Public Panel: The Financial Risk of Ignoring Indigenous Rights
Join Indigenous Climate Action for a free, hybrid panel discussion: The Financial Risk of Ignoring Indigenous Rights, featuring Black and Indigenous panelists following their participation in RBC’s Annual General Meeting.
Date: April 12, 2024
Time: 7-9 PM (ADT) \\ 6-8 PM (EDT) \\ 5-7 PM (CDT) \\ 4-6 PM (MDT) \\ 3-5 PM (PDT)
Location: Hybrid, Online (Zoom, Register Here) & In-Person (Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, 16 Spadina Rd , Toronto, ON M5R 2S7)
Panelists will share their experiences and concerns regarding RBC's financing decisions involving projects affecting their lands and communities, discuss the realities of what they’re enduring at the hands of the fossil fuel industry, RBC’s financing of global human rights violations, recapping their participation at the AGM, as well as present next steps for the Indigenous Divestment movement!
This panel discussion will be livestreamed on through Zoom and ICA’s Facebook account. A recording of the panel discussion will be available on ICA’s YouTube channel in the following days. ASL interpretation will be available.
Speakers
Courtney Wynne (EmCee), Indigenous Climate Action
Vanessa Gray, Anishinaabe Kwe, Divestment Campaign Coordinator at Indigenous Climate Action
Kolin Sutherland-Wilson, Git’luuhl’um’hetxwit Wilp of the Gitxsan people, Lax’yip Protection Specialist
Juan B. Mancias, Chair of the Esto’k Gna (Carrizo/Comecrudo) Tribe of Texas, Historian, Storyteller, and Keeper of the Lifeways
Representative from Gidimt’en Checkpoint
Tori Cress, Keepers of the Water