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“People were willing to die in defense of water”

Robert DeVet — Mon, 25 May 2015 14:45:07 +0000

New book explores Elsipogtog's fracking resistance

KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) - Most Halifax Media Co-op readers will remember the 2013 reports filed by Miles Howe on an almost daily basis from the Kent County resistance to hydraulic fracking.

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Elsipogtog land defender Annie Clair fights legal charges

Robert DeVet — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:24:25 +0000

Sunday's silent auction to help with lawyer fees

KJIPUKTUK (HALIFAX) - On April 20th, Elsipogtog First Nation band member Annie Clair will be heading to Moncton to face six charges related to the violent actions of New Brunswick RCMP against defenders of the land in Kent County, New Brunswick.

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Showdown in Elsipogtog

Tim McSorley — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:17:00 +0000

Seven months of shale gas resistance in New Brunswick

K'JIPUKTUK (HALIFAX)—In early June, I walked with Suzanne Patles from Eskasoni First Nation and two Mi'kmaq women from Elsipogtog First Nation along Highway 126 near Harcourt, New Brunswick. People told us not to go, not to approach the seismic testing trucks; that people had been arrested earlier in the day; that there would be trouble.

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SUPPORT JAILED LAND DEFENDERS: SOLIDARITY WITH MI’KMAQ WARRIORS

Tim McSorley — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 21:09:56 +0000

Update: If you want to write to the jailed Warriors, their addresses are at the bottom of this post.

Call the Ombudsman & Demand Humane Treatment!!

Office of the Ombudsman of New Brunswick:
Call: 1-888-465-1100
(506) 453-2789

Write: P. O. Box 6000
548 York Street
Fredericton, NB
E3B 5H1

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SUPPORT JAILED LAND DEFENDERS: SOLIDARITY WITH MI’KMAQ WARRIORS

Tim McSorley — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 21:09:55 +0000

Update: If you want to write to the jailed Warriors, their addresses are at the bottom of this post.

Call the Ombudsman & Demand Humane Treatment!!

Office of the Ombudsman of New Brunswick:
Call: 1-888-465-1100
(506) 453-2789

Write: P. O. Box 6000
548 York Street
Fredericton, NB
E3B 5H1

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subMedia.tv and Miles Howe visits SWN HQ in Moncton

stimulator — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:58:18 +0000

After a few free pints at Mexicali Rosa's, subMedia.tv and the Halifax Media Co-op Journalist Miles Howe pays a visit to South Western Energy's New Brunswick headwaters, on the day a judge denied their request to extend an anti-protest injunction. We were there to request an interview and instead the police were called.

Media Co-op reporter Miles Howe released from custody; says police trying to restrict his reporting

bsichel — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 10:40:21 +0000

Mi'kmaq war chief also arrested in connection with Howe

ELSIPOGTOG, NB - Media Co-op reporter Miles Howe has been released from police custody after being detained

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SWN contractors threaten to run over Mi'kmaq youth

Miles Howe — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:07:32 +0000

12 year old Elsipogtog boy smudges truck near sacred fire, has life threatened

ELSIPOGTOG, NEW BRUNSWICK – At approximately 9:45am this morning, June 20th, a crew of Geokinetics workers began collecting the geophone sensors within the close vicinity of the sacred fire encampment, located at the junction of highways 126 and 116 west, in Kent County, New Brunswick.

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