(Last in a series of 5 articles)
At their February 9th meeting, the SRD Board voted against setting aside $50,000 to support community climate action planning initiatives.
The motion was brought forward by Cortes Island Regional Director Noba Anderson, who suggested the project fit into their strategic objectives for 2022. (See page 43 of linked budget document)
Continue reading SRD Board votes against funding local community climate action planningI mean, I’ve been in cut blocks quite a lot before, I’ve been around that sort of stuff quite a lot, but I’ve never seen it the way I did when I was at Fairy Creek, you know, feeling the misery of the land and the devastation there, like on a very personal level.
— Dani
Most people are probably aware of the protest and blockade at Fairy Creek on Vancouver island. For over a year, forest defenders have blocked a logging road to prevent logging company Teal Jones from cutting intact old growth areas. For this special feature. I did a little oral history with seven local people who went to Fairy Creek to join that blockade.
Continue reading (5 podcasts) Cortes at Fairy Creek: In Their Own WordsThe RCMP returned to Fairy Creek last Friday, October 16. A post on the Fairy Creek Blockade Facebook page states 7 cars drove up, and 15 officers wearing blue standard-issue rain gear walked into the Forest Defender Headquarters.
Continue reading The RCMP returned to Fairy CreekEditor’s note: The opinions expressed in this broadcast belong to the people stating them and are not necessarily shared by Cortes Radio, its board, staff, producers or listening audience.
The direct action to protect what some call the last intact old growth ecosystem in southern Vancouver Island, at Fairy Creek, began 420 days ago. Now the RCMP have left and a couple of Truth and Reconciliation Day messages have been sent from Fairy Creek:
Continue reading A message of truth and reconciliation from Fairy CreekThe opinions in the program that follows belong to one of Cortes Radio’s volunteer producers and are not necessarily shared by Cortes Community Radio Society, its board, staff, employees, volunteers or listening audience.
One of Cortes Radio’s volunteer DJs, who broadcasts under the name ‘Hiway Hippy’, believes that a clip of semi automatic ammunition he found at Fairy Creek belongs the RCMP.
Continue reading Protester talks about finding semi-automatic ammunition clip at Fairy Creek
