War for the Woods follows a new generation’s campaign to protect Vancouver…
Fury for the Sound
 
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This powerful and inspiring documentary shows how a small group of dedicated women activists came together to protest the clearcutting of the local rainforest and eventually found themselves in the midst of the largest civil disobedience action in Canadian history, the battle to save Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island.
It would be hard to imagine a more compelling story than one of elderly women and children, aged 8 to 82 years old, being arrested together and jailed in defense of public land. But there is a revolution going on - in consciousness and in action - of individuals no longer willing to watch impassively the destruction of our planet's natural resources. And this revolution is being led largely by women. It is estimated that 80% of environmental activists worldwide are women.
Following the path of the suffragettes and the Chipko women of India (the original 'tree-huggers'), hundreds of women protesters at Clayoquot were arrested and jailed for up to 45 days for refusing to step aside in the face of logging trucks intent on clearcutting some of the last vestiges of the world's old growth temperate rainforest.
A moving insider's account of grassroots social history in the making, this documentary talks about much more than trees. It exposes the perils of what happens in the larger society when consciousness is divorced from politics.
'It is the rare viewer who would not be transformed by this story's urgency and passion, and the tremendous spirit and intelligence of the women portrayed.' Atom Egoyan, filmmaker, The Sweet Hereafter 
'It is one of those rare documentaries that takes you with passion and logic into another mindset from which there is no escape.' Mark Achbar, filmmaker, Manufacturing Consent and The Corporation 
'I cannot think of more critical issues than those raised and documented in FURY FOR THE SOUND. Coupling environmental concerns and struggles to women's empowerment and resistance, this project brings to light the intersection of the two most significant movements of our time.' Frieda Forman, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
'This will be of special interest to anyone looking for a contemporary example of nonviolent protest.' The Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution
Citation
Main credits
								Wine, Shelley (film producer)
Wine, Shelley (film director)
Wine, Shelley (screenwriter)
Mackey, Hilary (film producer)
Mackey, Hilary (film director)
							
Other credits
Picture editor, Bonni Devlin; camera, Greg Davis; photography, Garth Lenz, Kiku Hawkes.
Distributor subjects
Canadian Studies; Citizen Action; Eco-feminism; Environment; Environmental Ethics; Environmental Justice; Forests and Rainforests; Globalization; History ; Humanities; Science, Technology, Society; Social Change; Social Justice; Social Psychology; Women's StudiesKeywords
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 We\'re at war with a pilot to heaven basis
 trying to go up and up there is no other God.
 
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 How can quiz keep on let us have
 
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 more than 50% of all the temperate rain forests
 of the world of already been logged blows
 
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 This is too strong in
 our universe The women
 
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 have always been women as
 individuals who\'ve thought for
 
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 their freedom if putting
 
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 an issue that is so important in front of
 everything me a personal Freetown business.
 
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 Everything is on the line for failure to
 
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 comply with the code that I\'m
 going to walk you have to
 
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 be carried a lovely big gigawatts
 
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 enough to find out
 
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 So if you want to cut down
 these trees you\'ll have to
 
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 go through me first the amount of
 
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 force that we cut from British Columbia
 every year could circle the Earth twice
 
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 more than two decades ago I had a major
 shifting in my life my intellectual life
 
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 my political allies Really
 because of involvement with
 
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 the chipko movement the direct action
 of peasant women in Himalayan villages.
 
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 Who had had enough of deforestation
 and commercial forestry.
 
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 The women first basically announced
 that these trees give us
 
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 life we will protect them
 we will embrace them
 
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 not lead to log and
 eventually it actually became
 
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 a method of blocking logging chipko means
 to embrace and in village after village.
 
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 Without any formal communication without
 
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 any newsletter Without any funding a movement
 spread across the hills women organize.
 
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 Women organize as it never died
 movements like that are never born.
 
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 So they don\'t die they pop out
 of the collective consciousness.
 
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 So.
 
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 Choose to block
 
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 what sound is this gorgeous area of
 
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 260 thousand hectares of rainforest
 
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 And I guess in the context of
 Vancouver Island that\'s not very
 
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 big but it happens to be the biggest area
 of temperate rain forest that we have left
 
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 when I first walked into the rainforest
 
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 and looked up and saw trees
 that were 300 feet tall
 
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 covered in Los and sparkling
 with do and I just it was
 
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 like a fairy land and I never imagined
 that anything like this could exist
 
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 Then I came out here and saw the clock
 with sound and my heart just slept and
 
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 joy and gladness in more wonderful
 than I could ever have imagined.
 
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 There was a time when Vancouver
 Island\'s forest seemed endless.
 
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 The logging companies
 have taken over 50% of
 
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 Vancouver Island\'s forests
 And now they\'re looking
 
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 over their shoulders at our
 green pastures here and say
 
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 hey they still have some over that way so
 
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 we\'ve got intensified pressure
 now to log clock would sound
 
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 we are living now in a period of
 
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 extraordinary and drastic change
 far greater than has been seen in
 
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 any comparable 40-year period before in
 
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 the history of this planet and everyone
 is having great difficulty dealing with
 
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 it when will I do what I have
 to do most of the devastation
 
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 on this planet has happened during
 my lifetime And I feel responsible.
 
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 I\'m still the consumer.
 
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 I\'ve cut it to almost minimum.
 
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 It\'s hard to see how I can go any lower
 as far as consuming the energy of
 
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 the earth et cetera but I feel responsible
 for what has happened during my lifetime.
 
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 Right and that\'s one
 
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 of the first time that I\'ve located in
 that sound was sulfur passage back in
 
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 1988 We blockaded for
 three months I remember
 
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 one day that there were two of us we were
 stopping the whole show there was a time
 
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 when we could do that guarantee what do
 people anymore but there was a time not
 
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 that there was an incredible sense of
 power is hosted in being able to do that.
 
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 Saying I this individual.
 
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 I\'m not going to leave
 this bump in the road
 
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 And that means you later it\'s going to
 
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 tell you when you\'re
 
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 living with the consequences
 
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 what are consequences there\'s
 greater consequences at stake here.
 
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 Everybody on the West Coast you
 briefly the title from all over
 
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 the world for the world war is
 worse than London resonant chord
 
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 or it is not much wilderness left 10%
 in the world and a quarter of it is
 
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 here It\'s
 
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 not a very easy thing
 
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 to explain the motivation for
 standing up I am not a criminal.
 
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 I know that I\'m not a criminal.
 
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 I knew the full consequences of
 what was going to happen I didn\'t
 
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 know that I would get a
 six-month sentence I
 
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 expected to get a month where
 is this thing going to end at
 
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 some point you\'re not going
 to be able to get people out
 
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 to those blockades if they\'re getting
 
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 six month and year long sentences I
 
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 don\'t believe that I don\'t believe
 that you just have to look
 
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 at how slavery was abolished in
 
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 the United States you have to look
 at how the Vietnam War was stumped.
 
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 I mean look at all those social movements A
 social movements don\'t die out that grew
 
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 out of your living room in front of my
 daughter and I had worried about this for
 
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 three years you know when and
 
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 we contributed some to the Save
 the clock what group you know.
 
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 But I kept worrying about
 actually getting involved in it
 
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 because I knew that once we did one of us
 
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 would go to But it was me if you look at
 
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 the environmental movement at the origins
 of the environmental movement in
 
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 North America it\'s women it\'s
 Rosa Lieber talon Canada in
 
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 the nuclear issues the root
 of the word ecology means
 
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 home and I think that women
 have been and continue to be
 
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 very concerned about the
 environment because of
 
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 their socially constructed role as caretakers
 We have been primarily responsible
 
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 for feeding children and making food
 
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 and we\'re going to notice if our kids
 are getting sick because our house is
 
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 built on a toxic dump or if the food has
 
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 pesticides and and be concerned if we find
 that that there\'s DDT and our breast milk.
 
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 I don\'t think that that means
 that women are closer to nature
 
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 or that women have a more
 of a responsibility and
 
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 cleaning up but I do think it means that
 we have to recognize that there are
 
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 socially and culturally
 constructed experiences that
 
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 give women and insight into
 environmental issues and it means
 
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 that women all over the
 world are very concerned
 
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 You belong to the people who
 did not belong to the industry
 
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 sector perspective on native land and
 you have to remember that eventually
 
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 if not now tomorrow and if not tomorrow the
 day after the government is going to have to
 
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 deal with that whole issue they
 had not listened to our letters.
 
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 Not less than two anything not even
 the people who sat there on the lawn
 
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 that day on March 18th when the legislature
 openly didn\'t listen to the people
 
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 and they were elected to serve
 the people here they were
 
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 certainly good companies that
 are beyond the law on the ball
 
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 A huge percentage of the company
 which they\'re giving the logs
 
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 too even if the court has as
 it\'s deemed that an okay thing
 
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 it\'s still not okay with me how
 would you feel if somebody said
 
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 okay we\'ve got a lack
 of jobs and demolition
 
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 and Italy so we have to destroy the
 Sistine Chapel I\'m sorry folks I know
 
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 Michelangelo and it comes around once
 every thousand years these forced
 
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 15 thousand years and there you go
 sign little paper and there they go.
 
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 What do I need a few more jobs and that\'s
 what it\'s all about and then the jobs are
 
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 here for A 100 years max
 and their god and you\'re
 
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 a public service or public servants
 
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 hotlinks locale is corporations multinational
 corporation hotlink of which Colombia.
 
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 More learned to give to these people that
 come here we said that it seems that
 
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 they still weren\'t Where do we have
 left the area they\'re going to log is
 
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 close to Wall right next to
 our only water supply i.e I
 
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 just wish they would wake
 
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 up I guess you would say and realize
 what they\'re doing you know it\'s.
 
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 They\'re destroying things and
 they don\'t realize what they
 
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 are destroying clear-cutting
 is a crime that\'s all there
 
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 is to it it\'s a crime against
 nature it\'s a crime against
 
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 life and the people who
 do it are criminals.
 
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 Call it what you will to
 go out and devastated.
 
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 Huge sections of land that a well
 result in landslides are soil erosion.
 
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 That\'s
 
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 a crime That
 
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 was the most awful betrayal.
 
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 I just thought well I\'m going
 to do something more than
 
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 I\'ve ever done in my life
 I won\'t have much longer
 
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 to live well I\'m going to do something
 with what\'s left in my life anyway
 
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 speeds the love when
 
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 she\'s strict to the ground.
 
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 When things are way bigger than
 we ever expected and in a month.
 
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 Really in one month we went from being
 a few people Reference smaller.
 
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 If people had an enormous
 impact on the world was
 
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 literally it was on the news
 everybody knew what was going
 
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 on there is a craving for
 registering the waste.
 
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 Will be raised even in the first
 round of first degree two
 
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 There\'s a level of frustration around
 the state of our forests there
 
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 was a need also for for people
 to feel part of a movement
 
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 Who were living in clear-cut.
 
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 Who had no protection
 concerns when new name.
 
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 Who are walking on gravel
 roads of blasting line.
 
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 Our peace camp was based on the
 experiences of women in the UK
 
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 when they created Green ham common
 it was thousands and thousands
 
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 of women who came together
 and camped outside of
 
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 a nuclear installation
 protesting the missiles that
 
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 were there and that piece Kant went on from
 
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 72 until today there are still
 some women who can\'t there.
 
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 This was very much a women\'s
 protests that Eddie Dress as
 
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 powerful as possible that in their view
 the cruise missile is not to do terrible.
 
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 It\'s a weapon of death when we
 started the peace camp we explicitly
 
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 made a feminist principles a part of
 
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 our structure because we really
 strongly believe that if we didn\'t.
 
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 That we would be replicating the
 same things that we\'re trying to
 
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 change There\'s a difference between power
 
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 over and power to make change the power to
 
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 make change working together and
 that\'s what we wanted to foster
 
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 one does not have a hard time
 just driving into the camp I mean
 
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 I know we have a hippie ban but it
 took me a long time to edit my van
 
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 and get down to it was such a hard
 it was so hard for me to let go of
 
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 all my my prejudices I
 
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 guess I mean people looked different
 there the one I was accustomed here
 
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 so then I got to clack what I looked at
 
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 This mainly young group of young people
 what was I to do was I took hide behind
 
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 their genes under long skirts and
 
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 let them go out and put themselves
 on the line while I hit back there
 
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 at the peace camp it became
 more and more obvious
 
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 that it was now we had to address the
 problem no or it would not be addressed.
 
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 Really has an effect living
 the backup is so dismal.
 
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 So I was very depressing Listen to
 Alex talk this my 16-year-old son.
 
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 About the future.
 
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 Well Well what\'s the use because look
 
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 how much you guys have picked up the
 world anyway so what does it matter it
 
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 doesn\'t matter if I feel school
 what does it matter if I do it I
 
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 mean who\'s going to be
 around any way to enjoy
 
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 what is there going to be
 left for us anyway was
 
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 the point and that really struck me
 a lot I thought yeah and what am
 
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 I doing about this I\'m only contributing to
 
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 it you know if I don\'t stand up
 
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 some point and say no I don\'t
 agree with what we\'re doing.
 
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 I don\'t like this and so it\'s just one
 small small part of what\'s going on in
 
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 the world if I can\'t do that I
 hope what kind of a parent am I
 
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 yeah kind of a citizen in my kind of
 mother am I. I drive to FED to go to
 
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 to pheno with me I wanted her to
 experience the peace camp I had
 
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 no intention of her being either at the
 blockade or certainly part of the blockade.
 
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 And then it was like a women and
 
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 children\'s blockade course so we\'re
 gonna get arrest and of course.
 
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 How could I not 300 women and children.
 
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 Doing a dance.
 
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 Back Dates way back that is a dance
 about connecting with here and
 
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 connecting with the planetary movement
 and connecting with other creatures
 
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 They all go away now how
 are we going to work
 
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 with it\'s contrary to When
 we take them under fluorine
 
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 generally it\'s not contrary
 with him to work in
 
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 groups and our take on the
 theory there\'s a long history
 
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 with women Ising against
 authority or injustice.
 
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 For the environment. Who
 read us the injunction
 
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 a Mac Low flunky who
 handed us stand Jonathan.
 
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 The same who control the
 cameras there bought an Apple.
 
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 Am I was trucks you know that the worst us
 
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 seriously revenue when I
 stood on the road there is
 
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 no way I had any intention of showing
 contempt for the court the court had
 
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 nothing to do with this
 process as far as I was
 
 00:22:06.230 --> 00:22:09.259
 concerned McNeill Odell
 use to strategy here and
 
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 continue to use it today in this province
 and that is to use an injunction.
 
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 Which then as a strategy pits the
 people against the judiciary instead of
 
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 against McClelland Goodell where
 alarms and when you do that Of course.
 
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 The judiciary is going to be spawned
 to note very human-like way they\'re
 
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 not they don\'t like it but they now have to
 
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 judge you George desertion as issued
 an order logging and started to see
 
 00:22:41.540 --> 00:22:45.979
 that authority was sometimes in ways
 
 00:22:45.980 --> 00:22:50.839
 that if I were to be honest with
 my total being they were in
 
 00:22:50.840 --> 00:22:55.474
 negative ways right man
 arrested at Catholic church
 
 00:22:55.475 --> 00:23:00.349
 they were but there\'s something
 very special about women acting
 
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 together and there\'s something very
 special about women having a voice in
 
 00:23:04.580 --> 00:23:07.459
 the environmental movement
 The environmental movement
 
 00:23:07.460 --> 00:23:10.849
 like so many other movements
 was started by women.
 
 00:23:10.850 --> 00:23:16.749
 It was spurred by women is taken over
 by man man of fan in the spotlight.
 
 00:23:16.750 --> 00:23:20.238
 Women have really been played down in
 
 00:23:20.239 --> 00:23:26.359
 the hole movement is classic
 so many political movements
 
 00:23:26.360 --> 00:23:31.879
 started organized this undercurrent
 of woman subpolar This time it
 
 00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:34.278
 felt like there was leeway
 in there was Kip and taken
 
 00:23:34.279 --> 00:23:38.089
 that women were making themselves heard.
 
 00:23:38.090 --> 00:23:43.650
 Women were really taking a
 stand and enqueue owning it
 
 00:23:52.120 --> 00:23:56.689
 The arrestees were two-thirds.
 
 00:23:56.690 --> 00:24:03.918
 Women. Women identify probably easier
 with the concept of exploitation.
 
 00:24:03.919 --> 00:24:08.628
 It\'s not as great as step to
 think about the exploitation of
 
 00:24:08.629 --> 00:24:14.700
 the environment when you know that you\'re
 about to go into an exploited in society
 
 00:24:31.330 --> 00:24:34.819
 This little boy and it just
 kept going back out there
 
 00:24:34.820 --> 00:24:38.168
 and I\'m not moving you\'ve
 got to stop and look at
 
 00:24:38.169 --> 00:24:44.584
 in our shoes and what\'s his name on top No
 but I mean I felt a Haifa how could I not.
 
 00:24:44.585 --> 00:24:47.328
 Yeah. At 1 I thought How could I
 
 00:24:47.329 --> 00:24:50.178
 not you\'ve got these little kids here
 if they are going to stand up for the
 
 00:24:50.179 --> 00:24:51.588
 least I can do is stand up
 
 00:24:51.589 --> 00:24:58.830
 to the compiler has bought order walk
 with your job and job be accompanied
 
 00:24:59.290 --> 00:25:02.389
 by big consumes I didn\'t
 know what account with PBMs
 
 00:25:02.390 --> 00:25:04.818
 until we\'ve got myself being
 arrested but I wasn\'t
 
 00:25:04.819 --> 00:25:07.950
 worried what would happen if
 he goes brood about separation
 
 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:16.759
 The whole social service situation had
 
 00:25:16.760 --> 00:25:21.003
 been talked about and there had been some
 threats before with the kids haven\'t
 
 00:25:21.004 --> 00:25:26.268
 being apprehended and so on I
 wasn\'t I wasn\'t tokens but they
 
 00:25:26.269 --> 00:25:29.239
 actually happening in our situation
 
 00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:32.073
 but the threat of it would be
 really frightening for feeding.
 
 00:25:32.074 --> 00:25:36.408
 Children. Kids are rest
 
 00:25:36.409 --> 00:25:40.098
 of it is just a byline disgusting but it
 couldn\'t go any lower than what they\'ve gone
 
 00:25:40.099 --> 00:25:43.039
 right now that you\'re going to be arrested
 
 00:25:43.040 --> 00:25:47.958
 yes or no because it\'s something
 I believe in because I
 
 00:25:47.959 --> 00:25:50.569
 don\'t think it\'s right
 that they are heading down
 
 00:25:50.570 --> 00:25:53.419
 the flourish may think I\'m weird
 but that\'s the way I feel I
 
 00:25:53.420 --> 00:26:01.420
 want to say Thank you
 for your parents around
 
 00:26:03.349 --> 00:26:07.008
 you while we want you to go and join them
 
 00:26:07.009 --> 00:26:11.409
 okay you\'re not going to
 you\'ll have to come with us
 
 00:26:11.410 --> 00:26:13.918
 and okay because you\'re
 blocking the road and
 
 00:26:13.919 --> 00:26:19.878
 you\'re now would you please stand up and walk
 with us we don\'t want to have the carrier.
 
 00:26:19.879 --> 00:26:27.879
 It\'s not good to live well or you\'re a
 spokesperson for this group 13 okay.
 
 00:26:30.755 --> 00:26:35.659
 Okay well let\'s take these little kids
 in particular benefits right minds than
 
 00:26:35.660 --> 00:26:41.309
 up But I\'m going over to are
 
 00:26:42.690 --> 00:26:49.963
 who is your mother
 
 00:26:49.964 --> 00:26:57.138
 her it was a feeling
 
 00:26:57.139 --> 00:26:59.959
 of satisfaction and move things
 around and when they get through with
 
 00:26:59.960 --> 00:27:03.078
 the day\'s work things say well
 we cut down all that we\'ve
 
 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:07.218
 accomplished that and they\'re
 not thinking in terms
 
 00:27:07.219 --> 00:27:11.599
 of the land is being a
 living body that they have
 
 00:27:11.600 --> 00:27:16.039
 just damaged severely they don\'t
 think of it in those terms they
 
 00:27:16.040 --> 00:27:16.624
 just
 
 00:27:16.625 --> 00:27:24.625
 don\'t And it\'s
 
 00:27:26.300 --> 00:27:29.119
 ironic because this is public
 land supposedly this is
 
 00:27:29.120 --> 00:27:33.049
 crown land but the companies are allowed
 to put these gates here because they
 
 00:27:33.050 --> 00:27:35.974
 say it\'s for safety purposes that
 they want to keep the public
 
 00:27:35.975 --> 00:27:39.259
 out from for when they\'re
 actively logging but as
 
 00:27:39.260 --> 00:27:41.389
 you know they\'re not actively
 logging back here right
 
 00:27:41.390 --> 00:27:44.328
 now they keep the gates there
 because they\'re embarrassed
 
 00:27:44.329 --> 00:27:46.819
 because they don\'t want people
 to see what they\'re doing as for
 
 00:27:46.820 --> 00:27:50.599
 the same reasons they keep
 little areas scenic fringes.
 
 00:27:50.600 --> 00:27:53.088
 Around the road sides and
 around the waterways so
 
 00:27:53.089 --> 00:27:56.699
 that people can\'t see the mess
 that they\'re creating right but
 
 00:27:56.950 --> 00:28:01.278
 my mom and my dad evolve those Tommy
 to stand up for what I believe
 
 00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:05.833
 in But they were mornings basically no
 
 00:28:05.834 --> 00:28:08.118
 from different people you
 know you could be taken
 
 00:28:08.119 --> 00:28:10.549
 away from your Mom what do
 you do when you get off
 
 00:28:10.550 --> 00:28:15.948
 the road now and always really
 emotional for me that she\'s my baby.
 
 00:28:15.949 --> 00:28:21.138
 My youngest the consequences
 sometimes they\'re a
 
 00:28:21.139 --> 00:28:27.059
 pretty harsh and but peg you must determine
 
 00:28:43.360 --> 00:28:46.488
 I knew I just stand out more.
 
 00:28:46.489 --> 00:28:50.744
 Compared to everybody
 else because I am native.
 
 00:28:50.745 --> 00:28:55.324
 Or some sort of curve.
 
 00:28:55.325 --> 00:28:57.859
 I am here for the Cloud okay now how is
 
 00:28:57.860 --> 00:29:01.353
 it people and all the other
 tribes in the world that
 
 00:29:01.354 --> 00:29:07.938
 an array of their land is
 our land is being logged.
 
 00:29:07.939 --> 00:29:11.779
 Basically It\'s kinda hard
 
 00:29:11.780 --> 00:29:15.828
 to say that now because so many
 people have moved care and you know.
 
 00:29:15.829 --> 00:29:20.403
 We we do deserve our land
 right back though you know.
 
 00:29:20.404 --> 00:29:24.979
 I know all sides of the story
 like I mean my dad working for
 
 00:29:24.980 --> 00:29:30.168
 Mac Low and knowing that
 people do need to work
 
 00:29:30.169 --> 00:29:33.949
 in neat stuff but there\'s to
 
 00:29:33.950 --> 00:29:38.880
 a point like he can\'t clearcut third
 Camino more trees to sing and
 
 00:29:44.350 --> 00:29:47.718
 they were trying to scare me
 oh you know you\'re going to
 
 00:29:47.719 --> 00:29:51.768
 be known all this and that
 it was really emotional You
 
 00:29:51.769 --> 00:29:56.539
 know I was there for about seven
 hours until I was taken away and you
 
 00:29:56.540 --> 00:30:01.668
 chew it Station they\'re held there
 
 00:30:01.669 --> 00:30:05.478
 for another six hours cell by myself when I
 
 00:30:05.479 --> 00:30:12.109
 was taking Peggy the officer
 on TV at that time don\'t
 
 00:30:12.110 --> 00:30:18.753
 don\'t don\'t litter come
 back to this area and
 
 00:30:18.754 --> 00:30:22.518
 I said just a minute ago this is our home
 
 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:26.298
 we\'re telling her not to come
 back home you know this is Sarah.
 
 00:30:26.299 --> 00:30:31.949
 Who will come from here and we
 never tell you not to go home
 
 00:30:40.250 --> 00:30:42.670
 Negative.
 
 00:31:01.260 --> 00:31:03.788
 Great pride.
 
 00:31:03.789 --> 00:31:09.534
 The honor of being arrested
 dangling on guard for Canada.
 
 00:31:09.535 --> 00:31:17.535
 As my great great grandfather did
 society sometimes expects the young To
 
 00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:23.269
 act in the form of watchdog
 and protester in they
 
 00:31:23.270 --> 00:31:29.088
 have in some senses more
 tolerance for youth.
 
 00:31:29.089 --> 00:31:34.799
 Going out and pointing out the
 weaknesses of what has happened
 
 00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:45.378
 is going out here yeah okay I\'m
 arresting you for failing to
 
 00:31:45.379 --> 00:31:47.838
 comply with Chief Justice SS court order is
 
 00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:51.633
 Arjuris I\'m a recipe you man
 and I am going to jail.
 
 00:31:51.634 --> 00:31:54.048
 You\'re going to the jail house
 not enter materials and
 
 00:31:54.049 --> 00:31:56.478
 make a statement somebody on the news at
 
 00:31:56.479 --> 00:32:04.479
 all Means are things that yam
 now we just take for granted.
 
 00:32:04.789 --> 00:32:08.029
 Until I was about 56 years
 old when I really began to
 
 00:32:08.030 --> 00:32:11.839
 read and think about all these
 terrible things that are happening.
 
 00:32:11.840 --> 00:32:14.989
 That\'s when I started to think
 and realize that we are
 
 00:32:14.990 --> 00:32:18.739
 responsible to help to keep things good.
 
 00:32:18.740 --> 00:32:22.714
 Women in my age group tend to be.
 
 00:32:22.715 --> 00:32:25.968
 Come more liberal even
 if they have been had
 
 00:32:25.969 --> 00:32:30.228
 more conservative views earlier in life
 I\'ve seen this again and again women
 
 00:32:30.229 --> 00:32:34.128
 who had probably raised their families
 were liberated by the fact that
 
 00:32:34.129 --> 00:32:39.303
 their children had vitally left home
 and they were far more clear sighted.
 
 00:32:39.304 --> 00:32:43.308
 And sensitive in evaluating
 these issues I saw
 
 00:32:43.309 --> 00:32:47.238
 that the corporations were breaking
 the law and we\'re beyond the law and
 
 00:32:47.239 --> 00:32:51.034
 didn\'t care when I realized
 that we had to do something to
 
 00:32:51.035 --> 00:32:54.948
 bring the public\'s attention to
 focus it on the fact that this
 
 00:32:54.949 --> 00:33:00.768
 has got to change that can\'t go on
 cutting huge trees take a 100 years to
 
 00:33:00.769 --> 00:33:04.099
 grow and pretending you
 can grow another one
 
 00:33:04.100 --> 00:33:08.430
 in 80 years it\'s going to take
 his place it\'s going offline too
 
 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:34.548
 These older women have had their
 lives they\'ve had good lives
 
 00:33:34.549 --> 00:33:38.688
 and they want all young people to
 have good lives to Canada is a
 
 00:33:38.689 --> 00:33:44.269
 wonderful can\'t gain gives us a pinch into
 live on and we ought to be working during
 
 00:33:44.270 --> 00:33:47.059
 that pinch and if we\'re well enough to do
 
 00:33:47.060 --> 00:33:50.284
 something for the young people so
 there will be a future for them.
 
 00:33:50.285 --> 00:33:54.619
 My lawyer told me that the government
 felt that does it hurt them more than
 
 00:33:54.620 --> 00:33:59.523
 anything was the incarceration
 of of grandmothers.
 
 00:33:59.524 --> 00:34:07.524
 So you know grandmothers you
 don\'t realize your power We have
 
 00:34:08.829 --> 00:34:10.988
 incredible power we do get
 
 00:34:10.989 --> 00:34:12.710
 it together
 
 00:34:14.830 --> 00:34:22.830
 with reciprocation.
 
 00:34:24.270 --> 00:34:29.179
 Is assuming
 
 00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:42.698
 that the logging
 
 00:34:42.699 --> 00:34:47.199
 and the tranquil logging cold
 cream logging fortune channel.
 
 00:34:47.200 --> 00:34:50.839
 It\'s all access via this road So it\'s
 
 00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:57.199
 a very significant place that we stand right
 now it\'s a place for us to say. Not enough.
 
 00:34:57.200 --> 00:35:05.200
 Along that line you got on it so it\'s
 not long enough to keep me safe but
 
 00:35:05.759 --> 00:35:13.759
 suppose I don\'t think it\'s crazy
 to die for an ancient forests.
 
 00:35:15.394 --> 00:35:17.419
 I think with the madness is
 
 00:35:17.420 --> 00:35:25.369
 the clear cutting of trees are
 well landscape by the change in
 
 00:35:25.370 --> 00:35:28.459
 time they are rotting the
 construction of the row
 
 00:35:28.460 --> 00:35:31.649
 because I feel that the bones
 have a stat to ancient forests
 
 00:35:31.650 --> 00:35:35.568
 distraction One of the climbers in the
 trees whose been hit overnight is
 
 00:35:35.569 --> 00:35:40.740
 Diana wilson We\'re going to try and hook
 up a radio to Hamah interview with her.
 
 00:35:41.380 --> 00:35:46.879
 Hi I\'m sitting in this tree today
 because I feel that the public
 
 00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:48.708
 have no control over public lands no
 
 00:35:48.709 --> 00:35:51.634
 significant input whatsoever in
 the decision-making process.
 
 00:35:51.635 --> 00:35:55.459
 So I\'m fitting in a tree
 to try and make it clear
 
 00:35:55.460 --> 00:35:59.329
 that it\'s not okay to to clear out
 all of the old growth forests left
 
 00:35:59.330 --> 00:36:05.179
 in beautiful country when I was
 sitting I was up for a week
 
 00:36:05.180 --> 00:36:07.338
 altogether I actually came down during
 
 00:36:07.339 --> 00:36:11.854
 a really bad brainstorm for a little
 while But most of that week was spent.
 
 00:36:11.855 --> 00:36:16.188
 Was spent up the tree in the middle of
 
 00:36:16.189 --> 00:36:20.419
 the night to me we climbed up the trees and
 set up our platforms and our hammocks and
 
 00:36:20.420 --> 00:36:21.919
 things and the tree is about 70 feet
 
 00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:28.098
 up when your body is sitting there in the tree
 it right next to where they\'re going to be
 
 00:36:28.099 --> 00:36:31.428
 blasting they they can\'t safely do it
 without risking here your life and
 
 00:36:31.429 --> 00:36:34.983
 so that\'s the point is to
 put your life on the line
 
 00:36:34.984 --> 00:36:42.984
 to stop them from from from blasting
 they see them aiming the thing I me
 
 00:36:44.930 --> 00:36:48.558
 and they shot the steel bolt
 trailing align what kind of
 
 00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:52.818
 six feet away from my head I\'m
 going The thing is that hits me
 
 00:36:52.819 --> 00:36:55.758
 that could kill me like Are you
 prepared are you prepared to risk
 
 00:36:55.759 --> 00:36:59.478
 my life and the police I\'ve
 said yes I\'m prepared to
 
 00:36:59.479 --> 00:37:01.398
 risk your life the profits
 they have to gain
 
 00:37:01.399 --> 00:37:04.099
 from from cutting down the forests
 are so important to them that
 
 00:37:04.100 --> 00:37:06.588
 they really are willing
 to risk your safety to
 
 00:37:06.589 --> 00:37:09.754
 a degree that\'s scary and alarming
 and most people wouldn\'t believe
 
 00:37:09.755 --> 00:37:11.628
 that the police are actually willing to say
 
 00:37:11.629 --> 00:37:14.478
 yes you put yourself up there
 you\'re responsible for
 
 00:37:14.479 --> 00:37:16.519
 what happens to you and I\'ve witnessed
 
 00:37:16.520 --> 00:37:20.399
 shocking shocking behavior
 on the part of the police.
 
 00:37:21.460 --> 00:37:25.819
 I flew over massive clear cut to get
 
 00:37:25.820 --> 00:37:29.388
 to you cool it to be processed and and
 then flying over the earth and really
 
 00:37:29.389 --> 00:37:32.539
 seeing you know these are places that
 if sake I mean this is the earth in
 
 00:37:32.540 --> 00:37:40.540
 pain underneath us We
 said it\'s a good thing
 
 00:37:58.090 --> 00:38:05.988
 that the
 
 00:38:05.989 --> 00:38:10.838
 central limit theorem
 
 00:38:10.839 --> 00:38:16.213
 and what they\'re trying to do in the rest
 of the organizers and they\'ve done it
 
 00:38:16.214 --> 00:38:23.019
 Watch when my lawyer was
 going for the appeal and he
 
 00:38:23.020 --> 00:38:25.268
 phoned me up one day and he
 said the crown say that you\'re
 
 00:38:25.269 --> 00:38:30.159
 a ring leader I still think about that
 if you\'re in a ring there is no leader.
 
 00:38:30.160 --> 00:38:38.160
 Yeah I\'m gonna circle I want my circle to get
 bigger because there\'s power in circles.
 
 00:38:44.340 --> 00:38:47.978
 Now remember the more. I
 was I was standing on
 
 00:38:47.979 --> 00:38:51.489
 the side I was standing right near
 you and I heard it myself did you
 
 00:38:51.490 --> 00:38:55.539
 do the quadrotor I have written several of
 
 00:38:55.540 --> 00:39:01.173
 the people to get to the corner Yes
 we have always been unsettled or
 
 00:39:01.174 --> 00:39:04.038
 have not been impeding or
 obstructing the Monetarist who sent
 
 00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:07.728
 her work The wouldn\'t she resonant
 lawful arrest I\'ve been always
 
 00:39:07.729 --> 00:39:10.309
 at the side of the road and I\'m going
 to keep repeating or obstructing
 
 00:39:10.310 --> 00:39:13.338
 the logging operations all of
 a sudden one of the policemen
 
 00:39:13.339 --> 00:39:15.198
 turned to me and said your
 
 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:20.044
 next point I realized oh my god
 it\'s just like everybody we\'re all
 
 00:39:20.045 --> 00:39:27.409
 we\'re all going to get arrested and it says
 that as soon I thought this is like Mexico.
 
 00:39:27.410 --> 00:39:30.949
 You know it\'s like you can\'t
 do anything political.
 
 00:39:30.950 --> 00:39:36.030
 You can\'t say anything
 political you have to hide
 
 00:39:46.510 --> 00:39:50.598
 That afternoon one of the
 officers who I knew quite
 
 00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:53.839
 well came and said you know
 we\'re we\'re really sorry about
 
 00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:56.749
 this and I said I was furious
 and I said well then
 
 00:39:56.750 --> 00:40:00.274
 why am I sitting in this
 jail and he said well I mean
 
 00:40:00.275 --> 00:40:02.988
 you know I mean you\'re
 smart woman you know that
 
 00:40:02.989 --> 00:40:06.409
 they want you off the road and I said
 in whose day and he goes well you
 
 00:40:06.410 --> 00:40:10.458
 know it\'s not our fault or orders
 come from both it became very
 
 00:40:10.459 --> 00:40:15.049
 obvious at that point that McMillan
 blood L was pointing out who should
 
 00:40:15.050 --> 00:40:15.229
 get
 
 00:40:15.230 --> 00:40:16.800
 arrested
 
 00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:26.433
 And among
 
 00:40:26.434 --> 00:40:34.434
 the most moderate EUNETHTA writer.
 
 00:40:36.020 --> 00:40:39.964
 So I went to jail and it was
 what the third day in jail.
 
 00:40:39.965 --> 00:40:43.099
 That I got a lawyer and
 he came and he said well
 
 00:40:43.100 --> 00:40:46.759
 if got the papers and you\'ve been
 arrested for aiding and abetting.
 
 00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:49.669
 Everyone else who has been arrested and
 
 00:40:49.670 --> 00:40:52.549
 clock would sound if you could
 get arrested for aiding and
 
 00:40:52.550 --> 00:40:55.549
 abetting that meant that the
 people who brought the sack
 
 00:40:55.550 --> 00:40:58.549
 of potatoes and dropped him off at
 the peace camp to support us you
 
 00:40:58.550 --> 00:41:02.568
 know are the people who drove up with for
 
 00:41:02.569 --> 00:41:07.159
 people in their car and drop them off
 And some of them got arrested or
 
 00:41:07.160 --> 00:41:10.459
 the people who clap their hands
 when people got arrested cheered
 
 00:41:10.460 --> 00:41:14.178
 them on everybody was
 an acre and a better by
 
 00:41:14.179 --> 00:41:18.108
 arresting me they made me
 into some type of martyr and
 
 00:41:18.109 --> 00:41:22.039
 public figure I was arrested on July
 16th off the side of the road it
 
 00:41:22.040 --> 00:41:24.229
 was the crowds decision to
 arrest me off the side of
 
 00:41:24.230 --> 00:41:27.018
 the road though I wasn\'t
 locking anytime I was making
 
 00:41:27.019 --> 00:41:30.049
 political speeches I was
 acting as the government
 
 00:41:30.050 --> 00:41:33.739
 decided that it was really
 difficult you know there\'s times
 
 00:41:33.740 --> 00:41:35.569
 when you just there were times
 when I just didn\'t want
 
 00:41:35.570 --> 00:41:38.809
 to check my answering machine
 because I knew that there would be
 
 00:41:38.810 --> 00:41:41.569
 death threats on it there\'s a point when
 
 00:41:41.570 --> 00:41:44.914
 you just think you feel like you
 have no personal life left.
 
 00:41:44.915 --> 00:41:48.228
 What they don\'t understand And the rest and
 
 00:41:48.229 --> 00:41:52.609
 organizer by trying to intimidate
 people from further organizing is that
 
 00:41:52.610 --> 00:41:57.768
 not only can we not be intimidating intimidated
 we can be intimidating but you may not be
 
 00:41:57.769 --> 00:42:03.258
 intimidated but you cannot aid and abet
 a grassroots movement that behind me.
 
 00:42:03.259 --> 00:42:07.739
 Hundreds of other organizers
 and people that put their time
 
 00:42:18.140 --> 00:42:21.648
 we\'re gathered here in front
 of the courthouse under
 
 00:42:21.649 --> 00:42:29.010
 very unusual circumstances this is now
 the largest blockade in Canadian history
 
 00:42:32.680 --> 00:42:36.798
 And I\'ve ended very unusual that
 we should have to come to court at
 
 00:42:36.799 --> 00:42:40.008
 all the files which we are
 defending our public forests
 
 00:42:40.009 --> 00:42:44.868
 supposedly this is always been press
 anyways civil disobedience and
 
 00:42:44.869 --> 00:42:50.014
 of civil contempt as well and it was
 only like halfway through the summer.
 
 00:42:50.015 --> 00:42:53.149
 That the Attorney General
 stepped in and changed it to
 
 00:42:53.150 --> 00:42:56.493
 criminal content but when
 we were all arrested.
 
 00:42:56.494 --> 00:42:58.653
 You arrested under civil contempt.
 
 00:42:58.654 --> 00:43:02.103
 So it\'s make that retroactive and
 in charge l of s with criminal.
 
 00:43:02.104 --> 00:43:05.239
 Both sentences of never being what
 they were this year no one has ever
 
 00:43:05.240 --> 00:43:08.239
 gotten 45 days no one has
 ever even gotten jail time
 
 00:43:08.240 --> 00:43:13.818
 for our first effect but move those two And
 
 00:43:13.819 --> 00:43:18.378
 the hazard zone so the change in
 
 00:43:18.379 --> 00:43:24.349
 the charge is by changing
 what has been done.
 
 00:43:24.350 --> 00:43:27.739
 His van Sam some grouping
 it will swamp three in
 
 00:43:27.740 --> 00:43:29.539
 the street and you have people
 
 00:43:29.540 --> 00:43:32.253
 trying to save the environment
 and they get punished right.
 
 00:43:32.254 --> 00:43:35.943
 I\'m outweighed if I\'m a
 conservative I think
 
 00:43:35.944 --> 00:43:39.439
 this is outrageous and I think
 these people should be only wanted
 
 00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:43.139
 to be conscious about the
 environment and I think
 
 00:43:49.750 --> 00:43:53.388
 this is where those convicted
 of criminal contempt of
 
 00:43:53.389 --> 00:43:57.349
 court Haven\'t applied for
 bail pending appeal for
 
 00:43:57.350 --> 00:44:04.144
 serving their 45 days sentences housing
 prisoners at this minimum security jail.
 
 00:44:04.145 --> 00:44:12.145
 Got $105 a day at that rate it\'s already
 cost taxpayers $11 thousand to keep
 
 00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:17.838
 the 65-year-old grandmother in jail and
 I get out to Laurel who\'ve been here
 
 00:44:17.839 --> 00:44:22.368
 for over four months four months
 and Kosovo happened so fast
 
 00:44:22.369 --> 00:44:25.128
 it was a Allison I stood
 up and it\'s like 45 days
 
 00:44:25.129 --> 00:44:33.129
 and thought we were hugging each other
 and it wasn\'t all so like some days.
 
 00:44:33.980 --> 00:44:37.368
 Some people were laughing they\'re
 like wow I can\'t And believe
 
 00:44:37.369 --> 00:44:40.338
 it and you could hear the
 people behind us the spectators
 
 00:44:40.339 --> 00:44:43.218
 they were crying and people that
 were outside the courtroom worried
 
 00:44:43.219 --> 00:44:46.548
 were outraged and they were screaming
 and then we also have singing.
 
 00:44:46.549 --> 00:44:51.329
 He are stronger than before and it
 was just like it was so emotionally.
 
 00:44:54.520 --> 00:45:02.520
 We spent a month month on trial in a
 court room and it felt ridiculous.
 
 00:45:04.790 --> 00:45:10.578
 During the first group of trials
 the lawyers all had to withdraw
 
 00:45:10.579 --> 00:45:17.490
 from the case Judge then you caught up in the
 web of law have today\'s to become a lawyer
 
 00:45:35.820 --> 00:45:41.604
 Mr. Speaker the Canada Council operates
 under the Minister of Canadian Heritage
 
 00:45:41.605 --> 00:45:46.808
 this council grant and Hillary Mac Ian
 Shelly wind $16 thousand to produce
 
 00:45:46.809 --> 00:45:50.948
 a video fury of the sound even
 though these woman were under
 
 00:45:50.949 --> 00:45:55.479
 criminal contempt charges for the very
 activity which was to be the subject of
 
 00:45:55.480 --> 00:46:00.999
 the video which was criminally blocking forestry
 workers from going to work in black with
 
 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:04.479
 sound Back in wine where each sentence to
 
 00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:08.709
 21 days in jail on October
 sixth for criminal contempt.
 
 00:46:08.710 --> 00:46:12.098
 Yep the minister states he does
 not have any authority over
 
 00:46:12.099 --> 00:46:16.268
 the awarding of these grants and the
 director of the Canada Council beavers to
 
 00:46:16.269 --> 00:46:21.999
 a system of evaluation by hears
 Canadian taxpayers are fed up with
 
 00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.419
 organizations that use
 their tech scholars to
 
 00:46:25.420 --> 00:46:29.303
 foster the destruction of their
 lifestyle Nino and blow down.
 
 00:46:29.304 --> 00:46:37.304
 Sure got a lot for nothing they ended up
 having process that went on without costing
 
 00:46:38.260 --> 00:46:42.129
 them at on in legal fees as well as
 
 00:46:42.130 --> 00:46:47.253
 the police taking photos The graphs of
 each person after they were arrested.
 
 00:46:47.254 --> 00:46:51.258
 Taking personal information and then
 handing that over to McMillan blow
 
 00:46:51.259 --> 00:46:57.469
 down I was even more shocked when I sat in
 
 00:46:57.470 --> 00:47:00.918
 court in that first trial
 and saw what became
 
 00:47:00.919 --> 00:47:04.548
 of those photographs and that
 information that in fact
 
 00:47:04.549 --> 00:47:07.608
 they became a part of what I
 
 00:47:07.609 --> 00:47:12.754
 can what I\'ve come to call the
 offenders of Macmillan blue del album.
 
 00:47:12.755 --> 00:47:16.098
 Color photographs of each
 person who\'s arrested with
 
 00:47:16.099 --> 00:47:20.883
 personal information about them and
 that was handed over by the police.
 
 00:47:20.884 --> 00:47:25.248
 Still didn\'t stop what they\'re
 doing it really pisses me off
 
 00:47:25.249 --> 00:47:29.629
 the government Isn\'t
 listening that thousands of
 
 00:47:29.630 --> 00:47:32.238
 people can come together and say no and
 
 00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:35.688
 hundreds of people can be willing
 to be arrested and changed
 
 00:47:35.689 --> 00:47:38.719
 their lives and they\'re still destroying
 
 00:47:38.720 --> 00:47:42.558
 our heritage land that\'s supposed to
 belong to all those trees that are
 
 00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:45.438
 supposed to be there for my
 kids I don\'t want to deal with
 
 00:47:45.439 --> 00:47:49.834
 environmental issues no I mean
 I still doing some local work.
 
 00:47:49.835 --> 00:47:56.910
 Mind you but somehow that\'s not
 as threatening and it\'s not as.
 
 00:47:57.520 --> 00:48:02.528
 Hopefully won\'t be as difficult
 to do is what the clock
 
 00:48:02.529 --> 00:48:06.978
 what was for me it\'s terrifying
 to know about it but
 
 00:48:06.979 --> 00:48:10.699
 Not knowing is terrifying
 to and by knowing we might
 
 00:48:10.700 --> 00:48:14.118
 be able to stop it still fighting for clack
 
 00:48:14.119 --> 00:48:21.258
 that zone 74% of Egypt forced Clark would
 sound at this moment is still up for logging.
 
 00:48:21.259 --> 00:48:25.158
 You offer they got. It\'s not just about
 
 00:48:25.159 --> 00:48:30.708
 trees you know it\'s it\'s about
 survival in a lot of ways it\'s about
 
 00:48:30.709 --> 00:48:32.449
 our relationships with each other and
 
 00:48:32.450 --> 00:48:35.568
 our relationships to nature
 in a really broad sense it\'s
 
 00:48:35.569 --> 00:48:38.508
 more than the battles and authorise It\'s
 
 00:48:38.509 --> 00:48:42.144
 battle for understanding and
 it\'s a battle about power.
 
 00:48:42.145 --> 00:48:46.209
 No matter what happens in
 summary record system or
 
 00:48:46.210 --> 00:48:52.319
 we\'ve seen the sphere arising and clinical
 exam What happens they can appeal that sphere
 
 00:49:00.520 --> 00:49:04.173
 in all the social movements
 that have ever existed in
 
 00:49:04.174 --> 00:49:07.894
 the women\'s movement and the civil
 rights movement the labor movement.
 
 00:49:07.895 --> 00:49:11.419
 Whoever was working in
 these movements they were
 
 00:49:11.420 --> 00:49:14.868
 told that they were ruining the
 social fabric of the country and
 
 00:49:14.869 --> 00:49:18.139
 that\'s what we\'re getting now and
 for me that\'s a really good sign
 
 00:49:18.140 --> 00:49:22.800
 because it means when we are
 being effective and keep pushing
 
 00:49:32.530 --> 00:49:37.939
 This is our cultural heritage as was
 Canadian didn\'t have great cathedrals.
 
 00:49:37.940 --> 00:49:40.819
 We don\'t have the wonderful
 stained glass windows and
 
 00:49:40.820 --> 00:49:44.059
 everything which we can go and visit so
 that\'s part of my culture we don\'t have
 
 00:49:44.060 --> 00:49:48.423
 a long history of writings
 and poetry and of
 
 00:49:48.424 --> 00:49:49.878
 folk songs but we have
 
 00:49:49.879 --> 00:49:54.799
 this very recent history and it\'s
 very much based in the wilderness.
 
 00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:57.724
 For what we need to do is keep
 
 00:49:57.725 --> 00:50:01.309
 our culture strong because it\'s
 still development even if even
 
 00:50:01.310 --> 00:50:03.289
 that we won\'t be like a people
 
 00:50:03.290 --> 00:50:03.590
 without
 
 00:50:03.591 --> 00:50:05.309
 a basis
 
 00:50:13.060 --> 00:50:15.270
 Yeah
 
 00:51:20.380 --> 00:51:24.029
 And that combined.
 
 00:51:28.270 --> 00:51:36.270
 Have to add
 
 00:52:04.030 --> 00:52:06.780
 So
 
 00:52:08.470 --> 00:52:13.233
 That\'s a
 
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 savings
 
	