[Indigsol] June 18 International Stop Tar Sands Day!

[Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement -Ottawa]

International Day of Action Against the Tar Sands

JOIN the Tar Sands Tour this weekend!

Saturday, June 18 · 2:00pm
Meet on Sparks and Elgin St (at the bear)

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126622984087165


Dear friends,

Please spread widely

Please join Climate Justice Ottawa to an action for the International Day
of Action Against the Tar Sands, on Saturday June 18th.

We will be holding a Tar Sands Tour of the city of Ottawa which is
intended to inform the public about the tar sands and all the political
issues surrounding it. We will be meeting at 11 am for flyering in the
Market and at 12:45 on Sparks and Elgin. At 2 pm, we will meet on Sparks
and Elgin (in front of the bear) to start the tour. The tour should last
30 - 40 minutes and will be focused in the Centertown area.

The tar sands are destroying forests, trampling Indigenous rights,
poisoning the atmosphere and river systems and threatening community
health. On the weekend of June 17th we will fight back globally!

Whether it’s forest destruction, toxic lakes that can be seen from space,
the trampling of Indigenous rights or the poisoning of Canadian and U.S.
communities living near tar sands operations, turning tar sands into
transportation fuel hurts our environment and communities every step of
the way.

For more information, please contact: cjcottawa at gmail.com


This event is organized by Climate Justice Ottawa -
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Climate-Justice-Climatique-Ottawa/149824601698653.


Also, please see Al Jazeera's reporting on the tar sands and International
Day of Action Against the Tar Sands -
http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/canadas-tar-sands.


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