B.C. pipeline protests continue to halt Ontario trains for 5th day in a row
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After checking our Swiss bank account today, the Feds have failed to fulfill our first demand requesting a transferal of funds from the Canadian Treasury. Given their recalcitrant attitude, I will be consulting with Hereditary Chief Captain Morgan about the possibility launching a further series of protests all across Canada to aid in our efforts for recognition. Possibly a Go Fund Me campaign could be started to provide us with all the necessary tools to build protest villages in every single province - preferably in the downtown area of major cities.
I have also been busy gathering up a collection of our oral histories dating back to the first millennium when our ancestors braved the oceans in cedar log canoes to become the first inhabitants of this country. These stories have been passed down by generations and are a factual account of our unbroken attachment to the land - no matter that we didn't actually spend much time in parts of it - the fact that one foot was set upon any land is more than enough reason to have our claim for millions of hectares validated.
Couple of people making decisions for all the Canadian taxpayers on a trust us comment
From Mowich's article
From Mowich's article
I kinda hope that the FN cancels their support... tater tot will be fukked, the West can get out of CPP or outright separate.. Good for everyone all around
Mohawks face online threats, hate as protest continues
The Mohawks blocking rail traffic south of Montreal held firm Monday in the face of an injunction ordering them to clear the tracks and a spike in online threats.
The Mohawks blocking rail traffic south of Montreal held firm Monday in the face of an injunction ordering them to clear the tracks and a spike in online threats.
Their blockade has been in place for 23 days, halting a commuter rail line and hundreds of freight shipments into the city. It has also sparked a “disturbing” rise in hate speech and death threats directed at the protesters, according to experts.
“In Quebec, the far-right has really begun to mobilize against Indigenous people and Mohawks in particular,” said Xavier Camus, a CEGEP professor and blogger who reports on far-right groups. “Online, you’re seeing very specific calls to violence and racist, dehumanizing language. It’s radicalizing people within these groups.”
Members of a Facebook group called ‘Les Amis de la CAQ’ say the protesters are “savage … terrorists” who should be murdered. The group has about 2,800 members and uses Coalition Avenir Québec’s logo but has no affiliation with the party. It emerged shortly after the CAQ won a majority mandate in 2018.
Meanwhile, Sylvain Brouillette — one of the leaders of the populist group La Meute — called Mohawks “s–t disturbers” and said “it’s easy to see why our ancestors called them savages” in a statement posted on Facebook. La Meute is one of the most prominent right-wing groups in Quebec and frequently protest against Muslims.
For the past month, Indigenous groups across Canada have been protesting in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en chiefs opposed to the construction of a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia. As those actions halted rail traffic and resulted in about 1,000 layoffs in the sector, people turned to social media, often threatening violence against Indigenous people.
CP rail served protesters in Kahnawake with a court order to clear the tracks last week but Mohawk police will not enforce it.
Meanwhile, Premier François Legault said provincial police hesitate to move in on the protest camp because of the presence of AK47 assault rifles on Mohawk land.
Sources inside the camp and Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller say there are no guns on site and that the protest is a nonviolent one.
“We have elders, parents and children here, no one wants violence,” said one Mohawk protester, who did not want his name published.
Kenneth Deer — of the Mohawk Longhouse — says Legault’s words were irresponsible and unnecessarily escalate tensions on the ground.
Though the Wet’suwet’en and federal government reached a tentative agreement Sunday that could end the protests, it still needs to be ratified. Until that happens, the blockade in Kahnawake will stand.
Monday night, the community was scheduled to gather in the Longhouse on Route 207, to discuss what comes next. Hundreds are expected to attend.
Shaheen Shariff is a McGill University professor who has studied hate speech for the past 20 years. She says what’s happening online is disturbing and dangerous but not surprising.
“It’s become normalized,” said Shariff. “With the rise of populism and leaders like (U.S. President) Donald Trump using dehumanizing language against minorities, this is par for the course. … When people go online and use terms like savages to describe Mohawks, they’re making it easier to justify violence against them.”
Camus says the rhetoric isn’t limited to the dark corners of social media. He pointed to a recent Journal de Montréal column by Denise Bombardier, which depicts Kahnawake as a lawless place overrun by masked Mohawks who use the weapons of “terrorists.”
“She was careful not to directly call Mohawks terrorists, but she’s using that language and it’s dangerous,” said Camus.
Greg Horn is a journalist who runs the Kahnawake-based newspaper Iorì:wase. He takes issue with people who suggest Mohawks should just ignore hateful comments online.
“It’s important to know what some people think of us, how they speak of us and in such a way that they’re willing to attach their name to it,” said Horn. “People want us dead, they don’t want us to exist. It’s unsettling but it’s not surprising.
“What we tell our youth is that you should be proud to be Mohawk. And so this hate actually just brings us closer as a community.”
Horn says the fact that CBC News recently stopped allowing people to comment on articles about Indigenous issues speaks volumes about the spread of hate on social media.
As for the real-world consequences of online hate? Camus says it takes normal people, “aunts and uncles,” and exposes them to extremist ideas.
“Out west, you had people from extremist groups forming vigilante groups to go after Indigenous protesters,” said Camus. “If things escalate here, it’s not impossible that it could happen in Quebec. But what’s more likely is you just have these echo chambers where people get more and more hateful.”
montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/mohawks-face-online-threats-hate-as-protest-continues
I really doubt the Mohawks on the blockade would consider having AK-47s in the camp even if it is their own police who refuse to honor the injunction. Premier Legault's comment - ill-advised as I believe it was, did not mention the camp but rather referred to the 'land.' I don't know about the above mentioned weapons but as has been seen, Mohawks are not without other types.
I'm sorry but it was only a matter of time before some group started hitting back by adopting this scurrilous racist language in social media posts. If the Mohawks thought they were exempt from right-wing abuse, they have another think coming. Their continuing refusal to abandon the blockades only adds fuel to the fires of the racism which, most unfortunately will not be limited to those in the Mohawk camp.
Mohawks face online threats, hate as protest continuesThe Mohawks blocking rail traffic south of Montreal held firm Monday in the face of an injunction ordering them to clear the tracks and a spike in online threats.
The Mohawks blocking rail traffic south of Montreal held firm Monday in the face of an injunction ordering them to clear the tracks and a spike in online threats.
Their blockade has been in place for 23 days, halting a commuter rail line and hundreds of freight shipments into the city. It has also sparked a “disturbing” rise in hate speech and death threats directed at the protesters, according to experts.
“In Quebec, the far-right has really begun to mobilize against Indigenous people and Mohawks in particular,” said Xavier Camus, a CEGEP professor and blogger who reports on far-right groups. “Online, you’re seeing very specific calls to violence and racist, dehumanizing language. It’s radicalizing people within these groups.”
Members of a Facebook group called ‘Les Amis de la CAQ’ say the protesters are “savage … terrorists” who should be murdered. The group has about 2,800 members and uses Coalition Avenir Québec’s logo but has no affiliation with the party. It emerged shortly after the CAQ won a majority mandate in 2018.
Meanwhile, Sylvain Brouillette — one of the leaders of the populist group La Meute — called Mohawks “s–t disturbers” and said “it’s easy to see why our ancestors called them savages” in a statement posted on Facebook. La Meute is one of the most prominent right-wing groups in Quebec and frequently protest against Muslims.
For the past month, Indigenous groups across Canada have been protesting in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en chiefs opposed to the construction of a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia. As those actions halted rail traffic and resulted in about 1,000 layoffs in the sector, people turned to social media, often threatening violence against Indigenous people.
CP rail served protesters in Kahnawake with a court order to clear the tracks last week but Mohawk police will not enforce it.
Meanwhile, Premier François Legault said provincial police hesitate to move in on the protest camp because of the presence of AK47 assault rifles on Mohawk land.
Sources inside the camp and Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller say there are no guns on site and that the protest is a nonviolent one.
“We have elders, parents and children here, no one wants violence,” said one Mohawk protester, who did not want his name published.
Kenneth Deer — of the Mohawk Longhouse — says Legault’s words were irresponsible and unnecessarily escalate tensions on the ground.
Though the Wet’suwet’en and federal government reached a tentative agreement Sunday that could end the protests, it still needs to be ratified. Until that happens, the blockade in Kahnawake will stand.
Monday night, the community was scheduled to gather in the Longhouse on Route 207, to discuss what comes next. Hundreds are expected to attend.
Shaheen Shariff is a McGill University professor who has studied hate speech for the past 20 years. She says what’s happening online is disturbing and dangerous but not surprising.
“It’s become normalized,” said Shariff. “With the rise of populism and leaders like (U.S. President) Donald Trump using dehumanizing language against minorities, this is par for the course. … When people go online and use terms like savages to describe Mohawks, they’re making it easier to justify violence against them.”
Camus says the rhetoric isn’t limited to the dark corners of social media. He pointed to a recent Journal de Montréal column by Denise Bombardier, which depicts Kahnawake as a lawless place overrun by masked Mohawks who use the weapons of “terrorists.”
“She was careful not to directly call Mohawks terrorists, but she’s using that language and it’s dangerous,” said Camus.
Greg Horn is a journalist who runs the Kahnawake-based newspaper Iorì:wase. He takes issue with people who suggest Mohawks should just ignore hateful comments online.
“It’s important to know what some people think of us, how they speak of us and in such a way that they’re willing to attach their name to it,” said Horn. “People want us dead, they don’t want us to exist. It’s unsettling but it’s not surprising.
“What we tell our youth is that you should be proud to be Mohawk. And so this hate actually just brings us closer as a community.”
Horn says the fact that CBC News recently stopped allowing people to comment on articles about Indigenous issues speaks volumes about the spread of hate on social media.
As for the real-world consequences of online hate? Camus says it takes normal people, “aunts and uncles,” and exposes them to extremist ideas.
“Out west, you had people from extremist groups forming vigilante groups to go after Indigenous protesters,” said Camus. “If things escalate here, it’s not impossible that it could happen in Quebec. But what’s more likely is you just have these echo chambers where people get more and more hateful.”
montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/mohawks-face-online-threats-hate-as-protest-continues
I really doubt the Mohawks on the blockade would consider having AK-47s in the camp even if it is their own police who refuse to honor the injunction. Premier Legault's comment - ill-advised as I believe it was, did not mention the camp but rather referred to the 'land.' I don't know about the above mentioned weapons but as has been seen, Mohawks are not without other types.
I'm sorry but it was only a matter of time before some group started hitting back by adopting this scurrilous racist language in social media posts. If the Mohawks thought they were exempt from right-wing abuse, they have another think coming. Their continuing refusal to abandon the blockades only adds fuel to the fires of the racism which, most unfortunately will not be limited to those in the Mohawk camp.
I get people are frustrated, but that is criminal..
They have a right to protest legally.. just not block International Commerce.
Maybe our brilliant lawyer can shed light on laws prohibiting or impeeding international commerce as described by the United Nations
LINK to a different Mohawk peaceful protest: http://ammsa.com/publications/windspeaker/report-finds-mohawk-warrior-responsible-policemans-death
The shooting death of a Quebec provincial police officer during the 1990 confrontation at Oka, Que. was deliberate, concluded coroner Guy Gilbert in a 500-page report released Aug. 17.
Gilbert ruled the AK-47 assault rifle that fired the shot which killed Cpl. Marcel Lemay, July 11, 1990 was held by a Mohawk Warrior whose intention was to kill. The round could in no way have come from the officer's own weapon or from another officer's gun, said Gilbert.
At least six warriors in the woods that day had weapons that could have fired the shot, but the coroner was unable to identify the shooter. He did write, however, the order to fire was given by Mitchell Deer as suggested by another Mohawak, Dennis Nicholas. Other Mohawk leaders identified in the report were Denis David, Francis Boots, John Denis Cree, Eba Beauvais, Kenneth Deer and Paul Delaronde.
The sniper was likely lying on his stomach and supporting the weapon with his elbows when the shot was fired. Lemay was standing still and pointing with his left hand. The bullet entered an area below the corporal's left armpit. The ammunition used was manufactured for military sharpshooters and couldn't have been sopped by Lemay's bullet-proof vest. The rest at the LINK above...
The people feeling the squeeze due to the blockades in Ontario & Quebec & BC aren't just in Ontario & Quebec & BC. People and their livelihoods are being choked across the nation through the harbors and with every full parked grain car and tanker of fuel or heating oil and every sea can sitting, and the investment capital running (not walking) away from this mess of a nation & we'll feel this for decades....and it'll affect EVERY Canadian.
In the matter of optics, who's hiding their identity behind black glasses & bandanas (plural) and so on? Who's not hiding their identity, and why? Oh wait, what's that hanging off the back of the guy hiding behind black glasses & bandanas (plural) ?? Is that an AK47 by any chance?
Out West there are extremist groups forming vigilante groups to go after Indigenous protesters?? Really?? I totally missed that, unless it's bullshit? Or unless Camus is talking about the RCMP enforcing and injunction from the courts? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-rcmp-enforce-court-injunction-against-opponents-of-pipeline/ Or unless Camus is talking about the 20 or so Albertan people who in broad daylight and in a peaceful manner in front of Law Enforcement and the media (without hiding behind masks and balaclavas) cleaned the trash off the tracks in Edmonton? http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/02/19/new-wetsuweten-rail-blockade-pops-up-in-the-heart-of-canadas-oil-country.html?? Or unless Camus is just blowing this out of his arse??
fun fact: one of the six guys (Perhaps the one in the picture above? We'll never know) at that blockade with AK47's shot a Quebec provincial police officer with an AK47 using armor piercing ammo.
fun fact: the guy on the left was kicked out of the military shortly after this picture was taken for cocaine.
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BEECHER BAY BAND DEMANDS APOLOGY FROM EXCTINCTION REBELLION
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The Beecher Bay First Nations Band has put Extinction Rebellion on notice that a protest by 12 activitists at Premier Horgan's Langford home February 18th was done without permission and they want an apology.
In a letter signed by Chief Russ Chipps, and 2 Councillors, the band admonishes Extinction Rebellion's Vancouver Island Chapter, saying it's disturbing that protesters would ignore traditional protocol by not asking for permission to enter the local band's territory.
The letter tells the group they put themselves above protocol in order to carry out their political business of fighting for another First Nation's Rights and Title in Beecher Bay territory.
The letter goes on to state the group insulted their community, and terrorized a private citizen in their neighbouring community.
They demand an apology to the community, Chief and Council, and the premier's wife, Ellie Horgan.
The Beecher Bay Band makes it clear the letter is not a political stance against the Wet'suwet'en, or Tyendinaga, and their right to fight for their territories.
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The Beecher Bay First Nations Band has put Extinction Rebellion on notice that a protest by 12 activitists at Premier Horgan's Langford home February 18th was done without permission and they want an apology.
In a letter signed by Chief Russ Chipps, and 2 Councillors, the band admonishes Extinction Rebellion's Vancouver Island Chapter, saying it's disturbing that protesters would ignore traditional protocol by not asking for permission to enter the local band's territory.
The letter tells the group they put themselves above protocol in order to carry out their political business of fighting for another First Nation's Rights and Title in Beecher Bay territory.
The letter goes on to state the group insulted their community, and terrorized a private citizen in their neighbouring community.
They demand an apology to the community, Chief and Council, and the premier's wife, Ellie Horgan.
The Beecher Bay Band makes it clear the letter is not a political stance against the Wet'suwet'en, or Tyendinaga, and their right to fight for their territories.
This is a text book case of 'careful what you wish for'..
As these Mohawk protestors elect to cover their faces in a bid for anonymity, they end up tarring that entire community and as they have successfully caused unnecessary hardship for people in Montreal, they are now getting the attention they crave.
... That catch is: It's not the kind of attention they actually want
The memories of those actions from years past will certainly be coming back to haunt them
'Was anything actually resolved?' Frustrated business leaders eager for details on Wet'suwet'en deal
A super secret deal that has ramifications across a whole nation to satisfy a couple hundred persons with no input from the Millions affected by it, yep Canada will buy that, they'll have too, it'll save face for the Lib. party.
A super secret deal that has ramifications across a whole nation to satisfy a couple hundred persons with no input from the Millions affected by it, yep Canada will buy that, they'll have too, it'll save face for the Lib. party.
Actually, this will muddy the faces of all libtard candidates with a special call-out to tater tot.
The Lib leadership convention ought to be a doosey
I assume you have a point here. I don't favor the protests, and I wouldn't mind seeing them broken up.
I'm not sure what that has to do with my comment on the quality of the alleged humour.