<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Paisley Cozzarin <paisleycozzarin@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> stopthetarsandsuw@lists.feds.ca; climate@lists.wpirg.org; Tammy Kovich <tammy@wpirg.org>; Kalin Stacey <krstacey@gmail.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 16, 2012 6:47:00 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Stopthetarsandsuw] READ ME! May 9th Coalition: KW Organizing Notes<br> </font> </div> <br><div
id="yiv2132860494"><span><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:19px;white-space:pre-wrap;">April 16, 2012<br></span></font><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">May 9th Coalition: K-W Organizing</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">University of Waterloo</span><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:19px;white-space:pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></span><div>
<b style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">[Minutes attached to this email]</span></b><font size="3" style="font-weight:bold;"> </font> <span><br>
<br></span></div><div><span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">Summary of the event:</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">The Yinka-Dene Alliance of six nations communities (</span><a rel="nofollow" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">http://yinkadene.ca)</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "> is on a Cross-Canada action tour against Enbridge, culminating in a rally and march to the Enbridge Annual General Meeting in Toronto on May 9, 2012. </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">A group of environmental justice, Indigenous sovereignty, migrant rights, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist organizers in Southern Ontario have coalesced as the </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">May 9th Coalition</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">. This occasion will result in a meeting of grassroots environmental justice organizers from across Ontario to discuss joint strategies and vision for future work in Canada.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">The K-W organizers, which include members of WPIRG and Stop the Tar Sands UW, are hoping to mobilize the Waterloo region community to converge in Toronto to support the Yinka Dene Alliance, and rally against Enbridge’s plan to expand the tar sands through projects such as the proposed Line 9 reversal and Northern Gateway.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">We are hoping to rent a bus and fill it with activists from K-W and Guelph to meet up with other activist folks from Southern Ontario communities who are marching in solidarity with the Yinka-Dene Alliance. </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">Tentative May 9th Schedule:</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">11:45am: YDA rally, ceremony and march</span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">3:30-7:30pm: Community meal and strategy meeting</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">More details to come.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">Background Information</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">Line 9</span><br><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">Enbridge has asked for permission to reverse the flow of its oil pipeline through Ontario. </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">The Line 9 pipeline runs from Sarnia to Montreal, crossing countless sensitive ecosystems and farms, as well as numerous watersheds draining into the Great Lakes. Reversing the flow and increasing the pressure in the pipeline, as proposed by Enbridge, to transport more corrosive tar sands oil, increases the chance of a spill. Just two years ago, a similar Enbridge pipeline in Michigan spilled three million litres of tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River, causing major contamination downstream. The Line 9 project is part of a much bigger plan to export more tar sands oil to the U.S. and could increase the risk of oil spills, as well as threaten our health through increased air and water pollution at local refineries. Enbridge’s proposal will likely increase the amount of tar sands oil in Ontario. Tar sands oil creates more global
warming pollution and chemicals that are harmful to humans than conventional oil, and is more corrosive and dangerous to transport through pipelines.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">Northern Gateway</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">Enbridge has proposed the construction of the Northern Gateway pipeline, which would span from Northern Alberta to the west coast of B.C. It would cross thousands of rivers and streams, as well as allow supertankers to transport millions of barrels of crude oil in the midst of the Great Bear Rainforest. The supertankers would have to navigate through treacherous waters in the Hecate Strait, considered the fourth most dangerous waters in the world.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">The Yinka-Dene Alliance</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">“The YDA is one of the leading groups of First Nations opposing the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and supertanker project...we are taking an historic journey - the Freedom Train - from our territories to Toronto. We will make stops for rallies and ceremonies in Edmonton, Saskatoon and Winnipeg along the way....Remembering the Constitution Train of 1980, we will be travelling from our lands to the Canadian centre of financial power - Bay Street - to send the pipeline companies, oil companies, banks, financial media and the government an unforgettable message: tar sands pipelines and supertankers will not be permitted in our lands and waters.” </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">Follow up and Resources</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">Tammy from WPIRG will be sending out an email call out. Registration for a spot on the bus will be necessary. When the call out is announced, please forward it widely. Stop the Tar Sands UW, WPIRG, and other K-W community organizations may meet up again before May 9th. If this occurs, an email will be sent out.</span><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">
</span></font></span><div><span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "><br></span></span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">Yinka Dene Alliance: </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://yinkadene.ca/" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">http://yinkadene.ca</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "> and </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/yinkadenealliance" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;
font-family: Arial; ">http://www.facebook.com/yinkadenealliance</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">Pipe Up against Enbridge: </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://pipeupagainstenbridge.ca/" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">http://pipeupagainstenbridge.ca</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">Line 9: </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120319/montreal-maine-oil-sands-pipeline-east-coast-enbridge-quebec-court-national-energy-board-environmentalists">Inside Climate News</a> </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; ">and</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;"><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"> </font></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/business/article2261313.html" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; vertical-align:
baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; ">CTV</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Arial; "> </span></b>
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