Hey folks,
RT-Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories has put out this call to action for March 30th. if folks' locals are able to endorse or planning something, please be in touch. also, if yall know of other folks who have done anti-Chevron work and who may not be on this list, please feel free to pass on my contact
Best, -m
-please forward widely-
Solidarity with the Unist�ot�en. Call for
actions on Saturday March 30th 2013
No consent? No fracking pipelines, no climate crimes!
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We encourage autonomous creative direct action against Chevron
and any others involved in the development and financing of Pacific Trail
Pipeline. Occupy offices, drop banners, demonstrate in city centres, lock-on at
the pumps, subvert the Chevron brand, hand out leaflets� the choice is yours!
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American oil giant Chevron wants to build a
destructive pipeline across unceded indigenous territory to carry fracked gas
to the coast, and export climate change to the world. We say NO. We do not need
fracked gas, we do not want another pipeline and we will not stand by as
colonial governments and greedy corporations push us over the climate
catastrophe cliff edge.
Chevron is the new corporate face of the Pacific
Trail Pipeline project, having recently become 50/50 partners with Apache to
build a fracking gas pipeline across 500 kilometres of largely unceded land,
from Summit Lake to LNG plants planned for Kitimat. On March 30th we will greet
them with resistance across BC and around the world. As politicians put
economic growth and industry interests ahead of carbon common sense and
indigenous rights, it is up to us to take direct action to raise the cost of
pushing ahead with the project, and raise the stakes in the PR battle.
Everywhere they operate, Chevron exploits land and
people for money, often through the use of force, and without taking
responsibility for the consequences. Battles against environmental racism and
illegal oil wars, movements for indigenous sovereignty and migrant justice � we
amplify our resistance by uniting our struggles, so we are calling for
solidarity actions and events against Chevron across Canada and around the
world.
The Pacific Trail pipeline can still be stopped.
There is a huge groundswell of public opinion against BC�s carbon corridor, the
Unis�tot�en are mounting a determined resistance against incursions onto their
territory, and a space is being carved out where we can change the course of
BC�s energy future. We know that dismantling the fossil fuel empire is a
colossal task, but every action we take takes its toll. Chevron, this is just
the start� your time has come, your days are numbered!
See you in the streets!
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Find more information and resources, spread the
word, share action pics and reports and find out what others are planning
online at:
www.risingtide604.ca
Twitter: @risingtide604 / #nopipelines
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RisingTide604
To endorse this call-out, or to let us know about
an action you organize, email us at risingtide604@riseup.net
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We resist because�
We stand with frontline communities.
Frontline indigenous communities have already said
a loud and clear NO to the Pacific Trail Pipeline and have repeatedly affirmed
that free, prior, and informed consent must be respected by both colonial
governments and corporations. No consent has been given. Far from it � industry
surveyors have been evicted by the Unis�tot�en and other clans of the
Wet�suwet�en Nation, equipment seized and roadblocks set up against all further
pipeline activity. On March 30th, let us help amplify their voices and help
return decision making power to the people whose lives will be most affected by
the pipeline project.
For more on the Unist�ot�en camp, including news
releases and videos from latest events, visit http://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/ and to watch
a short video explaining the community�s struggle, check out Stop the Flow - http://stoptheflows.tumblr.com/
Chevron has it coming
Chevron has an atrocious history of oil spills, gas
explosions, toxic dumping, deforestation, water pollution, activist shootings,
tax evasion and climate change denial. From the US to Nigeria, Australia to
Angola, Brazil to Bangladesh, Chevron brings death and destruction. In Ecuador,
after 8 years in court, Chevron was ordered to pay $8.6 billion in damages for
20 year of toxic dumping � but three years later, Chevron still refuses to pay.
In Richmond, California, Chevron�s pollution is causing cancer and respiratory
illnesses. In the Niger Delta, activists resisting Chevron�s unjust and unsafe
production methods have been shot dead by local authorities (using Chevron
helicopters). And the National Petroleum Agency of Brazil has actually banned
Chevron from the country for its failure to take responsibility for the Rio De
Janeiro oil spill. We are joining the global fight to put a stop to Chevron�s
environmental and social crimes.
Frack off!
Northwest BC�s shale gas fields are shaping up to
be a major front line in the global battle against unconventional energy via
the carbon intense environmental nightmare that is fracked gas. Fracking causes
methane leaks, ground water contamination, hydrogen sulphide leakage,
earthquake risks, not to mention the CO2 release when the gas is finally burnt.
This exploitation of ever more difficult, expensive and harmful fossil fuel
sources demonstrates the true greed, and insanity, of the present global
economic system. We have a really simple message � we need to keep fossil fuels
in the ground.
Fracking backgrounder: http://calamites.resist.ca/?p=329
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Endorsed By:
Lhe Lin Liyin (Wet'suwet'en Guardian Society)
Likhts'amisyu (Fireweed Clan)
Rising Tide Vancouver Coast Salish Territories
Unist'ot'en (People of the Headwaters)