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Three hereditary chiefs arrested as Wet’suwet’en solidarity actions flare across Canada

February 26, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Brett Forester and Lee Wilson APTN News Gitxsan Chief Spookwx put on his hereditary chief’s regalia as he prepared to be arrested on Monday night. Around the campfire that burned on CN Rail tracks, he […]
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Indigenous peoples

Cops raid Wet’suwet’en camps. Indigenous and allies respond: Shut Down Canada!

February 14, 2020 M. Tiahui
Indigenous people and allies who support Indigenous sovereignty have taken to the streets throughout Canada in response to multiple raids on peaceful encampments in Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) with […]
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Indigenous peoples

Unist’ot’en matriarchs arrested. Stand with Unist’ot’en now!

February 10, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Unist’ot’en Territory, Feb 10, 2020 – A convoy of armed RCMP tactical units has invaded sovereign and unceded Unist’ot’en Territory to enforce Coastal GasLink’s injunction. Our Unist’ot’en Matriarchs and lands defenders have been forcibly removed off […]
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Indigenous peoples

RCMP arrive at Unist’ot’en camp in helicopters; leave without arrests

February 9, 2020 Amanda Follett Hosgood, The Tyee
Two helicopters brought RCMP officers to the Unist’ot’en Healing Center around 11 a.m. today, as police appeared to be ready to evict the last of three locations set up by Wet’suwet’en members fighting a gas […]
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UPDATED: International Days of Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en

February 8, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
We stand with the Wet’suwet’en Nation as they assert jurisdiction over their lands and protect the inherent rights of their people. We condemn the colonial violence carried out by the RCMP and the Coastal GasLink […]
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Indigenous peoples

Six land defenders violently arrested on Wet’suwet’en territories

February 6, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
[Breaking story, info incoming] February 6, 2020: Six people have been arrested and several others, including members of the press, have been detained and removed from Wet’suwet’en territories in an aggressive pre-dawn raid by RCMP […]
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Indigenous peoples

Breaking: Pre-dawn RCMP arrests on Wet’suwet’en territories

February 6, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
4:57 am, Feb 6, 2020: The gate at 39 km has been breached. 13 RCMP vehicles past 39 km. Road is being cleared, 1 to 4 arrests made. Story developing. 4:55am – It’s not yet […]
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Indigenous peoples

Youth sit in to defend Indigenous sovereignty

January 31, 2020 Zola Fish
No fracking pipeline on Wet’suwet’en land! Twelve protesters supporting Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs were arrested by members of the Victoria, British Columbia, Police Department early in the morning of Jan. 22 during a lengthy occupation of […]
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Indigenous peoples

False solutions to climate change flop at UN’s COP25 after Indigneous uprising

December 17, 2019 Jennifer Falcon
Madrid, Spain — The two-week UN climate meeting collapsed Dec. 15, ending with no new commitments to increase ambitions to reduce emissions at the levels needed to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius. […]
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Indigenous peoples

Indigenous COP25 delegation removed from U.S. Embassy in Spain

December 16, 2019 Jennifer Falcon
December 10 — Over 75 Indigenous activists and their allies demonstrated in front of the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain, to demand justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirits (MMIWG2S). The delegation […]