Save the old growth forests

Welcome! Thanks for coming by to get informed about our old growth forests and the current efforts to push for reform of the BC Forestry Legislation. To push for the government to uphold their promises. To push for land  back to the people. To stand up and fight back, together in solidarity. I am here to witness and document and share stories of my experiences. Feel free to skip down past the little personal updates below to find resources links and suggestions for ways you can help within your community. More to come so come check back later. Feel free to send me a message anytime, I am here to help and support wherever I can. Get informed, share information and get as many humans on board as possible. My goal is to provide some references and inspiration for those who maybe don't know where to start. Feel free to take and share what you'd like and leave the rest. Listen to your hearts and act with love.

Thank you. I love you. 

~ Amanda

I wonder what they are doing with all of the self incriminating footage they are filming out at #fairycreekblockade?? The #bcrcmp continues to push the line... where does it end when the line you don't cross just gets picked up and moved once you reach it? It was brought to my attention that some folks that have followed along on my journey at Fairy Creek thought things had "cooled down"... fuck. My stepping back and focusing on recharging my energy has had an effect that I didn't expect. I didn't realize folks were counting on me. These are old photos from Caycuse. From the first time we challenged the police exclusion line and had a beautiful sit in... before the cavalry arrived... the blue men... and they started pushing people around. I won't tell that story again now (feel free to look back to find it) because this post is about the escalation that has occurred since then and the violence that continues to escalate seemingly everyday. I follow along closely. I share to my stories. I am focusing energy on a future without colonialism poisoning our lives. A future that is different. I send emails. I donate. I do what I can from home. I can't be there right now. As much as there is a calling for me, I have other callings here at home and life is really full right now. I'm sure yours is too... but please don't forget for a second that violence is happening right here in our own back yard. Extreme measures are being used by the RCMP and there are downright torturing peaceful protesters who are putting their bodies on the line for all of us. They are spending our tax dollars to allow corrupt corporations to rape and pillage our earth. Our land. Our people. So get to camp if you can. If you can't get there please pay close attention to what is going on. I know its hard to watch... Spread the word far and wide! We are living in a police state. The RCMP are ignoring the Supreme courts. Our systems are a joke. Are you ok with letting this be our reality? What does our future hold at this rate? What sort of hope is there if we stay quiet? If we stand idle and don't tell them NO. This is just a drop in the bucket of the ocean of issues, but ripples spread... and if you need some help finding out what is happening right now, send me a message or an email! I can direct you to some accounts that are constantly being updated from the frontlines! There is a ton of coverage happening but I'm not sure how far it all reaches.... sadly not a lot of support or coverage from the mainstream media. They've been a little busy this year 🙄😷

It's hard to explain to her that it's ok to cut down some trees. That we need the forestry industry to continue to thrive if we want to continue on with life as we know it, and that means cutting down trees. She once learned that trees help provide the oxygen we breathe and ever since she tells me every time we drive past a cut block that we needed those trees and without the trees we won't have oxygen. Obviously it is much more complicated than that and the trees play such a bigger role than simply exchanging air with us. We are learning and adjusting our thoughts, beliefs and opinions as we learn and grow through this experience. I recently made a post and ended up getting some attention from a few folks supporting the forestry industry. I felt grateful to have made that reach and although the initial interaction felt a little hostile I was stoked to open to dialog and hoped to learn something from them in this interaction. It is easy to be defensive... after all I did tell my story pretty bluntly. I called it like I saw it. My intention was never to be unkind but simply to share what I felt. At the time those feelings were a little harsh. Our experience was a little harsh. I could have kept my experience to myself... my intention in all of this isn't to add fuel to the fire but sometimes you have to speak a certain kind of language to be heard. Ultimately in the end, my lack of reaction in my response seemed to have cut the conversation short. I guess sometimes its simply the confrontation we seek. Instead of coming into the ring with boiling blood, we should be coming in standing tall and sturdy. Ready to be true to ourselves. Open to give and receive. Trust in the process. We must not confront that which we do not like with aggression. Instead ask questions and be prepared for whatever the answers may be. I was hoping to give my daughter some more answers... greater understandings as to the what's and the whys of the industry... instead I received silence. Thank you to everyone out there keeping their lights bright and keeping me inspired and true to my journey. I'm here to witness. I'm here to learn. I'm here to share. Love and light to every living being....

June 5th update ~ So I'm not on my way to Fairy Creek today. It will be a big weekend I know. A lot of folks will be showing up to support the frontlines. Weekend warriors. The folks who are holding up the lives of their families and have too much going on to be able to make priority number one to stand up and put their bodies on the line for this land 7 days a week. Reality check - I'm sure most of our frontline forest defenders had to leave a lot on the back burners or even leave behind the life they knew to do what they are doing. They are making big sacrifices. They are choosing to be the change. To do whatever it takes. Are you ok with the current state of our Country? Of the world? With the corporations and industries that have nothing but money on their agendas? With the role you are bound to in this society that keeps you at home during the week while there is a war in our woods? The systemic issues root so deep our politicians as individuals wouldn't even know where to start to make change if they wanted to (to be clear I don't believe they want to). Its the people that make the difference. Its coming together and amplifying each others voices that makes change. Its standing up and not backing down until we are heard and what we are saying holds weight for all of those we are speaking out to. Here are some of the very few photos I took last weekend. Saturday, there were likely 2000 folks out at Fairy Creek Blockade HQ and surrounding camps. Smiling, hearts full of love working in harmony with a collective goal, for the better for all people and all life on this planet. On our way out to camp we passed by families and individuals who are desperately clinging to life as they know it. Its funny change is so inevitable yet folks seem terrified of it. Change is good. Progress is positive. Fear though, it can get you. Fear can get you and it can keep you in a place that fosters negativity, anger and frustration. I try my best to keep my personal judgements out of the way. Observe, not absorb. I also don't like to put people in categories... I don't think it's fair to not give each individual the chance to be 100% unique, but what I observed this past weekend were two types of people. Straight up. I observed the group of people in this first image here, backed by the @bcrcmp, muscles flexing, everyone with the same sign, hot off the press - "BC Forestry feeds my family". A narrow minded message without heart. Bitter people who think we are out to steal their jobs and leave them hungry. Money. That is the only factor. Guess what folks, BC forestry helps feed my family too! And I still want to save the forests! I have no desire to stand out and name call anyone who doesn't have the same priorities as me. I don't want to put people down. I want to hold people up. When we drove past the second group of individuals (not pictured here) we were shouted at, called names and very much felt the divide. We were simply driving in the direction of Fairy Creek, nothing to indicate what "side" we were on, and yet we were verbally abused. Yes, of course we must be a bunch of dirty smelly hippies if we are going camping in the woods. Make no mistake, (edited) every person out there at that industry blockade with their children watching that day that didn't stand up and speak up against that behavior are raising bullies. Period. We didn't stick around to find out and lucky for us our children had a much different experience that day and were totally oblivious to the bullying directed at us. Lucky for us our children learned about love and community and connection and nature that day. We walked amongst the trees and met smiling people. We saw beautiful art and heard beautiful music and ate wonderful food. We danced and we laughed and we cried. We heard from folks with powerful stories and learned from the indigenous people of this land we are standing up for. We gained knowledge and history from the Elders. We fed our spirits. The weekend didn't go as I had planned, but that's all apart of being flow. I wanted to be in on the action at waterfall camp but I wasn't. We spent the weekend at HQ as a family. We brought some supplies. We offered some plants to the community garden. We connected. It was wonderful and at the end if the day I had friends in the action at waterfall documenting all of the experiences I had hoped to witness. This weekend we aren't heading out to get in on the action. I am tending to my home instead. There will be hundreds of people and likely very little RCMP. They are catching on. They know there will be many many more defenders out on the weekends. That families with young children will be present. They will wait... and resume their dirty work next week. So the ultimate question is, what are you doing from Monday to Friday that's so important? For me I have a internal conflict... I could be there... but I haven't been. I am working on figuring that out and while I do I'm sure to be present as much as I can from home. Keeping up to date and sharing what I can. Making calls and sending emails. Ultimately it would be amazing to get a community of families out there during the week. We could support each other in taking care of the kids and making sure everyone is staying safe. Strength in numbers is real. Families supporting families on the front lines is what we need. The frontlines need our children. My kids want to be there... so how can we make it happen? If you want to chat about ideas please get in touch. Momentum is picking up. I have connected with some mamas who I know I was meant to connect with. Its happening... and we need your help. 

Thank you. I love you.

~ Amanda

May 26th update ~ FACT: none of these folks are being paid to be here.

I operate on feelings. I educate myself and do research and check facts and at the end of the day, I am still listening to the calls from my heart. Not all folks are like me. I am a unique individual. That said, I have connected with many folks of like minds and hearts with a level of understanding that doesn't require me to spew facts, so I usually don't. Facts are good. In fact they are super important and should be a solid part of the foundation that drives us along with our intuition. I've seen a lot of information being shared. The "sides" of the divide are evident. I am seeing small picture conversations drawing short sighted conclusions. So today I am going to do a little out of my way to compile some facts and share them, for folks who are fact driven. For those who need the proof because they are letting their minds run the engine of their vessels. Don't get me wrong, the mind is brilliant. It is smart and can create wonderful ideas. It can also sabotage. Anyone here ever lost control of their self thoughts? Think something bad about yourself? Say something you didn't really feel and regret it afterwards? Have you ever been "depressed"? That's because the mind can deceive us. The mind is home to the ego. The mind can get things twisted. Use your mind, don't let it use you. Don't be satisfied with the "facts" you are given. REALLY listen. Take in facts. Process them... feel... and then go out and take in some more. The learning is never done. Unlearning is never done. There is so much work to do. So let's talk numbers for a minute.. and please if anyone has any stats that I am missing here that are key to the equation, feel free to chime in. 

Fairy creek watershed is 1200 hectares of untouched, intact ecosystem. FULL of life. From the most minute microorganisms to the bears and the birds we can see with our own eyes. Life beyond what our minds know. Teal-Jones ONLY has rights to 200 hectares. This year, they ONLY want to cut 20 hectares. If it's only 20 hectares, that is a drop in the bucket right... like who cares.. then why not walk away? Because it isn't just 20 hectares. It isn't just about this year. Is the 20 hectares they want to harvest just sitting there on the outskirts of this watershed? No, it isn't. How much road needs to be built to access this land, all the while destroying everything in its path? Once the road is there and access is available, they will plan the next 20 and the next 20 and the next 20... How many 20's fit in 200? Sorry I will try and keep my cheeky attitude at bay here. So let's talk about the location of these 20 hectares they plan to cut this year, directly at the headwaters of this watershed. Headwaters... that indicates to me that it is the start... the beginning... the highest point. Does shit roll downhill? Or have I really not understood anything I've learned since the day I was born? Do we expect that cutting there won't have any effect on the remainder of this sacred space? As the bears and the owls scatter with each tree felled. We make them run from their homes and then shoot them when they end up in our backyards as the result of ruining theirs. More facts. When I am standing up to help protect our old growth forests, I'm not just talking about Fairy Creek or Caycuse. There are folks everywhere fighting for their own backyard. Vancouver Island or the mainland of BC, doesn't matter to me - STOP LOGGING OLD GROWTH TREES! I'm talking OG, never been exposed to industry, trees. Leave them alone, we've taken enough. I am NOT ANTI-LOGGING. I work with wood, I love wood. The trees provide many things, what a gift this earth has given us! My husband supports the industry in his work. We all need homes to live in. I wouldn't even say it is the industry's fault that it has gone this far..  supply and demand right and man, there is a LOT of demand. So what facts are important here when it comes to old growth.... well before settlers came to BC, it was ALL old growth right? All 95 million hectares (fact). Today, BC maybe has 13 million hectares of old growth remaining (fact). Things get funny when we start breaking them down by the hectare. Percentages. Protected areas vs. parks. Crown lands. Protected today but is still on the table to be harvested in the future. Old growth vs. ancient forests. When you break it down the smaller numbers lose impact. Perspectives get skewed. I am not sure what the actual number of hectares of intact ANCIENT old growth forests are but I do know there is a big difference between hundreds and thousands of years. Imagine, some 20-60 year old human comes into the forest, a sacred space so full of history and wisdom beyond anything we can know in this one lifetime, and chops a tree 1000-2000 years old. Have you done the work to know your ancestors dating that far back? How ignorant to think that we could even begin to understand the impacts of that. Love for the trees aside, this isn't your land to take. These trees are not YOUR resources. These trees and this sacred space does not belong to you. This isn't finders keepers here.  Oh you BOUGHT them and so you think they are yours to have? No, wrong. This is stolen land. If you bought a stolen car, would you have the right to keep it and drive it around as you please? Or would you be vulnerable to have that car taken away and given back to its rightful owner? A lot of learning and unlearning has brought me to where I am today. I struggle with the divide because I DID NOT STEAL ANYTHING FROM ANYONE, but THIS LAND WAS STOLEN (FACT). This fact doesn't change that I feel I belong here. That I too have a place here. That everything I have worked for in my life is mine. I, as a 31 year old human who was born and raised here, feel a connection to these lands. This earth is my home. It is in my soul contract to be here. I do not appreciate those who tell me I do not have a connection to these trees or this land... but I do respect them and I do hold compassion for them and know that with more learning and unlearning they will come to see that we are all one and this land is my land. This land is your land. Love is the only way. With love, we all stand tall. With divide, some must fall. With divide someone is always left behind. We cannot leave eachother behind. I trust that there will always be space held for me here. Folks in logging deserve a system that is FOR them. A system that will give them security in their jobs. To ensure their families will be taken care of for generations to come. We expect the same safety and security for the future of our forests. For the future of our indigenous people. I see folks pointing fingers. I see folks making assumptions. I see folks judging. I see it coming from all angles. I see folks choosing to be stubborn. I see narrow minds. I see a beautiful earth that is being destroyed while we all try to figure it out. I see money hungry people. I see "every man for himself" mentality. I also see love. I see passion. I see strength. I see the momentum. I see the potential for a beautiful future where the inevitable isn't extinction for all. We say we speak for the trees because they cannot speak for themselves but they do. They speak for themselves. They speak in a different language and folks are waking up to hear them from all corners of the planet. A post that started out with the desire to share facts ended up so much more.... because life is really about so so much more than just the facts. Do your research. Educate yourself. And then think about how those facts all add up. They do ADD up to create a big picture. Don't look at one small corner of the picture and think you understand it all. It takes lifetimes to understand this much. Thousands of years and multiple lifetimes. The remembering must happen. The remembering is happening. Pay attention. Don't get left behind.

Thank you. I love you.

~ Amanda

May 24th update ~ There is so much to be said about my experiences over this past week. I have witnessed and shared so much love and compassion for everyone, it has been beautiful. There are no sides here... just some folks who have yet to remember what it is they came to this earth for. Some folks who have lost sight of what is important. Some folks that need to step up and do the right thing... or step down and get out of the way. This government and this broken system doesn't stand a chance against the power I've witnessed this week. The energy I have been a part of, it is untouchable. It's been tough to sort out and process everything into words because this is all happening in feelings, one call from the heart at a time. My goal here is to witness and share and educate. Learning and unlearning and staying true to my heart. I am not anti-logging. I am pro-earth. I am pro-people. This is about so much more than the ancient beauties that are worth so much more standing. This is about a community. A oneness. This is about coming together, the people and the planet, and connecting on a level that can only be felt in your heart. Love really is the only way. The love and support that I felt being at Caycuse this weekend is something I will hold in my heart forever. I know what is important. I know the power I hold. I am not even angry AT these RCMP officers. I feel for them. Even the ones who seem to have evil in their hearts, I feel for them. I hold compassion for them. Somewhere along the way they've forgotten. My guess is a lot of them signed up for the job thinking they truly would help people. Thinking they will protect people who need protecting. I could see fear and sadness in their eyes... a mask can never hide what your soul is feeling. Eyes speak so loudly. These people are being traumatized... and I'm not talking about the forest defenders. These RCMP are being ordered to treat innocent, beautiful people like the bad guys. They weren't trained how to take care of the good guys. In their eyes, they are the good guys. The ones who uphold the law... but they have it all backwards here. This land is not theirs to do what they please. This is not their place. They should be standing with the people calling on our government to do the right thing and save these sacred places and give the land back to the people... but that would mean shame on them. They would be a disgrace amongst their peers and failure in their role to fulfill these militant orders. The movement these forest defenders have created is beautiful and the momentum is strong. We sang and we celebrated and we gave thanks and love to one another. We were peaceful. The old and the young came together and it was such a beautiful ceremony. And the RCMP responded by bringing in reinforcements. 4pm, Saturday of the long weekend and the police convoy came in hot. 18+ police vehicles arrived on the scene and officers proceeded to push their weight around. There are plenty of opinions within all of this, loggers are upset by this push against their industry and I know it is a sensitive subject. Every person deserves to feel safe an supported. No one left behind. I am here to share what I witnessed without attaching too much opinion to anything. I have an open mind. Here is what I witnessed on Saturday. I witnessed kindness and love from the forest protectors. I witnessed hostility and racism from the RCMP. I witnessed strength and power from the land defenders and the defenders of the indigenous people. I witnessed fear and sadness amongst the RCMP. I witnessed tears and laughter. I witnessed folks sharing music and food and productive conversations. We received wisdom and stories from the Elders of these lands. We blessed our childrens future. We held each others hearts and lifted each others spirits. I've said it before and I'll say it again and again. This isn't about win or lose. No matter the outcome at the end of the day this will be a win for me because I am doing what is right in my heart. I am working towards the future I would like to see, for myself and my children and their children. For all of the children. I am putting manifestations into direct action when I feel called to do so while keeping my priorities in line. One call from the heart at a time. Some say I am putting my children at risk having them out on the frontline "exposing them" to violence such as what occurred during our peaceful march on Saturday. We did not come with the intention of violence. We came with love. To demonstrate that it is not ok to set up an illegal exclusion zone and trap our people out of sight. It is not ok to threaten our people with weapons and put them in danger the way they have. It is not ok to prevent the media and legal observers from doing their job. Innocent folks were picked from the crowd, arrested and then released without charges because the RCMP didn't have a leg to stand on... because none of these folks were breaking the law. The RCMP are breaking the law. The province is paying them to do so. Dozens of officers ready to take out innocent people at the drop of a hat. WHO is making these orders. These people need to be accountable for every single traumatized person. The government needs to open their eyes and take responsibility here. The people will not fall. With every tree felled we will continue to grow stronger. We will hold our ground and push back and fight for what is right until the end of our days. When I take my last precious breath of oxygen in this lifetime I will do so with peace knowing the love and the connection, knowing that I am I followed my soul journey the best way I knew how.

Thank you. I love you.

~ Amanda

Check out any of the above links to get informed. These groups are working around the clock to keep everyone up to date and engaged and they make it super easy.

April 27th, 2021 ~ Lonely Doug. A magnificent giant standing alone in a patch of destruction. Sure, they've replanted this cut block but it is far from a forest. The ground lacks life. It is bare. No moss. Just exposed roots. Dry soil. A graveyard. Surrounding this amazing 230 ft tree, probably more than 1000 years old. How long will it last without its support system? Just minutes down the road you can experience what this forest used to be. Abundant. Full of with water. Lush green moss everywhere. Supporting so much life. And if it wasn't for all of the incredible humans out camping @fairycreekblockade, how long would it be until it looks like this too? How long until we push natures boundaries so far that there is nothing left to support our planet? The BC NDP has fallen short once again. Trying to leverage the First Nation's and abuse their rights and titles of the land. You look like a fool, John Horgan. It is our land. It is the land of mother earth. The people of #BC are saying enough is enough. Protect our old growth forests. ALL of them. Everything that is left. Leave it be. #sustainableforestry for a #sustainableforestry. Support the logging industry however it needs to be done. Support the First Nations however it needs to be done. Do it. Make the call and leave these intact ecosystems untouched. Do your job. And hey Justin Trudeau, do you hear us all the way over there??? Are you watching us here in #beautifulbritishcolumbia? How about you do your job too and support the changes that need to be made in your country, TODAY. Baby steps in the right direction aren't good enough. This isn't good enough. We need HUGE systematic shifts and we need them now. This tree business is just one of the many many issues that need to be addressed. This is a global issue. We are aware there is a lot of work to be done. Today is the day. The time is now. Its the minute before midnight. Shit or get off the pot. #enoughisenough #worthmorestanding #stoploggingancientoldgrowth #savefairycreek #biglonelydoug #giant #douglasfir #savedone #cutblock #destruction #logged #savetheoldgrowth #savebc #savetheplanet #take #action #save #the #ancient #forests #ecosystemsovereconomies​​​​​​​

April 8th, 2021 ~ This month has been full on, full! In the best ways. I am so grateful to be moving through life with a greater sense of purpose than ever before. To be using my voice and energy to help the collective. To be aware of the bigger picture. To know to is up to each and every individual to do their best work to make this world go around... and not just our best work in one specialized area but our best work in all aspects of life. To know how important it is to PAY attention and to answer our curiosities. Don't mind your own business in this world if that means the world is doing your business for you. If it effects you, it is your business. Pay attention. Ask questions. Educate yourself. Listen to your intuition. This month we have joined rallies, made more phone calls, visited the ancient trees we are speaking for and manifested for our future. Its funny I heard an interview yesterday which I'll share below and Horgan, BC NDP, was called to answer questions about the current situation at @fairycreekblockade. No surprise he spoke with zero urgency. He is "doing the work".. "I encourage people to make their voices known".. "it takes time".. "and if its not fast enough for the protesters that's more their problem than mine".. like wow. Yes, its not fast enough because @tealjonesgroup has served their injunction as issued by the courts and the folks standing up for these forests will stand as long as it takes. There is no backing down. @bcndp way to go and facilitate the next war in the woods... how long will you sit back and watch it all unfold while "doing the work" that takes so. much. time... pick up the pace Horgan, because this is looking like a big fat fail right about now.

7:30 into this interview with Gregor Craigie and John Horgan (aired April 7th, "New cell phone service for the west coast..."), Gregor asks John Horgan about his current position in all of this. Everyone should listen and then keep pushing to make them move. Faster. NOW. 

April 1st, 2021 ~ Eagerly awaiting the verdict from the injunction on Fairy creek blockade...

Wow what a week! What a month! What a year! Like wow. Wild shit. I've been hustling and the ebbs and flows of energy are wild and crazy. I've been in high output mode and I'm feeling it. Full on. So we took some time to receive and soak in some energy. We spent the full moon out amongst the old growths. We witnessed magic. We met people with huge hearts. Brave humans. Folks who won't back down and allow this magic to just be wiped out. Fairy creek is such a special place, you can feel it as soon as you get close. You can see it all around. Life is abundant and literally pouring out of the mountainsides everywhere. I'm not going to talk much about logging or the devastation we witnessed along the way (I'll save that for another post). I hope to see these areas given love and attention and nurturing, there is so much healing to be done. I'm going to talk about this intact watershed that exists beyond this blockade so bravely created and manned over the past 8 month's. This area that is so full of life and wonder and holds so much weight for us and our existence here as we know it and just say, leave it alone. Leave it alone and leave it to work for you! The easiest work you could ever do for this planet is no work at all. Leave it alone. Work with what you have. Stick to the land you've already torn apart. Nurture that and create and industry that puts the planet first. An industry that puts life first. Money second. Create jobs, don't threaten to take them away. Create jobs protecting the planet, not tearing it apart. Its funny I heard that a really intelligent person I know said "there's more up north"... as if that's a reasonable excuse to destroy this perfect ecosystem and cut down these old growth trees as if it doesn't matter. As if it doesn't effect us... but we are just lucky that everyone is so good at compensating. I guess its ok as long as we can just build more water treatment plants in place of the ecosystem that supports clean drinking water as a part of the natural system? What about when that's no longer enough? The effects of destroying these forests are far greater than what we can see, the entire cycle of this planet depends on them.

​​​​​​​March 22 2021 ~ I've been extra busy this morning trying to figure out what more I can do to help. To save our ecosystems and old growth trees. To make a difference. My family and our amazing little soul family have been working hard to do our part, no matter how small it may seem. I've shared articles and petitions and have asked for help on social media to raise the vibration and the collective voice to preserve what little we have left. It doesn't feel like enough. Facebook is choosing how far my voice will be carried... and it isn't far. So I'm taking it up a notch. I don't feel my immediate call to action is to join the brave and amazing humans currently sacrificing their livelihoods to physically stand with the trees at to help protect them. My voice is powerful. I can be persuasive. So I've decided this week instead of heading to camp out at #FairyCreekBlockade, I am going to stay here and make a stink close to home. I'm going to be relentless. This morning I sent an email to Teal-Jones. I am preparing for a call to MLA, Adam Walker so I can bring the discussion in as close to home as possible. Maybe I'll give another call to the Premier John Horgan or to Minister of Forests, Katrine Conroy... although I'm not sure this time would be different than the last, no response. I am having conversations. I am reaching out. I am making plans. It may be small but it is also mighty and I will not give up. Maddison and I attended the Forest March rally in Nanaimo this past weekend, we will be attending another rally outside the Nanaimo courthouse on Friday and again at the Legislative Assembly in Victoria on Saturday (I have shared info and links to all of these events, check my page!). We will keep putting ourselves out there. Even if our NDP Government continues to not show up. Even if it only helps to make the general public more aware. Hopefully all of the attention we received in Nanaimo and across so many other communities this past weekend and everyday that someone puts themselves out there, will be enough to spark a least some interest. To get more bodies, more voices, more caring humans to stand up too. I'm talking to you all, especially if you have children. Are they aware of what's at stake for their future if we continue to allow the logging of our old growth forests? IF we continue to allow these companies such as The Teal-Jones Group, Potomac Supply, LLC destroy our ecosystems? Have you offered to help them to add their voice to the cause? My 6 year old signs the petitions. She proudly held up her sign and was grateful for every honk by every passerby that gave a crap enough to show some support on Saturday. I am teaching her to use her voice. She is actively seeking ways to help and I am so grateful to help facilitate that. Together we can change the future.