[Ost-announce] Edmonton: No Games on Stolen Native Land! Panel on 2010 & Tar Sands

[Macdonald Stainsby]

On September 29th, 2008 (Monday), the 2010 Olympic Winter Games "Spirit
Train" will be coming to Edmonton, Alberta. A call out has been issued
by the Olympics Resistance Network (appended below)

On September 27, 2008, several speakers from indigenous communities who
are being adversely effected on unceded territories in "British
Columbia" as well as communities in "Alberta" are coming to Edmonton to
speak about issues surrounding the 2010 Olympic Games, tar sands
development and the negative impacts on human health, self-determination
and the environment.

On Monday September 29th, there will be a demonstration confronting the
Olympic Spirit train as it brings its show through Edmonton. The panel
will detail why these issues need to be understood and opposed as a show
of support for self-determination and against corporate sponsored
development of traditional indigenous territories.

Confirmed speakers include:

Dustin Johnson, Tsimshian Nation: coordinator of North Coast Enviro
Watch and member of Native 2010 Resistance;
Ange Sterritt, Gitxsan First Nation: Member of Native 2010 Resistance;
Clayton Thomas-Muller, Indigenous Tar Sands Campaigner for the
Indigenous Environmental Network [IEN]
Lionel Lepine, member Athabasca Chipewyan/Dene First Nation (Fort Chip).
Mike Mercredi, member Athabasca Chipewyan/Dene First Nation (Fort Chip).

Invited Speakers from the community of Little Buffalo (Lubicon Lake
Indian Nation)

Location of panel: Edmonton Native Friendship Centre
Street:    11205 101 Street NW T5G 2A4
Edmonton, AB Date September 27th (Saturday, 6pm);

Action opposing 2010 Olympic Spirit Train on September 29th (Monday).
The Spirit Train event in Edmonton will take place at 1:00pm – 8:00pm WP
Wagner School (6310 Wagner Rd NW)

for more information, contact macdonald at oilsandstruth.org
780 233 4992

******* The following is excerpted from a larger callout for
support/actions & events from the Olympics Resistance Network.
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Another upcoming opportunity is the Spirit Train, being launched on
Sept. 21, 2008 by Canadian Pacific Railway (which has historically and
currently played a critical role in the colonization and usurpation of
indigenous lands) and VANOC (Vancouver Organizing Committee for 2010).
We are calling for and encouraging protests and actions to disrupt the
'Spirit Train' as it stop across cities across Canada.

* Scheduled route and days (Check: cpspiritrain.com for official updates):

Sept. 21, Port Moody, BC. 2-8 pm. West Coast Express Station, 65
Williams St.
Sept. 27, Calgary, Alberta. 2:00pm – 8:00pm Pop Davies Park (Ogden Rd.
and Millican Rd. S.)
Sept. 29, Edmonton, Alberta. 1:00pm – 8:00pm WP Wagner School (6310
Wagner Rd NW)
Oct. 2, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 1:00pm – 8:00pm William Reid Park
Pendygrasse Rd.
Oct. 4, Winnipeg, Manitoba. 2:00pm – 8:00pm Sinclair Park Community
Centre 490 Sinclair St.
Oct. 8, Thunder Bay, Ontario. 1:00pm – 8:00pm Marina Park
October 11, Sudbury, Ontario. 2:00pm – 8:00pm Energy Court, next to
National Grocery on Lorne St.
Oct. 13, Toronto, Ontario. 1:00pm – 8:00pm Cooksville GO Transit Station
3210 Hurontario St.
Oct. 16, Smiths Falls, Ontario. 1:00pm – 8:00pm CP lot on Rideau Ave N
and Ella St
Oct. 18, Montreal, Quebec. 1:00pm – 8:00pm Place des Vestiges on the
Quays of the Old Port, across from Jacques-Cartier Pier