NUESTROAMERICANA Friendship Parade

The UN has recognized our rights – time to celebrate!

Call out to everyone: on Saturday, August 6, march and dance!

Rally starting at 9 a.m. at Philips Square (opposite The Ba

We are going all out to celebrate the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People

Parade along Ste. Catherine St. on Saturday morning, August 6, winding up at Place des Festivals, setting for the First Peoples’ Festiva

Come hear spokespersons for AFNQL, Quebec Native Women, Amnesty International, Conseil central CSN de Montréal and other

Starting in 2007, UN General Assembly has approved this declaration, thanks to decisive support from Latin American and Caribbean countries. Now that Canada and the USA have finally ratified it, we can celebrate with our friends in the forefront.

NUESTROAMERICANA Friendship Parade

Montreal and the First Nation

We are marching to the sound of the drum, in the tradition of brotherhood, sisterhood and friendship among the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, the people of Montreal and the First Nations.

2001 – 2011: 19 ten years of social and popular victories that have reinvigorated democracy in the lands of Nuestra América as they celebrate the bicentennials of their independence. Over these ten years the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has been approved. And now, UNANIMOUSLY and UNIVERSALL

The parade gives voice to the ideals of peace First Peoples’ Festival has always stood for, in tune with the cultural sensibility of Montrealers of all origins and the hopes of Nuestra América’s peoples.

Partners: Alternatives, Base de Paix, Land Insights, Conseil central de Montréal (CSN)