[Indigsol] Updates: events, contest, article

[ipsmo at riseup.net]

We're sending out more info on some of the upcoming events...
(see below)

but there's also:


** Calling Young Aboriginal Women across Canada ages 16 to 29
Creative Essay Contest: $$ prizes, and chance for 3 winners to present at
the Women's Worlds 2011 congress in Ottawa July 3-7.
Deadline for entries: March 24
http://rabble.ca/whatsup/calling-all-young-aboriginal-women-across-canada


** Article on Beaver Pond Forest / South March Highlands
This article was published in the local Peace and Environment News (PEN)
paper, March-April edition:
http://equitableeducation.ca/2011/fighting-for-the-forest
... it is based on a more detailed article being published shortly (in the
next couple days?) on http://dominionpaper.ca


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UPCOMING EVENTS:
http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/upcoming-events/


Ottawa Israeli Apartheid Week
March 7 – 11
http://ottawa.apartheidweek.org


Rally for Awareness! Arts, Eats & Critical Information
12:00-5:00pm, Wednesday March 9
Unicenter Atrium, Carleton Univeristy
>> Our goal is to shine a little light on Canada’s darkside & make a
Youtube video to educate & create awareness about this perpetual
injustice inherent in Canadian society. Since roughly 1980, between 583
and 3000 Indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered in Canada.
The day is about debunking native stereotypes and asking critical
questions. ATPN News, Howard Alder and a few photojournalists will be
collecting footage that will ultimately be made into an Awareness Video
for Youtube. Contact: Andrea Carisse 613 889 8040
andreacarisse at hotmail.com
also: 7:15 Candlelight Vigil on Bank St Bridge at the Canal, after the
film 'Life On The Reserve' at the Mayfair
on FB: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133218030079132


Film: Life On The Reserve
6:15pm, Wednesday March 9
at Mayfair Theatre (1074 Bank St)
>> A documentary by Graham Shonfield about what life on a Canadian First
Nation reserve is really like. Filmed in Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek
(Gull Bay)
$10 admission (proceeds go to funding an after-school program in Gull Bay)
http://www.lifeonthereserve.ca
http://mayfairtheatre.ca/movies/Life-on-the-Reserve/


Demonstration against Police Violence
6:00-9:00pm, Tuesday March 15
Human Rights Monument, Elgin and Lisgar
>> This march is part of a series of events that also includes the Forum
on Police Violence, Incarceration and Alternatives and the
International Day Against Police Brutality.
This is a family-friendly demonstration.
Contact: opirgrc at gmail.com, 613-230-3076
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=198203326874426


Vigil for missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada
2:00pm, Friday, March 18th
Parliament Hill
The McGill University Human Rights Working Group invites you take part in
a vigil at Parliament Hill taking place Friday, March 18th at 2pm. The
vigil will be the culmination of a two-week campaign in which McGill
students, faculty and friends will strive to collect over 500 pairs of
women’s shoes to be displayed on the steps of Parliament as a symbolic
representation of the missing and murdered women. The shoes will be
donated to women’s shelters in Ottawa and Montreal following the event.
Speakers at the vigil will include Kristen Gilchrist, Bridget Tolley and
Lindsay Mossman. Those with personal stories or insight about the Stolen
Sisters are welcome to come forward and share as well.
http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/vigil-for-the-500-missing-murdered-aboriginal-women/
Lead-up events in Montreal on FB:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107637102650491


Forum on Police Violence, Incarceration and Alternatives
7:00pm Friday March 18 – 5:00pm Saturday March 19
University of Ottawa
Full details:
http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/mar18-19-police-forum/

>> Friday 7pm: Opening panel
at Morisset Building Room 205, University of Ottawa
featuring: Ashanti Alston – Bridget Tolley – Julie Matson – Jaggi Singh

>> Saturday 11am-5pm:  full day of workshops and presentations
Morisset rooms 219, 221, 250, 256 – U of O campus
speakers include:
Sara Falconer – Gaetan Heroux – Anne K Abbot – Sunny Marriner – Karl
Kersblebedeb – Ottawa Movement Defence – POWER – ASTTQ – COBP – Matthew
Morgan-Brown – and many more…

The themes of the conference will be police violence, especially against
resistance movements, how to support prisoners, state violence against
indigenous communities, alternatives to prison, campaigns against state
repression and much more.

We hope that you will be inspired by the conference and that this
inspiration will translate into a renewal of local initiatives against
police violence, prisons and creating alternatives to both.

Contact: opirgrc at gmail.com or 613-230-3076
http://www.opirg-gripo.ca
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110054145735732
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128854827187121