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בּ Registered: 02/19/09 Posts: 13,462 Loc: Turtle Island Last seen: 12 hours, 44 minutes |
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Quote: Legality doesn't dictate morality. A court injunction that allows the RCMP to forcibly remove indigenous peoples from their land is unambiguously an immoral act. Its a violation of basic human rights - including article 10 of the UNDRIP ("Indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or territories."). The Wet’suwet’en have not lost in the courts - the Canadian State merely chooses to ignore any judgment in favour of indigenous rights and title. So if your defence here is that a court injunction supersedes human rights, your defence is that of "rule of law" and is not very different from the defence of "just following orders". Quote: All of those things you suggest have been happening for decades. Do you still think these blockades were the first thing that's been tried? Indigenous people know what happens when they directly confront the State - the full violence of the police and military is brought down on them. We didn't choose to escalate. This situation was pushed into crisis mode when the BC government sent the RCMP onto Wet'suwet'en land to provide security for CGL construction activities. At this point, the Wet'suwet'en don't have any more time to wait - irreparable harm is happening every day CGL is able to continue their activities on Wet'suwet'en territory. The reason that the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs were able to gain the support of 40% of Canadians - from coast to coast - is because of the decades of grassroot organizing, development of independent media networks, and consistent fundraising efforts. But how much longer can you wait when the land you make your home on - that forms the basis of your community and culture - is being destroyed? That's why this campaign progressed to a more militant stage - the Canadian government is proving itself unwilling to address this issue and forcing a confrontation. The fact you can so confidently share your opinion on a situation that you clearly have only the most shallow understanding of is... unsurprising but still disappointing. Quote: Under Canadian law, the Crown had to have a signed treaty that dictated the terms of land transfer before the State could legally own Indigenous land. Land taken without treaty is considered stolen land by Canadian law. This issue has been allowed to fester for decades because Canada stands to lose out on most of the benefits of colonialism in the process, but just because our government chooses to ignore it (leading to situations like the one we currently find ourself in with the Wet'suwet'en) doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The reason I only provided a specific land claim here is because I've already provided multiple links that discuss the complex nature of Indigenous land title in Canada. I thought you had been making an effort to inform yourself of some background context before continuing to share your opinion. Take a read of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights Indigenous Peoples to understand that Indigenous land title most definitely supersedes the rights-of-way held by a rail company. And yes, I'm aware it's a non-binding framework and Canada isn't even a signatory - but the BC government adopted it into provincial legislation last November, if you want a clear example of how little the Canadian government cares about rule of law when it stands to benefit indigenous land title at the expense of resource extraction. To be honest, I'm growing uncomfortable with discussing the real injustice Indigenous peoples face in this abstract way. It would be like discussing the philosophical merits of ghetto uprisings while people are outside fighting and suffering. I imagine it may be easier for you, because judging by what strikes me as your almost complete ignorance of the issue this isn't something that personally effects you. Well it effects me personally - and only vicariously through seeing how it effects my Indigenous friends and family. It's not an abstract philosophical dilemma - it's real. I feel I've left all the necessary information and sources if you truly want to educate yourself - but if you're just bored and looking for a place to argue this isn't it. I'll make another thread where we can approach the issue of justice and morality through a fictional situation - because the suffering of real humans shouldn't be your diversion.
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OTD God-King Registered: 08/16/03 Posts: 65,834 Loc: Uncanny Valley |
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Quote: An act can be just and still have an undesirable effect. I never meant to suggest otherwise. What I was saying was that for purposes of the phrase, "the ends never justify the means," we need not consider any act that does not have undesirable effects since those acts are already just without any need for justification. Any act without undesirable effects is just. Not every just act is one without undesirable effects, however. Quote: Because one is more specific than the other. The specific act of blockading the transport of Jews to a death camp certainly is included in the more general act of blockading passenger and freight trains. Similarly, killing in self-defense is a specific act that is also within the more general act of killing human beings. We cannot say that killing human beings is inherently just. We cannot say that blockading passenger and freight trains is inherently just. Why? Because these acts, if universalized, would make the world a much worse place for humans. Specific subsets of these general categories, however, can be just. This is why I'm using the specific subset of transporting jews to death camps. Quote: The blockading isn't the immoral part of that hypothetical, is it? We can certainly separate the moral act of stopping someone from killing jews from the immoral act of killing those same jews oneself. Quote: Of course it would. This is a perfect example of a just/moral act that does still have some undesirable consequences. Those undesirable consequences do not make the act any less moral/just. Let's expand your hypothetical "harm" way beyond this...What if the blockading resulted in the death of the people driving the train? The act would still be just/moral. Why? Because we can universalize the act of killing people directly involved in murder to prevent that murder. Quote: The fact that the harm to people is less than it could be does not change the analysis enough to universalize it, though. We're still talking about harming the innocent. Quote: I never defended "shutting down the fascist State of Nazi Germany." I don't see that as a moral endeavor at all, and if you want to equate the blockades to that, feel free. Quote: I don't see murder as a morally ambiguous act at all. I see killing someone a morally ambiguous act, however. Quote: No. In fact, I think I see the double standard that you're applying.
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OTD God-King Registered: 08/16/03 Posts: 65,834 Loc: Uncanny Valley |
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Quote: It looks like we agree here. Legal doesn't mean moral. I've never said otherwise. Quote: Then this might just be one time that they have to accept it and move on. Hurting people just to get what you want is about as immoral as it gets. Quote: I've offered no opinion about the plight of the natives. I've only offered an opinion about the morality of the actions of specific people who have chosen to harm people with these blockades. Disappointing you, as terribly hurt as I am by it, isn't relevant. I'm sorry that your friends are engaged in morally indefensible conduct. That's not my doing, but I know what it's like to be in a position of caring about someone and knowing that the person is in the wrong. You're being loyal in defending them, and I admire that. Unfortunately, they're on the wrong side of this issue, and taking the immoral path doesn't lead to long-term good for them. Even if they have a victory here, it will be a victory founded on terrorism.
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בּ Registered: 02/19/09 Posts: 13,462 Loc: Turtle Island Last seen: 12 hours, 44 minutes |
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Returning to practical matters, some tips on security culture:
Tip 1: Believe what you're doing is powerful & important Tip 2: Don't talk about it
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בּ Registered: 02/19/09 Posts: 13,462 Loc: Turtle Island Last seen: 12 hours, 44 minutes |
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Tip 3: Don't plan actions over Facebook
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OTD God-King Registered: 08/16/03 Posts: 65,834 Loc: Uncanny Valley |
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Tip 4: Try not to think about the suffering your actions may cause.
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בּ Registered: 02/19/09 Posts: 13,462 Loc: Turtle Island Last seen: 12 hours, 44 minutes |
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PRESS RELEASE: Wet’suwet’en, BCCLA, and UBCIC Release Explosive Letter Revealing BC Solicitor General Authorizing RCMP Deployment, Contradicting Public Statements
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VANCOUVER/ (Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaʔɬ/sel̓ílwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories, March 6, 2020 – Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs, BC Civil Liberties Association and Union of BC Indian Chiefs are releasing a letter dated January 27, 2020 from BC Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth to RCMP Deputy Commissioner Jennifer Strachan. In the letter, Farnworth declared a “provincial emergency” under the Provincial Police Service Agreement and explicitly authorized the “internal redeployment of resources within the Provincial Police Service.” Article 9 of the Provincial Police Service Agreement stipulates that, if in the opinion of the Provincial Minister an Emergency in an area of provincial responsibility exists, then the Provincial Police Service will be redeployed at the written request of the Provincial Minister and the Province will pay the costs of the redeployment. This explosive revelation of the BC Solicitor General authorizing additional RCMP resources and redeployment comes on the heels of repeated statements by the provincial government that they lacked jurisdiction or authority over RCMP actions in Wet’suwet’en territories. On January 20, Premier John Horgan was reported as saying “Our government has no authority to vary that injunction, nor to direct the RCMP in the fulfillment of its responsibilities.” On February 10, Horgan again stated, “Governments do not direct the courts, nor do we direct the RCMP.” According to Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks, “The province bears responsibility for the heavy RCMP deployment and for the policing of our people on our own territories. In many of our discussions, the province was passing the buck for RCMP operations but this letter spells it out in black and white. The provincial government can no longer deny responsibility for the Indigenous rights and human rights violations happening on our territories. We have come to the table with respect and truth but the province is not demonstrating respectful or truthful conduct. We have always asserted our laws and presence peacefully, yet the province authorized the extra deployment of RCMP against us. Canada and BC must answer to this mistruth and absolutely must change its ways.” “It is incredibly troubling and shocking that the provincial government would declare the peaceful assertion of Wet’suwet’en law and jurisdiction as a provincial policing emergency. The Wet’suwet’en people and the people of British Columbia have a right to know on what basis this unprecedented authorization was made. It is inconsistent for the provincial government to, on the one hand, legislate the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as well as state non-interference in policing operations and, on the other hand, authorize a RCMP deployment aimed at over-policing and criminalizing Indigenous peoples on their own territories,” says Harsha Walia, Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs stated, “This letter by Mike Farnworth reveals the blatant hypocrisy and lies of the provincial NDP government on the Wet’suwet’en crisis. Farnworth sat silently while Premier Horgan unabashedly lied that the Province did not direct RCMP actions. This is an act of government deceit not only against the Wet’suwet’en but of the public at-large. The province’s rhetoric about reconciliation rings even hollower. We call for the immediate resignation of Mike Farnworth for dishonourable conduct and for declaring the Wet’suwet’en people a policing emergency and a threat on their own territories.”
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Semper Fidelis Registered: 01/11/05 Posts: 7,523 Loc: Harmless (Mostly) Last seen: 2 hours, 47 minutes |
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Really good thread to read from you both; Thunderdome!
-------------------- “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
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בּ Registered: 02/19/09 Posts: 13,462 Loc: Turtle Island Last seen: 12 hours, 44 minutes |
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![]() CP Rail’s Secret Injunction – and what it tells us Anonymous submission to North Shore Counter-Info Sometime on Friday March 6th, 2020 in a secret courtroom on University Ave in Toronto, CP Rail will make a motion to have their interim injunction be extended to an interlocutory one. Didn’t know CP had an injunction just like CN Rail’s? Neither did anyone but CP Rail & Justice Myers – until they decided to serve recent Hamilton arrestees at their homes after 9pm last night. We spent too much time thumbing through several hundred pages of documents today, and grace you with the highlights here. The Superior Court of Justice (Ontario) heard the motion for an interim injunction on February 25th before Justice Myers. It was granted, and then varied on the 26th. There’s a hearing on March 6th to extend the injunction. That said, evidence sheets were captures and printed in early February, so they’ve been preparing for awhile. The injunction itself has an enforcement order, directing police to enforce it immediately. Upon arrest, one would sign a condition stating they’ll abide by the injunction and released, or be brought before the court to be proceeded against for contempt of court. ![]() The injunction not only includes an order to stay 50 feet away from the outside rails of the tracks, and to not trespass, obstruct or block, but also “directly or indirectly intimidating any of CPR’s employees, contractors, agents…”. It also includes interfering with deliveries and contractors to a site, as well as “aiding, abetting, counseling, procuring or encouraging in any fashion any person or entity to commit or attempt to commit the actions mentioned”. Very thought-crime esque. But also nearly an exact replica of the CN injunction overall. Things get slightly more interesting when it comes to the section that includes the evidence needed to file for the injunction – namely to prove or affirm that blockades will irreparably harm their business. Most of it is still boring, but here are the clif notes: William Law, who is the district inspector in charge of Ontario and Quebec within the CP Rail police confirmed that red flags and flares on tracks indicate operators must stop immediately. Crews observing them are not permitted to pass beyond them. General Impacts of Blockades
“The Hamilton Blockade” (their words, not ours)
That’s it. We did say only slightly more interesting. Now mask up, get out there, and get away with it.
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Noob Shroomer Registered: 02/20/20 Posts: 197 Loc: UK Last seen: 1 year, 10 months |
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@shivas.wisdom You've done a sterling job covering this story
I don't expect to see it on the MSM anytime ever, bit like the French Yellow Jacket protest coverage, but I'm surprised it's not being covered by the .alt media at all. Mite be an idea to highlight it to people like Luke Rudkowski of 'We Are Change', James Corbett of 'The Corbett report', Derrick Broze of 'The Conscious Resistance Network' and Jason Burmas on youtube (loose change director) I visited Canada in 1977 as a kid, we'd been studying the Indigenous Nations in 'humanities' at school so I was looking forward to visiting one of the reservations to meet some of the people, I can't remember which nation it was, somewhere in Quebec not too far from Montreal. I don't know what I expected to see (probably something akin to 1950/60's hollywood westerns) but I can still remember, even as a kid, how sad I felt that a proud people with such a rich culture and history had been reduced to what appeared to be a tourist side show selling fake plastic trinkets. I guess that's how repression makes you feel, even when you don't understand repression. Good Luck in your struggle.
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בּ Registered: 02/19/09 Posts: 13,462 Loc: Turtle Island Last seen: 12 hours, 44 minutes |
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Thanks for your words. Outfits such as Submedia, The Narwhal, Straight, Tyee, Real People’s Media, Richochet and straight up unpaid activists on Twitter have held the line on facts, and on context.
But you know what they say - the revolution won't be televised
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בּ Registered: 02/19/09 Posts: 13,462 Loc: Turtle Island Last seen: 12 hours, 44 minutes |
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It’s Not Over
In the wake of limited talks between the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and representatives of the Canadian state, a sense of confusion has set in. State and corporate media outfits have added to this confusion by portraying these talks as an endpoint to the protests that have been taking place for weeks in support of Wet’suwet’en and against the Coastal GasLink pipeline. But the fact remains that there’s been no agreement to allow for the pipeline to be built, and no calls have been made for people to take down their blockades. Despite what they want you to think… it’s not over. Bump this on your way to the blockades: A las barricadas!
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בּ Registered: 02/19/09 Posts: 13,462 Loc: Turtle Island Last seen: 12 hours, 44 minutes |
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Good article providing some insight and example into the Canadian governments persistent tendency to favour resource extraction corporations over indigenous peoples. Bolding done by me.
Coastal GasLink broke B.C. pipeline rules more than 50 times Quote:
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בּ Registered: 02/19/09 Posts: 13,462 Loc: Turtle Island Last seen: 12 hours, 44 minutes |
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We’re still here: Tyendinaga Land Defenders holding strong despite OPP’s efforts
![]() Since February 24th, the date marking the forceful arrests of 10 Mohawk land defenders by the OPP, there has been an air of confusion regarding the current status of the Tyendinaga railway occupation on Wyman road, Ontario. Despite what some media platforms suggest, the occupation is active and undeterred from the struggle in support of the Wet’suwet’en people. This confusion has been perpetuated by both the ambiguous coverage of the violent use of force made by the OPP on February 24th, as well as the proposed agreement between B.C. senior ministers and Chief Woos on March 1st. This proposed agreement only regards the acknowledgement of the inalienable treaty rights given to hereditary leaders. This agreement seemingly did not include any terms or conditions regarding the cessation of the Coastal Gaslink (CGL) project or the invasion of CGL and RCMP on unceded land. Chief Woos and other hereditary leaders remain opposed to the project and await the movement of the RCMP off of their unceded land before any more discussions are to take place. It’s important to acknowledge how this confusion has been manufactured. Twisting the words and intentions of Indigenous voices and demonstrations in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en, the Canadian state seeks to install doubt into the hearts and minds of the public and steer them away from supporting actions which are striking the heart of Canadian capital. As long as the RCMP are on unceded Indigenous land, and the pipeline projects are underway, this struggle is not over. Continuing to directly support the blockades, the Unist’ot’en camp, and participating in local solidarity actions is now more crucial than ever. On Sunday March 8th, a group of supporters from Nogojiwanong Peterborough went to the village on Wyman Road, Tyendinaga to provide water, food, fuel, and other supplies to the land defenders currently holding their ground. These land defenders are currently healing from the aftermath of the violent use of force from the OPP, as well as some recent COINTELPRO-style tactics committed by the Tyendinaga police force. Self-proclaimed “Mohawk warriors” Shawn Brant and Terry Maracle formed an ad-hoc group dubbed the “Tyendinaga Mohawk Nation Men’s Council” in order to demand the removal of the Tyendinaga occupation. To say that this group is illegitimate and unrepresentative of the community would be an understatement. This so-called “Men’s Council” only speaks on behalf of the local police force to further threaten land defenders with unjustified violence under the guise of granting the community’s wishes. Information and demands that are generated and shared from either of these members or this fraudulent group should be denounced and seen for what they are: paid informants attempting to infiltrate and misdirect the movement. In light of these recent attempts to distort, undermine, and physically dismantle the railway occupation, Tyendinaga stands strong; remaining dedicated to standing on guard for the Wet’suwet’en people while this proposed agreement to resolve the unrecognized title to their hereditary lands is ongoing. Moving forward, genuine supporters of Tyendinaga and the Wet'suwet'en people should keep a keen eye out for infiltrators of the movement and recognize and denounce misinformation spread by them.
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בּ Registered: 02/19/09 Posts: 13,462 Loc: Turtle Island Last seen: 12 hours, 44 minutes |
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COINTELPRO-style disruption tactics used by Tyendinaga Police against Real People’s Media and Wet’suwet’en solidarity movement
In recent days, Real People’s Media has become the target of a COINTELPRO-style smear campaign. While we do not normally publicly comment on attacks from trolls and social media haters, the situation has now escalated to one in which threats of vigilante violence have been made against RPM members and the participants at the Wyman Rd. camp. These threats have been made online and in person. The fingerprints of police involvement in “bad-jacketing” RPM members for violence are all over recent events. RPM has uncovered multiple instances of the Tyendinaga Police Service (affiliated with the Ontario Provincial Police) working to undermine and infiltrate the movement in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. This has included covert efforts by Tyendinaga Police Chief Jason Brant to remove the camp by issuing a fake press release that was sent to OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique in the early hours of February 13th, 2020. The press release claimed that the Mohawks were standing down and leaving the Wyman Rd. location before the arrival of Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller, and was timed to coincide with an aborted 8am SWAT Team raid to arrest the ‘hard line’ elements who wouldn’t clear the site. Real People’s Media captures Kanenhariyo’s conversation with OPP Police Commissioner Carrique. on the morning of February 13: The issuing of the secret police press release was arranged with self-proclaimed “Mohawk Warrior” Shawn Brant. Brant has been notably absent from involvement in the Wet’suwet’en solidarity movement in Tyendinaga except where he has appeared to actively undermine it. Brant was present along with CN Rail police and Tyendinaga Police Chief Jason Brant to observe the gathering on Wyman shortly after it began, but he was not present at the camp except on the evening of February 12th. That night, Shawn Brant made every effort to convince the people to leave the front lines – a request that was unsuccessful. When Tyendinaga Police Chief Jason Brant arrived on the morning of February 13th to carry out his and Shawn’s plans, he was promptly escorted out by Mohawk warriors. The Mohawk people at Wyman Rd. remove Tyendinaga Police Chief Jason Brant from the camp on the morning of February 13th: On February 25th, the Tyendinaga Police continued to interfere in the movement to support the Wet’suwet’en. Real People’s Media has obtained an audio recording of TPS Officer Marcel Maracle working to sow fear and division amongst the people, all while trying to influence political events by encouraging a contact to “put together a committee” made up of a “Bear, Wolf and Turtle” to make the decision “on behalf” of the people to shut down the camps and leave. This is the audio of Tyendinaga Police Services Officer Marcel Maracle in conversation with a member of the solidarity action in support of the Wet’suwet’en on Feb 25, 2020. The audio has been edited to remove the voice of the person Officer Maracle was seeking to influence: Officer Maracle is also overheard on the tape claiming that [Mohawk Clan Mother] “Carol Anne has pulled out the women and children, because I called her…. I told her ‘your daughter is in there, things are occurring, and people are going to get hurt.’” He also stated that the OPP was not going to charge anybody right now (Feb 25) “not because they’re giving immunity, but because they can’t identify anybody.” This statement has been proven to be untrue by APTN’s reporting that the OPP police liaisons “gave intelligence, identities of Tyendinaga Mohawks to CN Rail without legal challenge.” The question of what involvement the Tyendinaga Police Service has played in providing the OPP with the identities of the 24 Mohawk men who have been charged or issued summons to appear in court for supporting the Wet’suwet’en remains unclear. The Tyendinaga Police Service continued to play politics most recently on March 5th, when a vehicle belonging to Real People’s Media co-founder Tom Keefer was pulled over on reserve by Officer Marcel Maracle. Keefer was not in the vehicle, but its driver, a videographer for Real People’s Media, was stopped. No charges or tickets were given by the officer. Instead, Officer Maracle simply reported over the radio that the driver was a Registered Sex Offender and that he was driving Keefer’s vehicle. The following evening, a meeting was convened by a group led by Officer Marcel Maracle’s brother Terry Maracle. This ad-hoc group called itself the “Tyendinaga Mohawk Nation Men’s Council” and was organized to discuss the information reported by Officer Maracle on the police scanner. According to a first-hand report, this group met while drinking alcohol, and without any investigation of the matter, issued a statement published on the Facebook account of Terry Maracle that “ordered” the removal of RPM co-founder Tom Keefer from the territory, and the dispersal of what it called “the transients” from “the Keefer Camp” [the Wyman Rd. encampment] with the use of “all necessary and appropriate force.” After the meeting, two of the men who had been drinking at the meeting drove through the community drunk, and arrived at the home of RPM co-founder Kanenhariyo Seth Lefort with the intention of doing violence to him in the middle of the night. Fortunately, the men were talked down and left without further incident. One of the men returned to apologize for his actions the following day. Neither Real People’s Media nor its co-founders Kanenhariyo Seth Lefort or Tom Keefer had any knowledge that the RPM volunteer driving Keefer’s car had a criminal record or had been charged with a domestic sexual assault in 2008. Once informed, RPM immediately addressed the issue. The driver agreed to leave the territory and not return, and he is no longer involved with Real People’s Media. The individual in question has written a statement on the matter which is published below to provide further context for our readers. ![]() The so called “Men’s Council” has continued to promote violence and threats against the camp. On the evening of Saturday March 8th, a group of about two dozen affiliated with Maracle showed up at the site, threatening to take it down and do violence to the men there. The Tyendinaga Police Services were on hand to block the road leading into the camp so that no supporters of the camp could enter. Only those opposed to the camp and affiliated with Terry Maracle and Shawn Brant’s “Men Council” were allowed through, creating the conditions for a violent confrontation within the community. After a 45 minute discussion at the main entrance of the camp, it was decided the people would meet again at 3pm on Sunday, March 8 to discuss the concerns of the people in Tyendinaga about the camp. ![]() An eagle flies over the Wyman Rd. Camp The Wet’suwet’en resistance to the CGL pipeline and the RCMP invasion has kickstarted a historic movement across Turtle Island of Indigenous people standing up through their Clans and Hereditary systems to reclaim their lands and to control their territory. This movement has shaken the Canadian colonial system and its national security apparatus. Those benefiting from Canada’s Indian Act system and the delivery of its programs and services on reserve are similarly shook. The Indian Act is coming to an end, and the grassroots people are rising up to re-establish their traditional systems on their own lands. Real People’s Media has been committed to elevating and telling the stories of the people’s movement in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en and the revival and strengthening of Onkwehon:we Clan-based systems over the past five years. Real People’s Media is owned and operated under the guidance of the Bear Clan in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. We remain fully committed to the struggle in support of the Wet’suwet’en people, and are undeterred by the actions of police, infiltrators and agents against ourselves or the movement. Having said that, the situation in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory is dire. The actions of the Tyendinaga Police Services are threatening the peace, and encouraging vigilante violence. We call upon our viewers, listeners and readers to remember the lessons learned in the murderous disruption of the American Indian Movement and the Black Panther Party by COINTELPRO, and we urge everyone to thoroughly investigate matters before leaping to conclusions or taking action. We encourage those people belonging to Clans to meet within them to discuss these matters and to consider an appropriate response to police and outsider interference in Onkwehon:we affairs. We call for non-Indigenous people and Indigenous people without Clans to listen to and amplify the voices of those people meeting in their Clans – rather than to speak for or interfere in Onkwehon:we affairs. The camp at Wyman Rd. remains up and active, and the Mohawks continue to stand on guard for the Wet’suwet’en people as they discuss and decide upon a proposed agreement to resolve the issue of unrecognized title to their ancestral lands and the invasion of CGL and the RCMP invasion on their lands. We also call for our readers and supporters to provide us with any further information that they may have regarding the sabotage and disruption of the Wet’suwet’en solidarity movement and police infiltration in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Real People’s Media remains committed to expressing and amplifying the voices of the Onkwehon:we people, and we are in for what we know will be a long and ongoing struggle.
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בּ Registered: 02/19/09 Posts: 13,462 Loc: Turtle Island Last seen: 12 hours, 44 minutes |
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Let's end things on a lighter note after that drop. This short video is from four years ago when Chevron was hoping to build a pipeline on Wet'suwet'en territory - it's a hilarious example of woke capitalism
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