[Iswg3906.organizers] next meeting

[A.R.J. Gracey]

Hi everyone:

Thanks for the email, Nikki. I am currently in Nova Scotia but could Skype
in if that option were available. So I am pretty free date and time wise
for such a meeting depending on what everyone decides. Did you all hear
about this?

Take care,

Tony
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*Pack the courts! Stand with Toad, Six Nations Land Defender for her final
trial date!*
"Do you know about OUR law? Do you know that once you pass front line (on
Kanonhstaton), our law, the Great Law of Peace applies?" - Theresa "Toad"
Jamieson to anti-Native rights activist Gary McHale


*Wednesday August 28th 10am*
*Cayuga Courthouse, 55 Munsee St. N., Cayuga*

*Rides leave from Keele Subway, Toronto at 8 am*

*See below for info for other cities.*


Join Six Nations land defender Theresa “Toad” Jamieson and the Two Row
Society for a rally and court support at the Cayuga courthouse onAugust
28th at 10am, for Toad's final trial date. We have seen the huge difference
that a courtroom packed with supporters makes - in terms of empowerment,
emotional support and evidence of a strong, growing powerful force in the
face of the criminalization of Indigenous land defenders.**

Toad has been defending Indigenous land rights and Kanonhstaton, the Six
Nations Reclamation site, ever since the land near Caledonia, ON was
reclaimed by Six Nations in February 2006. At the height of this winter’s
Idle No More movement, the rounddance during her court date sent a strong
message that the fight for the land requires lasting support of Indigenous
women land defenders.

Toad is being dragged through the courts because of charges stemming from
anti-Native rights activist Gary McHale’s provocations. (See below for more
info).  Toad is defending herself in court, asserting that the Canadian
justice system violates both the Two Row Wampum treaty and the rightful law
- the Great Law of Peace - of the stolen land on which the courthouse
stands.

Since 2006, hundreds of thousands of dollars have gone towards policing and
court costs for McHale’s actions which result in criminalizing Indigenous
women, such as Toad, for defending the land and responding to direct
racism. The Two Row Society wants to call attention to the discrepancy
between this approach and the complete lack of government resources
dedicated to a national public inquiry into the hundreds of missing and
murdered Indigenous women.

*As Toad fights for the land, she fights for all of us*. Packing the court
with supporters, sends a powerful message. We will not let the Canadian
government violate the treaties any longer! We will not let the Canadian
government ignore violence against Indigenous women while dragging land
defenders through the courts and protecting the prejudice of anti-Native
rights activists! Join us!


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Niki Thorne <csn.thorne at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Shall we set our next meeting?  I will likely be out of town on Saturday
> the 24th which would be exactly 2 weeks from the previous meeting.  Perhaps
> we could meet Sunday (I'm available earlier in the day, would need to be
> done by 6:30 though).  Or Friday, any time would work.  What's good for the
> rest of y'all?
>
> cheers,
> Niki
> --
>  "Utopia is on the horizon: I walk two steps, it takes two steps back. I
> walk ten steps and it is ten steps further away. What is utopia for? It is
> for this, for walking."~~Eduardo Galeano
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