Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Economic Globalization:
A Celebration of Victories, Rights and Cultures

Date: November 18, 2006

Presented by the International Forum on Globalization and Tebtebba Foundation

Location: Hunter College, New York City, 69th Street (between Park and Lexington avenues),
Time: From 11 AM to 10 PM

30 Indigenous and non-indigenous speakers will celebrate the important developments:

Invited Speakers Include (*confirmed):

Winona LaDuke (Ashinaabeg), Indigenous activist, director, White Earth Land Recovery Project, founder, Honor the Earth, author, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life.

Oren Lyons (Onondaga), faith keeper, the Turtle Clan, professor of American studies, University of Buffalo.

Tom Goldtooth (Dine' and Mdewakanton Dakota), director, Indigenous Environmental Network.

Vandana Shiva (India), founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy, recipient Right Livelihood Award, author, Monocultures of the Mind.

John Mohawk (Seneca), professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Buffalo, author, Utopian Legacies: A History of Conquest and Oppression in the Western World.

*Chief Arthur Manuel (Secwepem, Canada), Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade.*

*Mililani Trask (Kanaka Maoli, Hawai'i), Indigenous advocate and international human rights expert.

Gary Brouse, co-chair, American Indigenous Coalition on Institutional Accountability, Program Director, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility's Corporate Governance Program and Militarism and Violence in Our Society Program.

*Joseph Ole Simel (Masaai, Kenya), director, Mainyoito Pastoralist Integrated Development Organization.*

Q'orianka Kilcher (Quechua/Huachipaeri), actress, "The New World."*

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Igorot, the Philippines), chair, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, director, Tebtebba Foundation, co-editor Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples Resistance to Economic Globalization.

Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan, Canada), director, En'owkin Centre, recipient of Buffet Award (2003) for Indigenous Leadership.*

Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson (Haida, Canada), attorney and director, White Raven Law.*

Sheila Watt Cloutier (Inuk) former chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference.*

Luis Macas, (Quechua, Ecuador), Goldman Prize Award Winner, 2006 presidential candidate for Ecuador.

Beverly Bell, former director, Center for Economic Justice, author,
Social Movements and Economic Integration in the Americas.*

Atossa Soltani, director, Amazon Watch.*

Jerry Mander, founder, International Forum on Globalization, author, In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations, and co-editor, Paradigm Wars.

Arundhati Roy, activist and author, The God of Small Things.

$10 for students/seniors; $15 for general admission

FOR TICKETS - PLEASE CALL THE NEW YORK OPEN CENTER:
1-212-219-2527, ext. 2; www.opencenter.org

INFORMATION: 1-415-561-7650; www.ifg.org

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