Indigenous Solidarity: Anti-2010 Olympics Speaking Tour
Tuesday, Feb 5th at the Lucy Parsons Center
549 Columbus Ave, South End Boston
Sponsored by Rising Tide Boston
6:00pm - vegan potluck dinner and screening of The Concrete Revolution, a
film about ethnic cleansing during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
7:00pm - hear first-hand accounts of Indigenous resistance to the 2010
Olympics, which are scheduled to take place on unceded Coast Salish,
St'at'imc and Squamish territory near the stolen land known as Vancouver,
British Columbia.
The Native Youth Movement is a Movement of Native youth that works to
revive traditional knowledge and inspire Native youth to defend their
Peoples and Territories.
Kanahus Pellkey is a Secwepemc and Ktnuxa Warrior and a spokesperson
for the Secwepemc chapter of the NYM. She has been jailed before for
fighting against the illegal occupation and theft of Secwepemc Lands for
the Sun Peaks ski-resort, and is active in opposing the 2010 Olympics.
Dustin Johnson is a member of the Ts'mkiyen nation and is active in
organizing anti-colonial resistance to the 2010 Olympics.
The Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement-Guelph did much of the core
organizing of the tour. IPSM-Guelph works in solidarity with Indigenous
struggles for self-determination and control of their traditional
territories.
FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS AND PRISONERS OF WAR!
Jericho-Boston
PO Box 301057
Boston, MA 02130
jerichoboston.org
(617)830-0732
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