[IPSM] (Ottawa) Six Nations Info Night: Respect First Nations' Land Rights

[cailey]

To the folks organizing this event:
can you send info on how to get a copy of this film to cailey at riseup.net
we'd love to have a benefit screening here in guelph:)


> SIX NATIONS
> INFO NIGHT: RESPECT FIRST NATIONS LAND RIGHTS
>
> MONDAY JUNE 26TH
>
> Movie Screening and Speakers:
>
> Local Speaker from Kahnestaton (near Caledonia); Ed Bianchi, (Program
> Co-ordiantor for Aboriginal Rights at KAIROS); others To Be Announced.
>
> LE PATRO COMMUNITY CENTRE
> 40 COBOUG STREET, OTTAWA - LOWER TOWN
> FILM SHOWING - 7:00 TO 9:00 PM
> ALL WELCOME - ADMISSION FREE; WITH A SUGGESTED DONATION OF FOOD OR CAMP
> SUPPLIES
>
> Background Information:
>
> In early March, the Six Nations Rotinoshoni Confederacy peacefully took
> possession of a
> tract of land that is theirs under the Haldimand Treaty of 1789.  The land
> had been illegally sold to HENCO, an U.S. "developer".  The people of Six
> Nations have since occupied their land to prevent any further destruction
> of it.  Recently, there has been enormous provocation of the native
> protestors. Drivers along Argyle (the main street) have thrown
> firecrackers, garbage, bottles, etc into the camp while they yell their
> racist epithets.  Helicopter fly-overs are increasing.  Police and others
> are regularly found encroaching on the territory and being told to leave.
> The bottles and rocks that get thrown during those hate fests flow one
> way: toward 6Nations.  This is still a peaceful blockade.  Treaties made
> between the Six Nations and the British Crown are being trampled by
> governments that were nonexistent at the time of their ratification.
> Neither the Federal nor Provincial governments have jurisdiction on Six
> Nations land.  As negotiations with the government proceed, the threat of
> state violence lurks in continued massive presence of the OPP and the
> military near the occupied land.
>
>
>
> --
> Undeterred, the Commisioners continued to track down instances of, or
> occassions for, immorality.  They found them, they thought, in the
> "conveniences" that the working people had to use.  Hence their recurring
> question: were there seperate "closets" for the male and female workers?
> Here, immorality, at least in the minds of the Commissioners, seems to
> have something to do with toilets.  The state of factory toilets amounted
> to a virtual obsession.  "Did you ever see the men try and get into the
> females' closets when the females were in there?"  "What is the height of
> the water closets seperating the men from the women?"...The concern
> probably reveals more about the inner workings of middle-class Victorian
> minds than it does about the state of working conditions in Canadian
> factories...Certainly the Commissioners did find sufficient number of
> "combined conveniences" to cluck about.  But what the connection was with
> the morality of women workers remains unexpalined.
>
> Susan Trofimenkoff
>
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