Community Event - North Bay - Wet'suwet'en Witness: Call for Justice

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Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 7 PM EDT – 8 PM EDT

This is an online workshop

Public · Hosted by Indigenous Solidarity Team North Bay

The Wet’suwet’en, led by their hereditary chiefs, have stood against the CGL pipeline’s incursion into their territory for many years. In 2019 the pipeline owners obtained an injunction that led to the harsh removal of land defenders from their territory by the RCMP. In spite of incomplete environmental mitigation by CGL, and a pandemic, construction continues. This is a way-too-familiar story across Canada. Indigenous resistance stands in the way of planet-damaging industrial encroachment — logging, for instance (Barriere Lake and Grassy Narrows) or massive dams (Muskrat Falls) or fracking ( New Brunswick).

Speakers: Chief Adam Gagnon: respected chief name, Dsya’hyl, of the Likhts’amisyu, Wet’suwet’en Nation, and Donna Sinclair, author and journalist, North Bay

Register in advance at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZ0tduutrD8sHNOVBVvWkHjP...

This three-part webinar series is hosted by the Indigenous Solidarity Team of the North Bay and Area Mission Cluster, United Church of Canada.

Making the justice connections with Northern Ontario — Indigenous land rights, Indigenous women and the environment. 

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Online
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Online
City
North Bay
Postal Code
P1B 8H2
On-Air Headline
Wet'suwet'en Witness: Call for Justice
On-Air Message
Call for Justice; and has anything changed since Oka?
Webinar #1 of a three-part series on October 14 ,21 and 28th
Visit https://solidarity-team-northbay.weebly.com/ for details
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Event Type
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Title
Wet'suwet'en Call for Justice; and has anything changed since Oka?