[van-announce] March to Expose Vancouver Mining Companies: April 29: 5pm

[maryann at resist.ca]

MONDAY April 29, 2013!   Toxic Tour

Tracing Violence To Its Source : Exposing Vancouver Mining Companies
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories
5pm START : At the GOLDCORP SFU Center for the Arts (in the Woodwards
‘public’ Atrium) 111 W Hastings St at Abbott.

The world’s “Greenest City” is home to some dirty mining companies - who
are holding their annual conference!  BC Mining Week: Celebrating BC
Mining is coming to town, and the Mining Justice Alliance and allies are
planning our own celebration!  Join us for a “Toxic Tour” of Vancouver’s
mining headquarters, featuring dance performances, street theatre,
testimonies, video footage, food, and more surprises.

Final destination:
Canada Place outside BC Mining Week’s Opening Gala Event for THE OTHER
GALA to honour community resistance to unjust mining and
expose the violence and toxicity that are the effect of Vancouver
companies.

Monday, April 29th
5 to 8 pm
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories
* March in solidarity with communities affected by BC-based mining
companies throughout Turtle Island and across the globe!
* Visit the corporate headquarters of mining companies and hear from
communities resisting mines!
* Reject government-supported corporate violation of peoples' lands,
waters, rights and livelihoods!
* Honour those who have been injured or killed for their opposition to
Canadian Mining projects.
* Bring your children, parents, grandparents!
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Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/590018371026734/
Get involved: To find out about our organizing meetings and community
planning workshops, email us at miningjustice at gmail.com
Endorse: The Mining Justice Alliance is inviting groups to endorse the
Toxic Tour.  Please let us know if we can add your group to our public
endorsers list.
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 What’s BC Mining Week?
The City of Vancouver plans to become the “greenest city in the world.” It
is also home to the world’s largest conglomeration of mining companies.
Beginning on April 29th 2013, Vancouver will host BC Mining Week. After an
opening gala, where the “Mining Person of the Year Award 2012” will be
granted, BC’s mining industry leaders will spend a week wining and dining
at receptions, awards ceremonies and charitable events.
On their websites and in press releases, extractive corporations claim to
bring economic and social 'development' to local and indigenous
communities in BC and across the world. But the “greenwashing” can’t hide
the increasing reports of conflict, environmental devastation, water
toxicity and scarcity, human and indigenous rights violations, and violent
repression–even murder–of residents who speak out in opposition to
extractive projects.
Weren't invited to the BC Mining Week Opening Gala? Join us for the Toxic
Tour of Vancouver’s Mining Industry and A People's Gala! of Celebration
and Remembrance / to Celebrate and Honour Community Resistance to Unjust
Mining
Ever wondered why so many mining companies set up shop in Vancouver?
Exactly what is BC Mining Week celebrating?
The Canadian government actively assists extractive corporations with tax
breaks, subsidies, lax stock market regulations, diplomatic support, and
immunity from prosecution for environmental destruction and human rights
abuses overseas.

THIS EVENT IS ENDORSED BY:

Alliance for People’s Health, Ancestral Pride Ahousaht Sovereign
Territory, BC CASA, Café Justicia, Café Rebelde, Canada Philippines
Solidarity for Human Rights, Canada Tibet Committee, Council of K’iche’
Peoples, Council of Canadians, CODESES Committee to Support Social
Development in El Salvador, FMLN, Gallery Gachet, Greenpeace Vancouver,
Idle No More Vancouver, Indigenous Action Movement, International League
of People’s Struggle (ILPS)-Vancouver, Llh Lin Liyin Grassroots
Wetsuwet’en, Más Movement, Kairos Metro Vancouver, Migrante BC, Mining
Justice Action Committee Victoria, No One Is Illegal, Occupy Vancouver
Environmental Justice Committee, Purple Thistle Centre, Rising Tide,
Sanctuary Health, SFPIRG, Spartacus Books, UBC Social Justice Center,
Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group, Victoria-Philippines
Solidarity Group, Wirikuta Vancouver Alliance, National Rountable of El
Salvador on Metallic Mining