[Wamvan] Fwd: Today! No Indigenous Consent to Pipelines and Mining

[Tami Starlight]

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> From: "Harsha W." <harsha at resist.ca>
> Date: 6 November, 2011 9:28:50 AM PST
> To: "colours resistance" <Colours at lists.mutualaid.org>, "friends grassy" <fgn at lists.friendsofgrassynarrows.com>, "immigrant coalition" <status at lists.resist.ca>, "LT list" <anticapitalists at yahoogroups.com>, "march organizers" <marchorganizers at googlegroups.com>, "raise the rates" <rtrc-bc at povnet.org>, "sansad internal list" <sansad at lists.resist.ca>, "spp list1" <spp at lists.riseup.net>, "wam van" <wamvan at lists.resist.ca>
> Subject: [Wamvan] Today! No Indigenous Consent to Pipelines and Mining
> Reply-To: wamvan at lists.resist.ca
> 
> CHRISTY CLARKE IS LYING:
> NO INDIGENOUS CONSENT TO PIPELINES AND MINING
> 
> Statement of the Second Indigenous Assembly Against Mining and Pipelines
> 
> Linked here:
> http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=4533
> 
> Demonstration on Sunday November 6th at 3 pm, beginning at Vancouver Art
> Gallery
> 
> Press Conference on Monday November 7th at 10 am in Union of BC Indian
> Chiefs Boardroom, 342 Water Street
> 
> November 6, 2011 Unceded Coast Salish Territories- Indigenous communities
> from across the province are gathering in Vancouver this weekend to oppose
> destructive mining and pipeline practices.
> 
> The assembly is a united response to the Canadian Aboriginal Mining
> Association’s conference being held at the Pan Pacific Hotel this week.
> This pro-mining “Meeting Minds, Making Mines” Conference is seeking to
> create economic certainty for mining corporations operating on
> non-treatied unsurrendered native land. Grassroots Indigenous communities,
> however, are opposing these plans and have come together in the Second
> Indigenous Assembly Against Mining and Pipelines.
> 
> The Second Indigenous Assembly Against Mining and Pipelines will hold a
> demonstration on Sunday November 6th at 3 pm beginning at the Vancouver
> Art Gallery. On Monday November 7th at 10 am, the communities will hold a
> press conference in the boardroom of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs at 342
> Water Street.
> 
> The Assembly includes grassroots community members of the impacted
> communities of the Saliammon, Secwepemc, Wet’suwet’en, St’at’imc,
> Tsimshian, Dakelh, Carrier, Nuxalk, Tla-o-qui-aht, Haida Gwaii, Nak’azdli,
> Nlaka’Pamux, Siksika, Ahousaht, Ktunaxa, and Sayisi Dene.
> 
> According to the Second Indigenous Assembly Against Mining and Pipelines:
> 
> The plans of Christy Clark and the BC government to push mining (including
> eight new mines in four years) and pipeline developments into unceded
> Indigenous territories will fail. We are opposing these plans and will be
> protesting the Provincial and Federal Government for continually violating
> inherent Aboriginal Rights and Title.
> 
> The BC government also hopes to proceed with a plan of signing ten
> non-treaty agreements to create economic certainty for corporations. But
> Clark’s government has no jurisdiction to pursue her economic agenda
> without free, prior, and informed consent because we - grassroots
> Indigenous peoples – legally, politically, economically, spiritually,
> culturally, and inherently maintain Aboriginal title and jurisdiction over
> our territories.
> 
> The promoters of the exclusive “Meeting Minds, Making Mines” Conference
> give the false impression that mining has broad support from Indigenous
> Peoples. But there are only a small number of Indigenous Peoples
> benefiting from industrial developments. The meagre share of profits and a
> few jobs that are promised by corporations and the government is not worth
> the devastating impact on our water, salmon, food networks, cultural
> sites, traditional livelihoods, children and future generations.
> Indigenous Peoples are disproportionately impacted by industrial
> development with high rates of toxic waste, pollution and ill health in
> our communities, as well as systemic poverty through the encroachment into
> and destruction of our territories.
> 
> For this reason, we reject the short-term interests of profit that
> motivates those mining and pipeline developments that are trespassing on
> our unceded Indigenous lands. We are Indigenous Peoples United Stopping
> Pipelines and Mining!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Harsha Walia
> 
> https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
> https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Harsha Walia
> 
> https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
> https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Harsha Walia
> 
> https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
> https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Harsha Walia
> 
> https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
> https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group
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