{"id":21884,"date":"2022-07-25T15:41:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T15:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=21884"},"modified":"2022-07-26T10:15:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T10:15:51","slug":"canada-is-trying-to-send-indigenous-water-protestors-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/25\/canada-is-trying-to-send-indigenous-water-protestors-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada is trying to send indigenous water protestors to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following article by Sam Carliner, first posted by Left Voice (USA)<\/a>, \u00a0highlight’s the repressive tile of the ‘liberal’ Canadian government in suppressing indigenous land defenders in British Colombia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

CANADA IS REYING TO SEND INDIGENOUS WATER PROTESTORS TO PRISON<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On Jan 7, 2019, Indigenous land defenders and protesters squared off with heavily armed RCMP at a checkpoing in Northern B.C. The ensuing conflict sparked rallies and outrage across the country, and draw into question Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s committment to reconciliation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Jan 7, 2019, Indigenous land defenders and protesters squared off with heavily armed RCMP at a checkpoing in Northern B.C. The ensuing conflict sparked rallies and outrage across the country, and draw into question Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s committment to reconciliation.<\/p>\n

As deadly heat waves rage across the Global North, Canada\u2019s government is attacking frontline environmental defenders. On July 7, Crown prosecutors in British Columbia\u00a0charged<\/a>\u00a0Sleydo,a prominent Indigenous leader, with criminal contempt for opposing the construction of a gas pipeline on Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents his government as taking Indigenous rights and environmentalism seriously, but these charges against Sleydo and other water protectors show the Canadian state\u2019s true colors. Along with attacking the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en struggle through the courts, the government\u00a0uses militarized police<\/a>\u00a0to suppress leaders of the community and destroy their property.<\/p>\n

Sleydo and other movement leaders have differentiated themselves from First Nation misleaders who approved construction of TC Energy\u2019s Coastal GasLink pipeline against the wishes of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en community. For years, the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en struggle has engaged in direct action, blocking the company\u2019s access to unceded Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory. The community\u2019s rejection of that misleadership, its refusal to cede its territory, and the militant tactics employed to defend it have\u00a0won mass support<\/a>\u00a0from the Canadian working class and climate movement. It is no wonder the state is trying to imprison these leaders.<\/p>\n

As Sleydo told\u00a0Left Voice\u00a0<\/em>in an\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0last December, \u201cWe\u2019re connected to all these other movements and other Indigenous groups around the world. This is a consequence of globalization and capitalism and colonization all around the world. And the stories are very similar. So if we allow these things to happen here, then they\u2019re going to continue to happen all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarities to the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en struggle can be found in the United States. President Joe Biden, like Trudeau, postures as if liberation for Indigenous people and a meaningful response to the climate crisis can come from the capitalist state, even as that very state attacks water protectors and Native communities. In May, the U.S. Supreme Court\u00a0issued a ruling<\/a>\u00a0that greatly expands states\u2019 ability to ignore tribal sovereignty. Meanwhile, water protectors who tried to stop the construction of the\u00a0Line 3<\/a>\u00a0pipeline in Minnesota\u00a0face felony charges<\/a>. Jessica Reznicek, a water protector from the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline, is already in prison for \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d because she sabotaged construction equipment \u2014 a sentence that sets a dangerous legal precedent.<\/p>\n

As the climate crisis intensifies, capitalist governments are escalating their repression of communities on the frontlines defending the planet. Though historically oppressed Indigenous communities face particularly harsh violence, legal attacks on allies of these communities such as Reznicek and environmental lawyer\u00a0Steven Donziger<\/a>show that the rulers will not tolerate anyone who fights to defend Earth against the capitalist system that is\u00a0destroying it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We demand freedom for Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en leaders and all water protectors. It\u2019s a demand the climate movement should fight in the streets, and that all of us should take to our workplaces.<\/p>\n

21.7.2<\/strong><\/p>\n

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also see :-<\/p>\n

Ecuador’s indigenous people are fighting neo-liberal austerity in the streets<\/a><\/p>\n

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