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LET’S BUILD A UNITED FRONT FOR SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE
opposition. Throughout the spring, Climate Convergence Metro Vancouver continued organizing and mobilizing to build a more united and stronger climate justice movement locally and internationally, with actions such as:
Alison Bodine, who is a central organizer of Climate Convergence Metro Vancouver, a board member of the West Coast Climate Action Network (WECAN) and has written extensively on the climate crisis and organizing for climate justice May 23 – Stop the TMX & CGL Pipelines! People and Planet Before Pipelines and Profit! Banner Drop over Highway 1 in New Westminster/ Coquitlam
In the face of this destruction and the ongoing repression and brutality against Indigenous land defenders and climate activists, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) and the Coastal GasLink pipeline are facing growing
April 19 – Climate Convergence central organizer Alison Bodine moderated a dynamic and engaging panel discussion following a successful showing of the film “Coextinction” organized by Reel Causes, Protect the Planet Stop TMX, Ecojustice, and Story Money Impact in Vancouver
May 5 – No TMX & CGL Pipelines!
RCMP Out Of Wet’suwet’en Land! Intersection protest action at the intersection of Lougheed Highway & Willingdon Avenue in Burnaby
May 7 - May Day
FreeSkool. Climate Convergence Workshop “Building the Struggle for Mother Earth with an Anti-Capitalist Perspective” with
June 7 – Stop the TMX Pipeline! Climate Justice Tabling & Outreach for Hug Burnaby Mountain at the intersection of Broadway and Commercial Drive in Vancouver
June 18 – Hug Burnaby Mountain! A dynamic afternoon on Burnaby Mountain demonstrating our unity against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX). Organized with Protect the Planet Stop TMX, 350 Vancouver, BC Greens, BROKE, Decolonial Solidarity, Doctors for Planetary Health, Force of Nature Alliance, Georgia Straight Alliance, On2Ottawa, Sierra Club, Sue Big Oil, URXR Vancouver.
Ongoing – Climate Convergence also supports the ongoing Decolonial Solidarity “Adopt-a-Branch” actions against the CGL pipeline and in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders. These actions are held at RBC bank branches across the Lower Mainland. On the first and third Tuesday of each month, there is an action supported by Climate Convergence at the RBC branch at 6th Avenue and 7th Street in New Westminster.
