Garry Stannus
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I’ve several times heard Bob saying that this pulpmill thing requires guerrilla warfare tactics, and that’s a fair call when you think about it. He’s not talking about weapons, or violence, mind you, he’s talking about being flexible, about how this is a struggle of the community against its political and business leaders. And as people are now realising, this pulpmill thing is just one theatre of war, that we are fighting the same fight as those ‘frontline’ campaigners in the Florentine. Some are fighting in the courts, like Bob Brown did over Wielangta, like Lawyers For Forests are doing over Turnbull’s conditional mill approval. Others write letters, go to meetings and attend rallies. For some, a bumper sticker is their way of helping. There are those who have attended training days in forms of peaceful community protest (PCP) and those who volunteer their precious time and staff shop-fronts such as the Wildos on Charles, Launceston. There are the campaigners for the right to breathe fresh air, and those who fight for our streams, for the right to pure water. When you think of it, there is constant struggle by the members of the public, the people in the community, to protect the natural values of this state. This is the tragedy: Year 5 of the pulpmill campaign sees the police acting as stooges for Gunns and Forestry, Howard’s broken promise remembered – the only constant is the lies and the inconsistancy.
