Re: intros / conference directions
Charles Scheiner (cscheiner@igc.org)
Fri, 27 Sep 1991 17:50:00 PDT
I am Charles Scheiner, a local/national (US)/international activist with
the Westchester Peoples Action Coalition (WESPAC), Mobilization for Survival
and War Resisters League, and the Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific
movement. All three are grappling with how to address the 500th
anniversary, and have already begun to some extent. In the NFIP movement,
more recently invaded ("discovered") countries are still under indigenous
control with indigenous majorities, and are resisting political, economic,
and cultural colonialism from the US and European powers. Check out
reg.pacific for more information.
I look forward to learning from and using this conference to see how
primarily non-indigenous people can relate to the Quincentenary, to learn
from crimes of the past and prevent their continual repetition.