[Indigsol] Rally in solidarity with CUPW in Ottawa on Friday!

[Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement -Ottawa]

As mentioned below, CUPW has been there on the frontlines of countless
social justice movements, including Indigenous Peoples Solidarity
movement, especially solidarity with the Algonquins of Barriere Lake. 
Please come out on Friday in Ottawa and support Canadian Union of Postal
Workers (CUPW)!


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Rally in solidarity with CUPW in Ottawa
Protest Harper’s attack on public services

As you may have heard by now, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)
has given notice and will be in legal strike position as of 12:01am Friday
morning if a settlement is not negotiated by that time.  People for Postal
Workers network is calling for a community solidarity rally at noon on
Friday in Ottawa.

Today it is an attack on our public postal service and the workers who
deliver that service. We need to stand up to defend our public postal
service or tomorrow it will be an attack on all of our public services.

Canadians have been deeply concerned about Harper’s hidden agenda. This is
the beginning of that agenda coming out into the open.

WHAT: Community rally in solidarity with our postal workers
WHEN: 12pm, Friday June 3
WHERE: Canada Post Station B, 59 Sparks Street (at Elgin), Ottawa
WHO: Organized by People for Postal Workers, a recently formed network of
organizations and individuals that have united to stand in solidarity with
CUPW against austerity.

The attack on CUPW will be one of the first key tests for social movements
in Canada in the new Harper majority era. As Minister Clement has said,
entire programs are on the chopping block. The postal workers are our
front line of defence against the attack Harper is planning on the entire
public sector.

CUPW has been there on the frontlines of countless movements. CUPW has
stood with the peace, human rights, climate, anti-racist, and so many
other parts of our social justice movement in Canada. Now we need to be
there for them. The postal workers’ struggle is one for us all.

WHAT YOU CAN DO
1. Join the solidarity rally.
2. Download and print a sign from www.people4posties.wordpress.com and put
it in your window
3. Adopt a picket line: If it becomes necessary for CUPW to proceed with
strike action, one of the most important things we can do is help CUPW
literally hold the line against Harper's austerity plans. Take 15 or 20
minutes on your way to or from work (or during lunch) and join CUPW at the
picket line nearest you (locations to be announced).
4. Follow People for Postal Workers on Twitter at @people4posties and
"like" our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/People4PostalWorkers

In solidarity against austerity,

People for Postal Workers
http://www.people4posties.wordpress.com


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In Solidarity,
IPSMO
on unceded Algonquin Territory
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