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Martha Pskowski
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From: <bird...@riseup.net>
Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:44 AM
Subject: 2/24 FUNDRAISER TO SUPPORT INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE TO TAR SANDS PIPELINES
To: bird...@riseup.net
Cc: bird...@riseup.net
Hello, folks in the Western MA area; below is an invitation to an event
coming up very soon, please spread the word if you know anyone who'd be
interested. Take care,
Andrew, in Gill
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FUNDRAISER TO SUPPORT INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE TO TAR SANDS PIPELINES,
Sunday, February 24; 5:00-7:30
You are invited to a dinner, film showing, & pinata-smashing party to
raise funds for the UNIS'TOT'EN ACTION CAMP opposing oil and gas pipelines
through unceded native territory occupied by Canada. These pipelines would
carry gas from hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") and oil from the
Alberta tar sands – a massive industrial development that is poisoning the
world's third largest watershed and destroying any chance of avoiding
globally catastrophic climate change.
Sunday, February 24, 2013, 5-7:30pm at The Brick House Community Resource
Center, 24 Third St., Turners Falls, MA.
$5-20 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds). The
organizers will provide dinner, but would also encourage anyone who wants
to bring a potluck dish.
*** Kids Welcome! *** Wheelchair Accessible *** questions?:
bird...@riseup.net
“In the face of unbridled industrial and economic expansion the grassroots
Wet’suwet’en are calling out to like-minded individuals who are interested
in helping us stop the oil and gas corridor from coming through our
unceded and unsurrendered lands. I feel that everybody has the
responsibility to protect what is left from the tyrants of greed and
corruption.” -Toghestiy, hereditary chief, Likht’samisyu Clan
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BACKGROUND (compiled from http://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/ ):
For the past three years, grassroots Wet’suwet’en from the Unis’tot’en
clan (along with members of the Gitimt’en and Likhts’amisyu clans) have
held an annual action camp to raise awareness about and promote resistance
to proposed pipeline developments through their unceded lands. Now as
construction of the Pacific Trails pipeline attempts to move forward, the
camp is rapidly transitioning into a full-time community. Vital support is
needed in terms of food, materials, and people to sustain the camp through
winter.
The Unis’tot’en camp stands directly in the path of the proposed
pipelines. As long as it stands, no pipelines can be built. By supporting
the camp, you are not only helping grassroots Wet’suwet’en assert their
sovereign right to live on their unceded traditional territories, you are
also helping to put a stop to the eco-cidal expansion of tar sands and
shale gas projects through the creation of a so-called “energy corridor.”
In early August, grassroots community members of the Wet’suwt’en first
nation hosted an environmental action camp in the area known by its
colonial name as northwest British Columbia, which is unceded Wet’suwet’en
territory. The camp was held to raise support and awareness in the ongoing
resistance to a planned ‘energy corridor’ that would see the Pacific
Trails Pipeline (PTP) run 463 km from Summit Lake and the Horn River
Basin, through Wet’suwet’en territory, all the way to the port town of
Kitimat on the west coast.
The ‘energy corridor’ which could end up being as much as three kilometres
wide threatens to force its way through hundreds of kilometres of
wetlands, waterways and forests, and farming and First Nations communities
alike, carrying natural gas from fracking fields in eastern and
northeastern BC.
Over the course of the third environmental action camp this past summer we
saw major additions to the Unist’ot’en camp; several structures were
erected, new outhouses, a new smokehouse, and later in the summer and
fall, a sauna, a rootcellar and many improvements to the cabin itself. The
camp is constantly growing and expanding with preparations for winter now
in full swing. Operating the camp daily requires fuel, materials, food,
and resources of all sorts, and for that we need your help. Resistance is
a collective effort and calls for the support of the entire community.
Please donate to camp, all contributions are greatly appreciated. Follow
this link to the VICFAN Unist’ot’en Solidarity Page to donate:
http://forestaction.wikidot.com/caravan
For more information on the camp, please visit
http://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/
From: <bird...@riseup.net>
Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:44 AM
Subject: 2/24 FUNDRAISER TO SUPPORT INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE TO TAR SANDS PIPELINES
To: bird...@riseup.net
Cc: bird...@riseup.net
Hello, folks in the Western MA area; below is an invitation to an event
coming up very soon, please spread the word if you know anyone who'd be
interested. Take care,
Andrew, in Gill
***************************************************************************
FUNDRAISER TO SUPPORT INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE TO TAR SANDS PIPELINES,
Sunday, February 24; 5:00-7:30
You are invited to a dinner, film showing, & pinata-smashing party to
raise funds for the UNIS'TOT'EN ACTION CAMP opposing oil and gas pipelines
through unceded native territory occupied by Canada. These pipelines would
carry gas from hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") and oil from the
Alberta tar sands – a massive industrial development that is poisoning the
world's third largest watershed and destroying any chance of avoiding
globally catastrophic climate change.
Sunday, February 24, 2013, 5-7:30pm at The Brick House Community Resource
Center, 24 Third St., Turners Falls, MA.
$5-20 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds). The
organizers will provide dinner, but would also encourage anyone who wants
to bring a potluck dish.
*** Kids Welcome! *** Wheelchair Accessible *** questions?:
bird...@riseup.net
“In the face of unbridled industrial and economic expansion the grassroots
Wet’suwet’en are calling out to like-minded individuals who are interested
in helping us stop the oil and gas corridor from coming through our
unceded and unsurrendered lands. I feel that everybody has the
responsibility to protect what is left from the tyrants of greed and
corruption.” -Toghestiy, hereditary chief, Likht’samisyu Clan
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
BACKGROUND (compiled from http://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/ ):
For the past three years, grassroots Wet’suwet’en from the Unis’tot’en
clan (along with members of the Gitimt’en and Likhts’amisyu clans) have
held an annual action camp to raise awareness about and promote resistance
to proposed pipeline developments through their unceded lands. Now as
construction of the Pacific Trails pipeline attempts to move forward, the
camp is rapidly transitioning into a full-time community. Vital support is
needed in terms of food, materials, and people to sustain the camp through
winter.
The Unis’tot’en camp stands directly in the path of the proposed
pipelines. As long as it stands, no pipelines can be built. By supporting
the camp, you are not only helping grassroots Wet’suwet’en assert their
sovereign right to live on their unceded traditional territories, you are
also helping to put a stop to the eco-cidal expansion of tar sands and
shale gas projects through the creation of a so-called “energy corridor.”
In early August, grassroots community members of the Wet’suwt’en first
nation hosted an environmental action camp in the area known by its
colonial name as northwest British Columbia, which is unceded Wet’suwet’en
territory. The camp was held to raise support and awareness in the ongoing
resistance to a planned ‘energy corridor’ that would see the Pacific
Trails Pipeline (PTP) run 463 km from Summit Lake and the Horn River
Basin, through Wet’suwet’en territory, all the way to the port town of
Kitimat on the west coast.
The ‘energy corridor’ which could end up being as much as three kilometres
wide threatens to force its way through hundreds of kilometres of
wetlands, waterways and forests, and farming and First Nations communities
alike, carrying natural gas from fracking fields in eastern and
northeastern BC.
Over the course of the third environmental action camp this past summer we
saw major additions to the Unist’ot’en camp; several structures were
erected, new outhouses, a new smokehouse, and later in the summer and
fall, a sauna, a rootcellar and many improvements to the cabin itself. The
camp is constantly growing and expanding with preparations for winter now
in full swing. Operating the camp daily requires fuel, materials, food,
and resources of all sorts, and for that we need your help. Resistance is
a collective effort and calls for the support of the entire community.
Please donate to camp, all contributions are greatly appreciated. Follow
this link to the VICFAN Unist’ot’en Solidarity Page to donate:
http://forestaction.wikidot.com/caravan
For more information on the camp, please visit
http://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/
Sara Finkle
Mar 3, 2013, 5:45:01 PM3/3/13
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hey martha!
how's it going? I'm wondering what yer spring break plans are looking like/ when yer break is. It'd be fun to see you & I might be around the area around the 18th-21st ish (which is the first week of my break)sara
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