[All] Emergency Funding Request for youth Healing Walk/Unist'ot'en Camp delegation

[Louisette Lanteigne]

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From: Aamjiwnaang/Sarnia Against Pipelines <asap1491 at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:31 PM
Subject: PLS FWD: Emergency Funding Request for youth Healing Walk/Unist'ot'en Camp delegation
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***please forward widely***

Emergency Funding Request for youth Healing Walk/Unist'ot'en Camp delegation


The grassroots indigenous environmental group Aamjiwnaang + Sarnia Against 
Pipelines, along with allies from Rising Tide Toronto and Grand River 
Indigenous Solidarity, have been organizing to send a youth delegation 
to the Tar Sands Healing Walk and the Unist’ot’en Action Camp events 
taking place over the next two weeks. Tickets are booked and the trip is set to go with less than a week left before we depart, providing an 
opportunity for five youth from Aamjiwnaang First Nation and two from 
Six Nations to participate in ceremonies, activism, and education.

However, with less than a week to go one of our funding sources fell through and we are reaching out to make up the shortfall. We are seeking individual donations to help us ensure the trip happens and these youth have the 
ability to participate. With a target for this drive of $1000, we can 
easily make it if just 50 people drop us a $20, or 100 contribute $10. 
You can donate by clicking the link pasted below and filling out the 
form to donate to asap1491 at gmail.com.

We appreciate any amount of support you can offer.

In solidarity,
Aamjiwnaang + Sarnia Against Pipelines (ASAP)

Please click here to donate:
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Background on the Tar Sands Healing Walk

The annual Healing Walkis meant to draw attention to the extreme devastation resulting from 
the Tar Sands.  In the words of organizers, the walk is an 
“acknowledgement of the people and other living beings, the water, the 
land and the air, that is suffering due to our unhealthy energy 
addictions.”   It is important for individuals to see first-hand the 
massive scale of destruction occurring on traditional Indigenous land. 
 It is even more important for members of affected Indigenous 
communities outside of Alberta to attend the event to see the ground 
zero of devastation and build relationships with local people to 
strengthen solidarity between communities.


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