Australia: 400 citizen’s shut down Tasmanian logging operation!

About 400 people entered the restricted area yesterday, forcing eight
forest contractors to stop work. Activists are trying to prevent
Forestry Tasmania building a road through a logging coupe in the
area.Senior Sergeant Adrian Bodnar says video footage of yesterday’s
incident will be reviewed to determine if charges should be laid
against some of the protesters. “It is in fact trespass because an
exclusion zone has been enacted and its been enacted I understand
since about July last year,” he said. “Obviously everybody’s aware
that police have taken action earlier on to help facilitate the entry
of Forestry Tasmania in here.”

The Tasmanian Government has criticized
the protests in the southern forests as a drain on police resources.
The Police Minister Jim Cox says the activists went beyond the bounds
of lawful protesting. He says the Greens leader Nick McKim should tell
the protesters to stand down and stop wasting police time. Greens
spokesman Kim Booth has described Mr Cox’s comments as ‘notionally
insane’. Mr Booth says the protesters are not representing the Greens
and Mr Cox should order his police not to protect the forest industry.
And now this morning there is another stand-off between police and
protester, a male activist locking himself to an excavator. Ula
Majewski from the group ‘Still Wild Still Threatened’ says four people
remain in tree sits and about 40 people are camped outside the
exclusion zone.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/19/2468783.htm