[Iswg3906.organizers] FW: Rebel! Rebuild! Rewild! Funding Request]

[Peter Hopperton]

Hey team,

Here's a funding request from a crew in Ottawa who are organizing a green anarchist convergence in advance of the peoples social forum. They are seeking support to develop anti-colonial content and to support the travel costs of indigenous participants and presenters.

-p

> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:11:09 -0700
> Subject: [Fwd: Rebel! Rebuild! Rewild! Funding Request]
> From: cedarrabbit at resist.ca
> To: peterhopperton at hotmail.com
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> Subject: Rebel! Rebuild! Rewild! Funding Request
> From:    thecrowisamessenger at riseup.net
> Date:    Sat, July 26, 2014 5:30 pm
> To:      cedarrabbit at resist.ca
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> To whom it may concern,
> 
> Please find enclosed a funding request for Rebel! Rebuild! Rewild!, an
> environmental activism camp being held North of Ottawa this August 18-20.
> 
> I am an indigenous solidarity and environmental activist based on unceded
> Algonquin territory in the city of Ottawa. We are organizing this camp in
> a
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> planning a three-day camp for environmental activists  this August 18-20,
> 2014. It is being timed to be immediately before the People's Social
> Forum. Since activists are already traveling from across Canada to attend
> this event, we think that it is the perfect time for us to hold a camp,
> where we can learn from one another's successes and failures in a
> diversity of campaigns to protect nature and to move towards a truly
> sustainable culture on Planet Earth.
> 
> At this camp, in addition to holding workshops on direct action pertaining
> to ecodefense, we will also be providing training in cultural competency
> vis-a-vis indigenous solidarity.
> 
> I understand that your mandate is support indigenous solidarity
> organizing, and this camp is one way to advance the understanding that
> could lead to a truly anti-colonial environmental movement, and I hope
> that you will enthusiastically support it.
> 
> My comrade Peter Hopperton advised that I ask for $500 from your working
> group, and I hope that your organization will see this project as worthy
> of such generous funding. Such a gift would be long-remembered, and as the
> values of the RRR! Organizing Committee are those of mutual aid and
> solidarity, we will surely enthusiastically support your organizing
> efforts in the future.
> 
> Love & Solidarity,
> 
> The Rebel! Rebuild! Rewild! Organizing Committee
> rebelrebuildrewild.noblogs.org
 		 	   		  
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