lets talk forests...

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:16:30 -0400
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NSPIRG will be
hosting a forestry forum on March 18th at Dalhousie University. The forum
will address the issue of native rights in the protection of Canada's
heritage forests. The title of the forum is
Conflict of Interests - Who owns Nova Scotia's forests?"  The keynote
speaker will be environmentalist and native rights activist Kevin Thomas who
is a founding member of Friends of the Lubicon. FOL recently won a major
victory in the courts against the multinational forestry company Daishowa.
Daishowa  had sued FOL in the hopes of  destroying  one of the most
successful consumer boycots in Canadian history. FOL has been urging
Canadians to boycot Daishowa paper products as the company plans to clearcut
the ancestral lands of the Lubicon Cree Nation of northern Alberta.  In
addition to Kevin Thomas, we have invited Burnd Christmas, negotiator for
Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'Kmaq Chiefs, Kermit deGooyer of the Ecology
Action Centre, and John MacDonell, NDP Agriculture critic to address the
native rights and forestry situation in Nova Scotia.


The event will be held at 7pm in room 105 of the Weldon Law Building at
Dalhousie University. Moderated by Jane Kansas. Sponsored by the Nova
Scotia Public Interest Research Group and the Aboriginal Law Students
Association. For info contact nspirg @ 494-6662

nspirg
nova scotia public interest research group
6136 university ave
halifax, ns
b3h 4j2
902-494-6662
nspirg@is2.dal.ca
executive director : linda pannozzo



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