As the fallout continues from Monday’s RCMP enforcement of a court injunction against a First Nations anti-pipeline camp in northern B.C., the protesters are getting support from Hollywood.
Actors Ellen Page and Susan Sarandon are just two celebrities who have shown solidarity on social media with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and members who are protesting the Coastal GasLink pipeline project, taking particular issue with the RCMP’s enforcement on Monday of a court injunction against a camp set up by members of the Gidumt’en clan.
Page, a Canadian native, called the RCMP’s actions a “raid” and said it was another example of Canada’s “violence towards Indigenous peoples.”
“We must stand in solidarity with Unist’ot’en,” Page wrote on Twitter Tuesday, referring to another camp on Wet’suwet’en territory protesting the pipeline.
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Sean Boynton – Global News – January 10, 2019.