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Krawczyk, Betty. A great grandmother goes to jail

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Date:

October 2011

Reference:

R16853-52-4-E, Volume number: 1, File number: 27

File no. (creator):

27

Type of material:

Moving images, Textual material, Sound recordings

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5858742

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Krawczyk, Betty. A great grandmother goes to jail
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Date(s):

October 2011

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

3 video files (.mov, .mp4).
1 closed caption file (.vtt).
1 textual document (.pdf).
1 sound file (.mp3).
1 folder of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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File consists of an interview with Betty Krawczyk titled "A great grandmother goes to jail." The interview was conducted by Silver Donald Cameron as part of The Green Interview. File includes video of the interview, preview video of the interview, printed transcript, sound recording, and closed captioning file.

From the interview with Betty Krawczyk: "These are public forests, and it is a right given to the people of Canada, to British Columbia, to enjoy their public forests. And that tree farm license given by the government of British Columbia does not validate the right of people to be in their forest and to protect and protest what is being done there in their name. These tree farm licenses are given out in our name, so when I'm before the court, I refuse to apologize. I don't believe I've done anything wrong. I do this from a conviction that we should not be devastating the Earth anymore and that tree farm license logging, the way they clear cut - commercial logging, industrial logging - is a crime. It's a crime against nature, and it's a crime against us, and we really, really should not stand for it. And hopefully, in the future, more people will recognize that."

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General note:

From The Green Interview website: "Topic: Politics."

From The Green Interview website: Betty Krawczyk, 83, a British Columbia blogger, author and activist, a great-grandmother whose unflinching defence of old-growth forests got her jailed for three years, which didn't even slow her down.

At the age many people collect their first pension cheque, Betty Krawcyk was arrested for the first time, and has since dedicated her remaining years to "actively illuminating the Earth's environmental crisis." She does so through her activism, writing and, most recently, video blogging.

She has since taken civil disobedience to new heights, garnering international attention for having been arrested on eight occasions and serving more than three years in prison for refusing to budge on her ecofeminist principles, or to acknowledge wrongdoing.

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For audio-visual recordings of this interview, see IDCISN 607718, 607719, 607720.

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