Please join Toronto Indigenous Grassroots Activists, Idle No More Toronto & Idle No More Ontario as we “Unsettle Canada Day 150 Picnic”.
MP Carolyn Benett, Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs will be hosting a Canada Day 150 Picnic on July 1st at Spadina Museum. We will attend this event to remind MP Carolyn Bennett that they are celebrating 150 years of Colonialism and genocide the Canadian state has and continues to inflict upon Indigenous people. We are unsettling colonialism. No more MMIW, No more MMIM, No more removal of indigenous children into Child Welfare system, No more youth suicides, No more homeless, No more poverty, No more corporate resource extraction on Indigenous lands, and No piplelines. Honor the Treaties. Duty to Consult.Please contact your MP, MPPs to tell them that Canada is to fully adopt & implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.

Please bring your flags, banners, signs and drums. Please wear a red dress, red shirt/red t-shirt to remember MMIW & MMIM.

CANADA DAY PICNIC AT SPADINA MUSEUM ON JULY 01, 2017
EVENT Arts Family Community
Start Date:Saturday, 01 July 2017
End Date:Saturday, 01 July 2017
Time:11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location & Venue:
Spadina Museum
285 Spadina Rd., Toronto ON, M5R 2V5
All Ages | Free
Join MP Carolyn Bennett, Spadina Museum and community groups for a free fun Canada Day celebration. Music, family activities, tours of the main floor of Spadina Museum and more.

Responding to the call out from Idle No More and Defenders of the Land UNsettle Canada 150 (unsettling150.ca), Friends of Shoal Lake 40 and other local organizers are partnering to respond to Osborne Village Canada Day festivities. Join us for some informative and engaging events designed to get Winnipeggers’ to rethink Canada Day in light of Canada’s ongoing history of colonization.

Friends of Shoal Lake 40 will be stenciling quotes from SL40 community members near Osborne Village inviting people to reflect on the 100-year inequity that exists between Winnipeg and the Indigenous community at the other end of the pipe. At the same time, fellow organizers will be holding a display table with banners, signs, and resources in front of St. Augustine United Church on River Ave. We seek to engage passersby in conversation and share information about Indigenous resistance, the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, TRC Calls to Action, and the demand for a nation-to-nation relationship that respects the rights of Indigenous Peoples. We will communicate the message that we will no longer accept the colonial system of dispossession, dependency and oppression that Canada has imposed on Indigenous Peoples.

150 years after Confederation, Canada finds itself in a world which is simultaneously globalizing and decaying, brought together yet riven with conflict, with both more wealth and more poverty than ever. At this point, the question must be asked: what does nationalism really mean? Is there a meaningful difference between nationalism and patriotism?
What is the difference between a nation-state and the country it governs?

Critical thought, and the democratic spirit, demand answers. This demonstration advocates critical assessment of the Canadian nation-state, the context of its foundation, and its imperialist, capitalist and colonialist roots and legacy. We believe such discourse is an essential and indispensable component of democracy, which must be posed in the face of nationalist enthusiasms.

We will be distributing reading material, and encourage anyone and everyone to stop by! Also, please share, etc.!

Inspiration and materials credit to Fuckthe150th/fuckthe150.ca