[van-announce] Correction - Build the Movement for Climate Justice - Tues Dec 7 & Sat Dec 11

[Eric Doherty]

Correction to the adress for Dec 7, it is at SFU Harbour Centre on Hastings, 
not the Granville St location:

People's Assembly for Climate Justice
Tuesday December 7, 2010  7 pm
SFU Harbour Centre
515 W. Hastings, Room 1400, Vancouver


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Help Build the Movement for Climate Justice


The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother 
Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia in April 2010 brought together social movements 
from all over the world to forge a powerful new movement for Climate 
Justice.


Heads of government will meet in Cancun November 29 to December 10 for talks 
about the climate crisis. At the same time people all over the world will 
take action against climate crimes like freeway building and to support the 
“People’s Agreement” created at Cochabamba. It is time for the people to 
take the lead – and make the leaders follow!


Lower Mainland Council of Canadians chapters, the Canada/Bolivia Solidarity 
Committee and GatewaySucks.org, together with many friends and allies, have 
taken up the challenge here. Join with us to build a people’s movement for 
Climate Justice.


People's Assembly for Climate Justice
Tuesday December 7, 2010  7 pm
SFU Harbour Centre
515 W. Hastings, Room 1400, Vancouver


Mass Direct Action for Climate Justice
Saturday December 11, 2010 at 12 noon
Starting at Waterfront Skytrain Station (Howe Street entrance)

Why Act Together Now?

The Cancun talks are an opportunity to build the global movement for Climate 
Justice. Our federal and provincial governments are funding climate crimes 
and oppose a fair and effective global agreement to reverse climate 
destruction.

That is why we are organizing this People’s Assembly and a Mass Direct 
Action.

People’s Assembly on Climate Justice – Tuesday Dec. 7

This first Metro Vancouver People’s Assembly on Climate Justice will begin a 
series of Assemblies to build a strong and effective Climate Justice 
movement in the Lower Mainland. We will advance real solutions while taking 
action against megaprojects in our region that increase greenhouse gas 
emissions. We will also be building the global movement for Climate 
Justice.This Assembly is part of the December 7 global day of action called 
by Via Campesina.

A People’s Assembly is a space to develop a common vision of positive change 
and a plan of action for making it happen. It started with people’s 
assemblies on Climate Justice taking place on the streets outside the 
Copenhagen climate negotiations in 2009. These talks failed but the 
assemblies sparked a movement that led to The World People’s Conference on 
Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in 2010. For more information 
on People’s Assemblies see: www.canadians.org/assemblies

Mass Direct Action for Climate Justice – Saturday Dec. 11

We have all been sandbagged on Climate Change by the federal and provincial 
governments. Now is the time to turn the tables.

Building on the successful and fun 10/10/10 Dig in for Climate Justice – and 
using bags filled with South Fraser Freeway "pre-load" sand – we will demand 
climate justice with a surprise creative direct action.

Climate Justice is not a lifestyle issue, it is about the elites who are 
responsible for climate change and the poor and marginalized who suffer its 
effects. It’s about humanity fighting for survival against the forces 
clinging to the profits from the fossil fuel economy and shifting all our 
resources to a low energy economy, like better public transit not freeways. 
We need to end the culture of unlimited growth and destructive consumerism 
and learn to “live well” while respecting and preserving Mother Earth.