[IPSM] (Ott) Sept. 19: Suport Walk 4 Justice!

[mattm-b at resist.ca]

*Walk 4 Justice *

*Spread the word!*

On June 21, 2011, Walk4Justice began their long walk from Vancouver, Coast
Salish Territory to Ottawa, Algonquin Territory to raise awareness about the
plight of the far too many (over 3000) missing and murdered Indigenous women
across Turtle Island (Canada). *On Monday, September 19*, they will be
ending their walk at Parliament Hill where they will continue demanding
justice for these women and their families.

Please come out and show your support for the walkers. Bring your banners,
signs or placards and good spirit to the rally!

*March & Rally*
 *Monday, September 19
**9am at Minwaashin Lodge (424 Catherine St), 10am Parliament Hill*

Please join the walkers at Minwaashin Lodge at 9am and walk with them to
Parliament Hill.  If you can’t make it then, please come to the rally on
Parliament Hill at 10am.

*Feast and Fund-raiser *
 *Monday, September 19
**5:30pm at Mac Hall on 211 Bronson Ave.*

Community celebration, feast, entertainment, and fundraiser! Featuring
Walk4Justice co-founders Gladys Radek & Bernie Williams and Beverley Jacobs
from Families of Sisters in Spirit.  Headliners for the performance: Elaine
Kicknosway, Nancy Myatt, Vera Wabegijig, Sandy Scofield, Elizabeth Riley
Band and Jamie Koebel!

Please spread the word! Details on the performers:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=242669869108872&view=wall or
http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/?p=1663&preview=true.
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*These 2 events are part of the 30 Days of Justice organized by the Families
of Sisters in Spirit and their allies. * “30 Days of Justice” brings
together families of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and the wider
Ottawa communities to raise critical awareness on the violence against
Indigenous women and demand justice and accountability for the disappeared
and murdered women. For more details and other events during the 30 Days of
Justice: http://30daysofjustice.wordpress.com**

*About Walk4Justice
*

The Walk4Justice is a nonprofit organization that was created by donation
and volunteer since January 2008. Gladys Radek and Bernie Williams
co-founded this group to raise awareness about the plight of the far too
many missing and murdered women across Canada. Their supporters consist of
family members who have lost their loved ones across the nation and
grassroots women and men from all walks of life. Together with their
supporters, the Walk4Justice demands justice, closure, equality and
accountability.

Gladys’s niece, Tamara Lynn Chipman disappeared off Highway 16 out of Prince
Rupert, BC, now dubbed the Highway of Tears in northern British Columbia.
She vanished without a trace on September 21, 2005. Bernie is a long time
advocate and voice for the women who have been forced to live on the streets
of Canada’s poorest postal code, the DTES. She has been a frontline worker
in the DTES for 25 years. Her mother and two sisters were also victims of
violence who were murdered in the DTES over the years.

For more info: http://fnbc.info/walk4justice

*About Families of Sisters in Spirit (FSIS)*

FSIS is a volunteer grassroots non-profit organization led by families of
missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada with the support of
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities. FSIS was the vision of one family
member named Bridget Tolley, an Algonquin grandmother and activist from the
Kitigan Zibi First Nation whose mother was killed by a Quebec provincial
(SQ) police car in 2001 with the ongoing support of Beverley Jacobs, Mohawk
grandmother from Grand-River Territory, whose cousin Tashina General,
pregnant with her son Tucker, was murdered in 2008, and non-Aboriginal
student and activist Kristen Gilchrist. Together we are working to end
violence, challenge interconnected inequalities in Canadian society, and
transform ourselves and the world around us.

-- 
"...education alone will not raise mass consciousness to the point
necessary for resistance." - Kevin 'Rashid' Johnson, Minister of Defence,
New Afrikan Black Panther Party - Prison Chapter