Photo: Di Atom (Facebook)
SPREAD WIDELY : The following statement has been circulating publicly since around 20PM, December 21st, 2015, to be endorsed by groups as well as individual voices in order to support the three activists that were arrested on that morning’s pipeline-stopping action. They have since been released with minimal conditions, which is excellent news, but their struggle isn’t yet over! (For more updates, visit The People versus Enbridge line 9 on Facebook)
This statement is currently endorsed by 64 groups and over 500 invidividuals. The full list of groups is at the bottom of this post.
To add your voice or that of your group/organization, simply fill the form at http://tinyurl.com/line9resisters.
And if you would like to make an interac transfer donation to the legal defence fund, please send it at stopline9@gmail.com and use the password: solidarity.
Solidarity with Enbridge Line 9 Resisters
December 21st, 2015
We stand in solidarity with the people who took peaceful action to stop the flow of Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline on the morning of December 21, 2015, on Anishnaabek territory near so-called “Sarnia.” These people, rooted in their communities and committed to environmental advocacy, organic farming, and challenging violence against women, courageously defended their communities, and all of our communities, after all legal avenues to contest the pipeline had been exhausted.
The absence of valid consultation and consent from First Nations and other impacted communities, the impacts of increased tar sands exploitation that are facilitated by the operation of Line 9, the state of this forty-year-old pipeline and the lack of serious measures to ensure its secure operation are some – but not all – of the reasons to denounce the recent increase in capacity and reversal of the flow of Line 9.
