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The Gateway Project is the most environmentally threatening highway mega-project in the history of British Columbia. It WILL affect our region's air quality and hasten global climate change. And it WON'T reduce traffic congestion.
FIND OUT ABOUT IT. Check out the MAP. Tell your neighbours and friends. Tell your elected representatives you want to see real action on climate change – and that means saying NO to Gateway. Remind them that we have the power to vote their ass out of office. And don't forget to PARTY, to keep the fire hot and bring this madness down! |
Support Delta to stop the SFPR and Port Expansion!
Monday May 12th at 7pm
Delta Municipal Hall (take #601 bus from Burrard Skytrain Stn)
Who would have thought this East Van gal would be spending so much time in Delta and Surrey? Well let me tell you, all that time on the SkyTrain is paying off. Bridgeview, Bolivar Heights, Sunbury, South Delta -- this is where the real Gateway battle lies now. And our compadres south of the Fraser are fighting like demons.
At the "Spirit of Delta" rally this Saturday, hundreds lined up in the pouring rain to sign anti-Gateway petitions...OVER 1500 PEOPLE SIGNED THE PETITION! And tomorrow...Monday...Delta council will consider staff recommendations to extend the environmental review process and DELAY THE DELTA PORT EXPANSION BY 5 YEARS.
The South Perimeter Road and Port Expansion threaten to destroy these small communities, and all that lies in their toxic path -- the farmland, the salmon streams, First Nations archeological sites, and Burns Bog -- the precious wild ecosystem and massive carbon sink known as the "lungs of the lower mainland."
BUT the good news is...the SFPR is the weak link in the Gateway megaproject, and it is looking shakier day by day. Bring it down and we sever the dragon's neck. The Port expansion will be impossible, and the Port Mann Bridge twinning pointless, without this connecting link. And Surrey and Delta are rising up now!
Five years from now, our world will be a very different place. Gas prices will have doubled. Environmental awareness will be off the charts. Stall this monster, and we can win.
Our neighbours need our support NOW, to slay the many-headed dragon called Gateway.
Come out to Delta Municipal Hall tomorrow, jam the hall, bring a sign. Media will be there! Support Delta tell Delta Council to stop the SFPR and Gateway!
The meeting starts at 7pm (the important items are close to the end of the agenda so folks could show up closer to 7:45 or 8pm if they want to get out there on their own).
A group of us will be leaving on the #601 bus from in front of Burrard Skytrain in Vancouver at 5:45 to go out to the meeting. The bus takes 50 min. and stops in front of the Municipal Hall. We will be meeting up with friends from the Burns Bog Conservation Society and other concerned citizens.
Monday May 12th at 7pm
Delta Municipal Hall
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Carmen goes to Superhero Bootcamp
I have just joined the Wilderness Committee, taking on the new position of "Healthy Communities Campaigner" (as a job-share with the amazing Ben West). It's such an honour to work side by side with so many of my heroes -- Andrea Reimer, Joe Foy, Ben, and so many others.
Last week we scored a huge victory against the Upper Pitt River private power project, defeating a seven-headed dragon that a year ago, everyone said was "a done deal." Of course "we" isn't just the WC...it's a massive network of groups and individuals, with a wide diversity of perspectives. My own role in the Pitt River campaign was to hand out the sandwiches on the bus. Someone else put the mayo on the sandwiches, and someone else booked the bus. But together, we did it. Next up, is Gateway.
The first assignment for Ben and I was to create a publication to speak to the communities south of the Fraser -- featuring the voices of the people who live there, speaking to their neighbours. That came out last week, it's called "Stuck in Traffic – you have a choice: reckless spending or sensible solutions." Download pdf 1 and pdf 2 here, and check the website for more info. Contact me if you want copies to distribute.
I am reinvigorated and reinspired, meeting with various communities to bring this monster down. Please let me know how you want to help. There are lots of sandwiches to be made. Onward!
KILL BILL 43! Starring Kevin Falcon
A gang of ruthless global corporate yakuza fronted by the evil Falcon are out to DESTROY DEMOCRACY! Can the Deadly Viper Highway Assassination Squad, in league with hundreds of thousands of angry citizens and one raging granny, save the day?!
Nov.21- DEMOCRACY vs. THE FALCON
A Rally and SkyTrain Joyride
featuring fiery speakers and kick-ass entertainment!
Canada Place (near Waterfront SkyTrain Stn)
Wednesday November 21, 4:30 PM
BC Minister of Transportation Kevin Falcon is about to try to ram through Bill 43, which would take TransLink out of the hands of our municipally elected representatives, privatize it, and hand it over to a corporate board of control. Bill 43 will destroy democratic accountability at TransLink.
ONLY PEOPLE POWER CAN STOP THIS!
COME DEFEND DEMOCRATIC PROCESS AND KEEP TRANSLINK PUBLIC
Bring signs, and banners, make some noise, we can stop this madness NOW!
To get involved or find out more: keeptranslinkpublic.ca
or email info@gatewaysucks.org
The Georgia Straight : critics line up aganst neo-TransLink Bill 43.
The Province: Bill 43 an "erosion of democracy".
SEPT 29 was a Day to Stop Gateway!
The Day to Stop Gateway warmed up with a packed Spirit of Sustainabilty Rally at the Unitarian Church, followed by the HELLO AL, GOODBYE GATEWAY Rally outside the Westin Bayshore Hotel, where Al Gore was delivering his Inconvenient Truth speech to an audience that included Gordon Campbell and David Suzuki.Despite the pouring rain, a crowd of 400 people gathered to dance, chant, and celebrate the beginning of the end of Gateway.
Read what the Globe and Mail had to say about all the ruckus.
Greenway Wins
by Guy Dauncey
Common Ground Magazine, September 2007
What do we want? THE GREENWAY! How will we get it? OUR WAY! When do we want it? NOW!
Those were the words that resounded in the mind of defeated Cabinet Minister Kip Sparrow as he tossed and turned in his bed on a hot 35 ºC summer’s night in June 2009, wondering where it all went wrong...
Common Ground Magazine, September 2007
What do we want? THE GREENWAY! How will we get it? OUR WAY! When do we want it? NOW!
Those were the words that resounded in the mind of defeated Cabinet Minister Kip Sparrow as he tossed and turned in his bed on a hot 35 ºC summer’s night in June 2009, wondering where it all went wrong...
Falcon's "green" idea
The Vancouver Province Editorial page featured this cartoon -- in reference to Kevin's introduction of a "green" fleet of hybrid taxicabs.
(In case you haven't studied the map, the South Fraser Perimeter Road is a key chunk of Gateway which would destroy some of the finest farmland in Surrey and Delta.
(In case you haven't studied the map, the South Fraser Perimeter Road is a key chunk of Gateway which would destroy some of the finest farmland in Surrey and Delta.GATEWAY IN THE NEWS
Vancouver Sun: Gateway project will impact air quality
Vancouver Sun: Tory MP's demand: Halt Gateway, study impact
The Toronto Star: All worked up over new roads, bridges for Vancouver area
30 Days of Sustainability interviews Carmen Mills of Gatewaysucks.org
The Province: "Roads and bridges aren't the only things needed...:
The Globe and Mail: Campbell's expansion plans at odds with going green
Vancouver Sun: Tory MP's demand: Halt Gateway, study impact
The Toronto Star: All worked up over new roads, bridges for Vancouver area
30 Days of Sustainability interviews Carmen Mills of Gatewaysucks.org
The Province: "Roads and bridges aren't the only things needed...:
The Globe and Mail: Campbell's expansion plans at odds with going green
