No Thanks No Giving: Mi’kmaq Call For Actions Oct 18TH #INDIGENIZE

Warrior Society Call to Support Elsipogtog Seizure of Fracking Equipment

October 12th, 2013

“Rexton, NB” unceded Mi’kmaqi – On “Colombus Day”, a day which celebrates 521 years of genocide and oppression of Indigenous peoples, the Mi’kmaq Warrior Society has released the following video call for support. Suzane Patles, an Ilnu woman and member of the Mi’kmaq Warrior Society calls for physical support at the blockade, solidarity actions across Turtle Island on Oct. 18th and a flooding of Kanadian official representatives’ phone and mail lines. The October 18th Day of Action is a response in protest to the court injunction that SWN is looking to serve against the encampment. Organize an action in your community, use #INDIGENIZE and send us a write up with photos to post online: reclaimturtleisland [at] gmail [dot] com.

Elsipogtog Band council barks but has no bite

Paper Tigers at Midnight: Elsipogtog Band notice to Texas-frackers goes unheeded.

by Miles Howe, Halifax Media Coop, Oct 2, 2013

Elsipogtog band council chief Arren Sock.

Rexton, New Brunswick – After a euphoric Treaty Day, in which Chief Arren Sock of Elsipogtog First Nation announced to a crowd of hundreds that SWN Resources Canada had until midnight of last night to remove their seismic testing equipment from a currently blockaded compound along highway 134 in New Brunswick, an air of slight confusion has descended upon the encampment.

New Brunswick: Cop Block turns to Road Block

Mi’gmaw Warriors Society fells trees, lights fire, creating inner road block on highway 134, New Brunswick

by Miles Howe, Halifax Media Coop, Sept 30, 2013

Rexton, New Brunswick – Anti-fracking activists in Kent County, New Brunswick have responded to last night’s RCMP-imposed block of both sides of highway 134, near the off ramp of highway 11, by creating an inner road block of their own.