[R-G] Oil Sands Truth Call for Submissions-- articles/writers wanted

[Suzanne de Kuyper]

The Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement should be printed out in it's entirety before a paper on any of the article suggestions can be seriously constructed ...that agreement as well as the attending legislation that has been enacted or is pending to strengthen the Partnership.     suzannedk at gmail.com


--- On Wed, 7/2/08, Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby at resist.ca> wrote:

> From: Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby at resist.ca>
> Subject: [R-G] Oil Sands Truth Call for Submissions-- articles/writers wanted
> To: "suzanne  de Kuyper" <suzannedk at yahoo.com>
> Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 6:48 PM
> Call for submissions
> 
> In Western Canada-- Alberta, BC and Saskatchewan-- mega
> projects, 
> massive developments and international events are bringing
> vast changes 
> across the entire region. From nuclear power plants to Ski
> Hills and the 
> world's largest ever industrial project, there are many
> components of 
> similarity throughout  Western Canada that can be and must
> be connected.
> 
>  From the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement
> (TILMA) 
> through to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)
> the provinces 
> are streamlining the vast changes and degradations in human
> rights, 
> living conditions and environmental health.
> 
> In the Fall 2008, OilSandsTruth.org (OST) will be releasing
> a one time 
> magazine on many of the issues being faced by the
> populations living 
> within both provinces.
> 
> OST is looking for articles on the following:
> 
> How the SPP facilitates the tar sands;
> How the SPP facilitates the 2010 Games;
> 
> Tar sands and the impact of the boom on indigenous
> self-determination;
> 2010 and the impact of the Games on indigenous
> self-determination;
> 
> Tar sands and the impact of the boom on housing;
> 2010 and the impact of the Games on housing;
> 
> Tar sands and how the impacts of the boom are gendered;
> 2010 and how the impacts of the Games are gendered;
> 
> Tar sands and the effects on migrant rights and temporary
> foreign workers;
> 2010 and the effects of the Games on migrant rights and
> temporary 
> foreign workers;
> 
> Tar sands and trade union rights;
> 2010 and the effects on labour rights;
> 
> Tar sands development and what it means for land and the
> forests;
> 2010 and the impacts on lands and the forests;
> 
> Tar sands development and the impact on water quality;
> Olympic development and the impact on water quality;
> 
> Olympics and their associations to war;
> Tar sands and their association to currently waged wars.
> 
> Politics of “environmental sustainability”
> (greenwashing) in the tar sands;
> Politics of “environmental sustainability”
> (greenwashing) for the 2010 
> Games;
> 
> Eastern Canadian responses to the 2010 Games;
> Eastern Canadian responses to the tar sands;
> 
> Resistance taking place to the tar sands;
> Resistance taking place to the 2010 Games;
> 
> other article ideas along these lines greatly encouraged.
> Priority will 
> be given to community organizers writing from first hand
> perspectives.
> 
> Article ideas should be submitted to
> macdonald at oilsandstruth.org ; the 
> final articles should be 700-1000 words in length. Authors
> of articles 
> that are commissioned for this one time publication will
> receive $100 
> honorariums for their work.
> 
> 
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