Wet’suwet’en land defenders Eve Saint and Jocey Alec were recently interviewed by rabble.ca contributor and PBI-Canada director Brent Patterson. To listen to that interview, click the play button below. To listen to the fuller rabble radio podcast – hosted by Chelsea Nash and produced by Breanne Doyle – click here. Read more…
Gidimt’en Checkpoint photo. On December 10, Brett Forester of APTN News reported: “The British Columbia government authorized emergency RCMP redeployment to Wet’suwet’en territory on the same day [Monday November 15] catastrophic floods ravaged critical infrastructure and deluged communities elsewhere in the province.” The article adds: “Solicitor General Mike Farnworth approved Read more…
Photo by Amber Bracken. In 2020, there were at least 227 lethal attacks – an average of more than four a week – against land and environmental rights defenders around the world. Over a third of all the attacks were against Indigenous land defenders. Last month, a two-day militarized RCMP Read more…
Instagram photo of Eve Saint and Jocey Alec. Wet’suwet’en land defenders Eve Saint and Jocelyn (Jocey) Alec are sisters who have been criminalized for defending their sovereign territory in northern British Columbia from a fracked gas pipeline being built on those lands without consent. Eve was arrested by the RCMP Read more…
Photo by Amber Brackin/The Narwhal. Hundreds of academics have signed this Open Letter that denounces that the “RCMP attacked and removed Wet’suwet’en land defenders opposing the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline project (a project on which TC Energy is the operator).” The letter adds: “We strongly condemn aggression by Read more…
Photo by Dan Loan, November 18, 2021. The lack of transparency on the part of the British Columbia government and the RCMP, specifically on the timeline of their decision to raid Wet’suwet’en territory and arrest Indigenous land defenders and journalists, raises concerning questions. Timing of the raid On Wednesday November 17, Read more…
On November 30, Gidimt’en land defender Sleydo’ was interviewed by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez on Democracy Now! Excerpts from that interview include Sleydo’ highlighting: “The CIRG team of the police, the specialized group of RCMP to deal with specifically industry and Indigenous land defenders, surrounded our camp with tactical Read more…
Photo: Murray Rankin with federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh (who supports the Coastal GasLink pipeline, but who also criticized the recent RCMP raid against Wet’suwet’en land defenders: “That’s not reconciliation.”) Murray Rankin, the Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation in the province of British Columbia, has highlighted following the RCMP Read more…
Photo: Gidimt’en land defender Sleydo’ (Molly Wickham). Today, Monday November 29, is International Women Human Rights Defenders Day. It recognizes women engaged in the defence of the right to land, territory, environment, water, and Indigenous rights, and freedom of association and expression. On this day, we wish to recognize Gidimt’en Read more…
On October 3, Gidimt’en land defender Sleydo’ announced in this video that a log cabin had been built on the space where Coastal GasLink was preparing to drill under the Wedzin Kwa river for its fracked gas pipeline. The Wet’suwet’en oppose this pipeline being built on their lands without their Read more…