indigenous

FREE SCREENING
at the Gaia Arts Center in Berkeley
Monday, January 28, at 6pm

– by Nathan Coe, Guerrilla News Network

In the deserts of the Southwestern United States—the area known as the Four Corners—energy and resource wars are nothing new. Locals say that there is nothing pettier than water politics in the Southwest. The legacy of coal and other mining and oil and gas drilling is a long one, as is the legacy of colonialism and the battles fought by the indigenous to protect their sacred lands.

As students whose tax dollars & tuition fees pay for our school, we feel that, as students, we should be free to utilize spaces & facilities as we see fit. We believe that un-utilized spaces should be reclaimed & liberated from the exchange economy and factory-model education system which commodifies both knowledge and human beings. In this spirit, we will be occupying classrooms to screen films & hold discussions.

This week we will be screening "Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action," and "Pickaxe: The Cascadia Free State Story." We will also begin with a short film entitled "Making a Stand at Desert Rock," about the fight against the proposed Desert Rock coal-fired power plant in NM.

5-8 PM
Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007
Noble Hall 125
(Back-up rooms, if 125 is being used: Noble 140, 115)
Fort Lewis College
1000 Rim Drive
Durango, CO 81301