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Occupy Talks: Indigenous Perspectives on the Occupy Movement


January 23, 2012


What does it mean to ‘Occupy already occupied lands?'. How does Occupy relate to 500 years of resistance on Turtle Island? Please join speakers Tom B.K. Goldtooth, Clayton Thomas-Muller and Leanne Simpson to explore and discuss these dynamics of the Occupy movement.

Tom B.K. Goldtooth is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and is a social change activist and environmental and economic justice leader.

Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation is an activist for Indigenous rights and environmental justice.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a writer, activist and scholar of Michi Saagiik Nishnaabeg ancestry and an Adjunct Professor in Indigenous Studies at Trent University and an instructor at the Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge, Athabasca University.

Note: Beit Zatoun is accessible for the lecture, however its washrooms are not. Accommodations will be made with local restaurants to provide accessible washrooms.

Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Beit Zatoun
Location: 612 Markham Street Toronto, ON
Categories: Social Policy

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