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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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.” [...]
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 [...]
Sisters in Spirit Community Engagement Workshop: http://www.missingjustice.ca/2009/09/sisters-in-spirit-community-engagement-workshop-sept-16th/
Panel and Vigial: http://www.missingjustice.ca/2009/09/justice-for-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-2-montreal-events-oct-2nd-4th/
ROBERT MATAS
VANCOUVER — From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail, Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2009 03:36AM EDT
They set out on a 1,500-kilometre walk to draw attention to women who have gone missing and possibly been murdered along the Northern B.C. highway known as the Highway of Tears.
They did not anticipate they could be placing themselves in danger by [...]
June 18, 2009 marks the 3rd anniversary of the disappearance of Tiffany Morrison from Kahnawake, Quebec. Tiffany, a mother in
her twenties, is one of more than 500 murdered or missing Indigenous women in Canada since 1980. To preview the upcoming vigil, the June 2009 edition of No One Is Illegal Radio features an interview with Kary [...]
Two Events:
June 18: A memorial walk and candlelight vigil for the 3rd anniversary of Tiffany Morrison’s disappearance, 8pm in Kahnawake, at the grounds beside the K103 radio station