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Author Archives: Jeff Kisling
Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs Call For UN Intervention
I’m trying to learn about this conflict between the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs and the Coastal GasLink Pipeline Project. According to the news article below, some chiefs agreed to the pipeline project. But the Hereditary Chiefs say those chiefs did not … Continue reading
Wet’Suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs: No Access Without Consent
Yesterday I wrote again that we have to understand who we are. What does that mean? It means we must remember, and help others remember the focus of our lives should be to love Mother Earth and each other. We … Continue reading
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We have to understand who we are
My life working on environmental issues has taught me that a Spiritual approach to our environmental chaos is what is needed. The root of our unfolding environmental disaster is the dominant White view that natural resources are commodities that can … Continue reading
Wet’suwet’en people
I have just begun to learn about the Wet’suwet’en people. A friend of mine from the First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March traveled to the Unist’ot’en camp about 4 years ago, and found it to be a life-changing experience. I also … Continue reading
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I N V A S I O N
In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial … Continue reading
All CGL workers have now been peacefully evicted from Unist ot en and Gidimt en territories
Hereditary First Nation chiefs issue eviction notice to Coastal GasLink contractors. TC Energy says it signed agreements with all 20 elected First Nations councils along pipeline’s path. Joel Dryden · CBC News · Posted: Jan 05, 2020 January 4, 2020 … Continue reading
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Sunrise Movement Endorses Bernie Sanders
Yesterday’s post was not hopeful about people changing to finally begin to address our rapidly worsening environmental chaos: However this all evolves, what we do know is we have to build Beloved communities, to live as best we can as … Continue reading
The Age of Last Chances
When I reflect on the last year, there’s a certain difficult truth about this age that strikes me. We live in the age of last chances. What do I mean?We have about a decade, maybe two, left. To stop the … Continue reading
Iraq War Protests
It is encouraging to see antiwar protests now related to the possibility of new war in the Middle East. I have an indelible memory of a group of young people, standing in silence, each holding a sign with the name, … Continue reading
Oil = War, Sun = Peace
My activism began in 1969 as an 18 year old Quaker struggling with my decision to register with the Selective Service System (draft). The 1960′ s were a traumatic time with the horrors of the Vietnam War and the often … Continue reading
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 