Friday NOVEMBER 21, 2008 Black Mesa Caravan Fundraiser Dinner, Film Screening of Broken Rainbow, a movie about the struggle on Big Mountain, Black Mesa, and Discussion. Doors at 6pm, 7 PM at the Intertribal Friendship House.
Broken Rainbow is a 1985 documentary film about the government-enforced relocation of thousands of Navajo Native Americans from their ancestral homes in Arizona. The Navajo were relocated to aid mining speculation in a process that began in the 1970s and continues to this day. The film is narrated by Martin Sheen.
This call is for folks of color to lend their support to the Caravan to Black Mesa, AZ for a convergence of work crews from all over the US. We are asking for your support to get out to Big Mountain to work and do movement building work for the week of November 22-29. The fundraisers that we are throwing are for the caravaners from the Bay Area to get out there. If any money or resources are earmarked for the Native community, then those resources will be handled accordingly.
Redefining Solidarity
Everyone on this trip will be in a work crew "winterizing home," patching rooves, hauling water, gathering firewood, and so on. But what is Solidarity. We know that the organizers of this trip are arranging for each of us to learn more about the Black Mesa struggle. We also know that the folks that live out there aren't gonna be the ones answering our every question about their occupation, constant surveillance, poverty, debt, strife, resilience and so on. They also aren't gonna be the ones to give us political education or give us political direction, we will be doing that for ourselves. The question of our solidarity is the question of our commitment to making change from the ground up in our own communities. It's the question of how we educate ourselves about the world around us to be of use to that ground-up movement. And it's a question of challenging the lies that this modern world tell us about the myths of progress.
If you represent an organization, please come table and donate items to raffle at this event.
We are making 200 tamales/100 plates of food. Others are contributing to this effort. We hope to make $500 with the food and another $500 at the door. So, please bring money, an appetite, and your mind for discussion at the end of the film.
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