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
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"
Remind me where the local indigenous residents were in all this? I heard they were all FOR the logging, despite the massive damage and their self-appointed land protector status, so I know this can't be right
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Federal Green Party deputy leader Angela Davidson—also known as Rainbow Eyes—has been convicted of seven counts of criminal contempt for her participation in the Fairy Creek logging blockades on Vancouver Island beginning three years ago.
Supreme Court decision released Thursday, Justice Christopher Hinkson ruled Davidson breached a court-ordered injunction and her bail conditions in connection with protest activities on May 18, June 23 and 25, Aug. 10, Nov. 28, 2021, and Jan. 15 and 28, 2022.
Hinkson said Davidson’s conduct was “defiant, repeated and public, and certainly not minimal,” and declined to acquit her for her role in blockades of the Fairy Creek logging site in 2021 and 2022.
Protest camps were set up close to the cutting site in August 2020 and the RCMP began enforcing a court injunction granted to the Teal-Jones Group, the forestry company that holds the harvesting license in the area.
During the trial Hereditary Chief Walas Namugwis testified that Davidson and other Indigenous people were acting as stewards of the environment and defending the land.
Davidson, an Indigenous advocate known for protesting logging practices in B.C., was named as one of two deputy leaders of the federal Green Party in 2022.
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