Event

Fossil Free Canada Convergence

Friday, November 7, 2014toSunday, November 9, 2014
University Centre 3480 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0E7, CA

The fossil fuel divestment movement is building. Around the world, tens of thousands of students are mobilizing to take a stand against fossil fuel industries. In Canada, there are already nearly thirty divestment campaigns on university and college campuses, from coast to coast.

From November 7th-9th we will be holding the first ever Fossil Free Canada Convergence in Montreal, Quebec.

Visit gofossilfree.ca/register_convergence for more information and to register.

We'll bring together students from campuses across to take the fossil fuel divestment movement in Canada to the next level. With dynamic speakers, skills trainings, planning sessions and workshops, we'll create the capacity for strong collective action against tar sands, pipelines, and fracking. We'll focus on the importance of divestment to the broader climate justice movement and ensure we are building a movement that supports the struggles of communities at the frontlines.

Working on a divestment campaign already? Gearing up to launch one? You should be in Montreal from November 7th-9th to be a part of building this movement to help dismantle the fossil fuel industry and create a transition to a clean and just energy economy.

Keynote speakers include Crystal Lameman, member of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, Treaty No. 6, and Climate & Energy Campaigner for the Sierra Club Prairie Chapter in Alberta. More speakers and trainings to be announced soon.

This is a joint project led by the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition and support by the Concordia Student Union, and the Student Society of McGill University.

Visit gofossilfree.ca/register_convergence for more information and to register.

Location and Schedule:

Friday, November 7th:
4pm: Storytelling workshop (optional)
7pm: Keynote Speakers- Location TBD

Saturday, November 8th -- Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) Building, McGill University
Workshops all day. Details TBA.
9pm - Social events/Party

Sunday, November 9th -- Concordia Students' Union (CSU), 7th floor of Hall Building, Concordia University
9am - 2pm: Planning sessions and break out groups to plan next steps and moving forward
2pm - 6pm: Art build and creative space (optional)

This event takes place on the traditional territory of the Kanien'kehá:ka. The Kanien'kehá:ka are the keepers of the Eastern Door of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The island called “Montreal” is known as Tiotia:ke in the language of the Kanien'kehá:ka, and it has historically been a meeting place for other Indigenous nations, including the Algonquin peoples.

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