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LaborFest:Labor, Imperialism & Indigenous People

Date:
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Event Type:
Teach-In
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Location Details:
New College, 780 Valencia at 19th St, San Francisco (near 16th St or 24th St BART)

The latest destruction of native peoples' homes taking place in Iraq and Palestine is a part of a pattern of capitalism and its current form, imperialism, that is no different from the destruction of Native American homes' and genocide of the Native Americans perpetrated by European capitalism. Learn more about this destruction of the cultural and physical wealth that native labor created at this teach-in.
Chair, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, writer and professor in Native American Studies, co-founder Indigenous World Association, 3 decades of international indigenous organizing.
Speakers:
Aileen "Chockie" Cottier, Lakota from Pine Ridge, co-founder, Women of All Red Nations, Indigenous World Association, 3 decades of international indigenous organizing.
Jimbo Simmons, Creek from Oklahoma, International Indian Treaty Council representative, 3 decades of international indigenous organizing.
Morningstar Gali, Pit River nation, Northern California, Bay Area indigenous organizer from the new generation, raised by Pit River, international activists
Added to the calendar on Sat, Jun 16, 2007 11:33AM
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