<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Looks like the Paris meeting went well -- congratulations.</div><div>RM</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Donna Jennison" <<a href="mailto:halojen@rogers.com">halojen@rogers.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">February 16, 2013 6:23:12 PM GMT-05:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><<a href="mailto:halojen@rogers.com">halojen@rogers.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>idle no more/going carbon neutral</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Tomorrow and next Thursday looking good!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:coc.guelph@gmail.com">coc.guelph@gmail.com</a> [<a href="mailto:coc.guelph@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">mailto:coc.guelph@gmail.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Council of Canadians Guelph Chapter<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>February-16-13 4:48 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:CouncilOfCanadians@coc-guelph.ca" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">CouncilOfCanadians@coc-guelph.ca</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>CoC Guelph - Events Sunday and Thursday<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><img width="226" height="94" id="_x0000_i1025" alt="CoC Guelph Chapter" src="cid:ii_13c161b43333f9e9"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red; ">Sunday February 17 Idle No More continues with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br></span><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red; ">"Colonization and Resistance" .<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br></span><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red; ">Join the discussion<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">1-4 pm Guelph Public Library, downtown branch, second floor</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">Connect with Common Causes as we explore the Idle No More issues further. This discussion will be based on two interviews<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>outlined in the book Tangled Roots by Matt Soltys. You can access this book locally or e mail Matt for those chapters at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><a href="mailto:matt@healingtheearthpress.org" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">matt@healingtheearthpress.org</a> ( he will send you in pdf)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>The interviews are with Waziyatawin, Dakota activist and scholar and Kanahus Pellkey, warrior and spokesperon for the Secwepemc.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>This discussion will explore ecological and social justice, healing and decolonization. What is happening in Canada? Idle No More<br>is taking on the same issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br>Some suggested questions:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Can Canadian nationalism coexist with decolonization?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>How deep does our entitlement go regarding access to land, resources, and Native knowledge and culture?<br>What about the responsibility of those with privilege to make sacrifices to end the system that grants this privilege?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> How does a non-Native person decolonize their mind?<br> How can we build an anti-colonial culture in Guelph and Southern Ontario?<br> What is the role of non-Native allies in decolonization in an era of extreme climate change?<br><br>"I think the first step has to be a truth-telling step. Where people come forward to say, as non-Native people, we claim this history and acknowledge<br>that it was oppressive, and we are the generation that wants to make a difference. We are the generation that will not participate in this any longer."<br> - Dakota scholar and activist Waziyatawin, in Tangled Roots<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br></span><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red; ">Thursday, Feb 21 at 7:30pm Tom Rand speaks in Eden Mills <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> "Hot Water: Waking the Frog- Climate, Capital and our Heating Planet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><br><br><br><br><br><img border="0" id="_x0000_i1026" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=ea9377f603&view=att&th=13ce4d8611edbd4d&attid=0.1.1&disp=emb&zw&atsh=1"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><br>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">"If you want to know who is going to change this country, go home and look in the mirror." Maude Barlow </span></b><o:p></o:p></div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a href="http://www.canadians.org/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">www.canadians.org</span></a> </span></b><o:p></o:p></div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>