Indigenous Solidarity Teach-Ins
Reminder: Indigenous Solidarity Teach-in: Sunday, January 15, from 12-1:30, at Oscar Grant Plaze. We’re meeting at 11:00 at Brenda Saldago’s workplace: 436 14th St, 5th Floor (14th and Broadway) in Oakland: to talk through the “curriculum.” Everyone is welcome to both events!
“North America’s state and corporate wealth is largely based on the subsidies provided by the theft of Indigenous lands and resources. Colonial conquest was designed to ensure forced displacement of Indigenous peoples from their territories, the destruction of autonomy and self-determination in Indigenous self-governance, and the assimilation of Indigenous peoples’ cultures and traditions. Given the devastating cultural, spiritual, economic, linguistic, and political impacts on Indigenous people, any serious social or environmental justice movement must necessarily include non-native solidarity in the fight against colonization.”
Save the Peaks Coalition
The Save the Peaks Coalition is planning a Caravan from Flagstaff, AZ to San Francisco where they will be contesting the environmental & human health impacts of wastewater snowmaking. The Save the Peaks Coalition are fighting the United States Forest Service in a legal battle to protect children from hazardous endocrine disruptors and to protect this sacred site from desecration. The case argues that under the National Environmental Policy Act and the Administrative Procedure Act, the Forest Service failed to adequately consider the impacts associated with ingestion of snow made from reclaimed sewer water in its Environmental Impact Statement. The Forest Service approved reclaimed sewer water for the use of snowmaking at a local Northern Arizona ski resort in 2004. The reclaimed sewer water in question is from Flagstaff’s Rio de Flag Sewage Plant that has proven to contain harmful bacteria, and endocrine disruptors such as pharmaceuticals and hormones amongst other known toxins.
Schedule of Events
Sunday January 8:
6PM - 9PM. Evening dinner, welcoming reception, & discussion on environmental injustice impacts and how they affect sacred sites. The Women’s Building; San Francisco, CA RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/195603233865761/
Monday January 9:
7AM: Sunrise Prayer Vigil Ceremonial gathering at a park located near the courthouse in downtown SF- TBA! Stay posted by visiting here: https://www.facebook.com/events/195603233865761/
8AM: Protect Sacred Sites, Defend Human Rights March from the nearby park going to the James R.Browning US Courthouse - 9th Circuit; 95 Seventh Street; SF, CA.
9AM: Rally & Prayers outside the Courthouse.
9:30AM: Court Hearing. The Save the Peaks Coalition et al vs. the United States Forest Service.
10:15 - 11:00 (Estimated) Press Conference on the steps of the 9th Circuit courthouse afterwards.
“Canada’s state and corporate wealth is largely based on subsidies gained from the theft of Indigenous lands and resources. Conquest in Canada was designed to ensure forced displacement of Indigenous peoples from their territories, the destruction of autonomy and self-determination in Indigenous self-governance and the assimilation of Indigenous peoples’ cultures and traditions. Given the devastating cultural, spiritual, economic, linguistic and political impacts of colonialism on Indigenous people in Canada, any serious attempt by non-natives at allying with Indigenous struggles must entail solidarity in the fight against colonization.” …
“Occupy Language might draw inspiration from both the way that the Occupy movement has reshaped definitions of “occupy,” which teaches us that we give words meaning and that discourses are not immutable, and from the way indigenous movements have contested its use, which teaches us to be ever-mindful about how language both empowers and oppresses, unifies and isolates.” …
“The Occupy movement is known internationally for protesting the inequalities of the global financial system, so much so that in four short months, “Occupy” has essentially become a brand known the world over.” …
November 25, 2011 - 10th Anniversary of the Annual Black Friday Protest Against the Bay Street Mall: No More Desecration of Sacred Ohlone Shellmounds.
