[Indigsol] Wed: 'Schooling the World' film kicks of ISW

[ipsmo at riseup.net]

Please consider coming to join us tomorrow night to kick off Indigenous
Sovereignty Week in Ottawa: full week details http://www.bit.ly/iswottawa


Wed Oct27, 7:00pm
at the PSAC building, 233 Gilmour at Metcalfe

"Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden"
A Film by Carol Black
Featuring Wade Davis, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, Manish Jain, &
Dolma Tsering
http://schoolingtheworld.org/

Free / by donation
Note: limited seating - please get there early!


Generations from now we'll look back and say, 'How could we have done this
kind of thing to people?'

For centuries, missionaries have penetrated every corner of the globe with
Bibles in their hands. Today's missionaries carry algebra, chemistry,
English, and computers. But what really happens when we replace a
traditional culture's system of knowledge with our own? Schooling the
World takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately disturbing look at
the effects of modern education on the world's last sustainable indigenous
cultures.

Read more:
Interview with director Carol Black in the Globe&Mail:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/q-and-a-carol-black/article1751629/