[Indigsol] Day of Action & Teach-in

[Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement -Ottawa]

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DEC 13, OTTAWA: Day of Action to Support the Algonquins of Barriere Lake
DEMAND that Canada RESPECT Barriere Lake's TRADITIONAL GOVERNMENT and
TRAILBLAZING ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS

Monday December 13, noon, Parliament Hill

Facebook Event:
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What if a foreign regime was destroying your system of government, so it
could then steal your resources and prevent you from environmentally
protecting your homeland? This is what the Harper Government and federal
bureaucrats are doing to the First Nation of Barriere Lake.

For more than two decades, the Algonquins of Barriere Lake have been
demonstrating environmental leadership to the rest of Canada, campaigning
to stop destructive clear-cut logging and to implement a sustainable
development plan in their homeland in north-western Quebec.

But multi-national forestry corporations and government bureaucrats have
refused to honour any of the agreements signed with Barriere Lake. They
have tried at every turn to undermine the small community, one of the
poorest in the country, and prevent them from implementing and realizing
their vision for the protection and stewardship of the forests.


More details: http://www.ipsmo.org

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Dec 11: Barriere Lake Human Rights Delegation Report Back
Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010, 1:30 pm
PSAC building JK Wylie boardoom, 233 Gilmour (at Metcalfe)

“Visiting Barrier Lake filled me with a strange combination of hope and
anger. The anger from the Canadian and Quebec government’s despicable
failure to honour an agreement that is so very reasonable, from seeing a
dam creating electricity from flooded Algonquin lands that by-passes the
community on its way south while noisy, polluting, expensive diesel
generators provide electricity for the community. The hope came from the
strength of the traditions, the generosity, the path of healing and the
beautiful lands of the Alqonquin. At the end of the day the hope won-out
but the anger is still there”

Read more: http://bit.ly/fZG5xA

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Recent media coverage re Barriere Lake:

* ‘We Cannot Win This Battle On Our Own’| The Link | http://bit.ly/ghThtE 
* 'This looks like tyranny' | Indian Country Today | http://bit.ly/9ODuJR 
* 'Barriere Lake Under Attack' | http://bit.ly/dUJ2I3


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