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Part 2: Resistance from a place of spirit
Emilie Teresa Smith, Anglican Priest
From: Standing on High Ground
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This section includes Emilie Teresa Smith’s court statement following her arrest, along with letters she wrote during her four-day sentence at Aulouette Women’s Correctional Facility.
Contributors
Rosemary Cornell
Rosemary Cornell has been an activist for Nature conservation and regeneration since childhood as she watched in consternation and grief as the forest surrounding her home was converted into a housing subdivision. Speaking the uncomfortable truth is a value engrained into her by the religious community within which she was raised. She was a professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University on Burnaby Mountain for 33 years, and for eight years collaborated in research with co-editor Adrienne Drobnies. She lives in a wonderful neighbourhood on the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh, and has two inspiring adult children, whose future is her prime concern.
Adrienne Drobnies
Adrienne Drobnies is a PhD chemist and poet living in Vancouver, BC, on the territories of the Coast Salish people. She was a researcher at Simon Fraser University, and then project manager at the BC Genome Sciences Centre until 2013. In 2019, she published her first book of poetry, Salt and Ashes (Signature Editions), which won the Fred Kerner Award from the Canadian Authors Association. Her poem “Randonnées,” won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Award and was shortlisted for the CBC Literary Prize. She is grateful to breathe the air, walk along the ocean, and wander through the forests of the lands where she resides, and seeks in whatever ways she can to sustain that abundance for future generations.
Tim Bray
Tim Bray is a software engineer, writer, and environmentalist in Vancouver, BC, on the territories of the Coast Salish peoples. He is the founder of two companies, a major contributor to Internet Standards, and the author of a popular blog at tbray.org. In March 2018 he was arrested while protesting the TMX pipeline, and in May 2020 he made headlines by resigning from his position as VP/Distinguished Engineer at Amazon’s cloud computing division in protest at the treatment of warehouse workers and whistleblowers.
