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.

November 23rd
Dominion Launch of Tar Sands Special Issue
with Dru Oja Jay ed.
6:30p.m, Business Buidling

November 24th
Engineering, Teaching and Learning Complex, UofA,
Room ETLC 1 001
A series of panel discussions led by our guests.

November 25th
Telus Building, UofA Campus
Room TEL 217-219

A chance for the multitude of groups and individuals attending to sit down
and discuss a collective way forward.

Suggested donation $10, NO ONE turned away for lack of funds.

Conference panels & delegates include:

"Literally Downstream"
• Leila Darwish, Sierra Club
• George Poitras, Mikisew Cree First Nation
• Allan Adam, Chief-elect Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation
• Herb Norwegian, Grand Chief Dehcho First Nations

"Heading out West"
• Morris Amos, Gitamaat Village Haisla Nation, Tar Sands Tanker Traffic on
the West Coast
• Brenda Brochu, Peace River Environmental Society: Nuclear to fuel tar
sands?
• Oscar Dennis,Tahltan Nation, Klabona Sacred headwaters
• Tara Marsden, Carrier Sekani Tribal Council. Enbridge Gateway Pipeline

"What, where and why: Peak oil and mapping proposed pipelines"
• Tom Keefer, Peak Oil, Class Struggle and the Thermodynamics of Production
• Petr Cizek, Mapping the Tar Sands, The Bigger Picture

"Tar Sands & Human Rights: Exploiting migrant workers and fueling war”
• Janice Sparrow, coming in from the tar sands to discuss life in the camps.
• Julian Castro-Rea, Political Science, University of Alberta--SPP and the
Tar Sands
• Chauncey Carr, No One Is Illegal-- Vancouver, migrant rights organizing
• Ricardo Arcuna, Tar Sands Connection to war in the Middle East.
• Jaggi Singh, No One Is Illegal--Montréal & Block the Empire, anti-war
organizing

"The human face of the tar sands and resistance"
• Clayton Thomas-Muller, Indigenous Environmental Network
• Sharmeen Khan, the Whiteness of Green
• Jocelyn Saskiw, Adamant Eve CJSR FM88: Gender and the Boom
• Albertans Demand Affordable Housing (ADAH): the boom and the housing
crisis

"Healthy Relations: practicing solidarity with indigenous struggles"
• Peter Kulchyski , Indigenous People's Solidarity Movement-- Winnipeg, and
working in Denendeh
• Colin Piquette, Friends of the Lubicon Alberta
• Tom Keefer, working in solidarity with Six Nations of the Grand River
• Jocelyn Cheechoo, Rainforest Action Network

"Ongoing organizing: What can we do together?"
planning, networking and organizing together, meeting with one another and
discussions involving any and all participants and organizers who attended
or spoke over the prior two days. Getting down to brass tacks.

• Geeta Sehgal, Greenpeace Stop the Tar Sands Campaign
• Clayton Thomas-Muller, introductions and organizing now and in the future
Check back for further adjustments and changes

Brought to you by oilsandstruth.org with help from (in part) CJSR FM 88, The
Parkland Institute, Alberta Public Interest Research Group (APIRG), Public
Interest Alberta (PIA), Greenpeace-- stop the tar sands, Rainforest Action
Network (RAN), Sierra Club (Prairie Chapter), The Dominon- Canada's
Grassroots Newspaper

Contact Info
Email:
macdonald@oilsandstruth.org
Website:
http://oilsandstruth.org/conf
City/Town:
Edmonton, AB