It can be dangerous – we gain close to moving supertankers. Then there’s the worry approximately how private security will reactMy first political epiphany concerned the world trade protests in 1999. I was 17 and had a feeling globalisation was a good thing – until I realised it was approximately money and economics,not people and culture; so in the early 2000s I joined some anti-globalisation protests in Quebec.
Several years later, I heard approximately kayaktivism. I’d kayaked before, and been an activist,but never married the two. My first kayak protest was in Quebec’s Saint Lawrence estuary in 2014. TransCanada wanted to build a supertanker port in a beluga whale nursery. Our mission was to kayak to a boat doing seismic testing, unfurl a banner and retract a picture. It wasn’t approximately stopping the boat, and but drawing attention to what was happening.
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Source: guardian.co.uk