Eric Doherty

Relentless Pressure from Below Drives Climate Action - Ta'Kaiya Blaney & Naomi Klein – 12 min video

edoherty — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 23:12:33 +0000

Ta'Kaiya Blaney and Naomi Klein have sent out an inspiring message about the growing power of the climate justice movement, and the need to ramp up action. Speaking and performing before an estimated 1,500 people at a Vancouver rally, both expressed determination to build a movement powerful enough to push back the fossil fuel industry and create a more just society.

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Thin Red Line Won't Hold Without You - Grand Chief Stewart Phillip on Fracking & LNG

edoherty — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 17:00:44 +0000

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip describes how devastating hydraulic fracturing to extract gas in BC is for wildlife, indigenous people, and our global climate. He calls on everyone, indigenous and non-indigenous to step up to stop fracking and other destructive industrial projects that threaten the very future of human society.

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Vancouver Refugees Welcome! Rally Sept 6 2015

edoherty — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 16:11:44 +0000

This shows one of the cross Canada series of rallies demanding Prime Minister Stephen Harper answer for the deaths of Ghalib Kurdi, five, and his three-year-old brother Alan.

Speakers and singers connect the multiple causes of the humanitarian crisis, including Canadian climate policy, with moving personal accounts.

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4th Generation Coal Miner Says Keep Fossil Fuels in Ground

edoherty — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 01:13:14 +0000

Nick Mullins was the fourth generation in his family to work in the underground coal mines of Central Appalachia. But Mullins, and his wife Rustina, realized coal was costing more than it was worth after the water at their family home was poisoned.

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Climate Crisis & Solutions Visible at Unist'ot'en Camp

edoherty — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 03:58:39 +0000

The Unist'ot'en resistance camp is surrounded by dead trees killed by a pine beetle epidemic that scientists attribute to warmer temperatures resulting from burning fossil fuels.

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BC preparing injunction against Unist'ot'en pipeline resistance camp: Grassroots Wet'suwet'en and allies unite to say No Fracked Gas Pipelines!

edoherty — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:41:48 +0000

Leaders of the Unist'ot'en resistance camp held a press conference in Vancouver on April 7, 2014 in response to leaked information that the Provincial government is preparing an injunction against the camp. The camp is in Wet'suwet'en territory in northern BC on the route of the Pacific Trail fracked gas pipeline.

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Pancakes Not Pipelines Feeds Resistance: Skwomesh Action forms to defend Salish Sea and Mother Earth

edoherty — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:33:34 +0000

On January 26 2014, Skwomesh Action hosted their first large public event. Pancakes Not Pipelines brought hundreds of supporters together to support Indigenous resistance to tar sands and fracking pipelines at a local and provincial level.

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Toghestiy from Unist'ot'en Camp on Ocean Acidification

edoherty — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 00:37:49 +0000

Dini Ze Toghestiy from the Unist'ot'en Camp speaks about the little known threat of ocean acidification, and what it may take to create a movement capable of stopping the poisoning of our only planet. Ocean acidification is caused by carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas, combining with water to form carbonic acid.

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Unist'ot'en Camp Speakers on Fracking at Defend Our Climate Rally - Vancouver Nov. 16 2013

edoherty — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:09:11 +0000

Freda Huson and Toghestiy from the Unist'ot'en Camp speak about the threat of, and resistance to, fracking to thousands of people gathered for the Defend Our Climate -- Defend Our Communities rally at Science World in Vancouver.

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New Report Reveals HandyDART Trip Denials up 670% in Five Years:

edoherty — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 01:38:11 +0000

HandyDART Riders Group Forms to Fight for Improvements

Photo by Dan Keeton

A new report shows that HandyDART trip denials in Metro Vancouver increased by 670% in only five years. Data obtained through a freedom of information request shows that people with disabilities and seniors were denied service 4,900 times in 2008, 13,400 times in 2010 and 37,700 times in 2012.

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1000 Rally in Vancouver to Support Elsipogtog anti-fracking blockade

edoherty — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 05:06:19 +0000

About 1,000 people joined an emergency rally in downtown Vancouver Friday to show solidarity and support for the Elsipogtog and Mi'kmaq anti fracking blockade.

Speakers Khelsilem Rivers, Ruben George and Jewell James connected the Elsipogtog blockade to the global movement for climate justice and related struggles against fossil fuel projects on both sides of the 49th parallel.

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JB The First Lady performs at Pipeline Resistance Cafe for Unist'ot'en Camp

edoherty — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 05:17:49 +0000

JB The First Lady performs a new piece on reconciliation a fundraiser to help indigenous youth travel to the Unist'ot'en Camp on the route of the Pacific Trail and Enbridge pipelines. JB introduced the piece in relation to her experience in Idle No More events.

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Spotlight on Secret TPP Meeting in Vancouver BC - 3.5 min

edoherty — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 01:47:12 +0000

Interviewed outside the offices of Pacific Rim Mining, Kristen Beifus of the Washington Fair Trade Coalition and Arthur Stamoulis of the Citizens Trade Campaign describe why we should be concerned about the Trans-Pacific Partnership corporate rights pact negotiations in Vancouver.

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Vancouver Idle No More march marks passing of Elijah Harper

edoherty — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:29:32 +0000

Hundreds of people marched down Commercial Drive in Vancouver on Monday May 20 as Idle No More groups across the country commemorated the passing of Elijah Harper.

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Youth For Climate Justice Now - Earth Day 2013

edoherty — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:59:04 +0000

On Saturday April 20, 2013 Youth For Climate Justice Now organized and march and rally with a focus on climate justice, and the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. A large crowd marched down Commercial Drive in East Vancouver and gathered in Grandview Park.