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Environmental Racism: From Community Stories to Union Action
September 17 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
This virtual panel will bring together a diverse range of speakers active in communities impacted by environmental racism to generate conversation about the ways in which the labour movement can support resistance efforts.
Host: Larry Rousseau, Executive Vice President, Canadian Labour Congress (CLC)
Panelists:
Vanessa Gray, Anishinaabe, Land Defender from Aamjiwnaang First Nation
Dr. Ingrid Waldron, Professor and HOPE Chair in Peace and Health in the Global Peace and Social Justice Program at McMaster University
Taneeta Doma, Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW), lawyer with the Migrant Farmworker Legal Clinic
A question-and-answer period will follow the speaker presentations.
Join us in saying NO to placing polluting and toxic industries in Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities. You will have the opportunity to learn about the generational impacts of the Petrochemical industry in Aamjiwnaag First Nation, how migrant farm workers are affected by environmental racism with differential treatment in Ontario, the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, and MORE!
This event will be a powerful call-to-action in support of human rights and environmental justice.
There is no environmental justice without racial justice.