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Protesters march against pipeline in Vancouver streets
September 26, 2016“Can’t drink oil, keep it in the soil!” Vancouverites heard this and other chants on the morning of September 19, when about 20 protesters made their way through the downtown core protesting the construction of a Trans Mountain Pipeline in BC. The proposed project would be an expansion to the existing pipeline and has been a controversial issue for Burnaby residents, SFU students, and local governments for the past five years. The project saw the Edmonton to Burnaby pipeline tripled in capacity, dramatically increasing the number of tankers being loaded in the Burrard Inlet and exporting oil from the tar…
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A call for inclusive climate action
March 14, 2016[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e’ve all seen the ads — the polar bears precariously balancing on blocks of ice for a Coca Cola commercial, the devastated ecosystems captured by Discovery Channel documentaries. However, what we don’t see is input from indigenous peoples on the…
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Branding a human body with UV ink is ethically irresponsible
September 28, 2015The date was 2011, in the heyday of the Occupy movement which called for an end to social and economic inequality. In a knee-jerk reaction to a protest, police forcibly removed a group of Occupy protesters in Montreal who handcuffed…
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Scrap the tuition fees; education is a right
March 9, 2015[caption id="attachment_935" align="alignnone" width="940"] Image Credit: Andrew Moss (Flickr)[/caption] I’ll let you know right off the bat that I’m currently $25,000 in student debt. With another two years of post-secondary education on the horizon, I estimate I’ll be at over…
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Protesting professors launch course on civil disobedience
January 6, 2015Two SFU professors are bringing their experiences from the front lines of the Kinder Morgan pipeline protests to the frontiers of the classroom in this spring’s President’s Dream Colloquium, titled “Obedience and Disobedience: Taking Action on Climate Change.” The colloquium…
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Police make arrests at Burnaby Mountain protests
November 20, 2014Police arrested at least 12 pipeline protesters on Burnaby Mountain this morning beginning at 8:00 a.m. and ordered the remaining protesters to move their camp or face arrest. A dozen officers arrived at the site to read off the injunction,…
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Pipeline protesters gather despite Kinder Morgan injunction
November 18, 2014Want to add an aural element to your reading experience? Listen to CJSF's recordings of protester singing and interviews: [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/177530713" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="100" iframe="true" /] Pipeline protesters gathered once again at survey sites in the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area yesterday afternoon…
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Injunction granted against Kinder Morgan opponents
November 14, 2014[audio m4a="http://159.203.128.194/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Pipeline-song-2.m4a"][/audio] The BC Supreme Court has granted an injunction requested by Kinder Morgan to prevent protesters from obstructing crews’ access to work sites on Burnaby Mountain. Those who are camped out at the sites have until Monday, November 17,…
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SFU community rallies against Kinder Morgan expansion
November 13, 2014Anti-pipeline activists and observers gathered in Convocation Mall on the chilly morning of November 13 to voice concerns regarding the planned extension of the Kinder Morgan pipeline through Burnaby Mountain. The rally, “SFU Says No to Pipelines,” was put on…
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Protesters clash with Kinder Morgan surveyors on Burnaby Mountain
November 3, 2014Protesters continue to clash with Kinder Morgan over a proposed pipeline route that would expand the project through the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area and Burnaby Mountain Park. Kinder Morgan has now filed an injunction against five individual protesters, demanding that…
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