Activists from Québec’s Innu First Nation to protest this weekend’s New...
By Ken Picard, July 26, 2012, cross-posted from Seven Days More than a dozen protesters from Quebec’s Innu First Nation are due to arrive in Vermont this weekend to protest the Conference of New...
View ArticleAudio: KPFK Sojourner Truth show Earth Segment on Quebec’s Plan Nord and Innu...
Keith Brunner of Gears of Change discusses the Plan Nord, a massive development plan for northern Quebec that includes dams, mines and other industrial development. He also discusses the opposition to...
View ArticleThe global “Green Economy”: Seeing through the emperor’s new clothes
By Avery Pittman, September 18, 2012. Source: Toward Freedom Note: Avery Pittman traveled to Rio de Janiero this June as a volunteer correspondent for Climate Connections. She is a member of the...
View ArticlePlan Nord: Innu First Nations blockade in northern Quebec
Note: Global Justice Ecology Project, along with Rising Tide Vermont, has provided coverage of the Innu community members’ ongoing protests and blockades to oppose the Plan Nord- an $80bn mega-project...
View ArticlePlan Nord be dammed! Innu reject Quebec government’s “North for all” plan
Note: In July 2012, members of the Innu community of Mani-Utenam travelled to Burlington, Vermont, to join demonstrations against the Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers,...
View ArticleAudio: Dam shame: rivers and resistance
Note: In July of 2012, a delegation of Innu activists, including Elyse Vollant (interviewed), travelled to Burlington, Vermont to demonstrate against a major conference of New England governors and...
View ArticleInnu not idle as Plan Nord advances
By Aaron Lakoff, May 1 2013. Source: Briarpatch Magazine One year after the student strikes and Maple Spring that erupted in Quebec in 2012, the ongoing wave of social protests is having to recalibrate...
View ArticleInnu renew resistance to proposed Plan Nord and Hydro-Quebec expansion
Note: The following is a press release from Innu resisting Hydro-Quebec’s plans to construct transmission lines through their territory. Much of the expansion of Hydro-Power in Innu territory is part...
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