Indigenous Perspectives on Anarchism: panel discussion at the SF @ bookfair

When: MARCH, 17th at 3:00 p.m.

Where: San Francisco County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park, near Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way.

Admission: FREE

Panelists:
Morning Star Gali, Pit River, Bay Area Organizer
Louise Benally - Dine’, Big Mountain, AZ
Carrie Dann - Western Shoshone
Mano - Dine’ Hopi - Denver, CO
Klee Benally - Dine’, Indigenous Action Media

ABOUT THE PANELISTS:

Morning Star Gali is a member of the Achumawi band of the Pit River Nation and is also of Chiricahua Apache, Yaqui and Filipina descent. She is an organizer within the Bay Area Indigenous community where she volunteers with Advocates to Protect Sacred Sites and Indian People Organzing for Change. She is a student at Mills College currently studying anthropology-sociology and ethnic studies.

Carrie Dann (Western Shoshone) has, for over forty years along with her sister Mary, been at the forefront of the Western Shoshone Nation’s struggle for land rights and sovereignty. They are leading the political and legal battle to retain ancestral lands in Nevada, California, Idaho and Utah. Dann has squared off against international gold mining corporations, the nuclear industry and the U.S. government.

Louise Benally (Dine’) is a lifelong resister to the forced relocation of her people from their ancestral homelands in Northeastern Arizona. Louise has travelled throughout the country connecting struggles and educating people on the issues her community faces at Big Mountain.

Mano, a Hopi/Dine mother of three living in Denver, CO, is a self trained “artivist” in her urban native and socially conscious communities. She is a matriarch, artist, performer, and organizer working in the action-oriented capacities of awareness, solidarity and direct resistance for Southwest and Denver Native movements.

Klee Benally (Dine’) currently lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. He is the projects coordinator and a founder of Indigenous Action Media, a media justice group that produces documentaries and does workshops for Indigenous youth. He is currently actively working to protect sacred sites in the Southwest and touring with the punk- rock group Blackfire.

Related links:

sfbookfair.wordpress.com
8daysofanarchy.org

blackmesais.org
savethepeaks.org
transformcolumbusday.org
indigenousaction.org
www.wsdp.org
itwillbethundering.resist.ca
freewebs.com/nymsandiego/