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Ora Cogan is a freelance photographer and writer with a background in communications and media. She has had work published in VICE, Teen Vogue, The Narwhal and The Tyee among other publications. In 2012 she directed a short film called No Tankers Territory - Conversations with Heiltsuk Women on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline.
Ora Cogan is also a recording artist and has toured throughout North America and Europe for over a decade. She is currently based on Vancouver Island.
Teen Vogue - Violence at Fairy Creek Is Part of a Reckoning Over Police Brutality in Canada
Black and Indigenous land defenders are sharing their stories.
VICE World News - Indigenous Blockaders Say Cops Are Pulling Their Braids and Assaulting Them at Fairy Creek
Indigenous blockaders say they’ve been shoved, pepper sprayed, had their braids pulled, and punched in the face—more so than white anti-logging protesters. RCMP deny they are being targeted.
An RCMP MRO checks the ID of a filmmaker
The Tyee - A Judge Rebuked Illegal RCMP Tactics at Fairy Creek. They Continue
How to carry out civil disobedience, and witness it, has become a flash point in courts as well as frontlines.
Sage Barson stands on the bridge to Eden Grove
Teen Vogue - At Fairy Creek, Indigenous Land Defenders Are On the Front Lines of Climate Justice
“The heart of the matter is a colonial one.”
A person is grabbed by police before River Camp at the blockades
The Narwhal - Fairy Creek is set to become the largest act of civil disobedience in Canada’s history
Amid escalating tensions with the RCMP, old-growth logging blockades on Vancouver Island show no signs of letting up. B.C.’s response, experts say, will determine the legacy of the new war in the woods
RCMP ERT Officers walk through a blockade at Fairy Creek
Ricochet - Fairy Creek: Midnight raids and police aggression stoke tensions
Activists and journalists report more aggressive police enforcement as old-growth fight heats up
Ricochet - Fighting for the future: The faces of Fairy Creek
Settlers and Indigenous land defenders share why they're confronting industry and police on southwest Vancouver Island
Land Defenders after being having a fire hose turned on them by Loggers at a forestry industrial yard near Fairy Creek
Ricochet - Threats and fear as loggers clash with blockaders at Fairy Creek
Midnight raids, aggressive loggers and the threat of police violence leave land defenders and allies afraid
Patcheedaht Hereditary Chief leading a ceremonial walk past Police checkpoint, 9km up to Waterfall Camp
Ricochet - PHOTOS: Inside the siege of Waterfall camp
On Saturday, RCMP and protesters squared off on a logging road deep in the forests of southwest Vancouver Island
Jessie Winter, On assignment at Fairy Creek for The Globe & Mail Being threatened with arrest for walking further into an RCMP exclusion zone
The Tyee - The Other Fight at Fairy Creek: Press Freedom
Journalists, and now a legal challenge, say the RCMP is illegally limiting media access to the demonstrations.
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