FILM & TALK --- SPECIAL GUEST FROM NORTHERN PERUVIAN AMAZON!

The Achuar people are taking a stand against Talisman's oil drilling project in their territory! Talisman is a Canadian oil & gas company based in Calgary, who is also leading on shale gas projects in Quebec. Friday November 25, 7:00 p.m. University of Ottawa, Lamoureux Hall, Room 122, Unceded Algonquin Territory Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/118762868236743/ Dear Friends, It is our honour to have an Indigenous Achuar leader from the northern Peruvian Amazon come to visit us. His name is Peas Peas and he will be accompanied by Gregor MacLennan of Amazon Watch. They come here, far away from their home, with a mission! Peas Peas will be sharing the stories of his people - the stewards of the Amazon rainforest - and their struggle and determination to stop Talisman Energy, an oil and gas corporation based in Calgary, from destroying their ancestral territory and their way of life. The Achuar people need us, you and I, to stand with them for their fight to protect the rainforest! Please come and join us on Friday evening to meet with Peas Peas and Gregor. 7:00 p.m. Friday November 25 University of Ottawa, Lamoureux Hall (LMX), Room 122, Unceded Algonquin Territory Campus map: http://www.uottawa.ca/maps/ The event will include a screening of "Chumpi and the Waterfall", a documentary about the Achuar people. You can watch a trailer of the documentary here - http://vimeo.com/6183607 It is in Spanish but the documentary will have English subtitles. "We demand that the Peruvian government immediately annuls the contracts for blocks 64 and 101 and that Talisman immediately withdraws from our territory." Achuar public statement, March 28th 2010 For more information about the Achuar and Talisman Energy: http://amazonwatch.org/work/talisman To show your support: please send a message to Talisman's CEO, John Manzoni: http://amazonwatch.org/take-action/pledge-to-support-the-achuar-people and tell your friends about it! Amazon Watch is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. For more about the organization: http://amazonwatch.org/about, This event is a special event in collaboration with the Cinema Academica weekly series of film screenings at University of Ottawa. For more info on Cinema Academica: Wayne Sawtell, 613-421-1373. To subscribe to the Cinema Acadmica newsletter, send an email to: news-subscribe@cinemaacademica.ca Co-presented by IPSMO - Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa - www.ipsmo.org See you there!