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[allthecanadianpolitics]

Content warning for police violence, anti-indigenous racism, ableist language, and sexual violence.

RCMP officers referred to First Nations pipeline opponents as "orcs" and "ogre" during a police raid at a blockade of Coastal GasLink pipeline construction in November 2021, according to audio recordings played in court Wednesday. The recordings were played as evidence in B.C. Supreme Court in Smithers in an abuse of process application filed by Sleydo', also known as Molly Wickham, a Wing Chief of Cas Yikh, a house group of the Gidimt'en Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation; Shaylynn Sampson, a Gitxsan woman with Wet'suwet'en family ties and Corey Jocko, who is Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) from Akwesasne, which straddles the Quebec, Ontario and New York state borders.  The accused were found guilty last week of criminal contempt of court for breaking a 2019 injunction that impedes anyone from blocking work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline.  The abuse of process application alleges RCMP used excessive force when they were arrested and that they were treated unfairly while in custody. The filing asks that if the judge doesn't stay their charges, then it would be appropriate to reduce their sentences based on their treatment by police.

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #wet'suwet'en #first nations #environmental racism #rcmp #police violence #police brutality #police racism #racism #police #acab #abolish the police #anti indigenous racism

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Hellooo everybody, there is a KO-FI SALE happening in my shop this week from today until April 12th to commemorate my 20th birthday!! All items will be 20% off with the code BDAY20!! I'm still job hunting so all purchases really help me out; RBs and shares are also appreciated if you're unable to buy anything right now!

#My birthday is April 11th in case anyone's curious #telekitnetic’s shopfront #native art #indigenous art #ko fi shop #indigenous artist #wet'suwet'en #feels wild thinking about how I'm gonna be two decades old houuuughghhh

[auressea]

Action- Please Call for accountability!

I know phone calls are hard. Are you actively uncolonizing? Do you support Indigenous Sovereignty and the Land Back movement?

@allthecanadianpolitics

Mar 31 2023

#wet'suwet'en #off the yintah #Gidim’ten #Stop Big Oil #this is an invasion of a sovereign nation #RCMP #corporate goonsquad #ACAB #the state is sending indigenous people to jail for defending their land against a private corporation. #so called 'canada' #BC news #de-militarize the police #current events

[cowboymaterials]

swag

#coastal gaslink #wet'suwet'en #anarchism #anti civ #stolen land #alla this and on snowshoes slay

[27-moons]

Gidimt’en Checkpoint stands in solidarity with Palestine. We demand justice for the genocide of ALL people and remember the genocide against our people. History is repeating itself and it’s up to the people of the world, from Wedzin Kwah to the sea.

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#🧡 #free palestine #wet'suwet'en #land defenders

[virtue-boy]

#indigenous canada #indigenous news #land defence #Wet'suwet'en #fuck canada

[noneedtofearorhope]

Over the last several weeks we have spiked large swaths of trees in the so-called “Capitol State Forest” in rural so-called “Thurston County, Washington” (ancestral Nisqually, Squaxin, and Chehalis land), leading up to the November 5th day of action in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en struggle against Coastal Gas Link and the Canadian government’s colonial intrusion into their territory.

This seasonal transition has been sharp and hard on the land. Our forests here experienced an unusually sudden shift from severe heatwaves and drought that lasted late into the fall, to floods and freezes with minimal autumnal gentle rains to steward the earth into the rainy season. These forests which have fed so many for time immemorial show the consequences. As climate change-fueled “natural” disasters become more and more devastating every year, the industrial rate of destruction of everything that sustains the land and the people on it only escalates. Politicians speak out of one side of their mouths about “truth and reconciliation” or “climate action,” while with the other side of their mouths they send the police to clear the way for mining and logging companies. Swaths of land dripping in moss and bubbling with streams, teeming with mushrooms and other life will soon be left as dry mangled fields, mirrors of the hellscapes being created in unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. Lifeless, and robbed of all sustenance and culture, useless to anyone but the corporations and people who sold off a forest they had no connection to.

All of these industries are on the side of Coastal Gas Link and they are all our enemies. We feel the rage, creativity, and determination of the people of Wet’suwet’en and Wedzin Kwa, and must all act against every aspect of colonial industry which threatens the sovereignty and lifeblood of lands and waters. We hope this message serves as a warning to deter all upcoming timber sales in the Capitol Forest. If the trees are cut, we hope for maximum damage to the chainsaws and mills.

Up in Wet’suwet’en territory, CGL just blew up Lamprey Creek, an active salmon and eel spawning ground, and home to two elders’ cabins on the Wedzin Kwah river. These waters and forests are lifeblood being stolen and desecrated. Drilling under the crystal clear Wedzin Kwah is active, while salmon actively spawn nearby. Wet’suwet’en protectors have specifically called on anarchists to step up. This comes with huge risk for the Wet’suwet’en. Let that call be heard and felt by our friends and our enemies.

DECOLONIZE THE PLANET GO LOG IN HELL WORLDWIDE SOLIDARITY WITH WET’SUWET’EN CGL FUCK OFF ALSO STOP COP CITY – DEFEND THE ATLANTA FOREST SHUTDOWNEVERYTHING

#direct action #ecodefense #solidarity #wet'suwet'en #no pipelines #monkeywrenching #environmentalism #coastal gas link #colonialism #climate change #wedzin kwa #capital forest #anarchy #anarchism #water is life #forest defense #puget sound

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Gidimt’en Checkpoint stands in solidarity with Palestine. We demand justice for the genocide of ALL people and remember the genocide against our own people. History is repeating itself and it’s up to the people of the world, From Wedzin Kwah to the sea.

-- Gidimt’en Checkpoint, 10 Dec 2023 1:03pm EST

#palestine #canada #wet'suwet'en #indigenous sovereignty #id in alt text

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"PAGANISM STILL GRIPS INDIANS." Kingston Whig-Standard. May 22, 1933. Page 13. ---- HAZELTON, B.C. - Under the towering peaks of "Falling Rocks" mountain range, the native graveyard is a blend of Paganism and the New Faith. Though many of the Indians have been christianized, complete miniature houses have been built over many of the graves. Clothes and belongings of the departed are placed inside.

In one skirts, shoes, corsets and mirror, brush and comb are hung on the walls. In another an enlarged portrait stands against a trunk filled with garments and toilet articles. Over chiefs' graves stone poems symbolical of their clan are carved.

Food is placed in the houses almost daily. It is invariably carried away by wild animals such as squirrels and rabbits, but the Indians explain the spirits get the food through the wild life. [AL: This is possibly about either the Gitxsan or Wet'suwet'en First Nations, but it's a 90 year old news wire piece loaded with settler colonial racism so figuring out what group or community the story is describing will take further research]

#hazelton #interior british columbia #gitxsan #wet'suwet'en #settler colonialism #settler colonialism in canada #christianization #christian supremacy #first nations #indigenous people #indigenous history #anti-indigenous racism #religious syncretism #great depression in canada #british columbia history

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Hawk Stealing Salmon 

Ron Sebastian

#Ron Sebastian #Gitksan #wet'suwet'en #Mark Loria Gallery

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The company behind the Coastal GasLink gas pipeline project in northern B.C. has received a whopping $346,000-fine from the B.C. government for environmental deficiencies and providing false and misleading information.

According to the Ministry of Environment, Coastal GasLink Pipeline Ltd. failed to meet conditions of its environmental assessment certificate. In a Thursday statement, it said compliance officers found inadequate erosion and sediment control during several inspections along the pipeline route in April and May last year.

The company also gave false and misleading information last October as well in relation to maintenance inspection records, the province found. That cost Coastal GasLink $6,000, while the erosion control matter cost $340,000.

“As a result of continued concerns, the Environmental Assessment Office has prioritized the CGL project for compliance monitoring, with nearly 100 inspections by air and ground since the project started in 2019,” B.C.’s statement reads.

“These inspections have led to the EAO issuing 59 warnings, 30 orders – including 13 stop-work orders – and more than $800,000 in fines.” [...]

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[yegactivist]

RBC Day of Action by Paula Kirman

#climate change #climate action #Wet'suwet'en #land defenders #edmonton #yeg #yegdt #Royal Bank #alberta #canada #fossil fuels #flickr

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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

[27-moons]

Montréal, Fossil Fools Day, at RBC headquarters

“NO PIPELINES ON UNCEDED YINTAH”

#wet'suwet'en #🧡

[diana-selene-hecate]

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#indigenous #resistance #land back #indigenous solidarity #revolution #lesbian #queer #queer love at the end of the world #wet'suwet'en #unist'ot'en camp #reparations #movement #causes