AIM for FREEDOM! 40th Anniversary Art & Photography Exhibit

AIM for FREEDOM!

40th anniversary art & photography exhibit

July 16th - July 31st, 2008

SomArts Bay Gallery 934 Brannan Street (between 8th & 9th Streets)

San Francisco, CA 94103

http://www.somarts.org/

AIM-West presents AIM for FREEDOM! art & photography retrospective of AIM, plus Longest Walk 2. Opening reception honors the Women in the Movement, special guest co-founder Patricia Bellanger. Performances by traditional singers & dancers

Gallery Hours Tuesday-Friday: 1:00pm – 7:00pm, Saturdays: 1:00pm –5:00pm

Featuring Photography and Art by J.R. Auginash, Dick Bancroft, Dave Cordova, Ilka Hartmann, Brenda Norrell, Paul Owns the Sabre, Leonard Peltier, Kerry Richardson, Michelle Vignes, Floyd Red Crow Westerman,and traditional Dine rugs.

Opening Reception Thursday July 17th, 5:30pm - 8:30pm Honoring the women in the movement with special guest AIM co-founder Patricia Bellanger. Also featuring the Vallejo Sweet Medicine Singers, The California Traditional Pomo Dancers, The All Nation Singers, and The Tlingit Women's Dance Group.

Friday July 18th, 6:00pm - 9:00pm - A lecture and screening on traditional basket weaving by Orie Medicine Bull and a performance by Medicine Warriors Dance Troupe care of Gilbert Blacksmith.

Tuesday July 22nd 2:00pm - 8:00pm Storytelling, poetry and music Featuring California Indian storyteller Anne Marie Sayers, all ages welcomed.

Wednesday July 30th, 3:00pm - 9:00pm - Founder's Day Reception & Fundraiser A silent auction of work by Leonard Peltier and Floyd RedCrow Westerman with MC Bill Means, a ceremony honoring Lee Brightman and the completion of the Longest Walk II, a book signing by AIM authors and photojournalists, The All Nation Singers, The CaliforniaTraditional Pomo Dancers, The Tlingit Women's Dance Group, and Dr.Loco's Rockin' Jalapeño Band.

Curated by Tony Gonzales, Rene Yañez, and Rio Yañez

http://www.aimovement.org/

Healing Mother Earth on Western Shoshone Lands

Indigenous Environmental Network Conference on Western Shoshone lands

"Answering Mother Earth's Call for Healing, Reaffirming Our Roots"

At the Indigenous Environmental Network's Healing Mother Earth conference, today's speakers include Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, Evon Peters, Gwich'in chief, Arthur Manual, Secwepemc Nation BC, and Louise Benally, Navajo from Big Mountain. Standing is Julie Fishel of the Western Shoshone Defense Project. The conference continues through Sunday, July 20, 2008. Radio stations are invited to carry the audio feed from Earthcycles http://www.earthcycles.net/
Photo copyright Brenda Norrell

Live from the Protecting Mother Earth Conference on Western Shoshone lands

By Brenda Norrell
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

Photo: Western Shoshone Carrie Dann arrives at the IEN Conference. Photo Brenda Norrell

SOUTHFORK, Nevada -- After four days on the road, we are live and uncensored at the 15th Annual Indigenous Environmental Network's Protecting Mother Earth Conference, July 17 -- 20, 2008.
The Earthcycles radio bus has arrived after completing the 5-month radio broadcast, the Longest Walk Talk Radio. We've traveled over 6,000 miles since leaving Alcatraz on Feb. 11 on the Longest Walk 2 Northern Route.
Now, listen live to Western Shoshone Carrie Dann and hundreds of protectors of the earth from around the world speaking here at the conference, live at the SouthFork Powwow Grounds in Lee, Nevada. After the Longest Walk prayer across America, Indigenous Peoples are here and ready with plans of action to carry out the prayer and protect Mother Earth.
Listen at: www.earthcycles.net/
Schedule and directions to this remote location: www.ienearth.org/