[Indigsol] Canadian Whistleblower to conduct European speaking tour this August and September

[Rhonda Sussman]

> 
> The
> former clergyman who singlehandedly forced the government
> and churches
> of Canada to acknowledge the deaths of thousands of native
> children at
> their hands will be conducting a European speaking tour
> this August and
> September.
> 
> Kevin Annett, an award-winning film maker and author,
> will be speaking at gatherings in Ireland, England and on
> the continent
> between mid August and late September, 2008.
> 
> Kevin Annett's research
> since 1996 has established that more than 50,000 aboriginal
> children
> across Canada died in church-run "Indian residential
> schools", and has
> forced the government of Canada to launch a "Truth and
> Reconciliation
> Commission" into these deaths this year.
> 
> Kevin's work has earned the acclaim of Noble laureates,
> scholars, native activists
> and ordinary people all over the world, and prompted
> Professor
> Noam Chomsky to recently declare, "Kevin is more
> deserving of the Noble
> Peace Prize than many of those who have received it."
> 
> Please
> consider having Kevin Annett speak in your community, and
> screen his
> award-winning documentary film on Genocide in Canada,
> entitled
> "UNREPENTANT" (viewable on his website, below). 
> 
> More information about the film and Kevin's work can be
> obtained on his website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org .
>  
> To contact Kevin regarding his availability and itinerary
> while in Europe write to: hiddenfromhistory at yahoo.ca 
> kevin_annett at hotmail.com  
> or phone 250-753-3345 (Canada).
> 
> Biographical Note:
> 
> Reverend Kevin D. Annett is a community minister and
> educator who lives and works with low income and aboriginal
> people in Vancouver and Nanaimo, on Canada's west coast.
> 
> He is the author of Hidden from History: The Canadian
> Holocaust (2005) and Love and Death in the Valley (2001),
> and co-produced the award-winning documentary film
> UNREPENTANT in 2006 (Best Director of a Documentary, New
> York Independent Film Festival, November 2006, Best
> Documentary, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, March
> 2007).
> 
> A former minister of the United Church of Canada, Kevin was
> fired without cause and then expelled without due process in
> 1997 after publicly challenging that church over both its
> illegal sale of aboriginal land, and the deaths of children
> in its Indian residential schools.
> 
> Kevin is the co-founder and Secretary of the
> non-governmental International Human Rights Tribunal into
> Genocide in Canada. In 2004, he was adopted into the
> Ojibway aboriginal Nation and given the name Eagle Strong
> Voice by its elders in recognition of his tireless work on
> behalf of residential school survivors.


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