Thursday, November 29, 2012

From graduate and undergraduate students at McGill University's Macdonald campus:


The Unis'tot'en Blockade is a rallying point, or a convergence point.

The Wet'suwet'en are, among the west coast First Nations who have – over and over – been vocal and visible – and they have been heard all over the continent. They resist the destruction of the land and their home. In the past the Native Youth Movement was a good example, like the Mohawk Warriors, of what could be an anti-colonial Warrior ethic. This is very exciting.

Not just pipelines, but Natural Resource Industries threaten forests with clearcutting and threaten unceded First Nations land with hydraulic fracturing, but also open surface mining and other fossil fuel extraction projects. These threats could impact our atmosphere, which, by virtue of its turbulence and fluidity, could extend the threat to further endanger the ancient, established ways of life of all creatures on the land and in the ocean (owing to reprecussions upon ocean currents and pH).

Therefore, the threat to Wet'suwet'en land is, in fact, a threat to us all, not just to the trees, or the coast of BC!

We have to resist these projects! We have no disagreement yet in our assertion that we should resist all projects of the fossil fuel industries. Furthermore, this resistance ought to be globalized.

Here, in Ste Anne de Bellevue, it is cold, it's snowing, and it's Winter. We are not resolved to invite the undergraduate students at Macdonald College to protest outside, under these conditions. Besides, recently, other kinds of actions have shown to be effective to raise awareness, draw the attention of Society, and seemingly effect change.

So, we are going to follow the Unis'tot'en callout, but act in the electronic realm.

We will contact Encana Corporation (@encanacorp), Apache Canada, Enron Oil and Gas Resources (partners of Pacific Trails Pipeline), Royal Bank of Canada (@RBC_Canada), and Jarislowsky Fraser Limited. We will also find contacts for the Enbridge Northern Gateway (@NorthernGateway) and the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, and the Pembina and Spectra projects, etc. We will contact all these groups with the message: "There will be no pipelines on Unis'tot'en lands. These pipelines are harmful to the land and the community. These extractive projects are based on a fundamentally destructive colonial and capitalist model that forces profits ahead of Indigenous self-determination and stewardship, destroys, and exploits the land and ecosystems, and disregards the safety and health of communities including those who have to work the poisonous jobs in these industries."

We will copy these messages to the Unis'tot'en camp, Francis Scarpaleggia (@ScarpaleggiaMP), and west coast politicians, or include their twitter names in our tweets.

We will "like," follow, and join the organizations that endorsed the Unis'tot'en campaign and make them aware of our electronic campaign:
https://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/
http://stoptheflows.tumblr.com/
http://forestaction.wikidot.com/caravan
http://www.fracturedland.com
https://bcblackout.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/pacific-trails-must-fail/
http://www.barrierelakesolidarity.org/
http://oshkimaadziig.org/oshkimaadiziig-unity-camp/
http://www.defendersoftheland.org/grassy_narrows
http://borealforestnetwork.com/
http://www.scienceforpeace.ca
http://www.canadians.org/
www.deepgreenresistance.org
http://www.ienearth.org/ 
http://ijvcanada.org/
https://www.facebook.com/IndigenousReoccupationOfAncestralLands
https://indigenoussolidaritynetwork.wordpress.com/
http://ilps-canada.ca/
https://miningjusticealliance.wordpress.com/ 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/8247699673/?ref=ts&fref=ts 
http://www.nooneisillegal.org/
http://calamites.resist.ca/
http://shitharperdid.ca/
http://prairie.sierraclub.ca/
http://www.streamsofjustice.org/
http://t.grupoapoyo.org/
http://truthfool.tumblr.com/
http://www.turning.ca/store.htm






 

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