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Statement on the Occupation of Ottawa

2/21/2022

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The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) applauds and supports Zexi Li, a resident of Centretown, Ottawa, who has courageously brought a court injunction against the actions of the illegal occupiers of downtown Ottawa, over the “suffering and sound torture" caused by the use of truck horns blaring 24/7 and other disruptions and intimidation.

Zexi Li's courage has continued with a $306 million class-action lawsuit against the organizing participants in the “Freedom Convoy" who can only be described as transnational criminals in their illegal occupation of the city of Ottawa.

Please watch this interview with Zexi Li on CBC:

Ottawa resident says locals were 'suffering' under convoy occupation


This ECH statement of support also acknowledges all of the other residents of Ottawa who organized blockades, on Cooper Street and at Bank St. and Riverside Drive, to stop more trucks and vehicles from entering the downtown area.

There is a fund-raising campaign to support the class-action lawsuit: The Ottawa Fund. The ECH urges all those who are able to support Zexi Li and the people of Centretown, Ottawa.

See articles in the Ottawa Citizen on the women organizing to
“Stop the Occupation" of Ottawa and an article by Archana Rampuse on Feb. 14 on rabble.ca: From the frontlines: Ottawa community blocks trucks headed for downtown convoy. Also: ByWard Market, Sandy Hill residents join class-action suit and Meet the 21-year-old Ottawa woman behind the injunction that silenced the honking.

Important statement from Ottawa Cultural Organizations:

https://oaggao.ca/whats-on/news/ottawa-local-arts-organizations-united-statement-on-freedom-convoy/

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From CBC: London Morning with Rebecca Zandbergen

2/6/2022

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Rebecca Zandbergen
The Embassy Cultural House is pleased to share an interview with one of our contributing editors and artists Anahi Gonzalez, from CBC's Rebecca Zandbergen. 

Please click the button bellow to listen. 
Many of our farms wouldn't survive without the help of migrant workers.
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Anahi Gonzalez is a visual artist at Western University who is exploring themes of Mexican labour using fruit pallets. "
Listen here
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From CBC: New Black Community Library in London, Ontario, will include 600 books

2/2/2022

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The Embassy Cultural House is happy to share the news of a new Black Community Public Library that is set to open in London, Ontario. 

To learn more, please click the link below to read the recent CBC article by Isha Bhargava. 
A new Black Community Public Library is launching in London, Ont., at the end of January, featuring books of various genres written by Black authors from Canada and around the world.  

The Where We Are Now (WEAN) Community Centre is hosting the library and aims to highlight the contributions of Black authors while creating a space for readers from marginalized communities.
 
​WEAN's founder and CEO Pastor Sandie Thomas said that growing up as a Black person, she always wondered why her community's stories weren't displayed in libraries. 

"There's no representation of who we are, and it's always in the back of your head that 'did we not do anything? Where are our stories?'" she said.

Thomas said she was inspired by the work Maya Angelou, the American poet she discovered in adulthood.   
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"It really inspired me to let me know that we have these spaces, and there are books written about us and stories that need to be told about us," she added.  

This is a collaboration project between WEAN, the London Public Library and Western University."
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EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

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Olivia Mossuto

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Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson. 

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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