Just Transition Rally

The intent of the day is to focus on creating a just transition locally, financed by making polluters pay.   We are highlighting local solutions that our municipal governments could be working on harder, and targeting the Federal Government, to help fund those solutions.

Come add your voice so our political leaders know that you want to see a just transition to local renewable energy, and green, safe, affordable housing.   Find out what else you can do to help make this transition happen.

FROM 350.ORG:

On November 4th, as fossil fuel companies publish another round of obscene multi-billion-dollar profits, we will ignite the anger and hope of workers and communities to bring a just transition to life. With creativity, vision, and bold arts-based interventions, we will showcase real, people-powered solutions to the climate crisis. We will call on our leaders to cut ties with fossil fuels, make polluters pay, and invest in powering a just transition at home and abroad.

From coast-to-coast-to-coast and across the globe, communities are taking to the streets to Power Up the future we want and need!  

Join us.

Demands

Our demands of the federal government are simple:

1. Pay Up – seize the wealth and power of the fossil fuel industry: tax unjust corporate profits, stop all subsidies and new fossil fuel projects, implement hard caps on emissions, and keep industry influence out of our politics.
2. Power Up – unleash the money to fund a just transition: redirect financial resources towards generating millions of unionized jobs, shifting us to 100% renewable energy, following Indigenous leadership, and rapidly decarbonizing the entire economy in line with climate science.

The world demands a just transition. We do not seek to simply replace one broken energy system with another by transferring power between or within transnational corporations. 

This means:

• Frontline and Indigenous communities getting the space and power to lead;
• Workers being supported to transition to a green economy that works for all;
• New economic systems and energy ownership models that redistribute power from private hands to the public good, from the few to the many;
• The corporations and countries that generated this crisis paying their fair share to address it.