#occupyvancouver

Toxic Tour April 29 Mining Justice

dgSolidarity — Thu, 02 May 2013 04:19:55 +0000

The world’s “Greenest City” is home to some very dirty business. Mining Justice Alliance out on a “Toxic Tour” of Vancouver’s mining headquarters and public action coinciding with the BC Mining Week Gala.

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Climate Crimes Or Real Soutions?

edoherty — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:24:48 +0000

Titre secondaire:

Fracking, Tar Sands Pipelines, Tankers

Di Avr 22

ville:

Vancouver

Lieu:

Vancouver Public Library - Downtown Branch

Adresse:

350 West Georgia Street

Coût:

Free

Space Accessibiity:

Yes

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Climate Crimes OR Real Solutions?

Do you know how fracking (hydraulic fracturing) for natural gas is connected to the Tar Sands?

Find out about the systemic solutions the 1% and Big Oil and Gas don’t want us to talk about!

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Seeing the Strings: A Series of Teach-Ins on the Oppressions that Hold Capitalism Up

Queermoses — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:46:31 +0000

Titre secondaire:

Introductory event: Capitalism and You

Ve Mar 23

ville:

Vancouver

Lieu:

Downtown Vancouver Public Library, Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye room

Adresse:

350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 6B1

Coût:

By donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.

le contact de l'organisatrice:

seeingthestrings@gmail.com

Space Accessibiity:

Wheelchair accessible.

Lien de carte:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Downtown+Vancouver+Public+Library&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wl

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Lien:

http://seeingthestrings.wordpress.com/

As Occupy protests have erupted across the world to decry the injustice of our current economic system, the question arises: What are we fighting against? At present, Vancouver lacks any adequate forum for broad-based deliberation about what capitalism is and how it functions.

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Pipelines, Tankers and Climate Chaos...Or System Change?

edoherty — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:03:16 +0000

Titre secondaire:

An Occupy Vancouver Environmental Justice Work Group Workshop

Sa Fév 25

ville:

Vancouver BC

Lieu:

W2 Media Cafe

Adresse:

111 W Hastings Street,

Coût:

Free

Space Accessibiity:

Yes

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Saturday February 25, 4 – 6 pm (After the Occupy Vancouver General Assembly) W2 – Woodwards, 111 W Hastings Street, Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territory

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Occupy Vancouver Moves

XylaGrey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:17:34 +0000

Protesters move from the Vancouver Art Gallery after receiving an injunction.

Commons Conference 2012 - Claudia Medina on 'Plunder of the Planet: the Ecological Crisis'

edoherty — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:04:01 +0000

Claudia Medina speaks on the Plunder of the Planet: the Ecological Crisis panel at the Tragedy of the Market: from Crisis to Commons conference on January 8, 2012 in Burnaby BC Canada. Her presentation focuses on the Occupy movement as an anti-war movement, attempting to stop the war against Mother Earth.

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Occupy Vancouver Port Action

edoherty — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:40:10 +0000

On December 12 Occupy Vancouver joined in solidarity with Occupy movements up and down the west coast of North America to send a strong and clear message to the global 1%: this economy belongs to ALL of us—not just those who disproportionately profit from trade.

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System Change Not Climate Change!

edoherty — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:31:43 +0000

Titre secondaire:

Occupy Vancouver Rally against Canadian Government Sabotage of International Climate Change Process

Sa Déc 3

ville:

Vancouver BC

Lieu:

Vancouver Art Gallery

Adresse:

800 West Georgia Street

Coût:

Free

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Lien:

http://www.facebook.com/events/119580774823330/

Occupy Vancouver participants will return in force to the Vancouver Art gallery this

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Occupy Vancouver Packs Up...And Moves One Block Away

Michael — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:01:49 +0000

Vancouver - On a soggy Monday, hundreds showed up at the Vancouver Art Gallery to show solidarity and support in response to the Supreme Court of BC granting the City of Vancouver permission to forcefully remove any Occupy Vancouver standing structures at the Art Gallery.

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Bill McKibben speaks at Occupy Vancouver, Nov 15, 2011

edoherty — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:07:25 +0000

On Nov 15, 2011 promenent environmentalist, author, and activist Bill McKibben showed his support for Occupy Vancouver by coming out to speak about the importance of the Occupy Movement to the fight for sane climate policy. He celebrated the recent delay of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and attributed this victory partially to the momentum built by the Occupy Movement.

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Open Letter to the Occupy Movement: Why We Need Agreements

edoherty — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:05:51 +0000

8 November, 2011 From the Alliance of Community Trainers, ACT

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VPD attacks Occupy, Extinguishes Ceremonial Fire, Assault Elders

mike — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:12:12 +0000

Following Gregor Robertson, Suzanne Anton made talk of respect and acknowledgement of the Coast Salish people; the Musqueam and Squamish peoples; the VPD attacked violently the Sacred Fire of the Elders at the Occupy site. They came with fire department, and violently accomplished the putting out of the fire being peacefully defended.

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Housing is a Right, Not a Commodity!

maximwinther — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:12:56 +0000

Titre secondaire:

Rally and March

Sa Nov 12

ville:

Vancouver, BC

Lieu:

Vancouver Art Gallery

Adresse:

750 Hornby Street

le contact de l'organisatrice:

directactionov@googlegroups.com

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Lien:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210089659060376

On Saturday November 12th we will get back in the streets. Banking and housing deeply effect us in Canada, but this is nowhere more true than in Vancouver. Every day, renters are evicted and existing housing is demolished in order to keep prices high for the real-estate industry and the Big Five banks that finance them.

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Mayor wants tent city to go

juan — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:47:21 +0000

Nov 5th. After a dragic death of one of the residents in the tent city in the occupy vancouver, mayor robertson stated that he want's to shut down the tent city as he did many of those before instead of helping the homeless.
Tent city residents are in grieve and not willing to leave the area.

Occupy Vancouver Day 15

Camerapunk — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:58:43 +0000