[Indigsol] Reminder: Monday April 23 & Tuesday April 24 event

[ipsm ottawa]

Here is just a reminder:

   - *5:30 pm april 23 @ ottawa public library main branch: Pillage and
   profit, from the Amazon to Ardoch*
   - *4:30 pm april 24 @ the canadian museum of nature: The People’s
   Exhibition of Barrick! *


Please see below for details and come out if you can.

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*Spread the word!*


*Pillage and profit, from the Amazon to Ardoch:*
*An evening of film, music, and discussion about the exploitation of
Indigenous peoples’ lands by Canadian companies
*

*Monday April 23, 2012
5:30 to 7:30 pm

Auditorium of the Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch
120 Metcalfe St. (at Laurier)
Ottawa, unceded Algonquin Territory
*
Join us for an evening of discussion with Indigenous peoples resisting the
exploitation of their lands by Canadian oil and mining companies.

To invite your friends via facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/210214175756207/


The event will be opened with a Blessing by Algonquin Elder Albert Dumont.
There will be a screening of the award-winning documentary *“Chumpi & the
Waterfall”*. This film explores the way of life of an Achuar community in
the Peruvian Amazon – a way of life that’s under threat by Canadian oil
company Talisman Energy’s plans to drill oil in their hunting and fishing
grounds.

*“I have told the CEO of Talisman, John Manzoni, that the Achuar people do
not want oil operations in our ancestral territory, but Talisman refuses to
respect our right to live in peace and harmony,” **says Achuar leader Peas
Peas Ayui.*


The film will be followed by a panel discussion with:

*Peas Peas Ayui, Lucas Irar Miik, Lucas Chayat Ayui, and Puwaanch Kintui
Antich*, leaders from Achuar communities in the Amazon rainforest
*Gregor MacLennan*, Peru Program Coordinator for Amazon Watch
*Mireille Lapointe*, former chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, who
have resisted uranium mining on their land
*Marcelo Saavedra-Vargas*, of the Quechua-Aymara nation and professor of
Aboriginal studies at the University of Ottawa



Musical performances by Three Little
Birds<https://www.facebook.com/threelittlebirdstheband>,
and by Julie Comber, Ógui, & Josh Myles <http://snd.sc/IeHeLD>.


Admission is free; donations to support the Achuar community will be
accepted.


This event is hosted by Amazon Watch <http://amazonwatch.org/>, Indigenous
Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa, and the Indigenous and Canadian Studies
Students Association of the University of Ottawa.


Can’t make it to the event? Please visit https://www.achuarmovie.org to:


   - learn more about the Achuar
   - Sign a petition demanding that Talisman Energy halt oil exploration in
   Achuar territory
   - Donate to support the Achuar’s cause



*“Leave us in peace. We want to live free, breathe pure air. The Creator
made this land here so we could live peacefully.” Pitiur Unti Saant, Achuar
elder and leader*


Watch this video to meet the Archuar delegates: Amazon Watch - The Achuar
to Canada: Meet the
Delegates<http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0418-the-achuar-to-canada-meet-the-delegates>


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*You are invited to the People’s Exhibition of Barrick! *

*4:30 pm, Tuesday, April 24 2012
In front of the main entrance of the Canadian Museum of Nature (facing
Metcalfe St.)
240 McLeod St. Ottawa, unceded Algonquin Territory*


To invite your friends via Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/196060743844592/


*Barrick Out of The Canadian Museum of Nature!
*

On *Tuesday, April 24, *Ottawa’s Museum of Nature will celebrate a new
partnership with Barrick Gold Corporation with the unveiling of the
“Barrick Salon”. Barrick Gold is a Canadian mining company based in Toronto
with horrendous records of environmental destruction, and human, labor and
Indigenous rights violations around the world, including but not limiting
to Chile, Argentina, Peru, Tanzania and Papua New Guinea.

This newly established public-private partnership between the Canadian
Museum of Nature and Barrick Gold Corporation is*fundamentally unacceptable*!
Because it contradicts the museum’s most important corporate value – *“Respect
for People and Nature”.*

Please come and join us outside of the museum as we present the “*People’s
Exhibition of Barrick*”, showcasing Barrick’s destructive mines around the
world

We will be joined by Barrick-impacted community members and special guests
to share knowledge about the impacts of this dangerous partnership:

*The Diaguita Huascoaltinos Indigenous and Agricultural Community*,
impacted by Barrick Gold’s binational Pascua Lama project on the border of
Chile and Argentina,
*The Archuar Indigenous Community* of the northern Peruvian Amazon,
*Catherine Coumans* of Mining Watch Canada, and
*Sakura Saunders*, the editor for Protestbarrick.net



For more information about Barrick Gold and the communities impacted by
Barrick’s operation: Protestbarrick.net.


*This public-private partnership is offensive, we want Barrick Out of The
Canadian Museum of Nature!
*

*WHO IS BARRICK GOLD? *

Barrick Gold is the world's largest gold mining company, founded and
chaired by Peter Munk. With a former Prime Minister on their board and
former executives sitting on the board of the Canadian Pension Plan,
Barrick enjoys government funding and diplomatic support.

*WHY PROTEST BARRICK?*

In countries like Australia, Chile, Papua New Guinea and Tanzania, Barrick
takes advantage of inadequate and poorly enforced regulatory controls to
rob indigenous peoples of their lands, destroy sensitive ecosystems and
agricultural land, support brutal police and security operations, and sue
anyone who tries to report on it. In the context of this libel chill,
Barrick has branded itself as the socially responsible mining giant and
boasts its listing on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

Behind the scenes, Barrick has been singled out as the company most
involved in the lobbying effort to stop private member’s bill C-300.


Source: Protestbarrick.net.


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In Solidarity,
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on unceded Algonquin Territory
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