Tseshaht grassroots enact road closure to force BC Timber Sales to the table

Members of the Tseshaht build fire at logging blockade, Oct 2, 2014.

By Debora Steel, Hashilthsa.com,  Oct 2, 2014

At 3 a.m. this morning, a convoy of vehicles left the Tseshaht Administration Building and made its way along a rough logging road to the end of Sproat Lake. By 3:30 a.m., the group had arrived at the junction of Gracie Main and Sterling Main and positioned the vehicles to block any traffic at the site.

About a dozen Tseshaht members quickly went to work, building a fire and setting up a canopy for shelter. The early morning sky sparkled with stars. A tape of traditional Nuu-chah-nulth songs playing in the background had people singing while they worked.

They gathered around the fire, called together by Anne Robinson, holding an eagle feather in her hand. She sang a prayer song and invited each person to say what had brought them to the peaceful protest and road closure that morning.

Northern Cree occupy Manitoba Hydro dam over longstanding grievances

By Tim Fontaine, APTN National News, Sept 29, 2014
Members of a northern First Nation have begun occupying a hydroelectric dam over longstanding grievances with Manitoba Hydro.

The Jenpeg Generating Station is located 19 kilometres from the Cree community of Cross Lake.

Tommy Monias lives in Cross Lake and is taking part in the occupation. Monias told APTN National News late Sunday that the occupation started Friday and people have been maintaining the camp in shifts, with around 10 people at the site at any given time.

Monias says RCMP are monitoring the situation but the occupiers told them it’s going to be a peaceful protest.

Elsipogtog man says RCMP officers visited home with questions about Facebook comment

Brian Milliea of Elsipogtog.

Jorge Barrera, APTN National News, Aug. 1, 2014
A man from the Mi’kmaq community at the centre of intense anti-shale gas protests says he was visited Wednesday by two plain clothes RCMP officers who were asking questions about a Facebook post calling for a protest on New Brunswick Day.

Brian Milliea, a Mi’kmaq man from Elsipogtog First Nation, said the two officers showed up at his house at about 2 p.m. looking for him. Milliea was in his office at the Elsipogtog forestry department when he received a phone call from his wife saying two men wanted to speak with him. Milliea rushed home to find the two officers waiting for him.

Unist’ot’en Clan Refuse All Pipeline Projects: A Video Message

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June 18th, 2014

[Unist’ot’en Territory – near Smithers, BC] Amid threats of a raid and impending pipeline approvals, the Unist’ot’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation are prepared to continue to defend their territories against the incursion of government and industry. A soft blockade was erected in 2009, which remains today, to insure that pipeline projects which violate Wet’suwet’en Law would not trespass onto Wet’suwet’en territories to develop projects without their consent.

Boat Harbour waste plant to close in deal to end blockade

Mi’kmaq protest effluent spill near Pictou Landing FN, June 10, 2014.

Pictou Landing First Nation Chief Andrea Paul says deal a “victory” for band

CBC News, June 16, 2014

The chief of the Pictou Landing First Nation is hailing an “historic” deal with the Nova Scotia government that will see the province take steps to close the pulp mill waste treatment plant in Boat Harbour that’s been the centre of protests.

The agreement in principle ends a blockade set up by protesters last week after effluent from Northern Pulp was discovered leaking from a pipeline running between the mill and the treatment facility.

“We will be at the table with the province to make sure the treatment facility will be closed as soon as possible,” Andrea Paul, chief of Pictou Landing First Nation, said in a statement.

Klamath Tribal Members Protest “Celebratory” Signing of Agreement‏

APRIL 21 2014

(CHILOQUIN, OREGON) – U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, State of Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, State of California Governor Jerry Brown, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, Klamath Tribes elected officials and Klamath Basin irrigators held a “celebratory” signing of the Upper Klamath Basin Comprehensive Agreement last Friday at Collier Park, 4 miles north of Chiloquin.  With strong support from Senator Wyden, he stated “I am going to introduce in the first few days of May, legislation in partnership with Senator Merkley to make this agreement law.”

Kitimat mayor flash mobbed by ‘No Enbridge’ protesters at Haisla basketball game

Members of Haisla basketball team wear black “No Enbridge” t-shirts.

Mychaylo Prystupa, Vancouver Observer, April 9th, 2014

In an increasingly explosive political climate in the Kitimat area over a controversial vote on the Northern Gateway pipeline, the Mayor of Kitimat was flash mobbed by a group of mostly First Nations people, donning “No Enbridge” shirts at a Haisla girls basketball championship on Sunday.

Judge should have declared ties to CN Rail in native protest cases, lawyer argues

Blockade of CN rail line near Sarnia, Ontario.

High-profile lawyer complains to legal disciplinary body that judge should have declared potential conflict of interest before hearing case involving CN Rail and Aboriginal protestors

By Peter Edwards, Toronto Star, March 27 2014

A high-profile Toronto lawyer has complained to a legal disciplinary body that a judge should have declared a potential conflict of interest before presiding over cases involving First Nations protests along Ontario CN Rail lines.

John Boots arrested for Tyendinaga train blockades

OPP at the CN railway near Tyendinaga, Mohawk Territory (in Ontario), March 8, 2014.

CTV News/The Canadian Press, March 24, 2014

NAPANEE, Ont. — Provincial police say they have charged a man in connection with two protests that occurred this month in Tyendinaga Township in eastern Ontario.

John Boots, 43, of Akwesasne First Nation, was arrested on Saturday and charged with two counts of mischief.

Wall of Women stands opposed to Kinder Morgan in West Vancouver

Anne Watson, North Shore News, March 22, 2014

Protesters gathered in West Vancouver Saturday to take a stance on Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline.

Around 15 women, including representatives from the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam First Nations, as well as Greenpeace campaigners, gathered for the Wall of Woman in the cold and rain by The Welcome Figure at Ambleside Beach to send a message to Kinder Morgan that a pipeline expansion was not welcome.