[ottawa-activist-events] "Sipakapa Is Not For Sale" Film and Discussion - Hull, April 24

[Jamie Kneen]

"Sipakapa Is Not For Sale"
Film Screening and Discussion
Monday, April 24, 6:30 PM
Diocesan Centre, 180 Mont Bleu, Hull/Gatineau

- event will be in Spanish and French -

Guest Speakers:

Juan Tema, a Sipakapense Mayan leader from San Marcos, Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe, Rights Action, living and working in Honduras

Alvin Fiddler, Deputy Grand Chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation

John Cutfeet, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (Big
Trout Lake First Nation) Lands & Environment
Office.

This 55 minute documentary about the struggle of
the Sipakapense-Mayan people in San Marcos,
Guatemala, for autonomy and locally controlled
development. It is presented by Rights Action,
Halifax Initiative, MiningWatch Canada, OPIRG,
Café Justicia, Punto de Encuentro, PSAC, GAPA,
and maqex.com.

Glamis Gold - a Canadian-US mining company - is
holding its annual shareholders' meeting in
Toronto on May 3. Glamis has made significant
profits for its shareholders, directors and
investors, from its open pit, cyanide-leaching
mining operations in Guatemala and Honduras, at
the expense of the development needs and
environmental well-being of the local and
Indigenous populations.

Five Northwestern Ontario First Nations have had
a moratorium on mining in their traditional
territories since last October; in February,
Platinex Mining was kicked out of
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (Big Trout Lake
First Nation). The moratorium covers the
traditional territories of Kitchenuhmaykoosib,
Muskrat Dam, Wapekeka, Wawakapewin, and Deer Lake
First Nation in Nishnawbe Aski Nation territory.

--
Jamie Kneen
Communications & Outreach Coordinator ofc. (613) 569-3439
MiningWatch Canada cell: (613) 761-2273
250 City Centre Ave., Suite 508 fax: (613) 569-5138
Ottawa, Ontario K1R 6K7 e-mail: ja...@miningwatch.ca
Canada http://www.miningwatch.ca
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