VANCOUVER RALLY FOR THE UNIST'OT'EN - TODAY

As the Unist'ot'en remains on high alert, please find below information on a solidairty rally in Vancouver. Also right here, contact information to send emails to TODAY.

Wherever you live, on Turtle Island or beyond, we need you to take FIVE MINUTES to send emails RIGHT NOW to tell the provincial and federal governments, RCMP, and industry: they do not have jurisdiction on unceded lands.

Emphasize the following three points:

1) The TransCanada Coastal GasLink pipeline does not have the collective free, prior, and informed consent of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs. All the Wet'suwet'en Clans have rejected the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

2) The injunction and enforcement order ignores the jurisdiction and authority of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs and feast system of governance, and criminalizes land defenders.

3) Demand that the provincial government, federal government, RCMP, and industry  commit to upholding the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Anuk Nu'at'en (Wet'suwet'en laws), and that NO RCMP enforcement against Unist'ot'en/Giltseyu-Dark House take place on their unceded lands. Reconciliation and respecting UNDRIP means that Unist'ot'en not be made another Oka or Standing Rock.

EMAIL LIST TO SEND SOLIDARITY MESSAGES:

coastalgaslink@transcanada.com   
bcrcmp@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
RCMP.HQMediaRelations-DGRelationsmedias.GRC@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
john.horgan.mla@leg.bc.ca
AG.minister@gov.bc.ca
EMPR.Minister@gov.bc.ca
ENV.Minister@gov.bc.ca
IRR.Minister@gov.bc.ca
melanie.mark.mla@leg.bc.ca
shane.simpson.MLA@leg.bc.ca
mcu@justice.gc.ca

What: Rally for Unist'ot'en
When: Monday, December 17th, 5:30-8:30 pm
Where: CBC Vancouver, 700 Hamilton Street

On Friday the 14th of December, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Marguerite Church issued a temporary injunction granting Transcanada's Coastal GasLink the go-ahead to proceed with development for a future LNG pipeline on unceded Wet'suwet'en territory, stewarded by the Unist'ot'en clan.

Through this injunction, the RCMP is authorized to forcibly remove the permanent Indigenous re-occupation of ancestral territory and Unist'ot'en Healing Center.

At 5:30 pm on Monday the 17th, we will gather in front of CBC Vancouver at 700 Hamilton Street to rally in support of the Unist'ot'en.

This is only the second of multiple planned actions in Vancouver - join us in the streets on Monday, and stay tuned for more!

Invite others and share the event page on Facebook here.

IF YOU CANNOT JOIN US IN VANCOUVER TAKE ACTION NOW OR SOON IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY - WHEREVER YOU ARE!

THE FIGHT FOR INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY AND THE SURVIVAL OF MOTHER EARTH HAS NO BOUNDARIES, NO BORDERS, NO DEADLINES!

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