NDP BC invades sovereign Wet'suwet'en territory, RCMP arrest defenders 2

..edmonton.

The RCMP was created to remove indigenous people from the lands that corporations need . From coast to coast they are heavily armed goons who first meet with oil and gas corporate security before intimidating and abasing indigenous owners.

..video 4.59 min. the police are quite disgusting.

RCMP Harassment at 44 km

RCMP CIRG have been trespassing and harassing Gidimt'en Checkpoint village site with elders, women and children multiple times a day since the beginning of March 2022. They keep changing their reasons for trespass.

Civil Suit Update: The RCMP have refused to respond to our lawsuit. So, our lawyers have provided legal notice that we intend to apply for a default decision against the RCMP.

epaulo13 wrote:

Civil Suit Update: The RCMP have refused to respond to our lawsuit. So, our lawyers have provided legal notice that we intend to apply for a default decision against the RCMP.

Good.

RCMP Spending on Pipeline Conflict Reaches $25 Million

An ongoing RCMP presence on the Morice Forest Service Road in northern B.C., where a gas pipeline is under construction through Wet’suwet’en territory, has cost Canada’s police force more than $25 million.

The most recent accounting, obtained by The Tyee through federal access to information laws, covers policing costs from April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022, and shows that, over the course of a year, the force spent $6.8 million policing the area.

Most of those expenses, roughly $4.5 million, were accrued during the first three months of this year, based on a separate accounting that showed the RCMP had spent just over $21 million by Dec. 31, 2021, three years after the conflict began.....

Peace & Unity: Rebuilding Alliances

https://vimeo.com/event/2522853

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022 AT 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT

The Peace & Unity Summit panel is about rebuilding and strengthening alliances among all of us. In the face of injustice, extraction and climate crises, coming together is what we've been waiting for.

We'll touch on what's happened and happening on the land in Wet'suwet'en territory (in Northern B.C.), hear stories of folks' lived experiences on the Yintah (land) and front lines, explain the Coastal GasLink pipeline project and share what people can do to get involved, learn more and take action.

We need a wide range of people to come together to make changes, find solutions and build unity. This panel is the beginning of an ongoing conversation regarding health and well-being of the land and people.

Featuring:
Dinï ze’ (Hereditary Chief) Na’moks, Tsayu Clan
Mark Ruffalo, actor
Severn Cullis-Suzuki, executive director of the David Suzuki Foundation
Shannon McPhail, co-executive director of Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition
Kris Statnyk, barrister and solicitor
Kai Nagata, Dogwood communications director 

The purpose of Peace & Unity
Peace & Unity is a movement focused on rebuilding alliances, elevating Indigenous sovereignty and rights and raising awareness about the climate crisis. Hereditary chiefs, land defenders and people on the ground share information with the goal of making changes, finding solutions and building unity. Our website offers these perspectives in various digestible forms to help people better understand complex issues surrounding climate change.

"I have my truth to tell. A platform for truth!" - Dinï ze’ (Hereditary Chief) Na’moks, Tsayu Clan 

The David Suzuki Foundation is honored to be hosting this lively conversation on Rebuilding Alliances. As a registered charity, we are not able to take partisan positions and the views expressed are not held by the Foundation.

Wet’suwet’en water protector Eve Saint to RBC CEO Dave McKay: “You are not a climate leader, you are a leader in genocide”

On October 27, Wet’suwet’en water protector Eve Saint spoke at a protest outside the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto as the London, Ontario-based Ivey Business School presented RBC CEO Dave McKay with their Ivey Business Leader award.

Ivey notes: “More than 400 guests, including some of Canada’s most distinguished business leaders, attended the formal dinner at The Ritz-Carlton. The award honours individuals who have made significant contributions to the advancement of business in Canada, and demonstrated leadership in both business and their communities.”

The day before the award ceremony RBC released its 2030 emission reduction targets. McKay claimed: “RBC is committed to helping build a cleaner future.”

But Saint said of McKay: “You are not a climate leader, you are a leader in genocide. You violate Indigenous rights, you permit modern day genocide against Indigenous people.”

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Charges of genocide

On April 24, 2019, Freda Huson (Howilhkat), the director of the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre, spoke at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York City. Her centre is located a kilometre from the route of the Coastal GasLink pipeline and is on the road leading to their 9A Lodge man camp.

She stated: “I am here today to make UN aware of the continued genocide happening in Canada and to demand that our Indigenous rights and laws are respected.”

Last year, Wickham called on allies and supporters to come to Wet’suwet’en territory “for all the children stolen at gunpoint by the RCMP… to stand up and say the genocide will no longer happen on Indigenous lands.”

She explained: “Our identity as Indigenous peoples is tied to the land, to our water, to the fact that we harvest salmon every year. We know that the people who are killing themselves are the people who don’t have that connection to who they are as an Indigenous person. And if we don’t have that our people will die. And that’s the genocide.”.....

‘You will be arrested’: Coastal GasLink security denies Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief access to monitor project construction

Under an early November snowfall, a tense standoff slowly unfolded between Coastal GasLink security workers, RCMP and Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’moks.

“If you pass this gate, sir, my understanding is that you will be arrested by the RCMP,” a pipeline security guard told the Chief and his supporters. He was standing in front of a yellow gate across the access road to where the company is drilling under Wedzin Kwa (Morice River) about two kilometres away.

In 2019, the B.C. Supreme Court issued an injunction against anyone “obstructing, blocking, physically impeding or delaying access” in the area.

Na’moks told the security workers why he was there — to monitor the pipeline construction as part of his responsibilities as Chief — and assured them he had no intention of impeding any work. He had previously visited the site numerous times without incident. 

“I am Chief Na’moks of the T’sayu Clan,” he said. “We will not be going into your worksite, we will be staying away from the worksite and on the road.”

“I work for Coastal GasLink and my responsibility is ensuring the safety and security of this active worksite,” the security guard said in response, reading from a prepared script. He provided his private investigator licence number and said he’s employed by Forsythe Security. “This work is lawful, authorized and permitted and we are conducting construction activities for Coastal GasLink. Be advised that there’s a court injunction order with enforcement,” the security guard said.

“Only previously arranged escorted site visits will be permitted for the duration of the work at this site for your safety and to allow our work to continue unimpeded. I ask that you contact Coastal GasLink and request an appointment for access to the site.”

Beside the gate, a sign notes the existence of the court order and states that anyone having notice of it is restrained and prohibited from physical interference with Coastal GasLink business. It also states that individuals are prohibited from “approaching within 10 metres of any individual or vehicle” being used for pipeline work and from “threatening or intimidating Coastal GasLink or other persons in a contractual or economic relationship with Coastal GasLink.” 

However, the court order does not mention “threatening or intimidating” nor proximity to employees or vehicles. TC Energy did not clarify why these terms are included in the signage.  

Canadian courts have confirmed that journalists have a Constitutional right to document events in an injunction zone and that injunctions do not apply to any journalist who is collecting or gathering information without interfering. A recent court decision has also warned that police should avoid interfering with the work of journalists by detaining them under an assumption that they would be released later. But the security guard suggested otherwise, warning The Narwhal not to cross the line.

“Based on what I’ve read to you, anybody passing this that is not an employee and does not have a right to be here, including the media, will be arrested by the RCMP,” the security worker told The Narwhal.

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Despite repeated requests, RCMP did not speak with Hereditary Chief

The role of the security firm in working for the pipeline company has not been without controversy. Wet’suwet’en community members have accused the RCMP, Coastal GasLink and Forsythe of a “relentless campaign of harassment and intimidation” in a civil lawsuit filed with the B.C. Supreme Court this summer. Forsythe denied any wrongdoing in its response and the allegations have not been proven in court.

When RCMP arrested journalists reporting on Wet’suwet’en resistance to the pipeline project last year, internal police emails promised a “package” that would justify their actions. That package has yet to materialize and Coastal GasLink subsequently dropped the charges.  

TC Energy did not directly respond to questions about why Chief Na’moks was denied access nor whether it believes a journalist should be arrested for documenting within an injunction zone.

“The safety of our workforce, contractors, local Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members and the public is paramount to us,” the company wrote in an email. “Coastal GasLink has an obligation to control access to its worksites to ensure the safety of both the public and its workers which includes restricting access to existing roads, trails and travel ways at active work areas. Safe access for community members is facilitated through a defined process that has been communicated to the Office of the Wet’suwet’en, Hereditary Chiefs, elected Wet’suwet’en leadership and house members.” 

Kris Statnyk, Na’moks’ legal counsel, was standing at the gate with him. He asked to speak with the RCMP, noting the private security workers do not have authority to enforce the court injunction. 

After about twenty minutes, Sergeant Jason Charney, with the force’s Community-Industry Response Group, walked toward the gate, but stopped short and waved a security worker over. They spoke briefly and Charney walked away. The Community-Industry Response Group, commonly called C-IRG, is a special unit of the force set up in 2017 to police opposition to industrial projects.

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Tensions are rising as Coastal GasLink continues construction

The confrontation reflects rising tensions as the Coastal GasLink project construction continues  on Wet’suwet’en territory. According to the project website, 100 per cent of clearing on the territory is completed, with 14.3 per cent of the pipe already in the ground......

Yet another decision from an invaders' court beyond the treaty frontier and therefore without any lawful jurisdiction according to constitutional and international law. 

Fraudulent, constitutionally treasonous, with arguably genocidal consequences.

This is Canada's usurpation-as-genocide in action.

Through it and by it, Canada has achieved what Israel can only dream of.

'...3. The aforesaid 5th paragraph by necessary implication enacts that an Indian who ostensibly commits a non-native crime within the Indian Territory is not subject to the jurisdiction of any non-native court..."

Canadian Criminal Court Jurisdiction Relative To Unceded Indian Territory

https://dissidentvoice.org/2017/10/canadian-criminal-court-jurisdiction-...