Fracking blockade chaos

Check out this interview clip: http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/ID/2412962477/

Its a supportive municipal official also trained as an observer in the military.

Submedia Video: Showdown At Highway 134 - Mi'kmaq Anti-Fracking Blockade (and vid)

http://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/submedia-video-showd...

"RCMP raid and Mi'kmaq resistance in New Brunswick"

Canada Anti-Fracking Protests: First Nations Confront Harper Government

http://www.globalresearch.ca/canada-anti-fracking-protests-first-nations...

"This week's anti-fracking protest has put Canada's First Nations at the forefront of Canada's political life, injecting spirit back into our moribund political scene..."

friggen billy madison supporting #elsipogtog @adamsandler pic.twitter.com/0OLHpOXBBV

New Brunswick support: Most northern solidarity protest in Iqaluit

Joining APTN from outside the Iqaluit RCMP detachment

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New Brunswick support: Peaceful protest at the Highway 45

Outside Toronto people from the Alderville First Nation held a peaceful highway demonstration all in support of the people in New Brunswick.

..important point of view

Grand Chief: Unite in face of Elsipogtog, Harper ‘War on Mother Earth’

video & some text

quote:

Phillip, the president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, told the crowd of a thousand, ”We are heading for a watershed moment in this country” – suggesting that Harper’s “petro-power” agenda to “sell out the resources of all Canadians” is coming to a head with First Nations and Canadian citizens.

What we witnessed yesterday – the brutality of the RCMP, the heavy-handed, para-miniltary response to a peaceful protest was a message…sent to British Columbia. It was a message sent to all of us here that when the Harper government vetoes any notion on the Joint Review Panel – to approve the pipeline projects, the natural gas developments, liquified natural gas exports to Asia and other countries – the Harper government is telling us this is what we may expect, that type of brutal response from the RCMP.

http://commonsensecanadian.ca/VIDEO-detail/grand-chief-unite-face-elsipo...

NorthReport wrote:

I would like to know what the missing other half of this photo shows.

paolo wrote:

RCMP sniper pointing at crowd of youths now at #mikmaqblockade #Elsipogtog #IdleNoMore

I've been looking at this picture.

I find it odd the RCMP seem to have a unit that wears the same camoflage pattern as US and Canadian Special Forces (Special Operations)

The velcro patch is something you would generally find on a military uniform where soldiers flags, unit identifiers and other patches go.

It's also interesting how the sniper is holding the rifle in his right right shoulder with his right hand yet his pistol is holstered on his left side.

Apparently the judge did say in court that there did not seem to be a reason for extending the injunction becuase SWN had both taken its equipment away and was not currently operating.

Sounds so simple an obvious.

So here is where we stand in the power game.

Even the government cannot tell SWN not to operate for some length of time. They can only ask. That said, the Premeir has talked about at least a week's breather. Elsipogtog was talking about a month.

At a minimum, SWN has to stay away for a while. For all intents and purposes, they might as well still be blockaded.

When and if they choose to operate again, it is back to square one for them. The injunction against specific activists being in the area is gone. And if there is another blockade, it will take them a while to get a new injunction... still burning money with everyone and everything on idle, more money on legal costs...

The community puts a lot of people into looking for the equipment. It must be well hidden, and definitely not working. The crews may even have gone home indefinitely.

Tyson Peters, a member of the Mi’kmaq Warrior Society, was shot in the leg with a projectile fired by RCMP and risks losing his leg as a result.

Fracking Indigenous Country  -  by Macdonald Stainsby

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/22/fracking-indigenous-country/

Big Green, Sun Media and Elsipogtog

"Only when community resistance speaks truth to power, as has been witnessed in Elsipogtog for the last several days, can the voice of democracy be heard - and when it is heard, it speaks with more clarity and simple truth than capital can handle."

Elsipogtog: Unity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DKaM7EGtjY

This video is posted to emphasize the solidarity and unity between First Peoples, Acadian and Anglophone communities within New Brunswick, who have united in their opposition to shale gas exploration and stand for a sustainable future for future generations. Here, you will see the round dance around the SWN "thumper" compound immediately after Elsipogtog Chief Aaron Sock's press conference, held at the blockade site on Treaty Day, October 1. Each community is represented at the encampment. Members of each community also visit us daily and provide good cheer, supplies and other support. Furthermore, *each* community was represented at the first meeting with the Premiere and each will continue to be represented at future discussions. Video filmed by Christian Peacemaker Teams- the Aboriginal Justice Team.

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Elsipogtog Frack Off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmH4irplxqw

Protect our lands our people and our spirits.

Fracking The Mi'kmaq: Guess Who Owns Southwestern Energy?

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.ca/2013/10/fracking-mikmaq-guess-who-owns.html

"Guess who are among the top owners of Southwestern Energy:

Philip Morris, Verizon, AT&T, Century Link, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Nike, Starbucks, Exxon, Chevron, Walmart, Macdonalds, Walt Disney, Apple, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, more..

Tell them to divest, to dump their investments!"

NDPP wrote:

Fracking The Mi'kmaq: Guess Who Owns Southwestern Energy?

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.ca/2013/10/fracking-mikmaq-guess-who-owns.html

"Guess who are among the top owners of Southwestern Energy:

Philip Morris, Verizon, AT&T, Century Link, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Nike, Starbucks, Exxon, Chevron, Walmart, Macdonalds, Walt Disney, Apple, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, more..

Tell them to divest, to dump their investments!"

more  of a question is who owns those companies? i know some. it should be the shareholders from the parent companies  who should divest!!!!! not going to happen though peeps too racist and too into their portfolios.

On October 17, 2013, Amanda Marie Polchies, a member of the Elsipogtog First Nation, was among hundreds protesting a fracking project outside Rexton, New Brunswick. Her image has since become a symbol of that movement's efforts.

First Nations warn Harper's zeal for resources makes the Elsipogtog protest part of a wider struggle

First Nations’ frustrations with government are nearing a boiling point where confrontations are increasingly likely to turn violent, B.C. aboriginal leaders warn.

In a telephone interview, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip told the Georgia Straight that recent clashes between RCMP officers and First Nations members in New Brunswick are part of a struggle shared by aboriginal people across Canada.

“I think Prime Minister Harper has done an incredible job provoking a conflict between the economy and the environment,” the president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs said. “It’s shaping up to be a war between oil and water. And it applies to the eastern part of this country as well as British Columbia.”.....

http://www.straight.com/news/514501/first-nations-warn-harpers-zeal-reso...

..i agree quizzical great pic!

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quote:

Khelsilem Rivers is a community organizer with the Skwxwú7mesh Nation who has worked with the Idle No More movement. Like Phillip and Hill, he also voiced concerns about the growing possibility of violence between First Nations groups and Canadian law-enforcement agencies.

Rivers lamented that for years, Canada's aboriginal people have known that the federal government regards their protest movements as illegitimate. He recounted how in 2007 the public learned that the military was using a counter-insurgency manual that listed Native groups alongside international terrorist organizations. More recently, Rivers continued, the RCMP used the Elsipogtog incident to denounce First Nations’ protests as a threat to public safety.

“It’s a tactic that’s meant to separate supporters from each other and try to create dissent, as well as a level of doubt within the Canadian public,” he said.

http://www.straight.com/news/514501/first-nations-warn-harpers-zeal-reso...

Amanda Polchies, the woman in iconic photo, says image represents ‘wisp of hope’

It’s a picture that has been viewed around the world.

And helped define the events of the raid on an anti-fracking barricade in Rexton, New Brunswick last week.

It’s a photo of a Mi’kmaq mother kneeling in front of a line of riot police.

We Are Not Alone

A few things are clear from the events of the past week. The first is that we are not alone. The Mi’kmaq who are standing against fracking for natural gas in Elsipogtog do so not just with the courage of their own convictions but also with support from places diverse in geography, culture and ethnicity.

Social media have made it much easier to reach across time and space. We are connecting with our Native relations from the Mohawks to the Lakota, but also the Paiute, Ojibwe, Kumeyaay and hundreds of Native people familiar and unfamiliar to us all. We may not form an ever-ready unified military force, but that is not where our strength will ever be—nor should it.

Our strengths are in each of the territories or regions that we live. For some, it is seizing the moment to take our own stand on a parallel issue that strengthens the fight for each. For others, it is simply using whatever field of play we find ourselves in to raise awareness, make a statement and build support.

As I wove the information on the raid at Elsipogtog into my previously arranged interviews in Albany, N.Y. on public radio and cable news, I was surprised at the interest that was piqued.

And as I listened to public radio on my drive back across the state from Albany to Cattaraugus, I was moved by an interview with a local non-Native elected official in New Brunswick who said,

“God bless the First Nations.” This gentleman went on to describe how municipal leaders had voted almost unanimously for a moratorium of shale gas exploration in New Brunswick because of their concerns with hydrofracking....

http://tworowtimes.com/opinions/columns/lets-talk-native/we-are-not-alone/

Mi'kmaq Anti-Fracking Update: Two Warriors Released on Bail, Four Others Remain in Jail

http://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/mikmaq-anti-fracking...

"We are there  for our Mother Earth. We're not there to uphold politics. Politics this, politics that, no way. Just say no, and no means no.'..."

"distractions aside"?

ps more on plagues

First Nations Say Reclaiming Crown Land a 'Desperate' Move

http://news.ca.msn.com/local/newbrunswick/first-nations-say-reclaiming-c...

"Members of the Elsipogtog First Nation will begin reclaining parcels of land in Kent County on Saturday by placing plagues on Crown land but an aboriginal law expert says it will be a symbolic exercise with no legal consequences.

Kenneth Francis says plagues will be placed on 50 seperate 100-acre lots which will be staked off..."

NDPP wrote:

"distractions aside"?

oh nothin to see here.....same old story same old song and dance my friend.

loved loved loved this

The Indigenous Council said future life on Earth is threatened.“The Fukushima nuclear crisis alone is a threat to the future of humanity. Yet, our concern goes far beyond this single threat. Our concern is with the cumulative and compounding devastation that is being wrought by the actions of human beings around the world. It is the combination of resource extraction, genetically modified organisms, moral failures, pollution, introduction of invasive species and much much more that are threatening the future of life on Earth.”

Read Indigenous Council’s statementhttp://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/11/indigenous-elders-and-medicine-peoples.html

Telegraph Journal Editorial Supports Cardy's Call For Negotiations  to Begin When Unlawful Acts of Protest End

http://www.nbndp.ca/node/871

Do NOT vote for these people..

quizzical wrote:

NDPP wrote:

Telegraph Journal Editorial Supports Cardy's Call For Negotiations  to Begin When Unlawful Acts of Protest End

http://www.nbndp.ca/node/871

Do NOT vote for these people..

what a goof he is...i just can't wrap my mind around his uglier than shit words. maybe he should bone up on some history and then he might realize all of the Atlantic provinces are really not the property of the colonizers. there's no land treaty with the Mi'kmaq

unless this guy is shut down by the NDP federally and called out Ms May just might have my vote next election!

Here's the original NB NDP news release.
Disappointed to hear this "rule of law" crap from the NDP

[i] FREDERICTON ¬ The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is calling on Premier Alward to immediately order the end to all road blockades before starting meaningful consultations with First Nations communities on the development of the shale gas industry.NB NDP Leader Dominic Cardy said, "We echo the call of the Assembly of First Nations Chiefs to avoid violence on both sides. At a time when our province desperately needs investments and jobs companies will be watching to see if the risk of doing business in New Brunswick is too great. We need the Premier to take a stand, to defend the rule of law in our province, make sure our children can go to school and our goods get to market without any interference."Cardy stressed that the peaceful end to the blockades is only the first step in a lasting resolution to this conflict.[b] "Once the rule of law is enforced on our province's roads the same respect for the law must be applied to our legal responsibility to consult with First Nations," Cardy said. "The government has a broader political responsibility to consult with the people of our province and I hope recent events make the government realize that this issue needs further discussion, and a decision to be made in an election."-30-For media please contact Mike Girard at [email protected] or (506)999-6431 [/I]

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quizzical wrote:

NDPP wrote:

Telegraph Journal Editorial Supports Cardy's Call For Negotiations  to Begin When Unlawful Acts of Protest End

http://www.nbndp.ca/node/871

Do NOT vote for these people..

what a goof he is...i just can't wrap my mind around his uglier than shit words. maybe he should bone up on some history and then he might realize all of the Atlantic provinces are really not the property of the colonizers. there's no land treaty with the Mi'kmaq

 

Yes, enough of this ndp 'rule of law' blather, especially given its grotesque perversion to commit high crimes of usurpation, fraud, constitutional treason, ecocide and genocide. NDP = no difference party. And just in case Cardy or other naifs should wish to 'bone up on some history', or law, here's a start:

Identification of the Conflicted Relationship Between the Indigenous Nations and the Legal Profession in North America: Bruce Clark

http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/an-identification-of-the-conflicted-re...

"...Since my traditional government never agreed by any treaty to be governed by your government, why does your legal system apply your government's laws to me on my indigenous nation's unceded national territory?"

For Our Nations To Live, Capitalism Must Die  -  by Glenn Coulthard

http://nationsrising.org/for-our-nations-to-live-capitalism-must-die/

"The question I want to explore here, albeit very briefly, is this: how might we begin to scale-up these often localized, resurgent-land-based direct actions to produce a transformation in the colonial economy more generally?

Said slightly differently, how might we move beyond a resurgent Indigeous politics that seeks to inhibit the destructive effects of capital - to one that strives to create indigenous alterations to it?"

SWN returning to thump Wednesday: Elsipogtog War Chief

SWN Resources Canada is planning to resume its controversial shale gas seismic exploration work on Wednesday, according to Elsipogtog War Chief John Levi

Levi said SWN’s lawyer Michael Connors, who is a partner with East Coast law firm McInnes Cooper, met with several dozen people from Elsipogtog First Nation and the surrounding communities late Sunday afternoon.

Levi said Connors told the people that SWN would withdraw a lawsuit against several community members if the Houston-based firm was allowed to finish its exploration work unimpeded.

“We said no, we are going to be there,” said Levi, in an interview with APTN National News. “What we told him was we are going to be there Wednesday.”

The meeting was held at a longhouse erected at an anti-fracking encampment used over the past summer. The area sits off Hwy 116 near Elsipogtog First Nation.

Connors told the people in the longhouse that SWN would be working for 14 days and warned them not to block the company’s movements or they would face violence....

Idle No More group in Akwesasne protests fracking

About a dozen people from an Idle No More group based on the Akwesasne Mohawk reserve are marching today against shale gas exploration.

They blocked the Seaway International Bridge, also known as the Three Nations Bridge, connecting Cornwall, Ont. and Massena, NY for about an hour early on Saturday afternoon.

The group gathered to raise public awareness about the dangers of fracking, the process used to extract gas from the earth by injecting fluid into shale rocks to release the natural gas inside.

The demonstrators also wanted to show solidarity with the Mi’kmaq protesters in Rexton, N.B., where tensions exploded three weeks ago after the RCMP tried to dismantle a blockade set up by protesters....

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/idle-no-more-group-in-akwesasne-p...