Decolonize To Liberate

Decolonize To Liberate

A Working Group of Occupy/Decolonize Boston

What is "Decolonization"?    A collection of definitions and explanations assembled by the Working Group

Decolonize To Liberate resource page Links, articles, videos and 'zines!

Decolonizing Declarations from Occupies Across the Continent

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Special Film Screening at the weekly Working Group meeting this Friday

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/

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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.

All are welcome to our regular weekly meetings.  Half of the meeting is discussion/self-education to help us decolonize ourselves (see our resources section).  Half of each meeting is for planning events and actions to help decolonize the movement. 

Meetings held each Friday, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

LOCATION  CHANGED! (down the street)

First Parish in Cambridge, Unitarian Universalist

3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Decolonize to Liberate seeks to shed the dominator ethos and systems of oppressionthat come from colonization, to stand in solidarity with indigenous resistance worldwide and to help restore our relationships to Mother Earth.

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.

If you would like to join the working group list-serve and have or don't mind creating a google account, please follow this link.

Otherwise, email a request for membership to the above email, and we will send you an invite.

Please Follow us on Twitter!: @DecolonizeBos

And now we have a facebook page, too!

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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'

Turtle Island Initiative Reading List:

http://ti42.weebly.com/required-reading.html