Frontlines Beat Pipelines II: Fundraiser for the Unist’ot’en Camp Healing Center

Posted by admin on Jul 17th, 2015

Thursday, September 10 at 7:00pm – 11:00pm in PDT
Wise Hall, 1882 Adanac Street,
Unceded Musqueam, Skwxwú7mesh, and Tsleil Waututh Territories

Opening by CHRISTIE LEE CHARLES
RUP SIDHU
JILLIAN CHRISTMAS
JB THE FIRST LADY
KIMMORTAL
& in from Seattle! ABYSSINIAN CREOLE

Tickets: http://frontlines.bpt.me/

Even if you can’t attend in person, you can purchase and donate a ticket for low-income folks

Free for low-income folks: noii-van@resist.ca to reserve.

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Videos from: Frack off! Indigenous Land Defenders Against Fracking

Posted by admin on Apr 1st, 2015

Unist’ot’en Camp and Skwomesh Action in a talk about Indigenous struggles against fracking. Also featuring poetry by Crystal Smith de Molina; Tsimshian & Haisla.

Land is Life: Indigenous Defenders Speak!

Posted by admin on Dec 6th, 2013

Land is Life: Indigenous Defenders Speak!

Monday December 16th. Door at 6:00 pm, Event at 6:30 pm
Grandview Calvary Baptist Church, 1803 East 1st Ave (just east of Commercial Drive).
Unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.

Indigenous land defenders from across the interior and north will be converging in Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories in a few weeks for the Tsilhqot’in Mass Dance Ceremony on Dec 13 (https://www.facebook.com/events/399603263506395/) and Bring the NOIIse: A celebration of 10 years of NOII on Dec 15 (https://www.facebook.com/events/654064921282986/)

On Monday December 16th, join us in a powerful panel to hear about ongoing frontline struggles by these communities to protect their lands, to assert their nationhood, and to defend their ways of life. These communities have all been asserting and exercising traditional governance, laws, and jurisdiction and have taken up courageous actions to stop mining, oil and/or gas development in their territories.

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Unist’ot’en “Soft Blockade” on Morice River, BC

Posted by admin on May 29th, 2013

THE UNIST’OT’EN PEOPLE MAINTAIN A “SOFT BLOCKADE” ON THE MORICE RIVER

May 28, 2013 – The Unist’ot’en People (a.k.a C’ilhts’ekhyu) of the Wet’suwet’en Nation maintain a “Soft Blockade” keeping pipeline workers and subcontractors out of their territories. The blockade is located 66km on the Morice West Forest Service Road south of the town of Houston BC.

Hundreds of supporters, volunteers, recreationalists, and mushroom pickers have been able to cross into the guarded territory by showing respect to the territory owners and answering some simple questions.

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She Speaks: Indigenous Women Speak Out Against Tar Sands

Posted by admin on Aug 28th, 2012

When: Friday September 21
Doors at 5:30 pm. Program ends at 8:30 pm

Where: Aboriginal Friendship Center
1607 East Hastings St (corner Commercial)
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories

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