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Bus to Ottawa for the 2011 Walk4Justice Rally

Bus from Montreal to Parliament Hill in Ottawa leaves Monday, September 19th at 7:30am. Meet at 2110 Mackay (Métro Guy-Concordia). We will be back in Montreal by 5pm the same day.
Missing Justice (Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous women) and the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy invite you to join us for a [...]

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Missing Justice Visioning Retreat 2011

Missing Justice held it’s first annual visioning retreat at a cabin in Ste. Agathe des Monts from May 6-8, 2011. The purpose of the retreat was to re-assess our goals, priorities and strategies for achieving real solidarity and for facilitating what we would most like to see: the resolution of all unsolved cases of missing [...]

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Memorial March for Missing and Murdered Women, Montreal, February 14, 2011

Photos by Irina Gaber:  http://irinagaber.blogspot.com/2011/02/memorial-march-for-missing-and-murdered.html

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Oppose Dangerous Offender Designation for Indigenous Women

SUPPORT RENÉE ACOBY
Renée Acoby, an Ojibwe woman from Manitoba, is currently facing the
Dangerous Offender application following a public hearing in
Kitchener. She was originally convicted ten years ago on a 3.5-year
sentence for trafficking cocaine and assault with a weapon. Pregnant
when imprisoned, her one-year-old was removed from her after she
smoked marijuana and took some valium one evening [...]

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Correction: Six NON-NATIVE women arrested at sit-in at Chuck Strahl’s office

On behalf of the women who took part in the Sit-In at Chuck Strahl’s office today, committing to stay until funds are renewed to the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, I would like to correct most of the media coverage I have seen so far that has called us “Native Protesters.”
We are, in fact, non-Native solidarity [...]

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Six women arrested at sit-in at Chuck Strahl’s office

Peaceful protesters are demanding reinstatement of funding to Aboriginal Healing Foundation
At 12:50pm on Monday, March 29th RCMP officers arrested six women who were peacefully refusing to leave Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl’s office until he pledged to restore funding to the Aboriginal Health Foundation. The sit-in began at 12:05pm.
“By cutting the funding to the Aboriginal [...]

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News Release: Women sit-in at Minister’s office, demand restored funds to Aboriginal Healing Foundation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, March 29, 2010
Six women sit in at Indian Affairs Minister’s office: pledge to stay until Conservatives restore funding to Aboriginal Healing Foundation
OTTAWA – Today at noon six women began a peaceful sit-in in the Minister of Indian Affairs’ Chuck Strahl’s Ottawa office in the Confederation Building to protest the Conservatives’ cuts [...]

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Defunding the Aboriginal Healing Foundation: Fact Sheet

The Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF) was established in 1998, with a one-time grant of $350 million from the federal government, and was given a mandate ”to encourage and support, through research and funding contributions, community-based Aboriginal-directed healing initiatives which address the legacy of physical and sexual abuse suffered in Canada’s IRS System, including intergenerational impacts.” [...]

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Oneida girl, 16, to be buried Thursday on reserve SIERRA PHILLIPS: Police have not released cause of death, saying only it was not a suicide but the result of a ‘tragic set of circumstances’

By JOE BELANGER, THE LONDON FREE PRESS
A 16-year-old girl whose frozen body was found outside a childcare centre in a native community west of London will be buried Thursday.
Meanwhile, police continue to investigate how Sierra Phillips of Oneida First Nation ended up at the centre on Saturday.
Sources say she had been at a party Friday [...]

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Montreal Police Looking for Missing Kahnawake Teen

Bea Kwaronhiahawi Barnes.

The Montreal Police are asking for the public’s help in locating 17-year-old Bea Kwaronhiahawi Barnes, who was last seen on January 5. Police say she requires medication which she does not have with her. Police said they believe she is in the Chateauguay area. She was wearing a beige and white checked coat [...]

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