[Iswg3906.organizers] callout for event saturday

[Niki Thorne]

Hi, yes, it has been sent out.
On 2013-08-08 1:27 PM, "A.R.J. Gracey" <graceyar at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> 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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