civil disobedience
Zain Haq and Save Old Growth block Trans-Canada Highway to protect old growth trees
January 31, 2022By: Yelin Gemma Lee, News Writer Activists from Save Old Growth blocked traffic on the Trans-Canada Highway on January 10, 2022. According to their press release, their sole demand is for old-growth logging to cease immediately in the province of BC. This protest has continued several times a week, leading to a total of 28 arrests as of January 20, and is part of a three-pronged campaign. The Peak spoke to SFU student and co-founder of Save Old Growth, Zain Haq, to learn more about the campaign. “For the past 30 years, not just the government and the media, but even…
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SFU professor marks one year of civil disobedience against TMX pipeline expansion
September 13, 2021By: Yelin Gemma Lee, News Writer On August 3, 2020, SFU health sciences professor Tim Takaro and the Protect the Planet Stop TMX (PPST) coalition occupied the forest canopy of Lost Creek, in the Brunette River Conservation Area. They plan to…
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SLAPP suits misunderstand the nature of public protest
January 26, 2015Alan Dutton, an organizer for Burnaby Residents Opposed to Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE), will not settle in the $5.6 million lawsuit brought against him by Kinder Morgan. The lawsuit targets five protesters for conspiring to intimidate the survey crews on…
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Protesting professors launch course on civil disobedience
January 6, 2015Two SFU professors are bringing their experiences from the front lines of the Kinder Morgan pipeline protests to the frontiers of the classroom in this spring’s President’s Dream Colloquium, titled “Obedience and Disobedience: Taking Action on Climate Change.” The colloquium…
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