#wetsuweten — Public Fediverse posts

Meadowlarks released in 2025 set in Canada

"Four siblings, torn apart by the Sixties Scoop, reunite for one week."

Heartbreaking but important to watch.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35537918

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#canadianhistory #firstnation #movie #greatmovie #cree #Wetsuweten

Jeu 9/04 19h30, YINTAH : La Resistance des Wetsuwet’en à la construction de pipelines sur leurs territoires

https://mobilizon.fr/events/3eea4bb0-b647-4829-9051-7ad6842e6c32

@beandreams The RCMP COs sent to #Wetsuweten land defenders/water protectors camp were Brewer & Charney. They were both promoted. Charney was the one who slashed the emergency water tanks, during wildfires season. DLT Newman was the CIRG 'Indian Agent' they sent to that camp & to Gitxan territory to help terrorize Indigenous land defenders. I have met all of these RCMP CIRG domestic terrorists on mainland & on the island.
Charney should be in prison - he's the most unhinged & they put him in charge of most of the violent raids.

Since 2020, “rule of law” became politicians’ mantra, urging police to shut down #Wetsuweten solidarity blockades.

Fast-forward six years, the line has been abandoned in favour of something suggesting law is not so much a rule but something to be manipulated.

Amanda Follett Hosgood writes. 🪧💬

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/01/12/What-Happened-Rule-Law/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

*One of my fierce sisters from another mister & fellow land/forest/water protectors, Jocey Alec & her family from #Wetsuweten #FirstNation are in this #documentary.

The #BCNDP & #GovernmentOfCanada are both still trying to criminalize environmental & #IndigenousSovereignty activism. The #BCgovernment created #RCMPCIRG in 2017 to crackdown on protestors. They are strictly a corporate mercenaries branch serving industry interests not public interests. Citizens tax monies are being exploited by BC NDP to pay these militarized thugs to commit violence so #ecocide corporations can profit more.*

Is #Canada at a point of no return, suffering the effects of #ClimateChange and worsening #wildfire seasons? Two controversial pipelines, the #TransMountain Expansion Project #TMX and #CoastalGasLink #CGL are being expanded and threatening the natural home of historically oppressed First Nations in Canada. But several First Nations are leading the fight against these massive #pipelines and becoming key advocates for protecting #nature from climate change.

Being a #LandDefender comes at a cost: harassment, detentions by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
#RCMP and threats from private security. But, in the face of setbacks, these #Indigenous #activists press on: “We are still fighting. This dance is not over yet.” In this episode, we hear the stories of the #IndigenousCommunities on the receiving end of these huge pipelines and their fight for the protection of both humans and nature.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g6-yzORlse4

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #BritishColumbia #Landback #Decolonization #ColonialCrimes #UNDRIP #BritishColumbia #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #ClimateAction #PowerToThePeoples #IndigenousLandDefense #Environmental #ecological #ProtectTheWild #OneEarth #NatureIsSacred #ProtectTheSacred

#Wetsuweten will be in court on August 21, 2025 as #Canada has filed a #MotionToStrike against their #climate #litigation case. Sound familiar? That’s because in July 2020, Canada filed a Motion to Strike against the Misdzi Yikh Charter challenge. Several years and an appeal hearing (that ended with the Federal Court of Appeal deciding that the section 7 of the Charter challenge was justiciable) later, Canada has filed for another Motion to Strike. Keep a lookout on RAVEN’s channels as we get closer to the hearing, we’ll be sharing lots of educational materials and actions to take to support Wet’suwet’en. Learn more about the #CharterCase and #donate to support the #legal action here.

https://raventrust.com/campaigns/wetsuweten/

#IndigenousRights #NativeRights #Law #CDNpoli #BCpoli #StopEcocide #Injustice #colonialism #capitalism #IndigenousLand #BritishColumbia #UNDRIP #FirstNations

Five years ago on sovereign Wet'suwet'en land, red dresses, symbolizing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, were removed by RCMP and Coastal GasLink workers. #LandBack #RCMP #CGL #Wetsuweten #colonialism

Inside a BC NDP Grappling with Protests, Police and Public Relations | The Tyee

“Ongoing external collaboration with partner ministries is being facilitated to establish an integrated approach.”
#bafflegab #wetsuweten #bcpoli #friendlyhorseypolice #coolandnormal #canadaisanoilproducingCOMPANY

https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/04/BC-NDP-Protests-Police-Public-Relations/

see also David Petraeus, Counter-insurgency manual "FM 3-24": https://irp.fas.org/doddir/army/fm3-24fd.pdf

In the summer of 2011, I was utterly spent—physically, mentally, creatively—after hauling my film END:CIV across North America. When I returned to Vancouver, I had no place to live, so I did what many DIY filmmakers do: I moved into my van. Then came an invitation that changed everything: members of the Unist’ot’en Clan asked me to screen my film on #Wetsuweten territory.

So I piled some anarchist friends into my old camper and headed north, not realizing I was about to witness—and document—a legendary fight against pipelines on the #yintah. This is my story...

https://amplifierfilms.ca/water-land-and-freedom-my-journey-through-a-decade-of-pipeline-resistance-on-the-yintah-and-beyond

@AnnaAnthro Thanks for sharing this. Some journalists have struggled to report on the rights and title of #Indigenouspeoples in #Canada for decades. The war on the #Wetsuweten like the #Palestinians is a long one in Canadian #media.

Indígenas de Canadá, EEUU, Perú, Bolivia y otros países viajan hasta el #CorredorInteroceánico para espejear las resistencias
👉 https://avispa.org/?p=118287 🐝

#indígenas #Latinomérica #Wetsuweten #otomies #Istmo #TrenMaya #EZLN #Zapatistas #resistencia #PueblosOriginarios #mexico #finlandia #elsalvador #gasoductos #minerales

A lengthy article, but tl;dr: LNG giant TotalEnergies is complicit in Mozambique massacre of civilians.

Around the world, so-called "Green" LNG is implicated in human rights abuses, such as actions by Canadian police against #wetsuweten land defenders.

https://www.politico.eu/article/totalenergies-mozambique-patrick-pouyanne-atrocites-afungi-palma-cabo-delgado-al-shabab-isis/

#SQUAMISH - Tonight!

An Evening with #LandDefenders - Friday, Sept 13

Join an evening with land defenders from #Wetsuweten, #Gitxsan, and other #FirstNations, who will be in Squamish to share their community’s experience with the #CoastalGasLink #pipeline and the #LNG export facility in #Kitimat, B.C., and who are now fighting the proposed #PrinceRupert Gas Transmission line. This is an opportunity for community members to learn about the potential social and #environmental impacts of the #FortisBC #EagleMountain pipeline and #WoodfibreLNG projects in the Squamish region. A question-and-answer period will follow the presentation. The event is at the Eagle Eye Theatre in Squamish Friday, Sept 13 at 6:30 p.m. (doors at 6 p.m.)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-land-defenders-in-squamish-registration-1001064971277

#BCpoli #Indigenous #Environmental #ecological #NativeLand #BritishColumbia #CDNpoli #Canada #UNDRIP

#Exclusive: On the heels of the last significant police action on #Wetsuweten territory, B.C. quietly embarked on a process to “streamline” its response to what it saw as a rising wave of protests across the province. @afh reports.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/08/28/BC-Secretive-Plan-Tighten-Protest-Response/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

Canada's first 'prisoner of conscience' is an Indigenous land defender

https://grist.org/indigenous/canadas-first-prisoner-of-conscience-is-an-indigenous-land-defender/

The distinction is given to people who are incarcerated for their politics, religion, or ethnicity as well as other personal and protected statuses.

#Canada #LandDefender #PoliticalPrisoner #Indigenous #Wetsuweten #CoastalGaslink #CorruptGovernment #nonviolent #AmnestyInternational #Chief #Resistance #Ecocide #LandTheft

TY to @PhoenixSerenity for making me aware of this news.

B.C. hereditary chief gets house arrest for #pipeline blockade

Chief invoked #Wetsuweten law for protecting land and water against #CoastalGasLink

by Betsy Trumpener · CBC News
Posted: Jul 03, 2024 9:23

"Chief Dtsa'hyl testified that as a leader, he had a duty to protect Wet'suwet'en land, water, burial sites, and historic trails from the degradation of pipeline construction. He said his actions against Coastal GasLink upheld the traditional Wet'suwet'en law of trespass.

"During the sentencing hearing this week, defence lawyer Rebecca McConchie said the chief's actions needed to be understood in the context of 'the oppression of Wet'suwet'en people in colonial history and the ongoing issues with #UncededLand.'

"The defence said the criminal contempt case punished the chief 'for upholding #IndigenousLaw because doing so breached a #colonial court order.'

"The judge acknowledged that questions around the rights and title of unceded #Indigenous territory, as well as how industrial projects consult with #FirstNations, remain unresolved."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wetsuweten-hereditary-chief-coastal-gaslink-1.7251161

#ChiefDtsahyl #CorporateColonialism #NoDAPL #NoPipelines #IndigenousRights #IndigenousSovereignty
#BCgovernment
#Injustice #UncededNativeLand
#StopEcocide #NativeLandDefenders
#IndigenousLeader #Consent