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British Columbia: Confront Mount Polley Permit

British Columbia: Confront Mount Polley Permit

by Kanahus Manuel / Warrior Publications ** BREAKING ** WARRIOR NEWS ** The Peoples confront the government of so-called british columbia after they issue a provincial “re-opening permit” to Imperial Metals Mount Polley mine. The Secwepemc Peoples have never given consent for Mount Polley to operate or reopen this mine at Yuct Ne…

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On Day 114 of the disaster we are remembering our friends. Our delegations continue to travel Turtle Island spreading the word of resistance, unity and hope. We have visited many places, and today we pay tribute to our visit to Chiraq (Chicago). We declare our solidarity with Chairman Fred Hampton and Minister of Defence Mark Clark of the Black Panther Party assassinated 45 years ago on December 4th, now known as International Revolutionary Day.  The real and serious, the painful and genocidal impact of colonialism, has effected so many of us. We are children of genocide and slavery. We have fought, we have sometimes won, but in the end we have lost and we continue to lose so many. We stand with our black brothers and sisters in America. We stand with them in solidarity and in unified struggle and resistance. America, its laws and legislation, its white house and government buildings, built on the continuing enslavement of one group and the continuing genocide of another, will be tolerated no more. America and Canada are soaked in the blood of the murders, rapes and land thefts these so called nations have committed and continue to commit. These nations and their systems are not broken, the systems, the infrastructures, the judiciary, the police the institutions of these nations are designed to brutalize black and brown people. The power and the violence of these colonial states are regularly employed to maintain the racial, gender, class hierarchies and slaveries that birthed their existence. There is no flaw in the system. This is the system.  This is a special time for all of us, one that calls for our bravest, boldest, and most liberated selves to take action in the name of freedom and justice. We do this by defending our Lands and our Waters. We do this by defending each other. We do this by standing strong and proud in the knowledge that we are a greater people than this. We can overcome and will only overcome together.  #imperialnomore #blockadeseverywhere #blacklivesmatter

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TODAY is WAGE SOLIDARITY: Nourish the Nation 2014!!! It's an exciting day for all of us. For everyone who asks what can I do? This is it. This is a very important thing to do friends. Wolverine, in his 80s, leader of the Gustafson Lake standoff and keeper of seeds is feeding the Nation. He needs our support. We owe him so much. DONATE by purchasing a ticket at:http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/972193  -or- e-transfer/paypal to [email protected]

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On Day 112 of the disaster, we are organizing. There is so much to be done and less and less time for us to be doing these things in. All of our struggles are interconnected, none of our struggles will mean anything if we do not hold each other up while we fight. A friend of ours once spoke to us of the infrastructure of change, the infrastructure of resistance and dissent. Shelter and food. The very basics of human survival. When we consider taking steps out of the colonial system, these are the things we worry about. Where will we find shelter? Where will we find food? If not at the end of a work day or in our bank balance, at the grocery store or in the restaurants. We are building infrastructure. We have learned a very important lesson. That dependence on the government will keep you beholden to it, its crimes and its violence. So we build alternatives. Food security is an important first step to freeing ourselves and each other from dependence. Elder Wolverine, Secwepemc Ts'peten Defender (Gustafson Lake 1995), seed keeper, learned this lesson years and years ago and has established a big and bountiful garden on 8 acres of land in C'yele. He has done this to feed the people, he has done this so we the people can fight with both hands.  It's time we held up our end. On December 4th then, people of all Nations, across the whole of Turtle Island are asked to donate whatever a day's wage in labor is to you to Nourish the Nation, Wolverine's autonomous Indigenous garden project feeding communities on the front lines of resource extraction. We've eaten from the tons of squash and potatoes, tomatoes and carrots from Wolverine's garden. He's helped start gardens at Unist'ot'en Camp. Let's spread the seeds, the love and the community. Every single dollar that you donate will go towards the purchase of a small tractor, an irrigation upgrade, and fencing- all to keep this project alive. To donate a day or even an hours wage to Wage Solidarity- Turtle Island on Thursday December 4th go to: nourishthenation.brownpapertickets.com or paypal and e-transfer to: [email protected] #imperialnomore #blockadeseverywhere

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On Day 111 of the disaster it is winter in the mountains and winter in the city. We are moving forward, we are counting victories. We are learning lessons and we are applying them with joy and ferocity. We are building and loving ourselves, we are building and loving each other, we are building and loving our communities, our Nations. We are loving radically, we are putting aside colonial ways of valuing and we are reaching for something deep within ourselves and within our collective dreams. It's exciting.  Across Turtle Island and more immediately, across so called B.C., Indigenous Nations are gathering, are setting the stakes, are resisting. Nations, clans, communities and families are challenging the continued and destructive intrusion of the colonial government on their territories. Corporations and corporate government alike, none are welcome. Indian Act bands and tribal councils are on notice, the people will no longer sit by as they sign away the Land, the Water and the safety of their future generations.  The people are gathering and they are gathering in force and in strength. They have learned the lessons of their former generations, don't trust the police, don't trust the politicians. Find your community and take care of each other, resist and survive at every opportunity. So many of us have been saying it for generations, it's better to die on your feet than live on your knees. Get out there. Do some living. Tear down the things that seek to destroy and build things that won't. This is the place. This is the time. Defend. Decolonize. #imperialnomore #blockadeseverywhere

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On Day 109 of the disaster, we are resting. The Elders finally make it home, and for some, it was a more tiring journey than for others. Today we rest because we're busy again tomorrow. There is still so much to do. The Tl’abānot’in are a strong clan and while this minor issue of an injunction being granted against them, us, is a frustration, things are busy within families and communities. There is a strength, a unity, a force that cannot be stopped by politician or police, building. It's an important time for the clan and other clans too.  So we are in Iskut today and it is cold outside. We spend time inside thinking. Reading. Keeping in touch with our friends on the frontlines across this so called province. We are disgusted with the police. Be it the RCMP assaulting Elders and kidnapping our friends on Burnaby Mountain under an invalid court order, or the police across Turtle Island regularly murdering black men, black children, and getting away with it. We stand in love and solidarity, so many of us have suffered violence at the hands of the police.  When we stand like this, when we build unity, when we love like this, when we build community, nothing can stop us. No pipeline, no big bad mining company, no white man's army, no rich man's police. So build your affinities. Chain yourself to court's doors, make known the violence in this society, stand in front of the machines that would otherwise rip scars into the earth or cuts into the mountains. We have momentum. The courts are a sham and the police are the enforcers. We will keep building on top of. We will not accept anything less than justice. Justice for our men in prison, justice for our women missing, justice for our children taken, justice for our bodies broken, justice for our Land stolen. These are desperate times. We will take desperate measures. Any. Means. Necessary. We are taking back our dignity. #imperialnomore #blockadeseverywhere