HONOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAYS CHICO 2018 Honor Indigenous Peoples Days during the month of October
SUNDAY OCTOBER 7TH CPJC Annual DinnerMONDAY 8TH Indigenous Peoples Day Lunch & Mural Benefit
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On SUNDAY OCTOBER 7:
CHICO PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER’S ANNUAL DINNER 2018
CPJC Annual Dinner 2018 beneftting the center.
Doors 5pm
Event 6pm-8:30pm
This year’s theme is ”Honoring Indigenous People” with keynote speaker Ali Meders-Knight of the Mechoopda. There will be a food, music, community awards, a raffle, and more.
Low income tickets available, and volunteers are needed, more information here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/242460169746874
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On INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY MONDAY OCTOBER 8:
COMMUNITY MEAL & MECHOOPDA ARTIST’S MURAL BENEFIT
DOORS 10:30am
EVENT 11:00am-1:00pm
Chico Women’s Club
Brunch/Lunch Meal & Mechoopda Artist’s Mural Fundraiser
Veggie Vegan and Meat options Elder, youth, and family friendly & Disabled accessible
We will have a Children’s Art Area This Event is Alcohol Free
Event is FREE & No one turned away for lack of funds
Share a delicious sustainable community meal, and honor Indigenous Peoples Day
Support the creation of the gorgeous Mechoopda mural designed and led by Ali Meders-Knight, Mechoopda artist,culture bearer, teacher, and advocate.
Hear more about the history of Indigenous Peoples’s Day, and Indigenous movements in Northem California as Sacramento and SF hold their first annual officially recognized Indigenous Peoples Day events.
Join Natives and allied communities for this powerful, creative and inspiring gathering!
#IndigenousPeoplesDay2018 #SupportMechoopdaArtists #MechoopdaMural#IndigenousMurals
Noon-
Jim Haber is a longtime activist from the San
Francisco Bay Area. He helped manage a Mission District soup kitchen in the
Catholic Worker tradition for over 20 years. He later ran Nevada Desert
Experience in Las Vegas, organizing against nuclear weapons and the air force's
drone program. He has been a member of Jewish Voice for Peace since it was a
local, Bay Area group, and he was a delegate with the Center for Jewish
Nonviolence in 2016 and 2017 for two trips to the West Bank to engage in
various forms of support and nonviolent resistance actions under the leadership
of local Palestinians. Jim is a member of Kehilla Community Synagogue and the
Reclaiming Collective of witches. Follow his blog at haberjim.wordpress.com
12:30 Susan Lagos taught Spanish at Mendocino High School and College of the
Redwoods for 23 years before moving to
Nicaragua in 2004 to manage a farm with her Nicaraguan husband near
Dario. She has traveled
extensively in Latin America and especially to Nicaragua in the 80's and
90's.
Now she is volunteering
with Friends of the ATC, asociacion de trabajadores del campo, which was formed
40 years ago to support campesino cooperatives with workshops about seeds,
organic fertilizer, organizing youth and women, silos, and planting methods.
They are part of Via Campesina, a worldwide campesino organization in 80
countries. She was present in Nicaragua during the 3 months of the
attempted soft coup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcdcpqqNdjQ
