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SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY
A Concert In Support of Indigenous Rights & Against the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline and Supertanker Project


Tuesday, May 8, 2012 8:00pm until 2:00am

FREE/PWYC Concert With Performances By

KINNIE STARR
TANIKA CHARLES & THE WONDERFULS
FREEDOM WRITERS
CHERYL BEAR
SKRATCH BASTID
IAN KAMAU
YINKA DENE DRUMMERS
DJ ARIEL
& Others

This Tuesday, May 8th, please stand in solidarity with our Indigenous brothers and sisters on the West Coast against the Enbridge Northern Gateway project! This struggle is about the very survival the Yinka Dene and the many other Indigenous peoples who will be devastated by Enbridge. It’s also about much more – the outcome of this fight will have an impact on the health and survival of both Canada and the entire planet. SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY!

FREE / PWYC
Doors at 8pm
GREAT HALL - 1087 Queen St W ----> CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.


Vote for the
GREENWASH GOLD 2012

Which dodgy company most deserves the Greenwash Gold medal in 2012?

Who is covering up the most environmental destruction and devastating the most communities while pretending to be a good corporate citizen by sponsoring the Olympic games? Click here to Learn More & VOTE so we can give the GOLD to BP!



 

Rights of Mother Earth Conference

RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH: RESTORING INDIGENOUS LIFE WAYS OF RESPONSIBILITY AND RESPECT International Indigenous Conference APRIL 4 - 6, 2012  at Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence Kansas Click here to learn more.

IEN and EarthCycles has archived the video presentations of the conference - the topics/talks/panels that were streamed can be found here.

Read: An Indigenous to Indigenous Call for Action from the International Indigenous Leaders Gathering Keynote to Our Indigenous Relatives Gathered at the Rights of Mother Earth Conference Haskell Indian Nations University

Read the Mother Earth Accord or Download/Print PDF

US Tribal Leaders Present President Obama with Mother Earth Accord Opposing Keystone XL

US and Canadian Indigenous Peoples United To Stop Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline - Monday, December 5, 2001 - READ NOW.

Mother Earth Accord

Tribal governments in the U.S. and First Nations in Canada are invited to sign-on.

The contacts for U.S. sign-ons:

Marty Cobenais, Keystone XL Pipeline, Organizer
(218) 760-0284 Email:ienpipeline@igc.org or

Kandi Mosset, Native Energy & Climate Program Organizer
(701) 214-1389
Email: ienenergy@igc.org

For Canadian sign-ons contact:
Clayton Thomas-Muller Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Organizer
(613) 237 1717 ext. 106
Email: ienoil@igc.org

Barret Lenoir or Daniel T’seleie at the Dene National Office (867) 873-4081

Read Mother Earth Accord
Download/Print PDF

We won one battle against big oil, but not the war: Statement of IEN on the Obama Administration decision on Keystone XL Pipeline.

Statement of the Indigenous Environmental Network
November 10, 2011
Mother Earth Achieves a Victory Today with Obama Administration Decision to Delay the Keystone XL Pipeline Decision

Landowners Criticize Nebraska’s Governor & Senators for Drinking TransCanada’s Tar Sands Kool-Aid*

Citizens Call for Keystone XL to Be Blocked

LEARN MORE NOW!


Native American and Canadian First Nations Took Part In Largest Act of Civil Disobedience to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline




Keystone Pipeline Faces Indigenous Trans-Border Opposition

Geoff Dembicki, Special to CorpWatch - October 4th, 2011

 In mid-September this year, as sharp winds howled across the Great Plains, indigenous leaders from either side of the U.S. –Canada border held an "emergency meeting" in the basement of a South Dakota casino. They came from all over - one flew in from Canada's frigid Great Bear Lake near the Arctic Circle, a husband and wife drove east on Highway 18 from their reservation, and several more drove west, on Interstate Highway 90.