{"id":678,"date":"2011-12-02T21:31:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T02:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanata.qpirgmcgill.org\/?p=678"},"modified":"2012-01-10T23:24:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T04:24:26","slug":"mcgill-community-comes-together-for-an-attawapiskat-benefit-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/kanata\/mcgill-community-comes-together-for-an-attawapiskat-benefit-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"McGill Community Comes Together for an Attawapiskat Benefit Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aboriginal Sustainability Project invites all to attend and donate funds for the Red Cross relief effort for Attawapiskat. This event is taking place on Monday December 5th from 6-9pm in the SSMU Ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>More details from the Aboriginal Sustainability Project&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/144592885643886\/\">facebook event page:\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div><em>Raising awareness of the housing issues that First Nations communities face, and to provide supplies for a community in need.The event is dedicated to Aboriginal people who share their stories, through song, music, poetry and storytelling<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>We have four wonderful performers:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 DJ Mad Eskimo,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/madeskimo\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/madeskimo<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u2022 Joey Shaw,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/hiphopisastateofmind\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/hiphopisastateofmind<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u2022 Demiel Pepin,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/demielpepinmusic\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/demielpepinmusic<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u2022 Cod Sent Flute,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.purevolume.com\/codsentflute\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.purevolume.com\/codsentflute<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sharing their stories :<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Michael Loft, Mohawk, McGill Professor<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u2022 Trudy Blumstein, Advisor of Indigenous Access McGill<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u2022 Elma Moses, Cree, McGill PhD Candidate<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u2022 Mary Shem, Cree, McGill Student<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u2022 Natasha Latter, Cree from Montreal Lake Cree Nation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MORE TO COME!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Donate What You Can, Suggested Donation $5.00<\/em><br \/>\n<em> 100% of the proceeds will go to the Red Cross.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There are ways that you can help if you are unable to attend the concert. Until Friday, December 9th, the First Peoples\u2019 House and SEDE will be accepting monetary donations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please feel free to collect donations from friends, family, and work colleagues.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The First Peoples&#8217; House is located at 3505 rue Peel, and SEDE at 3610 Mctavish, Suite 12,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Office Hours: 9:00am to 5:00pm.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aboriginal Sustainability Project invites all to attend and donate funds for the Red Cross relief effort for Attawapiskat. This event is taking place on Monday December 5th from 6-9pm in the SSMU Ballroom. More details from the Aboriginal Sustainability Project&#8217;s facebook event page:\u00a0 Raising awareness of the housing issues that First Nations communities face, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,39,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-events","category-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/kanata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/kanata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/kanata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/kanata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/kanata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/kanata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/kanata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/kanata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/kanata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qpirgmcgill.org\/kanata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}