[IPSMO] Reoccupation: Call for Action

[IPSMO]

Hello,

We want to let you know about an upcoming grassroot event in Ottawa
titled REOCCUPATION, which will be led by the Bawaating Water Protectors
and Keepers. It will take place from June 28 to July 2nd.

The Ottawa community is asked for support by volunteering to host water
protectors and/or to cook, to donate. (see forms to sign up below).
Please look out for the press release, which should be shared on our
facebook page and via email very soon. 
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Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1923800771235696/

Description:

The Bawaating Water Protectors are coming to Ottawa, on unceded and
unsurrendered Algonquin territory, for a four-day long public Ceremony.
Join our us and support them.

As part of Idle No More - OFFICIAL- Unsettling Canada 150: A Call to
Action (http://www.idlenomore.ca/unsettling_150_a_call_to_action) , the
Bawaating Water Protectors from Sault St Marie will come to tell another
story and to reject the upcoming celebrations. Along with a four-day
fasting ceremony, from June 28th to July 2nd, sustained programming will
also take place in the form of public panels, performance art and
workshops. 

Where: Downtown, T.B.A
When: June 28th to July 2st
What: Public Ceremony to #Unsettle150 and sustained programming (Art,
performances)

This will be a Two-Spirit and LGBTQIA+ inclusive space. We want to thank
the Onaman Collective, Christi Belcourt and Isaac Murdoch for endorsing
this event by agreeing to share their art and by donating. 

"Given that Canada 150 celebrations will be taking place in less than 3
weeks, the organizers of REOCCUPATION are calling on all Nations across
Turtle Island to join us on July 1, 2017 to reoccupy the traditional
lands of the Algonquin people by setting up tipis, wigwams, longhouses,
or other lodges used by our respective nations on parliament hill.

The goal of this call to action is to reaffirm our rightful claim to
these lands as the original caretakers of Turtle Island, and to demand
the repatriation of the territories that were and are illegally seized
by the Canadian state. This is not a celebration of Canada, but
assertion of indigenous self-determination and sovereignties over our
lives, lands, languages and cultures, among other aspects of living
Mino-Bimaadziwin (the good life).

We recognize that the colonial legal state of Canada does not and cannot
serve indigenous people as agents of our own lives. The inability of the
Canadian government to carry out inquiries into missing and murdered
Indigenous women and girls; the over representation of indigenous people
in the justice system, including unconstitutional imprisonments of land
and water protectors; the lack of health and welfare services for
indigenous communities; the inability to conform to free, prior, and
informed consent surrounding resource extraction, among other things all
serve as evidence to Canada’s inability or unwillingness to work with
Indigenous nations on a ‘nation-to-nation’ basis."



How can you help and support? See below: 

DONATE:
https://www.youcaring.com/bawatingwaterprotectors-843534

FORM TO HOST WATER PROTECTORS: https://goo.gl/forms/Hp5IeNsiT0GDBese2

FORM TO FEED THE WATER PROTECTORS:
https://goo.gl/forms/EnFbGBGtNbEQyoBu2

FORM TO JOIN THE INDIGENOUS YOUTH ART TEAM:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BbKU5-nPaCli_s9xTfprvabWgdnDBN-HIW5gnYcYFxw/viewform?edit_requested=true

We ask that you, your community, and your organization join us to send a
loud and clear message to Canada and the world that we will no longer
accept the colonial system of dispossession, expropriation, and
oppression that Canada has imposed on us for the past 150 years.

CALL FOR SPEAKERS AND PERFORMERS:

Interested? Contact Us at: TurtleIslandwaterprotectors at gmail.com or on
our facebook page (or fill the forms). 

Idle No More's National Call to Action facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/193248851194723/

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Thank you! Migwetch! 

-- 
Love and Solidarity,
IPSMO - Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement - Ottawa
On stolen Algonquin land
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