“Denied the presence of the Pipe in the courtroom, the Butlers decline to participate further in the proceedings and fire their lawyers.”
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“Although the acquittal was a personal victory for the defendants, the unresolved issues of sovereignty, treaty rights and other unsolved murders remain.”
“Anyone who witnessed the murders of Black leaders like Fred Hampton in [1969] under the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations knows the lengths to which they are willing to go to crush progressive movements.”
This violent state repression consisted of dozens of murders and assaults, including an assault on a non-Native legal defence team.
“When movement passes were introduced at P4W [Prison for Women] in 1982 or 1983, they echoed another history. Our ancestors were required to obtain passes from the RCMP or from the Indian Agent to travel off reserve. Now we required written permission to go up a flight of stairs or to move three feet from ‘A’ Range to the hospital. Our ancestors also understood that such laws were made to be broken.”
– Fran Sugar and Lana Fox
