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

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UBC Law Faculty inaugural 2009 Equity Week finale conference event:

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ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: TAR SANDS, COLONIALISM AND RESISTANCE
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Date:    Friday, 27 February 2009
Time:   9:30am to 5:00pm
Place:  UBC First Nations Long House
Info:     environmental.colonialism.justice at gmail.com
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Please join us for a full 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 the finale event of UBC Law Faculty's inaugural 2009
Equity Week and is collectivelly organized by various UBC Law faculty
members, UBC social justice student groups and community
organizations.
 
Organizers: 

UBC First Nations Legal Studies, UBC Law Equity Committee, 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
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