train blockade today Tyendinaga Territory protesting police raids in B.C.

email from Greenpeace yesterday:


Chris,

The RCMP are currently raiding Wet’suwet’en camps and arresting land defenders.

This is a clear violation of fundamental human rights.

This is not okay.

The provincial and federal governments are using the RCMP to — once again — forcibly remove Indigenous leaders from their own land, to push through a fracked gas pipeline, Coastal GasLink.

Coastal GasLink is a $6.6 billion natural gas pipeline that would go right through the heart of Wet’suwet’en territory. The pipeline would feed into a massive LNG (liquid natural gas) expansion proposed in Kitimat, BC on the west coast. All five Clans of the Wet’suwet’en have said no to the Coastal GasLink pipeline project. This proposed pipeline does not have free, prior, and informed consent from the Wet’suwet’en hereditary leadership.

Will you stand with the Wet’suwet’en?

Here are urgent actions you can take right now.

Call Justin Trudeau’s office (613-995-4211) and Premier John Horgan (250-387-1715) and ask them to immediately end the RCMP’s incursion on Wet’suwet’en territory. You can also ask them to resume talks with the hereditary leadership and find a peaceful solution to this conflict.

Find a solidarity rally near you.

Greenpeace is condemning the violation of human rights underway as you read these lines, against the Wet'suwet'en camps and people. They are the rightful title holders over their lands and waters. They are peacefully exercising their right to resist the Coastal GasLink pipeline, as they lead our country towards climate solutions.

Please help us do the same and stand with the Wet’suwet’en.

In solidarity,

Mike Hudema
Climate & Energy Campaigner, Greenpeace Canada