[Iswg3906.organizers] callout for event saturday

[A.R.J. Gracey]

Hi everyone:

Did you send this out Nikki? Sorry for the delay. It sounds great. I don't
think it's too late. It sounds pretty excellent, looking forward to it.

Tony


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Niki Thorne <csn.thorne at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> ***
>
> 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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