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Author Archives: Jeff Kisling
To Repair the World, We Must Decolonize
Following are updates regarding support for the Wet’suwet’en Peoples and information about a hearing tomorrow evening that will be live streamed: DATE: Thursday January 30, 2020TIME: 9:00 a.m. PSTLOCATION: UBCIC Boardroom- 312 Main Street, 4th floor, Vancouverhttps://www.facebook.com/UBCIC/ Independent Jewish Voices … Continue reading
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Escalating tensions between Wet’suwet’en and RCMP
I’ve been writing about the #Wet’suwet’en peoples and their efforts to stop the construction of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline project. Tensions between the Wet’suwet’en peoples and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are escalating. There is fear the RCMP will … Continue reading
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Solidarity
Yesterday I provided some background to explain how Bear Creek Friends (Quaker) meeting decided to write a letter to British Columbia Premier, John Horgan regarding the Wet’suwet’en peoples. Bear Creek Friends (Quaker) meetinghouse is in the Iowa countryside. Many members … Continue reading
Bear Creek Friends (Quaker) Meeting supports the Wet’suwet’en Peoples
Bear Creek Friends (Quaker) meetinghouse is in the Iowa countryside. Many members have been involved in agriculture and care about protecting Mother Earth. A number of Friends have various relationships with Indigenous peoples. Some Friends have worked to protect water … Continue reading
OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU AND PREMIER HORGAN RE: WET’SUWET’EN HEREDITARY CHIEFS’ OPPOSITION TO COASTAL GASLINK PIPELINE PROJECT
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been sharing what I’ve been learning about the Wet’suwet’en peoples and their opposition to all tar sands and natural gas pipelines that are planned to run through their territory. https://kislingjeff.wordpress.com/?s=wet%27suwet%27en+ I’ve found there … Continue reading
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RESIST: The Unist’ot’en’s Call To The Land
I often don’t know what I will write when I sit to try to capture the day’s story. It is a spiritual practice, to try to hear what the Spirit is saying to me. Recently I was led to begin … Continue reading
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Voices from Gidimt’en Checkpoint
I’m continuing to learn about the struggle of the Wet’suwet’en peoples in British Columbia against the construction of fossil fuel pipelines on their unceded lands. Tensions are high since January 4th, 2020, when the Wet’suwet’en House Chiefs representing all 5 … Continue reading
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Bank Invasion
Do you feel helpless in the face of the continuing onslaught of environmental catastrophes? Who doesn’t? Banks know that fossil fuel mining and use has to end now in part because of environmentalist’s actions like those below. But instead continue … Continue reading
RCMP Deny Wet’suwet’en Access to Legal Observers
In this video, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) tells Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC) Co-Executive Director Carl Williams that he is banned from re-entering Unist’ot’en Camp, after he conducted three legal observer trainings at the request of the camp. According … Continue reading
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W.A.R.N. RIDE
As you may know, almost 50 years ago, I co-founded Women of All Red Nations (WARN) with fellow the Lakota People’s Law Project (LPLP) organizer Phyllis Young and several others. We formed a frontline to confront the issues we face … Continue reading
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