[Iswg3906.organizers] callout for event saturday

[Niki Thorne]

Hi all,

This is the draft callout for the event Saturday.  Please take a look and
if you have suggestions for changes let us know asap!  I'd like to send
this out to folks who participated in the first workshop & a few others, as
discussed at our last meeting, as soon as possible, since Saturday is
coming up fast.

I'll wait overnight for comments and then plan to send out this invitation
by 10am tomorrow morning.  Sound ok? We probably should have sent this out
already.  Apologies for the delay! Does this still give us enough time?  Or
do you think we should postpone the workshop?

cheers,

Niki


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Workshop: Colonization Written on the Landscape

featuring Knowing the Land is Resistance

Saturday, August 10th

2-5pm

Meet in the parking lot of Dundurn Castle at York and Dundurn

Following the Indigenous Solidarity and Allyship workshop a couple of
weeks ago, the Indigenous Solidarity Working Group of CUPE 3906 would like
to invite you to continue the conversation about how to more deeply
incorporate an anti-colonial practice into our lives and our organizing.
We see this as a space to dig more deeply into the issues and concepts
introduced in that workshop, such as colonialism/settler-colonialism,
white supremacy, anti-racism, and anti-oppression.

We propose a monthly meeting where people who have already been
confronting issues of colonization can gather to discuss and share
resources. This first meeting will feature a discussion with the group
Knowing the Land is Resistance about understanding how colonization has
played out on the physical terrain of Hamilton. The area around Dundurn
castle has several sites significant to the local process of colonization,
so we will do a bit of walking to visit them.

The rest of the meeting will be used to decide how we want to
learn and challenge ourselves moving ahead and what we want from these
monthly gatherings. We imagine these workshops including speakers, film
screenings, and readings, as well as creating resources, but we can spend
time at this first meeting deciding what specifically we would like to do.

The 10th is the second Saturday in August, and (unless the group decides
otherwise) we will continue meeting on the 2nd Saturday of each month
following.

For more information, contact iswg3906 at gmail.com. For Knowing the Land is
Resistance, http://knowingtheland.com

-- 
 "Utopia is on the horizon: I walk two steps, it takes two steps back. I
walk ten steps and it is ten steps further away. What is utopia for? It is
for this, for walking."~~Eduardo Galeano
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