Category Archives: New York City
Lakota Grandmothers in NYC
How to be an Indigenous Ally
Native Resistance Network members and colleagues will be presenting a workshop this coming Saturday at the NYC Anarchist Book Fair. It’s titled “Custer Died For Your Sins: How to be an Indigenous Ally”.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
107 Suffolk Street – Room 203
New York, NY 10002
Native Resistance Network will also have a table at the Book Fair. If you’ll be attending, please stop by and say hello.
Water
Native Resistance Network’s new zine, Water, will be available next week.
Visit our table at the NYC Anarchist Book Fair, April 6th and 7th.
Say hello and take a look.
Table of Contents:
Mni
Let the Land Speak for Itself
Call Me Mohicanituck
Water is Life
Prisons and Sovereignty
Listening to Sandy
We’ll also be making a .pdf of the zine available on this web site.
NYC Anarchist Book Fair 2013
Native Resistance Network will have a table at this year’s NYC Anarchist Book Fair.
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This year’s book fair moves from the genteel West Village to the rough-and-tumble Lower East Side, the real historic hub of dissident squatter and anarchist culture, where we’ll reconnect with other LES organizations in a nucleus of uprising, conspiracy, and mutual confabulation bringing together for the general public two days of books and book reading, lectures, workshops, pamphlets, broadsides, zines, films, demos, skill shares, and much much more. (There will be weekly updates as events, presses, and speakers sign on.) In addition to being hosted by the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, a dynamic multicultural center on Rivington & Suffolfk Streets, the book fair will partner events with Bluestockings and ABC No Rio, all within walking distance (very close!)
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In previous years, publishers have included AK, Fifth Estate, PM, Semiotext, WW3, Crimethinc, Black Cat, IWW, Institute for Anarchist Studies, Earth Journal, Native Resistance, OWS, Red Emma’s, Seven Stories, Bread & Puppet Press, Books Through Bars, Black Cross Federation, Charles Kerr, Combustion Books, Earth First! Journal, etc.
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Panels, workshops, lectures have focused on a range of topics, from Anarchism and Intersectionality; Community-based Exchange: Mutual Aid Models with Rock Dove Collective; Radical Parenting, Sex, Sobriety, and More; Greece 2008; Hacking Your Library to the ABCs of Squatting; Defending Our Land, Air, and Water; The Politics of Disaster; Anarchist People of Color; Another Year of the Economic Crisis; and more!
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Films and Art events have included: The NYC Anarchist Art Festival and Film Festival, and including performances, music, installations, video art, dance, sculpture, drawing, experimentation, and collaboration.
Update: Native Resistance Network members and colleagues will be hosting a workshop at the book fair. Click here for details.
Who’s Got Reservations? Journalism In Indian Country
Who’s Got Reservations? Journalism In Indian Country
When: Monday, April 1, 7-9 p.m.
Where: Columbia Journalism School, Joseph Pulitzer World Room (third floor), 2950 Broadway at 116th Street
*Free to the public*
The popular narrative of Indigenous North Americans, “American Indians,” “Native Americans,” or simply “Natives” living in Indian Country, i.e. the Native American community, is often shaped from a western perspective. It comes of no surprise to Natives that indigenous peoples are misrepresented far too often and crafted into stereotypical mystical beings that “once roamed the west” but are supposedly no longer around. As it is said, listen the language used.
The continual genocidal action against Native peoples manifests explicitly when mainstream media dramatizes Indian Country and exploits the rich culture, spirituality and strength of these multifaceted communities. Superficial media coverage on Indian Country (or any country) handicaps real solutions.
Indigenous North Americans continually fight for and maintain their sophisticated sovereignty despite years of colonization. The general American irreverent ignorance about Native Americans only further marginalizes the people whom are the original inhabitants of North America.
How does one begin to educate non-Natives so they can eschew stereotypes in order to begin understanding and seeing the dynamic truth that is Native America?
We wish to explore the critical role of contemporary media in Native America with the scholars, activists and media professionals whom have extensive experience advocating for or reporting from Indian Country.
Panelists:
Harvard PhD candidate and Native Appropriations author, Adrienne Keene (Cherokee): http://nativeappropriations.com/
Indian Country Today Op-Ed Editor, Ray Cook (Mohawk): http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/author/ray-cook
Canadian Aboriginal Journalist, Musician, and Director of Indigenous Inclusion at the University of Winnipeg, Wab Kinew (Midewin):http://wabkinew.ca/
Actor and Activist, well known from “Skins,” “Dreamkeeper,” “Into The West,” and as “Sam Uley” from the “Twilight Saga” film series “New Moon,” “Eclipse,” and “Breaking Dawn” parts 1 & 2, Chaske Spencer (Lakota Sioux): http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftherealchaske.com%2F&h=uAQGaobrp&s=1
Columbia Journalism School Dean of Academic Affairs and founding editor of the weekly Dakota Sun on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota and co-author of “The Story So Far: What We Know About The Business of Digital Journalism,” Bill Grueskin: http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/profile/40-bill-grueskin/10
Adalah NY and Soul Scientific Sessions
Co-presented by Adalah-NY and Scientific Soul Sessions
Featured speakers: Aaron Dixon, Janene Yazzie, and Riham Barghouti, with Dave Zirin moderating, and an introduction by Joel Kovel of St. Mary’s Church.
Featuring performances by saxophonist L. Mixashawn Rozie, composer Alia Ahmed, hip-hop/jazz drummer Kimberley Thompson and spoken-word artist/rapper Farrah Burns, and the Columbia Palestinian Dabke Brigade.
Here in the US, how can we connect the Palestinian resistance movements to those closer to home, namely, Black and indigenous struggles against structural oppression?
Do certain strategies for liberation cut across these different constituencies? Where does the Palestinian civil society call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) fit in as a tactic?
How can we recognize what is distinct about these struggles, while making connections and acting in solidarity?
From the dispossession of Palestinians and First Nation Peoples to the political suppression and mass incarceration of African Americans in the United States, we live in an age of continuing colonization, segregation, and government-sanctioned brutality. Please join us for an evening of discussion and live music as we learn from each other’s histories of oppression and resistance.
AARON DIXON is one of the cofounders of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party and author of My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain. He founded Central House, a nonprofit that provides transitional housing for youth, and was one of the cofounders of the Cannon House, a senior assisted-living facility. Aaron ran for US Senate on the Green Party ticket in 2006.
JANENE YAZZIE is a Diné entrepreneur who moved back to Dinetah, sacred homeland of her people located in the Southwestern United States, to work in sustainable community development. With climate change increasing drought conditions, the Diné people face the need to build resilient communities. This task requires community-led resistance to the continued economic exploitation championed by fossil fuel industries and the state, federal, and Navajo Nation governmental policies that support them. Yazzie’s business, Sixth World Solutions, seeks to implement sustainable economic, social, and environmental justice projects developed through a framework of human rights and community empowerment.
RIHAM BARGHOUTI is a Palestinian American activist who lived in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for 10 years. She currently resides in New York City, where she works as a teacher. Ms. Barghouti is a founding member of Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel and PACBI, The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
DAVE ZIRIN, named one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” writes about the politics of sports for The Nation magazine. Zirin is also the host of Sirius XM Radio’s popular weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio. His most recent book is the acclaimed Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down.
This event is part of the ninth annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), a series of events held concurrently in cities around the world to raise awareness of Israel as an apartheid state and to bolster support for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaigns. For a full listing of IAW events in New York City and globally, please visit apartheidweek.org.
Endorsed by WESPAC Foundation, Jewish Voice for Peace–Westchester, Resistance in Brooklyn (list information.
Oren Lyons at NMAI New York City
Peter Seeger, folksinger and environmental activist,
will make a special guest appearance
with
Welcome Remarks
Kevin Gover
Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
and
Oren Lyons
Onondaga Nation Faithkeeper, Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs and
the Haudenosaunee Grand Council
Tonya Gonnella Fricher
(Snipe Clan, Onondaga Nation)
President of the American Indian Law Alliance
Andy Mager
Project Coordinator for the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign
Moderated by
Philip P. Arnold
Interim Director of Native American Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Religion,
Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign–400th Anniversary
HonorTheTwoRow.org
This event is being held to bring wider attention to an education and advocacy campaign initiated by the Onondaga Nation and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation with major support from Syracuse University. It marks the 400th anniversary of the Two Row Wampum Treaty, the first treaty between Native Americans and Europeans. The campaign works to raise awareness of native treaties and protection of the earth. Protecting our water by supporting the anti-fracking movement in New York State is a particular focus.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
6-8 p.m.
National Museum of the American Indian
One Bowling Green, New York City
Building Circles of Trust
“Building Circles of Trust – The Economic Theory of the Algonquin People”
A Talk by Evan Pritchard
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Sunday, February 24th, 2013 at 11:00 a.m.
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
New York, New York
212. 477.0351
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Evan will expand on themes of “trust” from his landmark talk “Circles of Trust” given at St. Mary’s Church in Harlem, last November. He will talk about traditional Algonquin Way of the Heron,” as well as contemporary social movements including “Idle No More” in Canada, and the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign in New York State. The service will be followed by a “talk-back” Q and A session.
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Evan Pritchard of Mi’kmaq and Celtic descent, is the author of the critically acclaimed books, No Word For Time, Native American Stories of the Sacred, Native New Yorkers, and its sequel, Henry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York. As founder and director of the Center for Algonquin Culture in Woodstock/Pine Hill, he has worked with countless elders to help preserve the ancient history of North America. Evan has taught Native American studies courses at Marist, Vassar, and at Pace University, and lectures widely across the Eastern US and Canada. His latest book is Bird Medicine: The Importance of Birds in Native American Spiritual Traditions— and Why They are More Endangered Than Ever Before. He is currently working on an interactive educational DVD/film/ebook on Anishinabe musical and cultural traditions for Global Voices.
Lunar New Year – Year of the Snake
LUNAR NEW YEAR time!! welcome the Year of the Snake!
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our new year party this year responds to the international call for immigrants to support indigenous struggle. many who have not been idle are joined this year by many more who will be Idle No More.
we are so inspired by the global struggle and leadership of indigenous communities and cultures.
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come out and support Idle No More, make some dumplings and learn majiang. celebrate Lunar New Year with us at The Commons!
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When: SATURDAY, 2/9/13, Eve of the year of the SNAKE, 7:00 p.m.- 1:00 a.m.
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Where: The Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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How: Bike, walk, skip, hop, train 2345BDQNR/LIRR to atlantic, or the AC to Hoyt or G to Bergen.
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What: Immigrants Support Idle No More; $15-$77, no one turned away for lack of funds
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Lunar New Year traditions are many and varied. we honor as we transform them:
wear new clothes for the new year — please bring any clothes in good condition to swap with other people. BARTER.
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be with family — we recognize many forms of family, including all those chosen and those in community, as defined by LOVE & CONSENT.
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eat, drink & be merry — we’ll have drinks, dumpling making stations, movie screenings, and tables to play/learn majiang. LEARN.
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**also, appearing will be new catering cooperative, Shamé who will treat us to Asian Night Market experience redux! if you didn’t make it back in October, come through now for Asian street food experience — highlights included Deconstructed Bahn-mi, Butternut squash 5-spice ice cream, Red Bean pupusas **
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bring a friend, bring the kids, bring the family and join us in responding to call for immigrants supporting indigenous struggle.
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lida, dan, nikki
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SHAME DINNER PARTY (RSVP)
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Dear Friends of Shamé,
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Since the Asian Night Market last October, we’ve been up to a lot of planning and plotting! Check out our FB page (http://www.facebook.com/shame.caters) to read what we’ve been up to & please LIKE us!
We’d like to invite you to bring in a propitious 2013 this Chinese Lunar New Year by being part of the LUCKY13 who get to try Shamé’s brand new dinner menu–Global Southern Bloc: The Takeover! Shamé will be hosted by the Eve of Lunar New Year Party/Idle No More Fundraiser held at The Commons in Brooklyn. Come enjoy the dinner tasting menu to your taste buds’ & heart’s content while supporting immigrant and indigenous leadership and communities. Majiang, dumpling making, music, good conversation, good peeps, happening all night long but the dinner service will be from 7:00-8:30PM.
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The LUCKY13 Shamé dinner event is an extra contribution of $25 in addition to the suggested event fee at the door. No one will be turned away from the event due to lack of funds, but the Shamé dinner is RSVP’s only. Please RSVP now as space is limited–LUCKY13 (for 13 lucky people) is rolling RSVP’s! Peep the menu & more event details below!
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With love,
Shamé
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Dinner Theme: Global Southern Bloc- The Take Over!
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Drink/
Ginger-Mint Fizz (Dark Rum-Based)
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Appetizer/
Mini Daikon Veggie Wraps
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Main Course/
Nori Grill Waffle w/Crispy Korean Chicken or Tofu
Auspicious Black Eyed Peas
Blessed Collard Greens
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Dessert/
Five Spice Butternut Squash Ice Cream w/
Chipotle Apple Pecan Cake
