From the Pacific to the Atlantic: Defending Indigenous fishing rights
Channel: Communist Party of Canada
Date: 2021-02-07

Join us for this livestream event with two guests, from the West and East coasts. We welcome a native grassroots organizer and fisherman who would like to remain anonymous. He will use the name "Jim" for this event, and will be discussing salmon fishery issues in British Columbia. We also welcome Nova Scotia's Chris Frazer, a settler professor of Latin American history at StFX University living and working in Mi'kma'ki, the unceded land of the Mi'kmaq people. He is actively in solidarity with Mi'kmaq and other indigenous peoples. During the recent struggles to assert the right to moderate living by fishing lobster, Frazer helped bring together solidarity activists to raise money and rallies to support Mi'kmaq fishers. Born in Vancouver and raised in Alberta, Frazer has been a member of the Communist Party for more than 40 years, and served as the central organizer and then leader of the Young Communist League from 1985-1990. Frazer is also a drag performer and queer activist in the east-coast LGBTQ2SIA community.
Saturday, Feb. 6 @ 12 noon Pacific Time (3 pm Eastern, 4 pm Atlantic).
A web link will be posted closer to the event.
The Centre for Socialist Education is located on the traditional, unceded, occupied territories of the səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. This event is also in solidarity with the struggles of the peoples of the territory in which we occupy.
Sponsored by the Centre for Socialist Education and Communist Party of BC. Phone 604-255-2041 for more information