Green Party deputy leader Angela Davidson convicted of criminal contempt for Fairy Creek logging blockades
Green Party deputy leader Angela Davidson convicted of criminal contempt for Fairy Creek logging blockades
Davidson—also known as Rainbow Eyes—was arrested in May 2021, but broke bail conditions to protest at six more blockades, the court said
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Fairy creek was pretty much the last of the old growth forests on Vancouver Island (other than a small amount of parkland). That shit is never coming back, not for 5-10 generations, possibly not for a thousand years. And that’s only if the land is left untouched to recover (which it will not be). I have personally seen the devastation of the island in rural areas. Along the highways the forest is left in tact, but just a couple metres away it is entirely clear cut. They hide it from us because people would start to care if they knew the truth.
The benefit? Large sums of money for a few wealthy individuals. The leader who saw this through retired and is working for the forestry industry now. And the wood from these precious trees? Turned into guitars and other embellishments. An utter waste of a non-renewable resource. They could have logged any second-growth forest for this.
Never forget that it was the BC NDPs that did this — the supposed leftist, environmentalist party. Reformist politicians and the entire parliamentary system needs to be shed. Voting for them has never worked and never will work.
Gain some class consciousness.
Fairy Creek also received surprisingly little MSM media coverage despite being reportedly Canada's largest civil disobedience campaign in almost 20 years.
While it could be argued that this under-reporting could be attributed to the RCMP's heavy handed treatment of journalists at the site, it doesn't appear that any of the country's well funded MSM joined the court challenge to the RCMP's restricting of media access.
NDP at all levels is a worker’s party not an environmentalist party
Logging is a blue collar job so they will support it
Yup, or petrodollars in Alberta. Vote Green if you want to protect the environment. NDP is just "more 👏 unionized 👏 deforestation 👏 companies"