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

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
• Lubicon natives negotation archive -- Indications of how nasty the Canadien and Alberta governments and large companies can be when negotiating with Indian nations.
• silly jokes and notes on santa's existence

Current events

• 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,)
• If you're interested in press pictures, 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.

  News Flash

  • 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 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 warrents 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

  • Who Owns it? a school report on native treaty negotiations and blockades
  • 41K MS Works file (no picture, less formatting) version)
  • Fraud, Treason and Complicity in Genocide
  • Love and the Mountain So your friends think that natives are just making a land grab? Here's an answer for them... an affadavit by native lawyer Bruce Clark. (1992)
  • 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 longtime 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).

  Some other pointers

  • The Lubicon web page is kept up by the Lubicon themselves.
  • Criminal code (index)
  • Department of Justice Database
  • The Supreme Court of Canada Home Page
  • International Indian Treaty Council ( <iitc@igc.apc.org> )
  • Statistics Canada
  • Vegetarian Pages
  • Native American Net Serve
  • PLANET PEACE
  • Virtual Clayoquot -- 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!)

  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:

  Does Santa exist? (an engineer's thoughts)