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Above photo: Joshua Best, Stand.Earth. At Royal Bank of Canada shareholder meeting, Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs call for an end to fossil fuel finance. Kicking-off shareholder season, Indigenous land defenders, climate finance experts, youth activists ramp up pressure on RBC. Traditional territories of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (Haudenosaunee), Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Mississauga, and Wendake-Nionwentsïo […]
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Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs Demand Royal Bank Stop Financing Pipeline
March 10th, 2022 
Awake Goy Unceded Gidimt’en territory, so-called Smithers, British Columbia, Canada – On Friday, February 25, Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs met with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and City National Bank (CNB) executives demanding the bank withdraw financing for the Coastal GasLink pipeline by March 11. The meeting marked the first-ever meeting between RBC leadership and Indigenous land defenders, […]
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No Comments »Wet’suwet’en Retake Checkpoint A Month After Police Crackdown
December 24th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Wet’suwet’en activists after reclaiming Camp Coyote. Gidimt’en Checkpoint / Twitter. Anti-pipeline Indigenous activists, resisting the contentious Coastal GasLink pipeline in Wet’suwet’en have retaken a checkpoint in Coyote Camp, a month after violent crackdown by federal police forces. On Saturday, December 19, activists leading the Wet’suwet’en resistance against the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline project […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: after, checkpoint, crackdown, month, police, retake, suwet No Comments »Violence Against Wet’suwet’en And Apparent Police, Industry Collusion
November 28th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: An RCMP officer points his gun at Wet’suwet’en land defenders as the door to their cabin is broken down with an axe then a chainsaw, November 19, 2021. Gidimt’en Checkpoint video still / Twitter. The violence against the Wet’suwet’en has included the early criminalization of their land defenders, disregard of a Supreme Court […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: against, apparent, collusion, industry, police, suwet, Violence No Comments »NAJA Calls For Refocus Of News Coverage Of Wet’suwet’en And Arrests
November 25th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Protesters blocked a rail line in support of wet’suwet’en land defenders who were arrested by the rcmp on friday in northern british columbia, in toronto, ont., on sunday, nov., 21, 2021. Christopher Katsarov / The Canadian Press/ Vice. The Native American Journalists Association condemns the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for standing in the […]
Police Launch Third Militarized Raid Against Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders
November 20th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Dan Loan. The RCMP arrested 15 people on Thursday November 18 as the land defence struggle against the construction of the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline on Wet’suwet’en territory in northern British Columbia continues. Gidimt’en land defender Sleydo’ says: “[The RCMP] came with intent and the ability to kill people and seriously harm people.” […]
Posted in Police Abuse Tags: against, defenders, launch, militarized, police, suwet, third No Comments »Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders Say Inaction Prompted Enforcement Of Coastal GasLink Eviction
November 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Haudenosaunee supporters ride a Coastal GasLink excavator as they help to close the road in Gidimt’en territory on Sunday, Nov. 14. Amber Bracken / The Narwhal. When the pipeline company failed to act on an immediate evacuation order, land defenders decommissioned a service road, cutting off access to project sites and work camps […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: coastal, defenders, enforcement, gaslink, inaction, prompted, suwet No Comments »Wet’suwet’en Block Effort To Tunnel Under Morice River
October 6th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: A roadblock preventing Coastal GasLink from accessing a site where it plans to drill under the Morice River, or Wedzin Kwa to the Wet’suwet’en. RCMP have visited the site several times since the camp was created on Sept. 24, making two arrests. Amanda Follett Hosgood. Pipeline standoff. On the scene where Coastal GasLink’s […]
One Year Anniversary Of Wet’suwet’en Protests, Blockades
February 13th, 2021 Awake Goy One Year Anniversary Of Wet’suwet’en Protests, Blockades It has been one year since protesters set up a camp on the front steps of the legislature. The protests were a result of the BC NDP’s decision to press ahead with the Coastal GasLink pipeline through the Wet’suwet’en territory using militarized RCMP to enforce their decision. I […]
How The Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Actions Changed Their Lives
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy By Emily Fagan, The Tyee. January 30, 2021 Above photo: A year after he first took a stand on the steps of the BC legislature, Kolin Sutherland-Wilson and his wife are expecting their first child. Rodney Mitchell. A year later, three Indigenous youth behind the 2020 BC legislature protests say the real work still lies […]
Wet’suwet’en Call On Province To Close Pipeline Work Camps
December 4th, 2020 Awake Goy By Amanda Follett Hosgood, The Tyee. December 4, 2020 Above photo: Work camps like this one at the LNG project in Kitimat should be shut down to protect Indigenous communities from COVID-19 risks, say Wet’suwet’en chiefs. LNG Canada. Female chiefs say COVID-19 risk means work on oil and gas projects shouldn’t be classed as an […]
