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Gord Hill – Ghosts of Gidimt’en (16" x 20" acrylic on canvas)
Commemorating the largest act of ecological property destruction in canadian history. In defense of autonomous Wet'suwet'en territory.
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auressea · 10 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
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Posted to the gidimt'en checkpoint Facebook page September 27th, 2021:
BREAKING: There are 7 RCMP vehicles at the drill pad site and they are torturing a person that is locked down underneath the bus.
The do not have proper tools, they are just pulling on the person and trying to use pain compliance to get them out.
We need support now. If you can come to the yintah please come. They are blocking the road form supporters but eyes on them will help keep our people safe!
We are, have always been, and always will be the only authority on the yintah. We will do what is necessary to protect Wedzin Kwa.
Come to camp and organize where you stand. We will never give up. Join us.
https://www.yintahaccess.com/link-in-bio
#WetsuwetenStrong #NoTrespass #WedzinKwa #CGLofftheYintah #Sovereignty #Solidarity #DefendTheYintah #WeAreAllOne #IndigenousSovereignty #TraditionalGovernance #StandUpFightBack #RematriatetheLand
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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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sparksinthenight · 4 years
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My Letter to the PM in Support of the Wet’suwet’en People
Dear Prime Minister,
My name is ________ and I live in _________. I am writing to you in order to urge you to give the Wet’suwet’en people the respect they deserve by letting them make decisions about their land. Stop the CGL pipeline, for Indigenous rights, decolonization, workers’ rights, and the environment. Get the RCMP off of the territories of Indigenous people who do not want them there. Don’t prosecute Indigenous land and human rights defenders for their work defending their people and all people.
The Wet’suwet’en are the rightful owners of their territory, and they don’t want the CGL pipeline nor do they want the RCMP on their land. As the Indigenous people of their land, they are culturally, spiritually, psychologically, socially, and in all ways tied to their land in a way us settlers aren’t. They need the land in such a deep and profound way that we just don’t. Therefore it’s their decision what does or doesn’t get built. They have their own pre-colonial government system which works for them and should be acknowledged as legitimate, because it is. And they decided, using their own form of government (which is plenty democratic) that they do not want the CGL pipeline and they do not want the RCMP on their land.
The RCMP has harassed them, arrested them, threatened them, disrespected their ceremonies, destroyed their property, and pointed guns at them. Of COURSE they don’t want the RCMP on their lands. Recently, the RCMP has been helping escort construction crews that are building this illegal, damaging, and unwanted pipeline. The Wet’suwet’en and other Indigenous peoples are absolutely right for wanting the RCMP to leave, the people of Unist’ot’en aren’t safe with them around.
The CGL pipeline would cause a lot of damage to the nature, biodiversity, and health of their lands. This isn’t an opinion it’s a scientific fact. Many Wet’suwet’en people rely on the land for food and they all rely on the land as a source of identity. The CGL pipeline being built through their land would be disaster for to them.
Not listening to the wishes of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs and Feast Hall is also illegal. The rule of law dictates that the Wet’suwet’en and their pre-colonial government system has title and decision-making ability over their ancestral land. Section 35 of the Canadian constitution states that Indigenous people and their own government systems have the rights to their land, including the right to stop any development on it. It’s plenty clear about this, despite the fact that various levels of Canadian government have been completely ignoring this law for decades. But it’s still the constitution. It’s also in international laws. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples clearly states that no development can happen on any land without the free, prior, and informed consent of the Indigenous people of the land. The Wet’suwet’en, their traditional government, and their people do not freely consent to the pipeline.  Canada has signed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and should follow it. Truly following the rule of law would mean respecting Indigenous rights.
But it’s not even about the law it’s about human rights. Indigenous rights are human rights. Indigenous people have been dispossessed of their lands for too long. Their children are being forcibly separated from them. Many of their communities have no clean water. Many communities face a lack of social services. Indigenous people are unfairly targeted by police. They face violence and hate crimes at disproportionate levels. They also face casual racism. Their daughters, sisters, wives, and mothers are kidnapped and trafficked and murdered. They have been subject to multiple, multi-faceted human rights violations for too long. It’s time for Canada to get better. It’s time for change. Recognizing land rights - land rights, not just land title - is a vital, necessary step to that change. The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recognizes this and has told Canada that it must halt the CGL pipeline and get the RCMP off of Wet’suwet’en lands. Canada must listen.
The 28 Indigenous land defenders who were arrestEd from Wet’suwet’en land must have all charges dropped against them. Respecting Indigenous rights also means respecting those that defend Indigenous rights and it also means respecting Indigenous people. The people who were arrested for defending the Yintah were arrested for defending the Yintah. They were arrested for defending the rights of their people. They were arrested for protecting the land that their people need, that all people need. They were arrested for defending the climate. Everything they did was peaceful, was done in a good and kind way. And they have every right in the world to do everything they did. They should not be punished for it.
And not to mention, the impacts that the pipeline would have for the environment and the climate are catastrophic. The more fossil fuels are distributed the more they will be burned. Fracking, which is the source of the gas in the pipeline, is a huge source of methane, the worst greenhouse gas. But not extracting, transporting, or distributing fossil fuels will make decision-makers turn to renewable energy instead, which creates more jobs and safer jobs than fossil fuels do. Everyone’s future will suffer because of the climate crisis. The most vulnerable will suffer the most. We do not need any more pipelines. And cutting lines through ecosystems are one of the absolute worst things you can do to an ecosystem and a pipeline is a line through an ecosystem. The environment is vitally necessary for humanity and it’s going to be weakened with each new pipeline, especially with each new pipeline through vital ecosystems.
Finally, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, the pipeline poses a workers’ safety hazard. Men from all over Canada are being shipped to the Yintah into fairly crowded work sites where the disease could spread like wildfire. It’s safer for everyone to not build this pipeline.
As you can see the CGL pipeline is disastrous for the Wet’suwet’en people and neighbouring Indigenous communities. It’s disastrous for the environment, the climate, the Covid-19 crisis, and global health. It’s against human rights and the rule of law. Reconciliation and decolonization can’t happen if we keep building through Indigenous land without permission. The CGL pipeline needs to be stopped, and no future building or industrial projects should ever be undertaken anywhere without complete and total free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous people. The RCMP, which has done nothing but enforce colonial violence, must leave from Indigenous land in which they’re not welcome. The way we treat Indigenous people and communities must change. And fossil fuels must stay in the ground as everyone needs the climate and environment.
Thank you for reading my letter and please take my considerations to heart.
Sincerely,
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effectiveresistance · 3 months
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Happy 2nd anniversary to the largest act of ecological property destruction in "canadian" history! And the largest blow to CGL to date.
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From Wet'suwet'en Yintah to Weelaunee Forest. Get the fuck out. Over run the worksite and leave only a trail of destruction.
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Solidarity from Wet'suwet'en Yintah to Weelaunee and Lutzerath
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effectiveresistance · 3 months
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At the end of October 2023, in the quietest hours of the night, a small group quickly secured a blockade to the CN rail lines in “bc”, near the Hope area.
The blockade consisted of a 100-pound iron work table vice – whose jaws were tightened directly to the rail – topped with a several hundred pound pile of chain and scrap metal.
On one side of the gigantic work-table vice was painted “FREE GAZA” in red. On the other side was painted “CGL OFF THE YINTAH”. The blockade was secured to a curving stretch of rail in the forest, near no residences. CN freight trains churn through this area multiple times per hour. The blockade was fixed immediately after a train passed, to give the most time for safe work.
Only two rail lines carry the entire freight system in so-called “bc” – CN, and CP. Their routes overlap in a large area in Secwepemc territory, between hope and kamloops. referred to by officials as a ‘choke point’ for the government’s freight system – its resource extraction supply lines. If both of these lines are disrupted or shut down simultaneously, the whole rail freight system in the ‘province’ shuts down. Let us get to work.
Please dump stuff on the rails. The more trash, broken glass, and scrap litters the rails, the more gummed up the works will get.
[See this text for methods permitting to avoid causing a derailment. –MtlCI]
While we are taking the steps to send this anonymous communique – we wish to encourage tactics beyond boycotts. It is great to stop giving genocidal companies our money. Now it is time to take another step, and start taking money from these companies. The recent mass food reclamation at a Whole Foods in occupied Lenapehoking, so-called New York, is a great example.
You’ve stopped going to starbucks – now start going back to starbucks to steal and destroy their merchandise. Disrupt their profits in increasingly direct ways. Taping the edge of a small razor blade to a credit card can make the tool inconspicuous, and small hidden razors are great for cutting open coffee bags, tearing up products, while appearing to simply handle and peruse the wares.
Containers of used cooking oil are great to pour on books / paper products in stores that support genocide. Oil up your local Indigo for example – target the most expensive wares possible. Carry the oil around in a fancy looking reusable water bottle or coffee cup, or in tiny vials that fit in the palm of your hand.
Stop throwing out old food scraps, especially meat – make stink bombs instead. Put the food in firmly sealed containers and let them rot in heat. When ready, subtly dump the contents indoors in businesses you want to disrupt.
get together, get creative, and get out there
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Over the past few months, several sections of the coastal gaslink pipeline have been vandalized. Financially, the consequences of each act were minor: a few holes in the pipeline here, some corroded welding seams there, damaged concrete here. Our goal was to contribute to the small delays in a project that was already well over budget.
We drilled holes less than a penny wide in a section of pipe that had not yet been lowered into the trench. We covered the holes with fiberglass film, which temporarily prevents leaks in the pipes, but only lasts a few months. We know that welded sections of coated pipe are assessed before being lowered into the trench. After the trench is backfilled, they are tested under pressure. The holes were sealed in the hope that they would pass the first pressure test, but will have to be excavated and repaired before the pipeline is completed. This occurred during the last week of October on section 8 of the pipeline, between Kilometers 610 and 613.
Between 585 and 588 kilometers of the pipeline, we found a section of pipe that had been dug out, so we damaged the coating at the joints by chipping and sanding it off in less visible places. This coating is needed to protect the pipe from corrosion and rust. We did this in early November. We liked this approach because the damage is not visible, but can still have a significant long-term structural impact if corrosion and rust show up, so it will need to be fixed.
We drilled very small holes and filled them this time with an epoxy putty, somewhere between Kilometers 605 and 608 of the pipeline route (that’s in section 8.) We did this in the second week of November. We weren’t sure if the sealant would withstand the pressure test, but decided it was worth a try since this sealant is easier to source and use than the fiberglass coating.
At the end of November, we drilled and filled holes in the pipe string before it would be lowered into section 6 of the pipeline between Kilometers 486 and 489.
In early December, we chipped and busted the welds on a section of pipe that had not yet been lowered into the trench between Kilometers 606 and 609.
We damaged the protective coating on a section of pipe by chipping and grinding, and chipped a welded seam on several sections of pipe before they were backfilled between Kilometer 377 and 380 of section 5 of the pipeline. This work was performed in early January.
Near Kilometer 27 of North Hirsch forestry road we damaged welds and coating on a pipe section in the middle of January.
In early December, we grinded and chipped the coating on the welded seams of the pipe sections between Kilometers 598 to 601.
In mid February, we scraped and chipped large portions of the pipe coating of the string between Kilometers 626 and 629.
Or is that in fact what happened? Only some of these activities have actually taken place. We waited to share this information all at once, complete with some additional false reports, so the only way to know where repairs are really needed is to excavate and re-examine all the above-mentioned pipes. Cracked concrete or rusted and patched pipes can lead to small leaks and large-scale spills, which is why every action, whether genuine or falsified, is being brought to the attention of the public long before the pipeline is operational.
While we would prefer to write only completely honest report backs, we also believe that we should be resourceful and use every means at our disposal to delay construction as best we can. We apologize to those involved in the struggle for not being able to give you an accurate picture of what we have really accomplished. CGL we wish you all the best in your treasure hunt.
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In the early hours of Nov 5, groups of anarchists acted in solidarity with Sleydo’s call for action to support the ongoing Wet’suwet’en battle to protect the yintah and kill the drill. Rail lines were sabotaged at several points in a disruption of business-as-usual along main arteries of the freight system. They will continue to be sabotaged at random far into the future, at every corner of rail line across the turtle’s back.
Others are encouraged to take this route however, wherever, and whenever they can – grab yourself some bolt cutters or copper wire. Grab a friend or go alone. Enjoy the birds, the wind, the silence.
The night sky yawns and the stars and moon stare down at us, working in the night. They cast their gaze upon us near and far, as they do also on the shimmering waters of the Wedzin Kwa. The drilling begins, and while we weep for the water, the salmon, and our beloved dead, our rage begins to burn, a lit fuse.
CGL, RBC, Kkkanada – you are not safe and you have ignited something that will never die.
- Solidarity Rail Sabotage in Eastern Ontario
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effectiveresistance · 5 months
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We are fundraising to support frontline indigenous land defenders from Wet'suwet'en to get some supportive time away from the frontlines of colonial violence and do some writing (they are working on a book). Please consider donating for costs of transportation, lodging, and amenities.
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effectiveresistance · 8 months
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About 20 people storm a construction site of the Coastal Gas Link pipeline in western Canada. They are armed with axes and flares, threaten employees, hijack heavy construction vehicles, destroy the site’s building and ultimately the vehicles themselves. The damage amounted to millions. That was almost a year ago. It is still unclear who sabotaged the construction of the pipeline in the province of British Columbia. Fracked gas was soon to flow through the pipeline, which runs right through indigenous land, to the West Coast, from where it would be shipped on to Asia.
Whether you occupy universities, schools, trees or streets. Whether you spend your nights worrying or sabotaging. Whether you strike or write about it.
The certainty that the current system will result in the collapse of the massively damaged ecosystem has already inspired countless people to resist. Tens of thousands are taking to the streets against the “business as usual” of the capitalist machinery, people are resisting the destructive large-scale projects en masse, the infrastructure of the system is being blocked and courageous fighters are setting fire to the machines that are being used to rob them of the very basis of life.
These experiences of struggle, in the Hambi, in the Danni, in Bure, against Castor transports in Wendland, on the ZAD – have proven the effectiveness of leaderless, offensive and solidarity movements. These struggles have also proven that we can build horizontal connections with other people who have different experiences and methods of struggle, and that we can reject the attempts of the state to divide us along the question of violence.
If we let our gaze wander to more distant territories, we see, from northern Canada to Patagonia, from Colombia to Indonesia, how indigenous groups, communities, villages, and organizations have been struggling for hundreds of years against the colonial domination of states and against the destruction of nature. These struggles are often invisiblized in their effectiveness and militancy. We want to break through this and be inspired.
The narrative that we will solve climate change and ecological destruction technologically is naive at best, but much more likely it is a deliberate strategy to profit even further from the problems generated by earth exploitation.
The world economy’s hunger for energy, which has been growing steadily since industrialization, is often not seen as a problem; instead, research is conducted into new, supposedly green energy sources.
In this way, the history of colonialism continues, which goes hand in hand with the displacement of people, the transfer of profits to the West and a constant political and economic dependence of the countries of the global South, up to the raw materials that are needed here for the implementation of the “green” energy transition. Copper and lithium from the same colonial mines in Latin America for the batteries of e-mobility, uranium from West Africa for “green” nuclear power plants, cobalt and other rare earth minerals from the Congo for cell phones and other advanced electronics, and finally “green” hydrogen from the wind- and sun-rich deserts of Namibia.
A dynamic and broad climate justice movement would do well not to allow any identitarian and thus divisive notions of ‘militancy’ or ‘nonviolence’ to be imposed on it. Certainly not an easy task, as we know from different heterogeneous movements. But it is worth it.
We find the question of whether it is worthwhile to appeal to political leaders much more decisive. Here we have (without any need for delimitation) a clear position with the above analysis: No, it is not worth it – and it raises false hopes that can make a movement dependent and paralyze it.
The same is true at the global level. A serious internationalism must connect our struggles here, also with the struggles against the destruction of nature worldwide, e.g. LNG production in Canada. We can only fight against a global system of destruction if we relate to each other internationally and meet at eye level. An anti-colonial perspective for our efforts for climate justice is necessary for this reason alone.
A ‘technical solution’ to climate change can only be found with toxic mines, deployed militaries and expropriated indigenous land, at least in the periphery. And against the people fleeing this misery, the metropolis enacts brutal violence.
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"I'll trust an anarchist over a liberal any day" "I make a call-out to help some unhoused relatives and it's most often the anarchists that come help. Practicing mutual aid"
Excellent video packed full of info. The building of relationships between anarchists and Indigenous warriors on autonomous territory continues to build.
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