Keep the momentum going. We wore “Shut Down the Tar Sands” pinnies on our “Critical Mass” rally. I will post on their site to encourage cyclists to wear Shut Down the tar Sands pinnies.

Thank you New Zealand and Cairo. Let’s make this a true international cause.

I am proud today of my countrymen and women who joined forces to make a stand against environmental injustice. You rock!!!

While we understand global solidarity with the sit-in at Washington, DC against the tar sands pipleline, we do not, as Canadian citizens, appreciate New Zealanders desecrating our maple leaf. Smearing the flag is akin to smearing it’s people in one fell swoop, which is unfair because many Canadians don’t agree with our government’s policy on the pipeline. We are working to make our government accountable, but with the recent heartbreaking death of our official Opposition leader, who was the hope for change for many of us, we need time to regroup. This action by these Kiwis today is akin to kicking someone when their down. We thought you were better than that.

Don’t deface the Canadian Flag! That’s not nice and is offensive! Its not a national problem! It’s Big OIL not the Canadian Government.

I cannot understand the outrage that folks have when one destroys a solitary piece of fabric (usually synthetic). Here in the U.S. nation, Old Glory is more a corporate logo than anything else. Store, company and corporate owners display the thing to attract buyers of merchandise, by advertising to the public that their company is proudly American. That merchandise is, more often than not, tainted with poisonous stuff, or its acquisition has desecrated the land, water and air. Those companies exploit the people that work there, and poison the people with their products. Where is the outrage when Walmart and Exxon put Old Glory on their uniforms? The corporate empires have stolen the flags and I say let them have it. It’s time for a new and better one. One that is a symbol of a people united against corporate corruption, a people who are true stewards of the Earth, a people who are done being tricked into fighting by flag-waving thieves.

Hey it gets the message across and catches people’s attention. If they want to desecrate the American flag too I am 100% okay with that as an American citizen myself. At the end of the day, a flag is really just a piece of fabric that we are conditioned to fight over.

WRONG. The Canadian government has to allow Big Oil to do anything therefor it IS a national probelm. They are not defacing the flag to be offensive to Canada, but to illustrate exactly what can happen- environmental disaster all over Canada.

This Canadian is quite OK with the Kiwi flag action. Canadians need a kick in the pants to really start fighting against the tar sands and other climate crimes.

A video of the Vancouver action is available at http://thecanadian.org/k2/item/994-video-rally-against-tar-sands-tankers-in-vancouver

As a Canadian and in reply to a post by “orinhardy”, I have to say that the Canadian Government is a HUGE supporter AND advocate of the Tar Sands. This same government has lied internationally and nationally about Canada’s ( Tar Sands) pollution levels, will not commit to legislation to cut emissions, and is firing government environmental scientists in large numbers. PM Harper said several years ago that we wouldn’t recognize Canada when he was through with it. He wasn’t wrong on that. I am ashamed of what we are becoming. Thank you Kiwis and all other countries, for standing up against this government and Big Oil. There are many, many Canadians who stand with you.

Why hasn’t there been any Media coverage of your protests? If no reporters cover your demonstrations how do the people even know you exist?