Renfrew-Collingwood Food Justice
5288 Joyce Street V5R 6C9 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Help out our friends at the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, seeking pink, blue and white flowers for a special event honouring Trans women in the community.

Renfrew-Collingwood Food Justice would like to affirm and extend our support and solidarity to the fishers and community of Sipekne’katik First Nation in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia). For weeks, settler commercial fishers in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia) have targeted fishers of Sipekne’katik First Nation. Attacks on Mi’kmaq fishers have included violent confrontations at the wharf of the self-regulated fishery in Weymouth, lobster traps being removed in St. Mary’s Bay and lobster pound...s being ransacked, as well as violent rock-throwing, threats and vehicle fires. Most recently, a lobster pound in Middle West Pubnico holding the catch of Mi’kmaq fishers was burnt down. These acts of violence are intentional and genocidal. Intervention from the RCMP and local police has been minimal. This inaction protects crimes perpetrated by settler vigilantes. This is settler-colonial violence. Mi’kma’ki is unceded territory, and the Mi’kmaq have ancestral and treaty rights to harvest on their waters an activity that has been practiced since time immemorial. The right of Mi’kmaq peoples to hunt, fish and gather year-round for a moderate livelihood is a constitutionally protected treaty right as per the 1752 Peace and Friendship Treaty. RCFJ stands behind, and echos all calls for the Canadian state to uphold Mi’kmaq treaty rights. We extend our unequivocal solidarity and support to the fishers and the entire community of Sipekne’katik First Nation in Mi’kma’ki in protecting their sovereignty and self-determination. [IMAGE: Created by Jordan Bennett, Mi’kmaq artist from Stephenville Crossing, Ktaqamkuk]

We have a Food Advisory Committee Meeting tonight!! Happening via zoom at the following link: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87626928808 Meeting ID: 876 2692 8808... Passcode: 541386 Or call in at: 778 907 2071 Join us in discussing local food issues and envisioning a different future for our community

Happening TOMORROW!! See you there!!

The meal program is about dignity, survival, being social and about being together: it’s to support and comfort each other, and learn from each other. Amand...a Link to tickets for Herstory in Focus: https://dewc.ticketleap.com/herstoryinfocus/ [IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Image features a sprig of sage. In the middle of the image, purple text reads, The fight against hunger and poverty remains at the heart of The Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. Herstory in Focus is the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre’s fifth annual gala and first virtual event, This event directly supports our meal program and drop-in centre, which have continued to support up to 500 women daily throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Your Ticket purchases for Herstory in focus directly benefit the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre’s essential meals program." ]