Green Blog » old-growth forest http://www.green-blog.org Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:58:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Environmental activists violently attacked by timber workers http://www.green-blog.org/2008/10/24/timber-workers-violently-attacks-environmentalist-protestors/ http://www.green-blog.org/2008/10/24/timber-workers-violently-attacks-environmentalist-protestors/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:01:15 +0000 Simon Leufstedt http://www.green-blog.org/?p=598 ]]> Peaceful environmental activists who were protecting an old-growth forest in Tasmania, Australia, have been violently attacked by timber workers as they were blocking the road for them.

The timber workers attacked the car that the protestors were using to block the road using a sledgehammer and kicking in its windows. They later dragged out a 22-year-old protestor and kicked him repeatedly.

The brutal attack was caught on tape by one of the protestors:

Via Ecowar

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