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Wet’suwet’en leader and pipeline opponents found guilty of criminal contempt of court
Judge to hear applications of abuse of process
by Jackie McKay, CBC News, Jan 12, 2024
A prominent Wet’suwet’en leader and two pipeline opponents were found guilty of criminal contempt of court for breaking an injunction against impeding work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Michael Tammen read his decision to the court in Smithers on Friday.
Read the rest of this entryTrial of prominent Wet’suwet’en leader and land defenders begins
Three accused are charged with criminal contempt over Coastal GasLink pipeline blockades
by Jackie McKay, Jan 8, 2024
The trial is underway for three people charged with criminal contempt for breaking a court order forbidding them from blocking access to the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
Sleydo’ stands trial alongside Shaylynn Sampson, a Gitxsan woman with Wet’suwet’en family ties; and Corey Jocko, a Mohawk member of the Six Nations Haudenosaunee Confederacy from Ontario.
On October 7, Gaza broke out of prison
What the images of the Gaza border fence coming down meant for Palestinians.
Palestinians break into the Israeli side of Israel-Gaza border fence after gunmen infiltrated areas of southern Israel on Oct 7, 2023. (Reuters: Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa)
by Mariam Barghouti, Al Jazeera, Oct 14, 2023
In the early morning hours of Saturday, October 7, Palestinians across the West Bank woke up to the sound of explosions.
No one really knew what was happening until reports started trickling in that fighters from Gaza had taken control of Beit Hanoun crossing – the only one through which Gaza residents may reach the rest of historic Palestine on the extremely rare occasions the occupier allows them to.
Soon information appeared on social media that the wall that Israel had erected around the Gaza Strip to keep its 2.3 million people permanently imprisoned had been breached. Read the rest of this entry
New blockade goes up at Winnipeg’s Brady Road landfill as protesters demand search for women’s remains
Poll, CBC Manitoba focus group suggest voters are split on issue of landfill search ahead of Oct. 3 election
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A new barricade has gone up at Winnipeg’s Brady Road landfill, as calls continue for a search for the remains of two First Nations women believed to be in another Winnipeg-area landfill.
Protesters gathered on the main entrance road to the city-owned Brady landfill, at the south end of Winnipeg, on Wednesday, setting up a row of chairs in front of a car parked in the middle of the road.
An “Every Child Matters” flag and a sign calling for a landfill search were also nearby. Read the rest of this entry
Indigenous prisoner William Ahmo said ‘I can’t breathe’ more than 20 times while restrained by guards, video shows
Court shown video of February 2021 altercation between officers and William Ahmo, who later died in hospital
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WARNING: This story contains disturbing video and details.
William Ahmo uttered the words “I can’t breathe” more than 20 times while officers swarmed and restrained him in a Manitoba jail, video footage of his final hours at the Headingley Correctional Centre shows. Read the rest of this entry
PDF: Countering Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAV)
A recently published US Army manual on countering drones.
“Units should always assume the enemy is using a UAS to observe or attempt to observe them. Modern, friendly, and allied sensors—which include a host of robust long-range and short-range radars, optical devices, and audible alert systems—face challenges detecting the UAS Groups 1, 2, and 3 at sufficient ranges. Because of this, threat UASs may go undetected while operating at a standoff range. This limits friendly ability to detect them and creates smaller engagement windows.
(…) Threat UASs have limitations. Poor weather conditions can short-circuit them or prevent their sensors from collecting. High winds can prevent them from flying at all. Some commercial UAS emit electronic data that if collected can reveal its operator’s location. Weather conditions like heavy fog or cloud cover can degrade their intelligence collection capabilities.”
Native Hawaiians fear Maui wildfire destruction will lead to their cultural erasure
By Jackie McKay, CBC News, Aug 17, 2023
Keʻeaumoku Kapu has been handing out water, clothes, and emergency supplies to families in need out of the Walgreens parking lot in Lahaina, Maui. He said it is a way to keep himself occupied while he grieves the losses of his community.
“I’m afraid we’re not going to recover from this,” said Kapu, speaking to CBC from his cellphone at the distribution centre Monday.
Kapu is a Kanaka Maoli (a Hawaiian word for their Indigenous people) community leader in Lahaina, and head of the Nā ʻAikāne o Maui Cultural Center — which was destroyed by the fire that ripped through Lahaina.
Read the rest of this entry“They Recognize No Superior Chief”: Power, Practice, Anarchism and Warfare in the Coast Salish Past PDF
This inquiry focuses on warfare in the Coast Salish past. Located in the Northwest Coast of North America, the Coast Salish practiced warfare as a basic component of their culture, and warfare manifested in two main periods. Archaeologically, fortified defensive sites were constructed from 1600 to 500 BP. According to ethnohistoric documents and oral histories, conflicts also erupted in the decades after Euroamerican contact, about AD 1790. For this study, I incorporate archaeological, ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and oral historical data for an investigation of warfare, including Coast Salish practices, protocols, and ideology. I assess the types of settings in which warfare occurred and evaluate the motivations for conflict. Finally, Iexamine these practices for insights into Coast Salish sociopolitical organization and how it altered through time.
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RCMP release video footage of sabotage attack on CGL pipeline
by Kendra Mangione, CTV News, Feb 22, 2022
Video released by the RCMP shows what officers describe as a group storming the site of a violent attack at a B.C. camp for pipeline workers last week.
Mounties published three video clips Tuesday in connection with the “acts of violence and damage done” at the work camp last week.
In a news release, the RCMP said the videos show a group of people, some of whom are “armed with axes” approaching the Coastal GasLink camp on Thursday.
Read the rest of this entryNo link to existing protests found in Coastal Gaslink investigation, RCMP say
by Ian Holliday, CTV News, February 20, 2022
Mounties investigating the attack on a natural gas pipeline construction site in northern B.C. say they’re reviewing surveillance video from the scene, but no suspects have yet been identified, and so far no link to ongoing protests in the area has been found.
“There is video that we’re actively looking through, and we will likely be able to release some of that information at some point if it becomes pertinent for the investigative team,” said RCMP Staff Sgt. Sascha Baldinger in Houston, B.C. on Saturday.
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