A rail blockade has been re-established near Chase, B.C. in support of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs.
The blockade went up on the tracks across from Neskonlith Band Hall on Monday night (Feb. 24) in response to police action on other blockades in northern B.C. and Ontario.
“From one fire place to another we are uniting to challenge the Canadian government to fulfill its promises and obligations to our Nations,” the Secwepemc Women’s Sacred Fire Council said on Facebook.
“We have lived too long without recognition and protection of our rights and title, of our pristine land and clean water. We have suffered for generations, our children taken from us, our forests cut down, our mountains mined, our homes destroyed, our People displaced. Canada has no deed to our lands, no right to exert the violent jurisdiction of resource extractive industry.”
A similar blockade was removed from the same location last week after CP Rail wrote a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking him to meet with the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs over their opposition to the Coastal GasLink Pipeline.
(via Secwepemc Women's Sacred Fire Council)
