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Caycuse Clearcut Logging From Above
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- Published on Monday, 12 July 2021 22:55
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Aerial images captured near the start of June 2021 highlight the brutal impact of old-growth logging in the Caycuse watershed in Ditidaht territory. The original 33 hectare clearcut from Teal-Jones, where the now-famed ‘before & after’ images were taken, stands out in shocking scale. Fresh old-growth logging can be seen in a number of adjacent cutblocks as well, which were approved earlier this year by the BC NDP despite its own panel’s recommendations to defer logging in endangered areas.
Every day that John Horgan delays taking immediate action, centuries-old forests, and the complex web of life found amongst them, are disappearing forever. SPEAK UP! Send your message to government today: https://www.ancientforestalliance.org/take-action/send-a-message/
The BC government must step up and support real solutions, such as providing funding for First Nations and forest-dependent communities to expand protected areas, diversify their economies, and rapidly transition to a more sustainable, value-added second-growth forest industry.
A tumultuous June at RAVEN
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- Published on Monday, 12 July 2021 22:44
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Coming in frosty and going out fiery: climate extremes and crucial unearthings
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It’s been a roller coaster month. June came in with record-breaking cold days and is ending with a continent-wide heat wave. These upheavals are what we’ve been told to expect in an era of climate disturbance, but disturbance and turmoil are also par for the course in the messy, urgent process of decolonizing.
As the awful realities of residential school genocide come to undeniable light, it is difficult to know how to hold survivors and communities with care. This month has been one of intense reflection, with difficult conversations and some mis-steps. We are working to remain open to the connection, the learning, and the sorrow of this moment.
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While our resolve is strengthened — to stand with Indigenous Nations to pursue justice and
remove the structural oppressions that persist in this country — we have also taken a pause, cancelling webinars and concerts and giving space for community grieving. Our postponed June 16 webinar with Heiltsuk’s Megan Humchitt has now been rescheduled.
Hot Pursuit: Heiltsuk webinar Wed. July 14
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- Published on Monday, 12 July 2021 16:19
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Wrong date for RAVEN's webinar with Megan Humchitt
...Council Catch-Up
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- Published on Monday, 12 July 2021 14:12
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Thanks for your donation!
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- Published on Monday, 12 July 2021 10:50
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Thank you so much for your donation. I can’t tell you how much it means to us here at SumOfUs. By donating, you’re leading the charge to stop big corporations from behaving badly. Now more than ever, this is work that needs to be done.
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Gold miners vs. Orangutans
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- Published on Monday, 12 July 2021 09:02
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Today we could save a species.
There are only 800 Tapanuli orangutans left on Earth, and their forest home is being decimated for a gold mine.
But we've beat this company before, so we know how. Chip in to fund headline-grabbing actions that can bring them to the negotiating table -- and let's save these orangutans:
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A gold-mining company is destroying the forest home of the last 800 Tapanuli orangutans on the planet. We have to stop them -- and we know how.
This mining company has a glaring Achilles heel: it's owned by the same people as Mandarin Oriental luxury hotels, a public-facing brand that depends on a clean reputation.
In 2015, when the same company threatened the habitat of the super-endangered Sumatran elephant, protests...
There are just 800 left
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- Published on Sunday, 11 July 2021 05:39
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Today we could save a species.
There are only 800 Tapanuli orangutans left on Earth, and their forest home is being decimated for a gold mine.
But we've beat this company before, so we know how. Chip in to fund headline-grabbing actions that can bring them to the negotiating table -- and let's save these orangutans:
If you’ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately:
Donate CA$87 nowDonate another amountA,
A gold-mining company is destroying the forest home of the last 800 Tapanuli orangutans on the planet. We have to stop them -- and we know how.
This mining company has a glaring Achilles heel: it's owned by the same people as Mandarin Oriental luxury hotels, a public-facing brand that depends on a clean reputation.
In 2015, when the same company threatened the habitat of the super-endangered Sumatran...
Resisting for their land back
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- Published on Saturday, 10 July 2021 06:14
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PBI-Canada webinar on Q’eqchi’ community demand for their land back, July 15
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PBI-Canada takes part in international mission to Colombia on the right to social protest
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PBI-Honduras meets...
Manuel Costa still needs you, PAOV
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- Published on Friday, 09 July 2021 13:41
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Thanks PAOV for signing Save the Hunt Club Forest in Ottawa
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Shut down Tiger Paw Exotics: a cruel and neglectful company
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- Published on Friday, 09 July 2021 08:35
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PAOV – this petition is taking off on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in adding your name. Sign now to help:
Shut down Tiger Paw Exotics: a cruel and neglectful company
Taylor Valee started this petition to PAWS and it now has 5,157 signatures
Sign now with a clickThis past week, Limeridge Mall and Dinos and...
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Central bank: YOU DID IT !
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- Published on Friday, 09 July 2021 08:09
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This is HUGE. After a year and a half of campaigning, Europe’s most powerful central bank has finally decided to address the climate crisis!
Today, with its new monetary policy, the European Central Bank becomes the first large central bank to lay the ground to ditch fossil fuel finance!
A, this is a huge win for people power! During months, thousands of you across Europe have taken action together to make this happen. You’ve signed petitions, emailed decision makers, called them on social media, answered surveys, chipped in to empower the campaign, and so much more… You just never gave up.
If there are many reasons to celebrate this massive progress, we can’t stop here: the new policy has too many potential loopholes and the timeline is not ambitious enough.
The bank needs to go further and faster. The disastrous consequences of the climate...
Groupe Bel: Respect collective bargaining rights & end the strike
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- Published on Thursday, 08 July 2021 23:05
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This is the coldest summer of the rest of your life
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- Published on Thursday, 08 July 2021 17:52
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Canada is on fire
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- Published on Thursday, 08 July 2021 11:18
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Last week, friends and I were sitting down for dinner in a restaurant in Kamloops, BC for the first time since the pandemic began, when our waitress came over with to-go boxes and asked us to leave. An out-of-control wildfire was burning about 40 kilometers southwest of the city, and officials had begun to evacuate the neighbourhoods where many of the restaurant’s staff worked.1
Our waitress looked panicked as we began packing up our food and we asked her what she knew. “I don’t know how worried I should be,” she said.
Two days prior, 90% of the town of Lytton, BC had burned to the ground after reaching record-high temperatures.
This week, there are over 200 wildfires blazing across BC and many more in other parts of Western Canada.2 It's clear, the climate emergency is here. It's claiming lives and destroying homes.3
Canada is literally on fire. That’s why, today, we’ve...
A Nation Conceived in Liberty Confronts Its Queasiness With the “MILF Mobile”
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- Published on Thursday, 08 July 2021 05:17
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Tell NagaWorld: Redundancy No! Vaccine & Union Yes!
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 July 2021 08:53
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Orangutans
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 July 2021 08:05
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The rarest great ape on the face of the Earth is in danger! A gold mine is threatening the last 800 Tapanuli orangutans -- we have to act fast.
The rarest orangutans are about to get wiped out by a gold mine.
Less than 800 Tapanuli orangutans are still alive and we don’t have much time to save them.
Please find below the email I sent you last week.
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The last known 800 Tapanuli orangutans on Earth face having their Indonesian forest home ripped from beneath them -- by a British company’s thirst for gold.
Jardine Matheson and its gold mining company want to destroy this precious ecosystem in Batang Toru, Northern Sumatra out of pure greed -- driving the rarest great ape to extinction.
Just in...
Old growth update
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 July 2021 12:50
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The momentum to protect the last old growth in B.C. just keeps building. Over 776,844 people have now seen the short video we produced featuring Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Hereditary Chief Victor Peter, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, David Suzuki, and many other Indigenous leaders, scientists, and celebrities calling for urgent action from the B.C. government. Even Leonardo DiCaprio shared it.
Stand’s old growth petition is now also nearing 150,000 signatures, and we’ll be planning a creative delivery of those soon. These numbers are huge.
Currently, a 30 second cut of this video is being broadcast on TV in living rooms across Canada, with ads set to reach another 3 million people or more.
What's happening at camp?
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 July 2021 12:45
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We are honoured to do this work as guests on traditional territory of the Pacheedaht and Ditidaht First Nations. We work with utmost respect for the land and all its relations, human and nonhuman.Please help us by forwarding this newsletter to any friends or family you feel would like to be involved or learn more. They can join our list here. We're still at camp
Last week the Pacheedaht Nation issued a request for Rainforest Flying Squad to vacate the Fairy Creek area during fire season. We appreciate this concern, and are taking every precaution regarding fire safety. We continue to stand with Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones, who says:
Thank you, Chief Jeff Jones, for your request asking the Rainforest Flying Squad to vacate the area during fire season. We share your concerns during this time of extreme temperatures and the prolonged drought. We want to ensure both the forest and our people are fully protected. Please be assured that once we receive notice that Teal Jones has stood down from active logging and road building for the fire season and that the RCMP are refraining from enforcement procedures in the area, we too, will reduce our presence in Pacheedaht unceded territory.
Until then, our camps remain in place, with stringent and extensive fire safety protocols. Come to camp.
Read Elder Bill Jones' full response to the Pacheedaht First Nation's request. HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND AT CAMP:
Visit Fairy Creek Shuttle Bus to find a ride. Greta Thunberg · Speech at Austrian World Summit
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 July 2021 12:30
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