[Iswg3906] IWG - Upcoming Events

[Indigenous Solidarity Working Group]

Hey all:

I hope things are going well. I just wanted to give you all an update on
some upcoming events. I've listed them below.

(1) *Police Disruption of Social Movements Workshop*
(2) *Report Back and Info Session from the Earth First! Organizers
conference 2013*
(3)* Privilege and Oppression Workshop*
(4) *Next IWG Meeting - Sunday, March 3rd, at 5 p.m. contact us for
details. *
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*(1) Police Disruption of Social Movements Workshop**
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*An Introduction to how Police in Canada Work to Disrupt Movements for
Social and Ecological Justice
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Thursday, February 28th, 7pm

McMaster Student Centre 311/313

*and!*

Tuesday March 6, 6:30pm

Jamesville Jamesville HARRRP,  rm 202 (130 York Boulevard (n Sir John A.
Macdonald School building, parking and entrance off Cannon St.)

It doesn't matter if you aren't doing anything illegal. If you are
organizing or agitating against the Harper agenda, against the Tar Sands
and its pipelines, in support of Indigenous sovereignty, against cuts to
welfare, against tuition hikes, against the prison system and police
violence, or against any injustice in society, then it is very likely that
the Canadian state and its police want to make things hard for you.

Drawing on lessons from the Toronto G20 and mobilizations in the years
since then, this two-hour workshop will offer an analysis of the tactics
and strategies that police forces in Canada are using to disrupt movements
for social and ecological justice. We will discuss specific ways activists
are currently being targeted for repression and how we can keep ourselves
safe without sacrificing our movements' vibrancy.

The workshop will be presented by Peter Hopperton, a Hamilton activist who
received an eight month jail sentence for organizing protests against the
G20 in 2010.

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(2) *Indigenous Resistance: Stop the Tar Sands! No Line 9 Reversal*
*Report Back and Info Session from the Earth First! Organizers conference
2013
Lessons in Strategy and Solidarity from Communities across Turtle Island*

*Tuesday March 12th, 7pm
At Volunteer Hamilton, 267 King St E*

This February, activists from across the continent gathered in Ohio to
discuss the environmental issue of our generation, one that has spread its
arms across Turtle Island to impact communities from coast to coast: the
Tar Sands. As part of the bi-annual Earth First! organizers conference,
there was a round-table on Tar Sands Resistance and Decolonization, which
centred the voices of Indigenous peoples whose lands and communities are
primarily affected by the Tar Sands project.

Indigenous organizers from many nations and communities participated,
including Miskew Cree of Fort Chipewyan, Oglala Lakota of Pine Ridge,
Wet’suwe’ten of the Unis’tot’en territory, Anishinaabe of Aamjiwnaang and
Haudenosaunee of Nogojiwanong. This unprecedented meeting also included
non-Indigenous delegates from the Tar Sands Blockade in Texas and the No
Line 9 Reversal campaign in Ontario as part of a larger discussion to share
and further develop strategies, tactics, and solidarity with Indigenous
resistance.

Amanda Lickers, an Indigenous organizer from Nogojiwanong who attended this
convergence, will be coming to Hamilton to share with us some of the
lessons and conclusions from the round-table on Tar Sands Resistance and
Decolonization. This is a great opportunity for those opposed to the Line 9
reversal through our communityto learn how other communities are resisting
and discuss how to act in solidarity with those Indigenous communities who
are on the front lines of this struggle.

*This report back is sponsored by OPIRG McMaster, the Political Action
Committee and the Indigenous Solidarity Working group of CUPE 3906, and
some other local rabble-rousers.*
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*(3) Privilege and Oppression Workshop*
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Details and registration here: http://www.opirg.ca/event/1218

Intersections of Privilege & Oppression.  A facilitated discussion using
the “power flower” as a tool to analyze our shifting identities in relation
to power, privilege and oppression.

Workshop Facilitators:

Raihanna Hirji-Khalfan.  Raihanna works as the Accessibility Specialist in
the Office of Human Rights & Equity Services at Mac. She identifies as a
global citizen and an ally of the Disability Rights Movement and the Deaf
community.

Vilma Rossi.  Vilma has been a long-time social justice activist working on
a variety of issues including feminist anti-violence against women
organizing and LGBTQ activism.  She works as the Program Coordinator with
McMaster’s Office of Human Rights & Equity Services.

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*(4) Next IWG Meeting - Sunday, March 3rd, at 5 p.m. contact us for
details. *
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