Film Night! Beach Day! Oh My…

July 15, 2015
Hello Tablers. We’ve got a full week coming up, so I’m going to stretch your In-boxes with two emails. I know that we often end up looking at these blurbs on the tiny screens of our mobile devices, so let me encourage you to take the extra ten seconds to scroll down and make sure you’ve seen the whole thing.

So, Film Night first. This Wednesday we’ll be screening the award winning film “One River Many Relations”. Film maker Michael Tyas will be on hand to both host the film and to join us in conversation afterward. We’ll meet at our usual time (6:30).

Following is more info on the film. You can check out the trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCqBkvluJBw, or the website here www.oneriverthefilm.ca.

See you on Wednesday!

Tim Plett

The Table Winnipeg and the Environmental Conservation Lab are holding a secret, free screening of ONE RIVER MANY RELATIONS for friends and neighbors. There will be light refreshments and popcorn available. Please invite a neighbor or friend to come along also.

“Exploring the Athabasca Oil Sands from a marginalized and silenced perspective, this film focuses on Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, a remote community that is fighting against pollution they recognize is causing cancers, sickening wildlife and degrading their traditional territories. Despite the many film documentaries that have been produced about the Oil Sands, Fort Chip is generally represented as a token voice that is drowned out by the soap-boxing of celebrities, scientists and politicians. This documentary is a collaborative effort between the University of Manitoba, Mikisew Cree First Nation, and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, and gets to the heart of their concerns for their families, traditional ways and territories as oil extraction creeps northward.”

Donations supporting community based monitoring of oil sands pollutants and water levels in Fort Chipewyan will be taken afterwards.

 
Pop Quiz: Which of the following stresses is the biggest threat to the communities that will be featured in One River Many Relations? Consider your answer and compare it to what you learn after the film.
  • Deep reduction of the number of migratory waterfowl passing through the delta
  • Youth and families leaving the community for lucrative work in the south
  • Air and water contamination from oil sands operations
  • The legacy of the residential school system
  • Disruption of isolation caused by encroachment of industry
  • Rare and aggressive cancers with a statistically discernable link to oil sands
  • Declining water levels in the Peace Athabasca Delta
  • Near complete expatriation of muskrat from the Peace Athabasca Delta
  • Absence of scientific data proving that resource extraction is safe downstream
  • Inadequate scientific study on the short & long term effects of oil sands mining
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