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November 12, 2009
AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT-WEST TO HOLD ITS THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN
SAN FRANCISCO, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED. EVENT WILL BE BROADCAST LIVE!
AIM-WEST invites you to attend its Third Annual West Coast
Conference, November 23-27, 2009 in San Francisco, California. This
will be an opportunity for all Indian Nations particularly those on
the west coast who share common concerns, issues and challenges to
come together with a positive vision for the future, and share in
council with decisions and solutions, and plan for our coming generations.
At this gathering we will address the honoring of Treaties, Sacred
Sites, Human Rights and the Environment, Cultural and Spiritual
Freedoms, Youth and Prisoner Rights, Immigration and Mineral Resource
exploitation. A special session will also be held on how to organize
an AIM chapter in your community, building alliances and coalitions,
and the role of its membership, and supporters.
Monday, November 23, 10:00 am-5:30 pm
Press Conference 10:30-11:00 am
Opening Ceremonies with MC Bill Means and Madonna Thunder Hawk. San
Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St. @ Grove, Koret Auditorium. A
panel of special guest speakers, and a film "El Salvador: I Want My
People to Live"
Tuesday, November 24, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Location: Bahai'i Center, 170 Valencia Street, SF (near 16th BART Station)
Pre-"Unthanksgiving" Potluck Dinner and special program, starts at 12
noon. Master of Ceremony is Mary Jean Robertson. With guest speakers,
drummers and singers, and dance performances by California, El
Salvador, Peru, and Traditional Azteca Teo-Kalli. Clyde Bellecourt
will offer blessings and a talk on the state of the States. Musical
entertainment. Everyone invited to the feast, where the Eagles invite
the Condors!
Wednesday, November 25, 10:00 am-5:00 pm
Location: Bahai'i Center, 170 Valencia Street, SF
A full day of topics led by a panel of distinguished community
organizers: Sacred Sites; Immigration and Border issues; Environment
and COP-15 in Copenhagen; Treaties, and Mineral Resource and Mining
Extraction; Prisoner Rights and strategy campaign for Leonard
Peltier' Executive Clemency; Federally Recognized, Unrecognized and
Disenrollment; Building AIM chapters and defining role of supporters,
coalitions, alliances, and capacity building; Youth and International
Solidarity with Liberation Movements.
Thursday, November 26, 4:00 am-9:00 am
Location: Alcatraz Island 40 Year Anniversary of The Occupation 1969-1971
Annual Sunrise Gathering, Pier #33 Hornblower Alcatraz Tours,
purchase tickets online, $14 kids under 5 free! The sunrise program
will be broadcast from THE ROCK live on radio KPFA 94.1 starting at
6am to 9am with Miguel Molina, and Co-Anchored by Tony Gonzales of
AIM-WEST with Mary Jean Robertson, DJ of KPOO radio.
Friday, November 27, "Native American Day" concert 6:00-10:00 pm
*Sacred Sites demonstration at Glen Cove, stay alert! Call Wounded
Knee for more information: 707-557-2140
AIM-WEST will hold a benefit fundraiser at the Bahai'I Center, 170
Valencia Street in San Francisco!
Tickets $10-20 donation, no one turned away.
6:00-10:00 pm
Music by Bob Young Project, Local Artists, special guests and much
more!! Please bring cans of food for Inter-Tribal Friendship House in Oakland.
The entire event will be broadcast and recorded by Govinda at
http://www.earthcycles.net and will be streamed live!
For more information please contact visit
http://www.facebook.com/l/af83a;www.aimovement.org.
AIM FOR FREEDOM! FREE LEONARD PELTIER!!!!
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