
Sunday, March 13, 2011
IWD: a success! Quel succès!

Wednesday, February 23, 2011
International Women’s Day! la journée internationale de la femme!
Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day!
Tuesday, March 8
7-10 pm (doors at 6pm)
National Archives
The evening includes:
★ Canada’s Next Top Feminist
★ The Femmys (the National Capital Region Feminist Awards)
★ A short (and hilarious) film
★ Presentations by youth art contest winners
★DJ CPI (thetastates.com)
★ Mingling, networking, and info on women’s organizations in the
Ottawa region
★ Nibbles and a cash bar
★ Fun!!
Event is FREE & bilingual, donations accepted.
Childcare available! Contact: svaw@amnesty.ca
This event is proudly brought to you by:
Ad Hoc Coalition for Women’s Equality and Human Rights • Amnesty
International Canada • Feminist Alliance for International Action
(FAFIA) • Inter Pares • Nobel Women's Initiative • OCTEVAW • Ottawa
RebELLEs • Oxfam Canada • PACT Ottawa • Planned Parenthood Ottawa •
Women's Event Network Ottawa • Women's Worlds 2011
Spread the word!
· RSVP to the Facebook event “I MIGHT Be a Feminist But . . . “
and invite your own networks:http://www.facebook.
eid=128195750581243
· Forward this e-invite to your friends, family, and co-workers
· Display the poster in your community, school, or workplace
For other International Women's Day celebrations and events happening
in the National Capital Region, go to:www.octevaw-cocvff.ca ("events")
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journée internationale de la femme
Le mardi, 8 mars 2010

19:00h-22:00h (portes ouvertes à 18:00h)
Archives nationales (395, rue Wellington)
La soirée comprendra:
★Top féministe canadienne
★ Les Femmys (remise de prix pour distinctions féministes de la région
de la capitale nationale)
★ Un court-métrage rigolo
★ Des presentations par les gagnants d’un concours de création
jeunesse
★DJ CPI (thetastates.com)
★ Opportunités de recontrer des gens divers et de recevoir de l’info à
propos d’organisations de femmes dans la région d’Ottawa
★ Grignotines et bar payant
★ Amusement!!
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C’est un événement GRATUIT et bilingue. Les dons sont bienvenus.
Une garderie est disponible! Veuillez contacter: svaw@amnesty.ca
Cet événement à été fièrement commandité par :
Ad Hoc Coalition for Women’s Equality and Human Rights • Amnesty
International Canada • Feminist Alliance for International Action
(FAFIA) • Inter Pares • Nobel Women's Initiative • OCTEVAW • Ottawa
RebELLEs • Oxfam Canada • PACT Ottawa • Planned Parenthood Ottawa •
Women's Event Network Ottawa • Women's Worlds 2011
Propagez la nouvelle!
· R.S.V.P. à l’événement Facebook : « Je suis peut-être une
féministe, mais…» et invitez vos propres réseaux sociaux au :http://
www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?
· Transférez cette invitation par courriel à vos ami(e)s,
membres de famille, et collègues de travail.
· Exhibez l’affiche dans vos communautés, campus, ou lieux de
travail.
Pour les autres événements de la journée internationale de la femme
passent dans la région d'Ottawa, allez à:www.octevaw-cocvff.ca ("events")
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Ottawa RebELLEs Newsletter / Infolettre
GET INVOLVED // IMPLIQUEZ-VOUS
1d-Volunteer at the event! contact milena.jlf.gioia@*When: *February 15th, any time between 10am -4pm
*Where: *151 Slater Street, Suite 704 [offices of the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action]
*What: *We are making a short film about feminism, that will be shown at
the March 8th, 2011, “I might be a feminist, but...” event in Ottawa.
This year we’ll be filming your feet – so wear your best shoes—we’re going
to ask them how they feel about the recent debate on second wave vs. third
wave feminism.
GET INVOLVED // IMPLIQUEZ-VOUS
GET INVOLVED
3a- To raise money for this event, we’ll meet Wednesday Feb.9 @ 6 @ the Earl of Sussex (St.Patrick) to discuss the design of the shirts and buttons we'll sell at the IWD events.
Check out this site: for tshirt inspiration:
3b- we're also planning an inter-generational feminist dinner fundraiser, to come in april. We could use your help!
Mouvement RebELLEs vous invite au
IMPLIQUEZ-VOUS
3a- Pour collecter des fonds pour le rassemblement, on va se réunir le mercredi 9 février à 18h au Earl of Sussex (St.Patrick) pour discuter à propos du design des tshirts et boutons qu'on va vendre aux évènements JIF.
Pour des idées de tshirt visitez ce site.
3b- On planifie aussi un souper-causerie féministe inter-générationnel en avril. Aidez-nous!
RebELLEs: Notre Révolution Féministe, Our Revolution is Now
2nd RebELLEs Gathering!
the 2nd RebELLEs Pan-Canadian
Young Feminist Gathering!
May 20-23, 2011, Winnipeg Manitoba
We invite you to be part of the
RebELLEs feminist movement!
This is an invitation to all young women, between 14 and 35 years of age with diverse political views and identities, from all regions, cultures and languages, with an interest in feminist issues and struggles.
You are invited to participate in the
2nd Pan-Canadian Young Feminist Gathering
The 1st gathering, “Toujours RebELLEs, Waves of Resistance” hosted over 500 young feminists in Montréal in October of 2008. For three days, young feminists gathered to share experiences, stories and analysis. We engaged in creative resistance actions in the streets, learned from and with one another, shared our feminist talents, and danced up a storm. We returned to our regions with a strong foundation for a young feminist movement in place, one that RebELLEs all across the country have been building upon for the past two years.
This is a call to all young women, activists, students, workers, un(der)employed women, artists, researchers, mothers, feminists of all tendencies and of all types, and of course emerging feminists, to get involved!
For more information:
2011 Organization Committee based in Winnipeg:
Pan-Canadian Secretariat based in Montreal:
In May of 2011, head to Winnipeg to:
* Learn about feminism and what it means to other young women
* Share your reflections and analysis of different issues that affect us as young women from diverse backgrounds
* Learn about and discuss our priorities for action as young feminists
* Share our struggles and discuss strategies to resist and combat patriarchy and other forms of oppression
* Create solidarity and reinforce the RebELLEs young feminist movement in Canada
*Celebrate our struggles and solidarity… Who said feminists don’t know how to party!?
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Nominations Open for an NCR Femmy
«Je suis peut-être une féministe, mais...» vous invite à présenter des candidatures pour le prix annuels «Femmys», pour les réalisations exceptionnelles de féministes de la région de la capitale nationale. Nous le faire parvenir par courriel à femmyawards@gmail.com au plus tard le 18 février 2011.
Thank you! Merci!
____________________
Invites your nomination submissions for the
"Femmy” Awards for Outstanding Feminist Achievement in the National Capital Region
To nominate a woman for this award, please see criteria and form below.
The Femmy Awards are intended to honour women located in the National Capital Region who have made outstanding contributions to the struggle for women's equality.
In order to be considered for the award, a nominee must:
- Identify as a woman
- Identify as a feminist
- Be located in the National Capital Region
- Have made significant contributions to the struggle for women's equality
NOMINATION FORM FOR A FEMMY
Please cut and paste the following and fill in the blanks as directed in your email. Send to femmyawards@gmail.com no later than February 18th, 2011.
I, ________, hereby nominate ________ of (organization, if applicable) for a Femmy Award. She has made a significant contribution to the struggle for women's equality as follows:
(Description - no longer than 1000 words)
Contact Information for Person Making the Nomination (email or mailing address, daytime phone number):
_________________________________________
Contact Information for Nominee (we will notify your nominee that she has been nominated):
______________________________________________
Vous invite à présenter des candidatures pour
le prix annuels «Femmys», pour les réalisations exceptionnelles de féministes de la région de la capitale nationale
Vous trouverez ci-dessous les critères de sélection et le formulaire de mise en candidature pour présenter une candidate.
Ce prix a pour objet de reconnaître des femmes de la région de la capitale nationale qui ont contribué de manière exceptionnelle à la lutte des femmes pour l'égalité. Pour être admissible à un Femmy, une candidate doit:
- S'identifier comme femme
- S'identifier comme féministe
- Être active dans la région de la capitale nationale
- Avoir contribué de manière significative à la lutte des femmes pour l'égalité
FORMULAIRE DE MISE EN CANDIDATURE POUR UN FEMMY
Veuillez copier, coller et compléter le formulaire. Nous le faire parvenir par courriel à femmyawards@gmail.com au plus tard le 18 février 2011.
Je, __________________________, présente la candidature de _________________________ de (organisation, le cas échéant) pour un prix Femmy. Cette femme a contribué de manière significative à la lutte des femmes pour l'égalité en:
(Description des réalisations - maximum de 1000 mots)
Coordonnées de la personne qui soumet une nomination (courriel ou adresse postale ainsi qu'un numéro de téléphone ou nous pouvons vous rejoindre le jour) :
___________________________________________________
Coordonnées de la personne nominée (nous allons communiquer avec la personne en nomination) ____________________________________________
Friday, January 28, 2011
Sharon McIvor will file complaint against Canada at the United Nations
"Canadian Aboriginal woman lawyer, leader and advocate, Sharon McIvor announced today [December 22, 2010] that she will file a complaint against Canada at the United Nations. 'Canada continues to discriminate against Aboriginal women and their descendants in the determination of eligibility for registration as an Indian. Versions of the Indian Act, going back to the
19th century, have given preference to male Indians as transmitters of status, and to descendants of male Indians. Despite amendments made to the Indian Act when the Charter came into effect in 1985, Aboriginal women are still not treated equally as transmitters of status, and many thousands of descendants of Aboriginal women are denied status as a result.'
McIvor said: “I contested this discrimination under the Charter. It took twenty years in Canadian courts, and I achieved only partial success. Now I will seek full justice for Aboriginal women under international human rights law. Canada needs to be held to account for its intransigence in refusing to completely eliminate sex discrimination from the Indian Act and for decades of delay.”
In 1994, Sharon McIvor brought a constitutional challenge to the sex discrimination in the registration provisions of the Indian Act. The B.C. Supreme Court ruled that section 6 of the Indian Act violated s. 15 of the Charter. However, when Canada appealed, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled that although the Indian Act was discriminatory, the bulk of the discrimination
was justified because the Government’s purpose was to preserve the existing rights of the Aboriginal men and their descendants who had been given preferred status.
Parliament is now poised to pass a new amendment to the Indian Act, Bill C-3, in response to the Court of Appeal decision. But Bill C-3, if passed, will provide only a partial and inadequate solution to the sex discrimination. Bill C-3 will make some female line descendants newly
eligible for status, but they will still have a lesser ability to transmit status than their male line counterparts. In addition, Bill C-3 will still exclude many descendants of Indian women who were unmarried. As long as these Aboriginal women and their descendants continue to be ineligible for registration as Indians, sex discrimination will remain an entrenched characteristic of the Indian Act.
McIvor said: “Because neither Canadian courts nor Parliament have yet granted an adequate and effective remedy for the sex discrimination which has been a hallmark of the Indian Act for more than a hundred years, I will take my case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.”
“Many people in Canada, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, recognize that this long-standing discrimination against Aboriginal women and their descendants is wrong and should end. Before me, Mary Two-Axe Early, Jeanette Corbière Lavell, Yvonne Bedard, and Sandra Lovelace all fought to end sex discrimination against Aboriginal women in the status registration provisions in the Indian Act. I will continue, with the same determination they had, until Aboriginal women enjoy equality,” said McIvor."
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Sources:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2010/12/c3673.html
http://www.fafia-afai.org/en/news/2010/sharon-mcivor-takes-her-fight-united-nations
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Sharon McIvor has devoted her life to improving the conditions of Aboriginal women, and all women in Canada. Sharon is a member of the Lower Nicola Band in British Columbia , a practicing lawyer, and a Professor of Aboriginal Law at Nicola Valley Institute of Technology. She has spent over two decades fighting to end sex discrimination under the status provisions of the Indian Act. At the same time she has been tireless in her work to end violence against Aboriginal women.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Reclaiming our Bodies: Painting in Resistance *** Réclamer nos corps: peinture en résistance

(English follows)
Dans le cadre des 16 jours d'activisme contre la violence faite aux femmes, les RebELLEs d’Ottawa organisent un événement de collecte de fonds de peinture sur corps. L’événement aura lieu le dimanche 5 decembre 2010, de 19h00-21h00 à Venus Envy (320 rue Lisgar) et les billets peuvent être achetés à la porte au coût de $3 (ou payez ce que vous pouvez).
Il s'agit d'un événement de peinture sur corps pour célébrer et réclamer nos corps contre la violence sexuelle. Notre vision est une de contraste et de résistance à la violence –physique et autrement— perpétué contre les femmes et les personnes qui rejettent la bipolarité du genre. Nous cherchons également à célébrer nos corps à travers la peinture et la photographie dans un espace positif.
Vous pouvez aussi choisir d’avoir votre corps photographié par les photographes professionnels au coût de $5. La peinture sera fournie pour la peinture corporelle et la peinture d'affiches. Comme divertissement, il y aura musique et paroles par Michelle Blackburn.
Vos bobettes sont obligatoires - mais tous les autres vêtements sont optionnels.
Les fonds collectés à partir de l'événement (à la porte et par les photos) seront remis à Coalition for a Carleton Sexual Assault Centre (Coalition pour un Centre d'agression sexuelle à Carleton). Venus Envy se trouve à 2 blocs sud du Transitway vous pouvez vous y rendre par autobus (numéros 1,4 et 7). Venus Envy est accessible par une rampe, mais ne dispose pas de salles de bains accessibles.
Tous sont les bienvenus ! Nous espérons que vous allez nous rejoindre pour nous aider à «réclamer nos corps » et pour peinturer notre résistance contre la violence sexiste.
En toute solidarité,
RebELLEs d'Ottawa
“Reclaiming our Bodies: Painting in Resistance”
As part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, the Ottawa RebELLEs are hosting a fundraising body- painting event Sunday, 5 December 2010, 7:00-9:00pm at Venus Envy (320 Lisgar St.) $3 at the door or pay what you can.
This is a body painting event to celebrate and reclaim our bodies from sexual violence. Our vision is to contrast and resist the violence- physical and otherwise- perpetuated on womyn’s bodies and bodies that reject gender binaries. Our vision is also to celebrate our bodies through paint and photography in a body-positive and sex-positive space.
You can also have your body photographed by professional photographers for $5.
In Solidarity,
Ottawa RebELLEs