[Org4j-announce] Sat Dec19 - Protecting Chaudiere Falls sacred site

[Organizing 4Justice]

Note: The late Algonquin leader Grandfather William Commanda did the
opening ceremony at the first Organizing For Justice conference back in
2008.


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At that same conference, he and his assistant Romola Thumbadoo, coordinator
of his Circle of All Nations, presented his vision for the sacred Chaudiere
Falls (Asinabka) site - an Indigenous Centre, a Peace-Building Centre,
natural parkland, and a freed undammed falls.- in the philosophy of the
Circle Of All Nations network, a vision built up over decades in
consultation with all the Algonquin communities: www.Asinabka.com

This vision is threatened by the current planned $1.5bn high-rise condo
development from Windmill Development Group Ltd.

Please join us this Saturday to learn more about protecting this site:



*Protecting the sacred Chaudiere Falls site - Asinabka / Akikodjiwan - from
Windmill's "Zibi" condo development*

http://equitableeducation.ca/2015/dec-19-panel-chaudiere

Panel discussion and musical performances.

Topics to be addressed include: the spiritual significance of this area on
the Ottawa River in the heart of Canada's capital; Aboriginal land title
and rights; the Asinabka vision of the late Algonquin leader Grandfather
William Commanda for the site; Algonquin communities' perspectives;
settler/ally activism on this issue; and corporate/colonial incursions on
Indigenous collective well-being.



*Saturday Dec 19, Noon-2pm*
at Southminster United Church
15 Aylmer Ave at Bank St by the canal, Ottawa
Unceded Algonquin Territory

Free admission
– as part of PHIL OCHS FESTIVAL www.ochsfest.ca 10am-6pm


Facebook event page – please invite your friends!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1099994716686987/

Print and display the poster:
http://equitableeducation.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Dec19-chaudiere-poster.pdf




SPEAKERS:

   - Albert Dumont “South Wind” – Algonquin community activist, volunteer,
   poet, storyteller and spiritual advisor
   - Romola Thumbadoo – Coordinator, William Commanda’s Circle of All
   Nations/Asinabka Chaudiere Site Work
   - Douglas Cardinal – World-Class Organic Architect, Anishinaabe Elder
   and First Nations Activist.
   - Christal Ratt – Anishnabe Mitchikinabikok Inik: Algonquin of Barriere
   Lake
   - Peter Di Gangi – Research and Policy Director, Algonquin Nation
   Secretariat
   - Julie Comber (Vela) – Singer-songwriter researcher settler-ally;
   member of Freeing Chaudière Falls and its Islands

SINGERS:

   - Spirit Flowers
   - Tito Medina
   - Vela
   - Kevin Schofield
   - Barbara Dumont-Hill

Moderator:

   - Michael Desautels – Student & Labour Action Committee, Freeing
   Chaudière Falls and its Islands




-- ACTION ITEM --

Please support the three demands as outlined in the "Call to Support
Protection of Sacred Waterfalls Area" from four Algonquin First Nations:
https://intercontinentalcry.org/algonquin-first-nations-call-to-support-protection-of-sacred-waterfalls-area/

Have your group or organization endorse the list of demands and communicate
these to the relevant government officials -- and individually write to
these officials with your support of these demands, as well as questioning
why no levels of government have even acknowledged, let alone engaged with,
the chiefs' communications to them on this matter.

List of email contacts:
pm at pm.gc.ca, minister at aadnc-aandc.gc.ca, premier at ontario.ca, info at ncc-ccn.ca,
Jim.Watson at ottawa.ca, maire at gatineau.ca, hello at zibi.ca

ie: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn
Bennett, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, National Capital Commission chair
Russell Mills, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, Gatineau Mayor Maxime
Pedneaud-Jobin, and Jonathan Westeinde of Windmill Development Group

Also – Quebec Premier Phillippe Couillard (contact form):
https://www.premier-ministre.gouv.qc.ca/premier-ministre/joindre-pm/courriel/index.asp

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Resolution passed in November by the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec
and Labrador:
http://equitableeducation.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/R%C3%A9solution-Algonquin-Nation-sacred-waterfalls-area-ang-.pdf

Resolution passed in December by the entire Assembly of First Nations
(draft version):
https://freethefalls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Resolution-Algonquin-Nation-sacred-waterfalls-area-Eng.pdf


— BACKGROUND MATERIALS FROM EQUITABLEEDUCATION.CA —

   - If Algonquin chiefs oppose “Zibi” condos and the media’s not there,
   does it make a sound? (December 2015)
   http://equitableeducation.ca/2015/algonquin-oppose-zibi-media


   - Nine Algonquin chiefs, AFNQL oppose ‘Zibi’ condos and resolve to
   protect sacred area in Ottawa/Gatineau (November 2015)
   http://equitableeducation.ca/2015/algonquin-chiefs-afnql-oppose-zibi


   - Collection of Algonquin voices opposed to ‘Zibi’ condo development on
   sacred site in Ottawa (November 2015)
   http://equitableeducation.ca/2015/algonquin-voices-vs-zibi


   - Handout, article, audio and videos to stop private development of
   sacred Chaudière site (January 2015)
   http://equitableeducation.ca/2015/handout-chaudiere
   <http://equitableeducation.ca/2015/algonquin-voices-vs-zibi>


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