Energy Colonialism

This workshop will profile how American Indian and Alaska Native communities are negatively impacted by U.S. energy and climate policy. Native speakers from frontline communities from Alaska, Canada, North Dakota, Montana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and California experiencing the "Road of Destruction" from a neo-colonial energy system that violates the human rights of Native peoples leaving a path of environmental, economic and health justice issues. The workshop will have different tracks that focus on: Fossil Fuel Regime (oil, gas, coal mining, coal power plants, coal bed methane, oil/tar sands, refineries), ; Nuclear; Geothermal and Renewable Energy as a National Solution.