And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Second Annual Sharing Circle For Prisoners, ex-Prisoners and Their Families - August 08, 1999 9:00a.m. to 6:00p.m. http://www.afn.ca/Main.htm NATIVE SPECIFIC PROGRAMMING HEALING THROUGH TRADITIONS CULTURE AND SPIRITUALITY (Adults and Young Offenders) Place: FOUR POINTS SHERATON HOTEL 1150 Wellington Road South London, Ontario (2 Blocks North of Hwy. 401) Lunch Provided August 10th is Prison Justice Day. This is a day to commemorate those men and women who have died in Canada's Prison System. On this day prisoners will refuse to eat and report to work for the day. Memorial services will be held in prison chapels and gymnasiums. It is also a day for support groups to bring to the attention of the general public the injustices and abuses that continue in the Canadian prison system. We, First Nations People, are seriously over represented in the Canadian prison system (seven times the National average). Our disproportionate over representation is equally high in Children's Aid Society and the Young Offender System of Canada. This systematic institutionalization, of Native peoples is a continuation of the forced assimilation (genocide) that transpired against Native youth who lived and died the Residential School experience. We are encouraging all Native people who have spent time in Residential School, Children's Aid Society, Juvenile Centres (i.e., Bowmanville Training School etc.), Young Offender Centres, Adult Provincial Reformatory and the Federal Penitentiary to share some of your experiences with us. Whether it was 30 years ago or 30 days ago, it needs to be heard. No one else is going to tell our story and "Our Sharing" can be the beginning of the implementation of Native specific programs and policy that will end the systematic suppression of Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood groups inside Canada's Adult prisons and Young Offender Centres. Empowering the Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood groups culturally, socially and spiritually will instill functional behaviors and life styles and reduce the high recidivism rate our people suffer. Homelands Native Prisoner Support Paralegal Service Paul Doxtator (519) 652-1048 Circle of Friends Native Inmate Visitation Group Harold Kohler (519) 453-5452 Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
