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Rally to Keep Translink public

Join the Wilderness Committee, the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC), Gateway Sucks and Keep Translink Public to protest Bill 43.

Date and Time: Wed. Nov. 21st 4.30 - 5.30 PM    Place: Waterfront Station @ Canada Place

Transit is critical to the future of Metro Vancouver. Good transit decisions will allow us to preserve wildlife habitat, curb urban sprawl, and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. At a time when habitat loss and climate change are such clear threats in the Lower Mainland, we must have a transit system that is open, accountable and responsive to the needs of commuters.

Write and Phone: Find your local MLA: http://www.leg.bc.ca/..., Premier Gordon Campbell Email: premier@gov.bc.ca Phone: 604 660-3202 (Constituency Office) (250) 387-1715 ( Victoria ), Hon. Kevin Falcon, Minister of Transportation E-mail: kevin.falcon.mla@leg.bc.ca Phone: (604) 576-3792 (Constituency Office) 250 387-1978 ( Victoria )

Saturday December 1st, CATCA will have another demo in front Snowflake in Vancouver
 
We will gather behind the Art Gallery at Robson at 11:45 AM.
We will start to go towards Snowflake at noon. We may have another stop along the way.
 
We will provide the placards, fliers and leaflets.
 
See you then !  Erika (CATCA)
 
Day of Action to Canada's Forest from Sears Catalogues, Dec.4th

Sears Holding Corporation sends out 425 million catalogs a year, enough catalog paper to wrap the Sears Tower six times a day? Sears is the largest catalog company that has refused to take significant action to ensure that their catalog paper is sustainable; instead their catalogs are made from Endangered Forests!

I recently took action on ForestEthics' campaign to get Sears to stop destroying Endangered Forests for catalog paper, by writing an email to the CEO of Sears. I'm writing to ask you to take action as well. Our Endangered Forests are paying the price, and it's time Sears changes the way their catalogs are made. Tell them its time to protect our Endangered Forests!

To find out more and take action go to www.catalogcutdown.org     Sign up now to host or attend an event.     Questions? Contact Neil (ForestEthics): neil@forestethics.org

When: 12:30 - 1:00 PM Tuesday December 4th         Where: Sears store, 701 Granville St (Granville at Georgia), Vancouver

 

Pappas Furs Protest
Location: Aberdeen Centre, Richmond (4151 Hazelbridge Way, Richmond). There are several entrances to the mall so please check all entrances
Date: Every Sunday
Time: 1pm - 3pm

We are continuing our pressure on Aberdeen Centre to cut Pappas Furs loose.  We will continue to protest at Aberdeen Centre until it drops this controversial new tenant.  For those of you who cannot make it to the protest, please contact Aberdeen Centre and politely ask them to drop Pappas.

Address:  Fairchild Developments Ltd., Suite 130, 4400 Hazelbridge Way, Richmond, BC, Canada  V6X 3R8
Telephone: 604.270.1234  or  604.273.1234 ext 128
Email:  info@aberdeencentre.com, leasing@aberdeencentre.com, promotion@aberdeencentre.com

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WHALING SEASON IS ABOUT TO BEGIN 50 HUMPBACK WHALES ARE INCLUDED WITH 1000 others  Letters, e-mails, phone calls, demos....  The whales need them ASAP, please !
 
Humpback and Fin whales they are highly endangered whales. But the Japanese doesn't care about this or about respecting the Moratorium on whales. They only care for the profit from their meat !
Check: www.catcahelpanimals.org web page: "Japan's slaughter of dolphins","IWC 2007", "CITES 2007" and more related whaling issues in our website.
 
Contact your Japanese consulate / embassy and POLITELY urge them to stop whaling  "under research and scientific purposes", when in reality, all whale meat goes to supermarkets and restaurants, mention them about all toxins found in whale and dolphin meat,ask them to stop the annual slaughter of over 20,000 dolphins and small whales (from October to April), and to spare Migaloo ! ( check article below)  (Google "Japan consulates and embassies" to get one near you !).
 
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