Three videos, two current re No Mining, and one feature film now available pay-on-demand, are EMBEDDED BELOW or clickable: 5-min Nov 21 GroundWire News feature; 11-min Nov 22 Quebec National Assembly press conference (French w English subtitles); and 59-min 2013 Honour Your Word documentary (English w French subtitles, $4.99 on-demand).
UPDATE: Urgent call to action (Dec 16) – Appel à la solidarité (le 16 dec)
“No Mining on Algonquin Land”, painting by Waylon Nottaway
Since the start of October 2016, Barriere Lake community members have set up a Land Defenders Camp to protect their territory from mining, from Copper One and other mining companies. Read more at www.BarriereLakeSolidarity.org ou en Francais, solidaritelacbarriere.blogspot.ca
Here are ways to support the efforts:
- Sign the official Quebec National Assembly petition (by Feb 10, 2017) in English -or- en Francais
** Also there is printable English version of the petition to collect signatures online (note to staple the pages together pre-signing) - Donate via paypal
- Print off PDF brochure (1pg doublesided, folded in three) to make copies and distribute
- Subscribe to the BLS-announce email listserv (right-hand sidebar, at BarriereLakeSolidarity.org)
- ‘Like’ the Barriere Lake Solidarity facebook page
- <em>and, for those in Ottawa:
– Subscribe to the IndigSol announcement email listserv (run by IPSMO)
– ‘Like’ the IPSMO – Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa facebook page
Recent articles
Mining Companies Encounter Barrier at Barriere Lake
by Sarah Nixon (The Leveller, Nov 23 2016)
Lac Barrière: l’assaut des minières
by Norman Matchewan (Le Devoir, Nov 21 2016)
Forthcoming book…
Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State
by Shiri Pasternak – based on the work contained in her 2013 thesis
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Video #1: No Mining – Algonquins of Barriere Lake Land Defenders Camp – GroundWire News (5min)
- November 21 2016, featuring interviews with Norm Matchewan (via The Circle, CHUO 89.1FM Ottawa) and Chief Casey Ratt (via OPIRG Roots Radio, CKCU 93.1FM Ottawa)
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Video #2: Lac Barrière et Malartic – L’acceptabilité sociale des projets miniers? (11min, Fr w Eng sub)
- November 22 2016 press conference at the Quebec National Assembly, featuring Amir Khadir of Quebec Solidaire, Priscille Trudel of Comité de citoyens de la zone sud de Malartic, and (starting at 5:25) Michel Thusky of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake.
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Video #3: Honour Your Word (2013, 59min, directed by Martha Steigman; Eng w Fr sub; $4.99 ondemand)
- The film draws us into the lives of two young leaders: Marylynn Poucachice, a mother of five, and Norman Matchewan, the soft-spoken son and grandson of traditional chiefs. Both spent their childhoods on the logging blockades their parents set up to win a sustainable development plan protecting their land. But it turns out signing the agreement was the easy part. Now, 20 years later, Norman and Marylynn are taking up the struggle of their youth, to force Canada and Quebec to honour their word.
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