Wet’suwet’en Nation Resists Attacks by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Energy Companies

Wet’suwet’en people are defending their lands from TransCanada/TC Energy and the Canadian Police (RCMP).

By Meg Maloney

The government of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and Coastal TransCanada/TC Energy are openly violating Wet’suwet’en, Canadian, and international law by forcibly entering Wet’suwet’en Territory. TransCanada is proposing a 670-kilometer fracked gas pipeline that would carry gas from Dawson Creek to the coastal town of Kitimat, British Columbia. All five Clans within the Wet’suwet’en Nation have opposed all pipeline proposals and have not provided consent to TransCanada. Land protectors had set up two encampments where they had been physically blocking entry to TransCanada. The RCMP responded by organizing a violent militarized campaign which included police carrying assault and sniper rifles.

Solidarity rallies, sit-ins, and railroad blockades have been organized from coast to coast, as well as internationally, demanding the RCMP leave Wet’suwet’en Territory. Protesters have successfully blocked major ports in the cities of Vancouver and Delta, BC. Service was suspended along the popular Toronto-Montreal rail road line as a result of a blockade in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in Ontario. Protesters in the city of Vaughan blocked trains en route to London (ON), Hamilton, New York, and Michigan. Indigenous people and their supporters also blocked access into the provincial legislature in Victoria.

Canadian National Railroad (CN) invested over $95 million into Louisiana rail in 2019. CN’s infrastructure connects the Port of New Orleans to markets across the continent and links some of the states most important businesses in Baton Rouge and River Parishes to their suppliers. Across this continent and around the world, we are more connected than we may think. The South and Louisiana particularly have been a hub for land grabbing, resource extraction, and exploitation. So many capitalists come here to take advantage of the lack of labor rights and immense tax breaks politicians advertise to them.

We’re in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation. In solidarity, our collective strength is found.

Workers Voice Socialist Movement

We are workers, employed and unemployed, youth, students, and seniors. We are multi-racial and multi-national and organize for the unity of the working class. We are funded by and for workers, for the liberation of all workers and oppressed people.

We organize for jobs and higher wages, against racism, women’s, and LGBTQ oppression, and for solidarity with immigrants. We organize for community schools, lower rents, and food on our tables. We organize for workers’ power so that everything will one day be removed from the capitalists’ private ownership.

We oppose the Pentagon, which is looting our tax dollars and handing them over to war-profiteering private companies, while social programs are gutted. We oppose war for empire which is pursued only to lower our wages and plunder the world’s resources while destroying the environment. We reject the monopoly media who feed us lie after lie.

The labor of workers produces enormous wealth here in Louisiana, the U.S. and the world– so much wealth that everyone could have housing, meaningful jobs, education, healthcare, and genuine equality. But this wealth is stolen and privately owned by the capitalist class for their greed and profit. We believe that we, the workers of the world, can unite in revolution to overcome capitalism and build a better world.

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