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SPP Summit - New Orleans
 April 21-22, 2008

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 August 19-21, 2007

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March 31 to April 1, 2007

  

Dispatches from the People's Summit

On Sunday, August 20, energy workers from Canada, Mexico and the United States gathered in New Orleans for a second tri-national summit to discuss alternatives to continental energy integration as proposed in the SPP. It was a follow-up to a similar meeting in Montreal last August, which was also timed to coincide with the annual SPP summit taking place in Montebello, Quebec. Representatives from the three countries spoke on behalf of the 40 delegates at this year’s energy meeting during a press conference on April 21, 2008. From left to right: Pierre-Yves Serinet (Réseau Québécois sur l'Intégration continentale), Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians), Martin Esparza Flores (Mexican Electricity Workers), Dave Coles (CEP), Gary Beevers (United Steelworkers of America), and Rick Arnold (Common Frontiers).

The official launch of the People's Summit The official launch of the People's Summit The Latino Day Laborers at the official launch of the People's Summit The Latino Day Laborers at the official launch of the People's Summit Celebrating the opening of the People's Summit in "The Village" -- formerly where Senegalese slaves were brought to New Orleans by France
Maude Barlow (left) surveys some of the damage done to the Lower Ninth Ward by Hurricane Katrina. It's unclear how many people still haven't returned to New Orleans since Katrina. Part of the problem is that many of the houses they lived in were family homes passed down for several generations. Without deeds to the land, the people who left New Orleans after the flood are having enormous difficulty reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
The Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans was the most devastated by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent floods of 2005. Where there as once a thriving community there are now wide swathes of overgrowth and battered houses. On the right, you can see one of the levy walls that was patched up after Katrina but that would still probably not stand up to another hurricane of that magnitude. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is heavily criticized in New Orleans for its poor management of post-Katrina relief and reconstruction. An upturned car in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Unexpected meeting of Canadians looking for a planned march to the SPP summit. Maude Barlow (white shirt in middle) talks to Seamus Wolfe from the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa. Maude walks by Jackson Square with CoC chapter members.
Maude speaks to a New Orleanser about how the city would protest if they'd known about the visit. Behind Maude, an Ontario energy worker holds up a U.S. sign by Give Me Liberty. Police block traffic downtown in anticipation of George Bush's motorcade. Police block traffic downtown in anticipation of George Bush's motorcade.    
         

 

 

  

 

  
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