Please join the Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) and the Famous Six in our struggle to end sex discrimination against Indigenous women in the Indian Act.
Here are 3 things you can do today or by November 7th:
1. Sign this letter at this link or copy and paste this link into your browser: http://fafia-afai.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Prime-Minister-letter-October-18.pdf
It is addressed to the Prime Minister of Canada asking him to remove the sex discrimination from the Indian Act now.
To sign on, send a quick email to bills3@fafia-afai.org with your name. Let us know if you are signing as an individual, or the name of your organization, and/or the name of all the individuals at your organization that would like to sign on.
2. Contact your Member of Parliament. Go to this website to find your MP’s contact information or copy and paste this link into your browser:
https://op.parl.ca/ParlInfo/compilations/HouseOfCommons/MemberByPostalCode.aspx
And then follow this link or copy and paste this link into your browser:
http://fafia-afai.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Sample-email-to-MPs.pdf
for a sample email to send to your Member of Parliament.
3. Contact Senators from your province / territory. Go to this website to find Senators’ contact information or copy and paste this link into your browser: https://sencanada.ca/en/senators-list/
And then follow this link or copy and paste this link into your browser:
http://fafia-afai.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Sample-email-to-senators.pdf
for a sample email to send to Senators from your province or territory.
Please remember the timeline of November 7th. Please take the time and like, tweet, share, and post this blog. It is a public blog.
Here are 3 things you can do today or by November 7th:
1. Sign this letter at this link or copy and paste this link into your browser: http://fafia-afai.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Prime-Minister-letter-October-18.pdf
It is addressed to the Prime Minister of Canada asking him to remove the sex discrimination from the Indian Act now.
To sign on, send a quick email to bills3@fafia-afai.org with your name. Let us know if you are signing as an individual, or the name of your organization, and/or the name of all the individuals at your organization that would like to sign on.
2. Contact your Member of Parliament. Go to this website to find your MP’s contact information or copy and paste this link into your browser:
https://op.parl.ca/ParlInfo/compilations/HouseOfCommons/MemberByPostalCode.aspx
And then follow this link or copy and paste this link into your browser:
http://fafia-afai.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Sample-email-to-MPs.pdf
for a sample email to send to your Member of Parliament.
3. Contact Senators from your province / territory. Go to this website to find Senators’ contact information or copy and paste this link into your browser: https://sencanada.ca/en/senators-list/
And then follow this link or copy and paste this link into your browser:
http://fafia-afai.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Sample-email-to-senators.pdf
for a sample email to send to Senators from your province or territory.
Please remember the timeline of November 7th. Please take the time and like, tweet, share, and post this blog. It is a public blog.
Lynn Gehl, Ph.D. is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley. In 2017 she won an Ontario Court of Appeal case on sex discrimination in The Indian Act, and is an outspoken critic of the Algonquin land claims process. Recently she published Claiming Anishinaabe: Decolonizing the Human Spirit. You can reach her through, and see more of her work, at www.lynngehl.com.
