Join OPIRG Peterborough and the Indigenous Abolitionist Study Group in conversation with Kanda Rogers from the Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre for a screening of Invasion (20 mins) and Honour Your Word (59 mins) followed by a community discussion on Thursday, June 8th from 6pm - 8:30pm.
This event will be held in Nozhem Theatre in First Peoples House of Learning. Food and refreshments provided.
The Indigenous Abolitionist Study Group began meeting last summer to discus An Indigenous Abolitionist Study Guide by the @yellowheadinstitute and @abolitionto over the course of 8 weeks. The Study Group has continued to meet, and hopes to further engage the Nogojiwanong community in education and action toward abolition from Indigenous and decolonial perspectives.
This film screening and community discussion with guest speaker Kanda Rogers moderated by Kelsey Roote will explore the ways in which the settler colonial “justice” system is integral to Canada’s genocide and colonial warfare against Indigenous peoples. As the study guide also highlights, we will discuss how “the criminalization, segregation and containment of Indigenous peoples is a deep-seated, ongoing process designed to remove Indigenous peoples from their lands, communities, families, laws, cultures, and languages.”(p. 4, 2020)
We hope you will join us! All are welcome. We especially encourage Indigenous peoples to attend as well as those who have lived experience of incarceration and with the carceal system.