#rcmp off the yintah

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Solidarity with indigenous land defenders

Did you know RBC is the top funder of fossil fuels in kkkanada and 5th in the world? Right now RBC is funding a pipeline on Indigenous land without consent. Indigenous justice is climate justice.

RCMP and RBC GET THE FUCK OFF THE YINTAH

Wet’suwet’en solidarity

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also to the fully grown adult man after the tacoma show who loudly yelled and called a very probable minor a « piece of shit » repeatedly to their face in front of a large crowd for picking up a water from a merch stand ((((((!!!!that should have been free anyways!!!!))))))…that they RETURNED when they realized their mistake yet you continued to yell that they were a « piece of shit »…

…congratulations you set a horrible example for your two kids with you, I hope they’re embarrassed for you that I laughed at you, and I hope you get long covid

(also most of your bottled water is sold to you from my country’s fresh water resources while the rest of our vital waterways are simultaneously poisoned by the same corporations so fuck right off)

While I’m here

#alloutforwedzinkwa #killthedrill #wetsuwetenstrong

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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

[allthecanadianpolitics]

From the Gidimt'en Checkpoint Facebook page, November 19, 2021:

FREE SLEYDO'!!!!!

Around 12:30pm, Nov 19, 2021, RCMP breached two structures at Coyote Camp on Cas Yikh Territory, violently arresting Gidimt’en Spokesperson Sleydo’, along with Dinϊ Ze' Woos’ daughter, and several other unarmed Indigenous land defenders, on behalf of TC Energy’s proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline project. At the height of the invasion, a media and communications blackout was enforced at gunpoint, cutting contact with the outside world.

The previous day, Nov 18, 2021, a militarized raid employing dozens of tactical officers, K-9 units, assault weapons, busses, and surveillance vehicles breached the first line of defense of the territory - making 15 arrests (including 2 elders, 3 Legal Observers, and 1 journalist). Their bail hearing is happening now in Smithers, BC as more arrests on the territory continue.

We need all eyes on Wet’suwet’en as the genocidal violence continues. Solidarity actions around the world have already begun.

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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlxgI2SDAiI

Edmonton solidarity rally in support of the Wet’suwet’en. We’re calling on the Bank of Montreal to stop funding genocide. We’re calling the RCMP to stop invading and raiding the yintah. We’re calling on the B.C. and Canadian governments to fuck off. We’re calling on Coastal GasLink to stop putting profits above human rights. 

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UNIST'OT'EN MATRIARCHS ARRESTED; STAND WITH UNIST'OT'EN NOW!

Unist’ot’en Territory, Feb 10, 2020 – A convoy of armed RCMP tactical units has invaded sovereign and unceded Unist’ot’en Territory to enforce Coastal GasLink’s injunction. Our Unist’ot’en Matriarchs and lands defenders have been forcibly removed off their lands.

Unist’ot’en Matriarchs Freda Huson (Chief Howihkat), Brenda Michell (Chief Geltiy), and Dr. Karla Tait have been forcibly removed off our territories and arrested. Our matriarchs were arrested while holding a ceremony to call on our ancestors and to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. We, the Unist’ot’en, know that violence on our lands and violence on our women are connected. During ceremony, we hung red dresses to remember the spirits of the murdered women, girls and two spirit people taken from us. We were holding a cremation for the Canadian Indigenous Reconciliation industry as the RCMP battered through the gates. Land defenders, including Victoria Redsun (Denesuline), Autumn Walken (Nlaka’pamux), and Pocholo Alen Conception have also been arrested.

Unist’ot’en condemns these violent, colonial arrests and stark violations of Wet’suwet’en law, Canadian law, and of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). This is also a clear violation of the recent directive from the UN Committee on Racial Discrimination (CERD) requiring Canada to halt the Coastal GasLink pipeline project and withdraw RCMP from our territory in order to avoid further violations of Wet’suwet’en, constitutional, and international law.

We, as Wet’suwet’en, have never ceded our sovereign title and rights over the 22,000 square kilometers of our land, waters, and resources within our Yintah. Our ‘Anuc niwh’it’ën (Wet’suwet’en law) and feast governance systems remain intact and continue to govern our people and our lands. We recognize the authority of these systems. The Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs are the Title Holders, and maintain the authority and jurisdiction to make decisions on unceded lands.

Our Wet’suwet’en Territory is divided into 5 clans and 13 house groups. Each clan within the Wet’suwet’en Nation has full jurisdiction under our law to control access to their respective territories. We have governed ourselves sustainably since time immemorial. The Unist’ot’en (Dark House) is occupying and using our traditional territory as we have for centuries. Our homestead is a peaceful expression of our connection to our territory and demonstrates the continuous use and occupation of our territories in accordance with our governance structure. Our Unist’ot’en Yin’tah is a place of healing. It is home to Wet’suwet’en people seeking refuge from colonial trauma. People recovering from addiction. People reconnecting with the land.

We have the strength of our ancestors within us. We have the solidarity of our Indigenous relatives and allies with us. We have the power of people shutting down railways, highways, ports, and government offices all around this country. Thank you to people all around this planet making our struggle your struggle. The flames of resistance and the resurgence of Indigenous land reclamation give us strength. We know our neighbours and relatives are with us. We know the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds are watching over us. These arrests don’t intimidate us. Police enforcement doesn’t intimidate us. Colonial court orders don’t intimidate us. Men in suits and their money don’t intimidate us. We are still here. We will always be there. This is not over.

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On February 15, the day after vigils and marches for missing and murdered Indigenous women across the country, Coastal GasLink intends to transport a number of trailers to Unist’ot’en yintah. The trailers are the first infrastructure in their proposed man camp—a space defined as a “multi-use site” in the affidavits for their court injunction.

The proposed man camp directly threatens the well-being of Indigenous people who have returned to the land to heal. It directly threatens the work of the Unist’ot’en Healing Center. We cannot have a man camp lurking behind us in the yintah; we cannot have a space of violent settler masculinity festering in the heart of this territory. It threatens everything we are trying to rebuild. It threatens our survival as Indigenous peoples. It is an extension of state violence. It is a continuation of colonial trauma. We cannot heal in an atmosphere of colonial violence. We will not consent to the invasion of our lands and bodies.

As clearing for the man camp has been underway, RCMP have begun daily “patrols” through the territory. Citing “safety concerns,” and security, they intimidate and harass Healing Center residents. The officers who commanded militarized RCMP to point sniper and assault rifles at our unarmed women have strolled through our territory like they own it. They are a constant reminder of the violent potential of the state. We have been threatened with arrest for checking our traplines, for participating in our ceremonies. They are not here for our safety. They are a private security detachment for Coastal GasLink. They are here to expedite construction of the pipeline, nothing more. We reject their false narratives of safety. Police forces and industry have always tried to legitimize their illegal occupation of unceded and unsurrendered Indigenous territories by insisting they have our “best interests” at heart. But their projects have been extractive, destructive, and exploitative since the beginning. The entire history of colonization teaches us not to trust them. Our ancestors teach us not to trust them. Our missing and murdered Indigenous women teach us not to trust them.

The Coastal GasLink man camp is proposed just off the Highway of Tears, where dozens of Indigenous women have been abducted or murdered. While Coastal GasLink attempts to make Unist’ot’en yintah into an industrial work site, the RCMP illegally extend their jurisdiction into our space of healing. Both incursions increase our risk of gendered and sexualized violence. In an area already prone to increased violence against Indigenous women, this is distressing, alarming, traumatizing, and unacceptable.

We must respond. Rise up. Push back. The twin faces of industry and state will continue to inch their way into our unceded lands. They will exchange our trauma for the “national interest.” They will attack our land, our bodies, our spirits. We have given enough, and enough has been taken from us.

No pipelines on Wet’suwet’en territory No man camps on Unist’ot’en yintah No sexual violence against Indigenous womxn, girls, and two spirit people No colonial violence against sovereign Indigenous nations.

#UNISTOTEN #MMIW #MMIWG #NOPIPELINES #WETSUWETENSTRONG#NOTRESPASS

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