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SUMMARY:Momentum for Change: Global bike ride for the climate
DESCRIPTION:All around the world, the fight against the causes of clim
 ate change is really heating up. \nOne of the focal points of this st
 ruggle is in regard to the expansion of the tar sands right in our own
  back yard.  This month we are targeting the demand for oil coming fr
 om transportation. \nWe need your help to keep the momentum going in 
 the fight against climate change.  350.org, the group that played an 
 important role in the White House protests, has organized a gigantic i
 nternational day of action focused on transportation alternatives the 
 Moving Planet Day of Action is on Sept. 24th. \nWe are helping to hos
 t the Vancouver component of the day of action.  We are thrilled to o
 nce again be working with Youth for Climate Justice Now, the same grou
 p we organized the Earth Day parade with this year. Our event in Vanco
 uver is called Momentum for Change and will involve a bike ride (or sk
 ateboard or unicycle or pogo stick or however else you want to self-pr
 opel) from Science World to Stanley Park.\nThe ride will start at 2pm.
  Leaving from Creekside Community Centre at False Creek close to Scien
 ce World. We'll take the new, continuous bike route along Dunsmuir and
  Hornby through downtown Vancouver, and from there up Beach Avenue end
 ing up at Second Beach in Stanley Park.  \nBefore the bike ride, star
 ting at 12 noon there will be festivities and a public forum on transp
 ortation alternatives at Creekside Community Centre with our friends f
 rom the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Better Environment
 ally Sound Transportation. We will be discussing the paper we co-publi
 shed with the CCPA called Transportation Transformation.\n The number
  one source of greenhouse gas emissions in BC is automobiles, and of c
 ourse transportation is primarily what oil is used for worldwide. To b
 reak our society's addiction to oil we need to break our automobile de
 pendence, and transition to bikes and more effective and affordable pu
 blic transit. For all the information about this day of action agains
 t climate change, check out MovingPlanetVancouver.org So get your bik
 e ready and make plans to join us -- together we can keep this movemen
 t rolling! \nBen West | Healthy Communities Campaigner \nWilderness 
 Committee\n\nFor more information visit http://villagevancouver.org/ev
 ents/momentum-for-change-global-bike-ride-for-the-climate
DTSTART:20110924T190000Z
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CATEGORIES:downtown, west, end, rally, cycling, bicycling, climate, ch
 ange
LOCATION:Science World, East False Creek
WEBSITE:http://www.moving-planet.org/events/ca/vancouver/623
URL:http://www.moving-planet.org/events/ca/vancouver/623
CONTACT:
ORGANIZER:Ben West, Wilderness Committee
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