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Forests, Justice

RCMP overrun the Fairy Creek logging blockades, arrest dozens of protesters

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CKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, with contributions by Anastasia Avvakumova.

RCMP attempts to enforce the court injunction against logging protests at Fairy Creek ramped up on Aug 9.

In a press release issued later that day, the RCMP confirmed there were 33 arrests. There were another 23 more on Tuesday, Aug. 10 and 17 on Wednesday, Aug.11. The total number of arrests since the police action began last summer, was cited in the latter press release as 597.

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Forests, Indigenous Nations, Justice

Fairy Creek celebration at the Provincial Legislature

CKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

The Fairy Creek blockades began on August 9th a year ago, and the forest defenders are holding a celebration at the Provincial Legislature today.

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Forests, Indigenous Nations, Justice

From the mouths of the defenders: A Fairy Creek chronology

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CKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter – Using interviews, video footage and written accounts, CKTZ News has drawn up a Fairy Creek chronology. 

“Vancouver was once covered in trees that had the girth of a good third of my house.  Those forests are gone,” Rainforest Flying Squad spokesperson Carol Tootill told CKTZ News. 

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Forests, Indigenous Nations

Visiting Fairy Creek: a Cortes resident’s impression of the blockade

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CKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Marine tourism operator Mike Moore is one of the most recent of what appears to be a steady stream of Cortes Island residents visiting Fairy Creek and the logging blockades. 

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Forests, Indigenous Nations, Justice

Fairy Creek Blockade is far from over

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The Fairy Creek blockade is far from over and there is still a number of people from the Discovery Islands among the thousands going there. 

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