As winter looms, #Gitxsan and #Gitanyow #pipeline #resistance shows no sign of slowing

#LandDefenders continue to organize against #PRGT as its environmental assessment certificate is up for review starting this week [Nov 27, 2024]

"[Maas Gwitkunuxws Teresa Brown], who’s chosen to make her home in a converted school bus heated by a wood stove, said she, too, will do what it takes to make sure the pipeline project is kiboshed. 'They’re not getting in here,' she told IndigiNews. 'Over my dead body.'

By Mike Graeme, November 27, 2024

"Up a forestry road north of Kispiox on Gitxsan Lax’yip (homelands), the sounds of hammering and power tools echo through the forest as golden leaves fall from aspen poplar and paper birch trees.

"With winter imminent, Maas Gwitkunuxws Teresa Brown — who is Gitxsan from the Gisk’aast (Fireweed) Clan — and her team hurry to build a structure to keep Brown’s four dogs and nine foster puppies warm during the cold months.

"In these territories of northwestern 'B.C.,' temperatures can be unforgiving, with lows known to drop to -30 C or colder at night.

"'It’s scary thinking I’m going to be out here in the winter, but it really feels like I can’t leave,' Brown says. 'I do this from love.'"

https://indiginews.com/features/winter-looms-gitxsan-and-gitanyow-pipeline-resistance

#BritishColumbia #CdnPol #DefendTheSacred #PipelineBlockade #PipelineResistance #PRGTPipeline #BigOilAndGas

#SQUAMISH - Tonight!

An Evening with #LandDefenders - Friday, Sept 13

Join an evening with land defenders from #Wetsuweten, #Gitxsan, and other #FirstNations, who will be in Squamish to share their community’s experience with the #CoastalGasLink #pipeline and the #LNG export facility in #Kitimat, B.C., and who are now fighting the proposed #PrinceRupert Gas Transmission line. This is an opportunity for community members to learn about the potential social and #environmental impacts of the #FortisBC #EagleMountain pipeline and #WoodfibreLNG projects in the Squamish region. A question-and-answer period will follow the presentation. The event is at the Eagle Eye Theatre in Squamish Friday, Sept 13 at 6:30 p.m. (doors at 6 p.m.)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-land-defenders-in-squamish-registration-1001064971277

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Abuse of process hearing for #Wetsuweten leader, blockade members to resume in June

The Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline would run from Dawson Creek to Kitimat, B.C., through traditional territory of the Wet'suwet'en

CBC
19 January 2024

"An abuse of process hearing for three people found guilty of criminal #contempt of court for blocking work on the #CoastalGasLink #pipeline in November 2021 is being adjourned until June.

"Two weeks were scheduled this month in B.C. Supreme Court in Smithers for a trial and abuse of process application for #Sleydo', also known as #MollyWickham, a Wing Chief of #CasYikh, a house group of the #Gidimten Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation; #ShaylynnSampson, a #Gitxsan woman with Wet'suwet'en family ties and #CoreyJocko, who is Kanien'kehá:ka (#Mohawk) from #Akwesasne, which straddles the Quebec, Ontario and New York state borders.

"The accused were found guilty last Friday by Justice Michael Tammen of criminal contempt of court for breaking a 2019 injunction that impedes anyone from blocking work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

"Tammen then began hearing the abuse of process application that alleges #RCMP used excessive force when they were arrested and that they were treated unfairly while in custody.

"The filing asks if the judge doesn't stay their charges, then it would be appropriate to reduce their sentences based on their treatment by police.

"Several RCMP witnesses have testified so far about the two-day raid in November 2021 enforcing the injunction.

"Const. Mark Freeman and Cpl. Colin Warwick, who were in charge of police dogs on scene, testified on Friday.

"They told the court that the dogs were there to look for people who may be hiding in the area or detect possible booby traps, but they found no people or booby traps.

"During two days of testimony earlier this week, Supt. James Elliott spoke about factors that played a role in deciding the resources used to enforce the injunction.

"Elliott said he was considering information about half-cut trees along the side of the forest service road that had potential to fall, a social media post that indicated weapons were hidden under the snow in the area, the possibility of booby traps along the road and use of the Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) warrior flag, that police thought indicated heightened #activism.

"Several other police witnesses also mentioned the potential for booby traps but no one said any were found.

"During cross-examination of the RCMP witnesses, defence lawyer Frances Mahon told the court the social media post was referring to the #Haudenosaunee great law of peace, in which five warring nations bury their weapons under a pine tree to unite.

"Mahon also played audio recordings in which officers can be heard referring to people being arrested as 'orcs' and 'ogre.' In another recording, RCMP officers can be heard laughing about an officer beating a person being arrested and grabbing and twisting their testicles.

"When the hearing resumes, the defence is expected to call several witnesses, including the three accused.

"The hearing is expected to resume in Smithers June 17-21."

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/abuse-process-hearing-wetsuweten-leader-215317616.html

#ACAB #SLAPPs #IndigenousActivism
#BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism
#IndigenousLandDefenders
#LandBack #2023PublicOrderAct #DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent
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From Dogwood

General David Petraeus might be familiar if you followed the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. As the top commander in the so-called “War on Terror,” Petraeus wrote the U.S. military field manual on counterinsurgency warfare.

Now those tactics are being used against Indigenous people and other civilians in B.C. to suppress resistance to oil and gas pipelines.

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#Wet’suwet’en #Gitxsan #CoastalGasLink #pipeline
#BC #bcpoli #RCMP #KKR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9VDJmOPvlE