Bridges Not Borders: Indigenous Migrant Solidarity (Workshop)
7:00 PM on Thursday Jun. 20th, 2019
Ottawa Art Gallery, 50 Mackenzie King Bridge
Price: FREE
7:00 PM on Thursday Jun. 20th, 2019
Ottawa Art Gallery, 50 Mackenzie King Bridge
Price: FREE
We invite you this World Refugee Day to recognize the lands on which we organize for migrant rights and the importance of standing with Indigenous peoples.
We believe that no one is illegal on stolen land, and affirm that there can be no migrant justice without justice for Indigenous peoples on whose traditional territories we live.
In our final event of the "Bridges, not Borders" series, we hope to curate a space where we can build bridges across social movements and challenge colonial borders. Participants will learn about circle-based education and be led through a series of stories that will discuss strategies, movements, best practices and activists who are currently doing migrant and Indigenous solidarity work. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss and brainstorm ideas collectively.
Facilitators
RJ Jones is Saulteaux–Cree, originally from Treaty 4 Territory in Saskatchewan and is currently living on Algonquin Territory in Ottawa.They are a Two Spirit, Non-Binary and Queer multimedia artist, educator, facilitator and indigenous full-spectrum doula. The focus of their work is decolonizing our approach to gender, sexuality & sexual health, indigenizing education and how to build connections between different community. RJ enjoys sloths, reproductive justice, indigenous futurisms, migrant justice, video games, and disability justice.
Sinda Garziz is an African Amazigh, Arab immigrant in Canada, a migrant justice activist, and a youth worker, at the Ottawa Community Immigrant Serviceorganization (OCISO). Born and raised in Tunisia, in 2012 she completed her first BA in Psychology at the Human Science Institute of Tunis. She joined the transnational network No One Is Illegal advocating against borders, visa regime and providing support for migrants and refugees in different countries in South Europe essentially and North Africa. She participated in blocking different deportations of undocumented migrants in Tunisia and Germany and did advocacy work against the left to die policy in the Mediterranean Sea of migrants and the militarization of European borders. In 2013, she moved to Canada, Ottawa to start her second degree in Conflict and Human Right Studies and joined No One Is Illegal – the Ottawa Chapter and since then she has been involved in different committee and campaign such as the Justice for Deepan Support Committee, Refugee Welcome - Ottawa, The End Immigration Network and The Sanctuary City Network.
We believe that no one is illegal on stolen land, and affirm that there can be no migrant justice without justice for Indigenous peoples on whose traditional territories we live.
In our final event of the "Bridges, not Borders" series, we hope to curate a space where we can build bridges across social movements and challenge colonial borders. Participants will learn about circle-based education and be led through a series of stories that will discuss strategies, movements, best practices and activists who are currently doing migrant and Indigenous solidarity work. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss and brainstorm ideas collectively.
Facilitators
RJ Jones is Saulteaux–Cree, originally from Treaty 4 Territory in Saskatchewan and is currently living on Algonquin Territory in Ottawa.They are a Two Spirit, Non-Binary and Queer multimedia artist, educator, facilitator and indigenous full-spectrum doula. The focus of their work is decolonizing our approach to gender, sexuality & sexual health, indigenizing education and how to build connections between different community. RJ enjoys sloths, reproductive justice, indigenous futurisms, migrant justice, video games, and disability justice.
Sinda Garziz is an African Amazigh, Arab immigrant in Canada, a migrant justice activist, and a youth worker, at the Ottawa Community Immigrant Serviceorganization (OCISO). Born and raised in Tunisia, in 2012 she completed her first BA in Psychology at the Human Science Institute of Tunis. She joined the transnational network No One Is Illegal advocating against borders, visa regime and providing support for migrants and refugees in different countries in South Europe essentially and North Africa. She participated in blocking different deportations of undocumented migrants in Tunisia and Germany and did advocacy work against the left to die policy in the Mediterranean Sea of migrants and the militarization of European borders. In 2013, she moved to Canada, Ottawa to start her second degree in Conflict and Human Right Studies and joined No One Is Illegal – the Ottawa Chapter and since then she has been involved in different committee and campaign such as the Justice for Deepan Support Committee, Refugee Welcome - Ottawa, The End Immigration Network and The Sanctuary City Network.