And indigenous land defenders in western Canada say a raid on their encampments is imminent. Members of the Unist’ot’en and the Gidimt’en Clan have been physically blocking entry to native Wet’suwet’en territory, where TransCanada Corporation plans to build the massive $4.7 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline. Last month, a judge granted a temporary injunction for access by Coastal GasLink workers. Reports emerged over the weekend of chartered police buses arriving in the area to defy the two Wet’suwet’en road blocks. This is Molly Wickham of the Gidimt’en Clan speaking Saturday night.

Molly Wickham: “People like to think that things have gotten a lot better in so-called Canada and in our communities and that things aren’t the same that they were 150 years ago. But that’s just a fallacy. It’s false, because we know, right now, in this reality, that the state is willing and capable of using the same kinds of violence that they have used against our people for the last 150 years here.”