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Wikidot.com .wikidot.com Share on Explore » Protect the Wild Coast Home Create account or Sign in THANK YOU The Wild Coast crew Grassroots, anti-racist, feminist, and fierce in defense of the land. FAN has no fancy offices or high-paid staff, just a fighting spirit and the courage to win. Hall of Fame Cheers to these community sponsors! Edelmann & Co Criminal Law Deluxe Wall Tents of Canada Tundra Punks Apok Industries Salmon Are Sacred Salmon Feedlot Boycott Wilderness Committee Banner image: Botany Bay by Ellen Atkin Media News archive Download the Legal Guide to Civil Disobedience How does your local zoning committee make decisions? Trail lands need park protection Juan de Fuca Resort Consultation Read The Langford Rebellion: Public Opinion, Development and Bear Mountain Thank you for being a protector We have folded up the FAN tent for the last time. May we meet again on the trail someday! + History - hide this content The New House of Solidarity Join the team We are carrying on with team development, activist support, and skills training at the new House of Solidarity. In the past two decades, our workshops have demonstrated fresh tactics and superior strategies to thousands of protectors. Your contribution makes this peaceful resistance possible. WildCoast is grassroots, eco-feminist, anti-racist, and fierce in defense of the land. We don’t have fancy offices or high-paid staff, just a fighting spirit and the courage to win. Help supply our teams with equipment, food, and travel to the frontlines. THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS Saving what’s left of the Walbran Valley The court order blocking protests in the Walbran Valley EXPIRED in 2016. Activists across southern Vancouver Island are on guard to stop logging in the cathedral forests adjacent to the Carmanah-Walbran provincial park. is standing by with legal support, a supply depot, and training to help keep the peace. Please get in touch to help. Read our Open Letter to Teal Jones Teal Jones Logging wanted feedback about its logging plan Pledging support for communities resisting pipelines VICTORIA - Four years ago, Forest Action Network and indigenous activists announced the next phase of the grassroots movement against pipelines. In the face of mounting threats to force pipelines across unceded indigenous territory to the coast, Forest Action Network and other local groups stepped up with concrete support for the resistance movement. Tankers, fracked gas terminals, pipelines, and tar sands have no place on the coast. We pledge to do whatever is necessary to keep them out. We are teaching non-violent protest strategies to everyone on the coast who’s willing to learn. In the past two weeks, over 800 people attended civil disobedience workshops and solidarity trainings in Victoria and Vancouver to stop the pipelines. Email ac.tsaocdliw|eoz#ac.tsaocdliw|eoz to request a training session. We pledge to raise funds to defend anyone who risks arrest to stop the pipelines. Support the Eco Warriors Legal Trust . The province and the oil and gas industry are making plans to try and evict our friends at Unis’tot’en Camp, and we promise to come to their aid. We support all peaceful warriors. Investors and government should beware. We are driven by our love for the land and the coast. We won’t stop, and we are determined to win. Protect the Sacred Headwaters from coal mining The Sacred Headwaters is the birthplace of Stikine, Nass, and Skeena, three of Northern BC’s major salmon-bearing rivers. Thousands of people from the northern interior to the coast depend on these watersheds for their livelihood and for the well-being of their families and communities. Now Fortune Minerals is actively test-drilling Klappan Mountain for an environmental assessment for a coal mine in the heart of the Sacred Headwaters. Sign the petition. Pledge to join the Klabona Keepers. Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition Rally in Victoria, August 31, 2013 (Ann Jacobs) We’re honoured to be called Unist’ot’en allies Join the frontlines against pipelines! (or help out behind the scenes). Info here . In northern BC, an indigenous community is thriving in the pipelines’ path. A permaculture garden, a solar-powered electric grid, a bunkhouse, elders’ trailers, campgrounds, a root cellar, a traditional Wet’suwet’en pithouse and a two-story healing center and counseling space have all been built with crowd-sourced funds and volunteer labor. Thank you to everyone who is a part of this community! Get involved with the Unis’to’ten volunteers. More info at UnistotenCamp.com . Unis’tot’en defenders evict pipeline crews from their territory In July 2015, only a few days after the caravan left, the camp came under more pressure from pipeline companies trying to push into unceded indigenous territory. On July 19, the Unis’tot’en defenders evicted yet another pipeline crew from the territory. This time it was a two-person team that came in by helicopter. This was the third time the defenders have sent surveyors packing and warned them not to come back. It seems the higher-ups decided to ignore the warnings. We’re getting ready to respond when there’s a call for a day of action. It’s a great opportunity to get with friends and build the resistance to pipelines and oil tankers. Grassroots Wet’suwet’en people vs. the pipelines The latest pipeline proposal for the "Energy Corridor" between Prince George and Kitimat has shifted the route to pass south of Unis’tot’en Camp . Center : Wedzin Kwah (Morice River), the point where grassroots Wet’suwet’en people are making a stand to stop pipeline companies from entering their unceded territory. Top to bottom : Unis’tot’en Camp ( star ), Morice River West Forest Service Road ( white line ), fracking pipelines Pacific Trail ( red ) and Coastal Gas ( blue ); Enbridge Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline ( black ). indigenous activists are building a community two homes on the pipeline route on the bank of Wedzin Kwah. The first time a pipeline surveying crew tried to come onto the land was November 2012. The crews were given trespass notices and escorted back across the bridge, off Unis’tot’en Clan land. More about Unis’tot’en Camp. Harper’s wrecking crew Last year, 2.5 million lakes and waterways were protected in Canada. Today that total is 62 rivers and 93 lakes. The San Juan River is not one of them. The San Juan River is home to four salmon runs, ducks, geese, swans, otters, seals, and eagles. Goldstream River and its salmon runs are no longer protected. Cowichan River and its salmon runs are no longer protected. Cowichan Lake and its fish habitat are no longer protected. Chemainus River and its salmon runs are no longer protected. Sooke River and its salmon runs are no longer protected. In 2012, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Omnibus Budget stripped away the rules that protected our rivers, lakes, and habitat for decades. Now, entire ecosystems can be bulldozed, blasted, and paved over without consultation. That’s just one reason why indigenous people are rising up across the country. Now is the time for all of us to defend the land, the water, the animals, and all living things. Stand with the defenders of the Wild Coast. Photos: San Juan River by Zoe Blunt Win for Juan de Fuca Park Read the report on strategies and tactics . It was epic! Three days of public hearings, 250 speakers, and over 400 submissions — all but a few opposed. Testimonials came from Sooke, Jordan River, Otter Point, East Sooke, Port Renfrew, Pacheedaht First Nation , Metchosin, Shirley, Victoria, Langford, Saanich, Duncan, Cowichan, Vancouver, Ontario, even Israel and Belgium. The following day, one after the other, three of the five committee members announced they were changing their votes to stop the vacation home development at Juan de Fuca Marine Trail Park. The vote on September 14 was unanimous . We won by shifting the balance toward the public interest. We won because hundreds of people came together to declare their...