Rail blockades are proving to be an effective non-violent response to state violence

It’s because you’re not seeing the connection, not because their isn’t one. Not trying to make you feel bad, it’s a common misunderstanding, it’s understandable to wonder “wait, how the hell does a Liquid Natural Gas pipeline being protested for nearly a decade have anything to do with another issue elsewhere in Canada?” if that’s the main point of contention you have seen this framed as in the media and repeated in comments.

Its more than the pipeline, it could have been anything to be honest being built there, like say a resort[1], before a treaty is settled and there would be distrust that would be garnered by such events. That the BC Supreme Court Judge Injunction was issued not once but twice while ignoring Canada's Supreme Court Ruling [1997] 3 SCR 1010[2]^ was bad enough, but the mishandling of this by sending an operation that has to cost millions to forcibly remove people from a remote northern BC forest road in the dead of winter with the RCMP who are doing that instead of keeping the peace, well ... it begs the question for the rest of Canada's Confederation "If they are negotiating with them like that, are we next?"

The sad truth is, to get to this point of these kinds of protests, the country was already hurting, this is just the rest of Canada becoming aware of it in a manner that can not be ignored like all the other protests that peacefully gathered, marched down a road, held a speech in a public place of some prominence or influence, and dispersed, only to make page 5 of the local rag if they were lucky. Plenty of those kinds of protests over the past decades that had their issues insufficiently addressed helped make this necessary as a protest to even realize it exists, let alone garner goodwill.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

[1]^ https://aptnnews.ca/2012/12/06/bc-first-nation-steps-up-protest-against-planned-ski-resort/ [2]^ https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/1569/index.do

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