#wetsuweten

[theomenmedia]

Yintah Trailer Out Now

Join the fight for land sovereignty with Yintah on Netflix. A story of resistance, culture, and the unbreakable spirit of the Wet'suwet'en. Watch from October 18 onwards.

Link to the full story: https://www.theomenmedia.com/post/yintah-the-land-s-defenders-a-netflix-documentary-that-echoes-the-heartbeat-of-wet-suwet-en-resis

[at3chnicality]

(The Halluci Nation)

this right here, hits hard

[milkolya]

sorry if this is controversial but americans love choosing One Issue to focus all their activism on and the vast majority have no self awareness about this trend its rly something to behold

[intricate-detail]

sat in my roommate's cafe with them and their friends and chatted for a while. their friend just came back from doing a documentary on the wetsuweten yintah. my bike is at the mechanics and i'm scheming what kind of cake to make for my friend's birthday picnic. it's outrageously hot for may and i know it will only get worse. life is good and scary at the same time.

[expfcultragreen]

Anyone who ever accused me of pretending i had to survive nazi parents just to get sympathy clout should tead my dads latest letter to the paper. Naturally his other kid is like "fuck everyone who says they stand with wetsuweten, they dont even know what it means". Theyre dogshit kulaks, i wish them crop failure.

They think the band councils picked by the colonial government that answers to the white king of england is somehow less "pro-monarchy" than honouring the hereditary chiefs, as tho thats not backwards & apples to oranges bullshit to start with that only makes sense to kulaks because theyre cognitively impaired by their nazism

[llewelynpritch]

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/yintah-feature-length-documentary-wetsuweten-fight-two-pritchard-ma-p3pme/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRTw1FHVxHU9gDbQf5r1lPkJJb6d7fCuPFwH__aRG-yYHoapOWft7YMSfvHyJuL0nQ-2vTEvaU8NPLZ/pub https://lnkd.in/e5ftnkUg https://unitedforclimate.blogspot.com/2024/03/yintah-world-premiere-1-2-3-march-2024.html https://landprotectorshumanrightsmovement.blogspot.com/2024/03/yintah-world-premiere-1-2-3-march-2024.html https://muskratfallscivilrightsmovement.blogspot.com/2024/03/yintah-world-premiere-1-2-3-march-2024.html https://labradorleadstheworld.blogspot.com/2024/03/yintah-world-premiere-1-2-3-march-2024.html YINTAH WORLD PREMIERE: 1, 2, 3 March 2024 in Columbia, Missouri at TRUE/FALSE FILM FEST - GIVE ME TRUTH - is a feature-length documentary on the #Wetsuweten fight for sovereignty. A decade in the making, Yintah follows two leaders as their nation reoccupies and protects ancestral lands. An urgent tale of modern colonisation as a global-scale thriller and a rallying cry to keep fighting. Learn more: @yintahfilm https://truefalse.org/program/films/ in Columbia, Missouri https://www.instagram.com/truefalsefilmfest/ http://yintahfilm.com 8 February 2024“

A: Friday, Mar 1 / 7:00 pm / Missouri Theatre B: Saturday, Mar 2 / 9:30 am / The Globe C: Sunday, Mar 3 / 12:00 pm / Jesse Auditorium

Dirs. Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell & Michael Toledano 2024 Canada // 125 min.

This gripping debut feature from Michael Toledano, Jennifer Wickham, and Brenda Mitchell, unfolds as Wet’suwet’en activists confront fossil fuel corporations, the Canadian government, and militarized police to stop the construction of gas and oil pipelines on their territory.

Taking its title from the Wet’suwet’en word for “land”, the film chronicles the decade-long struggle led by leaders Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham, as they endure assaults from all directions.

By constructing homes and establishing a healing center along the proposed pipeline route, they assert their right to defend their territory.

Deeply embedded within the communities, the filmmakers chronicle the confrontations with outsiders through frenetic and exhilarating footage, taking us straight to the heart of the resistance.

Yintah presents this urgent tale of modern colonization as a global-scale thriller and a rallying cry to keep fighting.

(EP)This film contains images of animal blood.Q&A with directors Michael Toledano, Jennifer Wickham & Brenda Michell” Source: https://truefalse.org/program/films/

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Taken from the Facebook page for Gidimt'en Checkpoint May 13, 2022:

“Do they have fucking face paint on too?” one asks. “They’re not orcs?” he adds, seemingly referencing The Lord of the Rings.

Another laughs, “The Uruk-Hai, yeah, they burst from the earth” and makes a guttural growling sound as the first officer giggles. “Hand of Sauron.”

(audio link in article)

These are the same racist CIRG officers that repeatedly trespass and harass our people at our Gidimt’en village site multiple times a day.

And for those that might have forgotten or missed the memo, these are intentional tactics presumably hatched after industry urged the government to take action one day after the landmark Delgamuukw decision in 1997, “The decision makes the need for certainty through surrender all the more clear. We see no other alternative.”

(Feb 2020 article “Industry, government pushed to abolish Aboriginal title at issue in Wet’suwet’en stand-off, docs reveal” by The Narwhal)

Read the full article and then call your politicians.

#RCMPofftheYintah #AllOutForWedzinKwa

[drapeau-rouge]

Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Blockade, Toronto, November 21, 2021

[zolamtl]

Graphics made for the Likhts’amisyu land defenders pushing back against Coastal Gas Link pipeline 

[duskwolf]

I am participating in the Artists Against Pipelines - Annual Online Auction For Wet'suwet'en. If you are on Turtle Island ( North America ) you should check it out !!

[skepticalspectacles]

[pnwpol]

BREAKING: Career politician who lives in taxpayer-funded house and whose party paid for his kid's private school says Indigenous people blocking rail lines need to check their privilege

[probablyasocialecologist]

If you’ve never attended a Canadian history class, here is the short version: European settlers spent their first years in this part of the continent hunting beavers en masse in order to turn their pelts into fancy hats. Founded through the fur trade, the Hudson’s Bay company operated as the de facto government in large portions of what is now Canada for nearly 200 years between 1670-1869. Private enterprises like these, with backing from the French and then the British governments, claimed larger and larger swathes of the continent to claim more and more fur, lumber, and ore, often directly stealing from and overpowering Indigenous trading systems that had been sustainably in place for thousands of years. Eventually they spread their land grab all the way to the Pacific Ocean and the northern coastlines in pursuit of gold, silver, iron, copper, nickel, and diamond reserves. The eventual formation of Canada as “Canada” came about in the late 1800s for nakedly economic reasons, primarily to benefit the companies and conglomerates that were trading Canadian natural resources with the British, but also to facilitate railroad construction (using slave labor) in which civic leaders had investments.

On some level, this history closely mirrors that of all colonial states. It’s a pattern that Marx once described as “primitive accumulation,” the principle economic drive of colonialism. Through the enclosure and seizure of resources, for the purposes of their privatization, entire populations and regions are brought into the scope of a ruling class which now owns the means of production and has the power to exploit workers with no choice but to accept the conditions forced upon them. So while Canada is not unique as a colony, it’s done a particularly poor job of adapting to its new status as a “country.” Canada lacks a cohesive identity or sense of itself as anything besides “not the US.” Our population is tiny, spread mostly along the southern border, and in most of the land mass — the parts claimed by “the crown” and private companies, and largely inhabited by Indigenous communities that have lived there since the beginning of human memory — anything resembling state services or essential infrastructure is few and far between. Even the few defining things we can claim as “Canadian,” like socialized medicine or pristine wilderness, are under threat by conservative politicians with an eye for privatization. The pattern of primitive accumulation continues.

This pattern lies at the heart of the shell corporation we call “Canada,” and forms the logic of both domestic and international policy. The mining industry is the most egregious example. Over 75 percent of the world’s mining companies are based in Canada. There’s some historical rationale here — the country was literally built on, around, and by the resource extraction industry. Still, this ridiculous preponderance is largely due to intentional moves by Canadian federal and provincial governments to attract mining money. For instance, mining companies can legally lay claim to minerals found underneath the ground basically anywhere in the province of Ontario, and in British Columbia, mining companies can stake claims on land without even having to be physically present.

Most of the physical geography of Canada is used for resource extraction purposes; nearly 90 percent of the land in Canada is “owned” by federal or provincial governments (41 percent and 48 percent, respectively), and most of that land is licensed out for private companies to use largely as they see fit. Maybe that’s why Canada is so reluctant to address its outsized role in global climate catastrophe, even though Canada is warming at twice the global average. And Canada has exported that environmental destruction elsewhere as well, because mining is effectively the basis of Canadian foreign policy. Canadian mining companies have free rein to devastate lands and communities in Central America and throughout Africa, and face virtually no consequences.

[neat-deadandlive-things]

The Canadian RCMP have arrested at least 6 matriarchs on their own land as they sung and danced in non-violent protest of the BC pipeline. Several others have been arrested as well. (Feb 10 2020)

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