Article 4ZBYZ Canada: protests go mainstream as support for Wet'suwet'en pipeline fight widens

Canada: protests go mainstream as support for Wet'suwet'en pipeline fight widens

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Amber Bracken at Unist'ot'en Camp and Leyland Cecc
from Environment | The Guardian on (#4ZBYZ)

Protesters have blocked railways and barricaded ports in wave of dissent - and the pressure on Justin Trudeau has increased

As armed Canadian police officers advanced through snow towards their camp, the group of Indigenous women was absorbed in a drumming ceremony to honour the spirits of missing and murdered Indigenous women across the country.

Rows of red dresses hung from a fishing line slung across the road, and from pine and spruce trees in the surrounding forest - each one a memorial to the thousands of Indigenous women killed or disappeared in recent years.

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