[Sust-mar] Replacing previous Email from Kathryn Anderson.Resistance and Movement Building Across Borders and Nations.

[Kathryn Anderson]

*You are invited to  the Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network Annual
Gathering, Friday,  Nov. 14th, 7pm - Sunday, Nov. 16th at Tatamagouche
Centre. For more information and a registration form, contact Kathryn
Anderson, kathrynande at gmail.com <kathrynande at gmail.com>*

*Making the Connections:*

Resistance and Movement Building

Across Borders and Nations ​




*Resource People: *

*Jen Moore, Mining Watch Canada *

*Alma Brooks, Wabanaki Confederacy*

*Eliza Knockwood, Mi’kmaq Youth Bundle-Keeper *


Gain inspiration and new understandings of solidarity from resource people
who are building solidarity relationships across borders and nations,
including the recent People’s Social Forum in Ottawa, the U.N. Forum on
Mining and Indigenous Peoples in May 2014 and the ongoing struggle against
fracking in Elsipogtog, New Brunswick. Join us and our resource people:



*Jen Moore,* Mining Watch Canada, supports communities, organizations and
networks facing mining challenges from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras to
Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. Jen was a social justice journalist in Ecuador
and has written about the struggles of indigenous and non-indigenous
communities affected by Canadian-financed mining companies. She gave
leadership to the Mining Justice Assembly at the recent People’s Social
Forum in Ottawa.



*Alma Brooks**, *Saint Mary’s First Nation NB, is a highly respected
Maliseet traditional leader with the Wabanaki Confederacy.  She has been a
leader in the New Brunswick resistance to fracking and other resource-based
projects in forestry and mining. Alma attended the May 2014 U.N. Forum on
Mining and Indigenous Peoples in New York.



*Eliza Star Child Knockwood**, *a Mi’kmaq woman from Abegweit First Nation,
PEI, spent the summer of 2013 in Elsipogtog NB working with indigenous and
non-indigenous people to resist fracking. She describes herself as a Youth
Bundle-Keeper, passing on traditional and contemporary knowledge to this
generation and ones yet to come








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