Environmental Racism: A story of colonization and ecocide
Sign up for this webinar in partnership with Stop Ecocide Canada and RAVENTrust.
Date: January 26, 2022, 4pm PT | 7pm EST
Panelists:
- Chrissy Issacs, Grassy Narrows First Nation and long-time activist of mercury justice
- Chief Roland Willson of West Moberly First Nation, strong advocate opposed to Site C dam
- Tamara Lorincz - Member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, PhD candidate and long time leader and activist in the peace movement.
Moderator:
Suzanne Dhaliwal, climate justice creative, campaigner, researcher, lecturer in environmental justice and trainer in creative strategies for decolonisation.
The purpose of this webinar series is to educate and raise awareness on using international law, and specifically a crime of ecocide, to uphold Indigenous rights and environmental protection.
In this third discussion, we will hear stories from the frontlines, centered on environmental racism, the ongoing impacts of colonisation and how it connects with ecocide, the mass destruction of nature.