Dozens Arrested in Vancouver as RCMP Raid on Wet’suwet’en Drags On
As an RCMP raid on Indigenous sites in northern British Columbia drags into a fifth day of arrests, another 43 people have been arrested in Vancouver for blocking port traffic in solidarity.
The Wet’suwet’en Nation has faced increasing police presence on their territory since early January, when hereditary chiefs evicted pipeline workers and police from their land. On Thursday, RCMP began removing Wet’suwet’en land defenders and supporters from camps along a snow-covered logging road to make way for the $6.6 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline