Pickaxe (1999) - Film screening at the Kurilpa Commons

Join us this Friday Jun 27th at 5:30pm for a screening of Pickaxe (1999).

Pickaxe documents a community taking stand to protect an old growth forest from logging at Warner Creek, in the Willamette National Forest of Oregon, by blockading the logging road and repelling the State Police. Over months a community builds around the illegal blockade as it develops into the Cascadia Free State, and similar actions spread across the region. Years after its release, Pickaxe has become a classic document of the potential for grassroots direct action to achieve victory against the forces of both government and big business.

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• Next month, 12th July, 04:00 am, The soils that labourers till: remaking histories of enclosure and global capitalism in West End

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