Momentum for Change: Global bike ride for the climate

Hi

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.

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

So get your bike ready and make plans to join us -- together we can keep this movement rolling!

Ben West | Healthy Communities Campaigner
Wilderness Committee

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Critical Mass and Day to Stop Gateway

Ride to be in the street to steer towards a future not crippled by cars
The last Critical Mass of the year to start with the sun up
the last friday of this month Let's
5-5:30pm Gather, 6pm Leave
today 28 september at the
Vancouver Art Gallery
Lions side

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Grandma
Free Betty K
will be joining us for the
Critical Mass bike ride and roll.
She was jailed for opposing the highway
expansion to whistler Eagle Ridge Bluffs Olympic
The Velo fusion after party is going to be a fund raiser for her.

===Post-CM Party===

Please join us Friday September 28 to welcome Betty Krawzcyk back. Vancouver s 79 year old grandmother is getting out of jail. She has just spent 7 months imprisoned for trying to stop the destruction of Eagle Ridge Bluffs.. It would really mean a lot to her to see as many of us as
possible. Everything she does is because she cares so much about future generations and what we can do to save this planet. Please join us in welcoming her back.

This will be a fun event with speakers and lots of dancing, bands, performances, great DJ's and much more dancing. The event is a fund raiser for her legal expenses.

Lineup: Natural Flavors (Band) Timothy Wisdom (DJ) Broken Falls Community Hall Band (Band) Cabaret Kitty (Cabaret) Marni Norwich (Poet) Joe Foy (WC2 trouble maker) More performers still to be announced Where: The Anza Club #3 West 8th. Doors open at 8pm

Cost: $5 if you arrive with Critical Mass (Betty will be going on the critical mass bike ride) $10 otherwise NOBODY WILL BE TURNED AWAY DUE TO LACK OF FUNDS !

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The Day to Stop Gateway

Saturday,
September 29th, 2007
stopgateway.ca

3 Events:
Rail and buses YES! Not highways.
Send a strong message to Big Brother Campbell that Gateway is the Wrong way.

• The Spirit of Sustainability Connecting Spirituality and Ecology in the context of the Gateway Program
  

Vancouver (car pool, bus, or bike)
949 West 49th at Oak,
The Unitarian Church
3:30 to 5:00 pm

Engagement by Erratica & Port Action Theatre Troupe
Speakers include Derek Corrigan, Gordon Price, Dr Bill Rees, Stephen
Rees, Jim Houlahan and Donna Passmore.

• The Ride to Stop Gateway

A mass ride from the The Spirit of Sustainability Rally to Hello Al, Goodbye Gateway Rally.
5:00pm The Unitarian Church 949 West 49th at Fremlin (1 block east of Oak) Meet by the bike parking. The ride will arrive at the Bayshore in plenty of time to catch the action.

• Hello Al, Goodbye Gateway Rally Welcome Al Gore to Vancouver

Demand Action on Climate Change and Have Fun Doing It
Bring your signs and banners.
(East of the Westin Bayshore)
5:00 - 7:30 pm Cardero St. at Coal Harbour

Engagement by Timothy Wisdom, Raging Grannies, Ned Jacobs and the Port Action Theatre Troupe. Speakers Adriane Carr, Suzanne Anton, David Cadman, Heather Deal, Joe Foy , Harold Steves, Michael Sather, Peter Julian, David Fields and Betty Krawczyk.

BRING YOUR FRIENDS! BE THERE FOR CLEAN AIR!!
For more information: Donna Passmore - 604=536=2790
Richard Campbell - 604=733=1764
stopgateway.ca
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