[Indigsol] Tomorrow - Arrival of Walk For Mother Earth - plus June19 followup
IPSMO
ipsmo at riseup.net
Sat Jun 21 09:57:36 PDT 2014
Kwey kwey / hello,
In today's email, we would like to invite you to:
*Join in to welcome the arrival of The Walk For Mother Earth*
on *Sunday June 22* (tomorrow):
*2:00pm - Arrival on Parliament Hill*,
with speakers and musical performers.
*1:00pm - Walk the last 3km with the walkers*:
meet at Rivierain Park, SW corner of Montréal Rd. & North River Rd.
Come show your solidarity with all peoples across North America who are
fighting for a pipeline free future!
Background info:
http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/a-walk-for-mother-earth/
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*We'd also like to thank everyone who came out to our event this past
Thursday* at the Mayfair - Indigenous Resistance & Solidarity: Against
Pipelines, For The Land
We've posted followup information/links on all the projects and upcoming
events profiled at the event, please see them at this link
http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/june19-followup/
or keep scrolling down below to read in full...
But first, we'd like to wish you a wonderful *National Aboriginal Day *and*
Summer Solstice*! Here are a few links from this and past years:
- Northern Gateway and National Aboriginal Day: Reconciliation postponed
(2014)
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/kairos-canada/2014/06/northern-gateway-and-national-aboriginal-day-reconciliation-pos
- Civil disobedience and the truth about Canadian history: Reflections
on National Aboriginal Day (2013)
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/06/civil-disobedience-and-truth-about-canadian-history-reflections-on-national-aboriginal-
- National Aboriginal Day - Voices of Idle No More (video, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8wsMEMvOlg
- Remembering William Commanda on National Aboriginal Day (2012)
http://rabble.ca/news/2012/06/remembering-william-commanda-national-aboriginal-day
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*Thanks and info from June 19: Indigenous Resistance and Solidarity *
http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/june19-followup/
A roundup of information details and links from the June 19 event,
Indigenous Resistance and Solidarity: Against Pipelines, For The Land.
The opening / prayer was performed by *Albert Dumont, “South Wind”* – his
website is www.AlbertDumont.com
Our guest of honour was *James Taylor*, who just that morning had finished
walking from Victoria to Ottawa, “*Walking for the Survivors and The Family
that Never Made it Home
<https://www.facebook.com/walkingforourlostrelations>*“
The three profiled initiatives were:
- The *Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival <http://asinabkafestival.org>*,
July 23-27
“Celebrating Indigenous Arts in Algonquin Territory”
- also with a screening June 21st, 8:30-10pm on Bank St (b/w Slater &
Gilmour) in partnership with Glow Fair
<https://www.facebook.com/glowfairfestival> and the Ottawa-International
Animation-Festival
<https://www.facebook.com/OttawaInternationalAnimationFestival>: WELCOME
TO KANATA,An Animation Program Curated by Ariel Smith.Presented on National
Aboriginal Day
- *ReachUp! North*
ReachUp! empowers young university graduates to deliver technology and
business training in vulnerable communities.
- Visit Digital Opportunity Trust www.dotrust.org and watch for the
launch of Assembly of 7 Generations www.a7g.dotrust.org coming soon.
Also check out www.facebook.com/assemblyofsevengenerations
<http://www.facebook.com/aseemblyofsevengenerations> or contact
Gabrielle Fayant at gfayant.a7g at dotrust.org or Brock Lewis at
blewis.a7g at dotrust.org
- *Peoples Social Forum* – Ottawa, August 21-24, 2014
Build together, win together! The Future is Ours!
www.PeoplesSocialForum.org
- please also the Invitation for Indigenous Participation
<http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/peoples-social-forum-indigenous-participation/>
we’ve put together
Three of the four films shown are available in full online:
- *Harsha Walia on Anti-Oppression, Decolonization and Responsible
Allyship* (2012, 10min)
http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/harsha-walia-video-interview/
- *Showdown at Highway 134* (2013, 5min)
http://www.submedia.tv/showdown-at-highway-134/
- *Kahsatstenhsera: Indigenous Resistance to Tar Sands Pipelines* (2013,
10min) http://reclaimturtleisland.com/videos/
- … and the fourth film, *RESIST: The Unist’ot’en’s Call To The Land*,
is obtainable for screenings by contacting resistfilm at riseup.net – and
the trailer is at: http://vimeo.com/74788986
There was also a presentation from *Ben Powless of Ecology Ottawa* on the
Unist’ot’en Camp, on the Tar Sands, and on local Ottawa anti-pipeline
organizing. Three related upcoming events are:
- Arrival of A Walk for Mother Earth
Sun June 22, 2:00pm, at Parliament Hill
* or meet 1:00pm at Rivierain Park, corner of Montreal and North River
roads, to walk the last 3km
contact: peopleformotherearth at gmail.com or 647-204-1147
ipsmo.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/a-walk-for-mother-earth/
- Ecology Ottawa – Energy East (pipeline) info session
Thursday July 3, 7:00pm, at Kitchissippi United Church, 630 Island Park
Dr
www.facebook.com/events/1429734070643814 or: ben.powless at ecologyottawa.ca
- Meeting to plan Ottawa solidarity for Unist’ot’en Camp
Thursday, July 10, 6:00pm, at CUPW (377 Bank at Gilmour)
Other upcoming events
- Red Man Laughing on CBC Radio One
Fri June 20, 2pm all time zones
91.5 FM in Ottawa or http://cbc.ca/radio
http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/red-man-laughing-marks-aboriginal-day-1.2681076
http://rmlpodcast.com/news/2014/6/red-man-laughing-comes-to-cbc-radio-1-on-friday-june-20th-2014
- Indigenous Peasant Farmers’ Land Rights and Forced Displacement in
Guatemala
Fri June 20, 7pm
Octopus Books Centretown, 251 Bank St 2nd floor
http://octopusbooks.ca/event/indigenous-peasant-farmers-land-rights-and-forced-displacement-guatemala
- 17th Annual Noongam Traditional Powwow
Fri-Sun, June 20-22, Queen Juliana Park, at Dow’s Lake
Carling Ave and Preston St (Prince of Wales Dr)
http://www.noongam.50megs.com/photo4.html
- Summer Solstice Aboriginal Festival & Competition Powwow
Fri-Sun, June 20-22, Vincent Massey Park
http://www.ottawasummersolstice.ca/
- Book Launch: Moving Aboriginal Health Forward: Discarding Canada’s
Legal Barriers
Tues June 24, 7pm
at Octopus Books Centretown, 251 Bank St 2nd floor
http://octopusbooks.ca/event/book-launch-moving-aboriginal-health-forward-discarding-canadas-legal-barriers
- Book Launch & Potluck: The Truth That Wampum Tells
Thurs June 26, 5:30-8:00pm
at Octopus Books Centretown, 251 Bank St 2nd floor
http://octopusbooks.ca/event/book-launch-pot-luck-truth-wampum-tells
- Connecting with Resonance: What is De-colonization?
For the Sake of the Children – Care for Our Earth – Free the Falls Free
Ourselves!
Thurs June 26, 7pm, Ottawa Citizen Building, 1101 Baxter Rd
https://ipsmo.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/awaken_june26_2014.pdf
- Open Meeting / Orientation for IPSMO, the Indigenous Peoples
Solidarity Movement Ottawa
Saturday July 12, 2:00pm, at the Friends House (91A Fourth Ave)
https://www.facebook.com/events/782302598456896
And – the partner organizations who collaborated on the event:
- IPSMO – Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa
www.ipsmo.org
sign up for our newsletter: www.bit.ly/indigsol
- Ecology Ottawa
www.ecologyottawa.ca <http://ecologyottawa.ca/>
www.ecologyottawa.ca/campaigns/tar-free-613
<http://ecologyottawa.ca/campaigns/tar-free-613/>
- Council of Canadians
www.canadians.org
- CPAWS – Ottawa Valley Chapter
(Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society)
www.cpaws-ov-vo.org
<http://cpaws-ov-vo.org>
- Peoples Social Forum
www.peoplessocialforum.org
And special thanks to Southminster United Church for hosting the post-event
social; the Indigenous ladies singing group for the songs at the Mayfair,
and the OTown Boyz for the druming at the social!
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