An Owen Sound family is opening up the doors of their home at 169 5th St A East in Owen Sound Wednesday, January 9 from 4 until 9 p.m. for a live art event. Led by renowned artist and environmentalist Isaac Murdoch with collaborator artist Matt Epp, the project is designed to create awareness about what's currently happening at Unist'ot'en Camp in British Columbia. The family will dedicate a wall to creating an image that speaks about solidarity.
The family wants this collaboration to give the message that Indigenous people have a right to protect their lands and water from pipelines and resource extraction.
"Together we can build a better place for our children, and art can be used as a way to do that."
They invite the community to stop by and view, learn, take photos and help create awareness.
Coastal GasLink Pipeline Ltd., a subsidiary of Calgary-based energy company TransCanada, filed for an injunction with the Supreme Court of B.C. against the Unist’ot’en, whose members reoccupied parts of their traditional territory eight years ago. They set up a camp, including several buildings, in the path of the pipeline, and a checkpoint on the West Morice River Forest Service Road. In December, a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled that the occupants of the camp had to allow TransCanada access to the Morice River Bridge and the construction site, which is about a kilometre away from the camp.
The house chiefs, who are hereditary chiefs rather than elected band council leaders, have not given consent. The chiefs issued a statement saying they were deeply concerned by the National Energy Board’s decision denying their request to participate in a jurisdictional challenge to the permits issued to TransCanada’s Coastal GasLink pipeline project, which would cross Wet’suwet’en territories. The RCMP is on site today, and people have been arrested at the blockade.
More on: http://unistoten.camp/
source: Facebook event
