SAVE THE DATE
An Evening in Memory of
Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa
and
Tonya Gonnella Frichner
The Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa
Flying Eagle Woman Fund
Cordially invites you
to a reception in memory of
Friday, April 24, 2015
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
777 UN Plaza
East 44th Street and First Avenue
2nd Floor
Crying Earth Rise Up is an intimate portrait of the human cost of uranium mining and its impact on sacred water. It tells a timely story of protecting land, water and a way of life.
The film will be showing on Sunday, April 26, 2015 at the
Center for Remembering and Sharing
124 4th Avenue, 2nd Floor
(between East 12th and 13th Streets)
NYC
Web site for Crying Earth RIse Up
Web site for Owe Aku International
Web site for Dine No Nukes
In Praise of the Mighty Native Woman
by Ruth Hopkins
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“Native women, with their indomitable spirits and ability to create miracles through sheer force of will, are absolutely the reason why the indigenous people of the Western hemisphere managed to survive genocide, against all odds.”
Continue reading . . .
COMPAÑERAS is the untold story of the women of the Zapatista movement. Prior to 1994, the indigenous women of Chiapas had few, if any, rights. They were forced into arranged marriages and confined to the private sphere; they had little access to birth control, and domestic violence was widespread. But the Zapatista movement radically redefined gender roles as women left their homes to become guerrilla insurgents, political leaders, healers, educators, and members of economic cooperatives. Zapatista women played a key role not only in creating and maintaining indigenous autonomy, but also in bringing about the liberation and equality of indigenous women.
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From 1997 to 2003, community organizer Hilary Klein worked with women’s cooperatives in Chiapas and interviewed many Zapatista women, who had joined the movement to escape arranged marriages, or to acquire the education that had been denied them, or to rectify other injustices they had witnessed in their communities. Their stories shed light on one of the most compelling social movements in recent history and the birth of women’s rights in Chiapas. COMPAÑERAS is required reading for anyone interested in women’s studies, social and economic justice, or grassroots resistance to global capitalism.
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Author HILARY KLEIN spent six years in Chiapas, Mexico, working with women’s projects in Zapatista communities. After she compiled a book of Zapatista women’s testimony to be circulated in their own villages, women in the Zapatista leadership suggested that Klein compile a similar book for an outside audience. Klein has been engaged in social justice and community organizing for twenty years. She currently works at Make the Road New York, a membership organization that builds the power of immigrant and working-class communities.
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Face Out: Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories
Thursday , March 19, 2015
7-9PM
Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria.
2113 Amsterdam ave, (at 165 st)
New York, NY
Paradigm Shifts 2015 goes live March 19th!
Multicultural artist and filmmakers mix it up in a truly unique Music, Dance & Film Festival!
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The Engelman Recital Hall
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue (at East 25th Street)
New York, New York 10010
Entrance on East 25th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues
Friday March 27, 2015
7:00 p.m.
Double Feature
Live Music: Native American Music & Ceremony
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Film: American Outrage
by George and Beth Gage
Two elderly Native American sisters battle the US government for land rights after their livestock herds are seized and they are sued for trespassing.
33 minutes
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Film: Standing on Sacred Ground – Pilgrims and Tourists
Directed by Christopher McLeod
In the Russian Republic of Altai, traditional native people create their own mountain parks, to rein in tourism and resist a gas pipeline that would cut through a World heritage Site. In northern California, Winnemem Wintu girls grind herbs on a sacred medicine rock as elders protest U.S. government plans to enlarge one of the West’s biggest dams and forever submerge this touchstone of a tribe.
Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe), Oren Lyons (Onondago), Satish Kumar and Barry Lopez provide insights on a growing global indigenous movement for human rights and environmental protections.
56 minutes
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Q&A with filmmakers via Skype
Lenny Foster of the Dine Nation is the Director of the Navajo Nation Corrections Project and the Spiritual Advisor for more than 2,000 Native American inmates in ninety-six state and federal prisons in the Western U.S. He has co-authored legislation in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado allowing Native American spiritual and religious practice in prison and resulting in significant reductions in prison returns.
He is a board member of the International Indian Treaty Council, a sun dancer and member of the Native American Church. He has been with the American Indian Movement since 1969 and has participated in actions including Alcatraz, Black Mesa, the Trail of Broken Treaties, Wounded Knee 1973, the Menominee Monastery Occupation, Shiprock Fairchild Occupation, the Longest Walk and the Big Mountain land struggle.
Lenny Foster has received many accolades and honors for his groundbreaking work with Indigenous prisoners’ human rights. These include the Dr. Martin Luther King Civil Rights Award in Phoenix, Arizona (1993) and Kansas City, Missouri (1996); the Petra Foundation Human Rights Award in Washington, D.C. (1997) and the Citizen’s Award for Commendation of the Governor’s Religious Advisory Task Force in Salt Lake City, Utah (1997). His program was awarded High Honors from Harvard University Honoring Nations 2003 Tribal Governance Excellence. He was awarded a fellowship by the Windcall Foundation in Bozeman, Montana in June 2004. He was the recipient of the Unsung Hero Award by the Utah Division of Indian Affairs on Indigenous Day, November 22, 2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received the Volunteer of the Year Native American Spiritual Advisor from the Federal Correctional Complex in Tucson, Arizona in April 2009. He also received the 2013 U.S. Human Rights Network Movement Builders Award.
Join Neetopk Keetopk & the
Association of Native Americans of Hudson Valley
to celebrate the
Friday March 20, 2015 – 6:00 p,m, to 9:00 p.m.
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Reform Church in Bloomington
9 Church Street, Bloomington in Rosendale
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Smudging — Sacred Fire — Ceremony — Drumming –Songs — Dancing
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** Weather permitting we will begin ceremony outside,
followed by a potluck dinner inside the church basement.
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** Bring a potluck dish to share following ceremony
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Directions:
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FROM KINGSTON AREA-take Washington Avenue from the Thruway circle to Rt. 32. Turn right, taking Rt. 32 South for about two or three miles. You will be coming up a hill with a double lane going South. At the top of the hill, when the two lanes merge into one, turn left. That will be Main Street, Bloomington.
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You’ll come up behind the church where you’ll see the cemetary. Turn right just before the cemetary (after the Post Office) and you’ll see a parking lot on the right. Otherwise, swing around the cemetary to the front of the church.
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FROM NEW PALTZ-take 32 North for about nine miles. You’ll pass over the Wallkill River and Rondout Creek. About three miles North of the Rondout Creek (after passing over the Thruway), turn right between the Bloomington Fire Co. sign and United Reformed Church sign. Go to the end of the road and turn left. You can’t miss the church after that.
Wolf Patrol is a conservation movement founded on the principles of biocentricity, and indigenous cultural preservation. We believe in supporting the recovery of gray wolves in the lower 48 states and encouraging a greater understanding and tolerance for cultural world views that promote a harmonious co-existence with wolves and other predators.
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Wolf Patrol is a 100% volunteer-run organization working out in the field across the U.S. to document and report on wolf hunts. We believe it is far too early in Gray Wolf restoration efforts to be removing them from the federal endangered species list, but this is what these important predators are currently facing.
We want to show the world what happens during wolf hunts, including those run by large outfitters, during trapping seasons, and hunts conducted with the aid of hounds. We have already documented and reported on illegal wolf hunting activities in Montana, Minnesota and Wisconsin this past year, and plan to expand our efforts as more states seek to gain control of wolf population management, and bypass the endangered species listing.
To help raise funds for our ongoing work, we are holding an online fundraising art exhibition, starting March 9, 2015. This was the same date, back in 1978, that the Gray Wolf was federally listed as an endangered species in the U.S.
The exhibition will be held online at http://www.wolfpatrol.org, from March 9 – 31, 2015.
Please help us promote what is set to be an incredibly inspiring exhibit, and important fundraiser for Wolf Patrol’s work in the field.
For the wolves!
– The Wolf Patrol Team
teamwolfpatrol@gmail.com
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“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”
– Farley Mowat
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz will be in the NYC area for a week and will be speaking at several events.
Friday, March 6, 4:15-5:45 PM*, Columbia University
Panel: “History and Activism¨,” Chair: Prof. Alice Kessler-Harris:
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Panelists: Prof. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, California State University, Native American rights activism; Prof. Nicola Foote, Florida Gulf Coast University, Histories of Choice: community-based learning around /Roe v. Wade: /Prof. Mary Poole, Prescott College, Maasai Community Partnership at the Conference on “History in Action: Historical Thinking in Public
Life”, Columbia University, 6-7 March 2015, in 501 Schermerhorn
http://historyinaction.columbia.edu/hia-programs/history-in-action-ii/
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NOTE: THIS IS PART OF A TWO-DAY CONFERENCE AND MAY NOT BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. CHECK WITH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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Sunday, March 8, 7PM, Bluestockings Bookstore
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Celebrating International Women’s Day!
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reading from the new edition of her memoir, /Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years,
1960: 1975./
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NOTE: BETTER COME EARLY FOR A SEAT.
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Monday, March 9, 6PM. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz will speak on: Unfinished Business: Legacy of Second Wave Feminism
Heimbold Visual Arts Center, RM.208
NOTE: THIS EVENT MAY NOT BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC OR MAY REQUIRE REGISTRATION. CHECK WITH SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE.
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Tuesday, March 10, 7:30 PM, Columbia University Faculty House
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz lecture: “Culture of Conquest and the Doctrine of Discovery: The United States as a Colonial Settler-State,” based on her new book, /An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States/
NOTE: THIS EVENT IS LIMITED TO 50 AND IS NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. But, anyone is welcome to reserve a seat on first come basis, contact: Theresa Castillo tpc2005 <at> tc.columbia.edu
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Thursday, March 12, 6-8:30 PM*, Brooklyn College
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz will speak on: “A Common Resistance to
Settler-Colonialism: Indigenous Peoples of North America and Palestine Student Center (Corner of E27st and Campus Rd, Brooklyn. Served by 2 and 5 trains and B11, B6 and B44 buses)
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THIS EVENT IS ORGANIZED BY STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE AT BROOKLYN COLLEGE AND IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
