[Indigsol] New Frontiers of Resistance: Exploring Kahnesatake and the Tar Sands, Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 5:00pm

[Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement -Ottawa]

Indigenous Solidarity Week

New Frontiers of Resistance: Exploring Kahnesatake and the Tar Sands

Wednesday, 28 October 2009
17:00 - 21:00
St. Joseph’s Church
151 Laurier Ave E. (at Cumberland)
[Hall entrance at 174 Wilbrod St]


New Frontiers of Resistance: Exploring Kahnesatake and the Tar Sands

5:00pm – speaker Ellen Gabriel
followed by the film, Kahnesatake: 270 Years of Resistance
*note: may not play the full film

approx 7:30pm – speakers Garry Benson and Jack Woodward

Presenters:

* Ellen Gabriel of Kahnesatake Nation has traveled across Canada, the
Hague in Holland as well as to Strasbourg, France in 1990 to address the
European Parliament on the human rights violations that occurred during
the “Oka Crisis”. She also traveled to Japan to educate people about the
events in her community during 1990 and to sensitize the public on the
history, culture and identity of Aboriginal people. Ellen believes that
education is one of the key factors for Aboriginal people to overcome
oppression and the effects of colonization while still maintaining our
languages, cultures and traditions. In October of 2004, Ellen was elected
president of Quebec Native Women Inc. It is a position she is honored to
uphold given the legacy of strong, intelligent Aboriginal women whose
tenacity brought about changes to the Indian Act in the form of Bill C-31.

* Garry Benson of Kelowna is a member of Beaver Lake Cree Nation and a
senior partner with Benson Salloum Watts LLP, where he represents
financial institutions, Aboriginal organizations and development projects.
He has participated in negotiations involving Aboriginal people at the
local, provincial and national level. He served as principal negotiator
for the Metis Nation British Columbia and lead counsel for the Beaver Lake
Cree Nation.

* Jack Woodward is one of Canada’s pre-eminent practitioners of Aboriginal
Law. Jack has been practicing law since 1979, and literally wrote the book
on Aboriginal law: Native Law, Canada’s leading text on the subject. Jack
has a significant track record: he stopped clear cut logging on Meares
Island in the mid-1980s, and won the first Aboriginal title claim in
British Columbia since the Delgamuukw ruling. Now, following on the heels
of the Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia victory, Jack has embarked
on another monumental challenge. This time he is determined to help stop
the ecologically disastrous expansion of the tar sands.


~ co-presented with Sierra Club Canada ~

part of Indigenous Sovereignty Week in Ottawa:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155194228914
http://www.ipsmo.org
http://www.defendersoftheland.org