[Indigsol] Update & Upcoming events

[ipsm ottawa]

Hello everyone,

We had a very successful launch of our Honouring Indigenous Women's
campaign last night. Thank you very much for your support. To share
information about our campaign, please check this link -
http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/honouring-indigenous-women-campaign/. We are
also calling for submissions for our 2nd volume of Honouring Indigenous
Women booklet. Please visit our web site - www.ipsmo.org - for submission
details.

Below are the 2 events coming up in the next few days. Hope you can come
out and participate!


   - March 24: Expose & Oppose Racism, Communities March Against Racism
   - March 26: For the Next 7 Generations Film Screening & Discussion

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*March 24: Expose & Oppose Racism, Communities March Against Racism*
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*1pm Saturday March 24, 2012*
*Confederation Park, Ottawa*
*Unceded Algonquin Territory*
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The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination honoured
on March 21st marks the anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in
South Africa when white apartheid police opened fire on hundreds of South
Africans protesting against Apartheid's passbook laws, killing 67 and
wounding 186. It has become a day for anti-racist action around the world,
not only to remind ourselves of the past and present racism in our society
but also to strengthen our resistance against white supremacy in all facets
of life. The 1960 incidence in South Africa will not be remembered as a
single example of racialized violence that happened in a far off place and
in a distant past, but as a continuing process of colonization that has
also existed here on Turtle Island (also known as North America) for more
than 519 years.

Canada is a white settler country established on stolen Indigenous lands.
Canada is also an apartheid state that supports other Apartheid regimes
such as Israel that occupies Indigenous Palestinian territories. The legacy
of ongoing colonialism lives on as the Canadian government actively
participates in the violent dispossession and destruction of Indigenous
peoples’ lands through resource extraction projects like the Alberta Tar
Sands and through assimilation legislation such as the Indian Act. The
consistent silencing and lack of justice for the over 600 missing and
murdered Indigenous women and the socioeconomic deprivation of First
Nations peoples living on Reserves like Attawapiskat exposes Canada's
ultimate objective of genocide of Indigenous peoples.

The speedy and undemocratic passing of the Omnibus Crime Bill and the
ironically named Human Smuggling Bill C-4 now in its second reading, are
further examples of the Conservative's racist agenda. These racist laws
backed by the recent expansion of prisons are intended to criminalize and
incarcerate marginalized peoples including Indigenous and other racialized
peoples, migrant workers and asylum seekers. In addition, the racial
effects of mechanisms such as Security Certificates that targets foreign
nationals and non-citizens living in Canada, has had devastating effects on
the lives of those subject to a certificate and on the lives of their
families. We also know that in communities of color, racial profiling is
often practised by the police to put our youth behind walls and bars,
stacked like sardines, their bodies commodified into the prison industrial
complex. Once these prisons are full, private industry then lobbies the
state for private for-profit super prisons.

*Racism dehumanizes us all. Ending racism is a precondition of a just
world; it is the responsibility of all peoples.*

Please Join us in solidarity on March 24th as we rally in our communities
to expose and oppose racism.

On this day we are remembering those who have fought and died fighting
against racism and other forms of oppression by actively renewing our
steadfast resistance within our communities.

We encourage our friends and allies to be pro-active in countering racism.

*Speakers include:*

Bridget Tolley of FSIS, Clayton Thomas-Muller of IEN, Sophie Larmarche
Harkat of the Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee, Faye Estrella
(Festrell) and more…

For more info: http://exposeandoppose.wordpress.com/

This event is endorsed by Anti-Racist Action Ottawa, Common Cause, Families
of Sisters in Spirit (FSIS), IPSMO, The Justice for Mohamed
Harkat Committee, POWER, SAIA, and SWCHC



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*March 26: For the Next 7 Generations Film Screening & Discussion*


*4 pm, Monday, March 26th, 2012*
*Jock Turcot Centre, (University Centre) main floor near Agora Book store*
*85 University private, K1N 6N5*
*Parking: www.uottawa.ca/maps*

Organized by I.S.A - UOttawa

This even is free for everyone to attend (donations are welcome), and
includes unique and traditionally prepared appetizers from Wawatay
Catering. We'd also like thank the UOttawa Aboriginal Resource Centre and
Sustainable Development for their support.

In conjunction with National Aboriginal Awareness Day, the University of
Ottawa Indigenous Students Association (I.S.A) is excited to host one of
the Thirteen Grandmothers Margaret Behan Red (Red Spider Woman) for a
facilitated discussion and film screening of *"For The Next Seven
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Please join us as she shares her wisdom and vision to protect and restore
our Mother Earth, and to bring this mending through the collective resolve
in ourselves as people.

*Synopsis:*

(taken from the website)

In 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers from all four corners, moved by
their concern for our planet, came together at a historic gathering, where
they decided to form an alliance: The International Council of Thirteen
Indigenous Grandmothers. This is their story. Four years in-the-making and
shot on location in the Amazon rainforest, the mountains of Mexico, North
America, and at a private meeting with the Dalai Lama in India, For the
Next 7 Generations follows what happens when these wise women unite. Facing
a world in crisis, they share with us their visions of healing and a call
for change now, before it's too late. This film documents their
unparalleled journey and timely perspectives on a timeless wisdom.
www.forthenext7generations.com



In Solidarity,

IPSMO

on unceded Algonquin Territory

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Web Site: http://www.ipsmo.org
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