Mining & Indigenous Resistance: Sipakapa to Sharbot Lake with Special Guest Bob Lovelace

From: "Uranium News" <uraniumnews@mail.ccamu.ca
To: uraniumnews@mail.ccamu.ca

Wednesday February 4th, 2:00 - 4:00pm
Mining & Indigenous Resistance: Sipakapa to Sharbot Lake
with Special Guest Bob Lovelace
Room: Dunning Hall, Room 11 (Lower Level) - Queen's University, Kingston, ON

Film Screening and Discussion about the ongoing resistance of Indigenous communities, all over the world, to mining development.

The screening of Sipakapa No Se Vende/Sipakapa Is Not For Sale, a documentary chronicling the struggle of Maya communities in Guatemala to exercise their right to consultation about mining expansion into their lands, will be followed by a discussion about Indigenous resistance to mining in Canada, specifically the ongoing struggle of the Ardoch Algonquins to stop the development of a uranium mine on their lands This talk will be led by BOB LOVELACE, a Professor in the Department of Global Development Studies and the former Chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation.

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