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color:#1F497D'>Interesting idea….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Susan K<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Canadians for Action on Climate Change
[mailto:canadianclimateaction@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> June-10-10 9:45 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> canadianclimateaction@gmail.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> June 23rd: Call for Environmental Justice! Join the Toxic Tour
of Toronto!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt'>PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!</span></b><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt'>Call for Environmental Justice! Join the
Toxic Tour of Toronto!</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
lang=EN-US>WHAT IS IT?</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=EN-US>On June 23rd, environmental justice organizers will be guiding a
tour through Toronto to expose institutions most responsible for the
environmental and social impacts of Canada's extractive industries both at home
and abroad. Canada is home to 75% of the world's mining and exploration
companies, making it a global leader in this industry. Canada's place
within the G8 nations is largely due to the exploitation of Indigenous peoples,
their lands and rural poor for mining, tar sands and oil/gas exploitation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
lang=EN-US>As residents of Canada, we will not standby while the Canadian
government, banks, and corporations continue to destroy people's livelihoods
and ecosystems to secure wealth accumulation for a select few. </span></b><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
lang=EN-US>WHAT SHOULD I BRING?</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=EN-US>We encourage folks coming to dress up and challenge those in power
with costumes, floats and fancied up bicycles. We will be working on several
floats in lead up but encourage all to dress up for our action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=EN-US>Ideas for costumes: Executives with blood on their hands,
corporate zombies, people covered in Tar Sands bitumen,. etc. <i>(fake
blood and bitumen will be provided)</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
lang=EN-US>WHERE AND WHEN?</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=EN-US>Please join us at 11 am on June 23 at Alexandra Park.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=EN-US>For more information or to endorse the event, please contact: <a
href="mailto:toxictourTO@gmail.com" target="_blank">toxictourTO@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=EN-US>Facebook event: <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127661243928642" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127661243928642</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
lang=EN-US>WHY TAKE PART IN THE TOXIC TOUR?</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:13.0pt'><span
lang=EN-US>The toxic tour will focus on four themes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:13.0pt;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span lang=EN-US>The extractive industry
is violating human rights and the rights of mother earth.</span></b><span
lang=EN-US> The federal government supports these companies even as
human rights workers are killed, local peoples poisoned, and entire
communities displaced. From the tar sands in northern Alberta to gold
mines in Papua New Guinea to copper mines in the Democratic Republic of
Congo, Canadian companies are exploiting indigenous and poor communities
alike, violating their right to self-determination, poisoning their lands,
manipulating any leadership that they can access, and often supporting
brutal military and security operations.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:13.0pt;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span lang=EN-US>The extractive industry is
exacerbating the climate crisis.</span></b><span lang=EN-US> The tar
sands gigaproject is the most destructive industrial project on earth and
will be the leading contributor to climate change in Canada, making it
impossible for our country to meet its international climate commitments.
The climate crisis has been caused by the industrialization of developed
countries like Canada, while disproportionately affecting indigenous
peoples and the global south who are faced with sea-level rise, drought,
permafrost melt, desertification, melting glaciers, and increased extreme
weather events. These and other problems brought on by the climate crisis
have destroyed the livelihoods of millions who are dying and being
displaced from their homes.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:13.0pt;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span lang=EN-US>The education system is taken
over by corporate interests. </span></b><span lang=EN-US>The
University of Toronto, Canada´s largest academic institution, is taken
over by corporations, many of which are linked to the extractive industry.
This corporate influence stifles open, honest, and critical debate
in our institutions of higher learning and demonstrates how a wealthy few
can dominate and shape the way people think. As an academic institution
that strives to create the ‘leaders of tomorrow,’ we must challenge the
notion that corporate greed and exploitation has any place in our
education system.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:13.0pt;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span lang=EN-US>The Canadian economy is
dependent on exploiting marginalized peoples and the environment.</span></b><span
lang=EN-US> Harper would not be at the G8 if it wasn't for exploiting
the resources and people of countries that the G8 is purposely shutting
out of discussions. Solutions, however, are there—but the Harper
government refuses to give people the ability to determine the future of
their own lives and livelihoods.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span
lang=EN-US>-- <br>
Kimia Ghomeshi<br>
National Youth Climate and G20 Organizer<br>
Canadian Youth Climate Coalition <br>
<a href="mailto:cycc.organize@gmail.com" target="_blank">cycc.organize@gmail.com</a><br>
(416) 294 1602<br>
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Join the G20 Climate Justice Convergence. For more information visit <a
href="http://www.ourclimate.ca/" target="_blank">www.ourclimate.ca</a><br>
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Support justice for Grassy Narrows and protection for water everywhere: <a
href="http://freegrassy.org/mercury-action-alert/" target="_blank">http://freegrassy.org/mercury-action-alert/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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