[van-announce] Please fwd: Sept. 23 & Sept. 24 Vancouver events for Climate Justice

[Derrick O'Keefe]

Vancouver Weekend of Climate Justice: Fri Sept 23 Cafe Rebelde & Sat Sept. 24 Bike ride for global climate action
*Please forward widely*


Café Rebelde Presents...

>From Cochabamba to the Struggle Against Tar Sands Pipelines: Defending Mother Earth

An evening in celebration of struggles for climate justice and to defend Mother Earth


Friday, September 23, 2011 - 7:30 pm at W2 Media Cafe, 111 W. Hastings (between Abbott and Cambie) 



 While the Harper government promotes the tar sands and obstructs 
international action to deal with the emergency of climate change, a 
movement is growing within Canada and around the world demanding climate
 justice. More people than ever are stepping forward to put themselves 
on the line in defense of Mother Earth.
 
 Join us for an informative evening with speakers, music, drinks and food from the W2 Media Cafe kitchen.

Wonderful singers will share the night with us: René Hugo Sanchez, Sarita Galvez, Kalilah Rampanen and Ta'Kaiya Blaney. 

Outstanding activists will talk about: 

the struggle of the Huicholes in Wirikuta regarding the Canadian mining company First Majestic Silver;
the
 ongoing struggle to protect Wet'suwet'en land against Endbridge, Kinder
 Morgan, PTP, Pembina companies that are proposing the construction of 7
 pipelines in their territory; 
the struggle against Imperial Metals,
 a Vancouver-based mining company, that is currently exploring the 
potential for two mines in Clayoquot Sound, like the one in Chitapii 
(otherwise known as Catface mountain) that is currently being explored 
for a potential Copper mine.  and The Rigths of Mother Earth. Bolivia is
 set to pass the Law of Mother Earth, which will grant all nature the 
same rights and protections as humans.

 The annual Earth Dance 
takes place Saturday, as well as a bike ride for climate action, so we'll hear about these events as well. 
 Further Info


buses# 10, 16, 3, 8, 20 on Hastings. # 19, 7, 22, 4 on Pender

bicycles racks available on site
parking nearby on the streets or in Tinseltown Mall (Abbott and Pender, enter by Abbott)



After-party with 
DJs follows.

SEE YOU THERE!!



***

Sept. 24: Vancouver Joins Moving Planet Day of Action  

Saturday, Sept. 24, starting at 12 Noon 
near Science World on False Creek 

All around the world, the fight against the causes of climate change is really 
heating up. 

One of the focal points of this struggle is in regard to 
the expansion of the tar sands right in our own back yard. Last month, 
we hosted a rally in Burnaby in solidarity with the folks at the White House trying to stop the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
 This was about limiting the supply of oil to international markets. 
This month we are targeting the demand for oil coming from 
transportation. 



We need your help to keep the momentum going in the fight against climate change. 


350.org, the group that played an important role in the White House protests, has organized a gigantic
 international day of action focused on transportation alternatives. The
 Moving Planet Day of Action is on Sept. 24th. 



We are helping to host the Vancouver component of the day of 
action.  We are thrilled to once again be working with Youth for Climate
 Justice Now, the same 
group we organized the Earth Day parade with this year. Our event in 
Vancouver is called Momentum for Change and will involve a bike ride (or 
skateboard or unicycle or pogo stick or however else you want to self-propel) from 
Science World to Stanley Park.

The ride will start at 2pm. 
Leaving from Creekside Community Centre at False Creek close to Science 
World. We'll take the new, continuous bike route along Dunsmuir and 
Hornby through downtown Vancouver, and from there up Beach Avenue ending
 up at Second Beach in Stanley Park.  






Before the bike ride, starting at 12 noon there will be festivities and
 a public forum on transportation alternatives at Creekside Community 
Centre with our friends from the 
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Better Environmentally Sound
 Transportation. We will be discussing the paper we co-published with 
the CCPA called Transportation Transformation. 

The
 number one source of greenhouse gas 
emissions in BC is automobiles, and of course transportation is 
primarily what oil is used for worldwide. To break our society's 
addiction to oil we need to break our automobile dependence, and 
transition to bikes and more effective and affordable public transit.
So get your bike ready and make plans to join us -- together we can keep this movement rolling!  



For all the information about this day of action against climate change, check out MovingPlanetVancouver.org 

Ben West, Wilderness Committee Climate Campaigner