[Indigsol] Re: Zine Machine

[jeff monaghan]

hate to bug you folks, but i've just been trying to sort out the pages and
realized that much more than CI subs are needed!  i still need blurbs from
those that have committed to writting them (for the projects/programming
section) and i need info for the resources page.  so please letme know
what you can send along.




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> here is the IPSMO blurb that ange and i prepared.  please send edits.
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> also, i have not received any Colonization Index submissions.  so does
> someone really want to take that on, or should we consider something else?
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> Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement Ottawa
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> -what is missing?
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