Send a Message to Assembly of First Nations Chief Shawn Atleo on behalf of Missing and Murdered Women: We demand action!
Note: if you would like to be part of the delegation or have ideas for what to include in the letter, please get back to me at [email protected] or Red Power United at [email protected]
Event details:
Wednesday, Nov. 24 · 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Check for updates here.)
Special Chiefs Assembly scheduled for Nov. 24, 2010, to be held at the Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre, 525 Bay Street West, Toronto, Ontario.
Please bring your drums!
This will be a demonstration that will bring a message to be hand delivered to Grand Chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Stan Beardy to bring to Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Chief Shawn Atleo.
This message to be delivered on behalf of Missing and Murdered Native women in Canada and their families to AFN Chief Shawn Atleo is:
It’s unacceptable there are currently 600+ Missing and Murdered Native Women in this country and our Chiefs idly stand by and allow the Harper government to misappropriate proper funding dollars and cut programs such as the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) Sisters in Spirit (SIS) program.
Canada’s justice ministers has admitted the disappearance of some of the country’s most vulnerable women has been widespread for decades and hasn’t received the attention it deserves.
Therefore we support NWAC in their call for a immediate restoration of Sisters in Spirit funding and the establishment of an independent, public commission of inquiry into the missing and murdered native women in Canada.
There can be no deal-making, settling, or backroom political deals, and that it is the responsibility of (AFN) Chief Shawn Atleo to do what is necessary to ensure the well-being of the first nations people they represent.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous women in Canada should be a national priority.
For background information, please see:
—Activist Communique: Killing Sisters in Spirit Nov. 17, 2010 | By Krystalline Kraus
On Friday Oct. 29, 2010, the Federal government announced it was disbanding the Sisters in Spirit (SIS) program — disappearing the program just as women disappear.
—Sisters in Spirit program used by feds to ‘squeeze’ Native Women’s Association of Canada Nov. 4, 2010 | By Jorge Barrera
A week after being lauded by Minister Rona Ambrose, it has become apparent the program is being decimated because of its name and the database it has built on 582 missing and murdered aboriginal women.
—Activist Communique: Vigil for murdered and missing Indigenous women Nov. 4, 2010 | By Krystalline Kraus
On Nov. 1, 2010, members of Sisters and Brothers in Solidarity (SBIS) and Red Power United (RPU) held a vigil for murdered and missing Indigenous women on an pedestrian overpass at Toronto City Hall that crosses over Queen Street West.
—G8/G20 Communiqué: No More Silence. No More Stolen Sisters Oct. 6, 2010 | By Krystalline Kraus
On Oct. 4, 2010, Sisters and Brothers in Solidarity (SBIS) — following the call by Red Power United- held a 200 person Walk for Justice through Toronto, “to honour our over *500 missing and murdered Indigenous women on Turtle Island (*We recognize that the number of missing and murdered Indigenous women is probably much higher).”
If you’re not from the GTA, you can find ways to help out here: http://www.nwac.ca/sisters-spirit-supporters
Please also see the video below.
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