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Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein to join Canada's tar sands 'healing walk' (this weekend)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/01/canada-tar-sands-project-healing-walk
Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein to join Canada's tar sands 'healing walk'
Native elders to lead a spiritual gathering to heal land, air, water and all living forms harmed by world's largest industrial project
Stephen Leahy
guardian.co.uk, Monday 1 July 2013 08.50 EDT
Hundreds of activists including Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein are going into the heart of Canada's tar sands this week – not to protest the destruction of the local environment, but to pray for the 'healing' of land and the people.
Native elders from all over North America will lead people past lakes of tailings wastewater and massive infrastructure of the tar sands industry along the Athabasca River in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Organisers say the event, dubbed the Healing Walk, will be a spiritual gathering focused on healing the land, air, water and all living things harmed by the expansion of what is already the world's largest industrial project.
"This is a sacred walk because it invites us all to begin a process of healing – healing the land from violence, healing ourselves from our dependence on an economy based on that violence, and healing our deeply imperilled democracy," said Naomi Klein, writer and author of bestselling "The Shock Doctrine" on why she is participating.
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Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein to join Canada's tar sands 'healing walk'
Native elders to lead a spiritual gathering to heal land, air, water and all living forms harmed by world's largest industrial project
Stephen Leahy
guardian.co.uk, Monday 1 July 2013 08.50 EDT
Hundreds of activists including Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein are going into the heart of Canada's tar sands this week – not to protest the destruction of the local environment, but to pray for the 'healing' of land and the people.
Native elders from all over North America will lead people past lakes of tailings wastewater and massive infrastructure of the tar sands industry along the Athabasca River in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Organisers say the event, dubbed the Healing Walk, will be a spiritual gathering focused on healing the land, air, water and all living things harmed by the expansion of what is already the world's largest industrial project.
"This is a sacred walk because it invites us all to begin a process of healing – healing the land from violence, healing ourselves from our dependence on an economy based on that violence, and healing our deeply imperilled democracy," said Naomi Klein, writer and author of bestselling "The Shock Doctrine" on why she is participating.
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