DoomsdaysCW<p>Coast <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Salish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Salish</span></a> Water Warriors: Voices for the Water at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SalishSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SalishSea</span></a> Assembly in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Seattle</span></a></p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a> at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indybay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Indybay</span></a>, Nov. 8, 2024</p><p>"The defenders are battling the dirty energy <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>corporations</span></a> poisoning the land, water and air in western <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Canada</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WashingtonState" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WashingtonState</span></a>, and the waters of the Salish Sea. The rivers from British Columbia in Canada and Washington State come together in the Salish Sea on their journey to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PacificOcean</span></a>. </p><p>"The dead birds floating in the Alberta tar sands <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TailingPonds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TailingPonds</span></a>, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ManCamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ManCamps</span></a> linked to missing and murdered Indigenous girls, and the increased oil tankers in the Salish Sea -- are all parts of the dirty oil business of the Trans Mountain pipeline pouring out of Alberta's dirty tar sands in Canada, bound for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilTankers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilTankers</span></a> in the Salish Sea. </p><p>"The destruction, and theft of land, is a continuation of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocidal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>genocidal</span></a> residential school system. Native children were kidnapped, ripped from their families, and incarcerated in the abusive schools operated by Canada and the churches.</p><p>"'We can't drink water from there any more,' said Jean, who lives close to the Alberta tar sands in her homeland. 'I was born into this destruction.</p><p>"'Thousands of birds are dead in the tailing ponds.'"</p><p><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/coast-salish-water-warriors-voices-for.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11</span><span class="invisible">/coast-salish-water-warriors-voices-for.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificNorthwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PacificNorthwest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PetrolState" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PetrolState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PetroState" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PetroState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResidentialSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ResidentialSchools</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StolenChildren" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StolenChildren</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MMIW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIWG" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MMIWG</span></a></p>