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[Link] Indigenous Nation Stopped BC Social Workers From Apprehending Child, 6, on Their Land

Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com

Leaders and community members of Gitxsan Nation gathered in northeastern B.C. on Saturday evening to block social workers from apprehending a 6-year-old girl and “end the tragic legacy of our children being stolen.”

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[Link] New Program Lets Settler Canadians Pay ‘Rent’ to Indigenous Communities

Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com

Payments are calculated based on property value or monthly rent: renters are encouraged to pay the equivalent of 1 percent their monthly rent, while homeowners can opt to pay the equivalent of 1 percent of their property taxes per month. Businesses can pledge 1 percent of their profit. 

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[Link] A Mexican Cartel Was Driven Out of Town By Indigenous Vigilantes Called ‘El Machete’

Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com

PANTELHO, Mexico - As smoke curled from neighboring buildings that had been ransacked and torched the day before, a couple of thousand Indigenous people armed with makeshift weapons gathered around city hall to hear their leaders speak.

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[Link] Indigenous Peoples of Oaxaca in Resistance Against Contemporary Colonialism

Read: 15/8/2021 itsgoingdown.org

Communique from the Oaxacan Assembly in Defense of Land and Territory on the continued Indigenous resistance against contemporary colonialism To the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico and the World As Indigenous peoples, movements, organizations, and unions of this geography called Oaxaca, those who inhab

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[Link] An Oil Company Paid Police $2 Million to Defend Its Pipeline From Protests

Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com

Calgary-based oil giant Enbridge set up a fund called the Public Safety Escrow Trust in May, 2020 as part of its permitting process for the Line 3 pipeline route, which carries tar sands oil from Edmonton, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin.

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