Writing on the Tar Sands... for Pay!

July 3, 2008

Writing on the Tar Sands... for Pay!

[Reposting...]

Call for submissions

In Western Canada-- Alberta, BC and Saskatchewan-- mega projects, massive developments and international events are bringing vast changes across the entire region. From nuclear power plants to Ski Hills and the world's largest ever industrial project, there are many components of similarity throughout Western Canada that can be and must be connected.

From the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA) through to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) the provinces are streamlining the vast changes and degradations in human rights, living conditions and environmental health.

In the Fall 2008, OilSandsTruth.org (OST) will be releasing a one time magazine on many of the issues being faced by the populations living within both provinces.

OST is looking for articles on the following:

How the SPP facilitates the tar sands;
How the SPP facilitates the 2010 Games;

Tar sands and the impact of the boom on indigenous self-determination;
2010 and the impact of the Games on indigenous self-determination;

Tar sands and the impact of the boom on housing;
2010 and the impact of the Games on housing;

Tar sands and how the impacts of the boom are gendered;
2010 and how the impacts of the Games are gendered;

Tar sands and the effects on migrant rights and temporary foreign workers;
2010 and the effects of the Games on migrant rights and temporary foreign workers;

Tar sands and trade union rights;
2010 and the effects on labour rights;

Tar sands development and what it means for land and the forests;
2010 and the impacts on lands and the forests;

Tar sands development and the impact on water quality;
Olympic development and the impact on water quality;

Olympics and their associations to war;
Tar sands and their association to currently waged wars.

Politics of “environmental sustainability” (greenwashing) in the tar sands;
Politics of “environmental sustainability” (greenwashing) for the 2010 Games;

Eastern Canadian responses to the 2010 Games;
Eastern Canadian responses to the tar sands;

Resistance taking place to the tar sands;
Resistance taking place to the 2010 Games;

other article ideas along these lines greatly encouraged. Priority will be given to community organizers writing from first hand perspectives.

Article ideas should be submitted to macdonald@oilsandstruth.org ; the final articles should be 700-1000 words in length. Authors of articles that are commissioned for this one time publication will receive $100 honorariums for their work.