WEJ - Information & Discussion Session

On Wednesday August 23, 2006 WEJ (World Economic Justice) held an information and discussion session.

An introduction was given by one of the WEJ founders Tegi Obamda. Tegi introduced the evening with a talk on Natural Resources being the main source of all Wealth.
- Resource plunder as the main source of poverty, enviornmental degradation, conflict wars, and misery in the world.


Wanyee Kinuthia, co-founder of WEJ talked of the New International Resource Management -- NIRMO.
-Local Direct Investment as opposed to Foreign Direct Investment
-Cooperatives as opposed to Corporations
-Fair Trade as opposed to Free Trade
-Economic Justice as opposed to Economic Exploitation
-Prosperity for all as opposed to Mass Poverty
-Sustainability as opposed to Enviornmental Degradation

The Evening was joined by Joan Kuyek (Executive Coordinator, Mining Watch Canada), Rob Clarke (Executive Director, Transfair Canada), Caitlin Peeling (La Siembra Cooperative), Richard Edwins (Africa Diaspora Coop), and Laura Macpherson (Youth Enviornmental Network, Sierra Club).

Joan Kuyek - Mining Watch Canada

COME AND SUPPORT THE WORLD ECONOMIC JUSTICE WALK

World Economic Justice Walk

Ottawa to Toronto

The controversial titanium-mining project in Kenya (East Africa), by Toronto-based Tiomin Resources Inc., is to serve as a case study in demonstrating the characteristic and unrelenting exploitation of the poor, under the guise of ‘free trade’. The walk also aims to draw attention to the urgent plight of thousands of villagers, who are presently being evicted from their ancestral lands, in order to make room for the project. “Tiomin Resources plans to strip-mine titanium along the coast of Kenya, East Africa...extracting 1,500 tons of ore per hour” [Dongo Kundu – A film by Gene Bernofsky, Ken Furrow, and James Kinsey (2000); World Wide Film Expedition (Montana)].

"Kenyans are getting so little from the mining that it is going to be a rip-off…the slave labour will be provided by Kenyans…the Kenyan government should have been the one to invest in the production and processing of the minerals" [Nobel Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai, in Troubles Mount for Canadian Titanium Mine in Kenya – Environment News Service (http://www.ens-newswire.com/), 11th April 2001].

COME AND SUPPORT THE WORLD ECONOMIC JUSTICE WALK
Information and Discussion Session
Speakers: Joan Kuyek (Executive Coordinator, MiningWatch Canada)
Rob Clarke (Executive Director, TransFair Canada)
Youth Environmental Network, Sierra Club
Caitlin Peeling (La Siembra Cooperative) and others.
Venue: YMCA / YWCA (Room 245), 180 Argyle Street, Ottawa
Video: Dongo Kundu on Titanium Mining in Kenya
Wednesday August 23, 2006 - 7.00 pm
Suggested Donation $10
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Picnic / Barbeque
Vincent Massey Park (Section F), Ottawa
Heron Rd. and Riverside Dr.
Sunday August 27, 2006 - 1.00 pm
Food will be sold
For more information, contact Wanyee at (613) 899 4344. E-mail wejw2006@yahoo.ca