{"id":56539,"date":"2021-01-28T18:09:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T23:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56539"},"modified":"2021-01-28T18:09:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T23:09:28","slug":"how-the-wetsuweten-solidarity-actions-changed-their-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56539","title":{"rendered":"How the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Solidarity Actions Changed Their Live"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Solidarity Actions Changed Their Live<\/a>s<\/h3>\n

A year later, three Indigenous youth behind the 2020 BC legislature protests say the real work still lies ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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A year after he first took a stand on the steps of the BC legislature, Kolin Sutherland-Wilson and his wife are expecting their first child.\u00a0Photo by Rodney Mitchell.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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It was the first week of Kolin Sutherland-Wilson\u2019s final semester at the University of Victoria. But he wasn\u2019t there. Instead, on a chilly January morning in 2020, he sat alone on the front steps of the British Columbia legislature, dressed warmly and holding signs that called on provincial leaders to stand with the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Hereditary Chiefs opposing the Coastal GasLink project in their traditional territory.<\/p>\n

For a week, he spent all day on the steps. MLAs and staff who passed by barely glanced at him.<\/p>\n

But soon friends, classmates and community members joined him. The growing group took on bigger actions \u2014 a ferry blockade and a sit-in at the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum resources. That\u00a0ended<\/a>\u00a0after 18 hours of occupying the building, with Sutherland-Wilson and 11 others finally carried out by Victoria police.<\/p>\n

As the RCMP enforced an injunction on behalf of Coastal GasLink on Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory 700 kilometres northwest of Victoria, the group of Indigenous youth and allies known as the Indigenous Youth for Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en ramped up their efforts. In early February, the Indigenous youth locked themselves arm-in-arm at the entrance to the legislature \u2014 surrounded at one point by a thousand allies \u2014 and stayed overnight for 17 days. They\u00a0forced<\/a>\u00a0the cancellation of B.C.\u2019s throne speech ceremony for the first time in history.<\/p>\n

The fountain in front of the building ran red with dye. Words written on upturned Canadian flags declared \u201cReconciliation is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

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How the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Solidarity Actions Changed Their Lives A year later, three Indigenous youth behind the 2020 BC legislature protests say the real work still lies ahead. A year after he first took a stand on the steps of the BC legislature, Kolin Sutherland-Wilson and his wife are expecting their first child.\u00a0Photo by Rodney Mitchell. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[94,30871,628,28820,657,23884,8528],"class_list":["post-56539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-british-columbia","tag-emily-fagan","tag-pipeline","tag-pipeline-protests","tag-protests","tag-thetyee-ca","tag-wetsuweten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56540,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56539\/revisions\/56540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}