Anti-logging protest becomes Canada's biggest ever act of civil disobedience [View all]
Source: Guardian
At least 866 arrested since April, as police condemned for violence against protesters defending Vancouver Island’s ancient forests
Jen Osborne in Fairy Creek and Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Wed 8 Sep 2021 11.11 EDT
A string of protests against old-growth logging in western Canada have become the biggest act of civil disobedience in the country’s history, with the arrest of least 866 people since April.
The bitter fight over the future of Vancouver Island’s diminishing ancient forests – in which activists used guerrilla methods of resistance such as locking their bodies to the logging road and police responded by beating, dragging and pepper-spraying demonstrators – has surpassed the previous record of arrests set in the 1990s at the anti-logging protests dubbed the “War in the Woods”.
For months, hundreds of activists with the Rainforest Flying Squad have camped out in the remote Fairy Creek watershed in a desperate attempt to shift the course of logging in the region.
They have chained themselves to tripods crafted from logs, suspended themselves in trees and even locked their arms inside devices called “sleeping dragons” cemented into the ground.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/08/canada-logging-protest-vancouver-island
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