THE ENIGMATIC FOE

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

But that’s not why I’m typing cause I had a thought that I chatted a little with one of my buddies that I do have with some doodles accompanying it.

KND AU where the Delightful children from down the lane let themselves be taken BY the KND to help recover and become normal kids again, but unfortunately it’s incredibly difficult for them since the KNDs way of fixing is just what kids assume would help cure them like forcing them apart (which has failed on numerous occasions), and trying to get them to play and just do what any regular kid does. But they haven’t been able to be kids in so long so the delightfuls are just having such a hard time trying to adapt but are trying their best.

Methinks they do recover somewhat, but there are just somethings that are just to drilled into their heads that they can’t stop like being together. It’s a neat idea I’ve had and I enjoy thinking about a lot

More than 50% of Indigenous communities in reserve areas in Canada are at high risk of pipeline spills. When there is a spill, reserves are disproportionately impacted.

The National Energy Board and Supreme Court of Canada has a history of declaring the "public interest and economic interests outweigh Indigenous and treaty rights." Basically, Indigenous peoples don't count enough as "public" to matter.

Pipelines are built without proper consent from the Indigenous Nations they choose to occupy. Keep in mind I say choose, because this is the case even when alternative pipeline routes are suggested that could avoid reserve land. This is a direct, constant, and often violent threat to Indigenous sovereignty.

The MMIW crisis is funded by the oil industry through the creation of worker's "man camps" near reserve land. These "man camps" are nothing but pits of sexual violence and human trafficking of Indigenous women and girls. I am not exaggerating; this is well studied and well documented.

Resources & Sources:

To become an ‘energy superpower’, Canada wants to bulldoze Indigenous rights (START HERE!)

Indigenous Resistance to Alberta Oil and Gas Development Report

When the environment is destroyed, you're destroyed: Achieving Indigenous led pipeline justice

First Nations Consent Ignored as Canadians Asked to Subsidize LNG Expansion

Oil pipelines and food sovereignty: threat to health equity for Indigenous communities

Is Violence against Indigenous Women in “Canada’s interest”? Liquified Natural Gas in B.C., Sexual Violence & Narratives of Terra Nullius

The colonial playbook never ended, Canada’s pipeline deal proves it