Title: Justice for the Lubicon
Location: Lethbridge City Hall Atrium
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Justice for the Lubicon

Featuring Chief Bernard Ominayak and a local expert panel

Friday, March 26, 2010
6:30pm
Lethbridge City Hall, main atrium
910 – 4th Avenue South
Lethbridge, AB

Canada is supposed to be a global leader in human rights. Yet the treatment of Aboriginal people in this country is an often overlooked aspect of how Canada, as a rich and powerful nation, is violating human rights for the benefit of government and corporate interests. For more than 110 years, this violation has been the norm for the Lubicon Cree in Northern Alberta.

Bypassed by the treaty commissioners in 1899, the Lubicon have never signed away their rights. Yet giant corporations mine resources from their traditional territory and the Lubicon receive no compensation, and have no access to clean drinking water. Such corporations include Daishowa, who was given access to Lubicon territory by the Alberta government to clear-cut forests, Unocal who constructed a large sour-gas plant on Lubicon land; TransCanada Pipelines, who are building a jumbo, 42 inch gas pipeline to supply natural gas to the Tarsands; and recently, plans to mine bitumen from Lubicon territory.

After nearly ten years, Chief Bernard Ominayak has agreed to meet with a local expert panel and the Canadian public outside the Lubicon traditional territory to discuss Human Rights abuses against the Lubicon people by the governments of Alberta and Canada. Food and drinks will be provided.

Panel Members Include:

Bernard Ominayak, Chief of the Lubicon Lake Nation

Leroy Little Bear, Chair of Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge

Linda Many Guns, Faculty of Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge

This event brought to you by the Lethbridge Public Interest Research Group (LPIRG)
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2010-03-26
End Time: 21:30