Grassroots Newsletter #1 – Idle No More
Welcome to the first Idle No More grassroots newsletter. This goal of the newsletter is to share news stories that promote Indigenous rights and sovereignty and the protection of land and water. The newsletter will share our stories, actions, and honour resistance while celebrating the world that we are protecting.
We are all invited to add to this newsletter. Post your story now! Deadline for the next newsletter is midnight Sunday February 1st. Keep reading to check out all the actions, updates, and stories!
WORLD WIDE:
Our Sisters In Spirit Documentary Crowdfunding Campaign
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Sing Our Rivers Red Needs More Earrings and Launches Social Media Campaign
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Indigenous Warriors Who Shut Down Oil Facility in Ecuador Arrested
Black Rainbow Living Well Foundation – Start Some Good
Women murdered with impunity in Juarez, activists and families say
HUICHOLES: The Last Peyote Guardians – Documentary
CENTRAL:
Have a Heart Day 2015 on Parliament Hill, Ottawa – Feb 10: 10:30AM
Sing Our Rivers Red (SORR) Events/Exhibition, Fargo ND – Feb 9th 12:00PM
Grand Chief Warren White of Grand Council of Treaty 3 full submission
First Nation sets up blockade in path of Bipole III
Pimicikamak Elder weighs in on Manitoba Premier’s Apology
Welcome to Winnipeg: Where Canada’s racism problem is at its worst
I don’t want to be Racism’s Cover Girl
Saskatoon Group talk help for families of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women
First Nations, Activists address stricter voting rules
NORTH:
Northern Dene Trappers Alliance Holding The Line No More Uranium Mining And Oil Sands Exploration In Dene Nene
Peel Watershed Court appeal ignores spirit of final agreement: Yukon opposition
Food-cost crisis shames Far North: ‘We can’t pretend it doesn’t exist anymore’
“Feeding My Family” Organization calls for one day boycott of North West Company
SOUTH:
Vigil & March/Rally @ Super Bowl XLIX, Super Bowl 49 – In Solidarity for the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women – Phoeniz AZ, January 6:00PM
Young Navajos Stage 200 Mile Journey for Existence
As Louisiana’s marshes erode, so does the Houma Indians way of life
EAST:
Two accused in Loretta Saunders death back in court Monday
Marshall decision still ripples through native fishery
Aboriginal Organization hit with $60 million worth of cuts, Inuit faced steepest reduction: AFN analysis
Treaties and Treaty Relations in Canada
Advocates hope ‘groundbreaking’ report on aboriginal women will put spotlight on Canada
WEST:
Stolen Sisters March Coast Salish/Lekwungen Territory – February 14th 11:00AM
Tribal Environmental Summit, Pullman WA, January 31st 12PM – 8PM
Indigenous Block at the March for Climate, February 7th 11:30AM
Refinery Corridor Healing Walks, Richmond CA April 18th 12PM – 3PM
The Tsilhqot’in Decision and Indigenous Self-Determination
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