Why you should come to the March and bring others:
Violence against women is an ever-present symptom of a sick society. It continues to affect communities all over Québec, Canada and the rest of the world.
Since roughly 1980, Between 583 and 3000 Indigenous women have gone misisng or been murdered in “Canada.”
Come out and show support for the survival of the Native Women’s Association of Canada’s (NWAC) and their unprecedented Sisters in Spirit campaign (SIS), which, since it’s inception in 2004, has worked to raise awareness on and compile data about violence against Native women and girls in Canada. In that time they have forged strong relationships with women and their families and communities. The last annual Sisters in Spirit March and Vigil was organized by over 86 communities across Canada, with one in Nicaragua.
In spite of this progress, the government held SIS in funding limbo for 8 months, ever since the release of Canada’s 2010 budget back in March, when $10 million was promised to “address the issue of missing and murdered Native women.” It wasn’t until November 2010 that the government finally made the announcement that confirmed the worst fears of many activists, organizers, and even opposition MPs: the money would not go to fund SIS research, but would instead fulfill the government’s new idea of safety for women, and include requirements for enhanced police power: amendments to the Criminal Code to allow police to wiretap without warrants in emergencies and obtain multiple warrants on a single application. This will not only increase the likelihood of criminalization of women and Native communities, but will be expected to operate without the backbone of research and data collection. Add to this the historical and ongoing relationship of distrust between many Native communities and police, who are themselves implicated in a number of documented violent altercations with Native women. Gladys Tolley, for instance, was killed by the Surete du Quebec in 2001 and no one was ever brought to justice. Her daughter Bridget Tolley has pushed for an independent investigation for years and was recently refused.
ENOUGH is ENOUGH!! We will not stand for the continued stripping down of First Nations programs essential to the physical safety and mental and emotional health of Native women and Native communities, as we have seen earlier this same year with the Aboriginal Healing Foundation and First Nations University.
RALLY FOR JUSTICE on February 14th. SHOW YOUR LOVE.
Invited guests include:
Nakuset (Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal)
France Robertson (Quebec Native Women)
Karine Gentelet, Amnistie Internationale
Host Drum: Tiohtiake Singers
More info: justiceformissing@gmail.com, missingjustice.ca

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The issue in Alberta has become the matter of taking children as hostages while supporting Non- First Nations Gangs. The abusers are involved with childrens services through the Crisis Unit teams created by the A;lberta Response Model Approach. Children are attacked daily by this group and the numd-bers of children in care has sky-rocketed since the attack has begun. The individuals involved are often Police Members with gang ties. They have been involved in ignoring and refusing prosecutuoion to each of a number of child molesters domestic violence batterers and drug dealers which has resulted in the deathes of a number of women in the community. The services available through these teams is apprehension only. They attack women who are involved in relationships with Non-First nations men as well as those involved with First Nations people. The attacks consist of the theft of the homes of all individyuals in the gentrification areas. The Police attack at the entry programs normally the school as liasons or at the daycares and preschools through bussines partnerships or as community volunteers. The attacks involve sexual harrasment teacher involved bullying and physical violence. The refusal of interventions and equal protection before the law to many children has driven an increase in gang violence as the Police force the issue into the streets through focussed inaction. They refuse services until a murder takes place then make a cover-up of the preferred gang involvement. The very well established gangs recoieve Police co-operation and protection. Many Police are either related to the gang members or are associates. They provide services to each other to support attacks which will allow outside bussines interets to be developed for retiring Police and protection devices to be forced on the public through refusal of Police services. For example preventaive programs requiro=ing private security to defend against street violence during off hours as well as issues in parking lot vbiolence or drive by shootings. In addition Roberies are not investigated but a demand for installation of their bussines associates surveilance equipment is done.
The attacks on children done by agreement between Four specialized Police teams involve the child witness laws which permit Police to attack children while the adult woman is at risk. They often have taken children and most murders of First Nations women in Edmonton and Calagry did involve the childrens services network. The children were under attack while the woman was being accused and abused by the Police. The gangs involved were often provided with s-custody by the team members in Childrens services either individually or through family. Theoir crimes were covered up and the woman was eventually murdered for fear that she would tell of their crimes.
The attackers at Childrens Services have long been involved in this style of abuse and many First nations children have been raised in the Asian gangs or in the motorcycle gangs which the Police support. The suppr=ort involved the use of the Police discretion to refuse to arrest child molesters on the grounds that they believed the child to be a prostitute. In this way gang recruiters became involved in rapes of children as a method of recruitment. Drugs are often used to cause the sexual assault of the child. Police do not protect children or teens. In these matters only when the child does as is being forced upon them do the Police act not against the adult but against the child and the adult feamale witness. These attacks are so common and the abuse by Police so marked that several cults among the Police and childrens services have beocme involved. These include the scientology programs as well as the Mormon FLDS and the latest Freedom center church. Several of the Police members are affiliated with these churches and they attack children through them. In the cases of cult induction the FLDS have been involved in child sexual abuse and the Freedom church is closely affiliated as skinheads with the motorcycle gangs through their drug sales. The services are intertwined once again with church affiliates serving a number of capacities and each of then=m absorbing funds intended for services to First Nations children. Even the RcMP have gotten in on this program of abuse and have taken over funding from the local bands for services while refusing to arrest drug dealers. In several towns the Police have been involved in refusing all services to First Nations and attacking them only while allowing the gangs to run rampant in those areas and creating extreme abuse to children through-out the province. In some cases the sex offenders involved in attacking children are a pas=-rt of multidisciplinary teams which are behind the blue wall. The RCMP do inadeqyuate cover-up investigations which do not allow convictions or none at all. They protect the offeners through the use of these investigatory techniques adopted from American sources as well as Saskatchewan witch hunt methods. These attackers use a false accustaion technique against witnesses regularly and in many cases these are husband and wife teams involved in Police Social worker or Police Nurse liasons. These liasons do not stop either party from having relations with others or from threataneing and sexually harrassing clients and children. The srvices have become a snake pit of sexual deviancy and a=have resulted in serious internal issues for Police who have no pilicies in place regarding their relationships on the job nor are Police members expected to honor their committments and often have affairs with staff without any restriction or intervention. Thse relations create for them a method of having services skewed or refused or of doing favors for each other of a personal nature using Police services access or Health services access or Childrens srvices program access in order to create harm to those they believe will tell on their gang firends or cause them to be murdered. In some cases if a complaint against a member is made an attack is done oin that person’s child by their connection in the other teams or bussineses. They are attacking innocent children in large numbers in an attempt to have them declared mentally deficient so that testimony against criminals will not be believed. The destruction of the credibility of the child and family witnesses is the plan and the attack by Police sources is the intention.
In Alberta Sources in the News media are used to attack families and First Nations as well. The sources such as The Gloc[-d=bal news Network oin Edmonton and internet sources placed through-out the area have falsely calain-med that person involved in crimes are First Nations while they are most often other types as wel they have fed rape propaganda to the media naming First Nations as High risk groups or prostitues on the RCMP website while ignoring the sex trade workers in the other nations which outnumber First Nations women 50 to one. Local sex trade includes women trafficked from Asia as well as women in strip clubs and massage parlours and street prostitues who have been in bussines for many years. No action is usually taken to deal with these numerous women who also deal drugs. They have become a part of the programs created woith First Nations funding for diversion and have no criminal records. These gang prostitues are then provided with funding to become LPNs, Nurses and social workers as well as Police communications workers since 2001 throughh the PAAFE. Thsi program is not focused on preventing murders or catching murderes but on creating a diversion program which will amount to the legalization of prostitution for the gang whores who were not forced to enter the gangs and who are not being beaten and murdered nor are their children being removed. They are selecting a lifestyle as opposed to being forced. The issue of le=igitimizing their claims to allowances caused to prevent violence is simply false. The owmn involved are predominnantly of the wider culture whoi are very much intereted in prostitution and in controlo=ing prostitution as madams. They are involved in disapaearnaces and murders as co-horts they do not intend to prevent them. This is also a method of forcing their culture on First Nations.
Regards,
Anne Fox
J’habite Shawinigan. Étant loin, je ne pourrai marcher avec vous auprès de vous.
Je suis de tout coeur avec vous, et je marcherai en esprit à vos côtés.
Amitiés,
Roger
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