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Organizing for Water Justice
March 19 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
What?
Organizing for Water Justice is an experience of learning outside the classroom. Taking place during the week of World Water Day, please come prepared to engage with our panelists and share in ceremony, water stories and water justice strategies. Whether you’re already familiar with the topics of water health, justice and organizing you are guaranteed to learn something new in the event organized by students for students.
Who?
Justin Roy (Kebaowek First Nation) – a member of Kebaowek’s Chief and Council, in his 3rd consecutive 2 year term. He is the Director of Community Development for the Kebaowek First Nation and works to promote the well-being, self-determination, and economic growth of his Nation. He advocates for Indigenous rights, cultural preservation, protection of all lands, waters, and life that make up the nation’s unceded Algonquin territory and governance that reflects the needs and aspirations of his people.
Colleen James (Carcross First Nation) – an elder and teacher from the First Nation in the Yukon. The protection of water is a priority for revitalizing Indigenous legal and governance systems in approaches to water governance. While the citizens have governed the waters and lands within their traditional territory since time immemorial, their Tagish and Tlingit legal orders have been disrupted by colonial forms of governance. Nevertheless, Colleen will share how the knowledge of these systems endures in practice and oral history.
Palestinian Youth Movement rep – a transnational, independent, grassroots organization. They will discuss the current water justice issues facing Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and all of occupied Palestine as a result of the ongoing zionist occupation.
Meera Karunanathan – an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. Her academic work is shaped by many years of experience in environmental and social justice organizing. Building on relationships with feminist, Indigenous and environmental justice movements, her research investigates the processes that produce uneven distribution of water in the global South. She supports frontline water justice struggles through research, advocacy and popular education.