Indigenous Peoples

Shay Lynn Sampson, the life force, and the ‘pipe filled with poison’

22/11/21

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Patricia Lane

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Nov. 22, 2021

As part of a series highlighting the work of young people in addressing the climate crisis, writer Patricia Lane interviews Gitxsan youth Shay Lynn Sampson who is doing her part to ensure the Coastal GasLink pipeline never gets built. She was among those arrested in Friday's RCMP raids.

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Canada burned, Canada voted

22/11/21

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Socialist Unity Assembly

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You Tube

Uploaded Nov 21, 2021

Where was the EFFECTIVE climate plan?

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/iX7Je7BSFgc

The SUA seeks to unify and bring together various socialist groups for coalition building and related work.

This Panel Show was produced by a collaborative SUA Working Group.

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UPDATES FROM THE WET'SUWET'EN FRONTLINE Solidarity with Wet'suwet'en Continues and Spreads All Across Turtle Island All Out For Wet'suwet'en!

22/11/21

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First Nations leaders

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‘We Want Her Out of Jail Today.’ RCMP Slammed for Arresting Journalists

21/11/21

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Amanda Follett Hosgood

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The Tyee

Photojournalist Amber Bracken documenting the police raid at the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre on Feb. 10, 2020. Bracken and documentary filmmaker Michael Toledano were arrested at another camp kilometres from the healing centre on Friday. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood.

Nov. 20, 2021

Three members of the news media are among the dozens arrested on Wet’suwet’en territory. Two journalists remain in custody.

As I write this, two colleagues are sitting in a jail cell in Prince George, B.C. They were arrested Friday as journalists doing their jobs.

I met award-winning photojournalist Amber Bracken nearly two years ago at the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre, where we were covering the last police action on Wet’suwet’en territory.

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Sleydo, Chief Woos's Daughter, Three Accredited Journalists, and Nine other People We're Arrested In Militarized Raid of Coyote Camp Nov. 19

20/11/21

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First Nations leaders

Call For Solidarity Continues!

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RCMP are En Route Now to Coyote Camp To Carry out A Second Raid - All Out For Wet'suwet'en!

19/11/21

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First Nations leaders

Cas Yikh elder Auntie Janet - night before her arrest

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Wet’suwet’en land defenders say B.C., federal inaction prompted enforcement of Coastal GasLink eviction

17/11/21

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Matt Simmons

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The Narwhal

Haudenosaunee supporters help to close the road in Gidimt'en territory near Houston, B.C., on Sunday, November 14, 2021. Hereditary chiefs served a mandatory evacuation order for all Coastal GasLink workers and sub-contractors, but only a handful of pickup trucks left the territory. Photo: Amber Bracken / The Narwhal

Nov. 16, 2021

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RCMP Set Up Illegal Exclusion Zone Blocking Food, Medicine, And People From Reaching Healing Center And Homes On The Territory - Take Action

17/11/21

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First Nations leaders

RCMP Set Up Illegal Exclusion Zone Blocking Food, Medicine, And People From Reaching Healing Center And Homes On The Territory

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The B.C. NDP is asleep at the wheel of the climate emergency. Here’s why

17/11/21

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Robert Hackett

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rabble.ca

B.C. Premier John Horgan announcing "real climate action" in 2017. Credit: BC NDP / Flickr

[Editor: And now the floods!]

November 12, 2021

As British Columbia’s New Democratic Party prepares for its first biennial convention since winning the 2020 election, memories of last summer’s deadly heat domes and wildfires still burn deeply. B.C. is experiencing the global consequences of carbon-intensive extractivism – the kind of “rip and ship” (extract and export) economic policies pursued by the previous right-of-centre B.C. Liberal government for most of its 2001-2017 term of office.

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