[Indigsol] Sept 22, 23 & 28 - upcoming events in Ottawa

Sun Sep 19 11:15:19 PDT 2010

Come out, learn and support the struggles of Indigenous peoples!

Wednesday Sept 22 - Is this our Canada? A Public Lecture by Cindy
Blackstock and Exhibition of the Caring Across Boundaries Photography Exhibit

Thursday Sept 23: First Nations Education Rally, 1:00pm on Parliament Hill

Tuesday Sept 28 - Rights Action Speaking Tour - CRACKS IN THE WALLS OF
IMPUNITY & CORRUPTION IN GUATEMALA & HONDURAS, & WITH GLOBAL RESOURCE
EXTRACTION COMPANIES

Details:

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A Public Lecture by Cindy Blackstock and Exhibition of the Caring Across
Boundaries Photography Exhibit
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Please join us for

A Public Lecture by Cindy Blackstock, the Executive Director of First
Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and Exhibition of the
Caring Across Boundaries Photography Exhibit:

Is This Our Canada?
How racial discrimination in children’s services undermines the potential
of this generation of First Nations children and what you can do to help

with an opening ceremony by an Algonquin Elder and introduction by Georges
Sioui, the coordinator of Aboriginal Study of University of Ottawa in the
beginning of the lecture

Lecture will begin at 7 pm on Wednesday, Sept 22, 2010
@ Alumni Theatre, Jock Turcot University Centre, University of Ottawa

Caring Across Boundaries Photography Exhibit Photography by Liam Sharp
will be open all day, from 11 am to 9 pm on Wednesday, Sept 22, 2010 @
Agora, Ground Floor of Jock Turcot University Centre, University of Ottawa

** Admission is free, everyone is welcome.  Donation is appreciated.

For more details, please visit http://ipsmo.org/.

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Honour the Treaties!
First Nations Education Rally
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Thursday, September 23, 2010 @ 1:00 pm

Honour the Treaties!
First Nations Education Rally

Parliament Hill, Ottawa— Front Lawn at the Centennial Flame (Fire Pit)

THIS IS A PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION STAGED TO SEND A UNITED VOICE TO THE
GOVERNMENT OF CANADA THAT WE WILL NOT TOLERATE CHRONIC UNDERFUNDING FOR
OUR STUDENTS.

Remember, this rally is about leveling the playing field for First Nation
students and the funding they receive for Post Secondary Education.
Education is a Treaty Right that we need to defend and protect.
Ottawa needs to hear the voice of our young people!

For more information contact:
Sally Hare, Education Assistant
COO Administration Office
111 Peter Street, Suite 804
Toronto, ON
Phone: 416-597-1266
Toll free: 1-877-517-6527
Fax: 416-597-8365
mail: educationassistant at coo.org

FB event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150041375022884
Event poster:
http://ipsmo.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/sept23_fnedrally.pdf

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RIGHTS ACTION FALL 2010 SPEAKING TOUR
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Please join us for a public event with Grahame Russell, co-director of
Rights Action - a grassroots organization working together with indigenous
grassroots communities in central America for their resistance to human
rights violations and struggles for democracy, justice and Mother Earth:

CRACKS IN THE WALLS OF IMPUNITY & CORRUPTION
IN GUATEMALA & HONDURAS, &
WITH GLOBAL RESOURCE EXTRACTION COMPANIES

6:30 pm
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010
Agora, Ground Floor of Jock Turcot University Centre, University of Ottawa
(map - http://www.uottawa.ca/maps/)

In this event, we will begin with a documentary "THE BUSINESS OF GOLD in
Guatemala: Tale of a Conflict Foretold" followed by a presentation by
Grahame Russell and Q&A.

“The Business of Gold in Guatemala” is a 50-minute film, documents one
struggle – the resistance of the Mayan-Mam people of San Miguel Ixtahuacan
(in Guatemala) against the Canadian company Goldcorp Inc.

In May 2007, chairman of the Vancouver-based mining company Goldcorp Inc -
Ian Telfer donated $25 millions to the School of Management of the
University of Ottawa.  In honour of his donation, the School of Management
was renamed the Telfer School of Management, disregard of the human rights
violations, environmental destruction and health harms caused by the gold
mines operated by Goldcrop in Guatemala, Honduras and else-where in the
world.

During the presentation, Grahame will focus particular attention on:

How "northern actors" - the USA and Canadian governments, businesses,
investors, the World Bank, etc. - contribute to and benefit from the
unjust economic model and resultant exploitation and poverty,
environmental harms, and repression; and, from there, how North Americans,
from all walks of life, can get more involved in these and other struggles
to help achieve "another world is possible and necessary".

RIGHTS ACTION (www.rightsaction.org)

With tax charitable status in Canada and the USA, Rights Action funds and
works to eliminate poverty and the underlying causes of poverty.  RA
supports community-based development, environmental, disaster relief and
human rights projects and organizations in Guatemala and Honduras, as well
as in Chiapas [Mexico], El Salvador and Haiti.  RA educates about and is
involved in other work aimed at critically understanding unjust
north-south relations and global development, environmental and human
rights issues and the challenges of poverty eradication.

GRAHAME RUSSELL

Grahame - a Canadian - lives in Connecticut with his two children.  He is
a graduate of the University of Guelph (Latin American studies) and the
Faculty of Law, Ottawa University.  From 1984-1995, Grahame worked with a
range of development, environmental and human rights solidarity and NGO
groups in Mexico and Central America, living for 8 years in the region. 
With Rights Action since 1995, Grahame has led Rights Action's work in the
USA and Canada.  Grahame's work has taken him throughout Guatemala,
Honduras, Chiapas and Oaxaca, as well as to El Salvador and Haiti. 
Grahame speaks and publishes regularly about the wide range of issues
referred to above.  He is the author of: "The Never Ending" (1992) and
"Code Z59.5: There is Only One People Here" (2010).

THE BUSINESS OF GOLD in Guatemala: Tale of a Conflict Foretold

Even as the government of Guatemala was signing the 1996 “Peace Accords”,
it was – unbeknownst to the Guatemala population – giving out hundreds of
mining concessions to international (mainly Canadian) mining companies. 
Since the early 2000s, serious conflicts have broken out in Guatemala – as
well as else-where in Central America – due to the environmental and
health harms and other violations of human and indigenous rights being
caused by mainly Canadian mining companies.

* This event is brought to you by Carleton University Graduate Students'
Association, Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement - Ottawa, InSol:
Womyn of Colour Collective, Mining Watch Canada, Public Service Alliance
of Canada - Social Justice Fund, and Territorio Libre

* Admission is free, donations are welcome.  All donations will go to
support the community groups Rights Action works with in Guatemala &
Honduras.

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