Reportback on Pipeline Sabotage Behind Enemy Lines

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before the sun rose in the early early morning of 02/20/2020 we took direct action against pipeline infrastructure in Acheson AB
outraged by the Reactionary Colonial Mounted Pigs invasion of sovereign Wet’suwet’en territory and in solidarity with the Secwepemc we decommissioned a section of pipe that the klanadian state (financers of this project) had left sitting in the open air with little defense
solidarity means attack

“smile for the camera, boys” shouted the security guard after us
even though the camera could not capture it we were smiling beneath our masks
“joy is arming itself”

we hope to discourage a lot of the fear that currently surrounds resistance
it has now been weeks after a direct attack on a large corporation with no sign of police repression
there are many others living in this colony ready and willing to act
neither the pigs nor reactionary gangs can stop sabotage
do not wait for permission
strike hard while your enemy is unprepared
find your friends and act with joy!
Kenney said we are in a state of anarchy, prove him right!
there are online field guides teaching sabotage

Act spontaneously, but do your homework
we broke our drill bit while eating through the steel pipe these companies publish comprehensive engineering reports which can be found on their own websites
study these and use proper materials
it is worth noting the existence of perimeter-monitoring technology
there was a thick black cable lining the top of the fenced perimeter around the material storage site
it is also possible for these sensor cables to be under topsoil
this perimeter sensor may have tipped off the guard or maybe he found us by the noise we made or by chance but the response was immediate and impotent

This action was done in support of all land defenders
Mohawks who consistently assert their autonomy
Zapatistas and other indigenists in southern Mexico
democratic forces of Rojava
pirates of Somalia
countless tribes of the Amazon
Mapuche in Chile
Standing Rock Sioux Nation
Quechua, Guarani, Aymara of Bolivia
Anishinaabe of Minnesota
feminists in Mexico
redneck coal miners in the Appalachian mountains
rebels of Haiti
farmers of la Z(A)D
to the many nations that inhabit the beaver hills meeting grounds

Many have put effort into reconciling with klanada
consistent colonialism has given only disrespect in return, reconciliation is now dead
to #shutdowncanada colonial land claims must be disputed everywhere alongside the current struggles in so-called BC
the entirety of klanada is illegitimate and there should be insurrection everywhere

Another world is possible!

– your friends in amiskwaciywaskahikan

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what did these people actually do? decommission a cable?

why not just destroy a huge chunk of the pipeline instead.

"we decommissioned a section of pipe"
"we broke our drill bit while eating through the steel pipe"

thanks. i read more closely. they drilled a hole in a section of pipe that was sitting in the open persumably in an industrial park in acheson, ab.

Good to know they didn't publish a communique right afterwards, but let some time pass.

Do your sabotage in secret. It's more effective that way.

do your sabotage in a way that they can't figure out what happened to it. Just a thought!

"Do your sabotage in secret. It's more effective that way."

Care to elaborate on this assertion? In what ways is it "more effective"? In what ways does a late communique contribute to effectiveness?

Because, pig doesn't want the people doing that to end up building up a movement of people doing similar things. So if you stay hush-hush no one will ever know about it, then the State wins. Yay!

"Care to elaborate on this assertion? In what ways is it "more effective"?"

very simple:

1. effective damage is done
2. you don't get caught
3. rather than jumping on some vanguardist bandwagon, others see that sabotage without bragging is both effective and YOU DON'T GET CAUGHT.

not getting caught actually matters to anyone desiring a free life that is not caught up in delusions of martyrdom.

Several communiques were published for actions I took part in and we never got caught for these actions. Communiques were written because hardly anyone could notice these actions, unlike banner drops or shopfront vandalism. So what about when you get caught for doing an action no one will notice? Not very effectual.

Writing communiques is ineffectual? As if some insurgent will write a communique with their own hands and send it to the local media? Use their personal Gmail address? Put it up on Fedbook!? In which other ways can writing communiques be self-defeating? That's the part you still didn't explain.

Hey now... They worked really hard to shoot those very manly power-assertions at ya!

Now SUBMIT and agree, or else.

Didn't the natives get contracted royalties from this pipeline? Maybe some more transparency needed on gross benefits/dysfunction of infrastructure and not just Post-Warrior rhetoric.
Also, to one of the commenters, kill the pig inside your head.

I doubt any native people in the proper sense are getting royalties from the pipeline projects, yet obviously the "Indian" chiefs are, as a retribution for signing in the accords for green lighting the project. For your information, "Indian" is an official status recognized by the Federal government that is not related to the historical and ethnic status of native.

Are there any real Indians in Canada? Yeah, masses of them... but they're formerly from the Indian subcontinent. ;-)

"Also, to one of the commenters"... which one?

if you're referring to the "Never communique, and don't get caught!" tuff guy, then that's interesting, as I knew a dude who was saying the exact same thing to me once, and he was later revealed to me by a prominent Mohawk women he was a known police undercover

instead of making sweeping categorizations, why not assume that people are people?

some of them are shameless whores for profit and personal gain, most of them are kind of indifferent and don't think too hard about anything and of course, there's that always lonely minority of idealists who give a shit about stuff bigger than themselves, like the health of the landbase or like, what about 7 generations from now and all that jazz.

but yeah, people doing the usual people thing. some of them really suck, most are kind of "meh" and sometimes they can rise above and actually maybe not suck?

"instead of making sweeping categorizations, why not assume that people are people?"

Ugh, gross! Dear Lord... Will the Light of Reason ever shine in this troll's head, or will I have to punch a hole for it myself?

In the meantime, the brain crutch for you is that native people consider themselves as "just, people" and always did. They got nations and tribes like most people as well, and related cultures.

The categorization came as spooks from the sky (or Sky Spooks), from the colonial government, as per the Indian Act that was imposed as the only way for native people to have official recognition and some rights/privileges. This is what the UK has done with the British Raj previously.

Indians from India are not indigenous. To qualify as indigenous, a continuous tenure upon one geographical area over thousands of years must exist, without any other race invading, mixing or defeating its culture, language or religious beliefs. Hindu, Muslin and Sikh are not indigenous religions.

This is an impressively succinct definition for indigenous. As well as the primacy of time over ecology, it is interesting how synonymous race is with culture, language and religious belief here. I grapple with the term native, perhaps this term relates more to ecology than time. I'd be interested to hear your definition for native.

My ideas originate out of a respect for the uncultured originality of the child's consciousness. I feel native can be both indigenous and first generational i.e. where one is born makes you a native of that location (a local ). Does time really prioritize legitimacy? Does knowledge and experience of and with an ecology have precedence over the evolution of cultures and the invasion of benevolent tourists? Are we ephemeral individuals who only have our immediate emotional connections to be with us to the end with sincerity?
As a nihilo-indigenous person I say no, no, yes.

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