[IPSMO] Talking about Land Defense: Algonquins of Barriere Lake and Muskrat Falls!

[IPSMO]

1. Friday April 7: Let's Talk Land Defence on Campus! Join us for an 
evening of land defence featuring films and speakers from the Algonquins 
of Barriere Lake (Quebec) who are fighting off a mining company, as well 
as Muskrat Falls (Labrador) folks who are struggling with criminal 
charges laid against land and water protectors who opposed flooding of 
their territory.

2. Tuesday April 4, 8.45 EST: Watch Live as the Algonquins of Barriere 
Lake present to INAC on the impacts of third party management!

3. Watch the Algonquins of Barriere Lake Press Conference - End Third 
Party Management!

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1. Friday April 7:

Let's Talk Land Defence on Campus!

Join us for an evening of land defence featuring movie screenings and 
speakers from the Algonquins of Barriere Lake who are fighting off a 
mining company as well as Muskrat Falls folks who are struggling with 
criminal charges laid against land and water protectors who opposed 
flooding of their territory. If Carleton University can host a security 
symposium on how to criminalize land defenders 
(http://www.leveller.ca/2016/11/security-symposium/), we can certainly 
host an event on how to support them!

Paterson Hall room 303, Carleton University
April 7 at 5h30pm-8h30pm
Snacks will be provided!
Free
Donations to Land Defenders welcome

Featuring:
Blockade: Defend the Forest (1990) (Short Documentary, 27 mins)
Honor Your Word (2014) (Short Documentary, 60 mins)

and a Panel discussion moderated by Lindy Van Vliet and Trycia Bazinet:

Jaimie Wawatie (Barriere Lake)
Norman Matchewan (Barriere Lake)
Monique Manatch (Barriere Lake and MA student in Indigenous & Canadian 
Studies)
Denise Cole (Inuit descent, Land Protector at Muskrat Falls)
Amy Norman (Inuk, Master Public Health University of Victoria)
Freddy Stoneypoint (Ojibwe, Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation, Student in 
Sociology & Human Rights)
Jamie Spence (Webequie First Nation (Ring of Fire), Student in 
Environmental & Sustainability studies
Noel Salmond (Associate Professor at Carleton U and Community Advocate)

Event details and poster: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/109930229542767/

For information on the criminalization of protectors in Muskrat Falls, 
please see:
http://theindependent.ca/2017/03/18/land-protectors-face-criminal-charges-for-defending-water-food-culture/
and
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/muskrat-falls-protests-criminal-charges-1.4013899

And for more information on Barriere Lake solidarity see: 
http://www.barrierelakesolidarity.org/

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2. Tuesday April 4

Watch Live!: Algonquins of Barriere Lake present to INAC on the impacts 
of third party management

Chief Casey Ratt, Tony Wawatie (Interim Director General), and Russ 
Diabo (of the Algonquin Nation Secretariat) will appear as witnesses 
before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Indigenous and 
Northern Affairs tomorrow (Tuesday April 4) at 8:45 AM to present 
evidence on impacts of INAC's Third Party Management policy on the 
Algonquins of Barriere Lake.

It will be a live broadcast, either audio or video, at: 
http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=e&Mode=1&Parl=42&Ses=1&DocId=8853388

Video recording may be available afterward.

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3. Algonquins of Barriere Lake Press Conference - End Third Party 
Management!

A press conference was recently held on March 23, which focused the 
ABL's immediate demand to end third party management.

It is now available to watch at: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to-AtIfTgr4


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On stolen Algonquin land
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