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blake 3:17
26th October 2012, 04:06
This is tremendously important and a very important step in building an anti-capitalist internationalist response to disastrous exploitation of labour, land, and human rights. Please come!

THE TAR SANDS COME TO ONTARIO -- NO LINE 9!
Resistance, education and alternatives

Saturday, November 17, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Toronto
lunch provided

A day of discussion and organizing for action to stop tar sands pipelines in Ontario. Join us for workshops, a panel discussion and a people’s assembly.

Special guests will include Art Sterritt from BC Coastal First Nations, Executive Director, Coastal First Nations; Haudenosaunee land defender Wes Elliott; CEP President Dave Coles. and resource people on labour and environmental justice issues.

PROGRAM
10:00 The tar sands’ impact: environmental injustice at home and abroad.
Workshops on:

* Tar sands in our communities
* Tar sands and workers: the climate jobs alternative
* Climate justice and the Global South
* Tar sands and structural causes of climate change
* Legal initiatives against tar sands injustice

12:45 Resistance, solutions and solidarity: Indigenous leaders, labour, and allies.
Guest speakers: Art Sterritt; Wes Elliott; Dave Coles.

3:00 Stopping the Pipelines: A Realistic Goal
A People’s Assembly with action-oriented breakout sessions.

What is Line 9?
First Nations’ defence of their lands is spearheading resistance across Canada to the tar sands menace. In Ontario, this threat is posed by Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline, which could soon be pumping corrosive and toxic tar sands across the province.

Line 9 cuts through Toronto, north of Finch. Tar sands in Line 9 would violate indigenous land rights, menace natural environments, and threaten Toronto and communities across the province. And exploitation of Canada’s tar sands escalates climate change, posing a deadly threat to all the world’s peoples. No Line 9!

For the full picture, see “Stopping Line 9” by Dave Vasey at http://rabble.ca/news/2012/09/enbridge-line-9-other-other-pipeline.

For more info [email protected]|www.t.grupoapoyo. org

Part of the OPIRG Rebuilding Bridges conference: opirgtoronto.org

Co-Organizers: Center for Social Justice, Common Frontiers, Council of Canadians-Toronto, Latin American Caribbean Solidarity Network, OPIRG-Toronto, St. Paul-Trinity Public Witness Circle, Toronto Bolivia Solidarity

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blake 3:17
15th November 2012, 01:16
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