NACC Events Calendar

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Public Access

Category: All

6:00pm
8:00am
9:00am
10:00am
11:00am
12:00pm	[12:00pm-1:00pm] Powwow Planning Committee Description: Hello everybody! Tomorrow's meeting is especially important for us because we need everyone to help with the tedious task of PACKING FUNDRAISING ENVELOPES These lovelies will hopefully rack up the $15,000-$20,000 needed to make up for our projected funding deficit.... and if we have extra $$$, it might even pay for some committee lunch food ;) Now THERE'S incentive! POWWOW mtg tomorrow! COME. 'Reasons: 20+ tight ppl in one room spaghetti committee updates MAKE THOSE FUNDING PACKETS THANKS!!! Michaddie CrazyRaikes
1:00pm
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
5:00pm	[5:30pm-7:00pm] PAE-V & The House Present the Annual Faculty Dinner at the House Description: Residents of the Native Theme House invite faculty to dinner for an evening of socializing and getting-to-know each other in an informal setting. [6:30pm-9:30pm] Salute to the Alcatraz Island Warriors of 1969-1971! Description: AIM-WEST Salutes the Island Warriors of 1969-1971! A Tribute to the 40th Anniversary PROCLAMATION: “To the Great White Father and All His People, WE THE NATIVE AMERICANS, reclaim the land known as Alcatraz Island in the name of all American Indians by right of discovery. We wish to be fair and honorable in our dealings with the Caucasian inhabitants of this land, and hereby offer the following treaty: We will purchase said Alcatraz Island for twenty-four dollars ($24) in glass beads and red cloth, a precedent set by the white man’s purchase of a similar island about 300 years ago. We know that $24 in trade goods for these 16 acres is more than was paid when Manhattan Island was sold, but we know that land values have risen over the years. Our off of $ 1.24 per acre is greater than the 47 cents per acre the white men are now paying the California Indians for their land….Signed, Indians of All Tribes, November 1969, San Francisco, California.” With this profound proclamation and the gallant actions necessitated by the young brave’s so began a movement of Indigenous activism that awoke America, and sent a thunder-clap around the world that has now culminated in the historic adoption by the United Nations General Assembly on September 13, 2007 of the “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”. Please make a date to be with us Wednesday, November 4th to honor and commemorate those warriors who sacrificed and gave of their time and placed themselves in social turmoil to help re-claim the destiny for all Indians of the Americas. Film: “Alcatraz Is Not An Island” (starts at 7 pm!) M.C.’s Jimbo Simmons (AIM), and Mary Jean Robertson (S.F. KPOO radio personality) And with Special Guest Speakers, with music by Goodshield, Drummers and Singers welcome, and Traditional Dancers! Cover Charge $ 8.00 slide-scale, no one turned away. A food can drive is also requested for Oakland Inter-Tribal Friendship House. A raffle prize, and a blanket donation is requested. On this occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Occupation of Alcatraz Island, a special benefit by American Indian Movement-WEST (AIM-WEST) invites you to join us and acknowledge all those heroic warriors representing “Indians of All Tribes” who sought to liberate The Rock, (first landing Nov. 14th) that began November 20, 1969 until being led off the island June 11, 1971. Their mission and purpose; to enlighten the American people of the injustice done to the American Indian by stealing their land by phony treaties. During the 19 months of the occupation 20,000 people visited Alcatraz Island, meanwhile a medical clinic was set up, the structure of day-to-day life needed formulation, children needed schooling, a leadership structure needed to be created to tend the affairs of Alcatraz community; the Black Panthers offered help; Credence Clearwater Revival donated $15,000; a child was born (July 20, 1970), the 12 year-old daughter of Richard Oakes, the foremost leader of the Alcatraz occupation, fell over a railing and died on January 8, 1970; and the light house and several buildings burned to the ground. Against this backdrop the leadership at Alcatraz began negotiations with government officials setting the stage for confrontations with dishonest politicians, onerous developers and bureaucrats. Come and share your experiences, thoughts and vision of what this occasion has meant to you, the youth, and community. Free Leonard Peltier! Freedom for All Political Prisoners! Protect Sacred Sites! Honor the Treaties! Acknowledge and review the 18 Unratified Treaties made with the California’s American Indians! And demand the US government sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples! (only three countries have not signed: USA, Canada, and New Zealand!) Mark your calendars now for the AIM West Coast Third Annual Gathering November 23-27, 2009. M.C. Mr. Bill Means, National AIM Grand Council, and Board Member of International Indian Treaty Council, a United Nations NGO in consultative status. Donations are appreciated. Check AIM-WEST website for more information: www.aimwest.info [7:00pm-8:00pm] Powwow Basketball Tourney Planning Description: Hey All, We are hoping to have the meeting this Wednesday (11/4) @ 7:00 in the Center These are the people who have confirmed that they are volunteering: Sasha Hardy Ronnie Erika Chase Cree Iron Cloud Kurt Leon Peralto Kauanoe Anna French Sarah Roe If you are not on this list and want to be shoot Vananda and I an email and make sure to be at the meeting. ~V & Jbill~ [8:00pm-9:00pm] Native Pre-Law Students Description: Hey, The first Pre-law meeting will be this Wednesday at 8:00 in the Center. The Native American Law Students Association will be attending as well so please roll out. These are the people who have confirmed that they want to be in the group: Vananda Yazzie Sasha Hardy Erika Chase Leon Peralto Lisa Yang Sam Azure April Chavez Todd Phelps Tessa Smith Lia A.S Katie Cromack Jessica Ward Kurt Outie Clifford Owl2 Waddie Crazyhorse Karee Juvette Jared Lesansee Chase Harmon If you are not on this list and want to be shoot me an email and make sure to go to the meeting. Hey, As per request I will be holding a vote for the name of the group now and announcing it at the meeting. And the nominees are: 1) Natives In Pre Law 2) Stanford Native American Pre Law 3) Stanford Natives In Pre Law ~JBill~ ~JBILL~ _______________________________________________
7:00pm
8:00pm
9:00pm
10:00pm
11:00pm

Description:: AIM-WEST Salutes the Island Warriors of 1969-1971!
A Tribute to the 40th Anniversary

PROCLAMATION:

“To the Great White Father and All His People, WE THE NATIVE AMERICANS, reclaim the land known as Alcatraz Island in the name of all American Indians by right of discovery. We wish to be fair and honorable in our dealings with the Caucasian inhabitants of this land, and hereby offer the following treaty: We will purchase said Alcatraz Island for twenty-four dollars ($24) in glass beads and red cloth, a precedent set by the white man’s purchase of a similar island about 300 years ago. We know that $24 in trade goods for these 16 acres is more than was paid when Manhattan Island was sold, but we know that land values have risen over the years. Our off of $ 1.24 per acre is greater than the 47 cents per acre the white men are now paying the California Indians for their land….Signed, Indians of All Tribes, November 1969, San Francisco, California.”

With this profound proclamation and the gallant actions necessitated by the young brave’s so began a movement of Indigenous activism that awoke America, and sent a thunder-clap around the world that has now culminated in the historic adoption by the United Nations General Assembly on September 13, 2007 of the “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”.

Please make a date to be with us Wednesday, November 4th to honor and commemorate those warriors who sacrificed and gave of their time and placed themselves in social turmoil to help re-claim the destiny for all Indians of the Americas.

Film: “Alcatraz Is Not An Island” (starts at 7 pm!)

M.C.’s Jimbo Simmons (AIM), and Mary Jean Robertson (S.F. KPOO radio personality)

And with Special Guest Speakers, with music by Goodshield, Drummers and Singers welcome, and Traditional Dancers!

Cover Charge $ 8.00 slide-scale, no one turned away. A food can drive is also requested for Oakland Inter-Tribal Friendship House. A raffle prize, and a blanket donation is requested.

On this occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Occupation of Alcatraz Island, a special benefit by American Indian Movement-WEST (AIM-WEST) invites you to join us and acknowledge all those heroic warriors representing “Indians of All Tribes” who sought to liberate The Rock, (first landing Nov. 14th) that began November 20, 1969 until being led off the island June 11, 1971. Their mission and purpose; to enlighten the American people of the injustice done to the American Indian by stealing their land by phony treaties.

During the 19 months of the occupation 20,000 people visited Alcatraz Island, meanwhile a medical clinic was set up, the structure of day-to-day life needed formulation, children needed schooling, a leadership structure needed to be created to tend the affairs of Alcatraz community; the Black Panthers offered help; Credence Clearwater Revival donated $15,000; a child was born (July 20, 1970), the 12 year-old daughter of Richard Oakes, the foremost leader of the Alcatraz occupation, fell over a railing and died on January 8, 1970; and the light house and several buildings burned to the ground.

Against this backdrop the leadership at Alcatraz began negotiations with government officials setting the stage for confrontations with dishonest politicians, onerous developers and bureaucrats. Come and share your experiences, thoughts and vision of what this occasion has meant to you, the youth, and community.

Free Leonard Peltier! Freedom for All Political Prisoners! Protect Sacred Sites! Honor the Treaties! Acknowledge and review the 18 Unratified Treaties made with the California’s American Indians! And demand the US government sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples! (only three countries have not signed: USA, Canada, and New Zealand!)

*Mark your calendars now for the AIM West Coast Third Annual Gathering November 23-27, 2009. *M.C. Mr. Bill Means, National AIM Grand Council, and Board Member of International Indian Treaty Council, a United Nations NGO in consultative status.

Donations are appreciated. Check AIM-WEST website for more information: www.aimwest.info
Location:: La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck, Berkeley
Event Contact:: (415) 577-1492
Contact Email:: http://www.lapena.org.calendar

[Printer Friendly]

Need to reserve a room? (please, only if you are a community member) Want to add the NACC Calendar of Events to your Google Calendar or iCal?

Need to reserve a room? (please, only if you are a community member)

Want to add the NACC Calendar of Events to your Google Calendar or iCal?