MIKE MORELL

I don’t remember precisely how I heard about it,

 went out of a 15 sense of solidarity to offer support and friendship and to see what was happening,

 just started going back every time I had time free from my work over here,

three days or so at the beginning,

started going back every time I had time free.

Decided on the basis of the Strathcona Park actions in 1988,

keenly aware of all the time that it took after the arrest and the 29 frustration and the sense of waste of time,

my contribution would be peacekeeping and supporting the process,

just to be able to participate in the camp.

I’m not sure,

                                   I certainly had different experiences on different visits,

  but I’m not sure that I see a trend, and always

                                                    when I would go back to the camp,

 I would want to get caught up on news and I would hear about key events.

 I missed a number of key events and don’t have a sense of them and their importance,

 I see them only through their ripples in people that were there,

 and often things that turned out to be quite key when somebody described some,

 don’t sound so important and yet you see everybody having.

 I heard,

                   I guess,

                   I heard lots more talk,

                             maybe on the subject,

                                          but that I got impatient,

                                                                           or bored,

                                                                              with and more of that as the summer went  on.

I certainly think that the issues are important,

and I recognise,

the need to deal with them,

   but I didn’t find most of the discussion as they took place in the camp,

rewarding or stimulating,

 or to the point of what I was mostly there for which was one the environmental politics.

I imagine that there were specific incidents,

that triggered different phases of it,

 and then the discussion itself would tend to be self-perpetuating,

 And I think,

I know some of the incidents,

but I don’t have a clear memory of the order or the like,

 I certainly couldn’t specify a starting point,

I certainly knew the nature of some of 90 ,

the incidents.

 I seem to remember something,

 I don’t know if it was outright rape,

 but something in there,

 I do remember that at least one man was asked to leave the camp.

  I don’t remember details of that,

  and I certainly think that that’s important,

  and worth spending time on and something that a society needs to deal with,

  I certainly throughout was envisioning the camp as a model society and enjoying the experience,

  I see the necessity of dealing with interpersonal and gender issues within a society,

  so,

 there’s that.

Citation

Moore, Niamh, “Oral history interview with Mike Morrell (audio recording and transcript),” Clayoquot Lives: An Ecofeminist Story Web, accessed April 26, 2023, https://clayoquotlives.sps.ed.ac.uk/items/show/51.