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Idle No More Environmental/Treaty Rights Symposium: Paula Maccabee

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Paula Maccabee is an attorney active with Water Legacy. Maccabee speaks on the dangers posed to vitally important waters by sulfide mining in northern Minnesota. More

Idle No More Environmental/Treaty Rights Symposium: Margaret Levin

Director of the North Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, Margaret Levin speaks about the greatest concerns to increasing global greenhouse gas emissions including the exploitation of the Alberta Tar Sa

Idle No More Environmental/Treaty Rights Symposium: Phoebe Kebec

Phoebe Kebec is an indigenous attorney representing the Bad River/Lake Superior Band of Chippewa/Anishinaabeg Tribe.

Idle No More Environmental/Treaty Rights Symposium: Mike Wiggins, Jr.

Wiggins, the Tribal Chair of Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Anishinaabeg) takes a holistic approach regarding the struggle to protect clean waters from iron sulfide mining in the Penokee H

Idle No More Environmental/Treaty Rights Symposium: Terry Janis (plus Q and A)

Includes insights from Janis, an Oglala Lakota attorney and activist, as well as audience questions for panelists (Cobenais, Wilson, Desjarlait and Janis)...

Idle No More Environmental/Treaty Rights Symposium: Robert DesJarlait

Protect Our Manoomin founder Robert DesJarlait from Red Lake on international corporate sulfide mining in northern Minnesota.

Idle No More Environmental/Treaty Rights Symposium: Marty Cobenais

Marty Cobenais of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) on tar sands extraction/mining and the Keystone XL and Alberta Clipper pipelines.

Idle No More Environmental/Treaty Rights Symposium: Raymond Robinson

Indigenous grand elder Raymond Robinson, from the Cross Lake (Cree) Nation in Manitoba, first gained prominence for hunger-striking with Chief Theresa Spence of the Attawapiskat (Cree) First Nation t

Idle No More Environmental/Treaty Rights Symposium, Nina Was'te Wilson

Wilson, a co-founder of Idle No More, on the origins of the most important modern indigenous people's movement coming out of Canada... and spreading to places like Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Resistance to Repression of Palestinians: Part 1

Chicago Palestinian solidarity activist Hatem Abudayyeh speaks about the current status of Palestinian struggle and a renewed Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) representing all Palestinian te

Resistance to Repression of Palestinians: Part 2

Activist Hatem Abudayyeh suggests options to support efforts to resist the repression of Palestinians.

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