It's simple: we don't want your oil, gas, and mining projects. Not only are we opposed to them, but we are actively fighting—and will continue to fight—to abolish all colonial extractive projects, wherever they may be. We don’t want your oil, gas, and mining projects, and they won't go through, border tariffs or not.
Here, as elsewhere, the exploitation of oil, gas, coal, and metals results in the ransacking of ancestral Indigenous territories. When settlers have finished clearing the land of everything that can generate profit, they go further and deeper, causing even more devastation and colonizing more of the territories once used by Indigenous people. As a result, communities are confined to smaller and smaller areas, eventually being placed on ‘reserves’ as access to their ancestral Land becomes increasingly restricted. The world's mining, oil, and gas companies, along with other extractive industries, are inevitably sacrificing the territories inhabited by the most marginalized communities—Indigenous, racialized, rural, and more.
What's more, these capitalist monsters enjoy the support of their political accomplices and the legislative and legal apparatus. Everywhere, the Canadian state finances, encourages, and supports colonial destruction. For anti-colonial and anti-capitalist activists, there is no shortage of targets today: the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission and Coastal GasLink pipeline projects in so-called British Columbia, Canadian companies financing or producing weapons used in the genocide of Palestinians, the forestry industry devastating the forests of Nehirowisiw Aski in Haute-Mauricie, mining projects on Indigenous territories in so-called Quebec, hydroelectric dams, forestry, and mining on Nitassinan, Innu ancestral territory, and toxic waste dumping in Kanehsatà:ke. Here, the attacks on Indigenous communities are numerous, as are their mobilizations against these threats. Far from being passive victims, these communities are actively engaged in the fight against extractive industries and the colonial capitalist State.
This journal explores the connections between colonialism and extractivism, from the colonial states of British Columbia and Quebec to occupied Palestine. It will reveal the tactics employed by extractive companies to impose their projects, in complete complicity with the State. We will explain the workings of settler colonialism, through which the Canadian state continues to exploit Indigenous peoples and Land. We will also examine the legal and judicial institutions that legitimize these direct violations of ecosystems and communities. We’ll reflect on the struggle in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en against the Coastal GasLink pipeline, highlighting the lessons we can draw from it for current and future struggles. The colonial capitalist forces are aligned—now it’s up to us to fight back. Let’s respond with solidarity and mount a counter-attack!
A - Anti - Anticolonialiste - Solidarité avec les peuples qui résistent!
A - Anti - Anti-colonialist - Solidarity with the people who resist!