here's our images from the INVASION screening series, thx to Nicole!

Indigenous people face down zombies and win in ‘Blood Quantum’

Videos we especially liked from the tribe Mashpee Wampanoag Solidarity Handbook

• What is a sovereign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bfSICaS-l4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2WoL9MUgnowB8RNAzFUtKfv3UOdPasu3rlgYJ_vWmrkHTXgfuSJmcwtSk

• This is an issue that first reared its ugly head a year and a half ago, here is the first march we did in Mashpee Sept 2018 but still relevant today with some great community shots https://vimeo.com/293866929?fbclid=IwAR03u0-CEaa7QfJYP26jIEBsYc5vi1EsWQXlH_X4TenPMLqFjlYSm67Lgo0

Also, this online slideshow presentation illustrated the money trail and power map https://democracylabs.kumu.io/pandemic-land-grab?fbclid=IwAR1M6ZvcuKP1twgI0SMtCAImi0eudNqbtBzKR865fEMtfTeYORi3xRV7WjA 

A few years from now... Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) notice that their village has literally vanished from most maps and a UFO-shaped drone starts flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants one by one. A fierce confrontation takes place when the townspeople turn the tables on the villainous outsiders, banding together by any means necessary to protect and maintain their remote community.

here's my suggested intro and schedule of screenings for tomorrow

Please join us this week for our Indigenous Solidarity Film Screening Series and fundraiser for the Wet'suwet'en people’s anti-pipeline resistance.

Thursday, May 21 at 8:00

Join our Zoom screening room!

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This week we continue to follow and discuss two important struggles of indigenous people against ongoing colonialism: the Wet'suwet'en people in the first half, and the Mashpee Wampanoag in the later part of the evening.

Taken together, these two struggles highlight the CONTINUITY OF THE PROCESS of colonization, dispossession and settlement, UNBROKEN AND ONGOING across 400 years.

From the east coast to the west coast, from where the sun first hits to where it last leaves Turtle Island each day, from some of the first lands stolen by treaty and trickery to lands never yet ceded, from the earliest to most recent sites of contestation, the same pattern is clear—both for the settler colonial agenda of capitalist profit, domination and exploitation, and for the indigenous commitment to courageous resistance, defiance and survivance.

This is a conflict that is has never stopped and is still unfolding.

Let’s talk about what we can do to affect its outcome.

SCHEDULE of SCREENINGS

8:15 pm INVASION (18 min) In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation standing up to the Canadian government, fossil fuel corporations and their financiers who continue colonial violence against Indigenous people. Send money to the Unist'ot'en Camp Legal Fund here.

8:45 Stand With Mashpee: Reservation Termination and Tribal Sovereignty At Risk (3 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bfSICaS-l4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2WoL9MUgnowB8RNAzFUtKfv3UOdPasu3rlgYJ_vWmrkHTXgfuSJmcwtSk

8:48 The Termination of Tribal Land and Culture (4 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=3ZEYQ5FAp8Q

8:52 #StandWithMashpee (3 min) https://vimeo.com/293866929?fbclid=IwAR03u0-CEaa7QfJYP26jIEBsYc5vi1EsWQXlH_X4TenPMLqFjlYSm67Lgo0

8:55 Understanding the Mashpee Sovereignty Struggle (4:20 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E50ZbZC8YqM

(Followed by brief report on May 20 hearing on Mashpee Wampanoag land trust status and the DOI’s ruling on the Mashpee, to determine whether they will keep or lose their sovereignty over the remaining 300 acres of their reservation trust land.)

Discussion: analysis toward actions?

got it - thx Maia! Scheduled for 10 am tmoro!