THE NEXT LEVEL

The fucking kkkanadian state has a lot to answer for, and if you in any way defend kkkolonialism and the fucking sick-ass racism that comes from that, then fuck you too. And fuck the fucking pipeline also. Fuck your "it's good for the economy" bullshit. Who cares? It'll fuck up the environment, make rich fucking assholes even richer, and basically serves war profiteers anyway. Time to take it to the next level.

RCMP RAID ON ELSIPOGTOG

Support Mi’kmaq Rebellion to Preserve Their Land

The fact that Canada is a settler-colonial state was again confirmed, on October 17th, when the police assaulted the Mi’kmaq blockade in New Brunswick, just north of Moncton. Originally peaceful, the blockade was aimed at preventing gas companies, particularly SWN Resources, from mining on Elsipogtog land; the state responded by unleashing over 200 RCMP shock troops to crush indigenous rebellion. Wounded blockade protestors have been denied medical aid, at least one journalist has been detained. Elsipogtog was raided and over forty Mi’kmaq activists, including the chief and the council, were arrested.

Predictably, the New Brunswick Premier, David Alward, has defended the state incursion unto Mi’kmaq lands—but one would expect a Conservative politician to openly and honestly endorse the most brutal colonial measures to protect the “rights” of a private corporation.

NDP and Liberal critics, however, prove again that they are also the mouthpieces of colonial-capitalism: Jean Crowder, an NDP MP, has argued that “cooler heads need to prevail” on both sides, and that indigenous nations need to be brought into a consultation process with Canadian capital; Carolyn Bennett, a Liberal MP, has echoed the NDP argument by demanding a proper “negotiation” under the auspices of enlightened liberal rationality. Neither of these parties, supposed critics of Conservative policy, is capable of recognizing that the solution to this situation, as with all clashes with indigenous communities, is decolonization and national self-determination.

As with Kanehsatake in the 1990s and other indigenous resistance movements, what began as a peaceful protest is slowly transforming itself into armed resistance. Rather than allow themselves to be crushed, the Mi’kmaq warriors responded with the only thing colonialism understands: equal violence. Six RCMP vehicles have been burned, teargas assaults are answered with rocks and Molotov cocktails.

And this is precisely how every struggle for national self-determination, every moment of decolonization, has been historically solved—not with peaceful negotiations with the oppressor, who will never honestly negotiate from a position of power, but with armed resistance.

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Fanny Aishaa, a Montréal-based mural and graffitti artist, is selling high-quality reproductions (see above) of the now famous photograph of a native land-defender standing her ground in front of a line of RCMP riot cops on October 17. Price is $50, from which $20 will be given to the defense fund of the Warriors. To reserve a reproduction, please write to lacanar@riseup.net