The activists sabotaging railways in solidarity with Indigenous people
by Hilary Beaumont from on (#5MQKD)
People coming to the aid of the Wet'suwet'en nation to stop a pipeline are using direct action that is prompting terror charges
The night of 28 November, Samantha Brooks, 24, hunched over the railway tracks near Bellingham, Washington, about 32km (20 miles) south of the Canada-US border and installed a shunt," according to trial documents obtained by the Guardian.
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