Welcoming BC Mining Week Monday April 29th with the 2013 Toxic Tour

Tracing Violence To Its Source : Exposing Vancouver Mining Companies

by Mining Justice Alliance and Allies

The world’s “Greenest City” is home to some dirty mining companies - who are holding their annual conference! BC Mining Week: Celebrating BC Mining is coming to town, and the Mining Justice Alliance and allies are planning our own celebration! Join us for a “Toxic Tour” of Vancouver’s mining headquarters, featuring dance performances, street theatre, testimonies, video footage, food, and more surprises.

MONDAY April 29, 2013! Toxic Tour

Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories

5pm START : At the GOLDCORP SFU Center for the Arts 

(in the Woodwards ‘public’ Atrium) 

111 W Hastings St at Abbott

Final destination: Canada Place outside BC Mining Week’s Opening Gala Event for THE OTHER GALA to honour community resistance to unjust mining and expose the violence and toxicity that are the effect of Vancouver companies.

• March in solidarity with communities affected by BC-based mining companies throughout Turtle Island and across the globe!
• Visit the corporate headquarters of mining companies and hear from communities resisting mines!
• Reject government-supported corporate violation of peoples' lands, waters, rights and livelihoods!
• Honour those who have been injured or killed for their opposition to Canadian Mining projects.
• Bring your children, parents, grandparents!

What’s BC Mining Week?

The City of Vancouver plans to become the “greenest city in the world.” It is also home to the world’s largest conglomeration of mining companies. Beginning on April 29th 2013, Vancouver will host BC Mining Week. After an opening gala, where the “Mining Person of the Year Award 2012” will be granted, BC’s mining industry leaders will spend a week wining and dining at receptions, awards ceremonies and charitable events.

On their websites and in press releases, extractive corporations claim to bring economic and social 'development' to local and indigenous communities in BC and across the world. But the “greenwashing” can’t hide the increasing reports of conflict, environmental devastation, water toxicity and scarcity, human and indigenous rights violations, and violent repression–even murder–of residents who speak out in opposition to
extractive projects.

Weren't invited to the BC Mining Week Opening Gala? Join us for the Toxic Tour of Vancouver’s Mining Industry and A People's Gala! of Celebration and Remembrance to Celebrate and Honour Community Resistance to Unjust Mining.

Ever wondered why so many mining companies set up shop in Vancouver? Exactly what is BC Mining Week celebrating? The Canadian government actively assists extractive corporations with tax breaks, subsidies, lax stock market regulations, diplomatic support, and immunity from prosecution for environmental destruction and human rights abuses overseas.

THIS EVENT IS ENDORSED BY:

Alliance for People’s Health, Ancestral Pride Ahousaht Sovereign
Territory, BC CASA, Café Justicia, Café Rebelde, Canada Philippines
Solidarity for Human Rights, Canada Tibet Committee, Gallery Gachet,
Council of K’iche’ Peoples, Council of Canadians, CODESES Committee to
Support Social Development in El Salvador, Idle No More Vancouver,
Indigenous Action Movement, International League of People's Struggle
(ILPS)-Vancouver, Llh Lin Liyin Grassroots Wetsuwet’en, Kairos Metro
Vancouver, Migrante BC, Mining Justice Action Committee Victoria, No One
Is Illegal, Occupy Vancouver Environmental Justice Committee, Purple
Thistle Centre, Rising Tide, Sanctuary Health, SFPIRG, Spartacus Books,
UBC Social Justice Center, Vancouver Island Public Interest Research
Group, Victoria-Philippines Solidarity Group, Wirikuta Vancouver Alliance,
National Roundtable of El Salvador on Metallic Mining,

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Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories

5pm START : At the GOLDCORP SFU Center for the Arts 

(in the Woodwards ‘public’ Atrium) 

111 W Hastings St at Abbott