·
Green
Party of Canada Leader, Jim Harris:
Going Green saves money, and creates profits and jobs
Monday,
May 16,
David
Strong Bldg, Rm C130
Donations requested. No one turned
away.
The federal party leader discusses how Going Green saves money, and
creates profits and jobs, and why this is necessary to promote health and
environmental sustainability. Time for questions included. Bring a
friend!
·
Documentary
Screening:
End of Suburbia
Sunday,
May 15,
Harry
Hickman Bldg (formerly CIT), Rm 105
Donations requested. No one turned
away.
UVic Greens presents the stunning film about peak oil, and how not
too far into the future, it could take a barrel of oil to extract a barrel of
oil. At that point, no price will keep
the industry going. The American dream—suburbia—will
end.
Discussion with local Green candidates to
follow. Bring a
friend!
Please bring yourself, friends, and family down to Victoria's
legislature this Saturday for our historic Tree of Life Celebration and
rally to protect BC's environment in this crucial pre-election period!
BE SURE TO WEAR WHITE AT THE EVENT so that you show up against the green
lawn.
At this coming Saturday's
"Rally to Defend Beautiful BC / Tree of Life
Celebration",
hundreds of conservationists are expected to form an image
with their bodies
(with their clothes on) on the Legislature lawn. The
image will be of a
tree being cut down, with the words "Wake Up - May
17" next to it,
in reference to the upcoming provincial election.
This aerial art
image comes on the heels of another aerial art image
done two weeks ago
by the same artist (John Quigley of Spectral Q) on
Baffin Island, where
Hollywood actress Salma Hayek and 1000 Inuit formed
an aerial art image
to protest the US government's lack of action on
climate change.
See the recent
Arctic image at: www.articwisdom.org
See other incredible
aerial art images at: www.spectralq.com
See images of the
WCWC's previous "Tree of Life Celebration" involving
500 people in a
Weyerhaeuser clearcut in the Upper Walbran Valley on
Vancouver Island
last October at:
www.wildernesscommitteevictoria.org/gallery_treeoflife.php
While we won't have
Salma Hayek or 1000 Inuit with us this Saturday, we
expect it will be a
historic event particularly before the BC election,
and will involve
hundreds of BC citizens.
Preceding the aerial
art formation (ie. "Tree of Life Celebration")
there will be a
brief, 30 minute "Rally to Defend Beautiful BC"
featuring speakers
such as the WCWC's Ken Wu on forest
privatization/Working
Forest proposal, the Raincoast Conservation
Society's Chris
Genovali on the grizzly trophy hunt, the Youbou
TimberLess Society's
Ken James on raw log exports, Greenpeace's Amanda
Carr on ancient
forest liquidation, and several others.
The event will
highlight the BC government's radical anti-environmental
policies, where an
unprecedented rollback and weakening of BC's
environmental laws
has occurred over the past several years.
"The stakes are
high for BC's air and water quality, salmon, endangered
species, public
lands, parks, and BC jobs this election. We intend to
send a message, loud
and clear, that the BC government ignores
environmental
sustainability to its own detriment. Those who know the
price of everything
but the value of nothing will be forced to hear
about the impacts of
their anti-environmental policies on May 7," states
Ken Wu, campaign
director of the WCWC in Victoria.
For more info call
the Western Canada Wilderness Committee in Victoria
at (250) 388-9292 or wc2vic@island.net