March 17
GUEST: Sleydo’ (Molly Wickham), spokesperson for the Gidimt’en check-point on Wet’suwet’en lands and resident of the Cas Yikh (grizzly house), an Indigenous reoccupation site in British Columbia since 2014, talks about her people's resistance to the Coastal Gasoline pipeline.
Gidimt’en Access Point vows to continue resistance
We were fortunate to get Sleydo' as a guest on Activist Radio. She and her family are under assault by the Canadian Mounties and other agents of the Coastal Gasoline pipeline. The video of these officials taking a chainsaw to her house is as disturbing as any footage of Palestinians losing their homes. The forces of Big Oil will allow no resistance, as we have seen in our own country at Standing Rock.
The tie that binds together the Wet’suwet’en and the Palestinians people, however, is not Big Oil. It is the invader mentality that condones slowly pushing native peoples off their lands. It is a special form of racism practiced by those with too much power, and no sense of human rights. It is the ugly side of US and Western imperialism, that doesn't hesitate starving millions in Afghanistan, Palestine, Yemen, and Western Sahara for political and economic gain.
A number of local human rights groups in the Hudson Valley invite you to discuss these issues further in a Zoom event. I hope you can join us.
