Amnesty International to Attend Trial of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders

Amnesty International to Attend Trial of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders

By Amnesty International, June 14, 2024, Censored News

A delegation of Amnesty International representatives from France, Germany, the United States and Canada will attend the trials of criminalized land defenders from the Wet’suwet’en Nation in Smithers, British Columbia the week of 17 June. The delegates will be there to watch the criminal court proceedings and be in solidarity with the criminalized defenders, Sleydo’ Molly Wickham (Wet’suwet’en), Shaylynn Sampson (Gitxsan) and Corey Jayohcee Jocko (Mohawk).

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Things I’ve Seen Hate-Filled Far Left Deranged Lunatics Do

By Lang Gore, Censored News, June 14, 2024

In the spring of 2004 my partner and I went to an anti-war demonstration near the campus of the University of Arizona.  It was perfectly legal, “permitted,” so long as we stayed crowded onto the sidewalks by the cops, who seemed to outnumber us.  We were not permitted to step into the streets.  One of the speakers screamed at the cops for a very long time in a very shrill voice.  It was a demonstration, all right--a demonstration of impotence.

Someone gave us a flyer announcing a May Day march sponsored by anarchists.  We showed up on May Day at the specified park; after a few minutes everyone went into the streets, whereupon for the next few hours we walked through downtown Tucson with our banners and chants. "Whose streets? Our streets!"