[Iswg3906.organizers] today's meeting minutes

[Jessica Foran]

Copy and pasting these because my guess is that the attachment wouldn't
send...

Feel free to add and re-send--the minutes are a bit brief so I may very
well have forgotten some details.

j.


*ISWG Meeting Minutes – November 10, 2013 at 2pm*


 In attendance: Jessica, Peter, Tony, Marguerite



*Updates:*

1)      Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women - Peter is touching base with
Sisters in Spirit, Myka Burning and the National campaign. Others will
continue to look into touching base with local folks who are doing this
work.

2)      Elsipogtog – may have more funding needs in the future. Peter will
be in touch to offer support and they can assess how to proceed.

*Projects:*

1)      Funding Guidelines – working guidelines read as follows. Jess will
send to the email address so they are on hand to send to groups that get in
touch with us for funds.

*Thank you for getting in contact with us. Below are some questions we’d
like to pose to your group in the spirit of building relationships of
solidarity. There are no wrong answers. We pose these questions to make
space for us to share our analyses. We look forward to engaging these
issues with you and to finding ways to collaborate. *

*1)      **How is the project you’re working on decolonizing? What is your
understanding of decolonization?*

*2)      **How does your project confront power structures, such as
capitalism, patriarchy, racism, white supremacy, colonialism, heterosexism,
ableism, etc.?*

*3)      **What is your likelihood of finding funding elsewhere? What other
groups are you collaborating with on this project?*

*4)      **Are there other forms of assistance that would be helpful for
you? For example, transportation assistance, photocopying or promotional
assistance.*

2)      Workshop Series:

*Logistics:* Nov.30 and Dec. 7 as possible dates—decided on Dec. 7th to
give adequate notice for folks to read in advance. Time: 2-5pm. Location:
Options are Artbar and the James Street Bookseller. Tony will contact
Artbar, Peter will contact Bookseller and report back via email. Back ups:
booking a room on campus, or the basement of the Green Smoothie Bar.

*Theme:* Language and Decolonization—Niki relayed that the focus was going
to be on how language and stories shape the ways we think about and
understand the world, using Thomas King’s ‘The Truth About Stories’
(book/audio).

*Contacting Folks:* drafted a call out (below). Jess will get contacts from
Niki and send out by Tuesday this week. Decided we’ll send it to folks to
have attended the first workshop/allyship workshop and other people we know
who are working on issues of decolonization.

*Other related tasks:* Jess will also talk to Niki to confirm she can
facilitate and see if she is open to attending the next meeting, where
we’ll be discussing/planning the workshop in more detail (+ get notes on
workshop intentions).

Someone will draft a follow up email to send out to the group in a week’s
time, which will include: location confirmation, brief re-cap of the last
workshop (peter), reminder of some of the intentions for the series (jess).

Everyone will read/listen to the audio recordings before next meeting on
Nov. 24.





*Saturday, December 7: Language and Decolonization workshop; The Truth
About Stories, by Thomas King*


 *First off, sorry we didn’t follow up on the announced workshop back in
September. Some members of the working group had personal issues come up
that cut into our capacity. But for the fall and winter, we’re really
excited to pick back up the idea of a series of workshops delving further
into issues of decolonization and Indigenous solidarity. *


 *As we’d planned before, the next workshop in this series will deal with
the theme of Language and Decolonization, using Thomas King’s book, The
Truth About Stories, as a starting point. This text is available in the
library or in audio format, read by the author, here.
<http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey-archives/2003/11/07/massey-lectures-2003-the-truth-about-stories-a-native-narrative/>*


*We’re sending this callout to people who have either attended the
solidarity and allyship workshop in the summer or who are also working on
issues of decolonization. Please feel free to send this along to people you
know who are also engaged in this work and who might be interested.*


 *We’re planning this workshop for 2-5pm on December 7th, at a location to
be announced. Early next week, we’ll be sending around another note to
confirm the location and to refresh ourselves on some of the intentions of
this series.*


 *Looking forward to seeing you soon,*
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