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Created by Max Wilbert on May 23, 2012
The camp dates are August 6 – 10, 2012. Registration for delegations and individuals will soon follow this posting.
The camp location is at 66km on the Morice River West FSR and is at the shore of the Wedzin Kwah and mouth of the Gosnell Creek. These are all tributary to the the Skeena, Bulkley, and Babine Rivers. The proposed pipelines from Northern Gateway, Kitimat Summit Lake Looping Project, and the Pembina and Kinder Morgan Pipelines seek to cross the rivers at the exact point where the resistance camp is built in Unis’tot’en Territory of Talbits Kwah.
The Lhe Lin Liyin, along with other strong uncompromising allies will stop this destructive path, for the future generations, for the biodiversity, and for solidarity with our neighbours living amidst the heavy impacts in the Tar Sands Affected areas in Northern Alberta, and regions heavily affected by Fracking Natural Gas and Shale Oil, as well as communities impacted by Refineries, Pipelines, and Fuel Terminals and Port Expansions.
The 3rd Annual Unis’tot’en Action Camp registration and list of items, and calendar will be available on this page soon. When it is available the update will be sent on twitter, facebook, and emails. For more information on the camp please telephone Freda Huson at 250 847 8897 and email at fhuson@gmail.com.
Thank you for your interest in the 3rd Annual Unis’tot’en Action Camp! Talk to you very soon."
ABOUT THE PIPELINES :
(from https://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/no-pipelines/)
Four Companies proposed what they call the “Energy Corridor” to cross Wet’suwet’en Territories; with a total of seven pipelines from Bruderheim to Kitimat, and from Summit Lake to Kitimat. Three companies, Kinder Morgan, Pembina Pipelines, and Endbridge Inc. each propose dual pipelines to transport not only dirty bitumen, but also condensate as a diluent (along with the cocktail of heavy metals, hydrocarbons, and poisons from the extraction and slurry process to turn solid bitumen rock into flowing mock oil). One of the four companies’ projects, formerly owned by Pacific Northern Gas (now 40% owned by Apache Corporation, 30% by EOG Resources [formerly Enron], and 30% by EnCana) seeks to transport through a 36″ diameter bidirectional pipeline to transport Fracturing Project Natural Gas from the Horn River Basin. Fracturing Projects have many disastrous qualities (for lack of a better word) to it and the pollution is the problem with this pipeline. Natural Gas from Fracking projects are 80 % more carbon intensive than conventional natural gas. So it is worse that what was once abundant.
The Grassroots Wet’suwet’en will stop all pipelines by any means necessary. In solidarity with nations also opposing pipelines in their territories, we do not take any “Not In My Back Yard” [N.I.M.B.Y. = equals weak arguments] approaches in our strong stance against poisoning waters for money and greed. We stand beside communities in all directions taking action to stop the pipelines that exist, that are proposed or approved to expand, or proposed pipelines projects awaiting approvals.
We understand that the seven proposed pipelines represents a total number of SuperTankers, meaning that the combined effort of seven pipelines means approximation of up to 1500 SuperTankers embarking and landing along the coast every year. We could say good by to biodiversity and our relationship (not ownership) with the lifeforce that is the West Coast. Please see related posts about our stance against Carbon Offsetting, Boreal Offsetting and Biological Offsetting as weak NIMBY approach and False Solutions to climate change.
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Hi Mike - I have a great friend and DGR organizer named Ivor who lives near Edmonton - he is attending the Unis'tot'en camp as well but will be back in Alberta where he lives with his wife, who is an indigenous woman, and his daughters. His email is ivor.mackay@gmail.com and his phone is 587-987-0764. He is a person who loves the land and would love to talk to someone like you, I am sure. Thank you.
posted by Max Wilbert 9 months ago
My friend Max.... unfortunately I must first fight the battle in my own backyard. So many of my people are motivated by opportunity to accept the whiteman's money. There are not enough of us to defend the old ways. I hope to learn more of Deep Green Resistance. If there is a chance that we could meet with mambers of your group in Alberta please let me know. We must find a new way to stop the killing of oyr world and way of life.
posted by Mike David 9 months ago
Hi Mike, I won't be at the Tar Sands walk, unfortunately. We just had our first speaking event in Eugene, and there was an outpouring of support for the Action Camp. Will you be coming to the action camp itself? Best of luck there in Alberta - the 'belly of the beast', Max
posted by Max Wilbert 9 months ago
I will tell my real name when we meet. I have been in the whiteman's prisons so I am careful when speaking openly with strangers (I choose "Mike David" as my internet name from my mother's christian religion - Michael was God's warrior angel and David was his warrior king who fell from grace when he forgot his duty to his people and gave into greed and lust).
posted by Mike David 9 months ago
Max....I have been off fishing with my family to add to our stores. However I am hoping to attend the Tar Sands Healing Walk on August 4 at Crane Lake (near the Syncrude project). Will you be there as well? I and others would like to meet with you and discuss DGR.
posted by Mike David 9 months ago
Max....I see that my words on hunting were cut short. My remaining thoughts on this are: Whitemen hunt for trophies to claim their superiority over their brothers. You must learn to hunt for food. To be a hunter you must first learn what it is to hunt and to be hunted.
posted by Mike David 10 months ago
Max....DGR requires enormous sacrifice by all who follow it. If you wish to be true to your beliefs, sell you car and take a bus to your destination. While the bus is a creation of the whiteman, it is less harmful than the car. The truth of a man is determined by what is in his heart and by his actions
posted by Mike David 10 months ago
Max....I learned to hunt, to select what is from what is not edible from the land, and how to find the medicine that the land provides from my great grandmother, my grandmother, my mother and my grandfather. My father taught me how to take the things that the land provides for shelter and comfort. Their spirits still guide me. You must first learn the land and your place in it. Gather all of the knowledge of the land where you would live from the sources that you have available. I have the ancestors, but you have books that teach the basic ways. Learn that you are from the land and brother to all that live on the land. When I hunt deer I remember always that my people regard the deer as equals. My ancestors called them the "Standing Tree People" and so do I. Learn the ways of your brothers in the field, forests and streams. If you are to become like the wolf, the bear and fox, you must learn their ways as well. Whitemen hunt for trophies to claim their superiority over
posted by Mike David 10 months ago
Hypocrisy is a part of everyday life for me. I know a bit about living with these contradictions. I am learning to hunt, to scrape hides and make buckskins, to start fires the traditional way and to use plant medicines to heal, to make tools from wood and bone and stone and shell and antler. I drink wild water whenever I can. I do my best to listen to the land, to build relationships with the birds and other creatures and plants and rocks and mountains around me. I am doing the best I can. Do you have any recommendations as to how I can balance learning these skills and unlearning my colonized mindset with organizing an international resistance movement that will (hopefully) be able to bring down industrial civilization? It is a tough balance and good advice is welcome. Thank you.
posted by Max Wilbert 10 months ago
Mike: Yes, I think you are in a very real sense right. Time as we see it, with the rushing about, is a byproduct of civilization. Regardless, 200 species were driven extinct today, and they were my kin. I volunteer probably about 6o hours a week of my time to help stop that from happening. I am poor. I have no job. I only am able to do this because I was born into a position of privilege, and I am going to take advantage of that. Hypocrisy in leadership... I am wondering if that is true. I drive a car. I type on a computer. I am sitting on a chair probably made in China and shipped across the world. My clothes were most likely made by slaves in sweatshops in Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, or Mexico. I'm drinking from a water bottle made of aluminum ripped from the earth.
posted by Max Wilbert 10 months ago
We may all be hypocrites to some extent. However by claiming to be a leader and practitioner of DGR you cannot afford this luxury, IF you want the rest of us to take you and DGR seriously. However since you have no ethical issues with the capitalist system of exchange (i.e. money), then why are you not gainfully earning what you require like the rest of us? Of the thousands of people opposed to the Gateway project, most are making their objections known and heard at their own expense. Why are you special?
posted by Mike David 10 months ago
Max….my ancestors traveled from their original home in the occupied lands now known a Northern Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, to the stolen lands known as Alberta. They travelled mainly on foot and by birch bark or moose hide canoe. Unlike the white man, time was a friend to walk with, not an enemy to race. Your rationale regarding the time it would take for your journey if it was made according to the lifestyle that DGR would have us lead lies at the foundation of modern capitalist industrial civilization. Modern man craves convenience. Accomplishing things faster, easier, cheaper, bigger, etc. is why planes, trains, automobiles and the industrial society to support them was developed and continues. The Gateway project and opposition to the same is not something that arose in the past few weeks or even months. Had you planned your journey in accordance with the lifestyle of DGR you would not have issues of time. Hypocrisy in leadership is never acceptable. We may all
posted by Mike David 10 months ago
(continued)... for doing what wemust to survive and resist inside this nasty civilization. I was born into car culture, and that is not my fault. It is my responsibility to take car culture down.
posted by Max Wilbert 10 months ago
@Mike David: Aren't we all hypocrites? It is impossible to not be one and build an effective resistance. I would not be able to organize effectively without a computer, a phone, rapid transportation, etc. If I discarded these horrible technologies, what would I achieve? I would reduce my effectiveness. This movement is not about moral purity, it is about effectiveness. I hate using a computer, I truly do. But for now, the resistance exists within the context of this destructive civilization, and unfortunately we have to work within these constraints. The alternative: find/borrow/buy a horse, and ride the 800 plus miles to the site of the pipeline blockade. That would be what, maybe a month there and a month back? If you could ride on the roads, that is, and of course that wouldn't be possible, I'd need to detour around large cities, which would probably make the trip well over 6 weeks each way. I am sad and sorry that this is the case, but I will not look down on myself and others f
posted by Max Wilbert 10 months ago
Max…your hypocrisy is disappointing. Having read End Game and Deep Green Resistance, I would expect that you would conduct this action/tour without the use of the products of the capitalist industrial civilization (such as gasoline, modern camping equipment, etc.). If you really want to practice what you preach and lead by example I would expect you to walk or ride a horse on this journey. I would also expect you to build shelters and find nourishment from the fields and forests the way that my ancestors, the Cree did. This is the approach to life that DGR asks us to apply. Were you to practice the DGR philosophy in this manner, you would not need donations of that capitalist construct known as money.
posted by Mike David 10 months ago