Protest - Revolt

09/11/21
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Hummingbird Land Defenders
MEDIA ADVISORY, Mon. Nov. 8, 2021

Unceeded Kwantlen, Katzie, and Coast Salish territory (Fraser Heights, Surrey, BC). From 10am today, Hummingbird Land Defenders will use their bodies to block tree cutting for the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) pipeline. The women wish to protect the mature forest and seven grand cedars, in the North Slope Buffer Park.

04/11/21
Author: 
Vanessa Nakate
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate at the Youth4Climate summit in Milan in September. Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty

Oct. 29, 2021

My country, Uganda, and much of Africa has been battered by climate-related disasters. Cop26 is a chance for the biggest polluters to set up a compensation fund

While walking with a friend through central Kampala last month, we saw a police truck go by, a body in the back.

02/11/21
Author: 
Charlie Smith
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault are putting on a good show at the COP26 meetings, but can the world really believe what they're saying about cutting greenhouse-gas emissions? ADAM SCOTTI/PMO

November 2nd, 2021

I didn't want to have to write this column.

That's because I have a multitude of other tasks on my to-do list before getting this week's issue of the Georgia Straight to the printer tonight.

02/11/21
Author: 
Charlie Smith
Climate activists Vanessa Nakate and Greta Thunberg were photographed together at COP25 in Madrid in 2019. Now, they've issued a joint letter to the media in advance of the Glasgow meetings. VANESSA NAKATE

Oct. 31, 2021

Media coverage of the planetary emergency often can't be monetized, which is one reason why it's of little interest to Rupert Murdoch and wannabe Rupert Murdochs

In advance of the COP 26 meetings in Glasgow, young climate activists Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate, founder of the Rise Up Movement, issued an open letter to the media.

They urged editors to pay far more attention to the Global North's "moral responsibility to move much faster in reducing their emissions".

29/10/21
Author: 
Ann Grant

[Note: Mine was just one of many, sometimes very eloquent, presentations to Council on the topic Future of False Creek South: Advancing a Conceptual Development Plan and Addressing Lease Expiries.  The meeting extended over three days because of the large number of presentation, (over 170 signed up to speak), and only very few were in favour of the plan.  The presentations may be viewed/heard on the videos of the Council here starting on Oct.

28/10/21
Author: 
Gordon Hoekstra
Banks Island Gold Mine. PHOTO BY HANDOUT /Vancouver Sun

Oct 26, 2021

The Gitxaala charge that mineral claims in their traditional territory were granted without consultation or even notice, which violates constitutional obligations to them and violates the United Nations declaration of the rights of indigenous peoples, which the B.C. government adopted in 2019.

The Gitxaala First Nation in northwestern B.C. has filed a first-of-its-kind legal challenge to the province’s mineral rights regime, which some critics have likened to a relic from the gold-rush era.

26/10/21
Author: 
Morgan Sharp
Greta Thunberg and fellow youth campaigners struck a skeptical tone at the Youth4Climate event in Milan in September. Photo by Felton Davis / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Oct. 26, 2021

Young people who attended a recent youth climate conference in Milan, Italy, presented their list of demands for world leaders Monday ahead of a United Nations meeting aimed at trying to avoid environmental devastation.

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