[Ost-announce] Everyone's Downstream: Final info, schedule & list of speakers and times.

[Macdonald Stainsby]

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!


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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.

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Conference scheule:
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November 23rd
Dominion Launch of Tar Sands Special Issue
with Dru Oja Jay ed.
6:30p.m-9:30p.m, Business Building
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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.
• Julián 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--Montréal & Block the
Empire--Montreal, anti-war organizing

5:00 on... Further Q& A with light snacks from Food Not Bombs

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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

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