A voice for missing women; Thursday ceremony spotlights hundreds of murdered natives
By Rachel Punch, The Sudbury Star

Savannah Trudeau often doesn't feel safe when she's alone and, as a young aboriginal woman, those feelings are justified.

Hundreds of First Nations women - including about 30 in Ontario - have been murdered or simply vanished in the last few decades.

The following statement was delivered by a member of Sudbury Against War and Occupation at a recent event in Sudbury honouring the memory of indigenous women murdered and gone missing in Canada.

Good afternoon.

My name is Clarissa Lassaline and I’m involved with a group of Sudbury folks firmly opposed to war and occupation. The fact that Canada exists as an occupation of First Nations Lands has become increasingly important to our thinking about indigenous struggles and white settler solidarity and responsibility.

For Immediate Release
Sudbury Residents Honour Indigenous Women Murdered or Missing in Canada

SUDBURY, ONTARIO, February 14, 2008 – Hundreds of Indigenous women in Canada have been murdered or have gone missing over the last 20 years. All too often, the authorities have done little or nothing in response.

Rally supports U.S. couple; Pair fled to Canada after man deserted rather than return to Iraq
By Rachel Punch, reposted from The Sudbury Star

About 20 people gathered at a rally in Sudbury on Saturday in an effort to help U.S. Iraq war resisters, like deserter Michael Espinal and his partner, Jennifer Harrison, stay in Canada. Espinal and Harrison, who is expecting a child in April, have been living in Sudbury since the fall, when the couple fled Florida so Espinal would not have to serve a second tour of duty in Iraq.

Indigenous Solidarity Film and Discussion:
The Continuing Struggle of Grassy Narrows

Wednesday November 28th 2007, 7pm. 111 Larch Street, 4th Floor Resource Centre; A wheelchair accessible location.
All Welcome!

Group protests Canadian secret trials
Date Published | Oct. 22, 2007 | Northern Life
BY WENDY BIRD

A group of concerned Sudburians banded together on the weekend to demand an end to the so-called "national security certificate" process that allows the Canadian government “to indefinitely detain non-citizens in Canada with completely inadequate due process.”

'It's such a fundamental violation of rights'; Protest calls attention to secret trials under Canada's anti-terror law
by Sudbury Star staff, October 22, 2007.

If Canadians knew the details of how their government is using unconstitutional legislation to treat immigrants, they wouldn't stand for it, activists protested during the weekend in Sudbury and cities across the country.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Scott Neigh
Telephone: 688-8694
Email: scott.neigh@hwcn.org

SUDBURY RESIDENTS TO PROTEST SECRET TRIALS

SUDBURY, ONTARIO, October 19, 2007 – Many Canadians like to think that we live in a place where governmental authorities cannot lock you up and throw away the key while keeping the charges and the evidence secret.

Many Canadians are wrong.

A film detailing the struggle of the American Indian Movement and addressing the struggle of John Graham to clear his name in the FBI cover-up of the murder Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, an indigenous warrior woman at Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1970’s.;a film by Billie Pierre, Native Youth Movement OG.

Le document en français suit le texte en anglais.

Soldiers for Peace Tour, 2007
U.S. war resisters speak at Laurentian