Early #ThickTrunkTuesday & #MeerMittwoch while in signal. Travelled from Glasgow airport #Renfrew to #PortRenfrew #PNW #VancouverIsland on a #BusmansHoliday to see #SitkaSpruce in its native range...& other stuff too, honest. #NotWeird. #trees #forests #foresters
#Love at first sight #Canada
Just a few ️ strikes on the Olympics and Juan de Fuca! Now activating a little in the Georgia Strait and on West VI #PortRenfrew we'll see if it tracks up the Alberni Inlet or dies off before getting here.
#bcstorm
A magical tribute to Canada's #GnarliestTree - in #AvatarGrove in #PortRenfrew.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/canada-s-gnarliest-tree
https://vancouverislandview.com/finding-port-renfrews-biggest-trees
We fought hard to save the ancient trees & their life-sustaining wild ecosystems, to get Avatar Grove area protected & turned into a public park. It was previously on the corporate deforestation list prior to the hard grassroots fight to save this area of Port Renfrew, where old growth forests were rapidly dwindling due to colonial capitalist style of short-term greedy gains & putting nature last. Nature should be first.
The #documentary film that I'm featured in is now available for #free viewing:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4q_dXo7Bw
It includes footage & shared #deforestation issues with the #Amazon. It's all connected.
I'm holding back tears near the end of it. I was arrested a few days after doing the documentary film interview at gate to River & Landback resistance camps.
#ThrowbackThursday
Our first big #hardblock at #FairyCreekBlockade in 2020.
My frontlines interview with Donna Clark from #XRVancouver has finally uploaded.
I talk about why I'm at the blockades. I talk about the ecocide on my family's matriarch homelands. I talk about the devastating & longterm effects of the US invasion on Vietnam. I talk about how we need to protect/study/find more ancient forest medicines. I talk about colonialism & brutalities. I talk about my amazing resilient villager relations. I talk about how ecocide destroyed my matriarch village ways of life.
I also bring up the sellouts.
We were carpet bombed by #USA #racist terrorists. Fact.
Please take the time to listen to what I have to say. Thank you for those who care enough to listen to me & why I keep fighting for a better world - for all of us.
#Cree bro-friend comrade, Daun/Totem, doing Indigenous drum ceremony at Waterfall resistance camp.
From 2021 frontlines.
With #SisterFriends at frontlines. Warrior POC women against ongoing colonial ecocide. I had not slept for 3 days & had not bathed in 8 days at that time. I was chaining myself to bridge & other infrastructure for over a week. I had experienced over 50 RCMP CIRG raids by this time & refused to stop fighting back. We, war survivors, do not back down from colonial forces easily.
2021, from the frontlines.
Standoff between unarmed peaceful activists & militarized #RCMPCIRG - employed by #BCgovernment using #BCcitizens tax monies - in middle of the night. It was raining almost all day/night. Frontliners didn't budge ️
From 2021 frontlines.
#VicPD asking us to move from BC Ministry of Environment & Climate offices. We refused to vacate. We shutdown building for 6 hours.
Building manager & landlord tried & failed to get us arrested ️
Urban frontlines 2022.
Awaiting to be arrested (again) at HeliCamp - named because it was only camp that could take out activists via #helicopter.
This was a very remote, high up in mountain valley resistance camp that I first got death threats from one unhinged logger, from Lake Cowichan & told by one RCMP CIRG guy that I deserve to be raped.
2021 was a helluva year!
#FuckTheRCMP - they flew these #helicopters multiple times, daily, to try & intimidate us. We had Transport Canada verify that this helicopter maneuver & 3 other ones documented at other resistance camp areas was illegal & violated federal regulations but no action was taken to punish people responsible for violations.
This footage was taken before over 100 RCMP CIRG goons raided 4 different #ResistanceCamps.
Voluntary RCMP #CIRG unit was created in 2017 as a strictly corporate mercenaries unit in BC. Approved by #BCNDP government. The same government who has given them multiple budget increases - millions of #BCtaxpayers monies were used for that. Taxpayers monies were also used by #BCgovernment on attempts to criminalize environmental activists in BC courts. Some of the court cases are still ongoing.
RCMP CIRG is a fully voluntary unit & RCMP who choose to join the unit get paid more than regular RCMP goons. It's all about the extra money for these colonial greedy chumps.
2021, from the frontlines.
#FlashbackFriday Cultural #solidarity with #Indigenous land defenders in BC Part of Last Stand for Ancient Forests citizens driven PR.
I'll post a past video of an interview I did from frontlines this weekend so folks will understand my strong solidarity stance better
Who are the #DomesticTerrorists here?
The unarmed #environmental activists or the state funded, militarized #RCMP #CIRG unit?
Who is the one fighting for humanity & protection of our ecosystems?
Who is protecting the profits only interests of ecocidal corporations & the sellout politicians?
Tell me - who are the real domestic terrorists that you see in these #photos.
Part of the #RCMP #CIRG #DomesticTerrorists who violated multiple laws with impunity. This was taken about an hour before another very violent raid.
From the frontlines, 2021.
#Grassroots #courage over #colonial #fascists ️
Staying calm while #RCMP #CIRG chumps surround & threaten you is #HumanityInAction. Most female environmental activists have more bravery than all #RCMP across #Canada
2021, from the frontlines.
Me & Silena, Ojibwe sister-friend/comrade against colonialism, on the bridge between River & Landback resistance camps. (2021)
Part of #BCRCMP #CIRG unit. #RCMP are taxpayers/state funded, #DomesticTerrorists.
This corporate mercenaries unit only exists in #BritishColumbia & they're violent towards environmental & Indigenous activists. This unit was created solely to protect interests of private ecocidal corporations & they do not protect citizens. The unit should be abolished.
Please note: All of these RCMP thugs are wearing the #ThinBlueLine patch AND one of the bigot #colonizers had the nerve to wear a #MoosehidePin too None wore any identification badges & refused to provide their badge numbers when asked - which is illegal in BC, when they voluntarily interact with any citizen. A few of them(not in these photos) actually had put black tape over their identification badges too.
2021, from the frontlines.