This is our moment to stop Kinder Morgan — here’s how we think we can do it

Let’s start with three assumptions. The first: if you’re reading this, you, like us, want to stop the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline.

March 24th bold action at the Kinder Morgan terminal facility on Burnaby Mountain. Photo Credit: Rogue Collective

First, we have to start a whirlwind.

March 23rd #DefendtheWater action on Salt Spring Island — this was one action out of 50+ across Canada in solidarity with Indigenous-led resistance to Kinder Morgan
A snapshot from another moment of the whirlwind: iconic Idle No More demonstration on Parliament Hill in 2013.

But, we have to recognize that this revolution is about more than just a pipeline.

The case of Colten Boushie, an Indigenous youth who was murdered by a white man is being taken to the United Nations after the Canadian courts failed to deliver justice to his family.
Autumn Peltier, 12, cries as she hands gifts to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and calls on him to protect the water. Photo by Alex Tétreault (2016)
A few weeks ago. almost a thousands people showed up to greet Trudeau with a #StopKM message as he joined a Liberal party fundraiser in Vancouver. (JONATHAN HAYWARD / THE CANADIAN PRESS

This piece was written collaboratively by the 350.org tar sands team in Canada — Cam Fenton, Atiya Jaffar, Aurore Fauret, Clayton Thomas-Müller, and Katie Perfitt.

March 10th: a historic moment of resistance when Coast Salish Indigenous leaders built a Watch House on the path of the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline on Burnaby Mountain and 10,000 people marched in solidarity.

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Pushing Canada to take real #climate leadership by freezing #tarsands and keeping fossil fuels in the ground. We're part of a global climate justice movement.