Wet’suwet’en Supporter Toolkit 2020

Relatives, We wanted to make sure you saw this toolkit our relatives at Unist’ot’en Camp complied to support the Wt'suwet'en. Below you can learn more and ways to support them.  
 Click on the image below to view this information on the Unist’ot’en Camp website.  : [link removed] stand as witnesses to this historic moment when the federal and provincial governments, RCMP, and Coastal GasLink/TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) are openly violating Wet’suwet’en, Canadian, and international law.
Coastal GasLink/TC Energy is pushing through a 670-kilometer fracked gas pipeline that would carry fracked gas from Dawson Creek, B.C. to the coastal town of Kitimat, where LNG Canada’s processing plant would be located. LNG Canada is the single largest private investment in Canadian history.
Each clan within the Wet’suwet’en Nation has full jurisdiction under their law to control access to their territory. Under ‘Anuc niwh’it’en (Wet’suwet’en law) all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en have unanimously opposed all pipeline proposals : [link removed] and have not provided free, prior, and informed consent to Coastal Gaslink/ TransCanada to do work on Wet’suwet’en lands.
How can you, as a supporter, show your solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en and Unist’ot’en battle against industry giants?  What can you do to stem the tide of colonization and corporate greed usurping Indigenous rights?  
 Come to the Land : [link removed] | Fundraise : [link removed] | Educate : [link removed] | Build Solidarity : [link removed] | Pressure the Government : [link removed] | Donate : [link removed]
 
COME TO THE LANDMotivated, dedicated volunteers are especially needed right now.  Register Here : [link removed] Stipend is available for Indigenous supporters to travel to the land. Apply here! : [link removed] is highly recommended that you read up onPreparing for Your Visit : [link removed].
FUNDRAISEHold a fundraiser : [link removed] to help the Unist’ot’en with the prohibitive legal costs designed to be in favour of industry.  Follow the Solidarity Fundraiser Protocols. : [link removed] 
 
EDUCATEHost a film screening : [link removed] of the new documentary, Invasion : [link removed]. Write an opinion piece for your local paper, zine, or other publication. Keep the name of the Unist’ot’en in the press, and bypass the media blackout.Sign up : [link removed] for the Unist’ot’en Camp Newsletter.Share posts on social media : [link removed], talk to your community, keep eyes on the Unist’ot’en and Wet’suwet’en!
BUILD SOLIDARITYForm a Supporter Group in your local community, and brainstorm what you can do as a collective.Sign the Pledge : [link removed] to support the Unist’ot’en.If you are part of a labour union, academic department, or community group, organize to write a Solidarity Statement : [link removed] in support of Wet’suwet’en jurisdiction and governance. Get in touch to register – email [email protected] the Call for Solidarity Actions in your region : [link removed]
PRESSURE THE GOVERNMENTTell Canada and British Columbia to uphold Indigenous rights.  Call the relevant Provincial and Federal Ministers : [link removed].  Look up your MP! : [link removed] Write, call, and contact them on social media.
DONATEDonate to Unist’ot’en Legal Fund : [link removed] to Gidimt’en Access Point : [link removed] 
 
Indigenous and Wet’suwet’en Law : [link removed] | Canadian and International Law : [link removed] | History of Unist’ot’en Healing Centre : [link removed] Allyship and Solidarity : [link removed] LNG and Fracking : [link removed] Contacts : [link removed] | Media : [link removed]
 
INDIGENOUS AND WET’SUWET’EN LAWHereditary LawThe Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs have maintained their use and occupancy of their lands and hereditary governance system : [link removed], are the Title Holders of their territories, and maintain the authority and jurisdiction to make decisions on their unceded lands.  The 22,000 square km of Wet’suwet’en Territory is divided into five clans and thirteen house groups. Each clan within the Wet’suwet’en Nation has full jurisdiction under their law to control access to their territory.
The Wet’suwet’en : [link removed] fought for many years in the Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa court case to have their sovereignty recognized and affirmed by Canadian law. In 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the Wet’suwet’en people, as represented by their hereditary leaders, had not given up rights and title to their 22,000km2 territory.
Knowing that further litigation would be prohibitively expensive to Indigenous plaintiffs (and that pipeline construction could be completed before any significant legal issues could be further resolved) TC Energy and the provincial and federal governments are openly violating this landmark ruling. The economic burden and emotional toll this has taken on Freda Huson and her family has been tremendous. They have had to retain two legal teams to deal with daily violations of Indigenous rights and to prepare a response for the injunction.
The Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan nations have already proven in the Supreme Court of Canada that their Aboriginal rights and title has not been extinguished. Hereditary leaders : [link removed] from across B.C. support the Unist’ot’en.  It is deeply unjust to force the Wet’suwet’en to prove their right to live on their own territories (again) in a court system built to dispossess Indigenous people. If the injunction continues to be upheld by the courts, it will be in defiance of both Wet’suwet’en law and Canadian legal precedents.
Update 12/31/19: Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs Reject the BC Supreme Court Decision to Criminalize Wet’suwet’en Law : [link removed]
Indigenous and Wet’suwet’en Law Articles:The Unist’ot’en stand-off: How Canada’s “prove-it” mentality undermines reconciliation : [link removed] is on the side of Indigenous group : [link removed] in pipeline dispute, say legal experts.The Unist’ot’en Movement, Not the RCMP, Has the Law on Its Side : [link removed] Faculty of Law : [link removed] on Canadian Law on Aboriginal and Treaty Rights.At the core of the Wet’suwet’en : [link removed] conflict: How should resource development be governed?Making Space for Indigenous Law : [link removed] : [link removed] explaining Wet’suwet’en governance and why the Hereditary Chiefs oppose pipelinesCorporations don’t seem to understand Indigenous jurisdiction : [link removed] AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, RCMP, CGL, AND THE INJUNCTIONArticles relating to the Injunction and the Invasion in January 2019
Nine things to know : [link removed] about the Unist’ot’en Camp.Guardian:  Canada police prepared to shoot Indigenous activists, documents show : [link removed] (Dec 20, 2019)An Injunction Against the Unist’ot’en Camp: An embodiment of healing faces eviction. : [link removed] Wet’suwet’en and B.C.’s gas-pipeline battle: From 2009 – Jan 2019 : [link removed] Indigenous Assert Rights, Canada Sends Militarized Police. : [link removed] : [link removed]: What Land Protectors Need To Know 

CANADIAN LAW, ABORIGINAL TITLE, CGL, and INDUSTRYWhen pipeline companies want to build on Indigenous lands, with whom do they consult : [link removed] GasLink pipeline permitted through illegal process, the lawsuit contends : [link removed]’s banking the Coastal GasLink pipeline? : [link removed] 

HISTORY OF UNIST’OT’EN CAMP AND THE HEALING CENTREThe background : [link removed] of the campaign to save the Yintah.A timeline : [link removed] of events from the beginning of reoccupation until January 2019.A piece by the Stimulator, from Action Camp, 2013 : [link removed] : [link removed]: A 2013 documentary about the camp.A tiny Batman and the youngest Unist’ot’en take us through an example of Protocol at the bridge. : [link removed]’ot’en Matriarchs jarring salmon : [link removed] under the first threat of raid, in 2015.Asking TransCanada to leave, 2015 : [link removed] piece from Al Jazeera : [link removed]: Holding Their Ground Against Oil & Gas Pipelines.A supporter made video about visiting Unist’ot’en in the winter : [link removed], 2016/2017.Talking about building the cabins and healing on the land : [link removed], 2017.A 5 part video series : [link removed] on resistance in Indigenous territory, and the cultural mission of the centre, 2017.What the Healing Centre : [link removed] does for the people, 2018.CGL forces the gate : [link removed] at Git’umden, and raid expected at camp, January 2019.Everything from January 10th 2019 until June 2019 : [link removed] bulldozes a trapline and defies cease work order : [link removed] artifacts found.The Unist’ot’en go to court : [link removed] to fight the injunction, June 2019.Youth Art Camp : [link removed] is held at the Healing Centre.TC Energy and CGL bulldoze the Kweese Trail : [link removed], August 2019. And in text : [link removed] short version of the documentary, Invasion : [link removed], is released, detailing the last year, including Freda Huson’s visit to the United Nations : [link removed] arrested : [link removed] while within Unist’ot’en territory, and abiding by injunction.
ALLYSHIP AND SOLIDARITYAn example of how to show up in a good way, by Dr. Lynn Gehl: The Ally Bill of Responsibilities : [link removed] Calls Themselves An Ally : [link removed], by Ancestral Pride.Allyship and Solidarity Guidelines : [link removed], on Unsettling America.Beginner’s guide to identifying Cultural Appropriation : [link removed]. 

CONTACTS AND SOCIAL MEDIAUnist’ot’en Twitter : [link removed]’en Twitter : [link removed]’ot’en Facebook : [link removed]’suwet’en Strong Facebook : [link removed] questions: [email protected] : mailto:[email protected] Media questions: [email protected] : mailto:[email protected] General questions: [email protected] : mailto:[email protected] Submit a Statement of Solidarity from your Group: [email protected] questions: [email protected] : mailto:[email protected]  Register for Camp : [link removed] to call camp? Email [email protected] for instructions.2020 Legal Fund : [link removed] 

MEDIA FOR DISTRIBUTIONThe INVASION : [link removed] documentary2019 Brochure : [link removed] A print-ready pamphlet about coming to camp. What’s Next? : [link removed] A zine about developments in the year 2019.Heal the People, Heal the Land : [link removed]: a print-ready : [link removed] zine about healing at camp.Ancestral Pride’s downloadable Allyship zine: Everyone Calls Themselves an Ally : [link removed]: Indigenous Women on the Frontlines Speak : [link removed]: 10 part zine seriesLNG, Fracking and Coastal GaslinkWhat is LNG and how is it produced?  How does Coastal Gaslink relate to fracking and why do the Wet’suwet’en say no to an LNG pipeline on their territories?
This backgrounder provides a summary of recent research and offers lots of additional resources for you to brush up on everything you need to know about LNG in British Columbia.
Download as PDF : [link removed] Access as Google Doc : [link removed]
 
 
 
Click here to access the previous Supporter Toolkit, from January 2019 : [link removed]


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