[IPSM] Wednesday: WARD CHURCHILL | Film: AMERICAN OUTRAGE (April 15, 7pm)

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*KEEPING IT REEL!
QPIRG-Concordia's Subversive Cinema Series
Next feature film: AMERICAN OUTRAGE
Followed by a lecture by WARD CHURCHILL

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 7pm
1455 de Maisonneuve West, H-110
(Guy-Concordia metro)*

*Welcome to all. This event is FREE.
Wheelchair accessible.
Note: Film begins at 7pm (sharp), followed by the lecture.*
Co-sponsored by Montreal Serai, QPIRG-McGill, & the 2110 Center for Gender
Advocacy.

*QPIRG-Concordia presents a special lecture by outspoken Native American
author, writer and academic Ward Churchill. This lecture will be one of Ward
Churchill’s first public events since his recent victory in a wrongful
dismissal case against the University of Colorado.

The lecture will be preceded by the 2008 award-winning short film “American
Outrage”, about two elderly Western Shoshone sisters who put up a heroic
fight for their land and indigenous sovereignty. *
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*About WARD CHURCHILL:*

Ward Churchill, is one of North America’s leading Native American scholars
and the author of numerous works, including *Fantasies of the Master Race,
Struggle for the Land, From A Native Son, Agents of Repression, Since
Predator Came, Pacifism as Pathology* and *A Little Matter of Genocide:
Holocaust and Denial in the Americas*.

It was the essay making up the core of his book *On the Justice of Roosting
Chickens*, exploring the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, that set in
motion the University of Colorado procedure leading to Churchill being fired
from his position as a Professor of Ethnic Studies and Coordinator of
American Indian Studies in 2007.  On April 2, 2009, Churchill won his case
against the university, arguing that he was wrongfully dismissed, in
violation of his First Amendment right to free speech.

Over the years, Churchill has been active with numerous native
organizations, including the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, the United
Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations and the First Nations
International Tribunal. He is currently the co-direct of the American Indian
Movement (AIM) of Colorado, an autonomous chapter of the American Indian
Movement, and the vice-chair of the American Indian Anti-Defamation Council.

Recent articles on Ward Churchill in the Montreal media:
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2009/040909/news2.html
http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=17011


*About AMERICAN OUTRAGE:*

Carrie and Mary Dann are feisty Western Shoshone sisters who have endured
five terrifying livestock roundups by armed federal marshals in which more
than a thousand of their horses and cattle were confiscated -- for grazing
their livestock on the open range outside their private ranch.

AMERICAN OUTRAGE asks why the United States government has spent millions
persecuting and prosecuting two elderly women grazing a few hundred horses
and cows in a desolate desert? The United States Bureau of Land Management
insists the sisters are degrading the land. The Dann sisters say the real
reason is the resources hidden below this seemingly barren land, their
Mother Earth. Western Shoshone land is the second largest gold producing
area in the world. (2008, Bulldog Films).


*This event is the last in the “Keeping it Reel: Subversive Cinema Series”.
Previous films have included: “In This World”, “FLOW: For the Love of
Water”; & “P4W: Prison for Women” (with guest speaker Ann Hansen). Get in
touch for more information about QPIRG-Concordia programming and events.*


*Info: 514-848-7585
info at qpirgconcordia.org
www.qpirgconcordia.org

QPIRG-Concordia: Your campus-community link for social change.*