UBC Reads Sustainability with Rueben George

Join us in-person or online for the opening event of UBC’s Sustainable Development Goals Month – a conversation with Sundance Chief and author Rueben George about his bestselling book, It Stops Here: Standing Up For Our Lands, Our Waters and Our People, moderated by UBC Associate Professor Dr. Shannon Leddy.

For over a decade, Rueben George has been a leading voice against the development of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, a fossil fuel megaproject, in Tsleil-Waututh Nation territories. His memoir relates his uncompromising stand against Canadian systems of prioritizing control, profit and resources over responsibility to lands, waters and people.

Through his book, Rueben showcases how Indigenous law and jurisdiction are essential for sustainability and wellbeing. As seen in the many ways Rueben’s actions advance Sustainable Development Goals (including goals 3 and 10-16), Indigenous law and jurisdiction are also deeply important to the interconnected approach we need to fulfil these goals and to address socio-ecological crises worldwide.