Decolonizing Social Justice:
The Anti-Violence Movement and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
The Institute of Women’s Studies of the University of Ottawa is pleased invite you to the Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture in Women’s Studies entitled “Decolonizing Social Justice: The Anti-Violence Movement and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex” given by Andrea Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside Co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color against Violence and The Boarding School Healing Project.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 5:30 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium, 85 University Private, University of Ottawa
FREE ADMISSION
Info: womenst@uOttawa.ca or Kathryn.Trevenen@uOttawa.ca
BIO
Andrea Smith is a co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color against Violence and the Boarding School Healing Project. She is the author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide and Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances. She is also editor of The Revolution will not be funded: Beyond the Non-profit Industrial Complex and The Color of Violence. She currently teaches at the University of California, Riverside.
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********** Action Alert **********
Please take FIVE MINUTES to ask that our elected officials take action to end the violence against missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada.
Indigenous women living in Canada are five times more at risk of dying a violent death than other women, according to a Canadian government statistic. A study by the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) concluded that 521 indigenous girls and women have gone missing or been murdered since 1980, and calls for an emergency strategy. Some activists believe the number of missing to be much higher, as many cases go unreported, often due to distrust between First Nations communities and police.
Amnesty International issued a comprehensive report in 2004 entitled “Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to discrimination and violence against Indigenous women in Canada,” and the UN recently called on the Canadian government to investigate why hundreds of deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women remain unsolved.
Please ask that our elected representatives do something about this important issue:
SENT AN QUICK MESSAGE FROM THE WEBSITE OF THE JUSTICE FOR MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN CAMPAIGN: http://www.missingjustice.ca/voiceyourconcern
Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa 