[Indigsol] Sunday Aug. 24: Show Up, Shout Out and Shut Down the Tar Sands!

[Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement Ottawa]

Show Up, Shout Out and Shut Down the Tar Sands!
Demonstration and Festivities

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Dundonald Park
(Somerset and Lyon)
Saturday, August 24, 2:00pm
Bring your banners, pots, pans, drums and whatever!

Organized by DecLine 9 Ottawa
This is not a permitted march

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Free Food and Drinks
There will be music and drumming

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Speakers:

Ben Powless (Mohawk), Ecology Ottawa
Vanessa Gray (Ojibway), Anti-Line 9 Organizer

Musicians:

Vela
Adam III

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On August 24th, land defenders, activists and allies are putting
their bodies on the line by blockading Alberta's Highway 63, which is the
MAIN ARTERY that services the tar sands production sites north of Fort
McMurray! They have made a call for an international day of action
against the tar sands, and Decline 9 Ottawa is organizing a protest in
solidarity with the blockaders.

It is essential to support the people who will be on Highway 63 this
day, both to honour their actions and to let the authorities know that
people across Turtle Island, and around the world will be watching
them.

We are everywhere! We want to build a world where everyone fits!

We want to celebrate all of the creative, beautiful and loving ways
Indigenous and non-Indigenous people have been protecting Mother
Earth, waters, animals and future generations. We will be coming
together as a community, to show our solidarity with the protestors,
and our commitment to building a better world together. We want a
movement that is stronger in numbers, less apathetic, and more
empathetic with each other and with the natural world.

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YouTube, “Shut Down the Tar Sands Highway”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGTQ2gI3pMk (Preview)

Vancouver Media Co-operative, “Shut Down the Tar Sands Highway:
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/video/shut-down-tar-sands-highway/18211

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Highway 63 is the main artery that services the Tar Sands production
sites north of Fort McMurray. The Tar Sands are one of the most, if
not THE most, environmentally destructive projects that exists today.

The Tar Sands exist due to the historic and ongoing colonization of
Turtle Island (North America) and the Treaties made between the
Canadian Government and Indigenous Nations. The Canadian government
has never honoured the spirit in which the treaties were made, and in
practice has unilaterally violated virtually all the agreements which
it made.

We are all downstream from the tar sands, whether that’s literally or
through exposures to the many pipelines that are being built to
service tar sands industry. We are all effected: worker’s are forced
to work in dangerous and toxic environments; migrants workers are
denied citizenship rights, super-exploited, segregated from and paid
less than Canadian citizens, and often experience racism; women and
women workers have said that they frequently experience physical and
sexual violence; women who live close to the industries and refineries
are subjected to dangerous toxins that damage their reproductive
systems, and have more risks of miscarriage; children are born with
birth defects, and have much higher instances of serious physical
health issues; both children and adults in affected communities
experience grave physical and mental health issues, including cancers,
post traumatic stress, developmental disabilities; animals are
disappearing, as more and more are being killed or chased away from
their natural habitats.

It is important to remember that the ecological degradation wrought by
the tar sands happens everyday, and that the scale of the destruction
is so great, and with such dire impacts for everyone, especially the
environment and directly effected communities, but also in terms of
climate change and global warming, that the Tar Sands need to be a
political priority for every person, and movement in Canada.

The movement against tar sands is at a critical juncture. Currently
the expansion of the tar sands is being significantly impeded by the
fierce resistance that pipelines have attracted continentwide. The
industry’s difficulties in moving their product West and South has led
to Enbridge’s Line 9 Reversal project and TransCanada’s Energy East
Pipeline Project, both of which cut through Ontario & Quebec on their
way to the East coast. The time has come for people in our region to
come together, declaring that we will not be complicit in the
exploitation of Mother Earth and that we do not want these pipelines
carrying Tar Sands oil running through our communities.

Join us!

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This event has been endorsed by:

The Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement - Ottawa (IPSMO)
350 Ottawa

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For more information on:

Indigenous People: http://canadiandimension.com/articles/1760

Environment:
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/jun08/feature_tar_sands.asp

Migrant workers:
http://oilsandstruth.org/increase-migrant-workers-canada-opens-door-abuses

Women: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/1468

Racism:
http://oilsandstruth.org/racism-tar-sands-exploiting-foreign-workers-and-poisoning-indigenous-people

Children: http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/03/22/Alberta-Family-Flees-Oil-Sands/

Health: http://oilsandsrealitycheck.org/facts/human-rights-3/

Animals:
http://oilsandstruth.org/twomouthed-fish-discovered-near-alberta-tar-sands-two-stories

General: http://desmog.ca/2013/05/15/10-reasons-canada-rethink-tar-sands

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In solidarity,

The Indigenous Peoples’ Solidarity Movement Ottawa (IPSMO)
on unceded Algonquin Territory

Web Site: http://www.ipsmo.org
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/ipsmo


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