[IPSM] Fwd: Hoping Against Hope?

[Dru Oja Jay]

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> From: "pierre loiselle" <pierre_loiselle at hotmail.com>
> Date: January 8, 2007 5:10:33 PM EST (CA)
> To: pierre_loiselle at hotmail.com
> Subject: Hoping Against Hope?
>

> Dear Friend,
>
> During the summer of 2005, the Nova Scotia Public Interest Group  
> and Praxis Media Productions began working on an audio documentary  
> on colonialism in Canada. With the assistance of the Department of  
> Native Studies at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, “Hoping  
> Against Hope? The Struggle Against Colonialism in Canada” was  
> recently completed.
>
> We are now preparing to launch the CD with a free public event in  
> Halifax conjunction with a national campus-community radio  
> broadcast. The public launch will consist of  presentations by  
> Andrea Bear Nicholas, Roland Chrisjohn and Ward Churchill, all  
> voices that appear in the documentary. We are currently soliciting  
> in-kind and fiscal support for the launch on Saturday, January  
> 27th, 2007.
>
> Hoping Against Hope? - the documentary
>
> Hoping Against Hope? The Struggle Against Colonialism in Canada is  
> a three-part audio documentary on colonization in Canada featuring  
> the voices of Roland Chrisjohn, Andrea Bear Nicholas, Ward  
> Churchill, Michael Parenti, Patricia Monture-Angus, Jeanette  
> Armstrong, Arnie Jack, and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. CD copies will be  
> distributed to radio stations from coast-to-coast for a national  
> radio broadcast in January 2007, and will be available for sale to  
> the public. The audio will also be available for free on-line,  
> including access to the complete transcript.
>
> The Speakers at the launch
>
> Andrea Bear Nicholas, a Maliseet from Tobique, holds the Atlantic  
> Chair in Native Studies at St. Thomas University in Fredericton and  
> has published on various topics including treaties, language,  
> education, women`s issues, and history. She developed the first  
> university based Native Language Immersion Teacher Training Program in
> North America, and is involved nationally in the struggle for  
> Indigenous language rights. As well, she is working with a  
> committee of her people to develop and research ethics protocol,  
> and she frequently serves as an expert witness in court cases  
> involving her people.
>
> Dr. Roland Chrisjohn, a “misplaced Oneida living in the Maritimes,”  
> has lectured and published widely on topics such as racism,  
> residential schools, First Nations education, suicide, and  
> psychology of which he practiced for over 20 years. Currently the  
> Director of the Department of Native Studies at St. Thomas  
> University in Fredericton, his book “The Circle Game: Shadows and  
> Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada”  
> was re-published last year.
>
> Ward Churchill has been active as both an academic and an activist  
> in Indigenous struggles for several decades. A member of the  
> leadership Council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado, he  
> is past National Spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense  
> Committee, and delegate to the United Nations Working Group on  
> Indigenous Populations. He’s an acclaimed public speaker and a  
> prolific author and editor of over twenty books on the subjects of  
> colonization, Indigenism, and resistance. He is currently Professor  
> of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
>
> The public event will begin early afternoon and continue into the  
> evening, with the final keynote address by Ward Churchill scheduled  
> to begin at 7:00pm. In addition to seeking funding for the event  
> itself, we are also currently seeking donations to provide food for  
> the launch.
>
> We look forward to discussing any support you and your colleagues  
> may offer this initiative. Please do not hesitate to contact us for  
> further details.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dave Ron, Executive Director
> NSPIRG
> dave at nspirg.org (902) 494-6662
>
> Pierre Loiselle, Producer
> Praxis Media Productions
> pierre_loiselle at hotmail.com (902) 454-5921
>
>
>
> Pierre Loiselle
> Producer,  Praxis Media Productions
> 5274 Rector St.
> Halifax, Nova Scotia
> B3K 2N4  Canada
> (902) 454-5921
>
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