<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hello everyone.<br><br>Things are advancing beyond fast right now in regards to Aggregate issues. <br><br>
<font size="3">Aboriginal activist Danny Beaton gave me the heads up on this upcoming forum regarding aggregates and corporate impunity. Please circulate widely. We might wish to send a GREN rep here, particularly to observe the </font><font size="4"><span><font size="3">environmental contamination effects and health and food security and water rights workshops.</font> <br><br>I'll be circulating info of this info to the Region of Waterloo, to Gravel Watch, Council of Canadians, Waterloo Food System Roundtable etc. but if you know of others interested, please pass this along.<br><br>I'll keep you updated. <br><br>Megwich!<br></span></font><br>Lulu<br>__________________________________________________________________<br><br>Subject: Mining Injustice Conference: Confronting Corporate Impunity, May 6th, 7th and 8th<br><font color="#ff0000"><span style="font-weight: 800; font-size: large;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal;
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</span></font></span></font><div class="yiv302370886gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Mining
Injustice Solidarity Network is pleased to invite you to the third
conference on the impact of Canadian mining on local communities
throughout the world, which will take place the 6th - 8th of May of
2011.</span></b></span><br><div class="yiv302370886gmail_quote"><div class="yiv302370886gmail_quote"><font size="4"><b><font size="6"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span></font><font size="6">Mining Injustice: Confronting Corporate Impunity conference</font><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">When:</span> May 6th, 7th and 8th<br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Where</span>: Sidney Smith Hall (room 2117) University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street<br> </b></font><br><font size="4">Keynote Speaker: Winona LaDuke <br><br>Conference schedule<span><br>
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May 6th, 7 pm: Conference 'soft-launch' - meet and greet with affected
community members and activists at Beit Zatoun (612 Markham Street)<br><br><span>**************************</span><span></span>**************************<br>Saturday May 7th, 10 am: keynote speaker and concurrent sessions as well as workshops and caucuses! (Sidney Smith Hall)<br>
<br>Official conference launch, 8 pm - 2 am: dance party (193 Dowling Street @ Queen Street West)<br><br><span>**************************</span><span></span><span>**************************</span><span></span>****<br>
Sunday May 8th, 10 am: keynote speaker and concurrent sessions as well as workshops and caucuses (cont.!) (Sidney Smith Hall)<br><br><span>**************************</span><span></span><span>**************************</span><span></span>****<br>
Particular themes that will be discussed this year include:<br>• Gendered violence, inequity and feminist perspectives<br>• Militarization and forced displacement<br>• Indigenous knowledge and spirituality as forms of resistance<br>
• Labour rights and the rhetoric of development<br>• Criminalization of dissent and protest<br>• Environmental contamination effects and health<br>• Food security and water rights <br>• The cycle of supply and demand of uranium in the North<br>
• Tar sands and the petroleum industry in the North and South<br><br>++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br><br>Stay tuned for a list of speakers or visit our website at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://solidarityresponse.net/">solidarityresponse.net</a> for more info!<br>
<br>Endorsed
by: CUPE, Environmental Justice Toronto, ProtestBarrick, Munk OUT of
UofT, Indigenous Environmental Network, KAIROS, Latin American and
Carribean Solidarity Network, Latin American Trade Union Coalition</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div></div></div></div>
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