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MEDIA INDIGENA 275

Added 2021-11-26 21:10:32 +0000 UTC

The Undoing of Underdevelopment / MI 275

ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:

Wet’suwet’en Solidarity. As long-time listeners know well, this isn’t the first time our podcast has looked at long-standing Wet’suwet’en efforts to block outside incursions into their territory. Indeed, last August’s double episode, 'Resource Resistance,' situated their struggle at its core. This time ‘round, we invite on a new perspective regarding recent events on the ground as well as the bigger political and economic picture.

A lawyer from the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, Kris Statnyk works exclusively with Indigenous peoples, practicing in the area of Aboriginal law. He shares his thoughts on this latest paramilitary raid on Wet’suweten land protectors—the RCMP's third in roughly three years—as well as his eyewitness account of solidarity actions in neighbouring Gitxsan territory.

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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:

CAUTION: Please note that portions of the videos capturing arrests may prove particularly distressing for some viewers.

• "TransCanada to Construct Coastal GasLink Pipeline Project" TC Energy [2 Oct. 2018]

• VIDEO: "This is the footage [of the Nov. 19 RCMP raid] I was jailed for": Tweet @M_Tol [documentarian Michael Toledano]

• ‘We Have to Stand Together’: A Tale of Two Nations The Tyee

• The Wet'suwet'en, Aboriginal Title, and the Rule of Law: An Explainer First Peoples Law

• VIDEO: "RCMP carry out [Nov. 21] violent arrest of Gitxsan land defender Denzel Sutherland-Wilson" Real Peoples Media

• Speech from the Throne: 23 Nov. 2021 canada.ca

• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney Verso Books

• "Injunctions by First Nations: Results of a National Study" Yellowhead Institute

• VIDEO: "Weaponizing Injunctions: How Canada criminalizes Indigenous land defense" YouTube