In this photo, land defenders occupy the offices of Imperial Metal in Vancouver, Canada. The president of Imperial Metals, Bryan Kynoch, stands behind them.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM YUCT NE SENXIMETKWE CAMP, August 9, 2016
WE SUCCESSFULLY OCCUPIED IMPERIAL METALS TODAY.
Two years after the Mount Polley disaster, Secwepemc Women’s Warrior Society and Ancestral Pride had an action today to show Imperial Metals that we will escalate resistance until they cease and desist all mining operation in our Indigenous territories. Imperial Metals ordered thirty police offers to violently assault Indigenous women and supporters, with four arrests and many bruised bodies. But our spirits are high and we know the world is watching, we have support from around the world. We are holding their responsible for the violence against Indigenous lands and Indigenous women. We sent a message to investors and shareholders, including President Brian Kynoch who was in the office, that they are violating our Indigenous Rights and Title and violating our free, prior and informed consent. Read the rest of this entry
Blockade of the Mount Polley mine site near Likely, BC, on the 2 year anniversary of tailings pond rupture, August 4, 2016. Photo: Yuct Ne Senxiymetkew Camp.
OFFICIAL YUCT NE SENXIYMETKEW CAMP STATEMENT, August 7, 2016
Kukstemc Kleco Ociem. We thank everyone who came out to the Second Anniversary of Mount Polley Mining Disaster on August 4, 2016. We had many diverse groups such as Ancestral Pride, Downtown Eastside Power of Women, Native Youth Movement, No One Is Illegal, Rising Tide, Unist’ot’en Solidarity Bridge, Alliance Against Displacement, and Council of Canadians in attendance and sharing knowledge and experiences. The event was a great success with over one hundred people traveling all across Turtle Island to attend — even a bus from Vancouver. Read the rest of this entry
Graphic via Tori Cress, Instagram
By Greg Fry, 250 News, August 5, 2016
Likely, B.C. – Things are back too normal at the Mt Polley mine in Likely.
This following a blockade by the Secwepemc Women’s Warrior Society yesterday.
“There were a few activists that gathered at the entrance to the access road to the mine yesterday,” said Imperial Metals spokesperson Steve Robertson.
“Their numbers grew throughout the day. There wasn’t much in the way of blockade activity until late in the afternoon when they were not allowing vehicles to go in and were slowing down vehicles that were going out. But that lasted for a short period of time and the activists were all gone by early evening.”
Sacheen from Ancestral Pride, on right, was injured by a vehicle driven by Imperial Metals employee during the blockade at the Mount Polley Resistance Gathering, August 4, 2016. Photo: Ancestral Pride.
Ancestral Pride, August 5, 2016
On the 2 year anniversary of the Mt Polley tailings pond spill that pumped millions of gallons of toxic tailings into Hazeltine creek a gathering of indigenous land defenders allies and supporters including the Power of Women Down Town East Side group joined the Sepwepemc Womens Warriors Society to bring awareness to the issue. There were work shops, feasting, and training, as well as ceremony and information sharing. Imperial Metals was issued a discharge permit recently and have done nothing in the way to rectify this situation and two years later there is still tailings infecting everything it comes into contact with. Read the rest of this entry
Participants in the Resistance Gathering at Mount Polley, BC, (Secwepemc territory) on August 4, 2016, block the road leading to the mine site.
From Yuct Ne Senxiymetkwe Camp, August 4, 2016
Secwepemc land defenders and allies have set up a road blockade at Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley mine on the two year anniversary of the devastating tailings pond spill. Kanahus Freedom (Manuel), a member of the Secwepemc Women’s Warrior Society says that the community is exercising its sovereignty and taking direct action, as the government of British Columbia recently issued a new operating permit to the mine. Read the rest of this entry
Some of the devastation caused by Mount Polley tailings pond rupture.
Emily Lazatin, CKNW, August 2, 2016
Just a couple days away from the two-year anniversary of the Mount Polley tailings pond disaster, a First Nations group says it plans to protest against the mine re-opening.
Kanahus Manuel with the Secwepmc Women’s Warrior Society says it’s too early for the government to give Imperial Metals the green light.
Come join us at a 1-day gathering at Yuct Ne Senxiymetkwe, unceded, unsurrendered Secwepemc Territory on August 4, 2016, to mark 2-years since the Imperial Metals Mount Polley disaster. Come join us in Resistance to all mining and express our outrage of the opening of the Mount Polley mine! Please bring your hand drums, food to share, your plates, cups, cutlery and camping gear (if you will spend the night) For more information contact: imperialnomore@gmail.com
