From mstainsby at resist.ca Thu Nov 8 17:43:57 2007 From: mstainsby at resist.ca (Macdonald Stainsby) Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:43:57 -0700 Subject: [Ost-announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?=5BMontr=E9al=5D_Tar_Sands=3A_The_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?largest_industrial_project_in_the_world_and_Canada=27s_fut?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ure_?= Message-ID: <4733BB5D.40003@resist.ca> Tar Sands: The largest industrial project in the world and Canada's future @ Concordia Montreal Thu November 15 7:00pm earthmover2.jpg School of Community and Public Affairs 2149 Rue MacKay (100m north of Hall Bldg) Alberta's tar sands are on pace to become the largest industrial project in human history, with effects reaching from the Arctic Ocean to the prairies to the Pacific Ocean and beyond. Oil companies propose to sacrifice an area the size of Florida in order to, in the words of Stephen Harper, provide "energy security" for the US economy and military. The Dominion's special issue on the tar sands examines the impacts the development will have on the environment, labour relations, indigenous rights, the Kyoto protocol, women, and US foreign policy. To expedite this process, new new policies have been forged, and new precedents will be set in these and other areas. Two independent journalists will present an overview of their travels and interviews in the tar sands during the summer, including slides and film clips. Copies of the Dominion's 48-page special issue on the tar sands will be available (free, donations accepted). About the presenters: Dru Oja Jay is the editor of the Dominion. Maya Rolbin-Ghanie is a writer, student and frequent contributor to the Dominion. She is also an editor of Ms.Guided, a magazine about women's travel experiences. Jay and Rolbin-Ghanie visited the tar sands and the communities of Fort Mackay and Fort Chipewyan this summer. Dru Oja Jay 514 273 9936 dru [at] dru dot ca -- Macdonald Stainsby Coordinator, http://oilsandstruth.org -- moderated radical news & discussion list: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/rad-green In the contradiction lies the hope. --Bertholt Brecht. From mstainsby at resist.ca Mon Nov 12 15:14:11 2007 From: mstainsby at resist.ca (Macdonald Stainsby) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:14:11 -0700 Subject: [Ost-announce] Dominion Launch-- Local events this week: Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton... Message-ID: <4738DE43.4030305@resist.ca> ...Halifax, Fredericton, and Sackville. If you're in any one of those places this week, you'll want to check out the Dominion's tar sands discussion page for more information: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/tarsands or http://www.dominionpaper.ca/events/upcoming -- Local Tar Sands Discussions (Dominion issue in Oct) Organizations - General Description: We're organizing discussions about the tar sands across Canada. This is the place to get involved, or stay tuned for events in your city or community. For more about the special issue and how to help organize: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/tarsands The Dominion's special issue on the tar sands (out in mid October) will thoroughly examine the social and environmental implications of the largest industrial project in human history: the tar sands of northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Some of the topics that will be covered: ? Pipelines ? Water ? The north ? Indigenous rights and title to land ? Climate change and emissions ? Gendered impacts of rapid growth ? Labour rights and migrant workers' rights ? Use of public land ? Corporate power and social movements Contact InfoEmail: info at dominionpaper.ca Website: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/tarsands Street: Your Neighbourhood -- Macdonald Stainsby Coordinator, http://oilsandstruth.org -- moderated radical news & discussion list: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/rad-green In the contradiction lies the hope. --Bertholt Brecht. From mstainsby at resist.ca Mon Nov 12 19:08:14 2007 From: mstainsby at resist.ca (Macdonald Stainsby) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:08:14 -0700 Subject: [Ost-announce] Keep Alberta Nuclear Free Rally! Message-ID: <4739151E.6080002@resist.ca> Keep Alberta Nuclear Free Rally! Concerned citizens from Peace River, Whitecourt, and Northern Alberta will converging on Edmonton to raise awareness about the dangerous and dirty impacts of nuclear energy and to demand Premier Stelmach keep Alberta nuclear free! The Peace River folks will be loading up an old farm truck with fake radioactive waste barrels, and will be stoping in Valleyview, Fox Creek and Whitecourt, as well as High Prairie, Slave Lake and Athabasca before converging for the rally in Edmonton on November 19th at 11am. Come and show your support for a nuclear free Alberta and a clean and safe energy future that all Albertans can live with. The rally will include community activists from Peace River and Whitecourt, as well as the Sierra Club, and Paul Gunter, the executive director of Beyond Nuclear. Nuclear energy is not safe, clean or green - it leaves a toxic and dangerous legacy for future generations. After 50 years, there still is no safe long term solution for managing nuclear waste. Up until now, there have been no nuclear plants in Alberta or Western Canada - but now reactors are being proposed for Peace River and Whitecourt. Please join us on November 19th - KEEP ALBERTA NUCLEAR FREE! Please pass this on to your friends - bring signs, noise makers and yourself! This rally is sponsored by the Peace River Environmental Society, and is supported by the Tipping Point Project (Whitecourt) and the Sierra Club Prairie Chapter. For more information, please email Leila Darwish at leila at sierraclub.ca. -- Macdonald Stainsby Coordinator, http://oilsandstruth.org -- moderated radical news & discussion list: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/rad-green In the contradiction lies the hope. --Bertholt Brecht. From mstainsby at resist.ca Sun Nov 18 22:42:57 2007 From: mstainsby at resist.ca (Macdonald Stainsby) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:42:57 -0700 Subject: [Ost-announce] Everyone's Downstream: Final info, schedule & list of speakers and times. Message-ID: <47413071.7090700@resist.ca> Final list of speakers and presentations. We regret to inform people that Oscar Dennis of the Tahltan Nation who was to present on the Sacred Headwaters struggle (the Nass, Stikine and Skeena rivers) in northern BC has informed us that an emergency situation for that very struggle has come up and his appearance at Everyone's Downstream is no longer possible. All other speakers and presenters are listed below and this is to be the final, complete list. Times, as always, are approximate. COMING FROM OUT OF TOWN? For those of you who may receive this from well outside of Edmonton and are planning to come in for the conference, please let us know at info at oilsandstruth.org and we will reserve you a place for the conference. For all others, it is a first-come, first attending seating arrangement. No advance registration or tickets will be needed or sold. WE WOULD STILL LOVE FURTHER VOLUNTEERS! For those who can volunteer some of your time with set up, take down, door and similar work the days of the conference, please also get in touch via info at oilsandstruth.org or call 780-233-4992. Child Care people from appropriate, known-to-us volunteers also welcome. Please also consider forwarding this announcement, and we'll see you Friday, Saturday and/or Sunday! -= Everyone's Downstream: Tar Sands Realities and Resistance Conference to be held at: University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada November 23-25th, 2007 Everyone?s Downstream will be a conference designed to explore the links between oppression and self-determination on many levels: indigenous land rights, gender, ecological rights, workers democracy, anti-racism and anti-border perspectives as they relate directly to the tar sands of Northern Alberta. Speakers from a multitude of indigenous nations, social justice groups, and environmental organizations will discuss the social impacts of the tar sands on workers, women, indigenous nations, ecology, migrant populations, homelessness, and the anti-war movement. November 23rd Dominion Launch of Tar Sands Special Issue with Dru Oja Jay ed., brought to you by APIRG. 6:30p.m, Business Building (APIRG/Dominion Event with help from oilsandstruth.org) November 24 9:00a.m-5:00p.m Engineering, Teaching and Learning Complex, UofA, Room ETLC 1 001 A series of panel discussions led by our guests. November 25th 9:00a.m-5:00p.m Telus Building, UofA Campus Room TEL 217-219 A chance for the multitude of groups and individuals attending to sit down and discuss a collective way forward. The size of the tar sands issue can seem daunting, but in reality few issues have presented an opportunity for a social justice movement to truly articulate a different vision of organizing the world that has as many entry points, and can provide as large of an impact. The scale and scope of the tar sands is huge and has tremendously deep implications for the way we approach questions that span the social justice spectrum. With a coordinated response involving all sectors of North American social justice movements currently impacted by the largest industrial project in human history we have the possibility to change the course of human and ecological fate like nowhere else. Suggested donation $10, NO ONE turned away for lack of funds. ------------------------ Conference scheule: ------------------------ November 23rd Dominion Launch of Tar Sands Special Issue with Dru Oja Jay ed. 6:30p.m-9:30p.m, Business Building -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 24th Engineering, Teaching and Learning Complex, UofA, Room ETLC 1 001 8:30a.m- Coffee 9:00a.m-10:10 "Literally Downstream" ? Leila Darwish, Sierra Club, Tar Sands 101 ? George Poitras, Mikisew Cree First Nation ? Allan Adam, Chief, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation ? Herb Norwegian, Grand Chief Dehcho First Nations 10:10 coffee break 10:20-12:30 "Heading out West" ? Morris Amos, Gitamaat Village Haisla Nation, Tar Sands Tanker Traffic on the West Coast ? Brenda Brochu, Peace River Environmental Society: Nuclear to fuel tar sands? ? Tara Marsden, Carrier Sekani Tribal Council. Enbridge Gateway Pipeline 12:30 Lunch provided by Food Not Bombs 1:30-2:30 "What, where and why: Peak oil and mapping proposed pipelines" ? Tom Keefer, Peak Oil, Class Struggle and the Thermodynamics of Production ? Petr Cizek, Mapping the Tar Sands, The Bigger Picture 2:45-5:00 "Tar Sands & Human Rights: Exploiting migrants and fueling war" ? Janice Sparrow, coming in from the tar sands to discuss life in the camps. ? Juli?n Castro-Rea, Associate Professor, Political Science, U of Alberta -- SPP and the Tar Sands ? Chauncey Carr, No One Is Illegal-- Vancouver, migrant rights organizing ? Ricardo Acuna, Parkland Institute, Tar Sands connection to US Wars in The Middle East ? Jaggi Singh, No One Is Illegal--Montr?al & Block the Empire--Montreal, anti-war organizing 5:00 on... Further Q& A with light snacks from Food Not Bombs --------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 25th, 2007 Telus Building, UofA Campus Room TEL 217-219 9:00-10:15 "The human face of the tar sands and resistance" ? Clayton Thomas-Muller, Indigenous Environmental Network ? Sharmeen Khan, the Whiteness of Green ? Jocelyn Saskiw, Adamant Eve: Gender and the Boom ? Julio Garcia, Albertans Demand Affordable Housing (Adah): the boom and the housing crisis 10:30-12:30 "Healthy Relations: practicing solidarity with indigenous struggles" ? Peter Kulchyski , Indigenous People's Solidarity Movement--Winnipeg, and working in Denendeh ? Colin Piquette, Friends of the Lubicon Alberta ? Jocelyn Cheechoo, Rainforest Action Network, solidarity with Grassy Narrows. 12:30-1:00 Lunch Provided by Food Not Bombs 1:30 to 5:00 (and beyond) "Ongoing organizing: What can we do together?" Planning, networking and organizing together, meeting with one another and discussions involving any and all participants and organizers who attended or spoke over the prior two days. Getting down to brass tacks. Facilitators: ? Geeta Sehgal, Greenpeace Stop the Tar Sands Campaign ? Clayton Thomas-Muller, introductions and organizing now and in the future Check oilsandstruth.org for more details, possible changes and new confirmations. If your organization would like to endorse the event, please get in touch with OilSandsTruth.org via the contact form to the right or email info at oilsandstruth.org Brought to you by http://OilSandsTruth.org with help from CJSR FM 88, The Parkland Institute, Alberta Public Interest Research Group (APIRG), Public Interest Alberta (PIA), Greenpeace-- Stop the Tar Sands Campaign, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club (Prairie Chapter), The Dominion-- Canada's Grassroots Newspaper. Facebook group, search: Everyones Downstream -- From mstainsby at resist.ca Tue Nov 20 18:06:14 2007 From: mstainsby at resist.ca (Macdonald Stainsby) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:06:14 -0700 Subject: [Ost-announce] Citizenship in a World of Global Apartheid Message-ID: <47439296.1000006@resist.ca> Before you come to the Dominion Launch on Friday, you can hear Jaggi speak on: Citizenship in a World of Global Apartheid Host: Global Education Network Type: Education - Lecture Time and PlaceDate: Friday, November 23, 2007 Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm Location: Education North Room 7-114, University of Alberta Street: (approx 112 Street and 87 Avenue) City/Town: Edmonton Contact InfoEmail: ngoudar at gmail.com Description Please join the Global Education Network for a presentation and dialogue with Montreal-based activist Jaggi Singh. Jaggi will be discussing what a "No Border" or "No One Is Illegal" analysis of migration means, and will demonstrate how the world we live in can properly and meaningfully be described as "global apartheid." He will then take a critical look at the concept of "global citizenship" and draw on organizing experiences with migrant and indigenous communities to provide a model of how notions of "citizenship" should be supplanted by "self-determination" in a shared terrain of struggle. Jaggi Singh is a No Borders activist based in Montreal. He is an organizer with Solidarity Across Borders and the No One Is Illegal collective, among other social justice groups. -- Macdonald Stainsby Coordinator, http://oilsandstruth.org -- moderated radical news & discussion list: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/rad-green In the contradiction lies the hope. --Bertholt Brecht.