANCOUVER - More than 100 women rallied in Crab Park in Vancouver’s
Downtown Eastside Sunday to demand the federal government listen to their
plea for a public inquiry into the more than 500 missing and murdered
aboriginal women cases across Canada.

See full article at:

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Protesters+demand+inquiry+into+missing+aboriginal+women/2402465/story.html

4c) Victory for KI an Expensive Lesson for Ontario

MiningWatch Canada, Dec 15 2009

MiningWatch Canada is very pleased with yesterday's announcement from the
Government of Ontario regarding a resolution to the three-year stand off
between the community of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug ("KI") and
Toronto-based exploration company Platinex. The victory for KI also brings
an expensive lesson to the province about the need to respect
the interests of Indigenous communities.

See full article at:

http://www.miningwatch.ca/en/victory-ki-expensive-lesson-ontario

4 d) Canadian First Nations at COP 15 Roll Out the Welcome Mat for Stephen
Harper in Rally at Canadian Embassy

Indigenous Environmental Network,
December 13 2009

12.13.2009 Copenhagen, Denmark

Indigenous Peoples of Canada and their allies from around the world are in
Copenhagen for the UN summit on climate change. Today they rolled out the
"welcome mat" for Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the Canadian Embassy in
Copenhagen. This action was part of a global day of action against the
Canadian tar sands. The tar sands are the largest and most carbon
intensive industrial project on the planet. Indigenous leaders of
communities impacted by the tar sands and allied campaigners contend that
Canada hasn't kept Kyoto commitments and hasn't ratified the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) because of the
half-trillion dollar investments the massive tar sands development
represents.

See full article at:

http://www.pitchengine.com/free-release.php?id=37846

4e) Murdered and missing women a
'national disgrace'

The Olympic torch trucks whizzed along the Trans-Canada Highway into
Manitoba yesterday, but as they crossed over the Whitemouth River and flew
past a remote junction, a slower and more sombre procession took place.

Horses. Seven of them, carrying leaders from native communities as nearby as
Roseau River and as far away as the Canupawakpa Dakota Nation near the
Saskatchewan border. Those who didn't ride walked along the shoulder. They
came to this stretch almost 100 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg, in cars
and vans and buses, to draw attention to the plight of missing and
murdered aboriginal women in Canada.

The demonstration was peaceful, and did not disrupt the torch's progress.

Allan Courchene, the principal of the high school at the Sagkeeng First
Nation brought a gaggle of teens on the 90-minute trip in the early morning.
"I brought our students to support the cause of our females that have gone
missing," he said, adding that such cases need to be investigated with
more urgency.

"We are not protesting the athletes," said Chief Terrance Nelson
of the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation. He organized the demonstration.
"We welcome them. But we want to remind people ... what's happening to our
people."

See full article at

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/murdered-and-missing-women-a-national-disgrace/article1420473/

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5) Calls for support



5a) Call for cross-Canada mobilizing: Extinguish the Olympic torch!


>From October 31 2009 - February 12 2010, the Olympic Torch Relay--A Path

of Northern Lights--will be traveling across Canada. The Olympic

Resistance Network, based in Vancouver Unceded Coast Salish Territories,

is calling on and encouraging our allies to coordinate efforts in over

2000 communities to oppose and resist the Torch Relay.



The origins of the Torch Relay lie in the dark history of the 1936 Games

in Berlin, where it was devised as a means to spread Nazi fascism and to

promote the Third Reich. The Royal Bank of Canada and Coca Cola are the

main sponsors of the 2010 Torch relay. RBC is the top financier of the

environmentally devastating Alberta Tar Sands, while Coca Cola has been

responsible for health degradation as part of the junk food industry,

massive depletion of groundwater and toxic waste pollution in India, and

involved in hiring paramilitary groups to violently repress union

organizers in Colombia.



It is becoming increasingly evident that far from being simply about

sport, the 2010 Olympics is rooted in displacement, corporate greed,

militarization, and repression. While Olympic corporate sponsors are

getting bailed out, Indigenous lands are being stolen, more people are

becoming homeless, thousands are losing their jobs and access to public

services, the environment is being destroyed, and civil liberties are

being eroded as over a billion dollars are being sunk into security and

surveillance measures.



This Torch Relay will be the longest in-country relay in Olympic history,

giving us the chance to make some anti-Olympic history! No Olympics on

Stolen Native Land!



If you are organizing an event or action in your city, town, or community

please email us the details so we can compile the information and build

strength and unity in our efforts by having this information available on

our website.



For full route information and scheduleof the relay, see

http://olympicresistance.net/



Contact email: olympicresistance at riseup.net





5b) National Call to Action Against 2010 Olympic Sponsors: Blood on your

hands



*The 2010 Corporate Campaign continues…*



In the lead up to the 2010 Winter Games, host communities have been

organizing to expose the impact of the Games on indigenous communities,

low-income and homeless populations, public services, and the environment.



While we continue to expose the impact of the Games themselves, anti-Olympic

organizers in Vancouver want to make sure that the spotlight is directed at

the social and environmental crimes of the corporate sponsors as well.



*Hudson's Bay Company: Blood on your hands*



HBC's red 2010 mitts are selling like hotcakes, but we want to draw

attention to the company's colonial history of bloodshed.



HBC is the oldest corporation in North American and they took control over

several areas of Canada, forcing their rules of trade, immigration,

settlement and governance onto indigenous people.



We've just completed a flyer that you can distribute in your community. In

it we highlight the Bay's ongoing colonial role from the small pox to

Cowichan sweaters.



We encourage you to print off the flyer, fold them in half and sneak copies

into clothes at the Bay. You can download this flyer here:

http://2010campaign.wordpress.com/

Put em up Posters


We've also just completed several posters highlighting the crimes of

various 2010 Olympic Sponsors. Please see our website for posters that you

can put up in your city! Look out General Electric, CTV, Dow and Coke-

we're onto you.



*Royal Bank of Canada*



In October 2009, we successfully mobilized against Olympic national partner

The Royal Bank Canada (RBC). Actions took place at RBC locations over

several weeks in Vancouver, Whistler, Nelson, Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto and

Waterloo.



RBC has been identified by the Rainforest Action Network as the biggest

financiers of the Tar Sands. The Tar Sands are clearly the most

environmentally destructive project on the planet, destroying indigenous

lands, emitting more Greenhouse Gases than hundreds of countries, poisoning

the watershed for the entire Athabasca region.



We encourage you to keep distributing flyers outside the Royal Bank in the

lead up to the Games.



Please join us as we continue to mobilize against Olympic sponsors in an

effort to build awareness and mobilize people in the lead up to the Games.



Keep in touch and let us know where you take action:

2010corporatecampaign at gmail.com



http://2010campaign.wordpress.com/





5c) Send Ecard - Support Chapters/Indigo Boycott Campaign

*Please Post Widely*



It's coming up to the holiday shopping season - send your friends, family

and colleagues a boycott Chapters Indigo eCard and wish them an apartheid

free holiday season!  The eCard is customised and ready to send at this

link: http://www.greetlets.com/send/?go=start&c=0q7vpn19ve24c.



It only takes a second to send the eCard, please support the BDS

campaign by spreading the message about the Chapters Indigo boycott.



CAIA (Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid) launched the campaign to

boycott Indigo Books and Music Inc. in December 2006 with the demand that

its controlling owners, Heather Reisman and Gerry Shwartz, publicly cut

all financial ties to Heseg - Foundation for Lone Soldiers. For more info

on the campaign see full CAIA booklet at:

http://www.caiaweb.org/sites/caiaweb.org/files/indigo%20leaflet%20may%2009(5).pdf.



HESEG - which was founded by Ms. Reisman and Mr. Schwartz - provides

scholarships and other support to former "lone soldiers" in the Israeli

military individuals from outside Israel with no family in the country

who join the Israeli military and participate in all aspects of its

repression of Palestinians. In January 2009 HESEG representatives handed

out $160,000 worth of “thank you" gifts to Israeli soldiers participating

in the attacks on Gaza.



Check out the Chapters Indigo boycott webpage and see the photo of HESEG

board member Bushinsky  giving out "thank you" gifts to Israeli
Soldiers

in Gaza during the 2008/9 attacks:

http://www.caiaweb.org/sites/caiaweb.org/files/bushinski.pdf


In the lead-up to this holiday season there are a number of things you can

do to support the Chapters / Indigo boycott campaign:



* Support your local independent bookstore instead of buying gifts from

Indigo, Chapters, World’s Biggest Bookstore, Smith Books, Coles,
The Book

Company or Indigo Spirit.



Boycott Chapters Indigo gift cards:

*Don't buy Chapters.Indigo gift cards - buy gift cards instead from your

local independent bookstore Ask your friends and family to do the same.

*If you are part of a non-profit/charitable organization, don't use

Chapters Indigo gift cards to acknowledge contributions to your

organization. Instead send a letter to Indigo telling them why you will

not be giving their gift cards this season. Letters available at

http://www.caiaweb.org/indigoboycott



* Send the 2009 Chapter/Indigo Campaign eCard greeting to your friends and

family this holiday season. Suggested message: “Have a happy

apartheid-free holiday season boycott Chapters Indigo stores and gift

cards. For more information visit: http://www.caiaweb.org/indigoboycott


5d) Join the Organizing for Justice listserv and online forums


The "Organizing For Justice" conference has set up a (low traffic)

announcement-only email listserv, and online forums, for people who are

interested:

> list: https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/org4j-announce

> forums: http://organizingforjustice.ca/forum

** note: don't need to log in to use forums (read or post)



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6) Opportunities

6a) WMAN/IEN Grassroots Communities
Mini-Grant Program*

NEXT DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 1, 2010



Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and Western Mining Action Network

(WMAN) Grassroots Communities Mining Mini-Grant Program



The goal of the Mining Mini-grants Program is to support and enhance the

capacity building efforts of mining-impacted communities in the U.S. and

Canada to assure that mining projects do not adversely affect human,

cultural, and the ecological health of communities.



The applicant must be a grassroots or indigenous community program with

limited funds that have demonstrated the capacity to successfully carry out

the project.  Individual grants will not exceed $3,000 U.S. and cannot be

used for general programmatic or operating expenses.



*WMAN/IEN Grassroots Communities Mining Mini-grants program criteria: *



1. Grassroots community-based organizations, and Tribes or
Tribal programs in the U.S. and Canada with any budget level may
apply.

However, if there are more applicants than funds available, priority will
be given to organizations with an organizational or mining-specific
project budget under $75,000 U.S.

2. Requests must be project-specific for an immediate need such as legal
assistance, organizing and outreach, development of campaign materials,
media development, reports, travel, mailings, etc. to be fulfilled within
the next four to six months on a specific mining campaign. Funds cannot be
used for an organization's general operating funds, staff salaries, rent or
telephone bills.

3. Priority will be given to projects that build bridges and
community across socio-economic and cultural lines.

4. Applicants who have received funds twice during the previous two grant
cycles will be given lower priority than new organizations and programs.

This will not apply to "emergency" grants.

5. Each grant issued will not exceed $3,000.

6. Funding recipients must submit a brief report detailing
how funds were spent within 1 month of the project finishing. Recipients
will not be eligible for additional funding until the project has been
completed and a project report, or an extension request, is received and
accepted by WMAN and IEN.

Any questions? We are happy to help.  Please contact either Sarah Keeney,

WMAN Network Coordinator at (503) 327-8625 ~ sarahekeeney at comcast.net

or Simone Senogles, Indigenous Environmental Network, (218) 751-4967 ~

simone at ienearth.org <sarahekeeney at comcast.net>.

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