Join Amnesty International Canada on Sunday April 30th, 4:30pm – 6pm EDT (TBC) – the event is free! (This is 2:30pm to 4pm Saskatchewan time)

With guest speakers:

·       Juana Zúniga, of the Environmental Committee of Guapinol in Honduras.  Juana and other community members continue to face death threats, surveillance, and lethal attacks as they seek to protect the Guapinol River from the impact of an iron ore operation that has been set up in a biodiverse protected area.

·       Rosa Marina Flores Cruz, of the Assembly of Indigenous Peoples of the Isthmus in Defense of Land and Territory in Oaxaca, Mexico and the Indigenous Futures Network. Marina is an Afro Zapoteca woman defender involved in community resistance to energy megaprojects that continue to dispossess Indigenous peoples and violate their rights.

·       Chief Na’Mok is among the five hereditary Chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Nation and one of the land and water defenders who have been criminalized for resisting the CGL pipeline that threatens the destruction of the Wet’suwet’en land, water, and traditional way of life.

Background

Amid the urgency of the climate crisis, Indigenous, Black and other racialized and marginalized communities are leading the way, defending lands, water, forests, clean air and climate justice. It puts them on a collision course with powerful companies, authorities, and economic interests who continue to put short term profits before human rights. Defenders are under attack but their courageous struggles continue.

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