Occupy Vancouver Decolonize Enbridge Northern Gateway and Kinder-Morgan TransMountain Pipe

Occupy Vancouver Decolonize Enbridge Northern

Gateway and Kinder-Morgan TransMountain

Pipelines

Occupy Vancouver Decolonize Enbridge Northern Gateway and Kinder-Morgan TransMountain Pipelines


- More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Woody Allen -


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This article appears in the November 15 2011 issue od the Carniege Newsletter
Defending the DTES by any Legal and Moral means Necessary Part VIIII
The community wants to concentrate on a similar upcoming action over the non-funding of the emergency HEAT shelters etc. So i will not be doing the action at Crab park.

Nathan Edelsen, the former senior city planner for Vancouver Downtown Eastside told me at a conference last friday at UBC for Indigenous planning that he is for a 3yr moratorium on all new condos in the DTES and is willing to talk to anybody about it. I suggest, this option should be pursued vigorously-both now and in the Local Area Plan.

This is my last article. But i don’t want anyone to think i have no sense of humour-so i’ll end with this- The barman said “I’m sorry, we don’t serve faster-than-light neutrinos in this bar.”

A faster-than-light neutrino walks into a bar.

All My Best Homeless Dave

ps a In my previous article i mentioned about Baby boomers–what i didn’t say but meant was B.B. are now collecting $Trillions from the previous generation and will be passing on their own $Trillionsplus –so a significant Inheritance Tax would basically cure most of social inequality and other social ills plus environment etc A 1% financial global tax is silly–eg tax loopholes, and like PM Cameron said it would have to done globally–eg as the Vatican is pushing for a Global Central Bank and new Global Political Authority–very bad idea-and what’s to stop the Banks ect to not pass along the cost to customers in creative ways?

Occupy Wall Street: NYPD attempt media blackout at Zuccotti Park
Journalists report aggressive treatment as media blocked from protest camp during surprise police raidhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/15/occupy-journalists-media-blackout

As police swooped on the park in the early hours of Tuesday, the city closed airspace in lower Manhattan to prevent news helicopters taking aerial shots of the scene. Vans were used to obscure views of the park and a police cordon effectively blocked accredited media from reaching the site. Some of those members of the press who were in the park or were able to get there say they were arrested, pepper sprayed or treated aggressively.

One of the few reporters on the scene when the police moved in wasJosh Harkinson, a writer for Mother Jones magazine. As police used tear gas to remove the last protesters from the park Harkinson identified himself as a member of the media and was physically dragged out of the park. He was told that reporters had to stay in a “press pen”.

Reporters tweeted their frustration using the hashtag #mediablackout and said police were ignoring and even confiscating press passes.

A New York Post reporter was “roughed up” according to the New York Times’ Brian Stelter. Lindsey Christ, of local cable-news channel NY1, said on-air this morning that “the police took over, they kept everybody out and they wouldn’t let media in. It was very planned.”

Paul Krugman, Lawrence Summers take their corners for Munk Debate
PAUL KRUGMAN

The recipient of the 2008Nobel Prize in economics isn’t one to pull punches. Ask him about the state of the North American economy, and he responds with a wallop.

“We’re stuck in what amounts to a smaller version of the Great Depression,” he said in an interview at his office at Princeton University last month. “It’s hard to see where the exit comes.”

Uttering the D-word these days is a bit like dropping the F-bomb at the dinner table: it’s not the kind of thing you say in polite company.

Peace D

Decolonize Occupy Vancouver Downtown EastSide, Grove of Sacred Trees, Luk‘luk‘i, Crab Park,The Peoples Emergency H.E.A.T. Shelter Decolonize the World

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McKibben takes on Harper at Occupy Vancouver

November 16, 2011 10:18 am http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Environment/2011/11/16/McKibben-Occupy-Vancouver-Harper/
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s pledge to ship oil sands crude to China, should Keystone XL get kiboshed, is pure political grandstanding, a lead U.S. environmental organizer argues.

“I think he is kind of trying to bluff,” Bill McKibben told a crowd of dozens Monday night at the Occupy Vancouver encampment.

McKibben is a long-time environmental writer who founded 350.org, a global campaign to fight climate change.

He’s recently become somewhat of a hero in green circles for leadingmassive protests against TransCanada’s Keystone XL.

Those protests likely played a role in the Barack Obama administration’srecent decision to delay the pipeline by up to 13 months.

Wearing a blank baseball cap and yellow scarf, the 50-year-old McKibben told Vancouver occupiers there’s now more pressure than ever for them to oppose both Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline and Kinder Morgan’scompeting pipeline expansion.

“It’s incredibly important for you guys to figure out all the ways you can to stop them,” he said to scattered cheers and twinkling fingers.

Canada’s federal government has effectively shrugged off recent Keystone XL delays, saying it will merely focus on shipping Alberta’s oil sands crude to China and beyond.

“Canada must increase its efforts to ensure it can supply its energy outside the United States and into Asia in particular,” Prime Minister Harper told reporters this week in Honolulu.

Already, at least one major U.S. environmental group says it will fight Enbridge’s plans to build a pipeline across B.C.

The Natural Resources Defense Council claims that more than 60,000 of its members and supporters have sent emails opposing the project to Premier Christy Clark.

McKibben told The Tyee in an interview he’ll provide any support necessary to Canadian activists, but won’t take a lead role in the fight.

“I’m an American,” he said. “Canadians don’t want me coming up here and telling them what to do.”

Geoff Dembicki reports on energy and climate issues for The Tyee.

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