[van-announce] (Dec 15) Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz & others at Bring the NOIIse!

[Harsha W.]

Bring the NOIIse!

An extravaganza to celebrate 10 years of No One Is Illegal-Vancouver
Unceded Coast Salish Territories

SUNDAY DECEMBER 15TH @ 1 PM
BONSOR COMMUNITY CENTER, 6550 Bonsor Avenue
(one block from Metrotown Skytrain Station)
BURNABY, COAST SALISH TERRITORIES

Lunch, speakers, performers, music, comedians, multimedia display,
participatory art mural, and more!

Full details, including accessibility info, here (and RSVP):
https://www.facebook.com/events/654064921282986/


*** And our first speaker announcement: ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ. Roxanne is a
veteran Native, socialist, and feminist activist, having been involved in
revolutionary movements since the 1960's. In the wake of the Wounded Knee
Siege she became active in the American Indian Movement and the
International Indian Treaty Council. She also helped to develop the
Department of Ethnic Studies, Department of Native Studies, as well as the
Department of Women's Studies at California State University. She was
integral in anti-imperialist movements, making over one hundred trips to
Nicaragua and Honduras in the 1980's to monitor and lend support to Latin
American movements during the Contra War. Roxanne has authored a number of
books including Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years, The Great Sioux
Nation: An Oral History of the Sioux Nation and its Struggle for
Sovereignty, Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and Self-Determination,
and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War.



-- 
Harsha Walia

Upcoming book "Undoing Border Imperialism":
http://www.akpress.org/undoing-border-imperialism.html
https://www.facebook.com/undoingborderimperialism
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16057173-undoing-border-imperialism

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