Decolonize To Liberate
Decolonize To Liberate
Decolonizing Declarations from Occupies Across the Continent
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We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân
The Decolonize to Liberate Working Group will be following up with their successful community gathering by showing a film by Anne Makepeace, "We Still Live Here." This hour long film documents the efforts of Jessie Little Doe Baird, a recent winner of a MacArthur 'genius' award, to reclaim the Wampanoag Native language, which had not been spoken in nearly 100 years. Noam Chomsky has said: "There is nothing l know of that's anything like the Wampanoag case." Intersections of race, class, and gender can be clearly seen in the documentary.
Watch the trailer, here: http://youtu.be/ocUjqjZbo_s
Join us in watching this deeply moving film, and remarkable journey of an indigenous woman, with a discussion led by Ukumbwa Sauti. Snack and paper good donations welcome!
Friday, 3/9/12, 6-8PM,
The First Parish in Cambridge,
3 Church St./1446 Mass Ave, corner of Church Street and Mass Ave, easy walking distance from the Harvard Square T-Stop.
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(this is also the regular meeting time/place of the Working Group)
Please RSVP/share the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/319963398062134/
Many thanks to everyone who joined us for the Decolonize to Liberate Occupy Boston Community Gathering. Check out the recap of the event on OccupyBoston.org:
http://www.occupyboston.org/2012/03/06/decoolonize-99-liberate-100/
We look forward to continuing this work together. Please join us at our weekly meetings.
First Parish in Cambridge, Unitarian Universalist
Cambridge, MA 02138
As a signal to the national “Occupy” movement and to members of First Nations (Indigenous Peoples) who have felt excluded by the colonialist language used to name this movement, it shall be declared that “Occupy Boston” aspires to “Decolonize Boston” with the guidance and participation of First Nations.
[Excerpt from the Statement of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples introduced by this working group and passed by the Occupy Boston General Assembly on October 8, 2011. Read the full resolution, here.]
Contact decolonizeboston[at]gmail.com with any questions or to get involved.
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Many thanks to all who were able to join us in Plymouth for the 42nd National Day of Mourning!
The Boston Globe produced an article and a video about our visit to Plymouth.
You can read the article,"In Solidarity, Occupy Group Joins with Native Americans" also a video, "Occupy Boston Protesters in Plymouth"
A member of the working group was also interviewed in a Democracy Now! special on the event:
Native Americans Mark Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving: 'We are not Vanishing, We Are Not Conquered'
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