Peace River Solidarity Night

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March 26, 6:30 PM - 9 PM

Native Education College
285 East 5th Avenue, Vancouver

You are invited to an evening with Connie Greyeyes-Dick, Ken and Arlene Boon, who are working tirelessly to protect BC from the destructive Site C dam. Hear first-hand how this ill-fated dam impacts both you and the people who live in the beautiful Peace River watershed. 

Connie Greyeyes-Dick is a member of the Treaty 8 First Nations from Bigstone Cree Nation, a grassroots activist from Fort St. John, and a spokesperson with Amnesty International. 

Ken and Arlene Boon are third generation farmers along the Peace River, grandparents who are active with the Peace Valley Landowners Association and the Peace Valley Environment Association. Although their home and farm have been expropriated for the Site C mega-dam, they remain in their home and continue to farm their previous land for now. They see the Peace Valley as being valuable for all of BC and the world, not only themselves.

We are joined by:

sχɬemtəna:t, St’agid Jaad, Audrey Siegl, an independent activist from the traditional territory of the Musqueam. She has been active on grassroots environmental and social justice political front line movements. 

Maxine Matilpi, a member of Ma'amtigila and Kwakiutl First Nations and project lead for RELAW at West Coast Environmental Law.

Vanessa Richards, the founder and song leader for the Woodward’s Community Singers, a drop-in, no-cost, low-barrier choir, and director of Creative Together, a song based facilitation process.

Wendy Holm, a professional agrologist (retired), an award-winning national columnist, a double Queen’s medalist, past president of the B.C. Institute of Agrologists. and B.C. Agrologist of the Year in 2000. She provided expert testimony before the CEEA/EAO Joint Federal Provincial Panel on the agricultural impact of the Site C project.

MC’s Rita Wong and Mae Burrows have been writing and working in solidarity with the Peace River Valley and its peoples because they see this dam as a case of environmental racism and attempted genocide that must not happen on our watch. They are committed to justice in our times.

Together, we will raise funds for the West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations legal battle, the Blueberry River First Nation court case, and the Peace Valley Landowners Association. Come learn what you can do to help.

Entry and snacks are by donation. Silent auction as well.

This event is organized by FightC, a non-partisan, non-violent grassroots community group committed to stopping the Site C dam in solidarity with the Treaty 8 First Nations. All who love and respect Peace are welcome to join us.

We acknowledge that this gathering takes place on the Unceded Territory of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish Nations. And we remind everyone that BC has a responsibility to honour Treaty 8, to respect Indigenous law, and to enforce the Crown's duty to protect the Peace from settler colonial violence and treaty violations.

Date: 
Monday, March 26, 2018 - 18:30