UBC Law Faculty inaugural 2009 Equity Week finale conference event:

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ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: TAR SANDS, COLONIALISM AND RESISTANCE
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Date: Friday, 27 February 2009
Time: 9:30am to 5:00pm
Place: UBC First Nations Long House
Info: See email above
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Please join us for a full day conference with inspiring speakers, powerful films and thought-provoking discussions. This conference gathers scholars, students, legal advocates and community activists working in the intersecting areas of indigenous rights, environmental rights and equality rights.

In light of the devastating reality of environmental destruction globally, there is an urgent and critical need to expose the root causes of environmental injustice as stemming from systems of domination.

By featuring the tar sands projects in Canada, the conference will critically expose the root causes of environmental injustice as stemming from institutionalized racism, sexism, and classism; the commodification of land, water, energy, food, and air in a capitalist economy; and the plunder of the Earth and displacement of its inhabitants due to a colonial legacy of pillage and militarization.

Join us in exploring how environmental movements are inextricably connected to these broader social justice and human rights struggles and in deeply acknowledging that there exists an inequitable distribution across the planet between those who bear the greatest brunt of environmental degradation, and those who are responsible for it.

This event is the finale event of UBC Law Faculty's inaugural 2009 Equity Week and is collectivelly organized by various UBC Law faculty members, UBC social justice student groups and community organizations.

Organizers:

UBC First Nations Legal Studies, UBC Law Equity Committee, Public Interest Law Society, First Nations Law Students Association, Social Justice Action Network, Environmental Law Group, UBC Law Students of Colour United, UBC Colour Connected Against Racism, No One is Illegal-Vancouver