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The anti-G20/WB/IMF Housing Committee is pleased to offer you assistance in your search for accommodation while in Ottawa over November 14-19. We are actively registering and seeking space from community supporters willing to help house you during actions resisting the meetings of the World Bank, IMF, and G-20 (November 16-18) and the war in Afghanistan (November 17), and earlier events, so please provide us with the information requested below.

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Attention out-of-town anti-war/anti-capitalist/pro-democracy activists:

The anti-G20/WB/IMF Housing Committee is pleased to offer you assistance in your search for accommodation while in Ottawa over November 14-19. We are actively registering and seeking space from community supporters willing to help house you during actions resisting the meetings of the World Bank, IMF, and G-20 (November 16-18) and the war in Afghanistan (November 17), and earlier events, so please provide us with the information requested below. We are also working as a community to get
the City to make public facilities available. All attempts will be made to place you in the type of accommodation you are seeking. We are placing groups, couples and individuals in public and private spaces, keeping groups together wherever possible.

The housing committee has attempted to secure mass arrangements for these activists but has been met with barrier upon barrier put up by the city of Ottawa and "the higher-ups". (This is not unlike what has happened in other cities where these closed meetings of these "elite" have been held.) We are doing what we can to secure public space -- and this is essential! -- but we are also hoping to provide a significant amount of private billeting.

Your host will set the departure and arrival dates and times for use of the billeting space - we ask you to be flexible and respectful of the constraints of those providing housing. We are looking to make billeting available for the evenings/nights of November 14-18, with an emphasis on the November 17th and 18th dates, as well for some offers of billets for events and meetings prior to November 14. (Many meetings, actions and events are planned in Ottawa from November 14-18th).
This is a great opportunity for Ottawa activists and supporters of social justice to meet activists from outside of Ottawa, and for us to continue to build our movement.

If you are part of a group, please choose one person to communicate with us about housing if you can. Please do not submit multiple requests for housing. If you need to change previously registered information, make sure that you click on the change button on the web-based form. Our database is maintained off-line and is secure. Only a small number of
people will have access to any of this information: our database
manager, your potential billet (if you check "my billet can contact me" on the form - your potential billet will receive only your email and phone number), and a volunteer at the welcome centre and/or other arrival point (who will have your address, zone, and phone number). The housing committee will do whatever we can to meet any additional requirements that you may have. Please indicate what these are in your request for billeting.

If you want housing arrangements to be made for you and your group, please provide us your information as soon as possible. The best and fastest way is to submit your request online if you have web access.

For requests for housing, the URL is:
http://www.flora.org/gdo/ineedhousing.shtml

If you cannot do so, you can register by fax at (613) 236-6654, or register your information by voicemail at (613) 237-0730. You can also leave a message for a housing volunteer to call you back at this number to address your questions and concerns. If you are registering by fax or by voicemail, please print and reply using the form attached below.

We plan on doing most of the matching up of billets up on November 11th and informing people immediately by email and shortly afterward by phone. We will keep you posted on the likelihood of everyone having a space as we gain a better picture of what spaces are available.

Please circulate this to your affinity groups, organizations, and other local and global networks!

Thanks,
Ottawa "G20/World Bank/IMF" Housing Committee

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"G20/World Bank/IMF" Billeting

phone: (613) 237-0730
email: hous...@flora.org

YES, I/WE NEED HOUSING!

Please complete all questions with an asterisk (*). If these questions
are incomplete, we cannot process your request.

*This application is: New Change Cancel

*First Name:

Last Name:

*Gender: Male Female

Organization:

*Email

*Phone:

*If registering as a group, how many are you?

Does your group need to stay together? Yes No

Emergency contact name:

Emergency contact number:

Do you speak: French Spanish Other:

City:

Province or state:

*I/we need billeting for (check all that apply):
Before Nov. 14 [ ]
Nov. 14 [ ]
Nov. 15 [ ]
Nov. 16 [ ]
Nov. 17 [ ]
Nov. 18 [ ]

I/We will be arriving at what time: [ ]

Click all that apply:
I (people in my group) need to sleep on a bed [ ]
I (people in my group) need to smoke indoors [ ]
I (people in my group) need a smoke-free environment [ ]
I (people in my group) have children accompanying me (us) [ ]
I (people in my group) can provide my (our) own food [ ]
I (people in my group) have allergies to: ________________
I have access to a vehicle while in Ottawa [ ]
I (we) need a women-only space [ ]
I (people in my group) have physical access requirements [ ]
I am willing to contact my billet: [ ]

Other issues:

FAX TO:
(613) 236-6654

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