THIS FRIDAY APRIL 22! Calling all residents, students, parents, elders, streamkeepers, treeplanters, guerilla gardeners, blockaders, rebels, climate defenders, farmers and freeway fighters! On a week of fresh cuts to local transit service, it's time to stand up for climate justice, and take direct action to stop freeway expansion!

THIS FRIDAY APRIL 22! Calling all residents, students, parents, elders, streamkeepers, treeplanters, guerilla gardeners, blockaders, rebels, climate defenders, farmers and freeway fighters! On a week of fresh cuts to local transit service, it's time to stand up for climate justice, and take direct action to stop freeway expansion!

Well, we'll be in it together! Does this mean kicking the other person's bum when one of us doesn't want to brave the rain? Perhaps! Does it mean helping each other stay on top of bike maintenance? Yes! But even better, I think this also means occasionally looking for and sharing inspirational material about biking - books, films, poems, events, and people.

Continue to speak out against the Gateway project: It's not too late, it's not a done deal!!

Here are some reasons (Source: SPEC):

1) There's no money (feds won't contribute)
2) It makes no sense (prohibitive cost)
3) There's no proof it would help
4) There's no support (the GVRD has voted to oppose the project)
5) There's no time -- we need solutions now, to climate change and traffic congestion.

If you're able to distribute flyers for a couple of hours in North Surrey on Sunday, 6 May, it will make a difference. Thanks! - Bonnie

Background: the four Surrey New Democrat seats are the biggest block to New Democrats formally opposing Gateway. Many residents in this area believe the myth that twinning Highway #1 will solve congestion. This is a PRIORITY EDUCATION AREA. All help is greatly appreciated.

As you may know, although the provincial NDP has been raising some good questions regarding the Port Mann Bridge and Highway 1 expansion - they have not taken a firm position against it, for fear of losing voters in Surrey. This stands in contrast to the strong position they took in opposition to the proposed coal fired power plants in Princeton and Tumbler Ridge - which they have raised repeatedly, and which seem to be in serious jeopardy now.