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NAISA Roundtable 2023 – Decolonizing Justice and MMIWG2S – #abolish #decolonize #landback

This roundtable organized by the Tkaronto/Toronto-based network No More Silence (NMS) brings together scholars, activists, and legal professionals from what is now called Canada to discuss the challenge of decolonizing justice around the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, trans and two spirit people (MMIWGT2S). In fact, the MMIWGT2S movement has grown in

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Stand With Dawn

Interview with Darlene Rose Okemaysim-Sicotte and Christa Big Canoe.

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Stop Criminalizing Survivors of Violence!

We stand with Dawn! Grounded in almost two decades of organizing to raise awareness on genocidal femicide in Canada and supporting survivors, families, and communities impacted by MMIWG2S, Toronto-based community network, No More Silence, stands with Dawn Dumont and calls on progressive settler and Indigenous individuals and organizations to join us in demanding all charges

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Disability Justice through Indigenous Ceremony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am9zIsjBQcg Disability Justice Through Indigenous Ceremony No More Silence has partnered with the Centre for Independent Living in Toronto on an exciting Disability Justice project. Our hope is to engage with Indigenous community members who experience challenges and barriers when attempting to access cultural and ceremonial spaces in order to develop guidelines to increase the
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Gathering Prayers Not People – 16th Annual Strawberry Ceremony

https://www.facebook.com/126403794094498/videos/1840422772784830  Virtual Ceremony this year – we went live on video (see link above).We have engaged in many thoughtful conversations and ceremony, guided by Elder Wanda Whitebird in planning for this year’s annual February 14th Strawberry Ceremony.While we will miss the comfort of our bodies being together, in light of the rapid increase in COVID-19

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15th Annual Strawberry Ceremony

15th Annual Strawberry Ceremony for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Trans and Two Spirit People  and those who have died Violent Deaths FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 13/02/20 WHAT: Gathering at Toronto Police Headquarters  WHEN: Friday, February 14th , 2020, at 12:30 pm WHERE: 40 College Street Toronto’s first February 14th event honouring missing and murdered

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15th Annual Strawberry Ceremony – February 14, 2020

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Video Launch Dec 6, 2019

Panel Discussion with Monica Forrester, Megan Scribe and Teddy Syrette

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Review of Smudge, Don’t Judge in Muskrat Magazine

Zainab Amadahy had a sneak peek at our video and wrote this review for Muskrat Magazine. Check it out!

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Smudge, Don’t Judge: Assisting Two Spirit/Trans Survivors of Violence

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Not Just Another Case: When Your Loved One Has Gone Missing or Been Murdered is coming to a community near you! We’re excited to announce that Aboriginal Legal Services has received a Commemoration Fund grant to screen our video across the country over the next two years. We begin in Newfoundland and Labrador in September and Halifax in October. Further destinations include: Northern Ontario, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Kehewin FN and Vancouver.

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Close the Camps! No One Is Illegal on Stolen Land!

July 12, Matt Cohen Park at 11:30 - 12:30 Spadina and Bloor No More Silence (NMS), Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), No One Is Illegal (NOII) and the Syria Solidarity Collective (SCC) call on you to meet at Matt Cohen Park (Bloor and Spadina), and then join us to bring our demands across the
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ASL Description of Strawberry Ceremony

We do our best to provide ASL interpretation at our events but due to the cold and logistics of the space it was not possible to have someone interpreting outside this past year – we did have interpretation at the feast and created this beautiful vlog for the Deaf community. Miigwetch to Tamy for her

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Media Release – 14th Annual Strawberry Ceremony February 14, 2019

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Community-Led Database Report on Research Conducted between 2014 – 2016

Final Draft ItStartsWithUS 2019 ReportDownload
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Queering Decolonization – Two Spirit Resistance Across Borders From Turtle Island to Palestine

Here is the audio from our January 25th panel discussion with Alex Wilson, Jeffrey McNeil, Teddy Syrette, May Ela and Ahmed Maswadeh at Toronto Council Fire Native Centre.

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14th Annual February 14th Strawberry Ceremony

Strawberry Ceremony with Elder Wanda Whitebird begins at 12:30 at Police Headquarters, 40 College Street at Bay, Toronto Please leave your agency, institutional and organisation banners at home and instead make signs in honour of women, girls, trans and two-spirit people who have died violent and premature deaths. Singers, song keepers and drummers please bring

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Update – Indigenous Land Defence Across Borders: Solidarity Exchange with Palestine

Members of The Indigenous Land Defence Across Borders project have returned from our first solidarity exchange with the Indigenous people of Palestine. A delegation of seven – cis and two spirit – women (five Indigenous,  one Palestinian and one ally) visited villages and cities in occupied Palestine from July 9th – 16th. Our guides, members

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