[Indigsol] 2 events in next 2 days

[ipsmo at riseup.net]

Two upcoming events:
(details follow)


Mon 6:00pm, Aug 13
- Book launch: Fractured Homeland by Bonita Lawrence
Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario
... at Minwaashin Lodge, 525 Catherine St, 2nd floor


Tues 7:00pm, Aug 14
- Panel discussion: Political Prisoners, the G20 and Anti-Colonial
Resistance from Canada to Palestine
... at McNabb Community Centre, 180 Percy St



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EVENT #1:

Book Launch of Bonita Lawrence new book: Fractured Homeland: Federal
Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario.

Featuring author Bonita Lawrence, Bob Majaury (Ottawa Algonquins), Daniel
Bernard Amikwabe (Algonquin Union) & other speakers!

Monday August 13, 6:00pm-8:00pm
Minwaashin Lodge, 424 Catherine St (2nd floor)
Ottawa, Unceded Algonquin Territory

Free admission; copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Hosted by Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa (IPSMO),
co-sponsored by Minwaashin Lodge and Octopus Books.

Fractured Homeland is about non-status Algonquins in Ontario — their
diverse struggles around identity and nationhood — set against the
backdrop of the Algonquin comprehensive land claim

About the author: Bonita Lawrence (Mi’kmaw) teaches Indigenous Studies at
York University in Toronto. She is the author of “Real” Indians and
Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native People and Indigenous Nationhood.

More info:
http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/fractured-homeland-launch/



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EVENT #2:

Political Prisoners, the G20 and Anti-Colonial Resistance from Canada to
Palestine

Tuesday, August 14
7:00pm
McNabb Community Centre
180 Percy St., Corner of Gladstone and Percy

Books 2 Prisoners, Students Against Israeli Apartheid - Carleton and the
Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement of Ottawa, present:

A panel with:

Nahla Abdo
Byron Sonne
Ryan Rainville

Books 2 Prisoners acknowledges that Ottawa is the unceded, occupied and
traditional territory of the Algonquin Nation.

There are political prisoners in Canada and around the world. Most recently
many activists were arrested and a small number of them charged for their
political activities. There was a clear increase in the scope and level of
repression that the Canadian state was willing to engage in to suppress and
criminalize dissent. Examples include Roger Clement who is serving a four
year sentence for his role in the arson of a Royal Bank of Canada and
mischief over $5000 to a different RBC, and Amanda Hiscocks, who is
currently serving a sixteen month sentence for her organizing against the
G20 in Toronto in 2010.

However, indigenous people in Canada and the Americas have been resisting
colonization for 500+ years, and have and continue to face some of the
harshest and most brutal political repression of their struggles for
justice, dignity and self-determination. Similarly indigenous palestinians
have been resisting British and subsequently Jewish and Israeli
colonization of their land and lives since at least the 1920s. Palestinians
in Palestine as well as the diaspora continue to endure some of the worst
conditions on the planet. And yet in spite of the vicious repression that
indigenous people in Canada, Palestine and around the world experience they
also continue to provide an inspiring example of resistance for everyone
struggling for social justice and liberation.

Nahla Abdo is a professor at Carleton University.

Byron Sonne was arrested on June 22, 2010, Byron was arrested in his home
in Forest Hill, Toronto in relation to the G20 Summit. After his arrest,
Byron was charged with six offenses and held without bail for a total of
330 days. At trial, all charges were dismissed and he was found not guilty.

Ryan Rainville was arrested on August 5th and released on strict bail
conditions on November 9th. On Monday Dec. 5th, 2011 Ryan Rainville
received a conditional sentence of 4 months under house arrest, followed by
4 months curfew and then one year probation. Ryan had plead guilty to 3
counts of Mischief over $5000 for using a red and black flag and a hammer
to destroy Toronto Police cruisers during the G20 riot last year. He also
plead guilty to a Breach of Peace.

More info: http://bookstoprisonersottawa.wordpress.com/
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