9:15 AM. Join us as Andrew Eckels talks about what’s happening with the Unisto’ot’en camp. Andrew Eckels has lived in Bellingham as a settler on Coast Salish territory for the last 7 years working on environmental and social justice issues. He has been working to support the Unist'ot'en camp since first spending time there in 2013.
Over the years, BUF has supported the Unist'ot'en Camp and its advocates, particularly Western University students who have devoted an enormous amount of their resources helping construct the Camp. The Unis’tot’en (C’ihlts’ehkhyu / Big Frog Clan) are the original Wet’suwet’en Yintah Wewat Zenli distinct to the lands of the Wet’suwet’en in British Columbia, Canada and have been constructing dwellings and community centers on land targeted by Coastal Gaslink (CGL) for gas pipelines. The Unist'ot'en Camp has become Canada’s Standing Rock with non-violent protestors blocking and opposing construction through unceded, traditional indigenous territories. Recently the Royal Mounted Canadian Police have moved in to break up Unist’ot’en and other camps along the route, allowing for Coastal Gaslink heavy equipment to begin preparing for construction. What’s happening now and where do we go from here?
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