Civil Disobedience Workshop

Council of Canadians is holding a workshop to teach the fundamentals of
peaceful civil disobedience - it's free.

The workshop will be 4 hours long and will be given by Harjap Grewal,
BC-Yukon Regional Organizer, Council of Canadians. This workshop will give
people the tools to undertake peaceful civil disobedience on critical issues
of social, environmental and economic justice.

Canadian courts have said that civil disobedience is acceptable if you act
peacefully, accept any consequences, and act on a clear moral issue.

A specific moral issue is BC coal. This coal is exported and burned far
away, but releases carbon gases into our common atmosphere equal to all
other BC greenhouse gas emissions. And so, we in BC cannot reduce our
collective carbon emissions without phasing out coal exports -
www.stopcoal.ca .

Another issue related to climate change are the proposed tar sands oil
pipelines to export another fossil fuel - oil. Mr. Harper's government says
that opposing these pipelines is a "radical" act.

All scientific organizations agree that the continued burning of fossil
fuels will destroy our climate and create an earth which is not sustainable
for our kids. So we say that protecting our kid's future is not a radical
act; rather, it is our duty.

Like an enormous pendulum, the earth is swinging to "hot". Universal
atmospheric laws of physics do not care about your kids' future, not a bit.
It appears that our government does not care either. So citizens must act.

You are either an activist or an in-activist. Come to the workshop and
learn.

Peter Nix, Maple Bay, (250-748-7954)
cowichancarbonbusters@shaw.ca