[van-announce] Monday 7:30 PM - Direct Action Against Gateway to Climate Chaos

[Eric Doherty]

Direct Action Against Gateway for Copenhagen
a bulletin from www.gatewaysucks.org

DIRECT ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE - NOW IS THE TIME!
SHUT DOWN THE GATEWAY TO CLIMATE CHAOS

Join us as we stage an occupation of a Gateway Program site in central Vancouver, and send a clear message to our Prime Minister and the BC Government that GATEWAY=CLIMATE CHAOS. 

In March of this year 2,500 people participated in an act of civil disobedience that blocked the entrances to a coal plant in Washington DC. Across Canada and around the world, activists are now engaging in a wave of direct action to address climate change. Now, with Stephen Harper disgracing our country on the world stage, we can no longer be silent.

On the first day of the crucial Copenhagen Climate Talks a local group, including well-known sustainability expert and UBC professor Patrick Condon, will commit an act of public civil disobedience in BC. We will address the controversial GATEWAY PROGRAM, a massive highway-expansion project that would increase greenhouse gases by over 170,000 tonnes per year.

The Gateway Program is linked to a larger Pacific Gateway strategy that includes pipelines to the Alberta Tar Sands. The Tar Sands are already Canada's largest point source of greenhouse gas emissions, and are now threatening the future of the earth itself.

We need front-line activists as well as sideline supporters, to rally with us and cheer on the action! Note that no one will EVER be expected to act beyond their interest or comfort level. Men, women, children, people of all ages and socio-economic stripes - YOUR PRESENCE MATTERS! Bring signs, banners and drums. The word is getting out.

When: Monday, December 7th, 7:30 PM, convening at a central Vancouver location.

If you would like to participate in this action, or if you or your organization would like to endorse our message, please email info at gatewaysucks.org.

For more info on this event and the Gateway Project see http://www.gatewaysucks.org
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Ya basta, LET'S GO!

a bulletin from www.gatewaysucks.org