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Ann Hansen Direct Action

Women in Prison – Ann Hansen (2002?)

“Every time there is a crisis within the prison system, the government diverts the anger of society and its need for a resolution into some government commission, inquiry or report.”

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Bulldozer Direct Action Gerry Hannah

Protect the Earth – Free the Five Defense Group (1983)

“And all this urbanization, mining, industrial waste, acid rain, nuclear power has been a course pursued with no regard to harmony with other animal life, or the Earth.”

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Direct Action Gary Butler

Against the Corporate State – Gary Butler (1983)

“I am a Prisoner of War. A war that has been waged against the Indigenous Peoples of this land for hundreds of years. My people have never surrendered to a foreign government. “

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Ann Hansen Brent Taylor Bulldozer Direct Action Gerry Hannah Open Road

How We See It – The Vancouver Five (1983)

“Tragically, this economic system does not merely limit itself to the effect it has on how people make their living, but spills over and imprints its values and principles on every aspect of our lives”

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Direct Action Marrianne van Loon Open Road

At home in the house of the Lord – Open Road (1984)

“The occupation was the latest in a series of actions prostitutes and supporters have taken to make the British Columbia government lift a recently imposed injunction against soliciting, and to decriminalize prostitution.”

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Ann Hansen Direct Action Roger Farr

Anarchy in BC: Anti-Capitalist Struggle Outside the Union on Canada’s ‘Left Coast’ – Roger Farr (2007)

“Expropriation / occupation, I would argue, poses an even greater threat to capitalism than does property destruction alone, because the occupation opens the door to new forms of social relations, and moves beyond economic critique towards a politics of everyday life.”

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