Photo from: We, the Secwepemc: Virtual Unity Camp to stop Transmountain Pipeline
Updates:
Secwépemc matriarch and hereditary chief head to jail for opposition to TMX construction on unceded land (Nov.15, 2023)
Secwépemc law presented in court, but judge says B.C.’s rules ‘reflect the public’s view’ (May.25, 2023)
Last of pipeline project “protesters” sentenced in Kamloops (May.19, 2023)
Protect Sqeq’petsin Stop TMX – Trial Support (gofundme and updates)
We, the Secwepemc: Virtual Unity Camp to stop Transmountain Pipeline (facebook group)
Overview:
“Secwépemc land defenders convicted for protecting ancestral lands. There is No Justice in a justice system based on legal fiction”
We, the Secwepemc: Virtual Unity Camp to stop Transmountain Pipeline
“Secwepemc Land and Water defence is not the work of environmentalism but of Secwepemc Nationhood, Governance and Sovereignty. Environmentalists, activists and others come and go but Secwepemc Land and Water defenders have their (grass)roots in the ground and cannot leave and are responsible for their Territory and to their Nation.”
SECWEPEMC FREE PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT PROTOCOL
Past reports:
Sentencing date set for final Trans Mountain pipeline protesters (May.5, 2023)
Taking accountability — and asking the B.C. Supreme Court to do the same (Mar.20, 2023)
Kamloops Residential School survivor sentenced to 28 days in jail for resisting TMX pipeline (Mar.16, 2023)
‘There are no bodies’: Judge’s comments shock KIRS survivor as land defenders given jail time (Feb.24. 2023)
Secwépemc hereditary chief loses bid seeking no jail time for Trans Mountain work delays (Feb.24. 2023)
TMX opponents receive sentences (Feb.24. 2023)
Judge jails two additional pipeline protesters, including hereditary chief (Feb.24. 2023)
Protester jailed Wednesday seeking bail pending appeal of conviction, sentence (Feb.23, 2023)
TMX opponents get a month in jail for breaching court injunction (Feb.22, 2023)
Packed courtroom breaks into loud song as pipeline protesters handcuffed, taken to jail (Feb.22, 2023)
Secwépemc land defenders, arrested for opposing TMX, receive outpouring of support in ‘Vancouver’ (Jan.24, 2023)
Secwépemc leaders, facing potential jail time, uphold sovereignty against TMX (2022)
Grassroots Secwépemc resistance to the Trans Mountain pipeline (2022)
Secwépemc Matriarch cuts off her hair in defense of her lands and waters (2020)
BC Premier Horgan says disruptions from Indigenous land defenders only serve to alienate settlers (2020)
History of Resistance:
Whose Land is It? – Interview with Wolverine (1997)
Ts’Peten (Gustafsen Lake), 1995, by Warrior Publications
Secwepemc History of Resistance, by M. Gouldhawke (2005)
Secwepemc — Six Nations solidarity, April 2006
Secwepemc – Wet’suwet’en solidarity by the tracks near Neskonlith in 2020