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Featuring Crystal Lameman of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation.
Recent News
Bananas not Bitumen: Baking in solidarity with Beaver Lake Cree
We are blown away by the ingenuity, commitment and creativity of this community that never ceases to amaze, even with the challenges of a pandemic! Marianne, an artist based in Victoria, BC has been known to trade her pottery wheel for a baking oven when solidarity...
This community can keep a promise/Cette collectivité sait tenir sa promesse
For the past month, we’ve been reaching out to you about the tough fight facing Alberta’s Beaver Lake Cree. First, we told you about the outrageous injustice being faced by a small Indigenous Nation, forced to argue their financial poverty in court - on their own dime...
VIDEO: An Insiders Look at the Tar Sands Trial
Want the backstory on the Tar Sands Trial? Watch the video of a powerful discussion between Beaver Lake Cree’s Crystal Lameman, lawyer Karey Brooks, and RAVEN Campaigns Director Ana Simeon. Crystal Lameman led us through a history of the Tar Sands Trial legal action....
Alberta and Canada Deny Beaver Lake Cree Nation’s Financial Poverty in their Most Recent Appeal of the Court’s Advance Cost Award
Guest post by Crystal Lameman, Beaver Lake Cree Nation, Treaty No. 6 My home community, the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, Treaty No. 6 (Alberta), filed a legal action in 2008 based on the Crown’s failure to account for cumulative impacts of industrial development,...
Reconcile This: Health, Wellness and Safety During a World Pandemic, or Concessions for Extreme Resource Extraction
by Crystal Lameman, guest author As the world faces unprecedented times, we are presented with an opportunity to change a system that was not working, did not put life and Mother Earth first, and was grounded in the continued taking up of land and resources to fill a...
Doubling down on justice: support the Tar Sands Trial and multiply your impact!
The Beaver Lake Cree are back in court on June 4th, facing down Canada to defend their treaty rights in the historic Tar Sands Trial. Right now, we are matching every donation to the Tar Sands Trial : thanks to a generous donor, from May 5 every dollar you give will...
Send some love to land + water defenders
This Valentines Day, send a message of support to the Beaver Lake Cree as they face off against Canada and Alberta on February 19th. Your messages will be delivered to elders and leaders on the courthouse steps. #treatystrong #tarsandstrial...
Events in Toronto and Montreal: On the Frontlines of Climate Justice
Generous supporters like you have made a significant contribution to one of the most important legal challenges of our time: the fight to contain the expansion of Canada's tar sands. The winter 2018 campaign for Beaver Lake Cree's Tar Sands Trial has raised almost...
Stand with Indigenous Peoples to stop the Tar Sands!
The Beaver Lake Cree are fighting to defend their treaty rights and force limits on the expansion of Canada’s toxic tar sands. Since the New Year, the Beaver Lake Cree legal team has been working flat-out, devoting every waking hour to preparing for the Feb 19 hearing...