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llewelynpritch · 2 months

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/yintah-feature-length-documentary-wetsuweten-fight-two-pritchard-ma-p3pme/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRTw1FHVxHU9gDbQf5r1lPkJJb6d7fCuPFwH__aRG-yYHoapOWft7YMSfvHyJuL0nQ-2vTEvaU8NPLZ/pub https://lnkd.in/e5ftnkUg https://unitedforclimate.blogspot.com/2024/03/yintah-world-premiere-1-2-3-march-2024.html https://landprotectorshumanrightsmovement.blogspot.com/2024/03/yintah-world-premiere-1-2-3-march-2024.html https://muskratfallscivilrightsmovement.blogspot.com/2024/03/yintah-world-premiere-1-2-3-march-2024.html https://labradorleadstheworld.blogspot.com/2024/03/yintah-world-premiere-1-2-3-march-2024.html YINTAH WORLD PREMIERE: 1, 2, 3 March 2024 in Columbia, Missouri at TRUE/FALSE FILM FEST - GIVE ME TRUTH - is a feature-length documentary on the #Wetsuweten fight for sovereignty. A decade in the making, Yintah follows two leaders as their nation reoccupies and protects ancestral lands. An urgent tale of modern colonisation as a global-scale thriller and a rallying cry to keep fighting. Learn more: @yintahfilm https://truefalse.org/program/films/ in Columbia, Missouri https://www.instagram.com/truefalsefilmfest/ http://yintahfilm.com 8 February 2024“

A: Friday, Mar 1 / 7:00 pm / Missouri Theatre B: Saturday, Mar 2 / 9:30 am / The Globe C: Sunday, Mar 3 / 12:00 pm / Jesse Auditorium

Dirs. Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell & Michael Toledano 2024 Canada // 125 min.

This gripping debut feature from Michael Toledano, Jennifer Wickham, and Brenda Mitchell, unfolds as Wet’suwet’en activists confront fossil fuel corporations, the Canadian government, and militarized police to stop the construction of gas and oil pipelines on their territory.

Taking its title from the Wet’suwet’en word for “land”, the film chronicles the decade-long struggle led by leaders Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham, as they endure assaults from all directions.

By constructing homes and establishing a healing center along the proposed pipeline route, they assert their right to defend their territory.

Deeply embedded within the communities, the filmmakers chronicle the confrontations with outsiders through frenetic and exhilarating footage, taking us straight to the heart of the resistance.

Yintah presents this urgent tale of modern colonization as a global-scale thriller and a rallying cry to keep fighting.

(EP)This film contains images of animal blood.Q&A with directors Michael Toledano, Jennifer Wickham & Brenda Michell” Source: https://truefalse.org/program/films/

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ace-daddy-lecter · 8 months

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To my followers (23 porn bots), something that isn't getting enough media

#yintah #canada #gas pipeline #wet'suwet'en #colonialism #ethnic cleansing #coatal gaslink #KKR

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chickhitstick · 9 months

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man it's like- really disheartening seeing only $12000 out of $200000 donates to this. I understand that the like four people following me specifically probably aren't made of mountains of cash, but if you got a bit of disposable income that you don't know what to do with. this is a damn good cause.

And! of course, share and reblog please.

let's kick these fuckin colonizers off native land

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allthecanadianpolitics · 2 years

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From the Gidimt'en Checkpoint Facebook page, November 23, 2021:

ARRESTED LAND DEFENDERS APPEAR IN COURT TODAY;

GIDIMT’EN CONDEMNS UNREASONABLE AND PUNITIVE CONDITIONS OF RELEASE

For immediate release: NOVEMBER 22, 2021

WET’SUWET’EN TERRITORY, SMITHERS, BC: Twenty people who were arrested in a two-day violent raid on Wet’suwet’en territory are appearing at BC Supreme Court in Prince George today at 11 am. Those arrested include Gidimt’en Checkpoint spokesperson Sleydo’ and Dinï ze’ Woos’s daughter Jocelyn Alec, as well as two journalists.

Those arrested are all facing charges of civil contempt for breaching the terms of a BC Supreme Court injunction granted to Coastal GasLink (CGL). CGL is seeking a number of conditions of release, including denying many arrestees access to a vast area of Wet’suwet’en territories. The proposed ‘exclusion zone’ is the whole Morice West Forest Service Road or any other areas accessed by the Morice Forest Service Road. Wet'suwet'en people (as determined by CGL) may be exempt from the exclusion zone for "cultural activities" (as defined by the RCMP), while being subjected to 'culture-free zones' around CGL work sites.

CGL is also asking Sleydo’ to provide documentation to “prove” she is Wet’suwet’en, and is seeking conditions that would bar her from returning to her home on Wet’suwet’en Yintah where her, her husband Cody Merriman (Haida nation, who was also arrested), and her three children live. CGL is also challenging Chief Woos’s daughter Jocelyn Alec’s status as a Wet’suwet’en person because she has Indian Act status with her mother’s First Nation. The Indian Act is patriarchal and does not determine identity or belonging to a community.

According to Jen Wickham, media coordinator of Gidimt’en Checkpoint: “Coastal GasLink’s proposed conditions of release are punitive, unreasonable and, in targeting Sleydo’ and Jocelyn, completely racist and sexist. Allowing a private corporation to determine two Indigenous womens’ identities and allowing this corporation to deny our inherent rights to be Wet’suwet’en on our territory is a very dangerous precedent. This is the colonial gendered violence that is the root of the crisis of MMIWG2S. Even though Coastal GasLink is trying to intimidate us through the colonial court system, we are Wet’suwet’en Strong. Under the governance of our Hereditary Chiefs, there will be no pipeline on our Yintah.”

In granting an injunction to Coastal GasLink, Justice Church recognized that the Wet’suwet’en are “posing significant constitutional questions” but said that “this is not the venue for that analysis.” However, the 1997 Supreme Court of Canada Delgamuukw-Gisdaywa ruling clearly affirmed that Aboriginal title - the right to exclusively use and occupy land - has never been extinguished across 55,000 square kilometers of Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan territories.

States Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs:

“Industry’s reliance on the racist and oppressive legal weapon of injunctions is a way to maintain the continued dispossession and criminalization of Indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples should not have to comply with industry and government decisions that deny our Indigenous rights. By dragging us through court and using injunctions against us, our Indigenous rights are being violated and are given less consideration than climate-destroying corporations. We are calling for the release of all Wet’suwet’en land defenders, and for BC and Canada to uphold Indigenous Title and Rights and institute a moratorium on fossil fuel expansion in the wake of clear and present climate catastrophe - including LNG which is not clean energy and is a non-renewable fossil fuel.”

For more information and developing story, please visit yintahaccess.com

Take Action:

🔥 Host a solidarity rally or action in your area.

🔥 Issue a solidarity statement from your organization or group. Email to: [email protected]

🔥 Pressure the government, banks, and investors. http://yintahaccess.com/take-action-1

🔥 Donate. http://go.rallyup.com/wetsuwetenstrong

🔥 Come to Camp. yintahaccess.com/

🔥 Spread the word.

#FreeSleydo #ShutDownCanada #WetsuwetenStrong #AllOutForWedzinKwa #KILLINIT

More information and developing stories:

Website: Yintahaccess.com

IG: @yintah_access

Twitter: @Gidimten

Facebook: @wetsuwetenstrong

Youtube: Gidimten Access Point

TikTok: GidimtenCheckpoint

https://www.yintahaccess.com/news/court%20date

#submission #wetsuwetenstrong #alloutforwedzinkwa #shutdowncanada #freesleydo #rcmpofftheyintah

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auressea · 11 months

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Call to Action

Dear allies,

The images published by the Narwhal this week are nothing short of heartbreaking. So I will be brief.

I am sad and furious that this has been allowed to happen. I want people to call the “regulators” who have been deliberately asleep at the wheel.

Our Sacred headwaters, The Wedzinkwa river that we drink from, shows up muddy which should be clear! This is devastating and unacceptable!

Pipeline construction work drowned in a wetland used by salmon, a food that has fed our people for well beyond thousands of years.

But three individuals have the power to stop this work immediately. I have had my allied team set up this link so you can call them. CALL THEM NOW PLEASE!!!

We have warned this would happen forever. We were ignored.

We will never tire of speaking our truth. This river is a part of us. The Land is a part of us.

CGL has proven reckless and violent. They do not care!

Please click this link to call the ministers who have the power to stop this now!!

The work continues on the Wet’suwet’en struggle for autonomy. We thank you for your ongoing support.

Standby for more…

Eve

*** this will take you to an Autodialer Phone Train- which connects you to the voicemail of the relevant 'authorities'. have a script ready

#cgl off the yintah #land defenders #water protectors #landback #Wet’suwet’en #uncolonizing #unsurrendered traditional lands #CKA British Columbia #take action #stop CGL #no more pipelines #leave it in the ground #we said NO!#indigenous people #indigenous land

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pnwpol · 4 years

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Civil Liberties and Indigenous Rights Groups Call on CRCC to Immediately Take Conduct of Investigation into Wet’suwet’en Land Defender’s Police Complaint

BC Civil Liberties Association and Union of BC Indian Chiefs are calling on the Chairperson of the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP (CRCC) to immediately take charge of the investigation of a Wet’suwet’en land defender’s police complaint.

According to Mr. Cody Merriman (Wedlidi), “I made a police complaint to the CRCC because I was expecting an independent and civilian investigation into the illegal RCMP exclusion zone on Wet’suwet’en territories as part of the militarized raids on the yintah in January 2020. Instead, I have had the very same RCMP officers who were involved in leading the police operations show up unannounced to my home, claim they are the ones ‘informally resolving’ my police complaint against other officers, and try to intimidate me to drop the complaint.”

“Indigenous peoples have always asserted our laws and presence on our territories, but I was denied access to my wife and family’s territories, Gidimt’en yintah, which was subjected to militarized police operations and an exclusion zone earlier this year. Now, we can’t even get a proper and independent investigation into the illegal police misconduct and criminalization of Indigenous people. This is outrageous,” further states Mr. Merriman.

On January 15 2020, Mr. Cody Merriman filed a police complaint with the CRCC. Mr. Merriman was bringing food and emergency supplies to the Gidimt’en Checkpoint on Wet’suwet’en territories but was denied entry and access at the RCMP exclusion zone, in contravention of the RCMP’s own statements and Merriman’s inherent Indigenous and Charter-protected rights.

In May 2020, two RCMP officers arrived unannounced at Mr. Merriman’s home. The officers were unclear about the nature of their visit, and proceeded to interrogate and intimidate Mr. Merriman about his police complaint. In a subsequent letter in June 2020, the RCMP argued that two of the officers in Mr. Merriman’s complaint were Reserve Constables and would not be included in the complaint investigation, even though Reservists are appointed under the RCMP Act and fall under the jurisdiction of the CRCC.

According to Carly Teillet, BCCLA Community Lawyer, “Individual RCMP officers and the Smithers RCMP Detachment involved in leading RCMP militarized actions on Wet’suwet’en territories and subject to a policy complaint to the CRCC should not be investigating Mr. Merriman’s complaint. This is a clear conflict of interest. We call on the CRCC Chairperson to immediately take conduct of the complaint investigation from the RCMP. We further call on the CRCC to include the conduct of the two reserve constables in the complaint investigation.”

“At a time of increased public scrutiny about police violence and lack of police accountability, it is reprehensible that Indigenous people who were subjected to one of the largest police operations in this province are being informed that they have to undergo an ‘informal dispute resolution’ with the RCMP and that certain officers are magically immune from investigation. This is not accountability and this is not justice for illegal and colonial police violence on unceded lands,” says Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs.

Aug 27, 2020

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zolamtl · 2 years

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All I want for Christmas is for CGL and the RCMP to get the fuck off the Yintah ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Heres a portrait of fierce and gorgeous land defender Shay Lynn Sampson protecting Wedzin kwa

#nopipelines4ever #shutdowncanada #alloutforwedzinkwa

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tepkunset · 4 years

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Canada does not deserve seat at UN Security Council

Pam Palmater Special to APTN News

Reconciliation is dead. It died when the RCMP invaded Wet’suwet’en territory with heavy machinery, helicopters, weapons and police dogs to forcibly remove Wet’suwet’en peoples and supporters from their homes on their own lands.

In quite literal terms, the RCMP destroyed the “reconciliation” sign posted on the access point to the territory, to make way for pipeline workers to force a pipeline on Wet’suwet’en Yintah (lands) without consent from hereditary chiefs.

While they were at it, Coastal Gaslink pipeline workers removed the red dresses memorializing the thousands of Indigenous women and girls who have been abused, exploited, disappeared and murdered – some at the hands of those who work in man camps.

In reaction to this violation of Indigenous land rights and the aggressive invasion of Wet’suwet’en lands by the RCMP, grassroots Indigenous peoples and Canadian allies have engaged in protests, rallies, marches and blockades all over Turtle Island.

Meanwhile, Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not even in Canada. He is travelling the world campaigning for a seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council.

Canada is a state perpetrator of genocide against Indigenous women and girls. The national inquiry found that all levels of government – federal, provincial, territorial and municipal – have engaged in historic and ongoing genocide; a form of gendered colonization which targets Indigenous women and girls for violence and denies them basic human rights protections. This genocide includes the theft of Indigenous lands and resources and the criminalization of Indigenous peoples who peacefully defend their lands and peoples from the violence, especially from the extractive industry.

The UN Security Council should not welcome a state perpetrator of genocide that has failed to accept responsibility for the genocide and failed to act urgently to end it. Similarly, member states of the UN should recall that Canada was one of only four states that fought against the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) which protects the rights of Indigenous peoples to self-determination, control over their traditional lands and resources and protections from forced removal from their lands by the state. While Canada has reversed its position on UNDRIP and claims to now support it unconditionally, it has failed to implement it into domestic law (with the exception of the Province of British Columbia).

The UN Security Council’s mandate is to maintain international peace and security. They are responsible to identify threats to peace or acts of aggression and have the authority to impose sanctions or authorize intervention. The Council has 15 members, five are permanent (China, Russia, France, United Kingdom and the United States) and ten are non-permanent and replaced on a rotating basis. Canada is vying for one of five seats that will be elected in June alongside other countries like Norway and Ireland. Canada lost its seat under the former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper. To this end, Trudeau is campaigning on the African continent and will soon be headed to the Caribbean and eventually Germany to make his case.

Yet, it is hard to contemplate how the member states of the UN could vote for Canada given its record of human rights abuses and genocide of Indigenous peoples. Keep in mind that both the UN and the Organization of American States (OAS) have shared their grave concerns about the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls finding of ongoing genocide in Canada. The UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD) has also asked Canada to urgently withdraw the RCMP and weapons from Wet’suwet’en territory and to halt any major development projects on Indigenous territories unless they have consent.

The UN member states should also consider that Canada has continuously failed to act on the numerous recommendations from various UN human rights treaty bodies pleading with Canada to end its grave human rights violations against Indigenous peoples, especially Indigenous women. Whether it is the UNCERD, UN Human Rights Council, UN Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Canada consistently fails to remedy these serious human rights breaches.

While there will be many other political considerations that go into each UN member state’s decision as to whether to support Canada’s bid for a seat on the UN Security Council, Canada’s record of ongoing genocide and human rights abuses against Indigenous peoples, and its recent armed invasion of Wet’suwet’en territory should give them pause. Canada has long pointed fingers around the world, criticizing human rights breaches, yet it has failed to address its own – and it’s killing our people.

Canada does not deserve a seat at the UN Security Council unless and until they address peace and security in their own country. Indigenous women and girls continue to disappear and be murdered, Indigenous peoples are grossly overincarcerated, and our children are stolen into the foster care system at rates higher than during residential schools.

Our lands and waters are being destroyed by massive development and extractive projects without regard for the cost to the planet or human lives. Canada’s continued acts of genocide and ecocide will eventually impact other states as climate change cannot be contained within artificial political borders. The planet is in crisis and the UN Security Council will have to face ever growing threats to peace and security worldwide. The last thing they need is to be guided by states that don’t address their own human rights, peace and security issues.

Pamela Palmater is a Mi’kmaw citizen and member of the Eel River Bar First Nation in northern New Brunswick. She has been a practising lawyer for 20 years and currently holds the position of Professor and Chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University.

#wet'suwet'en #justin trudeau #united nations #canada #british colombia #colonization #racism #tumblr's being stupid and doesn't like me making a link post #so fck it guess i'm copy/pasting #long post

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t4t4t · 4 years

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North Shore Counter-Info

To Settlers, by Settlers: A Callout for Rail Disruptions in Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en

Posted on January 5 2020.

[Anonymous submission to North Shore]

It’s important to know that settlers have written this. We don’t have the lived experience of any Indigenous person, including the Wet’suwet’en. We do write from a place of heart and affinity within this struggle – personal, political, and/or relational. In that we feel responsibility to act against the systems and corporations that harm the people and land within it. We acknowledge our settler responsibility and complicity in this, and look for opportunities and strategies that align politically as a way to enact solidarity. This does not mean we speak for them, or should be closed to critiques.

First, let’s address that for various reasons there has sometimes been a lack of clarity around what is being asked for by folks out west.

We want to gently remind friends reading this that some individuals have been restricted in providing any kind of direction or encouragement – or even speaking against the project. The gag is set by court orders which wield the threat of financial ruin and the loss of a ten year land-based healing project for an entire community. We remind ourselves that the people we may put into “leadership” positions may not want to be experiencing the pedestalization and fetishization of expectant settlers wanting firm answers – at great risk – on behalf of many.

Within and outside of this struggle, settlers are consistently directed to take responsibility for their fellow settlers and the ongoing processes and harms of colonization. As settlers hearing that, we are compelled to act in defiance of – and take an offensive position against – the state and industries that are willing to kill for profit, and pretend to be doing so in our interests.

We also want to acknowledge the lingering hopeless feeling that some of us felt when, after a decade of affirming a hard line, chiefs allowed for the Unist’ot’en gate to be opened. We know you know that compliance under threat of violence is not consent, but consideration exists even beyond that, like the RCMP delivering veiled and not-so-veiled threats to Chiefs at their homes in the middle of the nights. We encourage curiosity about whether hopelessness and disappointment went both ways here; to what extent did the low numbers of supporters who couldn’t or wouldn’t make it out after a decade of promise have impacts on positional outcome and aftermath? The writers of this personally take action when we feel at our strongest – rested, fed, grounded, encouraged, and supported. So what is our complicity – as settlers or allies or supporters who weren’t there or weren’t taking action from afar – in that gate opening?

Despite all of this the Wet’suwet’en never stopped asking for support and solidarity actions, and never stopped occupying their territories. And earlier today, the Wet’suwet’en and their supporters have again taken a physical stand to protect the Yintah, their way of life, and living for generations to come. They defend their very existence against the imperialist violence and colonialism of the Canadian state on behalf of private entities, and reject Canada and CGL’s authority and jurisdiction over their unceded lands.

We stand with them and are prepared to enact solidarity.

Further, we aim to inspire you to act friends & comrades!

Anarchists, comrades, radicals and likeminded folks in so-called Ontario have a longstanding history of solidarity actions with, for, and inspired by indigenous blockades and land projects. The enactments of support have been beautiful and courageous moments that have built lasting networks and relationships.

Dream big and help make it happen again!

The last year on the territory has seen large swaths of trees clear cut, wildlife displaced, a man camp established, artefacts and trap lines moved and destroyed, and the installment of an RCMP staffed “industry protection office” on unceded lands. The year also unveiled to all that the RCMP is prepared to kill Indigenous peoples to carry out the will of corporations.

Further, in a move that deliberately continues a legacy of genocide against all Indigenous peoples, justice Marguerite Church recently approved an interlocutory injunction against the Wet’suwet’en making it illegal for them under colonial law to defend their own lands against industry or Canada, as an invading Nation. Her decision states that “Indigenous law has no effectual place in Canadian law.” The injunction will allow for the destruction of Gidimt’en camp, cabins throughout the territory, and presents risk to the healing lodge.

Unsurprising and absolute imperialist bullshit.

Do you need more reasons? We didn’t think so.

Which leaves us with what we do.

As geographically distant allies the logical conclusion is that we will likely never get explicit, widespread permission or an “official” thumbs up (and we should certainly strive to understand our inclination to ask or want for those things), but with a few considerations we can get a fair sense of what’s needed, and wanted.

1) The intensity of the current situation. Today, Wet’suwet’en hereditary leadership have gathered to take a final stand and remove industry from their territory as a way to prevent further destruction of the land and water, ensuring their safety and livelihoods. Legal challenges have failed, and this is perhaps “it” – the final possibility of protecting their Yintah.

2) With this development will come new, increased and incensed calls for solidarity actions.

3) Actions that have received support or excitement previously include large militant disruptions such as highway and port blockades, occupations and attempted shutdowns of pipeline facilities, and the closure of a Shell terminal. No actions have yet been denounced.

4) Previous requests have included guidance to respect the agreements and responsibilities of the territory you are on, to respect the land, water, and life of it, and to honour and centre Indigenous messaging.

There is no shortage of existing opportunities, but thinking back to what we’ve seen work in this area, what is relevant, and what is strategic and what can embrace many tones and tactics, we think of rail disruptions.

Rail traffic creates excellent opportunity for state and economic disruption; infrastructure is so sprawling it’s relatively indefensible – particularly outside of cities. Geographical features create thousands of natural bottlenecks across Turtle Island which lend themselves as targets for maximum effectiveness using a broad range of methods. Historically even short disruptions – by actions or rail strikes – have had large economic impacts. After just two days of a recent rail strike the Federal government started drafting emergency legislation out of concern for the economy. In 2012, a 9 day disruption dropped the local GDP by 6.8%.

Imagine allies disrupting and damaging rail infrastructure and bottlenecks in Northern BC between Kitimat-Chetwynd-Houston-Stewart; it would orphan pipe stockpiles in ports, preventing their delivery to construction areas.

There is no need to chase the frontline; we can fight where we stand.

Rail sabotage works as both a tactic and a strategy, and so we’re calling for ongoing rail disruptions in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people who are currently defending their unceded territory from industry and police invasion.

Our suggestions include using copper wire to trip signal blocks, and the destruction of signal boxes and rail tracks – but even large public NVCD groups stopping essential rail lines is better than no action at all. Read on for details, safety tips, and links.

As always, we encourage folks to think about your heart, as well as the longevity of these actions and overall struggle; a gentle reminder that you are being careful with yourselves, fingerprints and DNA – for everyone’s safety – and that repression often follows action.

https://north-shore.info/2020/01/05/to-settlers-by-settlers-a-callout-for-rail-disruptions-in-solidarity-with-the-wetsuweten/?fbclid=IwAR3W2YxY-GoesuHhccVl3qeUHuCmVG242rNfqZHZJ-yqNGoq4rSfC7EWGLo

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queeranarchism · 4 years

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Wet'suwet'en Nation Solidarity Rally, The Hague, NL

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2020, starting at 9AM

Please join us on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at the Canadian Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands to stand in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land protectors and show support for Indigenous sovereignty and ending resource extraction projects that threaten the lives of future generations. The Unist’ot’en Camp and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation have been peacefully and firmly opposing the Canadian government’s plan to build a dangerous pipeline through their traditional lands without consent. The government continues to ignore the right of the Wet’suwet’en people to protect their own land and families from industrial invasion. This deeply disrespectful act of physical, cultural, and ecological violence by a government that tries to appear culturally and ecologically sensitive must be stopped immediately. “On February 10, 2020 Canadian Police invaded unceded Unist’ot’en territory, arresting and forcibly removing Freda Huson (Chief Howilhkat), Brenda Michell (Chief Geltiy), Dr. Karla Tait, and four Indigenous land defenders from our yintah. They were arrested in the middle of a ceremony to honour the ancestors. Police tore down the red dresses that were hung to hold the spirits of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two spirit people. They extinguished our sacred fire. We have had enough. Enough dialogue, discussion, negotiation at the barrel of a gun. Canada comes to colonize. Reconciliation is dead. It is time to fight for our land, our lives, our children, our future. Revolution lives.” - Unist'ot'en Camp Recently people in Canada and in the USA have been coming together to hold protests, rallies, and fundraisers to show their support for Wet’suwet’en land defenders. Human blockades at various railroads across the country have stopped the movement of many trains; the train system being a strong symbol of colonial expansionism that helped facilitate cultural genocide and decimation. Until the Canadian government’s law enforcement officers and pipeline workers leave the Wet’suwet’en territory, until Canada allows the Wet’suwet’en people the right to decide what happens on their own land, and until Canada stops the expansion of its profit-driven fossil fuel economy in a time of massive species extinction and ecological catastrophe we will continue to gather, show our anger, and oppose the Canadian government’s careless actions. We encourage Canadians living in the Netherlands and all people concerned about Indigenous rights and environmental decimation to join us at the Canadian Embassy at 9am on Wednesday, February 19th. The weather is expected to be a mix of sun and cloud with an average temperature of 7 degrees celsius. Please prepare yourself to be outdoors occupying space in front of the Embassy. Please dress in warm clothes, bring rain gear and food and reusable water bottles. Futhermore we encourage people to write letters to Sabine Nölke (Canada’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands) asking her to vocally condemn Canada’s violence against the Wet’suwet’en people and to vocally oppose the pipeline project (https://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/netherlands-pays_bas/offices-bureaux/ambassador-ambassadeur.aspx?lang=en) We also encourage people to make money donations to the Unist'ot'en 2020 Legal Fund. Here are the words of Freda Huson, Unist’ot’en House spokesperson: “Oil and gas corporations use legal pressure, intimidation, wealth, and resources to do their dirty work. We must come together and let it be known that those defending the land will be supported. This fight is far from over. If you have witnessed the power of the land, if you have been inspired from afar, if you care about the future of this planet, Indigenous sovereignty, and human rights, please donate to this legal fund.” ————

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2528553857463483/

Lastly, a link to the film “Invasion”: -https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=D3R5Uy5O_Ds&feature=emb_title And to the Wet’suwet’en Supporter Toolkit 2020: http://unistoten.camp/supportertoolkit2020/

#Wet'suwet'en

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