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Highway Protest Run

Anyone interested in a protest run on Saturday to help support the Eagle Ridge Bluffs crew?

Looking around 10:00ish but nothing set yet. This is not a Club Fat Ass event just using this forum to get the word out.

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protest run

Hey man

The Eagle Ridge Bluffs site has a letter/email campaign so no need to

reinvent the wheel. Getting people out there might just motivate them to send the email or fax, and feel the energy from those camping out. We need people to send letters and talk to the premier and IOC, but as someone who has been on the frontlines many times, I know just having people show up and chat/ show support is motivating. Looks like not much support for this run. I will also say I am a bit surprised the Knee Knacker crew is being quiet and not getting political.

fight the power

 

 

 

Ean Jackson's picture

Runners at Eagle Bluffs

Terry Lewis, a CFA member and trail running guru, feels strongly enough about the proposed new highway that he and his partner Jan have been camping out at the Eagleridge parking lot.  (Vancouver folks will recognize this pavd lot as the start of the Baden Powell Trail and the KneeKnacker.)

My family and I were up to visit Terry on Saturday evening.  We sat around the campfire for a while and met some very nice people.  The campfire was at one end of the parking lot and a big assemblage of heavy equipment was at the other end.  A security guard representing the construction interests was at the entrance to the site.

While the thought of a run in support of the trail is at least something, you might ask yourself what it will accomplish apart from getting your miles in?  How will a run influence the political decision makers?   Unfortunately, the road construction is a foregone conclusion unless a lot of people start writing letters, camping out and getting arrested. 

You know how it works, Dom.  If you really want to see the decision to punch the road through reversed, you have to make a lot of noise.  Why not organize a letter-writing campaign to the Olympic Organizing Committee informing them that Vancouver may have made a misrepresentation in its bid for the 2010 Olympics?  10,000 emails with a copy to the premier and the prime minister indicating you also won't vote for them might get noticed. 

The problem is, the place will be clearcut in a few weeks.

Good luck with your run.  I'd at least join you were it not that I was heading up to Powell River to help save some of that old growth we passed through on the Sunshine Coast Trail!


Sibylle's picture

Save the Bluffs

Heya Dom,

Unfortunately, we'll not be able to participate as we are out of town.

The proposed new highway will cut through a piece of nature that a lot of Fat Asses are familiar with through the annual Knee Knackering North Shore Trail Run.

I do encourage every body to get informed and make their voice heard. The Coalition to Save The Bluffs has a great website up at: http://www.eagleridgebluffs.ca/ with lots of background information and the latest scoop on planned events.

For Saturday, apart from the run Dom is planning, the Coalition invites you to join them at Eagleridge Bluffs. Bring your family, friends and picnics. Join biologists, naturalists and "birders" on guided hikes through the unique arbutus ecosystem, and along the Baden Powell Trail to the Wetlands and the old growth forest.
Come and share the rich learning environment and beauty that this delicate ecosystem offers to all ages. Hikes will leave every 2 hours starting at 12 noon until 6pm. Live entertainment at 2pm.

Happy Trails,

Sibylle

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