Meetings and marches honour Lac Megantic victims
“The residents of Lac Megantic paid a terrible price to warn us of the danger we all face. We can honour their memory by never letting it happen again." ... [click title to continue]
Category Archives: Organizing
Fossil fuels and class politics in British Columbia
The majority of British Columbians are concerned about climate change and don't want B.C. to be a fossil fuel driven energy superpower. This is class politics. ... [click title to continue] Montreal, June 6: Social movements’ assembly on climate change
Reuniting forces from the East and the West, with Indigenous communities taking part in an extra-parliamentary alliance to save the climate ... [click title to continue]
Meetings across Ontario condemn Energy East pipeline plan
Andrea Harden-Donahue of the Council of Canadians reports on the "Our Risk, Their Reward" campaign of protest meetings against the Energy East pipeline plan. ... [click title to continue] What’s behind the fossil fuel expansion drive?
Video: Roger Annis of Vancouver Ecosocialist Group speaks on capitalism's drive to increase production of oil, tar sands, coal, and natural gas ... [click title to continue]
Toronto pushes back against petro giants
Responding to protests, City Council demands a full environmental assessment of Enbridge Line 9 and an end to secrecy about rail shipments of explosive oil products through populated areas. ... [click title to continue]
End auto subsidies! Ecosocialists on unions, jobs and transportation
Subsidies to the corporate polluters and climate wreckers take us further down a wrong path. Unions must point the way to a better future, not defend the bad old ways that are leading our planet to the brink of environmental catastrophe. ... [click title to continue]
Québec ecosocialists: Basis of unity and action
Founding statement of Réseau écosocialiste: "Ecosocialism advocates the distribution of wealth, ecological and democratic planning, and popular sovereignty." ... [click title to continue]
Belleville protesters challenge tar sands pipeline
Activists in this small city are challenging Enbridge's plan to pump tar sands bitumen across sensitive lands near the shore of Lake Ontario. ... [click title to continue]