Solidarity with the struggle at Lelu island
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A window of one of the two offices of the conservative campaign candidate Dominic Therrien was broken over the Sunday night ( 19/10/2015), several hours before the opening of the voting offices. The campaign office in Outremont, Montreal of the leader of the NDP, Thomas Mulcair, was vandalized over Tuesday night ( 14/10/2015). ...
On Monday morning, during peak rush hour traffic, we blockaded the Notre-Dame highway with debris and construction materials. We dropped two banners which read “CONTRE LE DÉVERSEMENT DANS LE ST-LAURENT” (Against the dumping in the St. Lawrence) and “SOLIDARITY WITH ALL LAND DEFENDERS”. On November 3, the city of Montreal plans to dump 8 billion liters of raw sewage (including industrial and medical waste) into the St. Lawrence river. This raw sewage is not only polluting the St-Lawrence, but affects all the communities downstream. Residents of Kahnawake have already demonstrated their anger with Mayor Coderre’s careless treatment of this river through several demonstrations, including stopping railway traffic. ...
Illustration from the beautiful “Economic Disruption” poster (by Stefan Pilipa, for Shawn Brant and the Tyendinaga Support Committee’s Defense Fund)
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Indigenous militants made good on their promise to block train tracks in order to bring a halt to the dumping of billions of litters of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River. Trains along Canadian Pacific Railway tracks were stopped in both directions and a call has been made for more people to join in on the struggle to stop the dump and block the tracks. ...
Over a dozen Mohawks from Kahnawake started fires and held a demonstration near the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks to vow that they will take action against a plan to dumb billions of litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River. Media Statement – Contact savetheriver@riseup.net Notice of Temporary Obstruction – Thursday, Oct. 15th 2015. 1.Wampum 44 of kaia’nere:kowa, the kahtihon’tia:kwenio of the rotino’shonni:onwe, the women are the “progenitors of the soil” of our nation and caretakers of the land, water and air on behalf of the rotikonso:tatie, the coming faces, and all people. ...
uni2 uni1 Posters and graffiti in the neighborhood of Hochelaga. A billboard in the Mile-end was painted with “OKA 25 YEARS, THE RESISTANCE CONTINUES. NI PATRIE, NI ÉTAT, NI QUÉBEC, CANADA (No nation, no State, no quebec, no canada). uni3 uni5 uni4 In the neighborhoods of St. Henri, Parc-Ex, and Hochelaga, several moments of indigenous resistance to the Canadian State were chronicled with graffiti and posters. Kanehsatake, Gustafen Lake ‘95, Ipperwash ‘95, Kanehstaton ‘06, Sharbot Lake ‘07, Akwesasne ‘09, Tyendinaga ‘08, Elsipogtog, Unist’ot’en
Yesterday subMedia.tv witnessed the fierce spirit of the Tsimshian people and their supporters as they faced off with the RCMP, Prince Rupert Port Authority and Petronas LNG workers. The Tsimshians attempted to disrupt the delivery of a barge with surveying and drilling equipment. The surveyors are subcontractors for Petronas, a Malaysian owned company that wants to build a fracked gas facility on Lelu Island, unceded Tsimshian territory. The Tsimshians have occupied Lelu island and have built a protection camp, to defend the island, and the Flora banks, a sensitive eco-system essential for the survival of juvenile salmon and migrating crustaceans. The Tsimshians have called on supporters to come to Lelu Island and stand with them, bring boats or send money and supplied. For more information visit bit.ly/leluisland ...
First Nations women and supporters sent a clear message to TransCanada this Wednesday evening that the Energy East pipeline is not welcome through First Nations lands. “What we want TransCanada to understand is that no means no. This is Kanien’ke, this is Mohawk Land and we are tired of occupation, we are tired of environmental disaster.” said Lickers at Wednesday night’s hearing. “This is our land and we are going to protect it.” ...
On the 7th September, 2015, a vivisection laboratory website was sabotaged through defacement. The website server was entered and some of their directories were modified. The result was a more realistic image about what the laboratory does and a message we hope will not be forgotten. We don’t care about the excuses and lies they use to justify their experiments. What really matters is that people see and know what really happens inside the laboratories, and to cause as much economic damage as possible. ...