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2010-0035

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2009-06-18

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News conference by representatives of the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa (IPSMO) to raise awareness about efforts by indigenous people in Peru to protect their environment from exploitation made possible by free trade laws passed in Peru and caused by mining, oil and gas extraction and logging. The group is concerned because Bill C-24, the Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement, is currently before the Canadian Senate. The speakers are: Ben Powless, who was in Peru working with AIDESEP, an organization that represents approximately 600,000 Amazon Indians, and who also has worked with IMPSMO and the Indigenous Enivironmental Network; Robert Lovelace, former chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, who spent time in jail for opposing uranium exploration and mining on indigenous land in eastern Ontario; and Verda Cook, trade campaigner at the Polaris Institute.

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