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<h1 class="reader-title">Mohawk Blockade: 'It Was the Right
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<div dir="ltr"><em><strong>LAND DEFENDERS STATEMENT COMING</strong></em>
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<p><strong>MNN. Mar. 4, 2020. We peacefully took down
our month-long train blockade in Kahnawake in
support of our family, the wetsuweten. The
people’s original fire by the CPR tracks has been
moved near the highway 132 approach to the Mercier
Bridge to Montreal. It is a people’s movement.
Every participant everywhere equally exercised our
power and voice to uphold the great peace. Our
community is unified. Communities worldwide join
us. Native and non-natives stopped the trains
from east to west coast to support the wetsuweten.
We continue to stand together.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Our people, friends and allies stood
together against Canada because we all want to the
same basic human right of respect, honor and
truth, which is the basis of the kaianerekowa,
great peace. The ongoing 500 year genocide of us
and our land has to stop now. The late chief
wahtahkwets [Pat Namox] said, “It is up to us to
create a new memory in the minds of our
children”. </strong></p>
<p><strong>This is a collision of right versus wrong.
The people of Kahnawake united [Mohawk Council,
the two longhouses and the Peace Keepers]. Now
Canada has to deal directly with the true
traditional caretakers of turtle island. It is
owned by our unborn children and can never be
transferred or sold to anybody. </strong></p>
<p><strong>The Quebec Police, the RCMP, even the army,
CP Rail supported this blockade. CPR got an
injunction but never served it because it was the
right thing for them to do. </strong></p>
<p><strong>We took peaceful action. The onus is on
Canada to negotiate in good faith, to respect our
natural right to our land, which is to care for
our mother and all life on turtle island. We cared
that Canadians and people worldwide stood with
us. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Even now Canada and its agents are
aggressive and threatening, always ready to pull
out guns and point them at us. They hope the talks
will not accomplish anything. Study UNDRIP [United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
People] which Canada must adopt without
amendments. Once Canada respects all the sovereign
rights of the wetsuweten, it is the precedent for
all of turtle island. </strong></p>
<p><strong>According to the only law of ononwarekeh
[turtle island], whenever there is a need, we are
there for each other. The fight for the
recognition and respect of Indigenous rights is a
marathon, not a sprint. Our duties to turtle
island and our people will never stop. As the
trains pass by, we will always pursue our
responsibilities, tewatatawi. We exist beyond our
communities. Our actions are based on the
kaianerekowa, the great peace, the only law of the
land. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Fats Waller wrote the 1930 song the “Sunny
Side of the Street” which reflects our victory: <em>“Grab
your coat and get your hat. Leave your worry on
the doorstep. Just direct your feet to the sunny
side of the street. If I never have a cent I’d
be rich as Rockefeller. Gonna set my feet on the
sunny side fo the street”.</em></strong></p>
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[Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>PODCAST COFFEE WITH MY MA ‘KAHNAWAKE STANDS
WITH WETSUWETEN’</strong></p>
<p><strong>SETTLER GOVERNMENT ARE BREAKING
INTERNATIONAL LAW </strong></p>
<p><strong>UNION – ARMY SHOULD HELP SQ IN INTERVENTION
IN KAHNAWAKE</strong></p>
<p><strong>BLOCKADES NO ONE TALKS ABOUT</strong></p>
<p><strong>NO CHANGE FOR COASTAL GAS LINK</strong></p>
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