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  2. Clayoquot protests - Wikipedia

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    Protesters included local residents of the Sound, the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation and Ahousaht First Nation, and environmentalist groups such as Greenpeace and Friends of Clayoquot Sound. [5] The logging protests and blockades received worldwide mass media attention, creating national support for the environmental movement in British Columbia ...

  3. Clayoquot Sound - Wikipedia

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    The First Nations peoples expressed their opposition to the MacMillan Bloedel Corporation logging in the Clayoquot Sound by several peaceful protests and blockades of logging roads from 1980 to 1994. In the summer of 1993, over 800 protestors were arrested, and many were tried for interfering with approved industry. [14]

  4. Tzeporah Berman - Wikipedia

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    Tzeporah Berman (born 5 February 1969) is a Canadian environmental activist, campaigner and writer.She is known for her role as one of the organizers of the logging blockades in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia in 1992–93.

  5. Fairy Creek old-growth logging protests - Wikipedia

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    Protests against old-growth logging in the southern Vancouver Island region of British Columbia, Canada escalated through later 2020 and into 2021.These events, many coalescing around the Fairy Creek watershed northeast of Port Renfrew, represent a critical moment in BC's recurring history of conflict related to ecological values and the forest industry, recalling the Clayoquot Protests (or ...

  6. Millions of Native people were enslaved in the Americas ... - AOL

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    The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to bring it to light.

  7. MacMillan Bloedel - Wikipedia

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    Environmentalists, together with private land owners and indigenous groups, launched the Clayoquot protests after discovering that MacMillan Bloedel was logging in one of the most pristine areas around Clayoquot Sound — a clear violation of the recommendations made by top government-chosen scientists. This logging, however, was approved by ...

  8. 'Critical moment in history': Protests across US target Trump ...

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    The 50501 Movement − 50 states, 50 protests, one day − was started by grassroots organizers spreading the word on Reddit forums, Instagram, Bluesky, Discord and other social websites. 50501 ...

  9. 'Fork off': Protesters gather outside OPM to condemn Elon ...

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    Demonstrators gather outside the Office of Personnel Management on Feb. 3 to protest Elon Musk's aides locking senior officials out of the agency's computer systems.