[van-announce] Hello Al, Goodbye Gateway Rally - Sat. Sept. 29th 5-7

[Eric Doherty]

*Hello Al, Goodbye Gateway
*
Welcome Al Gore to Vancouver and Demand Action on Climate Change

Send a strong message to Premier Campbell that Gateway is the wrong way.
Rail and buses not highways.

*Bring your signs and banners for a rally outside the Bayshore*

*Saturday, September 29th, 2007
5:00 - 7:30 pm
Cardero St. at Coal Harbour (East of the Westin Bayshore)
*http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Cardero+St.+at+Coal+Harbour+%2C+Vancouver%2C+BC 


Presenting:
David Fields - Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC)
Adriane Carr - Deputy Leader, Green Party
Joe Foy - Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Harold Steves - Father of BCís Agricultural Land
Michael Sather - MLA, Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows
Peter Julian - Federal NDP Transportation Critic
Donna Passmore - Gateway 40 Citizens Network

Entertainment by Raging Grannies, Ned Jacobs, Port Action Theatre Troup 
and Timothy Wizdom

Al Gore will be inside the Bayshore giving his Inconvenient Truth 
presentation. If you can't afford the $500 tickets, please join us for 
the rally outside, just to the east of the Bayshore. Premier Campbell 
will be introducing Mr. Gore.

The Gateway Program will increase traffic throughout the region thus 
increasing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by at least 
176,000,000 kg per year!

More information on transportation solutions and problems with Gateway:
http://www.stopgateway.ca/
http://livableregion.ca/

Invite your facebook friends:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5971385798

To volunteer, contact Richard:
604.733.1764
richard.austin.campbell at gmail.com

Hello Al, Goodbye Gateway is part of the Day to Stop Gateway which 
begins with:
*The Spirit of Sustainability
*Connecting Spirituality and Ecology in the context of the Gateway Program
Saturday, September 29 from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
949 West 49th Avenue (at Oak)
More info at:
http://www.stopgateway.ca/