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We Can't Eat Gold: An Alaskan Documentary at Vancouver, BC's Just Film Festival
Living off the land, Alaska Natives defend the world's largest salmon runs against the impacts of the world's largest gold mine, the proposed Pebble Mine.
4:00pm
- 6:00pm
Saturday March 1 2014
Venue: Langara College of Higher Learning: Theater 5,
Address: 100 49th Ave W, Vancouver, BC.
Cost: $7.50 (e-mail wecanteatgold@gmail.com if you need a free ticket)
Accessibility: accessible
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Film Screening followed by Q&A with We Can't Eat Gold: An Alaskan Documentary Director Joshua Tucker, hosted by the Just Film Festival. WATCH THE OFFICIAL TRAILER
We Can’t Eat Gold opens a space for Alaska Native elders and youth to share their subsistence ways of life, before the U.S. government decides whether to permit Vancouver, BC based mining company Northern Dynasty Minerals LLC. to excavate a toxic open pit mine among the lands and waters in Alaska's Bristol Bay that Yupik and Athabascan tribes have called home for over 350 generations.
Organizer:wecanteatgold@gmail.com
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