[opirgyork] TODAY: Rally/March for missing&murdered Indigenous women + Food not Bombs founder at York

[Aruna]

Hey all!

Check out two important events happening today!

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Toronto’s 6th Annual Rally & March
for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women
Monday, February 14, 2011 @ **5 pm** (NOTE THE NEW TIME)

Rally at Police HQ, 40 College St at Bay
March to the Coroner’s Office, 26 Grenville St.
Followed by gathering & food @ The Meeting Place, Queen & Bathurst (nw 
corner)
Food prepared & provided by The Centre for Women and Trans People (UT)

A bus will be available to transport participants from the Coroner’s 
Office to the gathering.
TTC tokens will be available for those attending by public transit
The bus is not wheelchair accessible, but the Meeting Place is.

According to research conducted under the Native Women Association of 
Canada’s (NWAC) Sisters in Spirit project, over 580 Indigenous women 
have been murdered or gone missing, most of them over the last 30 years. 
Despite the clear evidence that this is an ongoing issue, the federal 
government decided in Fall of 2010 to end funding to Sisters in Spirit. 
In a move to detract attention from this cut, Rona Ambrose (Federal 
Minister for Status of Women) announced a $10 million fund to be put 
primarily towards creating a central RCMP missing person centre. It is 
evident that few of those in power have a genuine interest in ending the 
violence against Indigenous women. On February 14th, we come together in 
solidarity with the women who started this vigil in the Downtown 
Eastside of Vancouver, and with the marches and rallies that will be 
taking place across this land. We stand in defense of our lives and to 
demonstrate against the complicity of the state in the ongoing genocide 
of Indigenous women and the impunity of state institutions and actors 
(police, RCMP, coroners’ offices, the courts, and an indifferent federal 
government) that prevents justice for all Indigenous Peoples.

This event is organized by No More Silence, part of an inter/national 
network to support the work being done by activists, academics, 
researchers, agencies and communities to stop the murders and 
disappearances of Indigenous women.

Besides the Toronto rally, marches and other events will take place in 
Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, London (Ontario), 
andOttawa.

Endorsed by: Sistering, The Women and Gender Studies Institute 
(University of Toronto), No One is Illegal Toronto, Indigenous Education 
Network (University of Toronto), Canadian Chiapanecas Justice for Women, 
Parkdale Activity and Recreation Centre (PARC), Springtide Resources 
Inc. Ending Violence Against Women, Anduhyaun Shelter, 
ShelterlSanctuarylStatus Campaign, Assaulted Women's and Children's 
Counsellor/Advocate Program (George Brown College), Christian Peacemaker 
Teams - Aboriginal Justice, Indigenous Sovereignty and Solidarity 
Network (Toronto), First Nations Solidarity Working Group, CAW-Sam 
Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy (Ryerson University), Women 
and Gender Studies Student Union (University of Toronto), Coalition 
Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Centre for Women and Trans People 
(University of Toronto), UN Women - Canada, Ryerson Students' Union, The 
Redwood, OCAP.

http://nomoresilence-nomoresilence.blogspot.com/

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Toronto's Food Not Bombs & OPIRG-York Presents...

Author, Artist, Activist, and Food Not Bombs co-founder
* KEITH McHENRY *
"Change We Knead Now! Baked Goods not Bailouts Tour!"

Food Not Bombs started in 1980 when eight college aged activists dressed 
as generals and started holding bake sales pretending to buy a bomber. 
Thirty years later Food Not Bombs organized a two month long vigil 
outside the White House baking bread in a solar oven to build popular 
support for a conversion from a carbon based war economy to a 
sustainable solar future.

Now taking that same message around the world, Keith will demonstrate 
how to prepare solar baked goods and give a presentation about the 
history, principles and Food Not Bombs global campaign for the change we 
knead now! Tax payers have spent trillions to bail out the banks and 
fund wars for corporate domination, now it's time to bail out our 
communities!

DETAILS:
date: February 14, 2011
time: 6:00 p.m.
venue: Vari Hall Rm. 1152A, York University

COST:
This is a FREE event. No tickets or RSVP required.

ACCESSIBILITY:
Founder's College has multiple powered access entrances. Designated 
accessible parking is available at the East side entrance to Vanier 
College, in the Vanier parking lot, and York Lanes parking garage. 
Accessible washrooms are located in Founder's College and in the 
adjacent Vanier College. Floor seats in the Assembly Hall are wheelchair 
accessible. For more detailed information, please refer to York's 
accessibility map:
http://www.yorku.ca/csbo/documents/accessibility_map.pdf

If you have any accessibility request, please contact 
fnbtorontoevents at gmail.com, or post to the event's wall.

For more info:
Food Not Bombs: http://www.foodnotbombs.net/
Toronto's Food Not Bombs: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5494892948