[IPSM] (Ott) April 22: HONOUR YOUR WORD: Celebrating the Defense of Mother Earth!

[mattm-b at resist.ca]

HONOUR YOUR WORD: Celebrating the Defense of Mother Earth!
Movie Screening and Fund Raiser for the Algonquins of Barriere Lake

Opening Ceremony by Elder Michel Thusky

Post-film discussion with community spokesperson Norm Matchewan and (via
Skype) filmmaker Martha Stiegman

Tuesday, April 22 at 6:30pm
at the Mayfair Theatre
1074 Bank St. (near Sunnyside)
Buses # 1 & 7 (Bank) or # 5 (Riverdale)
Contact us at: ipsmo at riseup.net
http://www.ipsmo.wordpress.com/

$5-15 suggested donation
no one turned away for lack of funds

Honour Your Word is a new documentary film – an intimate portrait of life
behind the barricades for the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, an inspiring
First Nation whose dignity and courage contrast sharply with the political
injustice they face.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/71470916

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Celebrating the Defense of Mother Earth!

This movie screening of Honour Your Word is the IPSM Ottawa’s 3rd “Earth
Day” event Celebrating the Defense of Mother Earth!

Last year we were honoured to work with Defenders of the Land and Land
Defenders from Six Nations and we raised $1405 for the legal defense of
activists from Six Nations, and in 2009 we organized our 1st event with
Minwaashin Lodge, the Tungasuvvingat Inuit, and others.

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More about the movie – Honour Your Word (2013, 59min):

New Algonquin leaders are followed as their community fights to protect
their land, their way of life and their language.

The title refers to the Algonquins of Barriere Lake’s campaign slogan
demanding Canada and Quebec honour a precedent-setting conservation deal
signed in 1991. Director Martha Stiegman spent four years shooting this
poetic, heartfelt documentary that challenges stereotypes of “angry
Indians.” Honour Your Word juxtaposes starkly contrasting landscapes—the
majesty of the bush, a dramatic highway stand-off against a riot squad,
daily life within the confines of the reserve—to reveal the spirit of a
people for whom blockading has become a part of their way of life, a life
rooted in the forest they are defending.

Accessibility Notes:

•The Mayfair Theatre has side entrances that are wheelchair accessible.
The washrooms are not, but Shoppers Drug Mart (located next door) does
have accessible washrooms.
•Please refrain from wearing perfumes, colognes or other scented products
•Please contact us if you require subtitles and ASL/LSQ
•Please contact us if you require bus tickets
Contact: ipsmo at riseup.net – www.ipsmo.org

Please help us promote this event!

•RSVP and invite your friends on Facebook
•Send out an email with all this info, or the link to this page, to your
contacts
•Print off posters – 8.5×11 letter size or 11×17 tabloid size – to put up
somewhere good
•Print off 1/4-page flyers to hand out or leave out
•Help us fundraise for this event with this organizational request letter

For more information:

•barrierelakesolidarity.org
•honouryourword-film.ca
•ipsmo.wordpress.com/mitchikanibikok-inik

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"...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