[Org4j-announce] Wet'suwet'en Strong - Round Up Of Raids

Wed Feb 19 05:23:56 PST 2020

Below is an email = "Round Up Of Raids" =
from the Unist'ot'en Solidarity email list,
containing links to videos, fundraising, analysis, actions, and more.

Please do read through, and share as well.
(there are links for sharing on social media as well).

Also please see this growing #WetsuswetenStrong 2020 video playlist,
compiled from a variety of video producers / channels:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgW3qVAvzOI5J6esSwLJI-CLQU0RZtF6I

#WetsuwetenSolidarity #ShutDownCanada #ReconciliationIsDead #BlockTheRails

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*ROUND UP OF RAIDS:*
*Militarized Royal Mounted Canadian Police Are Dispossessing the
Wet’suwet’en People of Their Land to Clear the Path for a Pipeline*
HELP US SPREAD THE TRUTH: Please share this email with organizations and
people in your networks.

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*All video footage rights reserved. Press should contact
yintahfilm at protonmail.com for permission to use footage. Organizations have
consent to use footage.
<https://www.facebook.com/unistoten/videos/194181774992595/?__xts__[0]=68.ARA-mRzVLwExdDwq2kzAVYwUAIA87VCP1T7zVLDJ-BRfuIzbXyb2RVB2uTvNAl8tGICmR5U79WmMyXX-5f3pY7pNHeeohqD7BIE6RP8TiKftfQqdI8Di5uxppwTpdMfs4DjNpfs45BJQc_F1mz17HdG2h2kKpgjo3cslM0hHSek1mb-X-PIGpiOOhePduAU7uj5W_g_fZw97nShZpeBBMXvCvfKM_0m8kMP-Z_Tq5fma5M2qL-JqQ8UDPdM8jMtYLHZhIE2vhg_-wTfcmZUc1fWuGGtmaUjHc3DKCFbkA9u1gSK4K7K59JkMcYHy5swDb1LgqRsiKOq1dCDvxWJtSc8asgmo5JR3tARoaQ&__tn__=-R>

VIDEO: Raid on Unist'ot'en Village @KM 66
Credit: Michael Toledano, Melissa Cox (Mutual Aid Media), Grace Burke
Support The Battle: DONATE

Unist'ot'en Legal Fund
<https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/unistoten2020legalfund?fbclid=IwAR0ZNtKK0DfPckHrBDSAMGSNZq1E2MvEhQh8rId5wLMJ8rXqMBGuEhn5yyY>

Gidimt'en Strong
<https://www.gofundme.com/f/gidimt039en-strong?fbclid=IwAR1_z5Vu3P88rlIgkB9wDjRpbLfV_tEvl7Hc_efKZn-vbzCgaH5V13hQvOg>

On December 31, 2019, BC Supreme Court Justice Marguerite Church extended
Coastal GasLink’s injunction order
<https://www.facebook.com/unistoten/posts/3327785140629041> from an interim
injunction to an interlocutory injunction. Members of the Wet’suwet’en
nation have been stewarding and protecting their traditional territories
from the destruction of multiple pipelines, including Coastal GasLink’s
(CGL) liquified natural gas (LNG) pipeline.

Hereditary Chiefs of all five Wet’suwet’en clans rejected
<http://unistoten.camp/wetsuweten-hereditary-chiefs-reject-the-bc-supreme-court-decision-to-criminalize-wetsuweten-law/>
Church’s
decision, which criminalizes Anuk ‘nu’at’en (Wet’suwet’en law), and issued
and enforced an eviction
<http://unistoten.camp/wetsuweten-hereditary-chiefs-evict-coastal-gaslink-from-territory/>
of
CGL’s workers from the territory January 4, 2020. [Watch the eviction video
<https://www.facebook.com/unistoten/videos/625263731348616/>].

On February 6, 2020, heavily militarized raids by Royal Canadian Mounted
Police (RCMP) were launched in Wet’suwet’en Territory. These miliarized
operations deployed dozens of RCMP along with tactical teams armed with
assault rifles, snipers, helicopters and canine units. As of February 14th,
4 violent raids have taken place in camps and villages where Wet’suwet’en
people and their supporters have been monitoring and blocking traffic
associated with the Coastal GasLink Pipeline (CGL). Among the raided camps
was the Unist’ot’en Village
<https://www.facebook.com/unistoten/posts/3485342848206602?__xts__[0]=68.ARATcV9M3B1i-7GjhB6H4cyl3VrF_EAqoqYYcB_0n_IsPlh4UrOa5nvOkshocrT0RYWeTKJ9J7Pkw88YKXrrGJTU_kbUw8Ws34UowR-4xE5q7D5O834CM2oU03Hkf3u5AhS493INSM7R2zdBO4n3kYGtji8mdlY6w7-bO_FrQ_ncb2c0cF9a1pb8gKIeo8aF1ZlLqpjUXlm1g4VzAivnjy2N3LHx-d0lyiWfLRdQ8GIJxyUPX1APdgVY0KRBkvRPp3oTn57bnOBuyJlIHvUER8JDP4ZUsf3Li0AuF-xXadi-jCHlcjJ5ko_mq6prX1tKK1tgqdnNVe7R5u7J3RIKQJQa1g&__tn__=-R>,
the longest standing Wet’suwet’en Village in the pipeline’s path. [Watch
the Unist’ot’en Village raid video
<https://www.facebook.com/unistoten/videos/194181774992595/?__xts__[0]=68.ARA-mRzVLwExdDwq2kzAVYwUAIA87VCP1T7zVLDJ-BRfuIzbXyb2RVB2uTvNAl8tGICmR5U79WmMyXX-5f3pY7pNHeeohqD7BIE6RP8TiKftfQqdI8Di5uxppwTpdMfs4DjNpfs45BJQc_F1mz17HdG2h2kKpgjo3cslM0hHSek1mb-X-PIGpiOOhePduAU7uj5W_g_fZw97nShZpeBBMXvCvfKM_0m8kMP-Z_Tq5fma5M2qL-JqQ8UDPdM8jMtYLHZhIE2vhg_-wTfcmZUc1fWuGGtmaUjHc3DKCFbkA9u1gSK4K7K59JkMcYHy5swDb1LgqRsiKOq1dCDvxWJtSc8asgmo5JR3tARoaQ&__tn__=-R>
].

The forcible removal of Wet’suwet'en people and their supporters on behalf
of the CGL project, part of the largest fracking project in Canadian
history, has sparked nation-wide unrest leading to the closures of
highways, railways, ports and government offices throughout the
country. Twenty-eight
people have been arrested
<https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/posts/521619158783875> in
Wet’suwet’en Territory thus far, with dozens of arrests occurring elsewhere
in the country. [Watch a recap video
<https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/181004986642180/> of 3 of
the raids].

The Wet’suwet’en Nation has never signed a treaty or sold or surrendered
their land to Canada and claims jurisdiction of 22,000 square kilometers,
an area the size of New Jersey. The landmark 1997 Delgamuukw v British
Columbia case
<https://thenarwhal.ca/industry-government-pushed-to-abolish-aboriginal-title-at-issue-in-wetsuweten-stand-off-docs-reveal/>
affirmed
Aboriginal title to unceded land. Wet’suwet'en people have been
continuously policed for the past 13 months; the first 3 months of policing
cost $3.6 million CAD
<https://twitter.com/pieglue/status/1225853966623236096>.

This is not the first time the RCMP have violently raided camps on
Wet’suwet’en territory. On January 7, 2019, militarized police who
were deployed with authority to use “lethal overwatch”
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/20/canada-indigenous-land-defenders-police-documents>
breached
the gate at Gidimt’en Checkpoint and arrested 14 Land defenders including
Molly Wickham, a Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief. [Watch the 2019 raid video
<https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/472608843268486/>].
<https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/181004986642180/>
VIDEO: Roundup of Raids on Gidimt’en Territory @KM 27, 39, and 44.
Credit: Jesse Freeston, Bunker Films/Mutual Aid Media, and MacKenzie Keir
Knight

*KEY RESOURCES*

*Media Backgrounder*
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xoGCEZdwn9ExzYPEDwqY063V5fLj3iatu-AOF-lqGQ4/edit?usp=sharing>

*Wet'suwet'en Supporter Toolkit 2020*
<http://unistoten.camp/supportertoolkit2020/>
<http://unistoten.camp/supportertoolkit2020/>
Support The Battle: DONATE

Unist'ot'en Legal Fund
<https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/unistoten2020legalfund?fbclid=IwAR0ZNtKK0DfPckHrBDSAMGSNZq1E2MvEhQh8rId5wLMJ8rXqMBGuEhn5yyY>

Gidimt'en Strong
<https://www.gofundme.com/f/gidimt039en-strong?fbclid=IwAR1_z5Vu3P88rlIgkB9wDjRpbLfV_tEvl7Hc_efKZn-vbzCgaH5V13hQvOg>
<https://vimeo.com/391634322>
VIDEO: Wet'suwet'en Supporters Block the Rails
Edited by: Submedia https://sub.media
International Solidarity: All out for Wet'suwet'en. *Join an Action Near
You!
<https://m.facebook.com/events/594514121137249?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%223%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&aref=3>*
<https://vimeo.com/390269308/3f9e1a4473?fbclid=IwAR3ZspdUnz6drbfDhOgnoVFW_vVF286_tA-6IC1HekpgkzP3TC7sHyVA7CM>
VIDEO: Raid on Gidimt’en Territory @KM 44
Credit: MacKenzie Keir Knight
<https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/522458818374962/>
VIDEO: Raid on Gidimt’en Territory @KM 39
Credit: Bunker Films/Mutual Aid Media
<https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/484986362377840/?__xts__[0]=68.ARDx20kOItRBekO6cb3xx2lZbQBpl-XnhRGLXq9EL_a81A2OsiCGkH8uPm_GKyWh_ncpMj2YSs5jofQDNwnkJBUsp_jQdHTLKrtxM4jX2J9ZwypS-fLEK1lgsWZdsT-UzJCI77JVdC5zl_E2dJQwDWpRnUX8emK9QiQSlQQM_1Peb5Vxklid0L4YgQu9tdww8sfLY7pQ5n_vomlrZf0_1bn2fG9HaRtUZwOe6mkbevV4l3yBrmhxIUqji9GBtBo4U3g_WEx5NHiCz1X3BlbwYiamKREP2pnd7I3U3XcM2ivRt4IbrByH51bXCtR3ubKnxkqCb2HYm1yXhBQThpP4J3l24bIARmhB-Z8&__tn__=-R>
VIDEO: Raid on Gidimt’en Territory @KM 27
Credit: Bunker Films/Mutual Aid Media
<https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/120846969334450/>
VIDEO: Canada is Ready to Kill Us
Credit: Denzel Sutherland-Wilson

"I SEE YOU! I see your struggle and love you! Keep going---we're close! We
are closer than we ever have been!" Molly Wickham

#StandUpFightBack #WetsuwetenStrong

JOIN A SOLIDARITY ACTION
<https://m.facebook.com/events/594514121137249?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%223%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&aref=3>

"Every morning I wake up expecting to hear the helicopters buzzing toward
our territories carrying militarized RCMP with tactical weapons. The RCMP
have not left Wet'suwet'en territory!!! They are continuing with their
oppression despite having tactical teams out of sight. We are experiencing
heavy surveillance and oppression.

I see the Indigenous youth in so called Victoria and Vancouver,  the
Gitxsan, the Haudenosaunee, and all the supporters from coast to coast. I
SEE YOU! I see your struggle and love you! Keep going---we're close! We are
closer than we ever have been!
#standupfightback
#reconciliationisdead
#shutdowncanada
#wetsuwetenstrong"
<https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/521104015502056/?type=3&theater>
Lady Chainsaw, a Cree land defender, remains in jail for upholding
Wet'suwet'en law and protecting Unist'ot'en territory. She will remain in
police custody until a court appearance on February 21, 2020.

<https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/story/28856/what-you-might-not-know-about-indigenous-law-and-the-raids-on-wetsuweten/>
CLICK HERE FOR MORE GRAPHICS
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BnWc8gQm104LN7Aj_RZtBxYHTx01wTpK?usp=sharing>
KEY ARTICLES
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/20/canada-indigenous-land-defenders-police-documents>
Guardian: Canada police prepared to shoot indigenous activists, documents
show
<https://thenarwhal.ca/industry-government-pushed-to-abolish-aboriginal-title-at-issue-in-wetsuweten-stand-off-docs-reveal/>
Narwhal: Industry, government pushed to abolish Aboriginal title at issue
in Wet’suwet’en stand-off, docs reveal
<https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/01/05/Year-After-RCMP-Raid-Wetsuweten-New-injunction/>
The Tyee: One year after RCMP raid, tensions rise as Wet’suwet’en evict
pipeline company
<https://ricochet.media/en/2904/untangling-the-rule-of-law-in-the-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-standoff>
Ricochet: Untangling the ‘rule of law’ in the Coastal GasLink pipeline
standoff
<https://twitter.com/Gidimten/status/1228551637775503361>
<https://twitter.com/UnistotenCamp/status/1228489883406045185>
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