"This isn't over," says Eve Saint about defending Wet'suwet'en land.

Program Title: Land defenders Eve Saint and Jocey Alec talk Indigenous power in the face of RCMP arrests
Description: This week on the podcast, rabble contributor Brent Patterson interviews Wet’suwet’en land defenders Eve Saint and Jocelyn, or Jocey, Alec. Eve and Jocey are sisters who have been arrested and criminalized for defending their sovereign territory in northern British Columbia from a fracked gas pipeline being built on those lands without consent.

Eve was arrested by the RCMP on February 7, 2020, at the Gidimt’en checkpoint blockade at the 44-kilometre mark on the Morice River Forest Service Road.

There were 60-100 police officers present, including the Emergency Response Team (ERT), dressed in army green and carrying automatic weapons.

Before she was arrested, Eve said to them: 

“This is Wet’suwet’en territory. We are unarmed. We are peaceful. This is unceded territory. This is the territory of Woos. I am his daughter. You are invaders. You are not allowed here. You are not welcome.”

Eve was charged with obstruction of justice and held in custody for four days.

More recently, Jocey was arrested by the RCMP on November 19, 2021, while inside a cabin at Coyote camp near the 63-kilometre mark on the road.

That cabin was built on the Marten Forest Service Road near Morice River to stop Coastal GasLink from drilling under the river to lay the pipe for its pipeline.

Jocey was inside the cabin when the RCMP used an axe and then a chainsaw to tear down its front door as an ERT officer pointed an automatic weapon at those inside. Journalist Michael Toledano filmed this dramatic footage of the assault.

Jocey was charged with civil contempt for breaching the terms of an injunction granted to Coastal GasLink not released from custody until November 23.

Eve has said: “The post-traumatic stress is real. As Indigenous peoples, we don’t like to see these images of our relatives and loved ones being invaded with these colonial forces.”

Host(s): Chelsea Nash
Featured Speakers/Guests: Brent Patterson (interview host) Eve Saint Jocey Alec

Credits: Chelsea Nash, host
Breanne Doyle, producer
Kim Elliott, publisher
Brent Patterson, interview
Eve Saint and Jocey Alec, guests

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