Carreteras abiertas de America Latina

Through short documentaries, “Carreteras abiertas de America Latina” by Juan Miguel Salas Rodriguez and his team, shows us the everyday struggles of different Indigenous peoples in Latin America, from the South of Chile, up to the North of Mexico.

Their first documentary is about the Mapuche Nation, and their fight against the Multinational Forest Companies and the State of Chile. Particularly, the video showcase the Community of Temucuicui, located in the municipality of Ercilla.

Ercilla is one of the poorest municipalities in Chile, and yet home to the wealthiest forest companies in the world; where the police repression to Mapuche communities has become an everyday nightmare for community members, no matter whether they are children, women or elders.

The Mapuche leader interviewed in this documentary is Mijael Carbone. He is the main leader of the Mapuche Territorial Alliance, the Mapuche organization that was showcased last year at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver.

Please take 30 minutes of your time, and learn about the struggles of the Mapuche Nation.

Source: https://vimeo.com/47865802

TEASER: ALAOTRA – Endangered Treasures of Madagascar

A Documentary Film – coming in 2016
This is a film about the PEOPLE living in the Alaotra region in Madagascar, and about the CHANGES in their social and natural environments.
This is also a film about the BANDRO, the Alaotra gentle lemur (Hapalemur alaotrensis), that can survive only in the marshes surrounding the lake, and that is facing extinction due to these changes.
This is also a film about RESEARCH; on how to tackle complexity and grasp change. The AlaReLa (Alaotra Resilience Landscape) project aims to understand the various livelihood strategies of people like farmers or fishers, who use the lake, the marshes, and the land surrounding the lake to produce food and charcoal and other sources of energy. The scientist’s goal in the AlaReLa project is to engage with and inform decision makers responsible for the governance of such complex socio-ecological systems as the Alaotra.
Follow us to some of Madagascar’s hidden places – far away from the touristic centers – to find out what can happen when derivates of our modern times seep slowly into traditional ways of living. What can be done to strike a balance between yesterday and tomorrow; between conservation and development?

A film by Julia Dordel & Guido Tölke
Director of photography: Guido Tölke
Produced by Dorcon Film
Executive producer: Patrick Waeber, Madagascar Wildlife Conservation; ETH Zurich
Supported by Indian Ocean e-Ink, nordmedia – Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH, Alaotra Resilience Landscape project (AlaReLa) & Madagascar Wildlife Conservation (MWC)

For more information see:
Dorcon Film: http://www.dorconfilm.com
AlaReLa project: http://www.fordev.ethz.ch/research/re…
Madagascar Wildlife Conservation: http://www.madagascar-wildlife-conser…
©2016 Dorcon Film, all rights reserved

Global Fund Recipient: Mapuche Dialogue

“Planting Poverty: Film screening and discussion about the impacts of the forestry industry on Indigenous lands” was an activity open to the entire UBC community. Participants watched the documentary “Plantar Pobreza” and then engaged in a discussion with Alberto Curamil and Miguel Melin, two Mapuche activists from the Alianza Territorial Mapuche (ATM), who are leading the struggle against the installation of aggressive forestry and other extractive megaprojects on their traditional territory, in what is now called Chile.

Continue reading Global Fund Recipient: Mapuche Dialogue

Research selection on Forest Policy and Climate Change

The Paris Climate Change Conference is a focus point for policy makers and researchers from all over the world, working on agreements based on the best current science there is. For those interested in specific research in this field in Forestry, Forest Policy and Economics has made an article selection with 15 relevant articles.

This article selection is now freely available for a period of three months. We trust this selection will provide you with valuable insights into this complicated and important area of research.

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Call on Prime Minister Trudeau to freeze tar sands expansion. Now is the time.

Communication sent by Clayton Thomas-Muller through 350.org email list.

Friends,

Right now, I’m risking arrest outside the Prime Minister’s residence with dozens of other people from across Canada to demand a freeze on the tar sands expansion.

I’m nervous, unsure about how this day will unfold, and, surprisingly, I’m also full of hope. I have hope that the new leader of Canada will carve out a different path for this country than the one we’ve seen over the last 10 years — one that honours the rights of Indigenous peoples and respects the limits of our climate. This is the first day that Justin Trudeau has woken up as Prime Minister of Canada, and we’re making sure that we get to his doorstep before Big Oil does.

But I’ll be honest: I’m also afraid. I’m afraid of what will happen if Prime Minister Trudeau doesn’t hear our call. More toxic oil poisoning our sacred waters, more wildfires blazing through rainforests, coastal nations submerged underwater, portions of the Middle East becoming completely uninhabitable — it’s a future I’d rather not imagine. It’s certainly not the kind of world I want to leave behind for my two sons.

Now is the time for us to change the direction in which this country is headed. In just three weeks, our Prime Minister will head to Paris to take part in the most important round of international climate negotiations of the decade — and he needs to go in knowing that climate action and tar sands just don’t mix.

Will you help us deliver this message?

Click here to call on Prime Minister Trudeau to freeze tar sands expansion. Now is the time.

If you add your name before November 29th, we’ll make sure that he receives your message before he goes to Paris.

I’m also hoping you’ll help us tell the story of the incredibly beautiful action taking place outside the Prime Minister’s residence right now — click here to view live updates from the action. Join the conversation on social media using the #ClimateWelcome hashtag.

In respect and solidarity,

Clayton Thomas-Muller

Coyote’s Keyboard: Indigenous Storywork, Indigenous Stories, and Writing with Coyote | Faculty of Education

Dr. Jo-ann Archibald shares approaches, concerns, and successes about the ways that Indigenous stories can shape our writing.

When: Wednesday, November 4, 2015  |  12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Where: Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310

Source: Coyote’s Keyboard: Indigenous Storywork, Indigenous Stories, and Writing with Coyote | Faculty of Education

UBC MOOC – Reconciliation through Indigenous Education | Professional Development & Community Engagement

UBC Faculty of Education is delivering a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled “Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education”. This is a free 6-week online course that begins on September 29, 2015.

Source: UBC MOOC – Reconciliation through Indigenous Education | Professional Development & Community Engagement

People of the Land: Dialogue series with the Mapuche Territorial Alliance

September 22-23, 2015
UBC | Unceded Coast Salish Territory

People of the Land: Dialogue series with the Mapuche Territorial Alliance will bring together two Indigenous leaders from the Mapuche Nation –Alberto Curamil and Miguel Melin– with Indigenous activists and scholars from North America to exchange ideas and share experiences about land recuperation, opposition to extractive industries on their traditional territories, customary law, and Indigenous childhood, language, and education.

The Mapuche Territorial Alliance (ATM) is one of the grassroots organizations based on the ancestral territory of the Mapuche Nation in the South of Chile – the Gulu Mapu, or west side of the Andes. The ATM’s core mission is the full defense of Mapuche inherent rights, especially with regard to the protection of the territory and the natural environment.

Everyone welcome, but RSVP is required for the lunch on September 23rd.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 22

2-4pm Panel on land recuperation: Yes, the discussion has always been about land. With Kanahus Manuel (Secwepemc Nation) and Chief Ian Campbell (Squamish Nation)

Liu Institute for Global Issues – Multipurpose Room. 6476 North West Marine Drive

5-7pm Planting Poverty: Film screening and discussion about the impacts of the forestry industry on Indigenous lands. With Andrea Lyall (Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Nation, UBC)

Simon K. Y. Lee Global Lounge – Media Centre, Building 1  2205 Lower Mall

Light refreshments provided

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 23*

10am-12pm Panel on Indigenous customary law: Strengthening Indigenous legal orders from within. With Sheryl Lightfoot (Anishinaabe Nation, UBC) and Angeline Nyce (Nisg̱a’a nation)

1-3pm Panel on Indigenous childhood: Language and cultural revitalization through Indigenous knowledge. With Jo-ann Archibald (Sto:lo and St’at’imc Nations, UBC)

* Venue for both panels: First Nations Longhouse – Sty-wet-tan Hall 1985 West Mall

Lunch provided 12-1pm. RSVP to: mugarte@interchange.ubc.ca

Alberto Curamil is the spokesperson for the ATM. Community leader and traditional authority of the Curacautín area, Mapuche territory, he currently leads the opposition to the installation of hydroelectric power stations on several rivers across his traditional territory.

Miguel Melin is a Mapuche intercultural bilingual educator, activist, and former spokesperson for the ATM. He has extensive experience as a Mapuchezungun-Spanish teacher and has led several participatory projects with youth to revitalize the Mapuche language.

Presented with support from the Liu Institute for Global Issues, the Faculty of Forestry, the First Nations House of Learning, the Global Lounge, the Walter H. Gage Memorial Fund, the Faculty of Education, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Students Network, the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, and the School of Community and Regional Planning.