City, provincial and federal police and a 3 metre (10 foot) high fence will surround the Palais des Congrès in Montreal where the COP15 biodiversity summit will take place. Photo by Alison Northcott/CBC. The Guardian reports: “In a series of dispatches ahead of the Cop15 UN biodiversity conference in Montreal Read more…
Wet’suwet’en land defender Eve Saint will be speaking at a Decolonial Solidarity mobilization in front of a Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) branch in Ottawa. Saint will join the protest by telephone on Friday December 9. The Facebook event page notes: “Come out to the RBC in the Glebe and Read more…
Photo: The grave site of Indigenous land defender Dudley George. Deutsche Welle reports: “Businesses, criminal groups and governments have long violently displaced communities from their ancestral lands — and Indigenous people are seemingly more likely to be killed than other defenders.” That article further notes: “At least 613 Indigenous activists Read more…