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CUSJ Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2012

Partnering With First Nations

 

The Ottawa Chapter of CUSJ invites you to join them for the CUSJ Dinner and a social evening

Saturday Night May 19th – CUSJ dinner at Buffet Moni Mahal.   164 Laurier West, just East of Laurier and Elgin.  (13.95/plate plus tax and drinks.)  6:30 P.M.

Saturday Night – 8:00 p.m. Social Action Movie Night – Alberta Room at the Westin.  Our thanks to the  CUC for giving us this room.

Movie:  For the Next Seven Generations:  In 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers from all four corners,  moved by their concern for our planet, came together at a historic gathering, where they decided to form an alliance: The International Council of  Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. This is their story.  Four years in-the-making and shot on location in the Amazon  rainforest, the mountains of Mexico, North America, and at a private meeting with the Dalai Lama in India, For the Next 7 Generations follows what happens when these wise women unite.  Facing a world in crisis, they share with us their visions of healing and a call for change now, before it’s too late.  A collection will be taken on behalf of the Grandmothers and their work.

Monday 8:30-12:30 – CUSJ AGM – Live Streamed on the Web

For the first time CUSJ will try to bring all our members together across Canada with an interactive on-line meeting.  Please register and tell us whether you are coming in person, or via the internet.  We hope to have the opportunity for those on line to vote at our AGM and participate via live chat in the discussion period.  We want to honour those who don’t travel because of greenhouse gases or cost and yet want to be part of our meeting.  Join us! Help us make it work.  Let us embrace the meeting of the future.

 OR MEET IN PERSON at the Laurier Room, 2nd Floor, Lord Elgin Hotel 100 Elgin St. at Laurier Ave.

8:30    Registration and Refreshments

9:00    Chapter Reports and Discussion on Chapters

10:00  AGM – Annual General Meeting and Election of Officers

11:00  Speaker:  Clayton Thomas Muller,  Tar Sands Campaign Director : Why I Oppose the Gateway Pipeline  (Ben Powless had a change of plans.  He’ll be networking in Europe.) Our gratitude to Clayton Thomas for stepping up for our meeting.

11:30  Discussion and Questions

12:15  Optional Lunch at the Lord Elgin

Clayton Thomas-Muller, of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation also known as Pukatawagan in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is an activist for Indigenous rights and environmental justice. With his roots in the inner city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Clayton began his work as a community organizer, working with Aboriginal youth. Over the years Clayton’s work has taken him to five continents across our Mother Earth. Based out of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Clayton is involved in many initiatives to support the building of an inclusive movement for energy and climate justice. He serves on the board of the Global Justice Ecology Project, Canadian based Raven Trust and Navajo Nation based Black Mesa Water Coalition. Recognized by Utne Magazine as one of the top 30 under 30 activists in the United States and as a “Climate Hero 2009” by Yes Magazine, Clayton is the Tar Sands Campaign Director for the Indigenous Environmental Network. He works across Canada, Alaska and the lower 48 states with grassroots indigenous communities to defend against the sprawling infrastructure that includes pipelines, refineries and extraction associated with the tar sands, the largest and most destructive industrial project in the history of mankind.

Want to know what Gateway means to First Nations peoples?  Listen to Ta’Kaiya tell you  (6 minute song)