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On Day 114 of the disaster we are remembering our friends. Our delegations continue to travel Turtle Island spreading the word of resistance, unity and hope. We have visited many places, and today we pay tribute to our visit to Chiraq (Chicago). We declare our solidarity with Chairman Fred Hampton and Minister of Defence Mark Clark of the Black Panther Party assassinated 45 years ago on December 4th, now known as International Revolutionary Day.  The real and serious, the painful and genocidal impact of colonialism, has effected so many of us. We are children of genocide and slavery. We have fought, we have sometimes won, but in the end we have lost and we continue to lose so many. We stand with our black brothers and sisters in America. We stand with them in solidarity and in unified struggle and resistance. America, its laws and legislation, its white house and government buildings, built on the continuing enslavement of one group and the continuing genocide of another, will be tolerated no more. America and Canada are soaked in the blood of the murders, rapes and land thefts these so called nations have committed and continue to commit. These nations and their systems are not broken, the systems, the infrastructures, the judiciary, the police the institutions of these nations are designed to brutalize black and brown people. The power and the violence of these colonial states are regularly employed to maintain the racial, gender, class hierarchies and slaveries that birthed their existence. There is no flaw in the system. This is the system.  This is a special time for all of us, one that calls for our bravest, boldest, and most liberated selves to take action in the name of freedom and justice. We do this by defending our Lands and our Waters. We do this by defending each other. We do this by standing strong and proud in the knowledge that we are a greater people than this. We can overcome and will only overcome together.  #imperialnomore #blockadeseverywhere #blacklivesmatter

TODAY is WAGE SOLIDARITY: Nourish the Nation 2014!!! It's an exciting day for all of us. For everyone who asks what can I do? This is it. This is a very important thing to do friends. Wolverine, in his 80s, leader of the Gustafson Lake standoff and keeper of seeds is feeding the Nation. He needs our support. We owe him so much. DONATE by purchasing a ticket at:http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/972193  -or- e-transfer/paypal to [email protected]

On Day 112 of the disaster, we are organizing. There is so much to be done and less and less time for us to be doing these things in. All of our struggles are interconnected, none of our struggles will mean anything if we do not hold each other up while we fight. A friend of ours once spoke to us of the infrastructure of change, the infrastructure of resistance and dissent. Shelter and food. The very basics of human survival. When we consider taking steps out of the colonial system, these are the things we worry about. Where will we find shelter? Where will we find food? If not at the end of a work day or in our bank balance, at the grocery store or in the restaurants. We are building infrastructure. We have learned a very important lesson. That dependence on the government will keep you beholden to it, its crimes and its violence. So we build alternatives. Food security is an important first step to freeing ourselves and each other from dependence. Elder Wolverine, Secwepemc Ts'peten Defender (Gustafson Lake 1995), seed keeper, learned this lesson years and years ago and has established a big and bountiful garden on 8 acres of land in C'yele. He has done this to feed the people, he has done this so we the people can fight with both hands.  It's time we held up our end. On December 4th then, people of all Nations, across the whole of Turtle Island are asked to donate whatever a day's wage in labor is to you to Nourish the Nation, Wolverine's autonomous Indigenous garden project feeding communities on the front lines of resource extraction. We've eaten from the tons of squash and potatoes, tomatoes and carrots from Wolverine's garden. He's helped start gardens at Unist'ot'en Camp. Let's spread the seeds, the love and the community. Every single dollar that you donate will go towards the purchase of a small tractor, an irrigation upgrade, and fencing- all to keep this project alive. To donate a day or even an hours wage to Wage Solidarity- Turtle Island on Thursday December 4th go to: nourishthenation.brownpapertickets.com or paypal and e-transfer to: [email protected] #imperialnomore #blockadeseverywhere

On Day 109 of the disaster, we are resting. The Elders finally make it home, and for some, it was a more tiring journey than for others. Today we rest because we're busy again tomorrow. There is still so much to do. The Tl’abānot’in are a strong clan and while this minor issue of an injunction being granted against them, us, is a frustration, things are busy within families and communities. There is a strength, a unity, a force that cannot be stopped by politician or police, building. It's an important time for the clan and other clans too.  So we are in Iskut today and it is cold outside. We spend time inside thinking. Reading. Keeping in touch with our friends on the frontlines across this so called province. We are disgusted with the police. Be it the RCMP assaulting Elders and kidnapping our friends on Burnaby Mountain under an invalid court order, or the police across Turtle Island regularly murdering black men, black children, and getting away with it. We stand in love and solidarity, so many of us have suffered violence at the hands of the police.  When we stand like this, when we build unity, when we love like this, when we build community, nothing can stop us. No pipeline, no big bad mining company, no white man's army, no rich man's police. So build your affinities. Chain yourself to court's doors, make known the violence in this society, stand in front of the machines that would otherwise rip scars into the earth or cuts into the mountains. We have momentum. The courts are a sham and the police are the enforcers. We will keep building on top of. We will not accept anything less than justice. Justice for our men in prison, justice for our women missing, justice for our children taken, justice for our bodies broken, justice for our Land stolen. These are desperate times. We will take desperate measures. Any. Means. Necessary. We are taking back our dignity. #imperialnomore #blockadeseverywhere

On Day 107 of the disaster we emerge from two long days in the colonizer's court. Imperial Metals is granted an injunction against the Tl’abānot’in Elders. Against our Elders. Our Grandmothers. In addition to being granted a permanent injunction, Imperial Metals lawyers indicated they would also be applying to regain their court costs from our Elders. Our Grandmothers. As we met, talked about and planned for our court hearing in the weeks leading up to it, we reaffirmed some very important things. There is no justice for those Indigenous in these court hearings and proceedings. How could there be? These are the colonizer's courts. The laws of this so called country these courts uphold are rooted in and dependent on the continuing dispossession of land, the continuing genocide. We say again. There has not been, there cannot be, there is no justice on stolen land.  And so we find ourselves here. Where those that have committed horrific acts, acts that led to the destruction of a delicate and complex ecosystem, to the spawning beds of sockeye salmon, that singlehandedly put in grave danger the food source of all Indigenous Nations along the Fraser River Watershed…are taking court action against our Elders. Not only that, but they are taking court action against our Elders that will be and was, indeed successful. This court action that will criminalize them as they stand on their Land, out of love and in protection. This is an absurd situation. This is an unacceptable situation.  Injunctions are one of Canada’s last colonial instruments used to dispossess Indigenous Peoples of their Land. We are tired of the efficiency with which they continue to be granted. There are other ways we fight. There are other ways we win. We stand strong. We up hold up our Nations. We hold up our Women. We love our Mothers and we love our Children. We train our warriors and our Men. Then this time, we win.  #imperialnomore #blockadeseverywhere

On Day 106 of the disaster we are still in Terrace. After a long day in court, we are exhausted. If Fasken Martineau's Kevin O'Callaghan's strategy was to intersperse long, tedious wanders through affidavit evidence with outright lies and misrepresentations being made by Imperial Metals about the Tl’abanot’in to confuse and shake our focus, it's not working. We are sharper, we are more alive, we are angry. We spend all day in court watching and listening one white man in a suit and gold pinky ring talk to another white man in a suit about things they have no knowledge of, they dismiss Elders and the exercise of rights and title and belittle the jurisdiction that exists on unceded and unsurrendered territory. Enough.  Tomorrow we will submit our arguments and they will be short and simple. This is not where we want to be and this is not where we will see any justice or any change. For the many that stood with us today, thank you. We had visitors from all over, including MADII 'LII CAMP, friends and family, accomplices and allies, who stood with us, in defense and in solidarity. Come stand with us again for our last day in court, Wednesday, November 26th. It won't be nearly as boring. We promise. Stand strong. Wear red. See you then! #imperialnomore #blockadeseverywhere

On Day 105 of the disaster we are in Terrace. We are calling all of our allies, our accomplices, our friends and our families, our Nations and our communities. We need you. We will be gathering outside the courthouse tomorrow at 9:30am before the hearing that will start at 10am. We ask you to stand with us and in a show of solidarity, wear red. The matters before the court tomorrow are matters that will effect the Lands and Waters far beyond our territories and our Nations. This is a very important time for us. We are not in the colonizer's courts to ask for the colonizer's mercy, no we are in the colonizer's courts to ask they enforce their own laws, that the law addresses those actually committing crimes and further that the law, colonial as it is, leaves matters of our Nations to our Nations. This is an important time for us. This time we are building our Nations strong. This time we are building them unified. This time we have learned the lessons of all that came before us. We have our own laws. Our Land, our Water, our relatives, they are all connected as we are, to these laws. When these laws are disturbed, we as a Nation, further, we as a human race are put in grave danger. When these laws are disturbed, we become parasites. We become destroyers. We poison the airs and the waters. We leave nothing left for our grandsons and granddaughters and the seven generations that come after.  So tomorrow we will stand proud and stand strong. We will represent ourselves in the court room. We will say what we mean and we will say it with conviction and authority. There is no more time for pleasantries. We are rising above. We are moving quickly. We are defending our Territories.  #imperialnomore #blockadeseverywhere