Halifax

PowerShift Atlantic

PowerShift is coming to Halifax/K'jipuktuk, Mi'kmaqi Territory March 28-31 2014.

9:00am
Saturday March 29 2014 - 4:30pm
Sunday March 30 2014

PowerShift Atlantic is a gathering organized by youth for youth that focuses on climate justice. We will bring together 500 youth from diverse backgrounds to learn, develop their skills and build the movement for climate, environmental and social justice. 

THE MOVEMENT

From mass mobilizations throughout North Africa and the Middle East, to Occupy Wall Street, the Quebec Student movement and Idle No More, ordinary people have emerged and set the stage for much needed changes to today’s economic, social and political landscape. Their movements have re-kindled a fire, an appetite for greater justice, and a desire for a more equal and collaborative society.

In this pivotal time, we have also seen a resurgence of the climate justice movement. We've felt the emergence and growth of resistance to the tar sands, fracking and pipelines, led by First Nations across Canada. We've watched the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline grow in the United States, and a global movement taking on fracking take off. Unions and workers are demanding green jobs and frontline communities are mobilizing against projects that threaten the land and water that effect their daily realities. There  is a growing movement standing up against the fossil fuel industry and demanding a safe and just climate future.

Youth have been at the forefront of these movements leading change. We are a generation with the power to change the impossible. We are unafraid to speak out, take powerful action and challenge not only the problems we see in the world, but work for the solutions that we know are possible. We're ready for change, and together we can make it happen

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