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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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    Clayoquot Sound / ˈ k l ɑː k w ɒ t / [1] [2] is located on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is bordered by the Esowista Peninsula to the south, and the Hesquiaht Peninsula to the North.

  4. Tzeporah Berman - Wikipedia

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    In 1993, the Clayoquot Sound Land Use Decision had granted pulp-and-paper giant MacMillan Bloedel rights to clear cut two thirds of a 650,000 acre lowland coastal temperate rainforest, the largest of its kind in the world. Berman joined with Valerie Langer and members of Friends of Clayoquot Sound in the growing Clayoquot protests.

  5. What happened at Tuesday's Pro-Palestine protests in Chicago?

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    Tuesday night’s protest was organized by a group called Behind Enemy Lines under the slogan “Make it great like ’68,” an allusion to large and chaotic protests against the war in Vietnam ...

  6. Chicago preps as Democrats descend for convention - AOL

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    A coalition of protest groups are battling the city in court after city officials responded to permit requests Wednesday by prohibiting protesters from installing stages, sound systems, portable ...

  7. Pro-Palestinian protesters clash with police near Chicago's ...

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    Pro-Palestinian protesters clash with police near Chicago's Israeli consulate on second night of DNC SOPHIA TAREEN, JAKE OFFENHARTZ, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and LEA SKENE August 21, 2024 at 12:06 AM

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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 ...