Protest - Revolt

Respect my right to not vote

18/09/21

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Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel

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Photo: A stop sign in Mohawk and English in Kanehsatà:ke. Photo by Maxim Off

Sept.14, 2021

In 1990, Kanehsatà:ke land defenders barricaded a secondary dirt road to stop the expansion of Oka’s nine-hole golf course on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka homeland. It began the “78-day siege” of Kanehsatà:ke, including Kahnawake.

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Why tackling inequality and the climate crisis must go hand-in-hand

17/09/21

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Seth Klein

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National Observer

A parade of protesters makes its way down Broadway to New York City's Zuccotti Park in September 2012 to mark the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Photo by Paul Stein / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Sept. 17, 2021

Today, Sept. 17, marks the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street (I know, I was surprised, too). On this day in 2011, a mass protest began in New York City’s Zuccotti Park, located in the heart of the financial district. It lasted weeks and spread to cities around the world, including many in Canada.

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Protect the Planet Stop TMX - Treesit at Still Creek

16/09/21

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Protect the Planet Stop TMX

Dear friends,

We need YOUR help with direct support of the treesits that are blocking TMX. Non-Arrestable OR Arrestable - you decide. Both are crucial.

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None of the major parties will cancel TMX, despite heated opposition in B.C.

14/09/21

Author:

Chen Zhou

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Ricochet Media

Sept. 10, 2021

Even the NDP refuses to commit to killing the $16-billion, publicly funded pipeline expansion

The overpass trembled as cars sped past, and the noise of the traffic roared as several protestors stood on the sidewalk with “STOP TMX” banners. They waved them at passing vehicles, and those on the Trans-Canada Highway beneath them.

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Double standard: B.C. requires Indigenous consent for forest conservation but not logging

14/09/21

Author:

Torrance Coste

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Ricochet Media

Sept. 9, 2021

A year after groundbreaking old-growth report, government inaction still drives conflict in B.C.

Every day in B.C., irreplaceable groves filled with the oldest trees in the country are cut down and lost forever. In the year since the province’s strategic review of old-growth management, we’ve seen many promises but very little change in the forest.

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A power struggle at Fairy Creek: Old-growth activists want fewer police powers at Fairy Creek. The RCMP is asking for more

14/09/21

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Rochelle Baker

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National Observer

Close to 1,000 old-growth activists at the Fairy Creek blockades have been arrested, making it the largest civil disobedience movement in Canada. Photo courtesy of Rainforest Flying Squad / Facebook

September 14th 2021

A slew of legal applications involving the contentious Fairy Creek old-growth blockades are moving forward in B.C. Supreme Court this week as the protest becomes one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canada.

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Protest ongoing at Lost Creek tree sit - Timothee in skypod - video

13/09/21

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Gene McGuckin and Timothee

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Icloud

Sept 13, 2021

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The tiny lichen that could stop Teal-Jones from logging Fairy Creek’s old-growth

12/09/21

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Shaena Lambert

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National Observer

A rare species of lichen recently discovered around Fairy Creek could hold keys to stopping old-growth logging in the area. Photo by Natasha Lavdovsky

September 11th 2021

“Small things run the world.” — E.O. Wilson

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Trans Mountain protesters occupying Burnaby trees ‘under siege’ after fence erected

10/09/21

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Chris Campbell

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Burnaby Now

Sept. 8 2021

Tree sitters aiming to block the Trans Mountain pipeline route in a Burnaby forest say they are “under siege” after contractors erected blue fencing around their protest site on Tuesday.

*This story has been updated with a response from Trans Mountain and events that took place on Wednesday morning.

Tree sitters aiming to block the Trans Mountain pipeline route in a Burnaby forest say they are “under siege” after contractors erected blue fencing around their protest site on Tuesday.

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Enbridge Line 3: The Climate Disaster Unfolding Before Our Eyes

10/09/21

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Sonali Kolhatkar

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The Bullet

September 10, 2021

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall off the coast of Louisiana, triggering a slow-moving disaster as floodwaters breached the levees around New Orleans. Nearly 2,000 people were killed over several weeks, hundreds of thousands of homes were destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Environmental scientists warned that Katrina was a taste of what was in store for the Gulf Coast region if climate change continued unchecked.

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Protest - Revolt

Even the NDP refuses to commit to killing the $16-billion, publicly funded pipeline expansion

A year after groundbreaking old-growth report, government inaction still drives conflict in B.C.

Tree sitters aiming to block the Trans Mountain pipeline route in a Burnaby forest say they are “under siege” after contractors erected blue fencing around their protest site on Tuesday.

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