The largest demonstration of solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and their land titles until Fairy Creek, mass arrests at Clayoquot Sound in 1993 are said to have been at least 850 persons strong. 300 arrests in one day, to stop logging in the Nuu-chah-nulth coastal old-growth forests.

In 1994, the Friends of Clayoquot organization published a journal to document their thinking at the time.

Friends of Clayoquot Sound Mission Statement:

To be a peaceful, courageous and consistent advocate for the protection and restoration of the ecosystems of Clayoquot Sound with respect for the Ha-houlthee of the Ha-wii – the traditional rights and responsibilities of the Hereditary Chiefs.

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Excerpt from the 1994 Handbook:

The Thriving of Wild Salmon, a presentation by Simon Lucas,

co-chair of the B.C. Aboriginal Fisheries Commission and the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council. He was speaking to the participants of the Suzuki Foundation’s Wild Salmon conference held November 18th, 1988:

“If we are going to rebuild our wild stocks, we have to think about all the things that we have inherited. You and I could stand here for days about the inheritance. Lakes, rivers and creeks, and salmon stocks large and small, no matter how many hatcheries we have, they can never begin to match the abilities of our rivers and creeks and wild stocks to produce fish. If we protect them we have to say “no” to industrial pollution and to the idea of safe levels of poison chemicals. How long are we going to continue to self-destruct? If we befoul the rivers, streams, creeks and lakes, we are befouling ourselves. We have to say NO!

We keep seeing government after government allowing pulp mills to be built before safeguards. They are in place, finally, and we say, “what about the pollution?” “Oh, but that’s going to cost $40 million to see that we’re pollution-free.” Right now we have “safe levels” for our people in this country. We’ve got to say “No, no more.” Otherwise, all of us are just paying lip-service to wild stock.

My vision of the rebuilding of the Kennedy Lake sockeye stocks is an impossible dream if we add the insult of spraying toxic chemicals alongside the stream, as they are doing today, in addition to the painful injury of steep, clear-cut slopes. Our inlets will not provide the environment needed by our young salmon to grow and survive if we allow the salmon farming to grow unchecked. We have many examples: pulp mills, lumber mills, the Fraser River is an example.”

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Contents

of “Clayoquot Summer 1994, Rainforest Action Handbook”:

The Imposition of European Law on the Native Nations of (what is now called) British Columbia, by Lavina White and Eva Jacobs

The Thriving of Wild Salmon, a presentation by Simon Lucas, Chair of the Aboriginal Peoples’ Fisheries Commission of British Columbia

The Developing Reality, by Valerie Langer

Maps of Clayoquot Sound and Vancouver Island  

A Conservation Biology Vision for Vancouver Island

Ecological Characteristics of Coastal Temperate Rainforests

Watersheds

What is Bioregionalism?, by Peter Berg

On Extinction

Welcome to Venus: Or, the Earth’s Future after Ozone Depletion

A Short History of B.C. Forest Policy

Multinational Corporations Are Not Your Friends

The Limits of Environmentalism Without Class: Lessons from the Ancient Forest Struggle of the Pacific Northwest

Eleven Inherent Rules of Corporate Behaviour

The Shameful Seven

The Share Group Phenomenon

The International PR Machine: Environmentalism a la Burson-Marsteller

The 12% Solution?

Facts, Statistics and Stuff!!!

Does the Public … Support Clearcutting? Trust the Government to Regulate Logging?

The B.C. Forest Practices Code

A Tree Plantation is Not a Forest

On Ecological and Cultural Restoration

Making Paper Without Trees

Canadian Government Violating International Law

Compensation for Lost Logging Rights: Who Owns Public Lands, Anyway?

Sustainable Development is Possible Only if We Forego Growth

Community Steps Toward an Ecologically Sustainable Forest Culture

The Challenge of Feminism

What Do You Value?

Clayoquot Makes the Newspaper

Reflections on Civil Disobedience

Eight Stages in the Process of Social Movement Success

Working for the Earth Without Going Crazy

A Glossary for Forest Activists

Magazines, Journals and Newsletters of Interest

Organizations to Watch

Books and Publishers of Interest

The Complete (well, almost!) History of the Friends of Clayoquot Sound