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DESCRIPTION:Everyone’s Downstream will be a conference designed to explore the links 
 between oppression and self-determination on many levels: indigenous land 
 rights, gender, ecological rights, workers democracy, anti-racism and 
 anti-border perspectives as they relate directly to the tar sands of 
 Northern Alberta. Speakers from a multitude of indigenous nations, social 
 justice groups, and environmental organizations will discuss the social 
 impacts of the tar sands on workers, women, indigenous nations, ecology, 
 migrant populations, homelessness, and the anti-war movement.\n\n\nThe size 
 of the tar sands issue can seem daunting, but in reality few issues have 
 presented an opportunity for a social justice movement to truly articulate 
 a different vision of organizing the world that has as many entry points, 
 and can provide as large of an impact. The scale and scope of the tar sands 
 is huge and has tremendously deep implications for the way we approach 
 questions that span the social justice spectrum. With a coordinated 
 response involving all sectors of North American social justice movements 
 currently impacted by the largest industrial project in human history we 
 have the possibility to change the course of human and ecological fate like 
 nowhere else.\nNovember 24th will be a series of panel discussion led by 
 our guests. November 25th will be a chance for the multitude of groups and 
 individuals attending to sit down and discuss a collective way forward. 
 Suggested donation $10, NO ONE turned away for lack of funds.\n\nConference 
 panels & delegates include:\n"Literally Downstream"\n• Leila Darwish, 
 Sierra Club\n• George Poitras, Mikisew Cree First Nation\n• Allan Adam, 
 Chief, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation\n• Herb Norwegian, Grand Chief 
 Dehcho First Nations\n\n"Heading out West"\n• Lubicon Lake Nation/Little 
 Buffalo (invited, unconfirmed)\n• Morris Amos, Gitamaat Village Haisla 
 Nation, Tar Sands Tanker Traffic on the West Coast\n• Brenda Brochu, 
 Peace River Environmental Society: Nuclear to fuel tar sands?\n• Oscar 
 Dennis,Tahltan Nation, Klabona Sacred headwaters\n• Tara Marsden, Carrier 
 Sekani Tribal Council. Enbridge Gateway Pipeline\n\n"What, where and why: 
 Peak oil and mapping proposed pipelines"\n• Tom Keefer, Peak Oil, Class 
 Struggle and the Thermodynamics of Production\n• Petr Cizek, Mapping the 
 Tar Sands, The Bigger Picture\n\n"Tar Sands & Human Rights: Exploiting 
 migrants and fueling war”\n• Julian Castro Rea, Associate Professor, 
 political science, U of Alberta.\n• Chauncey Carr, No One Is Illegal-- 
 Vancouver, migrant rights organizing\n• Ricardo Acuna, Parkland 
 Institute, Tar Sands connection to US Wars in The Middle East \n• Jaggi 
 Singh, No One Is Illegal--Montréal & Block the Empire--Montreal, anti-war 
 organizing\n\n"The human face of the tar sands and resistance"\n• Clayton 
 Thomas-Muller, Indigenous Environmental Network\n• Sharmeen Khan, the 
 Whiteness of Green\n• Jocelyn Saskiw, Adamant Eve: Gender and the 
 Boom\n• Julio Garcia, Albertans Demand Affordable Housing (Adah): the 
 boom and the housing crisis\n• Representative from Labour in 
 Alberta\n\n"Healthy Relations: practicing solidarity with indigenous 
 struggles"\n• Peter Kulchyski , Indigenous People's Solidarity 
 Movement--Winnipeg, and working in Denendeh\n• Colin Piquette, Friends of 
 the Lubicon Alberta\n• Tom Keefer, working in solidarity with Six Nations 
 of the Grand River\n• Jocelyn Cheechoo, Rainforest Action Network, 
 solidarity with Grassy Narrows.\n\n"Ongoing organizing: What can we do 
 together?"\nplanning, networking and organizing together, meeting with one 
 another and discussions involving any and all participants and organizers 
 who attended or spoke over the prior two days. Getting down to brass 
 tacks.\n\n• Geeta Sehgal, Greenpeace Stop the Tar Sands Campaign\n• 
 Clayton Thomas-Muller, introductions and organizing now and in the 
 future\n\nCheck back regularly for more details, possible changes and new 
 confirmations.\nIf your organization would like to endorse the event, 
 please get in touch with OilSandsTruth.org via the contact form to the 
 right or email info@oilsandstruth.org\n\nBrought to you by 
 http://OilSandsTruth.org with help from CJSR FM 88, The Parkland Institute, 
 Alberta Public Interest Research Group (APIRG), Public Interest Alberta 
 (PIA), Greenpeace-- Stop the Tar Sands Campaign, Rainforest Action Network 
 (RAN), Sierra Club (Prairie Chapter), The Dominion-- Canada's Grassroots 
 Newspaper.\n\nFacebook group: Everyones Downstream\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/08/18458931.php
SUMMARY:Everyone's Downstream: Tar Sands Resistance and Reality
LOCATION:Tar Sands Realities and Resistance\n\nConference to be held at:\nUniversity 
 of Alberta\nEdmonton, Alberta, Canada\nNovember 24-25th, 2007\n\nNovember 
 24\nEngineering, Teaching and Learning Complex, UofA,\nRoom ETLC 1 001\nA 
 series of panel discussions led by our guests.\n\nNovember 25th\nTelus 
 Building, UofA Campus\nRoom TEL 217-219\n\nA chance for the multitude of 
 groups and individuals attending to sit down and discuss a collective way 
 forward. \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/08/18458931.php
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