[grc] Online Broadcast for Indigenous Day of Action July 1 Unsettling150 from Nuxalk Radio

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*Online radio July 1st Unsettling Canada150 special programming from Nuxalk
Radio for Indigenous Day of Action*


NUXALK TERRITORY, June 29, 2017 — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:


On July 1st 2017, an Indigenous Day of Action, Nuxalk Radio is striving to
educate listeners regarding Canada's constitutional framework which was
first established 150 years ago in the British North America Act (1867)
which illegally confiscated Indigenous lands, territories, and resources,
spawned the post-confederation Indian Act and attempted to write Indigenous
jurisdiction— and Indigenous Peoples— out of existence.


*WHAT:* Full-day special broadcast of decolonial programming from unceded
Nuxalk Territory

*WHEN: *Saturday July 1st, 5am-midnight Pacific time (8am-3am Eastern)

*WHERE:* Streaming online at www.NuxalkRadio.com
<http://www.nuxalkradio.com/> or 91.1FM in Bella Coola, “B.C.”

*WHO: *Nuxalk Radio operates under Nuxalk Stataltmc (hereditary
leadership), administered by the Alkw Media Society with a board of
directors from the Nuxalk and Bella Coola community

*WHY:* Indigenous Day of Action across Canada for Canada's 150th
anniversary on Canada Day


 Nuxalk Radio is a non-commercial community radio station broadcasting on
91.1 FM from the Nuxalk village of Q'umk'uts' (Bella Coola) and online at
NuxalkRadio.com. Launched si7mt (summer solstice) June 21, 2014 with the
tagline/slogan: Lhulhamktulhs ala ts'ktaliwalh alh ti s-kulhulmcilh t'ayc n
wa sulutilh ats (Broadcasting the laws of the lands and waters).


Nuxalk Radio is celebrating our right to self-determination in the spirit
of the late Secwepemc / Ktunaxa leader Arthur Manuel with a special day of
programming.

*HIGHLIGHTS*
Nuxalk Radio will be airing:

   - a reading of Arthur Manuel's book: Unsettling Canada: A National
   Wake-Up Call
   - the Brain Power Our show comprised of talks about reindigenizing our
   world by warriors, authors and activists such as Russell Diabo, Arthur
   Manuel, Sharon Venne, Sakej Ward, Taiaiake Alfred, Pam Palmater and more.
   - "The Blanket Exercise" live from Homalco territory. An interactive and
   impactful learning experience that teaches the Indigenous rights history
   where participants stand on blankets that represent the land where they
   walk through pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization and resistance.
   - Nuxalk Staltmc (Hereditary Leader) songs. Each Nuxalk Staltmc
   represents and holds duty over a particular area of Nuxalk territory. Each
   Staltmc holds a song, which tells a story about the leadership s/he
   carries; and more.


*For more information, please visit: www.NuxalkRadio.com
<http://www.nuxalkradio.com/>*
& on social media: www.twitter.com/NuxalkRadio &
www.facebook.com/NuxalkRadio

More on the July 1st Unsettling Canada 150 day of action:
www.unsettling150.ca/


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This press release online at:
http://www.mediacoop.ca/video/online-radio-july-1st-unsettling-canada150-special/36558


Social media PSA short video for sharing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0jIrFpB2OY
https://twitter.com/NuxalkRadio/status/880505154365046784
https://www.facebook.com/NuxalkRadio/videos/1499285740129332/