[IPSMO] Unsettling Canada 150: Join IPSMO’s first reading group! (January 18, 2018)

[IPSMO]

Unsettling 150: Join IPSMO’s first reading group! 

Read Arthur Manuel's 'Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call' with
us, and then come talk about it and about strategies for unsettling and
decolonizing ‘Canada'.

First session: January 18, 2018, 6-8:30pm 

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Earlier this year, Indigenous activists associated with Idle No More and
Defenders of the Land rejected celebrations of the 150th anniversary of
the settler-colonial state of Canada. They encouraged people to,
instead, read Arthur Manuel’s book 'Unsettling Canada: A National
Wake-up Call'. See the call-out here:
http://unsettling150.ca/canada-must-read/

Manuel, who passed away in January 2017, was one of the leading
strategists of the anti-colonial struggle. His book, co-authored with
Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson, showed how Canadian policy toward
Indigenous peoples incorporated and still reflects all the elements of
colonialism that are condemned by the United Nations: dispossession,
forced dependency and oppression.

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Date for first session: January 18 2018, 6 pm - 8.30 pm. (Location in
Ottawa TBA). We will discuss the first few chapters of the book.

Subsequent dates: 6pm, on the third Thursday of February, April, and
March.

Further details TBA

** PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE: email indigsol at riseup.net ASAP **

We encourage people to try to attend all four sessions, if possible. 

Thanks to the generous support of OPIRG-Ottawa, we have several free
copies of 'Unsettling Canada' for those who can’t purchase one. If you
need a copy, please get in touch ASAP via indigsol at riseup.net to
register to attend, and let us know.

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"The loss of our lands has been the precise cause of our impoverishment.
Indigenous Peoples control only 0.2 [per cent] of the land in Canada
while settler governments claim control of the other 99.8 [per cent].
With this distribution of land, you don't have to have a doctorate in
economics to understand who will be poor and who will be rich. And our
poverty is crushing." - Arthur Manuel, Secwepemc Nation

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RESOURCES:

— ‘Unsettling Canada’ online - Read two chapters of the book (Chapters 5
and 6, on Aboriginal Title and on The Constitution Express) here: 

https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Funsettling150.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F05%2FUnsettling-Canada-sample-read.pdf&hl=en_US

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— Video: UNsettling Canada 150 (3:30mins) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1ivWASu5d4

'In honour of Art Manuel and the integrity with which he always began
with the land and honoured the grassroots people, the #Unsettling150
crew are proud to launch this video filled with Art's words, read by his
daughter Kanahus Manuel, to launch the final lead-up to the national day
of action, education, and reflection.'

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— Article by Arthur Manuel: ‘Until Canada gives Indigenous people their
land back, there can never be reconciliation’ (January 18, 2017)

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2017/01/until-canada-gives-indigenous-people-their-land-back-there-ca

"2017 marks the fact that we have been officially colonized by Canada
for 150 years. This is an important milestone and it is time for us to
decide if we want to continue to be colonized peoples or if we want to
seek self-determination.

We have to face the fact that Canada is a settler state that was created
by Great Britain to take over our Indigenous territories for use and
benefit of Canada. This kind of human exploitation is called
colonization and it is designed to give settler Canadians ownership over
all Indigenous lands. Indigenous peoples basically subsidize the
Canadian economy with free land and resources.”

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—  Article: 'Arthur Manuel's books should be mandatory reading for all
Canadians'

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/change-gonna-come/2017/12/arthur-manuels-books-should-be-mandatory-reading-all


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Love and Solidarity,
IPSMO - Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement - Ottawa
On stolen Algonquin land
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