Franklin López

12 days, thousands of kilometers dodging potholes and cynical corporate PR—from Nehirowisiw Territory to Kanehsatake, swing through Wemotaci, then Mashteuiatsh—just to film land defenders giving CN and the clear-cutting psychopaths the one-finger salute. This clip, They Stopped the Train to Defend the Forest, is a taste of our full doc Defenders of the Forest, dropping soon and free for your solidarity screenings. Stay woke (LOL) and check 🔗 https://amplifierfilms.ca — this isn’t tourism, it’s frontline Indigenous resistance.

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Jul 18, 2025 at 4:08pmWeb
Show threadLukefromDCJul 18, 2025
@franklinlopez LOVE seeing those cops feed themselves to the mosquitoes!
Show threadestelleJul 18, 2025

@franklinlopez huh. so all it really took was a lashed frame and some people. that's pretty interesting!

in the united states we just had an entire deal with precision scheduled railroading driving the train engineers into way too much overtime. (they won higher pay despite biden's efforts to break the strike, but they still have way too much overtime.)

i just thought that was an interesting observation

Show threadFranklin LópezJul 18, 2025
@estelle CN stopped the goddamn trains — not because of an actual blockade, but just the threat of one. That’s how spooked they are when folks start flexing some coordinated, decentralized power. Indigenous land defenders have been showing us this shit for decades — from the Oka Crisis to 2020 — you wanna fuck with Canada’s economy? Block a fucking train.