[Indigsol] Oct. 16: ONE-DAY NATIONAL FAST TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN & CHILDREN and IPSMO Newsletter
Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement Ottawa
ipsmo at riseup.net
Thu Oct 15 11:10:09 PDT 2015
IPSMO Newsletter
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1. Oct. 16: ONE-DAY NATIONAL FAST TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN &
CHILDREN
2. Nov. 5 – 9 Climate Welcome (After the election, I’m risking arrest)
3. The Moose Hide Campaign
4. Chaudière Falls and Islands
a) Petition: To the Federal Party Leaders: Honour the Indigenous
Stewardship of the Chaudière Falls and its Islands
b) Kitigan Zibi’s Decontie Construction awarded $4.5 million Hydro
Quebec project
c) Hydro Power and Condo Towers: Development commences on sacred
Algonquin site despite ongoing opposition
d) Stolen Land and Sacred Falls: The Algonquin Land Claim and “Zibi”
Condominiums
e) Four Algonquin chiefs assert rights to title; call for an urgent
meeting about Akikodjiwan
f) Five Algonquin communities have united to speak out against the
proposed ‘Zibi’ development
g) Sacred Indigenous site near Parliament at risk of private
commercial development
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1) Oct. 16: ONE-DAY NATIONAL FAST TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN &
CHILDREN
Parliament Hill
Friday October 16, 2015
9am to 4pm
Potluck feast to follow.
Note:
You do not need to Fast to show your support. Your presence is a statement
to denounce holistic violence.
Please bring food to share with others as we break our Fast and Feast.
THE MEDICINE RESPONSE:
Recently, a public campaign of malicious attacks have been initiated
against several Indigenous women. This assault has now targeted their
children.
The women are well known in the community as leaders. Several of the women
are family members of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
and/or are Indigenous Knowledge Keepers.
Take action and denounce this violence publicly before it escalates to yet
another loss of life. Silence is violence and is a means to further
perpetuate violence.
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2) The Moose Hide Campaign: Indigenous and non-Indigenous men against
violence to women and children
The Moose Hide Campaign is a grassroots movement of Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal Men who are standing up against violence towards women and
children. Wearing this moose hide signifies your commitment to honour,
respect, and protect the women and children in your life and to work
together with other men to end violence against women and children. Our
vision is to spread the Moose Hide Campaign to organizations, communities,
and governments throughout Canada.
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3) Nov 5 – 9: Climate Welcome: (After the election, I’m risking arrest)
After the election, I’m risking arrest
Dear friends,
We’ve been thinking long and hard about how to make the big announcement
we’ve been hinting at for the past month. After much consideration, we
decided a simple invitation was all we needed.
This is an invitation for you to step up. To consider risking arrest in a
gentle but serious series of actions designed to welcome the next Prime
Minister, whoever he is, by calling on him to change the direction that
Canada has been headed.
You already know the facts. It’s a pivotal moment on our planet — 2015 has
been defined by the wildfires, floods and record breaking temperatures
that made headlines across Canada and around the globe this summer.
It’s also a pivotal moment in this country’s history. We’re in the midst
of an election where no political party with a chance of forming
government has a plan to do what scientists say is necessary to meet
global climate targets – keep at least 85% of tar sands oil in the ground.
In other words, we’re in a hole — and when you find yourself in a hole,
the first rule is: stop digging. Which is literally what we need our new
leader to commit to: freeze tar sands expansion, and allow no huge new
mines on top of the ones that already scar the landscape and poison the
environment in violation of the collective rights of Canada’s Indigenous
peoples.
It’s not a radical plan; indeed, given the science, what would be radical
is to keep digging. We need a calm, deliberate, and steady plan to wean
Canada off volatile boom-and-bust oil revenues, and reorient our economy
towards 21st—not 19th—century technology. We need to stop the violation of
Indigenous rights, erosion of democracy, and complete disregard of
scientific principles that has accompanied all-out government support for
tar sands expansion.
We need to push Canada towards helping solve the world’s problems instead
of making them much, much worse.
So here’s the plan.
Two weeks after the election, and just a few weeks before the Paris
climate talks kick off, we’re going to show up at the Prime Minister’s
residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa to create a kind of “climate
welcoming committee”.
For four days, we’ll march on the Prime Minister’s residence, sit-in and
deliver welcome gifts. The gifts will come from all across Canada and come
in many forms, from reports detailing how Canada can get off of fossil
fuels, to thousands of messages describing why a clean energy future is in
all of our best interest.
We will do it in a dignified fashion, demonstrating that our demands are
not radical, but rather that freezing tar sands expansion is the smartest
first step to getting Canada back on track.
Here’s what it could look like – Indigenous peoples, students, parents,
teachers, climate scientists and people from all across Canada ready to
greet the next prime minister right at his doorstep.
I hope you’ll think about joining in — click here to sign up.
Sincerely,
Clayton Thomas Muller
P.S. We’re preparing for every possible outcome of this election, and
going to be ready no matter what happens. That being said, we’d rather not
have to deal with another four years of Stephen Harper. While we’ve been
working hard to change Canada’s climate politics our good friends at
Leadnow.ca have been working tirelessly on a strategy to keep Harper from
another four years in power. It’s called Vote Together and we think it’s a
pretty great plan – click here to find out more and support it.
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4) Chaudière Falls and Islands
a) Petition: To the Federal Party Leaders: Honour the Indigenous
Stewardship of the Chaudière Falls and its Islands
The Chaudière Falls and its islands in Canada's Capital have been a sacred
healing and meeting place for Indigenous peoples from the East coast to
the Rockies for more than 5,000 years. We ask all Canadians to support our
call to keep these islands and waters open to all Canadians under the
stewardship of the Indigenous community.
https://www.change.org/p/to-the-federal-party-leaders-honour-the-indigenous-stewardship-of-the-chaudi%C3%A8re-falls-and-its-islands
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b) Kitigan Zibi’s Decontie Construction awarded $4.5 million Hydro
Quebec project
Kitigan Zibi, October 8, 2015 – Kitigan Zibi’s only general contracting
company, Decontie Construction, has been awarded a $4.5 million contract
by Hydro-Québec to dismantle the abandoned Corbeau Hydroelectric Station
adjacent to the reserve, which is located near Maniwaki, Quebec.
http://www.zibi.ca/kitigan-zibis-decontie-construction-awarded-4-5-million-hydro-quebec-project/
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c) Hydro Power and Condo Towers: Development commences on sacred
Algonquin site despite ongoing opposition
The expansion of the hydro dam on Chaudière Island has recently begun.
According to Energy Ottawa, a new 29 megawatt power plant will be located
adjacent to the Chaudière Falls ring dam, despite the objections of
several Algonquin band councils, the Assembly of First Nations of
Québec-Labrador (AFNQL), and many Ottawa residents.
http://www.leveller.ca/2015/09/hydro-power-condo-towers/
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d) Stolen Land and Sacred Falls: The Algonquin Land Claim and “Zibi”
Condominiums
Parliament sits on a hill that overlooks the Ottawa River; the hill, the
river behind it, and the entire Ottawa River watershed was stolen from the
Algonquin people and remains their territory. It has taken Canadians and
the Canadian government centuries to acknowledge the reality that we are
on Algonquin land.
http://www.leveller.ca/2015/10/stolen-land-sacred-falls/
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e) Four Algonquin chiefs assert rights to title; call for an urgent
meeting about Akikodjiwan
Chief Harry St. Denis, Chief Terrance McBride, Chief Lance Haymond and
Chief Casey Ratt say in the letter that they “strongly object to this
project proceeding [the excavation by Energy Ottawa] without Algonquin
First Nations first being consulted about this project.”
http://freethefalls.ca/news/four-algonquin-chiefs-assert-rights-to-title-call-for-an-urgent-meeting-about-akikodjiwan/
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f) Five Algonquin communities have united to speak out against the
proposed ‘Zibi’ development
Five Algonquin First Nations are calling for protection of the important
Algonquin site on the Ottawa River, and stating their opposition to the
re-zoning of Chaudiere and Albert Islands for Windmill’s condo
development. The First Nations are Wolf Lake, Timiskaming, Eagle Village,
Barriere Lake and Long Point. Read the joint statement from four of the
First Nations here.
http://freethefalls.ca/news/five-algonquin-communities-have-united-to-speak-out-against-the-proposed-zibi-development/
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g) Sacred Indigenous site near Parliament at risk of private
commercial development
Ottawa City Council has approved a rezoning application for
private and commercial development on two islands at the Chaudière
Falls, about a kilometre upstream from the Parliament buildings
on the Ottawa River. The decision, made at a council meeting on Oct. 8,
came despite numerous objections from citizens as well as a formal
request for further dialogue from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Chief
Gilbert W. Whiteduck.
http://equitableeducation.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/chaudiere-handout-2pg.pdf
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On stolen Algonquin land
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