CLAYOQUOT BLOCKADE NEWS UPDATE Issues #61 to #74 (January 1993 to May 1994)
August 20 1993 – The Friends of Clayoquot Sound As the number of arrests on the Clayoquot blockade climbs
towards 600, the NDP government has quietly promised to give
MacMillan Bloedel permission to…
Clayoquot Sound
“I Tell you, It’s not an easy job supressing the forces of truth and justice.” Scott Alexander, Media Relations Manager, MacMillan Bloedel, 1993
Common Ground – August 2003 – Clayoquot Was Defining Protest of Our Time by Geoff Olson
In the summer of 1993, thousands of people gathered in Clayoquot Sound to protect the area’s ancient temperate rainforest, in what would become one of the defining environmental protests of our time….
CBC News – Canada – Environmentalists gather to remember 1993 Clayoquot protests
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2003/08/09/clayoquotanniversary_030809.html
Environmental activists are gathering on the west coast of Vancouver Island this weekend, to mark the anniversary of the largest civil disobedience protest in Canadian history. Ten years ago, more…
Clayoquot Sound—A Summer of Protest
Over the past summer, the Kennedy River Bridge entrance to logging operations on Clayoquot Sound became the site of one of the largest civil disobedience campaigns in Canadian history. The protest…