[Org4j-announce] BarriereLake: Apr7 Ottawa event, Apr4 audio/docs, Mar23 videos

[Organizing 4Justice]

1) Friday April 7: Let's Talk Indigenous Land Defence!
5:30-8:30pm at CarletonU, Patterson Hall room 303
Featuring films and speakers from the Algonquins of Barriere Lake (Quebec),
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) Barriere Lake presentation to Parliament Standing Committee on
Indigenous and Northern Affairs
Text and audio from this past Tuesday, on Third Party Financial Managers
imposed upon the community.

3) Watch the Algonquins of Barriere Lake Press Conference from March 22
- 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 5:30pm-8:30pm
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 (**temporarily offline**)

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2. Algonquins of Barriere Lake present to Parliament Standing Committee on
the impacts of third party management

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

Transcript and presentation documents attached. Audio at
http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/XRender/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20170404/-1/27032

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

A press conference was held on March 23, which focused on the ABL's
immediate demand to end third party management. Featuring Chief Casey Ratt,
Tony Wawatie, MP Charlie Angus, and Shiri Pasternak.

It is now available to watch in two parts, at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to-AtIfTgr4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-bp8zcBtc

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