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January 7, 2019

Canada: Indigenous Activists Say Raid on Wet'suwet'en Camps "Imminent"
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And indigenous land defenders in western Canada say a raid on their
encampments is imminent. Members of the Unist'ot'en and the Gitdumden
Clan have been physically blocking entry to native Wet'suwet'en
territory, where Trans Canada Corporation plans to build the massive
$4.7 billion Coastal Gas Link pipeline. Last month, a judge granted a
temporary injunction for access by Coastal Gas Link workers. Reports
emerged over the weekend of chartered police buses arriving in the area
to defy the two Wet'suwet'en road blocks. This is Molly Wickham of the
Gitdumden Clan speaking Saturday night.

Molly Wickham: "People like to think that things have gotten a lot
better in so-called Canada and in our communities and that things aren't
the same that they were 150 years ago. But that's just a fallacy. It's
false, because we know, right now, in this reality, that the state is
willing and capable of using the same kinds of violence that they have
used against our people for the last 150 years here."



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