Environmental Racism: A Story of Colonization and Ecocide

Join us on January 26th 4pm PST for a webinar in collaboration with Stop Ecocide Canada. The purpose of the webinar is to raise awareness on using international law, and specifically a crime of ecocide, to uphold Indigenous rights and environmental protection.

In this third discussion, we will hear stories from the frontlines, centered on environmental racism, the ongoing impacts of colonisation and how it connects with ecocide, the mass destruction of nature. We will be meeting with Chief Roland Willson of West Moberly First Nations and a strong advocate opposed to Site C dam, Chrissy Issacs of Grassy Narrows First Nation and long-time activist of mercury justice, and Bianca Mugyenyi, author, activist and Director of the of Canadian Foreign Policy Institute. The webinar will be moderated by Suzanne Dhaliwal, climate justice creative, campaigner, researcher, lecturer in environmental justice and trainer in creative strategies for decolonisation.