Recent account of the resistance at #FairyCreek

https://therealnews.com/today-is-a-good-day-to-die-brandi-morin-reports-from-inside-a-new-rcmp-raid-at-fairy-creek

#ForestProtectors Arrested at #FairyCreek

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 16, 2023

"Three forest protectors were arrested on Tuesday protecting the old-growth forests west of Victoria, as Canada continues to target #NativePeople with police operatives protecting the interest of destructive industries. The police ops are #BritishColumbia's C-IRG, the Community #Industry Response Group.

"Mourning the invasion of the #MilitarizedPolice squad who arrested the #ForestDefenders, who were his guests, #Pacheedaht #FirstNation Elder Bill Jones said, 'We are at the end times of our great forests.'

"Abolish C-IRG said, 'Due to the increasing amount of #indigenous-led anti-resource extraction movements in British Columbia, the Community-Industry Response Group was born. C-IRG is unique to British Columbia. They are militarized, have no budget limit, and the officers get paid handsomely to force #pipelines, #mines, #dams, and #logging through unceded #IndigenousTerritories, without consent. This is just another extension of the #RCMP’s original task- to remove and separate people from the land and enforce #ColonialRule. They do not keep us safe, they protect #capital."

Background: Back to Fairy Creek

"The last time the world was watching Fairy Creek, we witnessed the largest act of #CivilDisobedience in #CanadianHistory. Well over 1,000 Indigenous and non-Indigenous forest defenders were arrested by the RCMP over months of tense standoffs in 2021 as #activists sought to halt the logging of rare #AncientTrees.

"The courts hammered that movement, with charges and bail conditions keeping many away, and the tussle in the trees went dormant for most of the last two years.

"Until now.

"A new blockade, led by #IndigenousYouth and supported by non-Indigenous allies, has just been erected on a key bridge crossing an arterial logging road. The RCMP's specialized tactical team that responds to land defence actions is present and surveilling the camp. A raid could come any day, and having #media on the ground is of crucial importance to keep tabs on police and document the latest developments as land defenders seek to protect their unceded territories from old-growth logging."

Full article and more information:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/08/forest-protectors-raided-at-fairy-creek.html

#VancouverIsland #ACAB #ProtectTheForests #CIRG #Colonialism #Capitalism #Corporatism #Oligarchy

Marco (Nostic) also uses #music as part of #environmental #activism 🎵🎶
Here's his #MusicVideo on #Youtube - please check it out & share if you dig it.

#Extinction - Nostic & Nicki
https://youtu.be/M95-dFMn2DY

#SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #protectOldGrowth #SacredForests #ProtectTheSacred #PoliticalSongs #Ecology #FairyCreek #PortRenfrew #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #ActivistMusic #pacheedaht #dididaht #AncientForests #StopEcocide #biodiversity #StopDeforestation #hiphop

Thanks to #GoogleEarth Engine, people are able to see the #effects of #humans on our #ecosystems happen in a flash.

On #VancouverIsland specifically, it’s easy to see the #deforestation of #FairyCreek near #PortRenfrew as well as several other locations. 

https://www.victoriabuzz.com/2023/03/timelapse-shows-significant-deforestation-on-vancouver-island-over-39-years-video/

#vanisle #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #protectOldGrowth #PNW #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #BCNDP #NewDeathParty #CorporateGreed

🦄🐳 @thenarwhal and #AmberBracken are suing the #RCMP
who held Bracken for three nights in jail after arresting Bracken during her reporting for The #Narwhal from Wet’suwet’en territory in northwestern #BC. Bracken’s arrest is part of a troubling pattern of RCMP infringing on press freedom at #FairyCreek #LandBack Lane in Ontario
🏷️ #logging #Canada #IndigenousRights
https://thenarwhal.ca/bracken-narwhal-rcmp-lawsuit/

RT @MikeHudema@twitter.com

Over 1200 people have been arrested trying to protect these giants from being logged. Only a fraction of large old growth remain in B.C.

It's time to protect our elders. #ActOnClimate

#Climate #FairyCreek #bcpoli #bcgov @jjhorgan@twitter.com @bcndp@twitter.com pics by @TJWattPhoto@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1606022278147350532

RT @MikeHudema@twitter.com

Over 1200 people have been arrested trying to protect these giants from being logged. Only a fraction of large old growth remain in B.C.

It's time to protect our elders. #ActOnClimate

#Climate #FairyCreek #bcpoli #bcgov @jjhorgan@twitter.com @bcndp@twitter.com pics by @TJWattPhoto@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1606022278147350532

Brave #B.C. police officer quits task force over concerns about RCMP tactics at #FairyCreek

https://www.todayinbc.com/news/b-c-police-officer-quits-task-force-over-concerns-about-rcmp-tactics-at-fairy-creek/?utm_source=second-street&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=BC+Provincial+News+-+December+1%2c+2022&emailmd5=28B79EEE527900322A661753A90807BD&emailsha1=22171741941769823315320210315670168511751742419358216&emailsha256=00f9c80f2a662353f792429f7eea8a0ebe80c3f7610a11cafbae68f5ecbcdc2c

@SusanHR Double standard: Over 1,000 protesters arrested over #FairyCreek: "Protests against old growth #logging...These events, many coalescing around the Fairy Creek watershed, represent a critical moment in BC's recurring history of conflict related to eco values and the forest industry, recalling The War in the Woods & the #Clayoquot Protests of the early 1990s. It has been described as "one of the largest [acts of] civil disobedience in Cdn history..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Creek_old-growth_logging_protests

#PortRenfrew #SaveOldGrowth #WaterIsLife #FairyCreek #Watershed #WorthMoreStanding 🌲💧🌲
#Nature #MotherEarth #ForestDefenders #EarthProtectors #WaterProtectors

The one good apple in the lot.
#fairycreek #environment
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/11/24/news/did-not-want-be-involved-police-officer-quits-task-force-rcmp-Fairy-Creek?

‘I did not want to be involved’: Police officer quits task force over concerns about RCMP tactics at Fairy Creek | Canada's National Observer: News & Analysis

A member of the RCMP’s controversial Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) resigned from the unit over concerns about “unjustifiable” police behaviour during a crackdown on Fairy Creek old-growth activists, a freedom-of-information request shows.

#canada #anarchism #kolektiva #fairycreek

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/11/24/news/did-not-want-be-involved-police-officer-quits-task-force-rcmp-Fairy-Creek?

On Canadian Tire Fire, #FairyCreek blockade continues, actions on #PrisonerJusticeDay, violent sweeps of tent cities in #Vancouver, #Wetsuweten tour continues as do solidarity actions, #Montreal celebrates #Pride despite corporate event falling apart. https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-42/

RT @MikeHudema@twitter.com

Over 1100 people have been arrested trying to protect these giants from being logged. Only a fraction of large old growth remain in B.C. and they keep falling.

Protect our elders. #ActOnClimate

#Climate #FairyCreek #bcpoli #bcgov @jjhorgan@twitter.com @bcndp@twitter.com pics by @TJWattPhoto@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1541084887964327937

Announcing Creeker, A Zine About The Fairy Creek Blockade - Via @igd_news - Read more: https://enoughisenough14.org/2022/01/06/announcing-creeker-a-zine-about-the-fairy-creek-blockade/ #FairyCreek #decolonize #antireport

RT @MarieSoleil_b@twitter.com

Dossier publié le 1er septembre. Toujours d’actualité. Récemment, ce blocus est devenu le plus grand acte de désobéissance civile pacifique de l’histoire du Canada, avec près de 900 arrestations, en Colombie-Britannique.
@LilaDussault@twitter.com #FairyCreek
https://www.lapresse.ca/elections-federales/2021-09-01/la-presse-en-colombie-britannique/les-forets-anciennes-s-invitent-dans-la-campagne.php

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MarieSoleil_b/status/1436687899647488002

Forest company, RCMP, old-growth defenders due in court this month for four hearings https://bit.ly/3kZWWU6 #RCMP #Nanaimo #FairyCreek #Courts #bcpoli

RT @pixelpump
The money and the political capital being wasted just to allow one logging company to profit from the destruction of one of the last stands of old growth forest in BC is both despicable and baffling to me. @jjhorgan #FairyCreek

Very excited that From Embers from so-called Kingston, ON, is producing new episodes!
https://fromembers.libsyn.com/fairy-creek on a renewal of the War In The Woods, blockades in so-called BC (#FairyCreek)
https://fromembers.libsyn.com/a-year-at-1492-land-back-lane on success at #1492LandBackLane of Six Nations territory reclamation

From Embers: Fairy Creek [#Kingston, #Ontario] - Listen: https://enoughisenough14.org/2021/07/19/from-embers-fairy-creek-kingston-ontario/ #FairyCreek #ClimateJustice #antireport