Treaty http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/402/0 en Exclusive: Military missed opportunity for peaceful end to 2013 New Brunswick fracking protests http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/exclusive-military-missed-opportunity-peaceful-end/33786 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Internal documents show repeated Warrior Society requests for negotiating assistance denied </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/img_9914.jpg" alt="" title="An Access to Information request shows that requests for military negotiating assistance were twice made by the Mi&#039;kmaq Warrior Society, weeks before the hundreds-strong RCMP raid of October 17th, 2013. In one instance, the Assembly of First Nation Chiefs in New Brunswick, an incorporated body receiving tens of thousands of dollars from Southwestern Energy Resources Canada, instruced the Canadian Armed Forces that the Warrior Society &quot;did not represent&quot; First Nations peoples. [Photo: Miles Howe]" width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) -- An <i>Access to Information </i>request has revealed that during the course of anti-shale gas protests in New Brunswick in 2013, 5th Canadian Division Support Base (CDSB) Gagetown, Eastern Canada&#39;s largest military facility, was contacted on two separate occasions by high ranking members of the Mi&rsquo;kmaq Warrior Society.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/exclusive-military-missed-opportunity-peaceful-end/33786" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/exclusive-military-missed-opportunity-peaceful-end/33786#comments Miles Howe Governance Indigenous Peace/War Police/Prisons Solidarity #Elsipogtog CAF Canadian Armed Forces Elsipogtog fracking Mi'kmaq Mi'kmaq Warrior Society Miles Howe New Brunswick protest rcmp Treaty treaty rights Wed, 29 Jul 2015 18:21:33 +0000 Miles Howe 33786 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca