[van-announce] TOMORROW Feb 27: Environmental Racism: Tar Sands, Colonialism and Resistance

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ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: TAR SANDS,
COLONIALISM AND RESISTANCE
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Date: Friday, 27 February 2009
Time: 12:00pm to 5:00pm
Place: UBC First Nations Long House
Info: environment.colonialism.justice at gmail.com
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Please join us for a half-day conference with inspiring speakers,
powerful films and thought-provoking discussions. This conference
gathers scholars, students, legal advocates and community activists
working in the intersecting areas of indigenous rights, environmental
rights and equality rights.

In light of the devastating reality of environmental destruction
globally, there is an urgent and critical need to expose the root
causes of environmental injustice as stemming from systems of
domination.

By featuring the tar sands projects in Canada, the conference will
critically expose the root causes of environmental injustice as
stemming from institutionalized racism, sexism, and classism; the
commodification of land, water, energy, food, and air in a capitalist
economy; and the plunder of the Earth and displacement of its
inhabitants due to a colonial legacy of pillage and militarization.

Join us in exploring how environmental movements are inextricably
connected to these broader social justice and human rights struggles
and in deeply acknowledging that there exists an inequitable
distribution across the planet between those who bear the greatest
brunt of environmental degradation, and those who are responsible for
it.

This event is organized by various UBC Law faculty members, UBC social
justice student groups and community organizations.

Co-organizers/Sponsors:

UBC First Nations Legal Studies, Public Interest Law Society, First
Nations Law Students Association, Social Justice Action Network,
Environmental Law Group, UBC Law Students of Colour United, UBC Colour
Connected Against Racism, No One is Illegal-Vancouver, UBC Outlaws

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Admission is free. Please PRE-REGISTER by email at:
<environment.colonialism.justice at gmail.com>
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Light Snacks and Hot Beverages provided:

Please bring your OWN reusable coffee/tea mugs to reduce our impact on
the Earth.

ACCESSIBILITY: 

Please email <environment.colonialism.justice at gmail.com> if you
require accomodation for disabilities, language/ASL interpretation
and/or on-site childcare assistance. Please note we are a
volunteer-run event and will try our best to accomodate within our
very limited capacity.

For MAP directions to UBC First Nations Long House:
http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=337
also, maps and directions link at http://www.longhouse.ubc.ca/

For DOWNLOADABLE Conference Program from UBC Law website (PDF format):
http://www.law.ubc.ca/files/pdf/events/2009/feb/Environmental_Racism.pdf

ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: TAR SANDS, COLONIALISM AND RESISTANCE

EVENT PROGRAM

12:00-12:15 Registration

12:15-12:30 Musqueam Welcome
Ros Campbell, Musqueam Nation,
First Nations Law Students Association

12:30-2:30 Environmental Racism and the Tar Sands
Facilitator: Professor Gordon Christie,
UBC First Nations Legal Studies

12:30-1:00 “Death by a Thousand Cuts”
Andrea Hilland,Associate Director,
UBC First Nations Legal Studies

1:00-1:30 “Grassroots Impact of Tar Sands –the
most destructive project on earth”
Jada Voyageur,
Fort Chipewyan First Nations

1:30-2:00 “Tar Sands in BC”
Harjap Grewal, Council of Canadians

2:00-2:30 “Indigenous Women’s Rights and
Environmental Racism”
Chiinuuks Ruth Ogilvie,
Tla-o-qui-aht and Checlesaht First Nations,
University of Victoria

2:30-2:45 Snack Break

2:45-4:45 Film Screening: “To the Tar Sands”
Facilitator: Usman Majeed,
UBC Colour Connect, No One is Illegal

2:45-4:45 Film Screening: “To the Tar Sands”
Jodie Martinson,
Director “To the Tar Sands”

4:45-5:00 Closing

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