A drama 150 years in the making is playing out as logging companies and police clash with First Nations and protesters over one of British Columbia’s last remaining stands of unprotected old-growth forest.
by Arno Kopecky 6,100 words, about 31 minutes This story was produced in collaboration with The Tyee.
British Columbia’s coastal temperate rainforest is home to some of the biggest trees in the world. Photo by TJ Watt/Ancient Forest Alliance
One place to start is Google Earth. Type in Fairy Creek. Watch the planet swivel round to Canada’s west coast and zoom into Vancouver Island, green from a distance but gathering gray-brown splotches as the clearcuts come into range.
There’s Port Renfrew, the logging and fishing town at the south end of the West Coast Trail; beside it, tucked into the estuary where the San Juan and Gordon Rivers spill into a broad bay lined with mammoth driftwood, is the Pacheedaht First Nation’s reserve, just a few dozen bungalows and trailer homes.
——--Day 27 of Police EnforcementDay 309 of Direct Action Protecting Vancouver Island’s Ancient Temperate Rainforests on Pacheedaht and Dididaht Territories 222 arrests to date and counting8 total arrests today————–————————————————–Today’s Updates:RCMP ARREST CHILDREN TO UPHOLD A SYSTEM OF ECOCIDAL GREED Today the RCMP sent 47 overt officers, at least 2 special ops officers in camo in the woods and an unknown number of undercover officers to arrest 8 forest defenders. The result of this significant waste of resources includes the arrest of three girls aged 16, 17 and 18.
These girls are standing up for old growth forests for the sake of those very police officers’ own children and grandchildren.Despite set-backs earlier in the week and ongoing police intimidation and arrests, WE HAVE HELD OUR GROUND! Brave forest defenders of all ages continue to delay industry by chaining themselves to the earth, to logs, to gates, to each other, and suspending themselves high above the earth at the tops of their beloved trees or up in tripods. WATERFALL CAMP……
NHS source claims new data will be “more realistic” in the future, by removing “incidental” Covid from the records. ‘The new method will NOT be backdated, as that would make the pandemic almost disappear!‘
by Kit Knightly
The UK’s National Health Service has received new instructions from the government on how it should record Covid19 “cases”, separating those who are actually sick from those who just test positive.
From the beginning of the “pandemic” last spring, the NHS (and other countries all over the world) have defined a “case” as anyone who tests positive for the Sars-Cov-2 virus, regardless of whether or not they have symptoms.
photo. İpek Er who died after a shocking rape ordeal, sparking a rebellion against State and fascist impunity.
An indictment drafted by an Ankara prosecutor calls for a prison sentence of up to two years for Ezgi Mola, a popular Turkish actress, accused of insults after tweeting in August 2020 about the release of a former soldier accused of kidnapping and repeatedly raping an 18-year-old Kurdish woman, İpek Er .
Ipek was left 80% paralysed and left evidence and a letter before attempting suicide in despair, dying in hnospital 33 days later.
Ezgi Mola , awaiting trial for calling rapist a ‘low-life rapist’
“Drown in the conscience that has allowed you to release this lifeless rapist,” Mola said in a tweet referring to Musa Orhan, who was released pending trial after six days behind bars by a court of law. Siirt on August 26, 2020,despite a forensic report confirming that he raped İpek Er.
Fundada en 1890 en el municipio de Palmeira Paraná, Brasil, por un grupo de libertarios entre los que destacó Giovanni Rossi, llegó a alojar más de 250 colonos que se repartían el trabajo agrícola y las tareas de mantenimiento.
Ocupó 80 acres de tierra de un área cedida por el emperador Pedro II poco antes de la proclamación de la República. Se construyeron un barracón colectivo y veinte individuales, la escuela, molino, estanques, pabellón colectivo que incluía un consultorio médio y almacén.
La Cecilia: en Español con Subtitulos en English, Français, Italiano…
Se vivía según los principios anarquistas de no coerción y cooperación. Duró cuatro años entre otros motivos por la escasez de recursos, la hostilidad de comunidades vecinas profundamente católicas y de las autoridades así como problemas de la convivencia en especial en lo referente al amor libre
The similarities between the movement to abolish war and the movement to abolish police and prisons jump out at me anew when reading Mariame Kaba’s We Do This ‘Til We Free Us, which is about police and prison abolition.
The book –We Do This ‘Til We Free Us-, has a foreword by Naomi Murakawa that includes this:
“Police push millions of people into the criminal punishment system, where anti-Black death-dealing rises through each circle of hell. Black people comprise 13 percent of the U.S. population but roughly 30 percent of the arrested, 35 percent of the imprisoned, 42 percent of those on death row, and 56 percent of those serving life sentences. Inside the largest prison system on the planet, the Covid-19 death rate is five times that of the general population.
The roughly eight hundred U.S. military bases the world over — like the nation’s birth in native dispossession and slavery — reinforce the lessons that Trump’s brand of white brothers know all too well: take by force and invent the racial enemy.
We live in the age of human sacrifice, says Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and our prison and military machinery normalizes industrialized killing. We must abolish the prison-industrial complex … .”
A real shame. A major scandal. The decision of the Constitutional Council on May 21 – requested by deputies En Marche and the Minister of Education Jean Michel Blanquer – to refuse to legalize language immersion and the accents of “regional” languages as approved by a large majority of deputies
The decision above all is absurd and illegitimate. It is a real incitement to open disobedience.
The APLEC and all lovers of Catalan called to demonstrate on Saturday, May 29 at 3 am in the Plaça de Catalunya in Perpignan against an unjust, inept and undemocratic decision. It encourages us to fight even more against unfair practices, to reflect now that elections are coming on who will allow this permission to euthanize languages already in difficulty.
APLEC called for the removal of the mention of language in Article 2, manipulated by all enemies of our languages to oppose it.
A handful of Parisians incompetent in linguistics and pedagogy, living in the days of 19th century colonialism, allow themselves to reject, in the middle of the 21st century, respect for otherness and linguistic diversity, in a pathetic battle of the rear.
French Constitutional Council decides Euthanasia of Regional Languages
A large demonstration (2000 people) took to the streets of Perpignan on May 29 in defense of Catalan and against the French Constitutional Council. “Today and tomorrow, the school in Catalan!”, Was the most popular chant during the mobilization. Citizens have responded to the call of the Casal de Perpinyà, to which they joined… … read more in Catalan
APLEC REQUESTS HEARING FOR PRIME MINISTER TO AMEND CONSTITUTION
Following the absurd decision of the Constitutional Council to outlaw immersive teaching and the accents and signs of Catalan (and the languages of other regions), the APLEC has formally requested a hearing from Jean Castex, after the first minister announced that he would receive associations representing regional language teaching.
The APLEC, which has been working for 38 years on the development of the teaching of Catalan in all its forms, including immersion, wants to present the proposals that would allow us to get out of the impasse in which we have been involved. located the inconsistent interpretation of a handful of constitutional judges and glottophobic deputies.
In particular, the APLEC calls for the urgent launch of the procedure for amending the Constitution that guarantees equal rights between French and the languages of the regions…… more here in Catalan
originals en Catalan / Français
EL CONSELL CONSTITUCIONAL DECIDEIX L’EUTANÀSIA DE LES LLENGÜES REGIONALS
L’APLEC crida a manifestar dissabte 29 a Perpinyà
Una autèntica vergonya. Un escàndol major. La decisió del Consell constitucional el 21 de maig – sol·licitat per diputats En Marche i el Ministre d’Educació Jean Michel Blanquer – de refusar de legalitzar la immersió lingüística i els accents de les llengües « regionals » tal com havien aprovat una ampla majoria de diputats amb la llei Molac portarà cua.
La decisió sobretot és absurda i il·legítima. És una veritable incitació a la desobediència oberta.
L’APLEC i tots els amants del català criden a manifestar dissabte 29 de maig a 3h a la plaça de Catalunya de Perpinyà contra una decisió iniqua, inepta i antidemocràtica. Incita a lluitar encara més contra unes pràctiques injustes, a reflexionar ara que venen eleccions sobre qui permet que s’aprovi aquest permís d’eutanasiar unes llengües ja en dificultat.
L’APLEC demanarà que se suprimeixi la menció de la llengua a l’article 2, manipulat per tots els enemics de les nostres llengües per oposar-s’hi. Un grapat de parisencs incompetents en lingüística i en pedagogia, que viuen en temps del colonialisme del segle 19, se permeten de rebutjar, en ple segle 21, el respecte de l’alteritat i la diversitat lingüística, en un patètic combat de rereguarda.
En Français … Le Conseil constitutionnel euthanasie les langues .. /L’APLEC appel à manifester le samedi29 mai à 15h place de Catalogne àPerpignan contre une décision inique, inepte et antidémocratique……..
Una gran manifestació (2000 perspnes) ha recorregut els carrers de Perpinyà aquesta tarda en defensa del català i contra el Consell Constitucional francès. “Avui i demà, l’escola en català!”, ha estat el càntic que ha fet més fortuna durant la mobilització. La ciutadania ha respost a la crida del Casal de Perpinyà, a la qual van adherir-se … Continue reading in Catalan
Arran de la decisió absurda del Consell constitucional d’il·legalitzar l’ensenyament immersiu i els accents i signes del català (i de les llengües de les altres regions), l’APLEC ha demanat formalment audiència a Jean Castex, després que el primer ministre anunciés que rebria les associacions representant l’ensenyament en llengües regionals.
L’APLEC que obra des de fa 38 anys al desenvolupament de l’ensenyament del català sota totes les seues formes, incloent-hi la immersió, vol exposar-li les propostes que permetrien sortir de l’impasse en el qual ens ha col·locat la interpretació inconseqüent d’un grapat de jutges constitucionals i de diputats glotofòbics. En particular l’APLEC demana que se llanci urgentment el procediment d’esmena de la Constitució que garanteixi la igualtat de dret entre el francès i les llengües de les regions…. més aquí
British Virgin Islands ranked ‘greatest enabler of corporate abuse’ by Tax Justice Network
The British Virgin Islands gained the maximum ‘haven score’ of 100, along with the Caymans and Bermuda. Photograph: AlamyPhillip Inman@phillipinmanTue 9 Mar 2021 11.26 GMT
Britain’s overseas territories have topped a list of the world’s most significant tax havens ahead of Switzerland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, according to the campaign group Tax Justice Network.
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