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Cooking and eating together was an important part of daily life at the camp, and comes up a lot in people's account of being at the camp.
While some might understand the 'politics' of the camp to be about the blockades, the nonviolent civil disobedience, arrests and trials, for many the alternative practice of camp life was another crucial form of politics. Food was an intrinsic aspect of how direct action was understood and practiced, as not only for the morning blockades, but also as key in the work to manifest a different way of living and building community through collective food preparation, cooking and eating together.
What were the protests about and how did activists participate? This exhibit brings together audio and transcript clips from oral history interviews, as well as photographs from the 1993 blockades.
Describing the politics of the Clayoquot Peace Camp is not straightforward, but the camp was said to be based on feminist principles, which were sometimes explicitly identified as ecofeminist.
This exhibit brings together some clips of participant's thoughts and experiences of ecofeminism, both at the camp and in their lives in general, as well as discussions of the relationship between feminism and ecofeminism.