Wet'suwet'en Witness
Pre-registration is required. Registration links are below each webinar summary.
Making the justice connections with Northern Ontario — Indigenous land rights, Indigenous women and the environment.
Wet'suwet'en Call for Justice; and has anything changed since Oka?
Environmental Justice, Racism and Northern Ontario
Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls
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October 14, 7:00 pm
Wet'suwet'en Call for Justice; and has anything changed since Oka? 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). Register HERE Learn more about this issue and from these speakers HERE 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
October 21, 7:00 pm
Environmental Justice, Racism and Northern Ontario This session will focus on environmental racism. It is our hope that this webinar will enable participants to make connections with the Wet'suwet'en struggle in order to grapple with the intersection between Indigenous rights/sovereignty and the environment, and thereby, to explore how pipeline development et al in this case, is a form of environmental racism. We'd also like to enable participants to make connections to our Northern Ontario reality where this has/is also happening. Register HERE Learn more about this issue and from these speakers HERE Speakers Bruce McIvor, lawyer and historian, First Peoples Law Corporation, Vancouver Mary Laronde, consultant to Union of Ontario Indians and Councillor, Teme-Augama Anishnabai, Temagami.
and October 28, 7:00 pm
Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls This session will shine a light on the human rights crisis for Indigenous women and girls and two-spirit people that results from resource development in First Nations territories. It will also show how all Canadians must take responsibility for answering the 231 calls for justice made in the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. We need to act now. Register HERE Learn more about this issue and from these speakers HERE Speakers Hilda Anderson-Pyrz, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Liaison Unit Manager, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak and Helen Rose Wabano:Two-spirited traditional acoustic musician/composer, Katawapiskak, traditional land of Mushkegowuk Cree nation
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