[Indigsol] Solidarity with the Unist’ot’en Camp and Free Movie Screening and Vintage Video Game Night

Mon Aug 31 15:01:33 PDT 2015

Solidarity with the Unist’ot’en Camp and Free Movie Screening and Vintage
Video Game Night

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1)	Solidarity with the Unist’ot’en Camp
2)	What is the Unist’ot’en Camp and why is it important?
3)	Information about the current situation
4)	Sept. 7: Free Movie Screening and Vintage Videogames with OPIRG-Ottawa
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1)	Solidarity with the Unist’ot’en Camp!

Recently police in British Colombia have begun what appear to be
preparations to raid the Unist’ot’en Camp, a homestead by the Unist’ot’en
clan of the Wet’suwet’en nation that sits in the way of multiple proposed
natural gas and tar sands pipelines.

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2)	What is the Unist’ot’en Camp and why is it important?

Unis’tot’en – People of the Headwaters

The Unis’tot’en (C’ihlts’ehkhyu / Big Frog Clan) are the original
Wet’suwet’enYintah Wewat Zenli distinct to the lands of the Wet’suwet’en.
Over time in Wet’suwet’en History, the other clans developed and were
included throughout Wet’suwet’en Territories. The Unis’tot’en are known as
the toughest of the Wet’suwet’en as their territories were not only
abundant, but the terrain was known to be very treacherous. The
Unis’tot’en recent history includes taking action to protect their lands
from Lions Gate Metals at their Tacetsohlhen Bin Yintah, and building a
cabin and resistance camp at Talbits Kwah at Gosnell Creek and Wedzin Kwah
(Morice River which is a tributary to the Skeena and Bulkley River) from
seven proposed pipelines from Tar Sands Gigaproject and LNG from the Horn
River Basin Fracturing Projects in the Peace River Region

Where we are located

The camp is located on the shores of the Wedzin Kwah and mouth of the
Gosnell Creek.  These are all tributary to the Skeena, Bulkley, and Babine
Rivers.  The proposed pipelines from Enbridge,  and Pacific Trails
Pipeline (Chevron), seek to cross the river at the exact points of our
Pithouse, and Permaculture Garden that was built on the Unist´ot´en
Territory of Talbits Kwah.

Governace Structure

The Unist´ot´en homestead is not a protest or demonstration.  Our clan is
occupying and using our traditional territory as it has for centuries. Our
free prior and informed consent protocol is in place at the entrance of or
territory as an expression of our jurisdiction and our inherent right to
both give and refuse consent.  Our homestead is a peaceful expression of
our connection to our territory.  It is also an example of the continuous
use and occupation of our territory of our territory by our clan.  Our
traditional structures of governance continue to dictate the proper use of
and access to our lands and water.

Today all of our Wet´suwet´en territory, including Unist´ot´en territory,
is unceded Aboriginal territory.  Our traditional indigenous legal systems
remain intact and continue to govern our people and our lands.  We
recognize the authority of these systems.

About the Pipelines:

A total of eleven companies are currently proposing to run oil and gas
pipelines through Unist’ot’en territory, with several more companies
announcing plans to join the new gas-rush.

Three companies, Kinder Morgan, Pembina Pipelines, and Endbridge Inc. each
propose dual pipelines to transport not only dirty bitumen, but also
condensate as a diluent (along with the cocktail of heavy metals,
hydrocarbons, and poisons from the extraction and slurry process to turn
solid bitumen rock into flowing mock oil).

http://unistotencamp.com/?page_id=26

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3)	Information about the current situation:

a)	We Stand with the Unist’ot’en
b)	Unist’ot’en Call for Physical Support and Solidarity
c)	"It's definitely going down," says Grand Chief Stewart Phillip on
        Unist'ot'en Camp raid
d)	Raiding Unist'ot'en camp would be "disastrous", B.C. RCMP warned

a)	We Stand with the Unist’ot’en:

The Unist’ot’en camp and community are currently on high alert. The RCMP
recently visited the Unist’ot’en camp, and the RCMP and federal government
have continuously targeted the Unist’ot’en camp for surveillance. We are
deeply and gravely concerned to learn from a variety of sources that the
RCMP appear to be on the verge of executing a highly provocative and
dangerously reckless operational plan to make arrests.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19LH8d1HKrXD5tZugi1yxLE3Abhj6dv8W_t8eF_NsA-U/viewform?c=0&w=1

b)	Unist’ot’en Call for Physical Support and Solidarity:

Dear Friends and Supporters,

It is becoming clear that the situation here is moving toward an
escalation point. Chevron has set up a base in Houston in order to do work
on the secton of Pacific Trails Pipeline that crosses our traditional
territory.

http://unistotencamp.com/?p=1149

c)	"It's definitely going down," says Grand Chief Stewart Phillip on
Unist'ot'en Camp raid

Police officers have booked up hotel rooms in Smithers and Burns Lake in
preparation for an invasion of the Unist'ot'en Camp, said Grand Chief
Stewart Phillip of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs.
The news came in this morning, said Phillip, confirming what have
previously been thought to be rumours of an impending "mass arrest
operation" on traditional Unist'ot'en territory in northwestern B.C.

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/its-definitely-going-down-says-grand-chief-stewart-phillip-unistoten-camp-raid

d)	Raiding Unist'ot'en camp would be "disastrous", B.C. RCMP warned:

The B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) has sent a letter to the RCMP
warning against “an impending, and possibly large-scale, RCMP action in
relation to the Unist'ot'en camp”.

http://www.straight.com/news/518381/raiding-unistoten-camp-would-be-disastrous-bc-rcmp-warned

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4)	Sept. 7: Free Movie Screening and Vintage Videogames with OPIRG-Ottawa

IPSMO, and OPIRG-Ottawa present Vintage Videogames and Movie Night /
Soirée cinéma et jeux vidéo retro

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Tuesday, September 7
7pm – 10pm
Café Alternatif, Simard Building
60 University Private
Algonquin territory
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We’re happy to work with DSA, SAFA, and IPMSO to kick off your orientation
week! Vintage videogames, fancy mocktails, tasty treats, and a thriller
about revenge and retribution! First come, first serve.
The movie, Rhymes for Young Ghouls, is set in 1976 when a Mi’gMaq teenager
plots revenge against the sadistic Indian agent who imprisoned her in a
residential school where rape and abuse are common.

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Il nous fait plaisir avec l’AÉDSA, l’AÉFA et IPSMO pour lancer votre
semaine d’orientation! Des jeux vidéo rétro, des « mocktails » élaborés,
et un film rempli de suspense et de vengeance! Premier arrivé, premier
servi!
Le film Rhymes for Young Ghouls suit l’histoire d’une adolescente Mi’kmaq
en 1976 qui planifie sa revanche contre un agent sadique qui l’a enfermée
dans une école résidentielle.

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