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Toronto: Indigenous Events

TWO EVENTS

1) Solidarity on Stolen Land
Wednesday June 28th, 2006
7-10pm
OISE (252 Bloor St. West), Room # 2-214

2) GATHER TO SUPPORT THE SIX NATIONS RECLAMATION OF KANENHSTATON NOON TO 2PM,
FRIDAY JUNE 30
OUTSIDE INDIAN & NORTHERN AFFAIRS CANADA
25 St. Clair Avenue East
Just east of Yonge. Near St. Clair Subway Station.

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Solidarity on Stolen Land: Linking Struggles and Building Mutual Support

Wednesday June 28th, 2006
7-10pm
OISE (252 Bloor St. West), Room # 2-214


Speakers:

Zainab Amadahy: Zainab Amadahy is a Black Cherokee who immigrated across the artificial line we call a border to Canada from the US. She is a writer, singer/songwriter and activist with the Indigenous Caucus of the Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty.

Bonita Lawrence: Bonita Lawrence (Mi'kmaw) teaches anti-racism and Native Studies in the School of Social Sciences at Atkinson, York University. She has recently published "Real" Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native People and Indigenous Nationhood. UBC Press, 2004. With Kim Anderson, she has co-edited a collection of Native women's scholarly and activist writing entitled Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival (Toronto: Sumach Press 2003) as well as an edition of Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, entitled Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations. She is a traditional singer who continues to sing with a group in Kingston at Native social and political gatherings.

Magaly San Martin: Magaly San Martin is a community activist involved with the solidarity movement, feminist movement, anti-racist groups. For the last eight years she has been working as a community legal worker at Parkdale Community Legal Services in the Social Assistance, Violence and Health Division (SAVAH). She mainly works on issues of Social Assistance, violence against women and policing. She is also active in community development and organizing for legal reform and social justice. In her spare time, she is trying to finish her doctoral thesis in Sociology and Equity Studies.

Rafeef Ziadah (to be confirmed)

This forum is being organized by No One is Illegal (Toronto) and the Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty, Indigenous Caucus

DONATIONS IN SUPPORT OF KANENHSTATON WILL BE ACCEPTED AT THE EVENT

This conversation builds critically on the important solidarities that have existed historically between Indigenous peoples and communities of colour. While such alliances have been crucial in movements against racism and colonialism, they are particularly important at the contemporary moment as the Canadian state assumes its sovereignty through determining who can come here and under what conditions through essentially racist immigration and settlement practices. Meanwhile, Canada denies its complicity in establishing and maintaining the conditions that displace and marginalize people elsewhere. Canada also remains in denial about its colonial and racist foundations, refuses to recognize Indigenous sovereignty and continues to carry out a centuries-old genocide project.

This discussion provides an opportunity to begin a conversation on how we as immigrants, refugees, racialized and Indigenous peoples can support each others' struggles and build a common movement that addresses all of our issues.


Endorsed by: No More Silence, New Socialist Group, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, Sumoud, Al-Awda, and others.



Tags for this entry: Indigenous Peoples, Kanenhstaton, activism.

posted by Annamarie at 4:09 PM