The Shut Down Canada movement brought Canada’s multibillion-dollar shipping industry to a standstill.
Indigenous allies blocked essential trade and transport arteries through solidarity actions in support of the Witsuwit'en fight against the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline. Watch Yintah on CBC Gem.Both Wet'suwet'en or Witsuwit'en are correct. The film Yintah uses the spelling "Witsuwit'en" as this is the preferred spelling of Witsuwit'en.
"Right now, the colonizers have been trying to remove us from our land once and for all. They want us defeated. They want us to give up. They want us to lose," says Sleydo' in this excerpt from the documentary Sleydo' — a wing chief of Cas Yikh, a house group of the Gidimt'en Clan of the Witsuwit'en Nation — and other Witsuwit'en leaders were fighting the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline through their traditional territory.In 2020, anti-pipeline protests and rail blockades erupted across Canada in support of the Witsuwit'en, resulting in cancelled freight and passenger trains. Canada's multibillion-dollar shipping industry came to a standstill.
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