[Indigsol] Feb 28: Open Meeting for the IPSM Ottawa and Feb. 25 RALLY/MARCH To Save Odawa 510 Rideau Drop-In Centre !!

[Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement Ottawa]

Open Meeting for the IPSM Ottawa

Saturday, February 28 at 2pm
McNabb Community Center, Community Room
180 Percy St.
ipsmo at riseup.net
http://www.ipsmo.wordpress.com/
The art is by Tania Willard.

The IPSM Ottawa is a local, grassroots indigenous solidarity collective
that supports indigenous struggles for justice and decolonization.

We have been organizing in Ottawa for the past 8 years and have done, and
do, solidarity organizing with Six Nations land defenders, the Algonquins
of Barriere Lake, supporting activist and organizations working for
justice for missing and murdered women, girls, two-spirits and their
families, and many other communities, campaigns and issues.

We are currently working on our 4th annual event Celebrating the Defense
of Mother Earth. We are organizing to raise awareness about the
interconnection between violence against indigenous women, girls and
two-spirits and violence against the environment.

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RALLY/MARCH To Save Odawa 510 Rideau Drop-In Centre !!

Wednesday, March 25 at 10am
Parliament Hill

UNITY FOR THE COMMUNITY!

Join us on Wednesday, February 25th at 10 a.m to begin with a peaceful
march to have the voices of the homeless heard in telling the Government
of Canada and the City of Ottawa to restore funding to the Odawa Native
Friendship Centre’s Shawenjeagamik - Centre 510 Drop-In Centre for First
Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples!

(Shawnejeagamik means ‘House of Compassion’ in the Algonquin language).

Join us in solidarity for the betterment of all

There will be some great advocates and speakers, including Ottawa-Centre
NDP MP Paul Dewar, for example, and lots of others voicing their support
alongside the most vulnerable in our society - this being the homeless -
who will tell their stories on how the elimination of funding for their
Centre 510 Rideau and the Bannock Bus will directly affect them and the
community of Ottawa located on un-surrendered, non-ceded Algonquin
Territory!

The march itself will begin at the Peace Flame on Parliament Hill, and
continue on a route that will take us down Wellington Street and turning
onto Elgin Street, continuing to Laurier Avenue to City Hall of Ottawa.

Once Gathered at City Hall, we will hear a Prayer and Honor Song in
accordance with the Traditional Indigenous Protocol of the First Peoples
to begin the rally.

There will also be a beautiful and memorable “Unity For The Community -
Round Dance Ceremony" for those able to participate.

Please bring your signs and pickets so we can have the voices of the
Indigenous Peoples who are “Homeless on the Homelands” heard!

PleaseTweet: #unity4thecommunity #homelessonthehomelands

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Love and Solidarity,
IPSMO
On stolen Algonquin land
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twitter: @IPSMO1