Howard Breen, a 68-year-old activist, says he won’t end his protest until B.C.’s forests minister agrees to a public meeting
A 68-year-old activist says “death-watch monitors” were ensuring his safety on the 23rd day of a hunger strike over old-growth logging practices in British Columbia.
“It was very clear that she had no interest in a public, recordable meeting on Zoom with her chief forester, deputy minister or whoever else she wanted to bring to it. And, of course, we would have brought our climate and forests experts,” Breen said from his home in Nanaimo. “Our death-watch monitors watch me while I’m sleeping and monitor me during the day if I go into unconsciousness or have a seizure or begin to hallucinate. They will alert the medical team that’s watching me.”“I conveyed my distress for their well-being while listening directly to their concerns. I urged them to protect their health as we continue the important work to protect old-growth forests,” she said in an emailed statement from the Forests Ministry.
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