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From: Ontario Coalition for Social Justice [mailto:ocsj@sympatico.ca]
Sent: October 17, 1999 8:54 PM
To: ocsj@sympatico.ca
Subject: OTTAWA - Nov 7 - ABORIGINAL RIGHTS REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY
If you can help in any way with this event (organizing, attending or
forwarding this message to other people in Ottawa who you think might be
interested) it would be much appreciated.
Andrea Calver, Coordinator, Ontario Coalition for Social Justice.
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Wouldn't 2000 start off well
IF
Leonard Peltier were a free man?
AND
Ottawa decided to get to the bottom of the Ipperwash scandal by calling
a Public Inquiry (because Harris never will)?
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Ottawa-Area planning meetings are being held for this important upcoming
event which demands Justice for Dudley George and Freedom for Leonard
Peltier.
These meetings are being held weekly, and are open to everyone who wants
to lend a hand.
If you can support the organizing by attending these meetings,
or by doing outreach or cooking for the Feast or making a donation,
please contact Ed Bianchi or Shellene Moore through their coordinates
(below).
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~~~REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY~~~
SUNDAY ~ NOVEMBER 7, 1999 ~ OTTAWA
Speeches and Traditional Drum at Parliament Buildings, at 2:00 PM.
Procession to Human Rights Monument on Elgin Street at 3:00 PM.
Feast following Traditional Ceremony at Human Rights Monument.
We gather to honour those who have sacrificed their lives for Aboriginal
land, treaty, cultural, political and economic rights.
FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ON TURTLE ISLAND*
Justice for Dudley George
Freedom for Leonard Peltier
*****
In both Canada and the United States -- from Louis Riel to Dudley
George, from Sitting Bull to Leonard Peltier -- nothing has changed over the
last century: as we approach the millenium, the state continues to kill and
imprison those who have had the courage to defend their land and treaty
rights.
*****
November is Leonard Peltier Freedom Month. The Canadian government sent
Peltier to a U.S. prison on the basis of false affidavits. He has
already spent more than two decades in jail for a murder that even the US
government admits he didn't commit. Now 55 years old and in failing
health, this is considered one of last chances for Peltier's release
from jail. The
Canadian government must formally appeal to the US government - our
major trading partner - and use all diplomatic means possible to push
for Executive
Clemency for Leonard Peltier.
*****
Dudley George was shot on September 6, 1995 at Ipperwash Provincial
Park. He and thirty other nonviolent protestors occupied the closed park over
Aboriginal rights issues which had dragged on, unresolved, for more than
half a century. The Ontario Tories will fight any public examination of
the circumstances surrounding these events, because they are heavily
implicated in this human rights disaster. A Federal Public Inquiry, based on
Canada's fiduciary responsibility for Aboriginal Peoples, is the only hope for
justice for Dudley George.
*****
~Organized by: Coalition for a Public Inquiry into the Death of Dudley
George, Aboriginal Rights Movement, National Coalition Building
Institute, York Student Christian Movement, Turtle Island Support
Group, Aboriginal Rights Coalition.
~Endorsed By: Leonard Peltier Defense Committee/Canada, Ontario Public
Service Employees Union, Canadian Auto Workers, Canadian Labour
Congress, Ontario Coalition for Social Justice, and more.
~For further information:
Ottawa contacts: Ed c/o arc@istar.ca, Shellene c/o paddlesong@apcis.com,
or call 613-235-9956
Toronto contacts: annpohl@interlog.com, or call 416-537-3520
~Transportation from out-of-town:
A bus has been rented for round-trip transportation from Toronto for the
day. We are fundraising for a bus to transport supporters from south-western
Ontario.
*Turtle Island is the name used by Aboriginal Peoples of this region for
the land we stand on. It comes from Algonkian and Iroquoian Creation
Stories.
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Ontario Coalition for Social Justice
#305-15 Gervais Drive, Don Mills, M3C 1Y8
Phone: 416-441-3714 Fax: 416-441-4073
www3.sympatico.ca/ocsj
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