[IPSM] Upcoming Events

[Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movment - Montreal]

UPCOMING IPSM EVENTS
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(1) Film Screening: AS LONG AS THE RIVERS FLOW
(2) Panel Discussion: THE ROOTS OF WAR: 500 YEARS OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE
(3) GRASSY NARROWS SPEAKERS TOUR
(4) Teach-In Against War: OUR WORDS ARE WEAPONS
(5) Delta Hotels SOLIDARITY PICKET FOR SECWEPEMC ABORIGINAL TITLE AND
RIGHTS (6) Sign on to an Open Letter to Quebecor
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(1) AS LONG AS THE RIVERS FLOW
FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1:45-3:30pm
First Peoples’ House, 3505 rue Peel (metro Peel)
Film screening and discussion presented by youth from Grassy Narrows

As Long as the Rivers Flow is a documentary film that tells of the
blockade that the Anishinaabek community of Grassy Narrows erected on Dec.
3 2002. Now over a year into the blockade, the people of Grassy Narrows
continue to defend their Traditional Land Use Area from clearcutting by
the Montreal based pulp and paper corporation, Abitibi Consolidated, and
struggle against the Ontario and Canadian governments’ failure to act in
accordance with their own colonial laws and treaties.

Organized by the McGill First Peoples’ House, the Aboriginal Student’s
Network, and the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement, with the generous
support of McGill Chaplaincy.


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(2) THE ROOTS OF WAR: 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 7pm
1710, rue Beaudry (metro Beaudry)

A panel discussion with youth from Grassy Narrows, an Indigenous community
blockading in defense of their land; Clifton Nicholas from the Kanesatake
Mohawk Nation; and Joane Bourget, a nurse working on Inuit land.

***This event is FREE -- The venue is wheelchair accessible --
Childcare available on-site -- Bring your kids! -- Translation Available

[This event is the opening panel for a 2 day teach-in entitled WORDS ARE
WEAPONS]

For more information about either of these events, contact the Indigenous
Peoples Solidarity Movement (IPSM) at ipsm at resist .ca or at 514-398-7432


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(3) Grassy Narrows Speakers Tour

>From March 8th-March 26th, a group of 4 youth from the Grassy Narrows
Anishinaabek community will be on the road making presentations throughout
Ontario and Quebec about the current struggle they are involved in to
protect their land.  What follows is the tour schedule; please pass this
information on to people elsewhere who may be interested in attending any
of the events.  More detailed information will follow in the coming days. 
Contact the Montreal Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement if you have
any questions at ipsm at resist.ca.

March 10th: Sudbury (Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty)
March 11th: Ottawa (OPIRG-Carlton)
March 12th: Montreal (Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement)
March 13th: Kahnawake & Kanesatake
March 14th: Quebec City (Aboriginal Andean Nations Council)
March 15th-16th: Tyendinaga
March 17th: North York (OPIRG-York)
March 18th: Toronto (Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty & TNY)
March 22rd: Hamilton (McMaster First Nations Students Association &
OPIRG-McMaster)
March 23rd: Ste-Catharines (OPIRG-Brock)
March 25th: Thunder Bay (SNOWPIRG)

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(4) WORDS ARE WEAPONS --
No War at Home, No War For Empire!
A Teach-in Against War
Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13, 2004

--> FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 7pm <--
1710, rue Beaudry (metro Beaudry)
Opening Panel: THE ROOTS OF WAR: 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
Panelists include youth from Grassy Narrows, an Indigenous community
blockading in defense of their land; Clifton Nicholas from the Kanesatake
Mohawk Nation; and Joane Bourget, a nurse working on Inuit land.

AND

--> SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 10am-6pm <--
Workshops and Panels
UQAM, Pavillon Hubert-Aquin
(corner of St-Denis and Ste-Catherine, metro Berri UQAM)

Panel and Workshop topics include: Canada Means War; Globalization, War
and the Security State; Looking for Cannon-Fodder: How the Army Recruits;
The Other Zones of "Terror"; Workers Against War; The War at Home: The
Attacks on Migrants and Refugees; The "Reconstruction" of Iraq; and
Resisting the War Machine: Perspectives from the Anti-War Movement.


*** Both days are FREE -- Both venues are wheelchair accessible --
Childcare available on-site -- Bring your kids! -- Translation Available
-- Free Lunch on Saturday courtesy of People's Potato ***


Organized jointly by Block the Empire, No One Is Illegal, Northeastern
Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC) and the Indigenous Peoples
Solidarity Movement (IPSM).

For more information: 514-409-2049 or bloquezlempiremontreal at resist.ca

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(5) SOLIDARITY PICKET FOR SECWEPEMC
ABORIGINAL TITLE AND RIGHTS
*Stop Delta Hotel's Expansion on
Traditional Skwelkwek'welt Territories

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Thursday, March 25th, 2004  @ 12pm.
Delta Hotel, 777 University Street
Metro Square Victoria
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(6)  Sign on to an Open Letter to Quebecor

http://www.friendsofgrassynarrows.com/quebecor.php

The Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement (IPSM) has drafted the
following letter (see Friends of Grassy Narrows website), based on a
similar letter written by a member of the community of Grassy Narrows,
demanding that Quebecor reconsider its involvement in the devastation of
the traditional land use area of the community of Grassy Narrows. Quebecor
is one of the largest commercial printing companies in the world,
controlling several key media outlets throughout Canada. Quebecor is also
a purchaser of newsprint from Abitibi-Consolidated, the multinational
corporation that is carrying out the clearcutting of the Grassy Narrows
traditional land use area. We are calling out to groups and individuals to
sign on to this letter, which will be presented to Quebecor in the
following weeks.