[homeles_ot-l] Walk4Justice: Sept 10, 12, 15 in Ottawa.

Sun Sep 7 20:30:08 EDT 2008

FYI:

Walk4Justice: Sept 10, 12, 15 in Ottawa
Activist Food for Thought:
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing." -- John Berger.
"To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate."  ~Barbara Ehrenreich.

“The power of a thing or an act is in the understanding of its meaning.”
"Dagu wa¡age nagu icanu ne ogaüniðabi." ~Heüaúa Sapa (Black Elk).

"A good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." ~ Bertrand Russell. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Greg Macdougall<mailto:waawaaskesh at yahoo.ca> 
To: ottawa-activist-events at lists.ox.org<mailto:ottawa-activist-events at lists.ox.org> 
Sent: September 7, 2008 4:29 PM
Subject: Walk4Justice: Sept 10, 12, 15 in Ottawa

Walk4Justice: June 21 (Vancouver) - Sept 15 (Ottawa)
Raising awareness about missing and murdered Aboriginal women

- Wed Sept 10: Movie Fundraiser - "Finding Dawn" - Jack Purcell CC
- Fri Sept 12: Music and Stories Fundraiser - Umi Cafe
- Mon Sept 15: March to, and Rally on Parliament Hill

! Please forward widely !

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Movie Fundraiser for the Walk 4 Justice
Suggested Donation $5-$15.  No one will be turned away.
Sept. 10 at 7:00pm
Jack Purcell Community Center
Indigenous Peoples’ Solidarity Movement – Ottawa (IPSMO)
All donations go to the Walk 4 Justice
Everyone Welcome!
Wheelchair Accessible
Poster: http://ottawa.indymedia.org/media/2008/09//8256.pdf<http://ottawa.indymedia.org/media/2008/09//8256.pdf>
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The Walk 4 Justice are brave women and their supporters who are travelling
3500 miles from Vancouver to Ottawa to bring awareness to the issue of
missing and murdered Aboriginal women.

In the last decade over 3,000 women have gone missing, 80% of whom are
aboriginal.  The walkers intend to present a petition on September 15,
2008 to Prime Minister Steven Harper and Indian Affairs Minister Chuck
Strahl in hopes that the current government will take a proactive approach
to ending violence against Aboriginal women.

IPSMO will be showing, “Finding Dawn”. In Finding Dawn, Métis filmmaker
Christine Welsh journeys to the dark heart of Native women's experience in
Canada, exploring the stories of murdered and missing women. Her journey
takes her from Vancouver's skid row, where more than 60 women are missing,
to the "Highway of Tears" in northern British Columbia, to Saskatoon,
where the murders of Native women remain unresolved. Written and directed
by Welsh and produced by Svend-Erik Eriksen.
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To sign the petition go to:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14313758782<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14313758782> or
http://www.petitiononline.com/glradek/petitiononline.com<http://www.petitiononline.com/glradek/petitiononline.com>

If you can help by providing a free billet contact: Minwaashin Lodge,
613-741-5590 ext 224

If you can help by providing a financial donation contact: Leighann Burns,
613-233-5990

If you can help by providing feast food, transportation or other needs
please contact: Erin Lee Todd, 613-257-3469
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The Indigenous Peoples’ Solidarity Movement –Ottawa (IPSMO) is a community
group that supports indigenous peoples' struggles for justice. We do this
by supporting Indigenous groups directly and by working to counter the
racist and colonial ideas that dominate Canadian society.
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CTV article: Activists start cross-country trek for missing women

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080621/BC_Missing_Women_080621/20080621/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome<http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080621/BC_Missing_Women_080621/20080621/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome>
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Musical Fundraiser
Friday, Sept. 12th at 8pm
Umi Café, 610 Somerset West
Suggested Donation, $5-$10
All donations go to Walk 4 Justice
Everyone Welcome!
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An open mic/music and poetry concert featuring local poets and artists
including members of Ottawa's Young griot Collective and local First
Nations spoken-word poet Tom Powless.

There will also be speeches and stories from the Walk 4 Justice organizers.

A full list of performers will be announced as soon as possible

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The Walk 4 Justice Unity March
Monday, Sept. 15
Human Rights Monument, 9:30am
Poster: http://ottawa.indymedia.org/media/2008/09//8257.pdf<http://ottawa.indymedia.org/media/2008/09//8257.pdf>
Map: http://ottawa.indymedia.org/media/2008/09//8258.pdf<http://ottawa.indymedia.org/media/2008/09//8258.pdf>
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The walkers will leave Minwaashin Lodge at 9am

Supporters are invited to join them at the Human Rights monument at
9:30am.  The March will continue to parliament hill.

The Parliament Hill Rally:

MC Sister in Spirit Theresa Ducharme

10am, President Beverly Jacobs Native Women’s Association of Canada
10:15am, National Chief, Phil Fontaine Assembly of First Nations
10:30am, Gladys Radek & Bernie Williams, Walk 4 Justice Organizers
Noon, DRUMMING & SINGING
1pm, HONOURING FAMILIES
- Daleen Bossee Muskego
- Ramona Wilson
1:30pm, OPEN MIC TO SPEAKERS
- Grand Chief Ed John of the Tl’azt’en Nation
- Grand Chief Stewart Philip of the Union of the British Columbia Indian
Chiefs
- British Columbia Regional Chief Shaun Atleo
- Chief Wayne Christianson of Spalts’ in First Nation
- Chief Doug Kelly of Soowahlie First Nation
- President of the United Native Nations Society – Lillian George
- Founder of the Highway of Tears walk, Florence Naziel
3pm, PETITION FINAL SIGNING & PRESENTATION
4pm, CLOSING CEREMONEY
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Reflections on Inequity & Poverty.

"The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses."                   ~ John Kenneth Galbraith.

"My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used."
~Milton Friedman.

"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."
 ~Bill Vaughan.

"But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. Her or his existence is not politically neutral, and it is not ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible. They are marginalized by our social and cultural world. They are the oppressed, exploited proletariat, robbed of the fruit of their labor and despoiled of their humanity. Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order." 
~Gustavo Gutierrez. 
"Poverty is the worst form of violence." ~Mahatma K. Gandhi.
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