What Comes Next?

Details: Published on Tuesday, 14 April 2015 08:00; Written by editor

Friends,

This past weekend I was marching in Quebec City with over 25,000 people to tell Canada's premiers that they can’t be climate leaders and expand the tar sands. Thousands more across the country -- like you! -- signed on to our petition echoing that message. Tonight, we will be sending it to all of Canada's provincial leaders.

Right now, we don't know much about where the premiers' climate deal is going. Key premiers like Jim Prentice from Alberta and Christy Clark from BC are skipping this climate summit tomorrow, and we know that Ontario and Quebec are signing a deal on carbon pricing.

But whatever the premiers announce, what we do know for sure is that there is a powerful, growing movement across the country that will keep telling provincial and federal leaders that real climate action... means freezing tar sands expansion and saying yes to just climate solutions.

That is why I want to tell you about what we're planning next and ask for your help to make it happen:

This July, over 3 days, the climate movement in Canada is going to take bigger, bolder action. On July 3rd and 4th, we're working with a wide range of partners across the country to organize two days of rolling actions under the banner of We > Tar Sands. On Friday, student divestment leaders will start the wave of action with actions targeting Canada’s political leaders, followed by a Canada-wide day of action on Saturday, led by communities standing up to unnecessary, dangerous tar sands expansion pipelines.

Then, on July 5th, 350.org and the growing climate movement will join with workers, First Nations and other allies to march through Toronto on the eve of the Pan American Climate Summit. Together, we'll demand leadership to build real climate solutions and a new energy future.

This plan is big. But as with all big plans, many hands make lighter work, which is why I was hoping for your help to launch this on April 15th.

We're using a tool called Thunderclap that allows hundreds of us to sign up together and schedule to post on our social networks at the same time when the action launches. This means we can amplify our message together. But it only works if we get at least 500 people to sign up to spread the word. Can you help make the We > Tar Sands Thunderclap happen on Wednesday?

Click here and join the Thunderclap, so that we can reach thousands of people on April 15th to launch the We > Tar Sands mobilization with a bang.

Onwards,
Aurore Fauret

P.S. The organizers of Saturday’s march in Quebec City have put together a great roundup of what happened -- click here to see photos, blogs and more.

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