Interview with Dominique Angutimariq, Show Me on the Map ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ "...we have to fight so hard for our rights when often things are already decided for us." Arnait Video, Show Me on the Map, 2009.
Gordon Edwards, from the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsability, tells us that uranium mining is done on aboriginal lands where mining companies find vulnerable people; Dr Helen Caldicott agrees and talks about Australia. Joe Tigullaraq, running for NTI president, questions the NTI policy on uranium mining.
Last year in the evening of November 27th 2009, prominent anti-mining activist and community organizer Mariano Abarca Roblero was murdered in front of his home in the Chiapas town of Chicomuselo. He is survived by a wife and four children.
Dr Isabelle Gingras is one of the doctor from Sept-Iles, Quebec, who vow to quit her job at the hospital of the region if uranium exploration and mining were progressing. She was in Iqaluit on November 18th to talk about the health hazards of the different steps of uranium exploitation. In English (audio Inuktitut translation to be uploaded soon).
On November 18th the organization Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit introduced anti-uranium activists to an Iqaluit audience. Here Sandra Inutiq, Chairperson of the organization opens up the presentation. In Inuktitut.
"The estimate came in a presentation on Wednesday before the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission in Timmins, Ont., as the federal regulator investigates how to close the digital gap between urban and rural areas." Globe&Mail ht… Uqalimakkanirit
"We may be ignorant people, but, excuse the term - it is not that I'd like to offend the government - he is the ignorant one who doesn't know what he is doing. 'Cause if he knew, he would've said 'no' to indiscriminate large-scale open-pit mining. He would have said 'No, let's go for other life alternatives!"
"We may be ignorant people, but, excuse the term - it is not that I'd like to offend the government - he is the ignorant one who doesn't know what he is doing. 'Cause if he knew, he would've said 'no' to indiscriminate large-scale open-pit mining. He would have said 'No, let's go for other life alternatives!"
"We may be ignorant people, but, excuse the term - it is not that I'd like to offend the government - he is the ignorant one who doesn't know what he is doing. 'Cause if he knew, he would've said 'no' to indiscriminate large-scale open-pit mining. He would have said 'No, let's go for other life alternatives!"
"We may be ignorant people, but, excuse the term - it is not that I'd like to offend the government - he is the ignorant one who doesn't know what he is doing. 'Cause if he knew, he would've said 'no' to indiscriminate large-scale open-pit mining. He would have said 'No, let's go for other life alternatives!"
Diana Rico y Richard Decaillet son artistas plásticos y realizadores. Desde el 2006 trabajan juntos como 4direcciones audio-visual haciendo películas, exposiciones y publicaciones. El propósito de 4direcciones es preservar y promover la diversidad cultural y explorar la estrecha relación que existe entre el arte, el territorio y la biodiversidad.