MEDIA RELEASE Tuesday 26 October 1999 “TAKING BACK OUR RESPONSIBILITY AND IDENTITY” Forum “We are still being told what’s in our best interest…” (M. Dodson) This forum is a first to compare historically what has happened within the areas of legal and social policies regarding Indigenous peoples locally and in the United States. The US models of policy and practice relating to American Indians in a colonial context have been replicated globally in many forms on Indigenous peoples and this forum seeks to analyse this to gain better perspectives for future directions in areas of Indigenous social justice issues in Australia. The key note speaker for this event is Russell Means, co –founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Russell has been active in his people, the Lakota Nation’s struggle for independence since the early 1970’s. One of his major stands was with the Lakota people and many other AIMsters such as Dennis Banks, at the Wounded Knee memorial in 1973. Russell will discuss the distinct identity of Indigenous peoples and the struggle to maintain that culture under continuing modernist threats of industry and mining. Other Speakers: Henrietta Fourmile: former Indigenous coordinator at the UN Environment Programs on Biodiversity and currently working at the University of Western Australia. Henrietta will discuss the importance of protecting the Indigenous cultural identity and its intellectual property. Michael Mansell: Manager of the Tasmanian Aboriginal LegalCentre. Michael will discuss the ways Article 3 of the UN Charter of Indigenous Rights has been acted upon by Indigenous peoples here and in the US and how it can work within the current political and social frameworks. The forum will be held on Friday November 12, at the Newtown Theatre, 354 King St, Newtown from 5.00pm till 10.00pm. Further information: Michelle Avery on 9514 1904 Tickets are available from the – University of Technology, Sydney Students’ Association, call 9514 1155 (b.h.) Full fare: $ 60.00pp, $ 55 pp (group of 4 or more) Student or Concession: $ 30.00pp, $ 25 pp (group of 4 or more) Lynn Pollack 9/363 Edgecliff Road, Edgecliff. NSW. 2027. Australia Tel/Fax 61293282060 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
