 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2002 (XXXX 5) |
PEACETALKS, the public radio project affiliated with Newtown Meeting (PA), has produced a special for Public Radio International to air at 6 p.m. Thanksgiving Day, November 28, on WHYY-91FM Philadelphia.
At Thanksgiving, as we gather to celebrate the “first” ceremonial sharing between Native people and the arriving European people, it is a good time to hear another telling of this story — an update, so to speak. To imagine a different kind of Thanksgiving Gathering — another way to begin making a nation together.
Much like the Truth Commission in South Africa, The Gathering is a regional forum initiated by The Center for Vision and Policy, founded by Friends in Maine, and its sister organization, the Wabanaki Cultural Resource Center on the coast of New Brunswick, Canada. Over the past eleven years, members of these two organizations have gathered to discuss ways of rectifying relationships between Native and non-Native peoples. These gatherings have centered on shaping clearer understandings of history and controversial politics in the life of Native Peoples living in Maine’s bioregion.
On this Thanksgiving radio program, actress Blair Brown narrates our travels with spiritual leader gkisedtanamoogk from his home on the Burnt Church reservation in New Brunswick to a Gathering in Maine. We travel onto the water with trained peacekeepers from the Aboriginal Rights Coalition as Native fishermen defend their treaty rights to fish for lobster, traditionally a cause for violent confrontation. Learn how the Gatherings have built trust and alliances and a new understanding of how to live rightly on the land together.
PEACETALKS is a public radio project that broadcasts stories of peace and non-violent social change. Producers are Barbara Simmons of Newtown Meeting (PA) and Laura Jackson. Visit PEACETALKS at peacetalksonline.org for information or to request a presentation at your school or organization.
Sponsors of PEACETALKS include Arcadia University’s International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program, Snave Foundation, Lyman Fund, PYM Bequest Grants Group, The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance 5-County Arts Fund, and Newtown Monthly Meeting.
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