Clayoquot Sound

"I Tell you, It's not an easy job suppressing the forces of truth and justice."

-- Scott Alexander, Media Relations Manager, MacMillan Bloedel, 1993

Index

• (I'm more interested in this than my old home page)
• currently active stuff
• Notes and articles (by me and others)
• Images of various actions
• pointers to other sites
• some not-so-current events
• pointers for other projects
• silly jokes and notes on santa's existence
• Lubicon natives negotiation archive -- Indications of how nasty the Canadian and Alberta governments and large companies can be when negotiating with Indian nations.

(The houses are substandard, cheaply built and reportedly cold and drafty -- which is actually a good thing, because otherwise the furnaces would have probably killed people.)
-- results of a joint Lubicon/Canada engineering report

• In the meantime, renters in Vancouver's prestigious Point grey scream racist chants about being forced to pay market rents for their half-acre lots to their indian landlords.
• Archives of the Friends of the Lubicon mailing list (and their fight to be allowed to talk about what Daishowa is doing to the Lubicon lands)
• Given that I ran for The Green Party twice in '96, I figure I should have A link to their web page here.

Current events

• 01/2003 Watching the History Channel, I just realized that one of the flag-raisers at Iwojima (2nd world war) was probably a wind-talker.
• A company is giving away free bar coders and then threatening to sue people who release the source code allowing people how to use them in interesting ways. This is one response.
• Pet-killing pot scrubbers -- a warning.
• Jan. 1999 -- A short rant on the Musqueam rent fiasco.
• There is now  a petition available to support the people (esp. those on hunger strike in jail) who have been jailed at the Houston Mud-flats in BC for defending their environment.
• The 'last' will and testament of a gustafson Lake defender.
• Robson Media Event A Vancouver Sun article (also printed in the Globe and Mail) described the native speakers/protestors at this event as 'Incoherent'. This is a transcript of the supposedly incoherent statements.
• Gunakidait -- speaks of how this relates to the Alaska situation.

• Green party... I ran for The Green Party
• in the Provincial Election Here are some notes on the poll results (also as a binhexed MS WORD Document,)
• and in the Civic (Vancouver) elections (The official results are on the Vancouver site)
• If you're interested in pictures of me, you can find them here...
• The Gustafsen Lake Defenders are on trial, and some information on what's going on there is available at the SISIS (Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty) site
• I also have a tabulation of the election results in a form that should be friendly to spreadsheet analysis.
• LEONARD PELTIER FOR PRESIDENT!
• They may be able to extradite him from Canada by fraud;
• They may be able to ignore a government prosecutor's claim that there's no unfabricated evidence against him.
• They may be able to deny him parole because he won't explain why he's guilty.
• but they can't deny him the right to run for president.
• RCMP Take Nuxalk Hostages
• At 6AM March 21/96,The RCMP took 14 people -- Nuxalk and non-natives hostage. They are currently being held in Vancouver, British Columbia
• Nuxalk Trial -- Nuxalk natives and supporters were scheduled for trial, the week of Jan 22, 1996 in BC Supreme Court for protecting one of their sacred sites being logged by International Forest Products.

They did not return to court and bench warrants have now been issued for their arrest.
They have issued a press release about their stand.
• Under construction -- If you know of events which are worth adding to this list, please contact me.

Notes

• And Then They Came for Me: Why people fight for someone else's human rights. (lost)
• Who Owns it? a student's school report on native treaty negotiations and blockades
• Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.
• Peaceful Action Workshop handout this is a recreation of the handout used at the Peace camp in Clayoquot Sound. note: it's a 600K RTF file, including a picture.
  • I've also got a 41K MS Works file (no picture, less formatting) version)
  • and a 54K RTF file without the picture (newer, and less tested)
• Fraud, Treason and Complicity in Genocide an affidavit by natives' lawyer Bruce Clark. (1992)
• So your friends think that natives are just making a land grab? Here's an answer for them -- 'Love and the Mountain'...
• One Law Thoughts on the history of Indian land claims.
• The Raincoast foundation is trying to save the largest tract of intact Rainforest left on the BC mainland
• The interim (May/94) Clayoquot Scientific Panel report. The final (June/95) report is not yet available online.
• Some firsthand comments from participants in Midnight Oil's July 1993 concert in Clayoquot Sound.
• comments from a long-time logger
• conversations with the same logger
• The Poem of Solomon modified to fit the history of Clayoquot Sound.
• some general notes on overlogging in B.C.

Pictures

• An ecoterroist poster
• Clayoquot sound picture
• Peter Garrett (midnight oil) address a crowd at Clayoquot Sound (arrest site)
• Midnight Oil press conference at Clayoquot Sound (black Hole))
• A shoreline clearcut in Clayoquot Sound
• Sarah McLauclin does a performance at Clayoquot Days (1993)(two pictures).
• If you're interested in pictures of me, you can find them here...

Some other pointers

• The Lubicon web page is kept up by the Lubicon themselves.
• Archives of the Friends of the Lubicon are also available.
• Criminal code (index)
• Department of Justice Database
• The Supreme Court of Canada Home Page
note: This probably originated as a research project.. this link may (will?) change.. again.
• Centre de Recherche en Droit Public at University of Montreal should have a pointer, though.
(or maybe not? ... sigh)
• The Supreme Court of British Columbia (and court of appeal) now have all written reasons on line.
• CanLii is a legal database run by the law societies of Canada
• law.com Dictionary
• (broken)International Indian Treaty Council ( <iitc@igc.apc.org> )
• Statistics Canada
• Native American Net Serve
• Virtual Clayoquot(dead) -- A production of Bayside Middle School, near Victoria B.C. where one class has investigated the controversy surrounding Clayoquot Sound for the school year.
• finish forestry
• BC forestry page (in the Holland!)
• Ehernet MAC address and link layer information tables .

Old events

• Florida to execute an innocent man? Ricky Roberts was scheduled to die Friday Feb 23, 1996.
• The Clayoquot restoration camp, The summer of '95

On a completely different subject:

The Drug-war measures act (C-7) may have been described in misleading way...

Jokes and ceteras:

• a short quote from The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. ("on display?")
• Does Santa exist? (an engineer's thoughts)
• Cat washing as a martial art.

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Author: Stephen Samuel (samuel@bcgreen.com)

Curator: Stephen Samuel (samuel@bcgreen.com)
Last Updated: Sun Jan 7, 2001

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