[IPSM] (Ott) Aug. 24: Show Up, Shout Out and Shut Down the Tar Sands!]

[mattm-b at resist.ca]

The blockade of Highway 63 has been postponed, but due to people's
interest in protesting the Tar Sands and the Pipelines – specifically the
Line 9 and Energy East pipelines, we will still be having the
demonstration and festivities – food, music and speakers.

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, 4:00pm
Bring your banners, pots, pans, drums and whatever!
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
Erin Saoirse Adair
Maxim
Chris Elie

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Solidarity with the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, and with every
community that is resisting the Tar Sands!

Solidarity with everyone who is negatively impacted by the Tar Sands
industry!

On August 24th we will be coming together as a community, to show our
solidarity with people resisting the Tar Sands industry, and our
commitment to building a better world together.  We will be protesting the
both the Tar Sands, and two of the pipelines that pass through or near
Ottawa: Line 9, and Energy East.

Line 9 is pipeline that extends from Sarnia to Montreal, and that is being
retrofitted to pump Tar Sands oil.  There is already a strong campaign to
stop this pipeline being turned into a Tar Sands pipeline.

Energy East is a pipeline that is used to transport Natural Gas, and that
TransCanada wants to alter to carry Tar Sands oil.  The proposed change
was only discovered recently, and the camapign to stop it is already
underway, and is growing quickly.

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 want a movement that is
stronger in numbers, less apathetic, and more empathetic with each other
and with the natural world.

We Are Everywhere! We Want A World Where Everyone Fits!

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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation preparing to
stand before regulatory board challenging tar sands winter drilling
project:

http://acfnchallenge.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/for-immediate-release-athabasca-chipewyan-first-nation-preparing-to-stand-before-regulatory-board-challenging-tar-sands-winter-drilling-project/

- Line 9 - Tar Sands

A proposal to bring dirty tar sands oil through Ontario & Quebec

http://environmentaldefence.ca/issues/tar-sands/line-9

- Ecology Ottawa Rejects Proposed TransCanada Energy East Pipeline

Energy East would see 1.1 million barrels of oil shipped through Ottawa
and the Rideau River daily

http://ecologyottawa.ca/our-community/our-community-latest-news/news-releases/

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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
Ecology Ottawa
OPIRG-Ottawa
Solidarity Against Austerity

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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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