Jul 27, 2024
Friends of Clayoquot, Summer 1994
"If we protect them we have to say "no" to industrial pollution and to the idea of safe levels of poison chemicals." - Chief Simon Lucas, Nuu-cha-nulth, excerpt from his 1988 presentation recorded in the journal.
The largest demonstration of solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and their land titles until Fairy Creek, mass arrests at Clayoquot Sound in 1993 are said to have been at least 850 persons strong. 300 arrests in one day, to stop logging in the Nuu-chah-nulth coastal old-growth forests. In 1994, the Friends of Clayoquot organization published a journal to document their thinking at the…
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