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“We are ready to bear the consequences, whatever they may be,” said Zane Huck of Save Old Growth.
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June 14, 2022 • 10 minutes ago • 3 minutes reading • 66 comments Old Growth co-founder Zayn Hack warns of summer protests. Photo by Arlen Redekop / PNG
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Twenty-one-year-old history student Simon Fraser Zack Huck spent nine days in jail, was arrested many times, threatened a hunger strike and is now helping lead a group of climate change activists who plan to end logging. forests in British Columbia, damn annoying the people left behind by the blockades of their highways.
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“The plan is to continue to escalate until the government agrees to a meeting to discuss legislation to stop old logging,” Huck said on the day 14 protesters were arrested and one was injured during a blockade of three major highways.
“Every day we will break highways in many places both on the island and in Vancouver. It will be on a scale of today or greater. “
Huck was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and said his activism against climate change was affected by deadly floods and heat waves in the region when he was young. His main concern is food security.
The tense but kind young man has also been influenced by his history studies, particularly the US civil rights movement.
“We’re looking at history and looking for inspiration from past movements,” Huck said.
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“In the 1960s, you had the Freedom Riders campaign, where people were pushing for the desegregation of interstate buses in the south.
“They would get on buses, black and white people sitting next to each other, and they would be taken out and beaten by the public, then sent to the hospital and then thrown in jail.
“They had to do this for several months until the interstate buses were desegregated to the south.”
Huck is one of the five coordinators of the Save Old Growth movement – including Sofia Pap and Ian Weber.
The movement originated from Extinction Rebellion, where Huck began his career as an 18-year-old, helping close the Burrard Bridge.
He said the group had decided to focus on one topic – deforestation – after a Leger poll found that 82% of recipients in British Columbia were against the practice.
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“The idea is that this is a good test, the government needs to legitimize the will of the people, and 82 percent are as broad a consensus as you can reach.
On Monday night after the day’s protests, Save Old Growth members held a nonviolent resistance seminar in a park in Vancouver.
Members of Save Old Growth offer non-violent educational training to anyone who wishes to participate in what the group says will be daily blockades of Vancouver subway roads, filmed at Jonathan Rodgers Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, June 13, 2022. Photo: Arlen Redekop / PNG
“If we disrupt the economy, we should expect the public to be more hostile and the same to the police and the government,” Huck said.
“We are ready to bear the consequences, whatever they may be.”
Huck, who was already in jail for his role in the ongoing Trans Mountain Pipeline protest and was arrested at the Fairy Creek logging protest, is taking part in another protest at the British Columbia Supreme Court on Monday.
On Tuesday, Save Old Growth members headed to BC Ferries’ Horseshoe Bay terminal as part of their ongoing campaign. Protesters blocked the western lanes of the Upper Levels highway, leading to long delays in both directions.
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Three people have been arrested, the group said, promising to continue disrupting basic infrastructure and highways until the government passes legislation to end old logging in British Columbia.
The group is behind the two protesters who ran on the field of a Canadian football match against Curacao at the BBC Place on June 9, and the dumping of manure in front of the office of BC Premier John Horgan.
On Monday afternoon, Forest Minister Catherine Conroy said the British Columbia government would continue to allow deforestation.
Conroy said there were 11 million hectares of old forest left in the province and that stopping old logging would cost 15,000 jobs.
Members of Save Old Growth offer non-violent educational training to anyone who wishes to participate in what the group says will be daily blockades of Vancouver subway roads, filmed at Jonathan Rodgers Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, June 13, 2022. Photo: Arlen Redekop / PNG
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