Standing for Democracy on Burnaby Mountain
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- Published on Thursday, 27 November 2014 19:44
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BREAKING: charges dropped against Burnaby Mountain protesters
Dear PAOV,
Just hours ago the BC Supreme Court ruled to throw out contempt charges faced by nearly one hundred Burnaby Mountain protesters. The decision confirmed the concerns raised yesterday by the BCCLA that arrests made may have been illegitimate because it was unclear whether individuals crossing the police line had violated the court's order.
Standing for Democracy
While hundreds of committed people gathered on Burnaby Mountain to exercise their constitutional right to demonstrate, BCCLA Legal Observers stood on the mountain for a different reason.
Our first goal is to make sure that the fundamental rights of Canadians are protected. Through recording, witnessing and documentation, Legal Observers work to safeguard the right to assemble and demonstrate for all Canadians.
Help Us Bring Back the Legal Observer Program
The work our Legal Observers did on Burnaby Mountain to document arrests, RCMP actions, and police lines has underlined just how important this program is for supporting democratic rights.
Unfortunately, more than two years ago, our funding for this program expired. Since then, we've been operating the Legal Observers program with old equipment, on a shoestring budget, off the side of our desks.
Please make a gift to help us bring back the Legal Observer program.
Your support will help us buy new equipment, develop training resources, and create capacity for coordinating deployments and teaching workshops.
Protest has always been an important part of democratic life in BC. We need your help to ensure that the right to engage in our democracy through peaceful protest is protected.
Sincerely,
Josh Paterson
Executive Director
