[nativestudies-l] Save the Date! INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' RESISTANCE TO ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION

[alyssa.mt.pleasant at yale.edu]

>SAVE THE DATE: NOVEMBER 18, 2006
>Please pass along to students and colleagues.
>
>INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON GLOBALIZATION
>
>ANNOUNCES A MAJOR TEACH-IN ON:
>
>INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ RESISTANCE TO ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION: A CELEBRATION
>OF VICTORIES, RIGHTS AND CULTURES
>
>HUNTER COLLEGE, NEW YORK CITY
>
>The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) and the Tebtebba Foundation
>are pleased to announce a public Teach-In celebrating major milestones in
>the rising resistance and political power of indigenous peoples against
>the invasions of corporate globalization.
>
>The event will feature about 30 indigenous and other experts and will be
>held on November 18, 2006, at the Hunter College Auditorium, 69th Street
>(between Park and Lexington Avenue), in New York City, from 11 AM to 10 PM.
>
>The event will celebrate three important developments:
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>* The imminent passage this fall of the Declaration on the Rights of
>Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly of the United
>Nations. This momentous occasion will come after 22 years of struggle to
>create one of the important international instruments for the rights of
>indigenous peoples, affirming first and foremost their crucial right of
>self-determination, including their collective rights. The Declaration
>provides protection for Indigenous peoples rights to their traditional
>lands, territories and resources, as well as rights related to the
>protection of their cultures, languages, religion, etc. The Teach-In will
>explore in great depth the significance of this event and celebrate this
>key victory. Indigenous speakers who have been active in the
>Declaration’s process will present.
>
>* The recent political gains of Indigenous peoples, especially in South
>America. They have succeeded in influencing the progressive political
>outcomes in many countries, including the election of indigenous leader
>Evo Morales, president of Bolivia. Speakers who have been actively
>involved in these struggles will join us.
>
>* The publication of a new, expanded edition of Paradigm Wars: Indigenous
>Peoples’ Resistance to Globalization, edited by Jerry Mander and
>Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, published by Sierra Club Books/University of
>California Press. The book contains 28 articles on the issues facing
>indigenous communities throughout the world, and highlights the many ways
>their resistance continues to counter corporate globalization’s drive to
>exploit the world’s last remaining natural resources (oil, minerals,
>genetic resources, forests, water, etc.) much of which remain on
>Indigenous lands and territories.
>
>30 SPEAKERS - INDIGENOUS AND OTHER EXPERTS INCLUDING:
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>Arundhati Roy, activist and author, The God of Small Things.
>
>Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Igorot, the Philippines), chair, UN Permanent Forum
>on Indigenous Issues, Director, Tebtebba Foundation, co-editor Paradigm
>Wars: Indigenous Peoples Resistance to Economic Globalization.*
>
>Winona LaDuke (Ashinaabeg), indigenous activist, director, White Earth
>Land Recovery Project, Founder, Honor the Earth, author, All Our
>Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life.*
>
>Tom Goldtooth (Dine’ and Mdewakanton Dakota), director, Indigenous
>Environmental Network.*
>
>Maude Barlow (Canada), chair, Council of Canadians, author Blue Gold.
>
>Chief Oren Lyons (Onondaga), headman, the Turtle Clan, Professor of
>American Studies, University of Buffalo, international spokesman for
>indigenous peoples.
>
>John Mohawk (Seneca), professor of Indigenous Studies, University of
>Buffalo, author, Utopian Legacies, a History of Conquest and Oppression in
>the Western World.*
>
>Jerry Mander, founder, International Forum on Globalization, author, In
>the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of
>the Indian Nations, and co-editor, Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples
>Resistance to Economic Globalization.*
>
>Chief Arthur Manuel (Secwepem, Canada), Indigenous Network on Economies
>and Trade.*
>
>Mililani Trask (Kanaka Maoli, Hawai’i), Indigenous advocate and
>international human rights expert.*
>
>Jospeh Ole Simel (Masaai, Kenya), director, Mainyoito Pastoralist
>Integrated Development Organization.*
>
>Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan, Canada), director, En’owkin Centre,
>recipient of Buffet Award (2003) for Indigenous Leadership.*
>
>Vandana Shiva (India), founder and director of the Research Foundation for
>Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy, recipient Right
>Livelihood Award, author, Monocultures of the Mind.
>
>Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson (Haida, Canada), attorney and Director, White
>Raven Law.*
>
>Sheila Watt Cloutier (Inuk) former chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference.*
>
>Mark Dowie, former editor and publisher of Mother Jones Magazine, author,
>Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth
>Century, Professor, University of California, Berkeley.
>
>Victor Menotti, program director, International Forum on Globalization,
>author, "How the World Trade Organization Diminishes Native Sovereignty"
>in Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples Resistance to Economic Globalization.*
>
>Beverly Bell, former director, Center for Economic Justice, author, Social
>Movements and Economic Integration in the Americas.
>
>Atossa Soltani, director, Amazon Watch.
>
>Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Prize Winner, ex-chair of President
>Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors, ex-Chief Economist of the, World
>Bank, and author of the forthcoming book, Making Globalization Work.
>
>Luis Macas, (Quechua, Ecuador), Goldman Prize Award Winner, 2006
>Presidential candidate for Ecuador.
>
>and many others, to be announced
>
>*confirmed
>
>Tickets: $10 for students/seniors; $15 for general admission
>
>FOR TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
>
>International Forum on Globalization
>Tel: 415-561-7650
>Fax: 415-561-7651
>Email: ifg at ifg.org
>www.ifg.org