Mi’kmaq Warrior Coady Jipol

Coady Jipol of the Mi’kmaq Warriors Society spoke at a strategy session co-sponsored by First Nations Studies SFU, and the English Department, SFU at the downtown Harbour Centre campus Friday, January 24th, on unceded Coast Salish Territories.

Mi’kmaq Warriors begin West Coast tour in Vancouver

by Travis Lupick, The Georgia Straight, Jan 21, 2014

First Nations protesters who took part in last fall’s anti-fracking protests in Elsipogtog, New Brunswick, are leading a speaking tour through British Columbia and the Yukon.

Suzanne Patles and other member of the Mi’kmaq Warriors Society are scheduled to arrive in Vancouver on January 24 for the first of seven stops through the west.

Jailed Mi’kmaq Warriors Denied Access To Spiritual Practises

Reclaim Turtle Island, January 20, 2014

CALL TO SUPPORT AND END TARGETING OF LAND DEFENDERS

The colonial state strikes again. State repression against and the targeting of Mi’kmaq Warriors has escalated. The state is now denying 2 Mi’kmaq Warriors, Aaron Francis and Germain Jr Breau, access to spiritual practices. Aaron and Jr have been held in Kanadian custody without trial since the raid on Oct. 17^th – just over 3 months.

Crises in First Nations communities leave legacy of pain, fear

Canadian soldier and warrior face off during 1990 Oka Crisis.

Post-traumatic stress and its effects linger years after conflict

By Martha Troian, CBC News, Jan 20, 2014

Oka, Gustafsen Lake, Burnt Church, Ipperwash and Elsipogtog are just a few of the communities where often violent conflicts have taken place between Indigenous people, law enforcement agencies and government.

Mi’kmaq & Anishnabek Nationhood-Mi’kmaq Warrior West Coast Speaking Tour

Mi’kmaq warriors at tire fire blockade, December 2013.

Mi’kmaq Delegation from the Mi’kmaq Nation and Elsipogtog fracking land dispute on the east coast are touring BC to raise awareness about their struggle against fracking, their ongoing assertion and exercise of nationhood and the repression they face from police, courts, government and corporations.

First Nations activist Ambrose Williams says Canada is “police state”

by Carlito Pablo, The Georgia Straight, Jan 10, 2014

Ambrose Williams has experienced firsthand the active surveillance of activists by the police and security establishment.

A 25-year-old Vancouver man of Gitxsan and Dene ancestry, Ambrose was interviewed in this week’s cover story by the Georgia Straight about the opposition faced by planned oil and gas pipelines in B.C.

Ottawa prepared for nation-wide protests following RCMP Elsipogtog raid: documents

RCMP vehicles burn following Oct 17, 2013 raid on anti-fracking blockade near Rexton, New Brunswick.

By Jorge Barrera, APTN National News, Jan 8, 2014
The federal government prepared for the potential of a nation-wide flare up of protests triggered by heavily-armed raid last October by RCMP tactical units on a Mi’kmaq-led anti-fracking camp in New Brunswick, internal government records show.

NB: Third shale gas protester arrested in confrontation with media

34-year-old woman to appear in court next month in connection with Oct. 19 incident in Rexton

One of the confrontations with corporate media on Oct 19, 2013, in Rexton, NB.

CBC News, Jan 09, 2014

A third person has been arrested in connection with a confrontation with media at an anti-shale gas protest near Rexton last fall, say RCMP.

A 34-year-old woman from Elsipogtog First Nation was arrested on Wednesday and released on conditions, Staff Sgt. Jeff Johnston stated in a release.

Activists plot how to block new pipelines in B.C.

by Carlito Pablo, The Georgia Straight, Jan 8, 2014

Solidarity with Mi’kmaq banners at Unist’ot’en camp, Dec 2, 2013.

At night, around campfires under a New Brunswick sky, Ambrose Williams thought about imminent battles back home.   Last November, the young Vancouver man and nine others travelled more than 5,000 kilometres east to the town of Rexton.  Their mission was to reinforce the Mi’kmaq of the Elsipogtog First Nation who had clashed the month before with the RCMP. The confrontation happened on October 17, 2013, when heavily armed police dismantled a highway blockade by Natives opposing a gas-exploration project.

Rexton, NB, shale gas protester charged for threatening media

Charges stem from confrontation last fall at fracking protest site

CBC News, Jan 07, 2014

One of the confrontations with corporate media on Oct 19, 2013, in Rexton, NB.

A man from the Elsipogtog First Nation has been charged after a confrontation last fall at the site of fracking protests on Highway 134 near Rexton.

The man is charged with mischief, intimidation and uttering threats in connection with a confrontation with media.