We're hosting a screening of the film "Our Land, My People: The Struggle of the Lubicon Cree" on Thursday, March 26th at 12:00 (noon) in room L1170A in the University of Lethbridge Library.
The documentary "Our Land, My People: The Struggle of the Lubicon Cree" follows Lubicon councillors, elders, and band members as they share with Amnesty International the impact of resource exploitation on their way of life and traditional economy. Over $14B has been extracted from Lubicon land; the Lubicon have seen not a penny.
Aaron Chubb from Friends of the Lubicon Alberta (FOLA) will be on hand at the film screening, to discuss FOLA’s campaign to promote awareness of the plight of the Lubicon Lake Nation and demand the federal government negotiate on three key Lubicon Cree demands:
1. Self-government
2. Land claim settlement
3. Restitution
Since the late 1970s, the Lubicon Cree, an Indigenous people in Alberta, Canada, have seen the land on which they depend transformed by logging and large-scale oil and gas extraction. Despite a 1990 decision by the United Nations Human Rights Committee that the human rights of the Lubicon Cree are being violated by the impact of natural resource extraction, the Canadian authorities have failed to bring about a fair resolution of the long standing land dispute.
"The many long decades of failure to respect the human rights of the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation in Northern Alberta have become one of Canada's and Alberta's most notorious human rights failings on the world stage," said Alex Neve, secretary-general of Amnesty International Canada.
Amnesty International has launched a global initiative in support of the Lubicon Cree.
Link to Amnesty International Campaign:
www.amnesty.ca/amnestynews/upload/AMR200062008.pdf
