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Great-Grandma Gets Ten Months for Protest
from www.infoshop.org
March 05 2007

Vancouver – A BC Supreme Court justice today sentenced Betty Krawczyk, age 78, to ten months in jail for protesting the destruction of a wetlands last year. A crowd of Betty’s supporters took over the lobby of the Supreme Court building in downtown Vancouver, chanting “Shame, shame” and beating drums. The courthouse was closed for two hours and CBC Radio reports two people were arrested for “resisting arrest.”

Krawczyk pitched a tent in the path of bulldozers building a highway bypass in West Vancouver last spring, defying a court order banning protestors …