Good news from our #legalfrontlines

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Good news from our #legalfrontlines

Last week the Supreme Court of BC agreed to formally hear an application to drop all charges against Fairy Creek defenders due to an abuse of process by the RCMP. The application is being advanced by lawyers representing our movement who feel the police misconduct is to such an extent that those who were charged with contempt should not be prosecuted.

This is a precedent setting case - if the application succeeds, it could pave the way for improvements to enforcement clauses of future injunctions. This means more protections for land defenders and more accountability for the RCMP. This could help our comrades in Wet’suwet’en territories too!

The full hearing is yet to be scheduled and is likely to take place in late 2022. In the meantime, industry continues to profit while ancient forests are clearcut, so we must hold the line!

You can help by donating to our #legalfrontlines.

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OG FOREST PROTECTOR FUNDRAZR: We made our goal!

You helped us raise $40K for our long-haul defenders.

This week we’re distributing the funds to land defenders and forest protector allies who suffered losses and trauma at the frontlines last season. Thank you for helping us provide direct support to these brave people who have given so much for ancient forests.

In the next newsletter we'll update you on how we distributed funds and what the grant applicants said about the process and donors!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

From @logan_staats: Live, laugh, and love in the face of colonial danger. One of my favourite, most valuable and simplest teachings is that laughter is medicine. Be kind to yourself and good to others while defending what’s sacred so we can lead by example for the Canadian government and RCMP. The most sacred thing we have is each other. Support the Nuchatlaht

From the Wilderness Committee: “The Nuchatlaht Nation are fighting in the Supreme Court to get their land back through a groundbreaking title case starting on March 21! Their hahoulthee (territory) includes a large part of Nootka Island off the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island which has been impacted by industrial logging and fishing for almost a century at the hands of the BC government and giant corporations.

Despite passing legislation around the rights of Indigenous peoples and promising to do better, the BC government has continued to throw up obstacles and fight against the Nuchatlaht. Public support is key to winning this precedent-setting case.”

To contribute financially or seek more information about this project, please contact:

Nuchatlaht Tribe P.O. Box 40, Zeballos, BC V0P 2A0

Phone: 1-778-348-2356 or email to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

What's next?
With the snow starting to melt we're seeing logging picking up, with giants being trucked out of Pacheedaht and Ditidaht territories every day. In the coming weeks we’ll start asking people to re-join us on the front lines.

This weekend the leadership of this movement met in person to discuss the coming season. In the next newsletter we will be providing more details about those talks.

Please start making yourself available this spring and into the summer.

HOW YOU CAN HELP NOW

▻ Stay tuned - We’ll be putting the call out for support at FAIRY CREEK BLOCKADE AND OTHER CAMPS soon.

▻ Attend an event or organize a solidarity action of your own.

▻ Follow Save Old Growth - a new student-led civil resistance movement that that is disrupting the Trans Canada Highway near Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo, and Revelstoke, with the frequency and scale of actions escalating until all old growth logging is stopped. The government has an option to fulfill its election promises or send nonviolent people on the motorways to jail.

▻ Order a “Protect Old Growth” lawn sign if you are in the greater Victoria area. All proceeds go to saving the trees. Sign up here.

▻ Keep the pressure up: Call John Horgan and demand real action on old growth protection. Call him every day: 250-387-1715.

▻ Get a Sticker by @creatures_of_the_sun: Save Fairy Creek 4x8" Large Vinyl Stickers, $10 Each. All proceeds are going to Indigenous land sovereignty, forest defenders and old growth protection in the Fairy Creek Watershed.

Or swing by these participating businesses:

Island Affair (Comox)

Milano Coffee (Comox)

Blue Toque (Courtenay)

Bean Around the World (Courtenay)

Moon Records (Cumberland)

Good Vibe Space (Victoria)

Two Trees (Tofino)

Love Craft ( Tofino)

Reflecting Spirit (Ucluelet)

We're 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.

About Us

We're a volunteer-driven, grassroots direct-action campaign to protect the last stands of globally significant ancient temperate rainforest in British Columbia. We stand in solidarity with Elder Bill Jones of the Pacheedaht Nation. This movement is also grateful for the guidance and support of future Hereditary Chief of Pacheedaht and Ditidaht, Victor Peter, and Pacheedaht band member Whale Tail Jones. We hold our hands up to the many Chiefs and Elders from other territories and Nations who have visited and shown support and solidarity.

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