[Stopwar-l] Rally against Enbridge Monday 5pm

[StopWar]

Reminder:

StopWar is endorsing this rally which coincides with the first day of the
Enbridge pipeline hearings in Vancouver.

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ALL OUT AGAINST PIPELINES
no consent in the streets

Monday January 14th @ 5:00 pm
Victory Square (Cambie & Hastings)

With the Joint Review Panel hearings for Enbridge’s Northern Gateway
Pipeline arrive in Vancouver in mid January, we will be in the streets to
amplify marginalized voices demanding environmental justice and
challenging the legitimacy of the JRP process. These hearings represent
the government and corporate model of seeking consultations about
industrial projects while ultimately reserving the right to decide on
approving the project and removing the rights of communities to say no.

Indigenous communities have already said no to this project and may have
repeatedly asked for free, prior, and informed consent to be respected by
the colonial governments and by industry. The Unist'ot'en Clan have made
it clear that they oppose the construction of all pipelines, including
natural gas pipelines, on their territories that may even blaze the trail
for Enbridge's proposal. We are standing in full support of the
self-determination of indigenous communities and calling out the
"consultation process" as inadequate and ultimately unacceptable.

Furthermore, the Joint Review Panel have provided a long list of issues
that cannot be discussed during the hearings. Shockingly, one of these
issues is climate change-perhaps one of the most significant impacts of
the project. Climate change impacts many communities globally as well as
locally, and by affirming our belief in environmental justice we hope to
mobilize grassroots communities in order to highlight the voices that will
not be in the hearings and are generally underrepresented in the
resistance to pipelines.

Unceded Indigenous lands are threatened to be further destroyed these
projects. Subsidies and tax breaks to industrial corporations are promoted
in the face of austerity for the people. People are being displaced by
these projects and climate change around the world to live in exploitative
and impoverished conditions whether they be in the Downtown Eastside of
Vancouver or in migrant worker camps. Militaries that are waging war
against the people of Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan are fueled by these
industries. Structured sexism (or patriarchy) and other oppressions aid in
determining who bears the brunt of social impacts of industrial expansion
upon communities and who profits. Capitalism and state promotion of
economic growth are the driving forces behind extractive industries.

Join us in the streets to show that we demand consent not consultation. 
Together we will amplify voices for environmental justice. We will
organize together to place power in the hands of people and not in the
hands of a corporate-financed government or at closed door negotiating
tables.

For more information or to add endorse this action, please email:
risingtide604 at riseup.net (Rising Tide - Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories)