The Abolish Columbus Day event is in it’s 5th year and is being organized by the Old Growth Alliance. The event page on Facebook can be found here.
Monday October 8th 2012
Begins at Westlake Park at 4pm
Downtown Seattle- march to John T. Williams pole at 5pm
Continuing march to Columbus statue at 6pmBring drums, prayer ties, and wear black.
Gunalchéesh
Two exciting things happening in Seattle on October 8th. One is the annual Abolish Columbus Day Protest. Later that evening there will be a free screening of Occupied Cascadia at the Wild Cat Theater.
These two issues are important for the future of Native peoples in this region. For one, the Columbus Day Holiday is a glaring representation of the dilemma in this country’s national narrative; it is a narrative built on discovery, manifest destiny and nation building. Unfortunately, it is a narrative that has little room for Native peoples. While the people of this nation individually hold no ill will toward we Native people, the story of the US Empire has been one of military conquest of the North American Continent.
Cascadia represents an alternative narrative; one that I believe is compatible with Native Tribes’ decentralized system of self governance, bioregionalism and resource management. Autonomy is the essence of sovereignty. If we are truly free and sovereign tribal nations, then we can and should be thinking about the future of our people, and whether or not it is in our best interests to continue our dependence on the US Government, or begin building something else.
Occupied Cascadia’s FB Event Page: Occupied Cascadia Film Screening Seattle
I’ll try to keep this page updated with information on the Abolish Columbus Day Protest: http://bit.ly/QoQCCf
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I appreciate it. Thank you!
Directly following the Abolish Columbus Day Rally, ‘Occupied Cascadia’ will be showing, 8 PM, at the Wild Cat in Seattle: 1105 23rd Ave (23rd & Union in the CD). The filmmakers will be downtown at 4 PM. See you in the streets!
http://www.facebook.com/events/363065323774673/?context=create#!/events/363065323774673/
Awesome! I’ll see you there, then! I’m coming up from Portland for this.
Keep the rants going !. Soon the Columbus Day holiday will eventually disappear off the calendar and the Christopher Columbus name will be completely wiped out of the history books !. The guy Christopher Columbus is a bloody evil genocidal murderer and slave trader !.
“Wild Cat in Seattle: 1105 23rd Ave”
Is that the little blue house that appears on Google Maps?
I’ve never been there, so thought I’d do a reality check.
Here’s the facebook event. I’m not from Seattle so I don’t know the particulars. I will be there for the Abolish Columbus Day event as well as the Occupied Cascadia screening, though.
http://www.facebook.com/events/360984623989486/?ref=ts&fref=ts
Not sure what “medicinal presence” means?
Well I hope you came down to the rally to find out!