[Indigsol] Achuar Indigenous leader from northern Peruvian Amazon with a Film

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FILM & TALK --- SPECIAL GUEST FROM NORTHERN PERUVIAN AMAZON!

*FOUR opportunities this week to learn about the Achuar people and their
stand against Talisman's oil drilling project in their territory!
Talisman is a Canadian oil & gas company based in Calgary, who is also
leading on shale gas projects in Quebec.*

*Wednesday, November 23, at 12:30 pm
700-170 Laurier Ave W (at Metcalfe)*
Presented by The Council of Canadians

*Thursday 24 Novembre, 6 pm
Felipe Gutiérrez Hall at UNAM Canada.
 **55 Promenade du Portage, Gatineau (Hull) Qc J8X 2J9
*Presented by UNAM Canada
* *
*Friday November 25th, 11:30-1:00pm
University of Ottawa, 57 Louis-Pasteur, Fauteux 550, Room 570*
Presented by Human Rights Research and Education Centre

*Friday November 25, **7 pm.*
*University of Ottawa, **Lamoureux Hall, Room 122, Unceded Algonquin
Territory***
Presented by Cinema Acadmica & IPSMO
*Facebook event:** https://www.facebook.com/events/118762868236743/
*
Campus map: **http://www.uottawa.ca/maps/
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Dear Friends,

It is our honour to have an Indigenous Achuar leader from the northern
Peruvian Amazon come to visit us. He is Peas Peas Ayui, the president of
the National Achuar Federation of Peru and he will be accompanied by Gregor
MacLennan of Amazon Watch. They come here, far away from their home, with a
mission! Peas Peas will be sharing the stories of his people - the stewards
of the Amazon rainforest - and their struggle and determination to stop
Talisman Energy, an oil and gas corporation based in Calgary, from
destroying their ancestral territory and their way of life.

The Achuar people need us, you and I, to stand with them for their fight to
protect the rainforest!

Please come and join us to meet with Peas Peas and Gregor.

These three event will include a screening of *"Chumpi and the Waterfall",
a documentary about the Achuar people. *
 You can watch a trailer of the documentary here - http://vimeo.com/6183607
It is in Achuar and Spanish but the documentary will have English
subtitles.


*"We demand that the Peruvian government immediately annuls the contracts
for blocks 64 and 101
and that Talisman immediately withdraws from our territory."
Achuar public statement, March 28th 2010*


For more information about the Achuar and Talisman Energy:
http://amazonwatch.org/work/talisman

To show your support: please send a message to Talisman's CEO, John
Manzoni:
http://amazonwatch.org/take-action/pledge-to-support-the-achuar-people
and tell your friends about it!

Amazon Watch is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 to protect the
rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon
Basin. For more about the organization: http://amazonwatch.org/about,

The Friday evening event is a special event in collaboration with the
Cinema Academica weekly series of film screenings at University of Ottawa.
For more info on Cinema Academica: Wayne Sawtell, 613-421-1373. To
subscribe to the Cinema Acadmica newsletter, send an email to:
news-subscribe at cinemaacademica.ca


P.S. a backgrounder about Achuar is attached.


See you there!


-- 

In Solidarity,
IPSMO
on unceded Algonquin Territory
--

Web Site: http://www.ipsmo.org
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/ipsmo
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