pickAxe
1999 · 94 MIN · IMDB 8.5 · 51 VOTES · DIR. Tim Lewis
Overview
An eclectic mix of activists take a stand to protect an old growth forest from logging at Warner Creek in the Willamette National Forest of Oregon, blockading the logging road and repelling the State Police. Over months a community builds around the illegal blockade as it develops into the Cascadia Free State and similar actions spread across the region. Years after its release, Pickaxe has become a classic document of the potential for grassroots direct action to achieve victory against the forces of both government and big business. Lovingly crafted by the participants themselves, the film expertly presents every moment, from confrontation to celebration.
Dialogue Timeline — 691 lines
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00:00:01 Ever since I can remember, my familys been coming to forests like these to go camping.
00:02:16 Damaging one of these roads risks five years in federal prison.
00:08:18 Fire is an agent of chaos, it defies their whole paradigm of management and control-
00:12:23 one of the Foret Service people, the Ditrict Ranger
00:15:59 [stop corporate greed]
00:19:20 of thi country demanded a repone with imilar moral weight.
00:22:05 There are a lot of women involved in the environmental movement.
00:24:39 we can't tand up to the kind of aault that we'd bring down on ourelve
00:28:58 and then they actually take nitrogen out of the atmophere
00:33:13 four to five thouand truckload of log.
00:35:44 and we're going to try and top thee ale from happening.
00:37:57 Well, I think a lot of it can be gone through.
00:44:07 [forest robbery salvage is a hoax]
00:47:52 "We're pulling out, any time you want to leave jut give u a ignal
00:49:28 and carried out, there were alway iue of male dominance that had to be looked at.
00:52:36 would be willing to be one among a hundred who cro the line today.
00:57:47 Natural element that are here: The earth, the wind, the fire, and the water.
01:01:18 If you are coming in here a a ingle individual who ha a big wad of money
01:03:04 and they're not going to get one black tick.
01:07:22 There i about to be two more if anyone want to come with u.
01:09:19 You have five minute to get out of here and you have actually le than five minute.
01:15:39 could tand with me, growing, wild and free, in the high Cacade.
01:19:09 bowed to pressure and withdrew
01:27:56 Sis ha entered the jail at thi time, he' going to convey the pre releae that wa