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Bear Mountain Citizen Action: A Hundred Souls of Conscience Print E-mail
Written by Press Release   
Sunday, 17 February 2008
Call to Mass, Peaceful, Direct Action Against the Bear Mountain Development and Further Construction of the Interchange
by Hundred Voices of Conscience
Citizens scored a big victory in Langford today, re-occupying the site of the proposed Bear Mountain Interchange and forcing RCMP and "feller-bunchers" to retreat! Let us build on this victory by taking a new step.
 
This past week's paramilitary-style police operation sanctioned by the City of Langford, to circumvent the growing  legitimate public opposition to the Bear Mountain interchange, was a heavy-handed assault against land, local democracy and current, widespread ecological consciousness.

At a time of unprecedented ecological crisis, it is the moral obligation of the entire human community to take immediate action to prevent unnecessary harm and destruction to the natural world and all its inhabitants; and to reverse developments that systematically destroy the life-support systems of the earth for profit.

 
Hundred Voices of Conscience

Call to Mass, Peaceful, Direct Action Against the Bear Mountain Development and Further Construction of the Interchange
 
Hundred Voices of Conscience, inspired by the Ghandian tradition of mass civil resistance, is a call:

1. To gain the pledge of a minimum of 100 conscientious citizens who will peacefully, simultaneously and with dignity, incur the risk of arrest, to cross police lines surrounding the forest of the proposed Bear Mountain interchange;

2. To intervene between the land and earth-moving machinery;

3. And to act on our civic duty to prevent unnecessary harm to the delicate ecosystems around Spencer's Pond and the Langford Lake caves; and to prevent further build-out of the Bear Mountain development on Spaet (Skirt) Mountain, shared traditional territories of Coast Salish peoples.

We seek solidarity with like-minded individuals willing to make a commitment to a community initiative of mass non-violent direct action at an undisclosed time and place. Legal training and support will be provided.

If you wish to be one of the Hundred Voices of Conscience, please sign the pledge and arrange to return it by emailing hundredvoice@gmail.com as soon as possible.

Hundred Voices of Conscience

    Call to Mass, Peaceful, Direct Action

  Against the Bear Mountain Development and

  Further Construction of the Interchange


We seek solidarity with like-minded individuals willing to make a commitment to a community initiative of mass non-violent direct action at an undisclosed time and place. Legal training and support will be provided.

If you wish to be one of the Hundred Voices of Conscience, please sign the pledge and arrange to return it by emailing hundredvoice@gmail.com as soon as possible.
 

PLEDGE

I pledge to participate in the Hundred Voices of Conscience to peacefully take a stand of non-violent civil resistance to the unwise, destructive and unjust construction of the Bear Mountain Development and interchange.

By so doing, I agree to the Hundred Voices of Conscience Code of Conduct.


Hundred Voices of Conscience – Code of Conduct

1. I refrain from any action that harms or damages nature or property.

2. I treat everyone I meet with friendliness and openness about my intentions and motivations for participating in this action.

3. I look after the safety of my fellow resisters.

4. I expect to be treated with dignity and respect – free from harassment, harm and injury by all who I encounter.



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