"Canada invades. Invades on behalf of industry. Invades during ceremony. Canada tears us from our land. Tears us from our families, from our homes. Takes our drums away. Takes our women away. Jails us for protecting the land, for being in ceremony, for honouring our ancestors. On February 10, RCMP invaded unceded Unist’ot’en territory, arresting and forcibly removing Freda Huson (Chief Howilhkat), Brenda Michell (Chief Geltiy), Dr. Karla Tait, and four Indigenous land defenders from our yintah. They were arrested in the middle of a ceremony to honour the ancestors. Police tore down the red dresses that were hung to hold the spirits of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two spirit people. They extinguished our sacred fire. We have had enough. Enough dialogue, discussion, negotiation at the barrel of a gun. Canada comes to colonize. Reconciliation is dead. It is time to fight for our land, our lives, our children, our future. Revolution lives." -- Unist'ot'en Camp, 13/02/2020
The first 10 downloads of this track are free; for each download H. de Heutz will donate $20 (CAD) to the Unist'ot'en Camp Legal Fund. After the first 10 downloads, the release will be priced at a $5 CAD; all proceeds will be donated to the Legal Fund, with H. de Heutz covering all Bandcamp and Paypal fees to ensure the donation is made whole. Our receipts for donations can be found at
sulpont.ca/hdh/acch/ and so far $235 CAD has been raised.
We encourage you to donate directly to the Legal Fund or Gidimt’en Access Point at the links below.
Unist'ot'en Camp: unistoten.camp
Wet’suwet’en Supporter Toolkit: unistoten.camp/supportertoolkit2020/
Unist'ot'en Camp Legal Fund:
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/unistoten2020legalfund/
Gidimt’en Access Point GoFundMe:
www.gofundme.com/f/gidimt039en-strong
In solidarity with the Unist'ot'en and Wet'suwet'en asserting their sovereignty over their land.
Image is a map of the proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline route for liquified natural gas. (Source:
energeticcity.ca)
from
Anti-Canada Crude Haiku,
released February 19, 2020
Written, produced, recorded and mixed by H. de Heutz. Unmastered. Originally released on the Mood Ring compilation (Debaser, 2015). Thank you Rachel Weldon, Debaser, Charles Fairfield, and and Jud Crandall.
