State surveillance has a big impact on the way RCMP treat Indigenous land defenders. Listen to our podcast for more info. Here, RCMP officers walk toward an anti-logging blockade in Caycuse, B.C., in May.
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In recent years, Indigenous land defenders have lived under increasing police and state surveillance while far-right, conspiratorial movements have not.
Supporters of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs who oppose the Coastal GasLink pipeline set up a support station at kilometre 39, just outside of Gidimt'en checkpoint near Houston B.C., on January 8, 2020. The Wet'suwet'en peoples are occupying their land and trying to prevent a pipeline from going through it.
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Indigenous land defenders: Don’t Call Me Resilient EP 6 transcript.
Area of Bigstone Cree Nation cultural trail that has been logged.
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Part of an Indigenous ancestral trail was cleared by a logging company last summer, despite it being a protected cultural site under Alberta law.
Supporters of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs perform a round dance at a blockade at a CN Rail line just west of Edmonton on Feb. 19, 2020.
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In this episode of our podcast, we take a look at Indigenous land rights and the people on the frontlines of these battles.
The direct confrontational tactics adopted by environmental activists over the past decade have transformed the global climate movement.
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A web of local environmental action campaigns launched against oilsands pipelines a decade ago helped bring an end to Keystone XL.
Fists raised in solidarity for George Floyd in Charlotte, N.C.
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Don’t Call Me Resilient is a provocative podcast about race that goes in search of solutions for those things no one should have to be resilient for.
This dispute over land in Caledonia is complex and builds on 500 years of colonization.
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Land Defenders from Six Nations occupied a disputed land to highlight the fact that Canadians have a long way to go when it comes to learning what land acknowledgements are supposed to teach us.