Public Meeting on Forestry and Native Rights

Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 09:52:40 +0000 (ADT4AST)
From: MOOLA FAIZAL # BIOLOGY <fmoola@shark.stmarys.ca>
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Dear Friends, 

The Nova Scotia PIRG will be presenting a public forum on the 
conflict between Native Rights and Industrial Forestry on Thursday, 
March 18th at 7:00 pm in room 105, Weldon Law Building, Dalhousie 
University.

The title of the forum is :

 CONFLICT OF INTERESTS: WHO OWNS NOVA SCOTIA'S FORESTS

The keynote speaker is native rights and environmental activist Kevin 
Thomas  whose experiences fighting against clearcut logging in Alberta 
on behalf of the Lubicon Cree Nation should be of interest for those 
 concerned about unsustainable forestry practices here in Nova Scotia. 
For the past twelve years Kevin has been actively organizing 
support for the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation of Northern Alberta. He is 
founder of the Friend's of the Lubicon, a Canadian organization that 
focusses on confronting corporations on issues of Native land rights 
and the environment. Through their "enormously successful" (in the 
words of the Ontario Divisional Court) boycott of Daishowa paper 
products, Friend's of the Lubicon prevented the transnational paper 
company Daishowa from clearcutting traditional Lubicon lands in 
northern Alberta.  The Friends of the Lubicon have run similar campaigns
targeting oil and gas corporations for intruding onto unceded Lubicon
territories. 

Kevin works as an advisor to the Lubicon Nation who for the past six 
months have been engaged in negotiations with the federal government 
on their land rights. He has also worked for the Innu Nation in their 
campaign against unsustainable industrial practices in Labrador.

Other speakers will include representatives from the Mi 'Kmaq Nation 
of Nova Scotia and the Ecology Action Center.

For more information contact NSPIRG (nspirg@is2.dal.ca)

Kevin will be in Nova Scotia for approximately a week and there may 
be the opportunity for him to meet with groups outside of Halifax.

Peace

Faizal Moola



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