Mining Injustice Solidarity Network is pleased to invite you to the third conference on the impact of Canadian mining on local communities throughout the world, which will take place the 6th – 8th of May of 2011
at the University of Toronto, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George Street).
This conference reflects the collective effort of several organizations and grass roots groups in Toronto, in collaboration with peoples, communities and organizations facing and resisting the entrance of corporate mining mega-projects into their territories.
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Friday May 6th: Conference ‘soft-launch’ – meet and greet with affected community members and activists at Beit Zatoun (612 Markham Street)
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Saturday May 7th: keynote speaker and concurrent sessions as well as workshops and caucuses! (Sidney Smith Hall)
Official conference launch: dance party (193 Dowling Street @ Queen Street West)
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Sunday May 8th: keynote speaker and concurrent sessions as well as workshops and caucuses (cont.!) (Sidney Smith Hall)
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Particular themes that will be discussed this year include:
• Gendered violence, inequity and feminist perspectives
• Militarization and forced displacement
• Indigenous knowledge and spirituality as forms of resistance
• Labour rights and the rhetoric of development
• Criminalization of dissent and protest
• Environmental contamination effects and health
• Food security and water rights
• The cycle of supply and demand of uranium in the North
• Tar sands and the petroleum industry in the North and South
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Stay tuned for a list of speakers!
Endorsed by: Barrio Nuevo, CUPE, Environmental Justice Toronto, Guatemala Community Network – Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo Mayan Project, Tzijolaj-Ottawa,Health for All, Indigenous Environmental Network, OPIRG Toronto, Philippines Solidarity Network of Canada, Latin American and Carribean Solidarity Network, Latin American Trade Union Coalition, NooneisIllegal, Students for a Free Tibet