🗿2019 ☁️ Oil ✖️Wood. 18"✖️24" ☁️ ... Currently here in Canada, our governments are claiming to be working towards sustainable climate change policies and reconciliation with first nations after centuries of genocide. However, the actions of the last fews days at the Unis’tot’en camp in northern BC, have shown that the ruling political parties, at all levels, are either actively supporting or condoning the use of militarized police to remove first nations from their unceded Wet’suwet’en territory, to push through a carbon-intensive, fracked gas pipeline, on behalf of pipeline giant TransCanada, and multibillion dollar Malaysian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese oil and gas companies. Not only are the federal and provincial governments choosing to violate both the 1997 Delgamuukw decision, allowing first nations’ rights over their lands, and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, they are continuing the classic, colonial divide and conquer methods used for decades by setting a narrative of hereditary chiefs vs. elected chiefs in the media and the court systems. All for another pipeline our planet clearly can’t handle right now. Please support these first nations, and those where you live, who are on the front lines of our battle for a living planet … “Wildness… it is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.” - Gary Snyder