[act-ma] 10/8; An Evening with Native American Activist Winona LaDuke

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An Evening with Native American Environmental Activist and Author Winona LaDuke

The Friends of Wissatinnewag proudly present

An Evening with Native American Environmental Activist and Author Winona LaDuke (Mississippi Band of Anishinaabe)

Monday, Oct. 8th, 2007 at 7 p.m. in Greenfield Community College's Sloan Theatre. One College Drive, Greenfield, MA

Tickets are $10 in advance, available at World Eye Books in downtown Greenfield $12 at the door, $8 for GCC students with college ID

Founding director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, co-chair of the Indigenous Women's Network, and program director of Honor the Earth, Winona LaDuke is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the Reebok Human Rights Award, the Thomas Merton Award, the Ann Bancroft Award, the Global Green Award, and the International Slow Food Award for her work to protect wild rice and local biodiversity. She served as Ralph Nader's vice-presidential running mate on the Green Party ticket in the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections. She is the author of Last Standing Woman, All Our Relations, In the Sugarbush, and The Winona LaDuke Reader. Her most recent book is Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming (South End Press).

Winona LaDuke serves on the Advisory Council of The Friends of Wissatinnewag, Inc.

Proceeds from this event benefit The Friends of Wissatinnewag, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of Native American sacred sites

This event is being co-sponsored by the GCC Social Sciences Department.

Directions

Greenfield Community College Main Campus is located near the intersection of Interstate 91 and Route 2. Take exit 26 off I-91 in Greenfield and follow the traffic rotary to Route 2 west. Once on Route 2, take an immediate right at the first traffic light onto Colrain Road. GCC is located on College Drive six-tenths of a mile on the left. Follow signs to parking lot F. Use the Sloan Theater entrance at the left side of main building.






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- Thomas Jefferson
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