[Indigsol] IPSMO Newsletter, January 6 2015
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IPSMO Newsletter, January 6 2015
Happy New Year!
It's 2015 and if you live in Ottawa, or within the Ottawa-river watershed,
you're still living in the occupied territory of the Algonquin nation.
Upcoming events:
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- Sunday, January 11: Akikpautik/Chaudiere Falls Planning Meeting
- Thursday, February: Russell Diabo Lecture: Federal Comprehensive
Claims Policy vs. Aboriginal Title
- Friday, February 13: National Day of Action - Shut Down Canada!
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Articles:
- 11 Ways Indigenous Rights Won in 2014 by John Ahni Schertow
- It felt like there was no end to the screaming sadness by Melina
Laboucan-Massimo
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Other:
- #ItStartsWithUs - Supporting the Resurgence of Community-Based
Responses to Violence
- April 22 Celebrating the Defense of Mother Earth: Ending Gender and
Environmental Violence
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Upcoming events:
Sunday, January 11: Akikpautik/Chaudiere Falls Planning Meeting
Awakening Global Hearts of Universal Humanity
Connecting with Resonance
"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve." Napoleon
Hill
Sunday, January 11th/ 2015 - 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm
The Kitchissippi United Church
630 Island Park Drive (turn onto Byng Dr.)
Ottawa, ON
Bus transportation to Westgate Mall is by #176
Potluck evening starts 6 pm or come for 7 pm
Creating compassionate cities caring for nature, Earth, air and water
Celebrating the question: "What is a "Healthy Society - Healthy Democracy"
in these changing transforming times of a new world and new energy coming
forth?
PLEASE NOTE:
These evenings also include inspiring groups conversations related to the
OMB appeal to protect and care for Chaudière + Albert Islands Heritage for
future generations.
Please also take an action to sign and share the petition to Mayor Jim
Watson
to Free the Chaudière Falls and Free Ourselves at the following links:
http://www.change.org/p/jim-watson-free-the-falls-lib%C3%
A9rer-les-chutes-let-s-get-rid-of-the-chaudiere-dam
Or check out our website along the right side under Petitions - both in
French and English to share. www.FreeTheFalls.com
Info: Judith Matheson (Heart & Soul Light Centre) 819-684-3099 or
Sylvia Parker (Team Global Wellness) 613-721-0039
PROMOTING and ELEVATING Consciousness
Sharing and Networking
ALSO NOTE: Saturday, Jan. 31st, Feb. 28th, Mar. 28th / 7 pm - 9 pm
Stories + Drumming // For All Ages All Cultures!
101 Symmes St. Christ Church Sanctuary or Hall
1st St. Rt. past Tim Horton's rue Principle, Gatineau/Aylmer Quebec
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Russell Diabo Lecture: Federal Comprehensive Claims Policy vs. Aboriginal
Title
Thursday, February 5
Russell Diabo will deliver a public lecture entitled "Federal Comprehensive
Claims Policy vs. Aboriginal Title" as part of Carleton University's
Aboriginal awareness initiatives.
Diabo is a member of the Mohawk Nation from Kahnawake, and a Policy Advisor
to the Algonquin Nation Secretariat and Algonquin Wolf Lake First Nation;
he is also the Editor and Publisher of an online newsletter on First
Nations political and legal issues the First Nations Strategic Bulletin.
Diabo has been an activist on First Nations issues since the age of 16 and
is part of the Defenders of the Land network and works closely with Idle No
More under a joint agreement between these two groups to work together on
Indigenous Sovereignty.
Location:
Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive
Dunton Tower, room 2017
Thursday, 5 February 6:30pm
Nearest paid parking is available in Lot 1, behind the Library (link:
carleton.ca/campus/map/#P1)
Light refreshments will be served.
For more: https://www.facebook.com/events/978547202174879/
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National Day of Action -Shut Down Canada!
Friday, February 13
The system has failed us all miserably. There is no democracy and we the
people have an obligation to demand justice for all. The current status quo
in so called Canada serves only the elite few while the majority of
Canadians are financial slaves to the system. Politicians do not represent
the people, nor have they ever. Indigenous communities know this all too
well and have been actively resisting subjugation since contact with the
first colonizers who illegally imposed their jurisdiction through covert
biological warfare and the ongoing genocide implemented with the
residential school system.
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/452509068236441/
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Articles:
11 Ways Indigenous Rights Won in 2014 by John Ahni Schertow
The story of Indigenous Rights is often a tale of tragedy and loss. Even
with the exponential growth of the Indigenous Peoples movement over the
past ten years, Nation States around the world are carrying out legislative
and judicial offenses like never before. Corporations, meanwhile, continue
to receive the right of way to Indigenous lands causing dozens if not
hundreds of social, political, cultural, economic and environmental
catastrophes that won't be soon forgotten. Fortunately, despite the many
losses to Indigenous Peoples, lands and rights that we witnessed in 2014,
there were a lot of great victories and successes too.
For the rest of the article: https://intercontinentalcry.
org/11-ways-indigenous-rights-won-in-2014/
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It felt like there was no end to the screaming sadness
By Melina Laboucan-Massimo
Special to APTN National News
The day I found out that my sister Bella had been found dead on the terrace
of a high-rise condo near Toronto's waterfront, without an explanation of
why or how she fell, was the day I understood what it feels like to grieve
so deeply and so immensely that nothing else matters.
It felt like there was no end to the screaming sadness.
When I let myself feel the horror and the pain from that day, I am reminded
of all the memories that Bella and I had together growing up and all the
future moments we will not share.
For the rest of the article: http://aptn.ca/news/2014/09/
25/felt-like-end-screaming-sadness-one-sisters-take-mmiw/
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Other:
#ItStartsWithUs - Supporting the Resurgence of Community-Based Responses to
Violence
This is a collaborative response from Families of Sisters in Spirit (FSIS),
No More Silence (NMS) and the Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN) to
the calls for a national inquiry by some family members of missing and
murdered women. We come together here to name specific forms of state
violence - as much of the violence we face as communities, nations, and
families stems from colonial nation-states like Canada and the US and the
laws themselves. Structures of colonialism (i.e. state governments, foster
care, prisons, social services) are responsible for and contribute to
ongoing violence against Indigenous women, girls, Two Spirit, and lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning intersex, and
asexual (LGBTTQQIA) people.
For more information: http://nationsrising.org/it-starts-with-us/
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April 22 Celebrating the Defense of Mother Earth: Ending Gender and
Environmental Violence
The IPSM Ottawa will be organizing our 4th annual Celebrating the Defense
of Mother Earth. This year we will be looking at the connections between
gender violence and environmental violence, between the impact that the
pollution of the water on our health, the effects of global climate change
and violence against indigenous women, girls and two-spirits.
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