Targets have included the Gastown steam clock, artist Douglas Coupland’s Digital Orca sculpture, the Olympic torch, Science World and the CBC’s workplaces, says the group
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An activist group against previous development logging in B.C. says it has been spray-painting Vancouver vacationer sights and landmarks as an act of civil disobedience.
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The Save Previous Development group says targets have included the Gastown steam clock, artist Douglas Coupland’s Digital Orca sculpture, the Olympic torch, Science World and the CBC’s workplaces.
The group, which distributed a photograph of the steam clock lined with slogans, says it painted the messages as a reminder of what it known as the B.C. authorities’s “damaged guarantees” on logging.
Save Previous Development says its actions coincided with Overshoot Day, which is designed to mark the date when humanity has used up all organic assets the planet is able to regenerating annually.
The group was beforehand behind street blockades however stated on the finish of June it will “de-escalate” such actions and as an alternative flip to different ways. These protests noticed dozens of individuals arrested and triggered main visitors disruptions in Vancouver and elsewhere.
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