[Toronto] #idlenomore-Anisinabe Algonquins Protest Resolutes Clear-Cut Logging of Natural Forest.
Channel: Dee Shanger
Date: 2013-04-09

[TORONTO] #idlenomore-Anisinabe Algonquins Protest Clear Cut Logging of Natural Forest by Resolute Forest Products & CEO Richard Garneau @Royal York Hotel; w/Solomon Wawatie, Jacob Wawatie, Lisa & more - Thu Apr 4 2013 - ended 236pm
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Richard Garneau, CEO of Resolute will be speaking at Empire Club about how Resolute is sustainable. This is not true. Resolute is illegally clear cutting the territory where the Anishinabe are living a traditional life. Anishinabe are coming from Quebec to bring the truth and protest this speech. We in attendance at this protest joined in the struggle to protect the land, the four leggeds, the flyers, the swimmers and the tree nation. Idle No More!!! Yarrrr!!!
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::: MEDIA ADVISORY April 3, 2013 :::
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Quebec Algonquins to protest Resolute Forest Products "Corporate Responsibility" talk at Empire Club

Toronto -- While Resolute Forest Products (TSX:RFP) continues to conduct clearcut logging in traditional Algonquin territory, CEO Richard Garneau will deliver a speech at the Empire Club of Canada Thursday on the topic of "corporate responsibility".

He will be greeted by Algonquin community members from a Quebec region known as Parc de La Verendrye. Galvanized by years of environmental destruction and inspired by the Idle No More movement, they have travelled to Toronto in order to challenge his claims in person.

"Before my territory was clear cut, there were 166 species of trees," said Algonquin Elder Bob Whiteduck. "Now there are four. Now where there was abundant wildlife, there is none."

Resolute is currently felling natural forests in Algonquin Territory in Quebec without the consent of the people living in those woods. "We never consented to this logging. We rely on those woods for our food, our medicines, our homes. Clearcutting doesn't just destroy trees, it destroys our way of life," says Tina Nottaway, spokes person for the Traditional Circle of Algonquin Elders, a group of Algonquins who have live on this land since time immemorial and who have never surrendered their land.

Greenpeace has come out strongly supporting the Algonquins. "Corporate responsibility means respecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples. They have a right to protect their lands and way of life for future generations," according to Shane Moffatt, a Greenpeace Canada forest campaigner.

Greenpeace supports the Algonquins demand for a moratorium on clear cut logging until an ecosystem based forest management plan is prepared with full community involvement and consent.

What: Algonquin community members leading supporters protesting unsustainable logging by Resolute Forest Products.

When: 11:30 am - 1:00pm, Thursday, April 4th.
Where: Royal York Hotel, 100 Front St West, Toronto.

For more information visit: http://www.Mamwi.org

For press inquires call: Kevin Best 519-372-6431
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