Forests protesters life on line

On tuesday 14/04/09 police raided a peaceful protest camp in Tasmania's upper florentine valley. The police with help from forestry tasmania trashed the camp, tearing apart the kitchen and communal living area. They took tarps, and water containers. they brought in a machine to fill in a hole and on the way out the machine smashed a leg of a tripod which was connected to a treesit, similar to the one at the start of the video, putting the treesitter's life in danger. The police did nothing to stop this happening or to check up on the sitter.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• forest protest
• camp florentine

[parnzo]

EARTH FIRST we'll log the other planets later

[badlx77]

should of pulled the whole sit down.

[norcallogger]

so that was a waist of time the title has nothing to do with the video

[billk61]

@parnzo

Never heard that one before.

[judoisoww]

Vote greens

[FatBoyElv1s]

Please forgive me. When I read your remarks, I believe you opened with "to counter the idiotic green heads and nature nazies", posted in a video clearly about old growth logging in Tasmania, I thought you were speaking about the Tasmanian forestr industry. I gather you are now withdrawing your remarks, and conceding that you know little or nothing about the video you are commenting on. By all means, if yr interested, do a little research & get back to us with some informed comment!

[mathiastheok]

I NEVER not once EVER in any way shape or form made ANY comments about the Tasmanian forest or anything to do with Tasmania. Are you really that dense?

[FatBoyElv1s]

Have you heard of the Tasmanian Tiger, Mathias? Maybe the Tasmanian Devil? Or perhaps the Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle? One of these species is already extinct, the other two are almost certainly on the way out. Any last chance for their survival probably rests on preserving the remaining old growth forests in Tasmania. No doubt you are aware of how these three top-order predators function(ed) in the Tasmanian ecology...

[FatBoyElv1s]

I'm sorry my comprehension is poor Mathias. I just assumed since you were making comments about Tasmanian forestry issues, albeit using your views about forestry on the other side of the world, to "counter the idiotic green heads and nature nazies", that you might be interested in an exchange of views with someone who lives there.