[Indigsol] Reminder: Thursday, April 26 All Violence against Earth is Violence to Women, a teach-in with a Celebrated Indigenous Woman, Lee Maracle!

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you!


*All Violence against Earth is Violence to Women, *
*How We must Look at the Past to Restore Our Future, a teach-in with a
Celebrated Indigenous Woman, Lee Maracle! *

*7pm – 9pm*
*Thursday, April 26, 2012
PSAC boardroom, 233 Gilmour St. Ottawa Unceded Algonquin Territory*

*MC: Michael Desautels, Metis & PSAC Aboriginal Program Officer
Opening: Claudette Commanda, Algonquin Nation
Drumming by Nancy Myatt*

Admission: pay what you can ($5 suggested donation to cover the costs of
this event)

Followed by a circle response, discussion and poetry / spoken word
performance by *Vera Wabegijig, David Groulx and Angle Nsenga!*

To invite your friends via Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/209333109176706/


As a part of our Honouring Indigenous Women
campaign<http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/honouring-indigenous-women-campaign/>,
we are inviting you to join us in a short lecture with* Lee Maracle*, a
highly respected woman from the Stoh:lo Nation and acclaimed author, poet,
educator, storyteller and performing artist.

Last summer, we were very honoured to have Lee contribute a short piece of
her writing to our Honouring Indigenous Women: Hearts of Nations Vol. 1
booklet <http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/honouring-indigenous-women/>. This
Spring, we are very excited and feel so privileged again that Lee is coming
to Ottawa to talk to us about a very important connection. A connection
that cannot be missed, oversighted or disregarded. Because our survival and
our freedom depend on it:

*There is a direct connection between violence against earth and violence
against women.*

Then there is another connection Lee wants us to pay attention to:

*There is also a connection between the past and our future; a relationship
that allows us to turn around, to heal ourselves and our communities.
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Are you intrigued?

Come and join us on *April 26th at 233 Gilmour St. in Ottawa, Algonquin
Territory!* We promise it’s going to be a fascinating evening that will
transform your heart, mind and spirit.


This event is brought to you by Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement
Ottawa – www.ipsmo.org


*All dis-empowered people seek empowerment. Patriarchy defines empowerment
as the equivalent of power - over someone. This is the unifying philosophy
that binds racism and sexism together. Power over the natural world, power
over people, power over the seas, the air, time itself. Empowerment is the
personal quest for oneness with nature, oneness with people, the seas, the
skies, and time. The quest for power dis-empowers the very people who need
to be empowered in order to alter the course of our story. *
*- Lee Maracle (Racism, Sexism and Patriarchy in Returning the Gaze Essays
on Racism, Feminism and Politics: p.129)*
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*A little be more about Lee Maracle:
*
Lee is currently the Aboriginal Writer-in-Residence for First Nations
House, and an instructor in the Aboriginal Studies Dept. at University of
Toronto. She is one of the founders of the En’owkin International School of
Writing in Penticton, BC, and Cultural Director of the Centre for
Indigenous Theatre in Toronto. She mentors young people on personal and
cultural healing and reclamation. (CBC, 8th Fire)

*Books by Lee Maracle:*

Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel – 1975 (revised 1990)
Sojourner’s Truth and Other Stories – 1990
Oratory: Coming to Theory – 1990
Sundogs – 1991
Ravensong – (Press Gang Publishers)1993
I am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism – 1988; Press
Gang Publishers 1996
Daughters are Forever – 2002
Will’s Garden – 2002
First Wives Club: Coast Salish Style – (Theytus Books Publishing) 2010


*About Honouring Indigenous Women Campaign:* http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/
honouring-indigenous-women-campaign/


*Embodied in my truth is the brilliance of hundreds of Native women who
faced the worst that CanAmerica had to offer and dealt with it. Embodied in
my brilliance is the great sea of knowledge that it took to overcome the
paralysis of the colonized mind. I did not come to this clearing alone.
Hundreds walked alongside me – Black, Asian and Native women whose tide of
knowledge was bestowed upon me are the key to every CanAmerican’s
emancipation.*
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- Lee Maracle in I am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism
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