“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.

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