Drop The Charges.
22 June 2022 Walz-Flanagan Administration, County Prosecutors, Minnesota Leadership: As you know, hundreds of water protectors are currently facing criminal charges in Minnesota for standing against Enbridge’s Line 3 expansion. They did so in defense of safe water, habitable climate, and Anishinaabe treaties, having exhausted every alternative.
First Nations Land Defenders File Submission to UN Human Rights Council | Common Dreams
“Wet’suwet’en is an international frontline to protect the rights of Indigenous peoples and to prevent climate change,” says Gidimt’en Checkpoint spokesperson Sleydo’ amid her clan’s fight against Coastal GasLink’s pipeline.
The Indigenous grandmothers who stopped a pipeline
Plans to flush out salt caverns for gas storage hit a wall of Mi’kmaq grandmothers
‘We are the power’: Canada’s Indigenous land defenders fight on
Indigenous land defenders explain why they are prepared to put their lives on the line to protect their lands.
Is Gidimt’en Checkpoint the Canadian Standing Rock?
The Wet’suwet’en resistance to the Coastal GasLink Pipeline needs your support right now.
Coastal GasLink could face million-dollar fines for repeated environmental infractions | The Narwhal
B.C’s environmental assessment office has issued 11 orders to Coastal GasLink since the project began, including three in November
Jordan Cove developers abandon plans for pipeline, Coos Bay LNG terminal
The project would have featured a natural gas pipeline crossing 229 miles in four southwestern Oregon counties to the Jordan Cove liquefaction plant in Coos Bay. From there, the gas would have been loaded onto ships for export to Asian markets.
GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Chemicals, climate and consultation
Coverage around the world on Indigenous issues for Nov. 15-21, 2021
CONTENT WARNING: POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST INDIGENOUS WOMEN
The RCMP violently raided unceded Gidimt’en territory on November 19th, 2021, removing Indigenous women from their land at gunpoint on behalf of TC Energy’s proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline.
The raid involved about 50 police, including 20 tactical officers in green military fatigues, with assault weapons and attack dogs who surrounded the camp. During the raid, the RCMP breached two structures – Skïy ze’ Cabin, a cabin built on the proposed drill pad site, and a nearby tiny home. RCMP cut the camp’s satellite internet and radio antenna cords.
The police attempted to enter the tiny house, but Cas Yikh supporting chief Sleydo’ demanded to see a warrant. Police then broke down the door with an axe and a chainsaw belonging to the land defenders, and arrested everyone inside, including Sleydo’. Police also entered Skïy ze’ cabin with a chainsaw and arrested everyone there, including Dinï ze’ Woos’ daughter, Jocey.
For 56 days, Gidimt’en land defenders (under the direction of Dinï ze’ Woos) re-occupied their ancestral Cas Yikh territory, blocking the Coastal Gaslink pipeline from drilling beneath Wet’suwet’en headwaters. The land reclamation known as Coyote Camp was established to protect the sacred Wedzin Kwa. Over the course of November 18th-19th, 32 people were arrested, including 3 journalists and 3 Legal Observers. All land defenders have now been released from prison, with a February 14th, 2022 court date.
