United Kingdom Tar Sands Tour: November 11-23

Tar Sands UK / Ireland Speaker Tour Itinerary

13th November – 7-9pm Bristol Arnolfini, C words Festival

3-5pm Bristol Arnolfini, Trapese Collective:Workshop on grassroots activist education and direct action

14-15th – Rossport Solidarity Camp (Ireland)

16th – 7-9pm Science Oxford, ‘Bloody oil’: Canada’s Tar Sands, indigenous rights and climate change’

17th –10am-12pm London: Parliamentary event

2.30pm – RBS action with People & Planet

7-9pm – Speaker meeting, George Pub, 373 Commercial Road, Stepney, London, E1 0LA

18th – 7pm, Climate Justice Now! speaker tour, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

19th – 7pm, Y Plas, Machynlleth, Wales, organised by Centre for Alternative Technology

21-22 Shared Planet conference, Manchester

22nd – 6pm, Speaker meeting and screening of H2Oil, Dancehouse Theatre, Oxford Road, Manchester, organised by Ethical Consumer

Watch the Oxford event live on Monday 7.30pm UK time www.scienceoxfordlive.com/watch-us

Tar Sands UK / Ireland Speaker Tour Itinerary 13th November – 7-9pm Bristol Arnolfini, C words Festival 3-5pm Bristol Arnolfini, Trapese Collective:Workshop on grassroots activist education and direct action 14-15th – Rossport Solidarity Camp (Ireland) 16th – 7-9pm Science Oxford, ‘Bloody oil’: Canada’s Tar Sands, indigenous rights and climate change’ 17th –10am-12pm London: Parliamentary event 2.30pm – RBS action with People & Planet 7-9pm – Speaker meeting, George Pub, 373 Commercial Road, Stepney, London, E1 0LA 18th – 7pm, Climate Justice Now! speaker tour, School of Oriental and African Studies, London 19th – 7pm, Y Plas, Machynlleth, Wales, organised by Centre for Alternative Technology 21-22 Shared Planet conference, Manchester 22nd – 6pm, Speaker meeting and screening of H2Oil, Dancehouse Theatre, Oxford Road, Manchester, organised by Ethical Consumer Watch the Oxford event live on Monday 7.30pm UK time www.scienceoxfordlive.com/watch-us We have created a facebook event for you to invite your friends and get the word out! Tar Sands Facebook Page WHAT ARE THE TAR SANDS? The Tar Sands are a vast reserve of oil in Alberta, Canada – the second largest in the world. As other sources of oil dry up, major oil companies, banks and investors are pouring billions of dollars into Tar Sands extraction. Click here to find out more! Click here to read: Bloody Oil Click here to Read the Tar Sands Fact Sheet	United Kingdom Tar Sands Tour: November 11-23 Bloody oil: the struggle against the Tar Sands Three indigenous women from Canada are visiting the United Kingdom and Ireland conducting a 10-day tour to raise awareness about the Alberta Tar Sands. Dubbed 'the most destructive project on earth', the Tar Sands are devastating indigenous communities and driving global climate change. British companies such as BP, Shell and the Royal Bank of Scotland are heavily involved. The inspirational young women are working in partnership with UK groups, including Tar sands in focus, to internationalize their campaign supporting Indigenous Peoples Rights and to halt one of the world’s fastest growing causes of climate crisis. Featuring, from the Indigenous Environmental Network in Canada: Heather Milton-Lightening, from the Pasqua First Nation in Saskatchewan, has been organizing with the Native Youth Movement since 1995. She is now the Alberta based Tar sands Campaigner for the Indigenous Environmental Network. Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, a Dene woman belonging to the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation of Northern Alberta, is the Freedom from Oil Campaigner for the Rainforest Action Network. Melina Laboucan-Massimo, is Lubicon Cree from Northern Alberta. She has been working as an advocate for Indigenous rights for the past 9 years, and currently works for Greenpeace Canada Click to read: Bloody Oil
	Trailer 1: H₂Oil Moving between a local microcosm and the global oil crisis, H2Oil weaves together a collection of compelling stories of people who are at the front lines of the biggest industrial project in human history:
	Trailer 2: H₂Oil Alberta's oil sands now make Canada America's major oil supplier, but the billion-dollar industry extracts a terrible price: some of the cleanest water on earth is used to make the dirtiest oil in ...
	Effects of Tar Sands Clips from an interview with Celina Harpe, an elder in the Cree community of Fort Mackay, about 40km downstream from Suncor and Syncrude plants on the Athabasca River. She describes the increase in cancer, the lowering of the water levels on the river, and the disappearance of wildlife in the area.