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Chokepoint: How to stop a pipeline
For the past four years we have visiting the Unist’ot’en camp and since then, we just can’t shut up about them. Why? Because their form of protest is beyond words and it’s manifested in direct action. They have created a real physical wall of opposition to all the proposed pipelines that could bring oil from the tar sands and fracked gas to world market in the Pacific ocean. We introduced them to the world with our “Oil Gateway” video back in 2011, and then with “The Action Camp” in 2012. We are now pleased to share with you our third mini-doc about them “Chokepoint: How to Stop a Pipeline” which we made for Al Jazeera’s AJ+.
4 Comments on "Chokepoint: How to stop a pipeline"
jjhman on Mon, 10th Nov 2014 4:21 pm
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry as these fine folks talk about stopping the oil companies and living like their ancestors off of the land while driving full sized trucks, hunting with modern rifles and freezing food in glass jars in electrically powered appliances.
I’m reminded of the words of Chief Red Cloud of the Oglala Lakota:
“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.”
paulo1 on Mon, 10th Nov 2014 5:36 pm
I have worked at least 1/2 my life with northern natives and they are certainly more fossil fuel dependent than I ever have been or will be. Diesel plants 24/7 for electricity, cars, trucks, skidoos, outboards, winter roads to bring in the mass produced goods by truck. Fresh meat and produce flown in during thaw. I could go on and on but there is just one thing left to say about it. When the lying white man runs out of tax dollars to subsidize a way of life absoutely beyond any semblence of sustainability and in extreme overshoot, (children having babies and nary a job in sight), then they will have something to complain about big time.
If my wife and I run out of money or need a new water supply we suck it up and earn what we need. When some reserve decides its time for new housing or needs to improve their water system they phone CBC. Collective guilt swallows the bullshit everytime.
I remember one spring at Lac La Croix a native fellow coming down to meet me at the dock. He said, “I guess I left my snow machine on the ice. I see it’s gone. I’ll have to get another one this fall”. Considering there were no jobs there I suppose it was paid for with tax dollars as well as fueled. I have seen it with boats that sink or float away, and just last year a local family set a gas lantern on their woodstove and forgot about it while waiting for the tide to ebb in order to pick oysters at night. Interviewed in front of their ruins they complained about having to get the oysters for food and that was why their house burnt down. Nevermind there is a commercial oyster industry going 24/7 for the next 200 miles and everyone I know eats oysters and clams.
It pisses me off.
Paulo
Hugh Culliton on Mon, 10th Nov 2014 6:06 pm
There’s no question that subMedia.tv is a tad biased (understatement!). However, while I rabidly disagree with a lot of what they’ve said, there is some merit. These are perspectives that deserve consideration regardless of your opinion.
theedrich on Tue, 11th Nov 2014 11:36 pm
Ah yes! The noble savage wins again.