The webinar will feature stories from the frontlines, centered on how criminalizing ecocide could benefit Indigenous communities, land defenders and water protectors.
Sleydo (Molly Wickham) is a fierce spokesperson for Wet'suwet'en Nation members and their allies who are fighting the Coastal GasLink pipeline. She is passionate about governance, the health and well-being of the yin tah (territories) and the transmission of culture, language, and traditional song and dance
Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm is the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation's lead voice on Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Porcupine caribou. These are the pristine calving grounds of the largest animal land migration on earth. The survival of the Porcupine caribou is linked to the survival of his nation, its culture and identity.
Melissa Mollen Dupuis is a member of the Innu community of Ekuanitshit on Quebec's Côte-Nord. In 2012, she created with Widia Larivière the Quebec branch of the Idle No More movement. In 2014, became president of Wapikoni's board of administrators. In 2017, Amnesty International named her Ambassador of Conscience with five other figures of Canada's First Peoples' movement. In 2018, she became the Boreal campaigner for the David Suzuki Foundation.
This event will be moderated by Suzanne Dhaliwal, climate justice creative, campaigner, researcher, lecturer in environmental justice and trainer in creative strategies for decolonisation.
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