to be held at: University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
November 23-25th, 2007
http://oilsandstruth.org/conf

Everyone's Downstream will be a conference designed to explore the links
between oppression and self-determination on many levels: indigenous land
rights, gender, ecological rights, workers democracy, anti-racism and
anti-border perspectives as they relate directly to the tar sands of
Northern Alberta. Speakers from a multitude of indigenous nations, social
justice groups, and environmental organizations will discuss the social
impacts of the tar sands on workers, women, indigenous nations, ecology,
migrant populations, homelessness, and the anti-war movement.

The size of the tar sands issue can seem daunting, but in reality few issues
have presented an opportunity for a social justice movement to truly
articulate a different vision of organizing the world that has as many entry
points, and can provide as large of an impact. The scale and scope of the
tar sands is huge and has tremendously deep implications for the way we
approach questions that span the social justice spectrum. With a coordinated
response involving all sectors of North American social justice movements
currently impacted by the largest industrial project in human history we
have the possibility to change the course of human and ecological fate like
nowhere else.