Agenda and Notes from Holly L.:
- Welcome, intro, commitments (Doe)
- Centering/Grounding (Karima)
- Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet: “On This Land”
- Presentation (Jeff)
- Settler colonialism
- Breakout: Comparing similarities between Indigenous and Palestinian oppression.
- “No Other Land” film screening
- Balfour declaration
- Early Zionist thinkers cited settler colonialism in Turtle Island as their inspirations.
Links to Jeff’s presentation notes:
From Doe H: Invitation to Ceremony at Oak Flat (Arizona): July 18-20
Apache Stronghold is hosting their annual Mount Graham Sacred Run, which will conclude with ceremony at Oak Flat July 18-20. Oak Flat is sacred land and an ancestral place of ceremony for the Western Apaches, presently threatened by copper mining. Apache Stronghold’s legal case to challenge the government’s land transfer has implications for all of us and the future of protecting sacred lands. A lot has been unfolding in the past month, with the recent Supreme Court decision and the release of the Environmental Impact Statement, so it is an important time to join in prayer with our Apache relatives.
If you feel called to attend, please email Doe Hoyer (doe@dismantlediscovery.org) to receive more details, including options for camping at Oak Flat or other accommodations.
DRN Effigy Mounds Hike – Sunday, July 13th
Please reach out if you’d like to potentially join our hike this Sunday at the Effigy Mounds National Monument – we’ll delve into colonialism, NAGPRA, sacred story, and more.
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