First Nations Solidarity Working Group New Members Meeting: Thursday, January 27, 2011, 7 p.m. @ OISE, Rm 12-274.
The First Nations Solidarity Working Group (FNSWG) is hosting a new members meeting. Anyone interested in working with the FNSWG is welcome to attend.
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
Sociology and Equity Studies, Room 12-274
The FNSWG is a Toronto-based group of individuals who are committed to the decolonization of Turtle Island. We work with the understanding that struggles of all people are bound up together. We believe that all anti-oppressive struggles on Turtle Island are tied to the land on which we stand, and to Indigenous struggles for sovereignty and self-determination. The FNSWG therefore seeks to build likely and unlikely alliances across various movements.
The FNSWG was formed as and continues to be a working group of CUPE local 3903. It comprises both union and community members. The group was formed by non-Indigenous organizers in 2007, but is intended as an organizing space for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous/settler organizers committed to building an anti-racist and decolonizing movement.
Over the last year FNSWG has undergone several changes. We are seeking new members to work on upcoming group actions, campaigns and projects, as well as to build their own ideas into the organizing space. The FNSWG is receptive to new interests, ideas, directions, and initiatives.
Past Actions, Projects and Campaigns have included:
–Facilitating workshops for people of colour to explore their role as allies in Indigenous solidarity movements in a white settler state.
–Building solidarity support for Six Nations struggles and land claims, including work to initiate and maintain a broad-based Six Nations Solidarity Network.
–Organizing anti-colonial/anti-racist rallies and responses to anti-Native rallies, university-based scholarship and other activities.
–Organizing speaker series, workshops, events, and speaking tours on anti-Native activities, and Six Nations sovereignty struggles.
–Members publishing academic, media, and online articles about these various issues and actions.
–Co-organizing the Peace and Friendship Gathering at Six Nations.
–Building Indigenous solidarity within CUPE, other unions, and labour movements.
–Bringing awareness and responding to the growing alliances between anti-Native and Zionist/pro-Israeli Apartheid groups.
–Assisting the establishment of a media centre at Six Nations.
Future Actions, Projects and Campaigns will include:
–Building alliances between movements including: anti-racist, pro-Palestinian, union, anti-poverty, anti-Capitalist, feminist/women’s, gender and queer liberation, environmental, faith-based, anti-extraction industry, and Indigenous sovereignty movements.
–Working to address racisms within Indigenous solidarity activism, particularly building alliances between anti-racist movements, people/communities of colour and Indigenous solidarity movements.
–Continuing to build solidarity movements within and outside Toronto — including in communities surrounding Six Nations and within unions/the labour movement.
–Building Indigenous solidarity and organizing capacity within CUPE Local 3903.
–Direct Action and on the ground support for Indigenous land reclamations and other resistance when appropriate/requested.
–Building capacity to respond to predominantly anti-Native media coverage, and racism more broadly in the media — including a year-long speaker series on this issue in collaboration with other groups.
–Building solidarity for urban-based Indigenous peoples and issues.
–Addressing sexism in Indigenous solidarity movements.
–Addressing colonialism and racism within the University and other forms of education.
–Continuing to assist with the establishment of a media centre at Six Nations.
For more information please email: [email protected]
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