Posts by dru
Violence against women is "the fastest way to remove people from the land": Leanne Simpson
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 18:27 — dru
Deck:
How did Indigenous nations use treaties? What does fighting heteropatriarchy have to do with the resurgence of Indigenous nations? Should we ask for a public inquiry into missing and murdered native women? Leanne Simpson offers provocative answers to these and other questions in a talk given last November at Simon Fraser University.
One of the more powerful passages is Simpson's explanation of the use of violence against women by colonialism:
What's the most powerful form of energy in the history of human civilization?
Tue, 01/21/2014 - 13:54 — dru
Deck:
"We humans," says Gopal Dayaneni, "figured out that there's this incredibly powerful, highly flexible, extremely plentiful form of energy. And we concentrated, controlled and exploited it, and unleashed it on the rest of the world. And it made possible everything about the world we live in today."
Dayaneni is a member of Movement Generation, a Bay Area organization that works on "strategic planning for action" and works "for economic and racial justice in communities of color."
Hint: it's not oil, coal or nuclear energy.
Summary of Oct 8, 2013 board meeting
Tue, 11/05/2013 - 13:50 — druPresent: Tim, Dawn, Maryann, Dru, Crystel
Financial Report (with our accountant, Paula Clancy)
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