Volunteer or start a Barriere Lake Solidarity Collective in your City
Email barrierelakesolidarity@gmail.com or come out to an upcoming meeting at QPIRG Concordia, dates are posted on the calendar at the bottom of the website.
Endorse Barriere Lake's List of Demands
We are looking for groups and organizations to endorse the list of demands. If you wish to do so, please email barrierelakesolidarity @gmail.com.
Phone, Fax & Letter Campaign
Click here, for a more comprehensive list of political representatives responsible to Barriere Lake Algonquins and a sample letter.
TO SEND A LETTER DIRECTLY FROM OUR WEBSITE, click here
Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs
Terrasses de la Chaudière, North Tower, Suite 2100
10 Wellington Street
Gatineau, Quebec
K1A 0H4
Phone: (819) 997-0002/Fax: (819) 953-4941
Lawrence Cannon, Local Member of Parliament, Minister of Foreign Affairs
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Phone: (613) 992-2940/Fax: (613) 944-9376
* Release Benjamin Nottaway and Sonny Papatie and drop the charges for all arrested
* The government should immediately cease the use of police repression in lieu of negotiators
* The Federal and Provincial government should honor the agreements they've signed with Barriere Lake
* Express support for the Barriere Lake community's struggle for the right to choose its own leadership
* The federal government should immediately stop interfering in Barriere Lake's internal affairs
Donate
We are currently looking for donations to support political protest, education initiatives, the Barriere Lake Elementary School and crippling legal fees.
We are trying to keep our Elementary School open on a volunteer basis, the Third Party Manager removed the certified teachers from our community on February 20, 2008, while we were trying to get negotiations started with Indian Affairs to get Algonquin language and culture into the curriculum and to have a role for our Education Committee in running the school.
We need food for the breakfast and lunch program we offer to the children who attend the school.
Please donate through paypal, as it is the quickest and most efficient way for us to receive donations.
Donations will go towards the following SUPPLIES we need: Winter Clothes, Potatoes, White Flour, Rice, Oatmeal, Baking Powder, Lard, Cooking Oil, Dry Cereals, Margarine, Crackers, Macaroni, Spaghetti, Tomato Sauce, Tomato Paste, Canned Tomatoes, White Peas, White Beans, White/Brown Sugar, Salt, Pepper, Soup Base, Mustard, Ketchup, Coffee, Tea Bags, Canned Milk 2%, Canned Goods, Powdered Juice, Bread, Cookies/Snacks, Coffee Whitener.
If you can drop off Food and/or Supplies at the community, contact:
Montreal area: barrierelakesolidarity@gmail.com,
Toronto area: barrierelakesolidaritytoronto@gmail.com
Ottawa area: barrierelakesolidarityottawa@gmail.com
Barriere Lake Area: barrierelakealgonquins@gmail.com
If you don't have email access, call Marylynn Poucachiche at 819.435.2113
Full List of School Supplies
Cleaning Supplies:
- For the toilet bowl, sink, floors and windows
- Garbage bags (all sizes)
- Toilet paper
- Hand towels
Large items:
- Photocopier
- CD player
- Fridge
- Computers
- Mini tables and chairs for small children
- Printers
- Shelves
Supplies:
- HP Printer Cartridge # 21 and #56
- White and construction paper
- Child safe scissors
- Erasers
- Pencils, crayons and markers
- Notebooks
- Children’s CDs (songs, activities, etc.)
- Laminating pouches
- Laser printing cartridges
- Flip chart stand & paper
- Glue sticks
- Craft supplies
- Twin pocket folders
- Math 1 and 2 workbooks
- Phonics
- Computer mice
- Canada Copy books
- Dictionaries
- Language Arts teachers lesson planning books
- All season craft project books
- Pencil sharpener for class
- Duotangs
- Toys
- Children’s books (especially for young children)
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