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‘Shameful Day for Canada’: First Nations Encampment Violently Raided, Land Protectors Arrested

January 9, 2019 by webmaster Leave a Comment

What you haven’t heard from inside the battle of Gidimt’en checkpoint

Toronto Star, Jan. 12, 2019 
https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/01/12/what-you-havent-heard-from-inside-the-battle-of-gidimten-checkpoint.html

StarMetro reporters spent five days inside and outside the fortified lines of the conflict in the snowy mountains of Northern B.C. Here’s what they saw.

(RULE BY FORCE and VIOLENCE against nature and humanity)

The Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship has long since supported the Unist’ot’en Camp through hosting events and working with other allies, notably the students from Western Washington University.

Unist'ot'en Camp raid by Royal Canadian Mounted Police
More than 50 protests have been planned for across the globe on Tuesday in solidarity with a First Nations group fighting against the construction of TransCanada’s Coastal GasLink through unceded Wet’suwet’en territory, with the number of protests rising overnight after Canadian police broke down a checkpoint gate erected by Indigenous land protectors and arrested more than a dozen people.

Read more here.

 

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