Fall Presentations: Ontario and Vancouver and Vancouver Islland area

[Stewart Vriesinga]

Hello everyone! I still have some slots open for presentations here in Ontario before I leave for the West Coast, and from there back to Colombia. As many of you know I've spent some time with the Christian Peacemaker Aboriginal Justice Team this summer and early fall. We were working with the Mi'kmaq of Elsipogtg and their allies. I was there for part of the blockade in which we had the SWN thumper trucks used for testing for hydraulic gas fracking. I left before the blockade was violently taken down by the RCMP, but kept and remain in close contact with our team and our Mi'kmaq partners and others.

I have spot for presentations available in Ontario from Nov 12th until the 22nd. and on the West Coast Vancouver-Vancouver Island area from November 28th until December 13th. Contact me at Stewart.i...@gmail.com (preferred) or cell 647 657 7665.
The following can be used as a promotion poster:
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THE WAY FORWARD: Protecting and Respecting Cultural Diversity and Undoing Corporate Neo-Colonialism

--a presentation by long-time Christian Peacemaker Team activist Stewart Vriesinga.

Stewart will discuss the similarities between the struggles of the Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick and the communities Christian Peacemaker teams accompanies in the Middle Magdalene region of Colombia. Both, he argues, are the victims of neo-colonization by multinational corporations and nation states who use state security forces�police and military�to promote the interests of foreign corporations, thereby threatening the survival of more sustainable peoples and cultures within their own borders and abroad.

Stewart further argues that supporting the struggles for survival and autonomy of diverse cultures and peoples will not only help curtail destructive and unsustainable global corporate control over land and resources; it will also serve as a model for all of us about how we can collectively regain the sovereignty and control we clearly lack to protect our own common futures and maintain an inhabitable sustainable planet.

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Posted By Blogger to Stewart in Colombia at 11/08/2013 06:31:00 PM