Green Party deputy leader sentenced to 60 days for role in Fairy Creek protests | Victoria Times-Colonist | Roxanne Egan-Elliott
April 24, 2024 - "An old-growth logging protester and deputy leader of the federal Green Party has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for her role in the Fairy Creek protests. Angela Davidson, also known as Rainbow Eyes, was convicted in January of seven counts of criminal contempt for breaching an injunction covering the Fairy Creek area and breaching her bail conditions for incidents spanning from May 2021 to January 2022.
"Davidson was initially arrested after blocking a road by chaining herself to a gate in the Fairy Creek injunction area. She was released on condition that she not return to the area. The subsequent offences involved returning to the injunction area, ignoring the terms of her house arrest.
"Davidson, 38, was sentenced in Nanaimo Wednesday to 60 days in jail, minus 12 days for time served pre-trial, and 75 hours of community service.... Green Party Leader Elizabeth May ... who sat next to Davidson’s parents during the hearing, said she was horrified by the length of the sentence.
"Davidson was appointed deputy leader of the Green Party in early 2022 by then interim leader Amita Kuttner and reappointed by May when she replaced Kuttner.
"More than 1,100 arrests were made in the Fairy Creek protests, making it the largest act of civil disobedience in Canada."
Read more: https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/green-party-deputy-leader-sentenced-to-60-days-for-role-in-fairy-creek-protests-8648322
Green Party’s May distraught over deputy leader’s logging protest conviction, jail time | Western Standard | Shaun Polczer:
April 25, 2024 - "Angela Davidson — also known as ‘Rainbow Eyes’ — was convicted in January of seven counts of criminal contempt for breaching a court injunction and bail conditions for a series of protests at the Fairy Creek logging camp on Vancouver Island in the spring of 2021. On Wednesday she was sentenced to 60 days and 75 hours of community service for her role in the protests near Port Renfrew that saw more than 1,000 people arrested at the Teal Cedar Products logging camp where it had licences to cut old-growth timber.
"After her initial charge, Davidson was subsequently arrested six more times for returning to the area when she had been ordered not to and for breaching the terms of her house arrest.....
"In response to the sentence, May accused the courts of protecting corporate profits over the public interest. In a statement she said the party stands 'in solidarity with our brave deputy leader Rainbow Eyes who is to lose her freedom for the "crime" of trying to protect the old growth forest the provincial government had said it would protect from logging — and then did nothing.'”
Read more: https://www.westernstandard.news/bc/green-partys-may-distraught-over-deputy-leaders-logging-protest-conviction-jail-time/54097
Rainbow Eyes is a rabble rouser to watch | rabble.ca News | September 2, 2022:
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