Join Climate Justice Montreal for a day of workshops, a panel, and collective strategizing to stop some of the world’s richest oil companies from transporting dirty Alberta tar sands oil through Quebec. Hear from front-line activists from Indigenous communities and rural Quebec who have been fighting these destructive projects for years.

If they go forward, Enbridge’s Trailbreaker and TransCanada’s Eastern pipeline will carry hundreds of thousands of barrels of tar sands oil daily. They will threaten the health, water, environment and lands of the people in Quebec and massively contribute to climate change.

These corporations — driven by an economic model that values short-term profit and perpetual growth above all else — are the root cause of the climate crisis and the crisis of austerity and neoliberalism.

This economic model is trying not only to commercialize education, privatize health-care and undermine worker’s rights and wages, but to turn the St Lawrence valley into an industrial shale gas experiment, the north of Quebec into a mining and forestry sacrifice zone, the gulf of St Lawrence into an oil pumping site, and to make this province into an export-launch pad for the Alberta tar sands.We are campaigning against dirty tar sands to ensure another model of development is possible, one that simultaneously addresses climate and economic justice. We need free mass public transit and local food systems running through our cities, not tar sands pipelines; to reduce carbon emissions as well as the gaps of inequality; and to restrain the power of corporations and banks that profit off the privatization of the commons and the pollution of our planet.

For more information and the detailed program, check out our Facebook event: on.fb.me/136yJwx and our web site: http://bit.ly/Z4sw0f

We have lots of volunteer roles to fill - whisper translators, help at the sign-in booth, welcomers, and people to help serve lunch! Email climatejusticeMTL@gmail.com if you want to help on the 19th!

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