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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.08,0:00:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are truly and deeply sorry
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.16,0:00:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we commit to today’s apology
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.96,0:00:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and next week’s apology
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.36,0:00:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, quite frankly, all apologies.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.04,0:00:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will continue to apologize.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.52,0:00:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are many more apologies to come.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.24,0:00:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.88,0:00:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And indeed, I’m going to apologize again.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.48,0:00:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m really sorry.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.68,0:00:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were wrong. We apologize. \NI am sorry. We are sorry.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.44,0:00:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sorry about not having done that.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.04,0:00:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whenever anyone makes an apology, \Nas the person apologizing—
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.88,0:00:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shut the fuck up!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.14,0:00:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Umm...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.48,0:00:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do some damage boys!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.16,0:01:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh hello.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.92,0:01:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome to System Fail,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.44,0:01:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the show where we agree with \Nflat-earthers about exactly one thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.72,0:01:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fuck Christopher Columbus.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.08,0:01:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christopher Columbus, the original ISIS.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.79,0:01:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christopher my boy, the earth \Nis as flat as this orange.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.36,0:01:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this orange is round!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.80,0:01:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So is the earth, son.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.64,0:01:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People don’t think so, but we who know the sea\Nare sure the earth is round.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.12,0:01:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here’s the thing, globehugger!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.16,0:01:34.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your plane can’t go upside down!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.28,0:01:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, fuck Columbus.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.16,0:01:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am your host, DeeDos,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.08,0:01:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as millions of North Americans
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.84,0:01:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,observe a religious ritual from feudal Europe,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.20,0:01:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by dressing up in silly costumes
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.04,0:01:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and gorging themselves\Non high-fructose corn syrup
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.56,0:01:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woo! That’s really stretchy!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.32,0:01:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,members of multiple Indigenous nations\Nare engaged in an anti-colonial struggle
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.80,0:01:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with many front-lines.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.24,0:02:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On October 11th, a coalition\Nof radical Indigenous organizers
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.32,0:02:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called for a Day of Rage Against Colonialism.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.08,0:02:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The appeal for autonomous,\Nanti-colonial, anti-capitalist,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.00,0:02:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and anti-fascist actions was a clear\Nrebuke to what organizers called
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.40,0:02:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“the uninspired assimilationist politics of
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.28,0:02:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indigenous Peoples Day”,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.72,0:02:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a tame, progressive alternative\Nto the official state holiday of Columbus Day.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.28,0:02:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indigenous people are done with colonizers!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.24,0:02:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In several cities across \Nthe so-called United States, 
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.16,0:02:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people answered the call
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.36,0:02:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by toppling colonial statues\Nand monuments.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.32,0:02:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In so-called Arizona, members of\Nthe O’odham Anti-Border Collective
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.64,0:02:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blocked a highway immigration checkpoint\Nto protest the construction
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.60,0:02:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a border wall through\NTohono O’odham territory.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.75,0:02:58.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does our freedom offend you that much?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.00,0:03:04.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The protest was soon set upon\Nby Customs and Border Protection agents,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.56,0:03:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who fired tear gas and rubber bullets\Nand arrested twelve people.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.100,0:03:11.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m down, I’m down.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.18,0:03:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, you’re gonna stay down! Got it?!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.07,0:03:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leave my mom alone.\NY’all better not hurt my fucking mom!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.96,0:03:20.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recent weeks have also seen\Na sharp increase in colonial tensions
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.80,0:03:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the territories ruled\Nby the Canadian State.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.48,0:03:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought I was gonna make it\Nthrough this....but I’m not.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.72,0:03:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On September 28th,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.32,0:03:34.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a 37 year old Atikamekw woman\Nnamed Joyce Echaquan
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.80,0:03:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,died in a hospital in Joliette,\Nso-called Quebec.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.68,0:03:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After complaining of\Nmistreatment by racist staff,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.40,0:03:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she livestreamed the taunts of\Nher nurses as she lay dying.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.16,0:03:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This footage soon went viral,\Nprovoking widespread outrage
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.76,0:03:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a series of vigils,\Nrallies and demonstrations
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.88,0:04:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carried out under the banner\N‘Justice For Joyce’.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.84,0:04:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anti-Indigenous racism has\Nalso been on display in Miꞌkmaꞌki,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.84,0:04:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,specifically in the area\Nknown as Nova Scotia
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.80,0:04:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fuck’s sake boys!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.92,0:04:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where a dispute over fishing rights\Nhas boiled over into
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.04,0:04:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ugly scenes of mob violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.80,0:04:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An estimated 200 commercial fishers\Npreventing employees of a lobster
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.96,0:04:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,holding pound from leaving,\Nand removing crates of lobster
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.48,0:04:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caught by Indigenous harvesters.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.20,0:04:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Canada’s colonial police force, the RCMP,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.56,0:04:33.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has stood by and watched\Nas non-Indigenous fishers
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.68,0:04:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have barricaded Mi’kmaq boats,\Nattacked lobster storage facilities,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.84,0:04:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sabotaged traps, torched vehicles,\Nand otherwise sought to terrorize
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.08,0:04:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,members of the Sipekneꞌkatik First Nation\Nout of exercising their inherent fishing rights.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.68,0:04:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This lobster pound in southern Nova Scotia\Nwas being used by Mi’kmaq fishers
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.76,0:04:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to store their catch.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.20,0:04:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fire so intense that it burned\Nthe building completely to the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.68,0:05:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lookie there, shootin flares at us.\NGood try motherfucker!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.32,0:05:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back in 2013, the Mi’kmaq Warriors Society\Nintervened in Rexton, so-called New Brunswick,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.04,0:05:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during a conflict between members of\Nthe Elsipogtog First Nation
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.04,0:05:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Texas-based\Nfracking company SWN.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.48,0:05:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The warriors ended up clashing\Nwith an RCMP tactical squad,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.24,0:05:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the community eventually pushed\Nthem out of the area,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.44,0:05:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,torching a number of\Ncruisers in the process.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.80,0:05:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recently, calls have been growing\Nfor the warriors to regroup
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.08,0:05:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah, c’mon! Really?!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.56,0:05:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to back up their fellow Mi'kmaq,\Nwho are facing the brunt of colonial violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.84,0:05:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the meantime, support is growing,\Nwith a number of solidarity actions
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.08,0:05:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taking place around the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.04,0:05:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We stand with them, and we stand proud.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.36,0:05:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep on fighting.\NWe’re here. We got your back.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.48,0:05:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other side of the continent,\Nthe Secwepemc have delivered
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.76,0:06:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a cease and desist order\Nto the TMX Pipeline corporation,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.44,0:06:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is now owned by\Nthe federal government.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.48,0:06:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shoulda known better, but I didn’t.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.00,0:06:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The order demanded an immediate halt\Nto plans to drill under the Secwepemcetkwe,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.20,0:06:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Thompson River,\Nin so-called British Columbia.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.52,0:06:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If completed, the Trans Mountain Pipeline\Nwould massively ramp up the transport
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.00,0:06:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of bitumen from Alberta,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.60,0:06:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,allowing for an expansion\Nof the Tar Sands,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.40,0:06:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and threatening the survival of salmon\Nthat surrounding Indigenous nations
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.08,0:06:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and much of the region’s wildlife\Ndepend upon.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.96,0:06:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On Thursday October 15,\Nfive people were arrested
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.64,0:06:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while blocking workers from\Ndrilling under the river.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.52,0:06:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is unceded Secwepemc territory.\NOur land is not a sacrifice zone.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.84,0:06:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are going to stand and defend\Nthis water by any means.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.40,0:06:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things have also been heating back up\Non the Wet’suwet’en yintah,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.92,0:06:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as workers with the Coastal GasLink\Npipeline are preparing to drill
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.76,0:07:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the Wedzin Kwa,\Notherwise known as the Morice River.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.84,0:07:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Coastal GasLink pipeline\Nis a proposed 670 kilometre,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.08,0:07:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fracked gas pipeline\Nowned by TC Energy
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.12,0:07:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and private equity firm KKR.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.28,0:07:18.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its construction through\Nunceded Wet’suwet’en territories
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.72,0:07:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has faced sustained and determined\Nresistance for over a decade.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.64,0:07:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As construction continues\Nto push on towards the Wedzin Kwa,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.16,0:07:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coastal GasLink workers are\Nincreasingly enlisting the RCMP
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.76,0:07:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as private security, harassing\NWet’suwet’en and their allies,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.76,0:07:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and attempting to block them\Nfrom upholding Wet’suwet’en law.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.28,0:07:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don’t threaten me with an injunction\Nif you don’t know that you don’t have permission
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.12,0:07:47.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the authority of this territory.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.08,0:07:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This past February, Wet’suwet’en\Nsupporters launched
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.20,0:07:57.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a coordinated series of decentralized\Nrail, port and highway blockades
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.44,0:07:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the banner #ShutDownCanada.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.84,0:08:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These blockades lasted for weeks,\Ncausing widespread logistical
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.68,0:08:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and economic disruption.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.20,0:08:17.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Calls for a resumption of these solidarity\Nactions have recently begun to circulate.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.48,0:08:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all knew it was coming.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.80,0:08:21.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we hoped it wasn’t.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.64,0:08:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in so-called Ontario,\Nmembers of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.88,0:08:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the Six Nations\Nof the Grand River
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.12,0:08:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,occupied a proposed development site\Non their territories back in July.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.56,0:08:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The encampment,\Ndubbed 1492 Land Back Lane,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.92,0:08:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is located near the town of Caledonia,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.24,0:08:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which lies within an area\Nknown as the Haldimand Tract.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.56,0:08:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This land, which spans six miles
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.80,0:08:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on either side of the\Nlength of the Grand River,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.04,0:08:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was granted to the Haudenosaunee\Nby treaty in 1784 as compensation
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.76,0:08:59.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for territories that their confederacy\Nhad lost in the American Revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.80,0:09:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The official reservation of the Six Nations\Nof the Grand River currently accounts
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.04,0:09:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for only 5% of the historical Haldimand Tract.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.88,0:09:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ownership of much of the\Nremaining lands is disputed.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.96,0:09:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,European settlers on the Grand River:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.08,0:09:20.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helping to create a close relationship\Nbetween the people of Haldimand
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.20,0:09:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their Six Nations neighbours\Nfor many years.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.88,0:09:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back in 2006,\Ncommunity members from Six Nations
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.88,0:09:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,occupied a proposed development site,\Nknown as the Douglas Creek Estates,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.12,0:09:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leading to what became\Nknown as the Caledonia crisis,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.56,0:09:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a tense stand-off that was only resolved\Nwhen the Ontario government stepped in
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.04,0:09:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to buy off the developers.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.64,0:09:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This time around,\Nthe proposed McKenzie Meadows
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.44,0:09:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,development site,\Nhome to 1492 Land Back Lane,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.12,0:09:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is located directly across the street\Nfrom the former Douglas Creeks Estate site.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.56,0:10:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patterns of repression and resistance\Nhave taken a similar direction as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.04,0:10:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, we have some people\Nchasing a police officer out of the way.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.00,0:10:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get the fuck out of here!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.39,0:10:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep going!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.60,0:10:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A militarized raid on August 5th\Nby the Ontario Provincial Police, or OPP,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.68,0:10:22.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,immediately provoked widespread\Ncommunity mobilization,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.96,0:10:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and led to burning highway blockades.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.48,0:10:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s on boys!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.40,0:10:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On Thursday October 22nd,\Nan Ontario Superior Court approved
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.84,0:10:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a permanent injunction\Nagainst the encampment.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.36,0:10:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since then, resistance has only intensified.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.48,0:10:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Ontario government has since\Nsought to isolate the encampment,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.00,0:10:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heavily criminalizing supporters,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.08,0:11:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,arresting dozens of people for breach\Nof injunction for simply visiting the site,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.24,0:11:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and playing on colonial fears\Nof Indigenous resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.20,0:11:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well you just can’t go in and\Ntake over people’s future homes.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.12,0:11:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.56,0:11:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then when the police come,\Nthey get an outhouse,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.92,0:11:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toss it over from a bridge,\Nonto a police car.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.88,0:11:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fair play.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.52,0:11:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To find out what they’re so scared of,\NI recently caught up with Skyler Williams,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.40,0:11:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Haudenosaunee resident of Six Nations\Nand the official spokesperson
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.64,0:11:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of 1492 Land Back Lane.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.20,0:11:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey Skyler, how’s it going?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.36,0:11:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Holding space... and y’know, preparing\Nfor what lengthy legal battles await us.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.40,0:11:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see. Well at least the weather there\Nlooks pretty nice.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.16,0:11:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did the 1492 Land Back Lane\Noccupation start?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.76,0:11:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Myself, and some friends and family kinda knew \Nabout this development that was about to start.  
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.16,0:12:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then at the very beginning of us wanting to go \Nin there to occupy, or reclaim our lands – it was  
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.40,0:12:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right at the start of all the COVID stuff. \NBarricades went up around the reserve, and  
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.08,0:12:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was lots of concern about \Nwhether us as a community could  
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.88,0:12:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,withstand the outbreak that was coming. \NAnd so people were really worried about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.84,0:12:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After a couple of months of letting that kind of \Nsettle and get to where it is now, we had seen  
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.84,0:12:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that hadn’t stopped any of the development that \Nwas going on there. They cleared the land of every  
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.44,0:12:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blade of grass. Every tree. Every shrub. Every \Nhill. So now it’s just some barren clay there.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.28,0:12:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we moved in there on July 19th. And it was \Na Sunday evening. We were very deliberate about  
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.48,0:12:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going there Sunday evening, because y’know, \Nwe wanted it to remain a peaceful occupation  
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.08,0:12:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our land. And so going in there during \Nthe day during the week meant that we were  
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.08,0:13:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to have lots of, y’know, workers there, \Nand there was gonna be confrontation and that  
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.48,0:13:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of thing. So we went in on a Sunday to \Ntry and mitigate any of that risk of having  
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.36,0:13:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a big stand off with the developers, \Nand the workers of those developers.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.20,0:13:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We went and we were there for about an hour. \NWe set a fire and erected a couple of flags.  
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.16,0:13:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After about an hour the police pulled in and \Nthey asked how long we were gonna be there. And  
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.60,0:13:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we said that day that our people had \Nbeen here for the last 10,000 years, and  
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.52,0:13:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our people are gonna be here for the next \N10,000. And so we kind of all laughed.  
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.00,0:13:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the police officer said “so I take it you’re \Ngonna be here for a while, then.” And they left.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.84,0:13:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so two weeks of just holding space \Nbegan. Community support started to happen.  
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.48,0:13:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Y’know, we started getting hot \Nmeals delivered every day, and  
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.40,0:13:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people started coming out to stay with us \Nto help hold that space. And so we started  
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.84,0:14:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everybody kind of chipping in and helping out. \NAnd more and more tents started getting erected.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.04,0:14:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What has the response been \Nfrom the Canadian government?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.12,0:14:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On August 5th there was an injunction that was \Ngranted to the developer. “Without notice”,  it's called.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.72,0:14:24.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the police moved in. In the morning. \NThey said they had to come and read the injunction.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.39,0:14:30.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when they did, they blocked off both accesses \Nto the camp to prevent anybody from  coming in.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.25,0:14:37.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They came, they read the injunction, \Nand then this massive line of vans— it was like  
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.20,0:14:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,15 passenger vans —just started rolling down the \Nhighway toward us. And the police barricade line  
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.84,0:14:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moved back and all of the cops rolled in. 100 \NOPP tactical unit folks got out of those cars
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.12,0:14:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with big guns. And they came out and said \Nthat they’re gonna start making arrests.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.08,0:15:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the group of us there, we backed up \Nonto the site, and asked anybody that wasn’t  
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.16,0:15:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,planning on staying through any of that, they \Nwere told that they had the option to leave  
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.44,0:15:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they want. And myself and a few others said \N“no, we’re not going anywhere.” And we stayed.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.12,0:15:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the process of those arrests that \Nwere being made, nine of them that day,  
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.96,0:15:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was one young man that was tasered in the \Nneck and head. One young woman, who happened to  
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.40,0:15:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be standing there videotaping, got in the way \Nof the line of cops that was coming. And she  
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.84,0:15:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was picked up and slammed into the mud. We all got \Nrubber bullets fired at us. It was a hectic day.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.04,0:15:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was released about five hours later. And when \NI got out, this woman came up to me and asked  
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.40,0:15:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,me if I knew what was going on. On the land \Nand on the roads down there. And I said no.  
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.48,0:15:54.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she showed me some video of stuff that \Nwas going online right now. And at that moment  
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.32,0:16:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was highway blockades, rail \Nblockades, and roads were blocked.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.08,0:16:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I got back down to Caledonia, just off the \Nreserve. And folks asked myself and some of the    
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.68,0:16:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other people that were, y’know, at Land Back — \Nat 1492 Land Back Lane. And they asked us what  
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.16,0:16:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we wanted to do. And I think we all, almost \Nat the same time, said we wanted land back.  
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.12,0:16:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We wanted to go back to our camp. And so, just like \Nwe did on day one, there was about a dozen cars,  
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.40,0:16:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and about 30 people jumped in those cars \Nand drove right back in the front door.   \N
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.52,0:16:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How does this dispute fit within the broader \Ncontext of Haudenosaunee land claims?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.48,0:16:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those blockades that went up was like \N– was that reaction to, y’know,  
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.44,0:16:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an ongoing criminalization of land defence. \NCanada and Ontario settling land claims through  
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.16,0:16:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,court action. Through arrests. Through putting \Nthese heavy weighty bail conditions, and release  
Dialogue: 0,0:16:58.16,0:17:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conditions on people that they can’t defend \Nthe land. To drag people from their families,  
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.88,0:17:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from their homes. From arrests that are being \Nmade in front of kids. It doesn’t matter for us.  
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.16,0:17:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our obligation to the land is far greater \Nthan anything they could do to us.  
Dialogue: 0,0:17:13.12,0:17:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to take that kind of inherent right away from \Nmy grandchildren, great grandchildren... this is  
Dialogue: 0,0:17:19.28,0:17:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their land. Who would I be to deny them that by \Nme not making the stand that I’m making today?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:24.40,0:17:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is there anything else that you want to add?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.48,0:17:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we stand together as communities, whether \Nthat’s Indigenous folks across the country,  
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.96,0:17:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or with our allies in all the big cities across \Nthe country, we’re able to make our voices heard.  
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.88,0:17:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s no limits to the accomplishments.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.76,0:17:40.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thanks Skyler.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.76,0:17:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’ve now reached the end of \Nthis episode of System Fail.
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