This week, there are two opportunities in Halifax/Kjipuktuk to stand with others who know this is not how things should be and have found the courage to say so. Tuesday, March 30, at noon: rally outside the NS Legislature (Province House) in support of Jacob Fillmore and his demand for a temporary moratorium on clearcutting. There will also be rallies taking place at the same time in Wolfville, Bridgewater, and Annapolis Royal.
Thursday, April 1, 9:30 to 11:00 at the Law Courts on Upper Water St: a rally in support of those who are standing up for Owls Head in the courts.
If you can’t make it to one of the rallies, please give some thought to what you can do to help. A friend shared a compelling article in the Tyee with me the other day. Here’s a short excerpt: “It appears that a civilization sitting on the edge of a precipice — gazing at biological extinctions, authoritarian technologies, economic inequalities, eroding soils and climate change — can only marshal the inertia of a couch potato watching Netflix. The U.S. writer David Wallace-Wells has identified the malady: “a widespread cultural conviction that keeping your cool and trusting the political and social status quo is preferable to a radical response, any radical response — in all ways, at all times, and in the face of all kinds of threats.” The article goes on to talk about what people and communities can do, not to save the planet, but to make things better and saner where they are. Please come out to a rally next week, if for no other reason than to show that you care. I leave you with an open letter by Charlotte Fillmore, mother of Jacob, and also my friend and neighbour.
In friendship and solidarity,
Tynette Atlantic Climate Community
Kjipuktuk
Jacob Fillmore, 25-years old, now on day 22 of his hunger strike to save the forests and mainland moose. Photo by Kevin Prinoski | 
