[Ost-announce] Oil Sands Truth Call for Submissions-- articles/writers wanted

[Macdonald Stainsby, OST]

Call for submissions

In Western Canada-- Alberta, BC and Saskatchewan-- mega projects, 
massive developments and international events are bringing vast changes 
across the entire region. From nuclear power plants to Ski Hills and the 
world's largest ever industrial project, there are many components of 
similarity throughout Western Canada that can be and must be connected.

 From the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA) 
through to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) the provinces 
are streamlining the vast changes and degradations in human rights, 
living conditions and environmental health.

In the Fall 2008, OilSandsTruth.org (OST) will be releasing a one time 
magazine on many of the issues being faced by the populations living 
within both provinces.

OST is looking for articles on the following:

How the SPP facilitates the tar sands;
How the SPP facilitates the 2010 Games;

Tar sands and the impact of the boom on indigenous self-determination;
2010 and the impact of the Games on indigenous self-determination;

Tar sands and the impact of the boom on housing;
2010 and the impact of the Games on housing;

Tar sands and how the impacts of the boom are gendered;
2010 and how the impacts of the Games are gendered;

Tar sands and the effects on migrant rights and temporary foreign workers;
2010 and the effects of the Games on migrant rights and temporary 
foreign workers;

Tar sands and trade union rights;
2010 and the effects on labour rights;

Tar sands development and what it means for land and the forests;
2010 and the impacts on lands and the forests;

Tar sands development and the impact on water quality;
Olympic development and the impact on water quality;

Olympics and their associations to war;
Tar sands and their association to currently waged wars.

Politics of “environmental sustainability” (greenwashing) in the tar sands;
Politics of “environmental sustainability” (greenwashing) for the 2010 
Games;

Eastern Canadian responses to the 2010 Games;
Eastern Canadian responses to the tar sands;

Resistance taking place to the tar sands;
Resistance taking place to the 2010 Games;

other article ideas along these lines greatly encouraged. Priority will 
be given to community organizers writing from first hand perspectives.

Article ideas should be submitted to macdonald at oilsandstruth.org ; the 
final articles should be 700-1000 words in length. Authors of articles 
that are commissioned for this one time publication will receive $100 
honorariums for their work.