i do xrays :)

Story of my life people. You know what’s real ? The struggle.

let’s take a look at the replies to this post of a beautiful family, I’m sure they will be very normal and not hideously racist, right?

first time I’ve seen “Zionists killed Bob Marley,” but considering I’ve seen an endless conspiracist stream of “(((Zionists))) murdered (Diana, MJ, JFK, RFK, John Lennon, Whitney Houston, Janis Joplin, MLK Jr., Luther Vandross, and whatever other figure you can possibly imagine here)” over the past two months, I’m not surprised.

I don’t care if these are bots or these are real people. it makes no difference where it’s coming from, this language and thought process continues to leech into normalized behavior and it is reprehensible.

anyway:

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