Emergency Webinar: Climate Action Advances in BC

https://www.facebook.com/events/4007391992678209

 
 
 
Friday at 6 PM PDT
 
Price: Free
 
Public Anyone on or off Facebook
 
With reports from the struggles against the TMX Pipeline, Site C Dam and Fairy Creek!
Speakers ~ Multimedia ~ Discussion
Across the province people are finding ways to stand up against projects that are destroying nature and trampling on Indigenous rights. From consistent resistance to the TMX Pipeline as it tries to rip a line from East to West for a reckless Tar Sands Pipeline, to dogged opposition to the Site C Dam which would flood the Peace River Valley, to growing mobilizations to stop the logging of the little Old Growth forests at Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island.
People across BC are telling John Horgan that if his government won't keep its promise to protect the planet, we will work together and organize to stop these disastrous projects ourselves.
Join us as we bring organizers together to provide the latest on the ground updates and information on how we continue to join and support these vital ongoing flashpoints of resistance.
OPENING by KELLY WHITE ~
Coast Salish elder, teacher, broadcaster, and long-time social justice activist.
SPEAKERS ~
KEN BOON: Ken and his wife Arlene live and farm at Bear Flat in the Peace River Valley between Hudson’s Hope and Fort St John. They have been deeply involved in the fight to stop the Site C dam for many years and are both directors with the Peace Valley Environment Association.
ALISON BODINE: Climate Convergence central organizer, journalist, author and researcher with a focus on environmental, Latin American and immigration issues. Most recently, Alison's articles have been published internationally by Venezuelanalysis, Global Research, Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), Common Dreams, Orinoco Tribune and Counterpunch.
THOMAS DAVIES: A founding member of Climate Convergence Metro Vancouver. Unionized Pipefitter and Power Engineer. He is author of “System Change Not Climate Change” (Battle of Ideas Press, 2019).
& More to be announced!
The program will also include a special remembrance of EAGLE EYES, a respected shíshálh (Sechelt) elder Eagle Eyes who was a central organizer with Climate Convergence and many other important struggles. May 31 marked the third anniversary of his passing.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This event takes place on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
 
Date: 
Friday, June 4, 2021 - 18:00