[Viva] Fwd: Public Action to Take Place in Montreal Metro for February 14th Annual Event in Honour of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Tue Feb 12 16:52:05 PST 2019

Thanks for posting Tami, the weather in Vancouver is similar to Montreal's
today.  Hope the weather works for women in marches everywhere they happen
on Thursday.

Hope to see women attend where they can and when they can.  It's a busy
week in this ❄⛄❄⛄ weather.

Hugs to all,
Shelly

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 11:35 PM Tami Starlight <tamistarlight at gmail.com
wrote:

> For our other colonial white peeps in quebec.
> Good stuff and I am posting it because of how different it is in important
> ways than what happens out west here on unceded coast salish.
>
> This gender binary, cisgender heteronormative colonial oppression must be
> challenged. That also takes place at the memorial march here.
>
> Here is the media release - below.
>
> Hiy Hiy/Thank you/Merci
> *Tami M. Starlight*
> Unceded Coast Salish Territory
> Vancouver, Canada
> tamistarlight at gmail.com
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> Press release
>
> For immediate release
>
> Public Action to Take Place in Montreal Metro for February 14th Annual
> Event in Honour of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
>
> The social phenomenon continues to be largely ignored in Canada and its
> solutions underfunded, even after the end of the federal inquiry
>
> Montreal, February 11, 2019 - On February 14, at 5 pm, a public action
> will begin on metro platforms from Berri-UQAM to Atwater stations, in
> honour of the Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit people who have
> disappeared or been murdered in Quebec and Canada as part of the Love in
> Action <https://www.facebook.com/events/969685499892053/> event. The
> evening will continue at Dawson College with a large community feast where
> families, friends and artists will gather to commemorate the lives of those
> who have been lost. The event is organized by Missing Justice, a solidarity
> campaign of the Centre for Gender Advocacy, in collaboration with Iskweu, a
> project of the Montreal Native Women's Shelter.
>
> "This action is intended to educate Montrealers about violence against
> Indigenous women, a phenomenon that is still largely ignored; but also to
> say that we do not forget these people who have been so brutally
> disappeared, to support the families of the victims and to remember that
> there is still a long way to go despite the end of the federal inquiry."
> explains Dayna Danger, artist and Programming and Campaigns Coordinator at
> the Centre for Gender Advocacy.
>
> The disappearances continue
>
> The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
> <http://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/> (NIMMIWG) was launched by the Liberal
> government in 2015 following its campaign promise, and was completed last
> December
> <http://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MMIWG_News-Release-Final-Submissions-Ottawa-20181212.pdf>.
> However, more than 125 women have been murdered or gone missing since
> Justin Trudeau came to power
> <https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/mmiwg-list-cases-1.4856500>, and no
> fewer than 3 vigils were held in Montreal last month in honour of three
> victims.
>
> A lack of time and means
>
> Although the report of the Inquiry is due in April 2019, the
> commissioners in charge and several associations criticize the lack of time
> and resources
> <https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/inquiry-extension-ottawa-1.4691903>
> allocated by the government to question all the stakeholders and examine in
> depth the systemic causes relating to the legal system. Despite the
> recommendations made by Quebec Native Women <https://www.faq-qnw.org/> to
> Minister Carolyn Bennett, concrete means have yet to be put in place to
> pursue investigations and, above all, to reduce ever increasing violence
> against Indigenous women.
>
> Indigenous women disproportionate targets of violence
>
> In its January 19th press release
> <http://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019-01-19-Womens-March_EN.pdf>,
> NIMMIWG restated that "Indigenous women and girls are the most vulnerable
> people in Canada, and are 12 times more likely to be subjected to violence
> than non-Indigenous women [...] Indigenous women are disproportionately
> affected by violence and discrimination because of underlying factors
> including poverty, historic marginalization, racism, and the damaging and
> ongoing legacies of colonialism."
>
> Concrete actions needed
>
> There are still many cases of suspicious deaths that are classified as
> suicides, and others where the murderer is even released
> <https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/gladue-barton-edmonton-first-degree-murder-1.4267195>.
> Iskweu <http://www.nwsm.info/iskweu-project/>, one of the projects
> specifically set up in Montreal for the active follow-up of investigations
> by the Native Women's Shelter, lacks resources. Jessica Quijano, the only
> employee of the project, calls for the implementation of concrete actions
> as soon as possible, together with other associations: "We've been asking
> for years to have a wet shelter and to have resources for Indigenous women,
> trans and Two-Spirit to go when they're escaping violence. It's also to be
> here in solidarity and it's to give to Indigenous organizations that are
> very underfunded by the government and are doing really important work. So
> the Native women shelter is one of them. There's PAQ, Project Autochtone of
> Quebec who are doing incredible work and they always need assistance."
>
> WHAT
>
> Love in action:
>
> a gathering and community feast to honour the lives of missing and
> murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people
>
> WHEN
>
> February 14, 2019
>
> 5 pm: Public Action
>
> 18h - 20h: Community Feast
>
> WHERE
>
> 5 pm: Berri-UQAM station
>
> 6 pm: Conrod's Lounge - Dawson College - 4001 de Maisonneuve West
>
> Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/969685499892053/
>
> About the February 14th gathering:
>
> This event was founded in Vancouver in 1991 by a group of Indigenous women
> and frontline workers in response to police neglect in the case of the
> murder of a Coast Salish woman (Coast Salish Peoples). In this 10th year in
> Montreal, this gathering will commemorate the lives of women of all origins
> who have disappeared or who have been murdered. With an emphasis on
> Indigenous women and girls, violence is disproportionately affecting their
> communities. This march also seeks to build awareness among the general
> population as well as the media on the structural nature of this gendered
> and racist violence.
>
> About the Centre for Gender Advocacy
>
> https://genderadvocacy.org/about-us/mandate/
>
> List of initiatives and associations fighting for justice for missing and
> murdered Indigenous women:
>
> Sisters in Spirit
>
> Sisters in Spirit is a research, education and policy initiative led by
> Indigenous women. The main objective was to conduct research and raise
> awareness of alarming rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls
> in Canada. The first phase of the SIS initiative, which began in 2005, was
> to conduct ongoing research to gather statistical information on violence
> against Indigenous women. The research team had developed a sophisticated
> database of more than 200 variables.
>
>
> https://www.nwac.ca/home/policy-areas/violence-prevention-and-safety/sisters-in-spirit/
>
> No more silence
>
> No More Silence aims to develop an inter-national network to support the
> work of activists, academics, researchers, agencies and communities to end
> the killings and disappearances of indigenous women - you can contact us at
> nomoresilenceorg @ gmail.com
>
> http://nomoresilence-nomoresilence.blogspot.com/
>
> Iskweu
>
> The Iskweu project aims to reduce and finally eliminate the number of
> missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (also trans and two-spirit
> people) in Quebec. It offers support and ensure an adequate response from
> institutions when a person disappears. The Iskweu project aims to reduce
> barriers to access to support and to obtain an adequate response from the
> institutions that have traditionally discriminated against them.
>
> http://www.nwsm.info/iskweu-project/
>
> Walking With Our Sisters
>
> Travelling community art project. In 2012, a call was made to invite
> people to create moccasin tops (vamps) to remember and honour the lives of
> those who have disappeared in North America. Everywhere, families, loved
> ones and allies have come together to create these unique works that bear
> witness to the fact that those who have disappeared are not forgotten, but
> that their lives have been unjustly interrupted.
>
> http://walkingwithoursisters.ca/
>
> -30-
>
> Media Contacts:
>
> English
>
> Dayna Danger
>
> Programming and Campaigns Coordinator
>
> Centre for Gender Advocacy
>
> 438.828.7062
>
> French and English
>
> Jessica Quijano
>
> Coordinator of the Iskweu Project
>
> Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal
>
> 514.431.6109
>
>
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