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| == Please [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Decolonize_To_Liberate follow this link ]to the new working group page for Decolonize to Liberate.<br/> == | | == Please [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Decolonize_To_Liberate follow this link ]to the new working group page for Decolonize to Liberate.<br/> == |
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| == '''Next Meeting:'''<br/> ==
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| <p style="text-align: center">'''<span style="font-size:large">Friday December 30, 2011, 5:00 PM</span>'''</p><p style="text-align: center">'''<span style="font-size:large">Christ Church Cambridge</span>'''</p><p style="text-align: center">'''<span style="font-size:large">0 Garden St. (right near Harvard Square)</span>'''</p>
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| == ''<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large"><span style="font-size: large">Contact decolonizeboston[at]gmail.com with any questions or to help</span></span>''<br/> ==
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| <span style="font-size:larger">If you would like to join the working group list-serve and have or don't mind creating a google account, please follow this [http://groups.google.com/group/decolonizeboston/subscribe?note=1 link].</span>
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| <span style="font-size:larger">Otherwise, email a request for membership to the above email, and we will send you an invite.</span>
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| <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large"><span style="font-size: large">Follow us on Twitter!: [http://twitter.com/decolonizebos @DecolonizeBos]</span></span>
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| ''<span style="font-size:x-large">Check out our new Decolonize Boston [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Indigenous_Solidarity_and_Outreach/resources resource page]! Links, articles, videos and 'zines!</span>''
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| <span style="font-size: xx-large">Many thanks to all who were able to join us in Plymouth for the 42nd National Day of Mourning! </span>
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| <span style="font-size: large">The Boston Globe produced an article and a video about our visit to Plymouth. </span>
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| <span style="font-size: large">You can read the article,</span><span style="font-size: large">"[http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2011/11/25/solidarity-occupy-group-joins-with-native-americans/uGgtpNbhAaYmKRNmLvnmTK/story.html?s_campaign=8315 In Solidarity, Occupy Group Joins with Native Americans]" also a video, "[http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/video/?bctid=1293351417001&pconnect_name=501249 Occupy Boston Protesters in Plymouth]" </span>
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| <span style="font-size: large">A member of the working group was also interviewed in a Democracy Now! special:</span>
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| == [http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/11/30/we_are_not_vanishing_we_are_not_conquered_native_americans_commemorate_day_of_mourning_on_thanksgiving Native Americans Mark Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving: 'We are not Vanishing, We Are Not Conquered']<br/> ==
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| <span style="font-size: small">[note: this wiki page is a temporary landing page for decolonizeboston.org - Pending collaboration with related working groups and other entities, the domain will direct to a collaborative site networking and connecting various efforts to "Decolonize the 99%" If you are interested in collaborating in this effort, please contact the working group at decolonizeboston[at]gmail.com]</span>
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| == ''http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6173/6199077688_bb98888e73.jpg''<span style="font-size: large"><span class="mw-headline" id="Indigenous_Solidarity_and_Outreach_Working_Group_meets_Fridays_at_5p_in_South_Station.2C_food_court_mezzanine._.C2.A0All_are_welcome.21">''<span style="font-size: x-large"></span>''</span></span><br/> ==
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| <br/><span style="font-size: large">'''<span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Occupy Boston - Memorandum of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples</span></span>'''<br/>''<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">The following resolution was passed by the Occupy Boston General Assembly on October 8th, 2011:</span>''</span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">RESOLUTION: Memorandum of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">WHEREAS, those participating in “Occupy Boston” acknowledge that the United States of America is a colonial country, and that we are guests upon stolen indigenous land that has already been occupied for centuries, Boston being the ancestral land of the Massachusett people; and</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">WHEREAS, members of the First Nations have continued to resist the violent oppression and exploitation of the colonizers since they first arrived on this continent, and as a result have a great amount of experience that could strengthen this movement; and</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">WHEREAS, after centuries of disregard for the welfare of future generations, and the consistent disrespect and exploitation of the Earth, we find ourselves on a polluted and disturbed planet, lacking the wisdom to live sustainably at peace with the community of Life; therefore be it</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">RESOLVED, That we seek the involvement of the First Nations in the rebuilding of a new society on their ancestral land; and</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">As a signal to the national “Occupy” movement and to members of First Nations 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 Peoples; and</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Extending an open hand of humility and friendship, we hereby invite members of the First Nations to join us in this popular uprising now taking place across this continent. We wish to further the process of healing and reconciliation and implore Indigenous Peoples to share their wisdom and guidance, as they see fit, so as to help us restore true freedom and democracy and initiate a new era of peace and cooperation that will work for everyone, including the Earth and the original inhabitants of this land; and</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: x-large">'''<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Occupy_Movement_and_Ancient_Prophecies">The Occupy Movement and Ancient Prophecies</span>'''</span>
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| ''<span style="font-size: large">Charles Laster, a Native American of Cherokee descent, noted the following in an open letter on facebook:</span>''
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">I was in full support of the Occupy Movement, for a number of reasons. Some of which was that their goals were in harmony with my views as a Native American of Cherokee descent. When I read the following Resolution by the Occupy Boston group, I was deeply touched and moved.</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">What was profound for me was how this action and the worldwide Occupy Movement meshed with the prophecies found in many Native Tribes.</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Listen to these excerpts of their words.</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large">'''''<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">RESOLVED, That we seek the involvement of the First Nations in the rebuilding of a new society on their ancestral land... with the guidance and participation of First Nations Peoples.</span>'''''<br/>'''''<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">... [We] implore Indigenous Peoples to share their wisdom and guidance, as they see fit... [and] initiate a new era of peace and cooperation... including the Earth and the original inhabitants of this land.</span>'''''</span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">They know they have lost the way. That the killing of the Earth and its peoples must stop.</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">More importantly, they know that we the Native people of the Earth have the wisdom to guide them.</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Has this ever happened before, has anyone ever said this to us!</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">When I look upon the crowds at Occupy protests, I see all races and people of the earth in all their diversity, a rainbow of races and people from all walks of life around the globe.</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">It is not just Native American Tribes that see this in prophecy, the Tibetan Buddhists have a similar prophecy, and the Dali Lama has spoken with Hopi Elders about this. There are more such prophecies from tribes and people around the world, I can not list them all.</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Now is the time, the White Buffalo has been born. Will we let its promise die?</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">It is not just the light skinned man that must make a choice. The words of our ancestors show we must also choose!</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Will we grasp the hands extended from around the world and complete the Great Hoop? Shall we give them the wisdom and knowledge of our ancestors they seek?</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Or will we in fear and anger not join the hoop? Let prejudice and spite withhold our council from them?</span></span>
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| <span style="font-size: large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">The Earth filled with the blood and bones of our ancestors cry out to us, the words they spoke long ago ring in our ears today, stand or die, we must choose.</span></span>
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| ==See Also==
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| *[[Council of Elders]]
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