[Indigsol] April 22: Barriere Lake film & speakers in Ottawa

[IPSMO]

April 22 – HONOUR YOUR WORD
Celebrating the Defense of Mother Earth!

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*Movie Screening and Fund Raiser for the Algonquins of Barriere Lake*

With special guests:
Barriere Lake community members including Norm Matchewan and Elder Michel
Thusky, and (via Skype) filmmaker Martha Stiegman

*Tuesday, April 22 at 6:30pm*
at the *Mayfair Theatre*
1074 Bank St. (near Sunnyside)
Buses # 1 & 7 (Bank) or # 5 (Riverdale)

$5-15 suggested donation
(no one turned away for lack of funds)
Fundraiser for Barriere Lake: click here to donate
now<https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=ZWW9RLSEJ97UN>


*Honour Your Word* is a new documentary film – an intimate portrait of life
behind the barricades for the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, an inspiring
First Nation whose dignity and courage contrast sharply with the political
injustice they face.

Click for trailer <http://vimeo.com/71470916> -- Click for 9-min interview
with filmmaker <https://soundcloud.com/ipsmo/martha-stiegman-honour-your>


Presented by the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa, with Diffusion
Multi-Monde <http://diffusionmultimonde.com/> and co-sponsors MiningWatch
Canada <http://miningwatch.ca/>,
OPIRG-Carleton<http://www.opirgcarleton.org/>and
OPIRG/GRIPO-Ottawa <http://opirg-gripo.ca/>.


 *Accessibility Notes:*

   - The Mayfair Theatre has side entrances that are wheelchair accessible.
   The washrooms are not, but Shoppers Drug Mart (located next door) does have
   accessible washrooms.
   - Please refrain from wearing perfumes, colognes or other scented
   products
   - Please contact us if you require ASL/LSQ
   - Please contact us if you require bus tickets

Contact: ipsmo at riseup.net – www.ipsmo.org


*Please help us promote this event!*

   - RSVP and invite your friends on
Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/events/266953060131769/>
   - Send out an email with all this info, or the link to this
page<http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/april-22-honour-your-word/>,
   to your contacts
   - Print off posters – 8.5×11 letter
size<http://ipsmo.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/honouryourword-poster-8-5x11.pdf>or
11×17
   tabloid size<http://ipsmo.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/honouryourword-poster-11x17.pdf>–
to put up somewhere good
   - Print off 1/4-page
flyers<http://ipsmo.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/honour-your-word-flyers.pdf>to
hand out or leave out
   - Help us fundraise for this event with this organizational request
   letter<http://ipsmo.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/ipsmo-request_abl-apr22support.pdf>


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*Celebrating the Defense of Mother Earth!*

This movie screening of Honour Your Word is the IPSM Ottawa’s 3rd “Earth
Day” event Celebrating the Defense of Mother Earth!

Last year we were honoured to work with Defenders of the Land and Land
Defenders from Six Nations and we raised $1405 for the legal defense of
activists from Six Nations, and in 2009 we organized our 1st event with
Minwaashin Lodge, the Tungasuvvingat Inuit, and others.

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*More about the movie – Honour Your Word (2013, 59min):*

New Algonquin leaders are followed as their community fights to protect
their land, their way of life and their language.

The title refers to the Algonquins of Barriere Lake’s campaign slogan
demanding Canada and Quebec honour a precedent-setting conservation deal
signed in 1991. Director Martha Stiegman spent four years shooting this
poetic, heartfelt documentary that challenges stereotypes of “angry
Indians.” Honour Your Word juxtaposes starkly contrasting landscapes—the
majesty of the bush, a dramatic highway stand-off against a riot squad,
daily life within the confines of the reserve—to reveal the spirit of a
people for whom blockading has become a part of their way of life, a life
rooted in the forest they are defending.

For more information:

   - barrierelakesolidarity.org <http://www.barrierelakesolidarity.org/>
   - honouryourword-film.ca
   - ipsmo.wordpress.com/mitchikanibikok-inik
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