[Indigsol] Zine Machine

[jeff monaghan]

yo

here is the IPSMO blurb that ange and i prepared.  please send edits.

also, i have not received any Colonization Index submissions.  so does
someone really want to take that on, or should we consider something else?




Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement Ottawa

IPSMO is a working group of OPIRG-Carleton that strives to support
indigenous peoples' struggles for justice. We do this by supporting
Indigenous groups directly and by working within settler communities to
undo prevailing mythologies that have come to dominate popular opinion
within Canadian society.  We expose the continuation of colonial policy -
policies of genocide - by the Canadian state (as well as other corporate
and dominant interests, because is their really a difference?) while
advocating support for indigenous struggles and sovereignty.

We see Canada - as well as the Americas at large - as occupied territories
where policies of settlement and colonization have deliberately targetted
Indigenous Peoples' communities, through diverse forms of violence and
systematic oppression (i.e. violence!), in order to expropriate and
exploit North American resources in the name of progress and development.

Our work is in recognition of a continent/ worldwide decolonization
movement.  We believe Canada, having been established through a program of
targeted European settlement involving pushing Indigenous peoples off the
land and onto reserves or new locations, as a settler state. Furthermore,
we contend that the legitamacy of this state is made possible only by its
past and current colonial policies that reinforce the supremacy of the
settler society and aim to assimilate or destroy groups opposed to these
values of development. At our activities and events we make efforts to
distribute information that highlight the fact that settler communities
benefit from ongoing colonial policy and a history of genocide.

We are committed to supporting and building support for Indigenous
sovereignty.  We have helped to organize demonstrations is support of the
Six Nations Kanohnstaton  reclamation, as well as drop off spots for
supplies to be sent to the Kanohnstaton camp. We have also initiated
community awareness and education events regarding the Kanohnstaton 
reclamation.   IPSMO is a member of the No-2010 Olympics committee and
involved in the No 2010 Olympics on Stolen Land campaign. We have also
engaged in providing legal research  support for sovereignty/justice
struggles in Tynedinaga.

-what is missing?