Rally Planned to Protest Gore Suzuki Presentation
When I was blog hopping I found this:
“An Inconvenient Truth has been a great success, and Al is still touring, doing his slide show. He will be attending a reception at the Westin Bayshore Hotel.
Gore will be introduced by PREMIER GORDON CAMPBELL, after which he will present “An Inconvenient Truth” to an audience of Board of Trade and Industry executives.
DAVID SUZUKI is Special Guest.”
I had previously advertised this event as well in this blog post.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
The Westin Bayshore, Vancouver
Reception 6:00pm - Presentation 7:00 pm
Followed by a Q&A Session with Vice President Al Gore
What I didn’t know then is that a protest rally is planned.
Gateway Sucks! rally outside the Westin Bayshore (click for pdf poster)
“Gordo has, of course tried to show that he can be the greenest premier by announcing a great target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But the biggest challenge we face here is transport - it is the biggest single source of ghg and the hardest to reduce. And even the Province now admits that the Gateway program will lead to a significant increase in emissions. So why is it still on the agenda? Why is the (completely bogus) Environmental Assessment going on? Why are they pretending to consult the public when they have no intention of cancelling a stupid, retrograde step that will destroy everything this region has tried to achieve for the past 25 years. And, by the way, why doesn’t Gordo remember writing the Livable Regional Plan?”
The rally will feature:
JOE FOY
Western Canada Wilderness Committee
BETTY KRAWCZYK
Eagleridge Defender Superhero, fresh out of jail!
DAVID FIELDS
Society Promoting Environmental Conservation
MICHAEL SATHER
MLA, Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows
ADRIANE CARR
Deputy Leader, Green Party of Canada
HAROLD STEVES
Father of BC’s Agricultural Land Reserve
PETER JULIAN
Federal NDP Transportation Critic
VICKI HUNTINGTON
Councillor, City of Delta
PLUS DJ TIMOTHY WISDOM
AND THE PEDAL POWERED SOUND SYSTEMFUNKIN’ WITH THE REVOLUTION.
AND
NED JACOBS +
THE RAGING GRANNIES
Related blog post: David Suzuki and Al Gore in Vancouver
