The Wetʼsuwetʼen are a First Nation who live on the Bulkley River and around Burns Lake, Broman Lake, and François Lake in the northwestern Central Interior of British Columbia.
They speak Witsuwitʼen, a dialect of the Babine-Witsuwitʼen language which, like its sister language Carrier, is a member of the Athabaskan family.
Their oral history, called kungax, recounts that their ancestral village, Dizkle or Dzilke, once stood upstream from the Bulkley Canyon. This cluster of cedar houses on both sides of the river is said to have been abandoned because of an omen of impending disaster. The exact location of the village has been lost. The neighbouring Gitxsan people of the Hazelton area have a similar tale, though the village in their version is named Dimlahamid (Temlahan)
The endonym Wetʼsuwetʼen means "People of the Wa Dzun Kwuh River (Bulkley River)"
The Wet’suwet’en First Nation was formerly part of the Omineca Band. However, in 1984 the Omineca Band split into the Broman Lake and Nee-Tahi-Buhn bands. The Skin Tayi band later split off from Nee-Tahi-Buhn. Today, the Skin Tyee Band, Nee Tahi Buhn Band, Wet’suwet’en First Nation, Moricetown Band and Hagwilget Band make up the Wet’suwet’en Nation.
Like most First Nations here, Wet’suwet’en never signed treaties with the Canadian or provincial governments. Nevertheless, the latter took the land and leased forested acreage to logging companies. Today just 20% of British Columbia’s old-growth forests remain.
In 2020, after decades of activist pressure, the province identified about a quarter of the remaining old growth as at high risk for logging and recommended a pause while deciding their fate. Yet today, logging has been deferred in less than half of the high-risk area.
Another conflict with the settler state has been the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which seeks to transport liquefied natural gas from northeast BC to a terminal on the coast near the town of Kitimat.
The 670-kilometre (417-mile) pipeline will cut across traditional Wet’suwet’en lands that cover 22,000sq km across northern BC.
The hereditary chiefs, who under Wet’suwet’en law claim authority over those traditional territories, said they never gave their consent for the project to move forward. They have raised concerns about the pipeline’s potential effects on the land, water, and their community.
In late July, Amnesty International took the extraordinary step in naming Dsta’hyl Canada’s first ever designated prisoner of conscience, and now demanding his immediate and unconditional release.
“The Canadian state has unjustly criminalized and confined Chief Dsta’hyl for defending the land and rights of the Wet’suwet’en people,” Amnesty International’s Ana Piquer stated in a press release. “As a result, Canada joins the shameful list of countries where prisoners of conscience remain under house arrest or behind bars.”
In October 2021, Dsta’hyl was arrested and charged with criminal contempt after confiscating and decommissioning heavy equipment utilized by Coastal GasLink to construct its LNG pipeline on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. Dsta’hyl said he was enforcing Wet’suwet’en laws as the company did not have the free, prior and informed consent of hereditary chiefs to build the pipeline.
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Thank you @0__0@hexbear.net for the kind words, the latest thread was especially bad. Despite everyone engaging in clear bad-faith, .world is so far-gone that many people downvoted me on reflex, it was just exhausting, not a single person seemed to be receptive to what I was saying despite sourcing everything, even the fact that I listed sources seemed to be a negative for them
And thank you @ashinadash@hexbear.net for reminding me not to go back there, it's a waste of my time and mental energy to always be going in the trenches, it's just not worth it. Thanks!
Also shoutout to @Edie@hexbear.net for always popping in whenever I dive in, made it far-more bearable
"You do start to understand why Lenin and Stalin just shot everybody."
In a kinder world, people would listen to logic more often...
But yea, reading Lenin shit on Kautsky over and over makes me think he would be an A+ poster
except he doesn't have to make up guys anymore, the internet has made up a large variety of comedy guys for him to post about!
Would watch him as a breadtuber, would be funny seeing zoomer Lenin
Zoomer Lenin suddenly stopping his video essay halfway through to go do a revolution
That tracks
This pamphlet was written in August and September 1917. I had already drawn up the plan for the next, the seventh chapter, “The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917”. Apart from the title, however, I had no time to write a single line of the chapter; I was “interrupted” by a political crisis—the eve of the October revolution of 1917. Such an “interruption” can only be welcomed; but the writing of the second part of this pamphlet (“The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917”) will probably have to be put off for a long time. It is more pleasant and useful to go through the “experience of revolution” than to write about it.
And Sisyphus. Maybe even Don Quixote tilting at windmills too, for good measure!
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reminding me not to go back there, it's a waste of my time and mental energy to always be going in the trenches, it's just not worth it.
Correct. Go listen to In Orbit or You Are Light by Thomas Bergersen. Or his album Illusions
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Cowbee is going to listen to the trans song (there is nothing trans about it, the connection is entirely within its mind)
Trans stuff is cool! Love Celeste, In Stars and Time, and In Love With a Ghost!
Still reading Unjust Depths too
The most diabolical was the one to whom you literally linked sources, yet he literally just refused to use his brain and read (he actually can't and/or he has an attention span of less than 5 seconds)
To be fair, that was several people in that thread. Someone called me anti-Marxist for saying Social Democracy, as an ideology that reinforces and upholds Capitalism over transitioning to Socialism, is center-right
Good thing they finally locked the thread. One user said that I am a "known troll," another claimed Central Planning isn't an aspect of Marxist Communism, another called me a religious fanatic... it was all awful
Not a single person who claimed to know about Marxism could offer any sources or citations. Someone even said the entirety of Marxism disagrees with my rants, lol. Good thing I could put the phone down and play Crosscode
Don't let their idiocy stress you out for even a millisecond of your life. At this point, I genuinely think you would have an easier time convincing hillbilly rednecks who actually deny us imperialism, rather than these liberals with cognitive dissonance who know all too well, but the just say "at least we're not the gommunists who killed 74 quadrillion uyghurs in tiananmen square!".
Yep, started the detox, deleted Jerboa (which is how I use my Lemmy.ml account). This thread showed that .world only has "true believers" left.
Take care of your mental health first and foremost. You'll probably need it much more for actual revolutionary action in the future. Even as an optimist who is willing to entertain the thought of converting liberals to our cause, these people are I'm afraid too far gone in their Putin/China derangement syndrome. The best antidote for posts shitting on hexbear, is to just come here, lurk on it for awhile, and make up their own minds. It certainly helped me when at first, I too as an anarchist was quite skeptical of this place and thought it was some exclusive hangout of dem dirty "tankies". But after lurking here for awhile, I realized this place was not only good, but much better than shit like .world and other instances. Not to mention being a history buff, and reevaluating my positions based on a lot of comments I saw here, realizing that although mistakes certainly were made among socialist movements throughout history (famines in ukraine, the four pests) ultimately these movements did a lot more good than bad throughout and ultimately caught up to the west, even though the aforementioned had a 100 year head start and exploited and pillaged half the world to get where they are now.
Yep! I agree, it's much better for my mental health to hang out among leftists and not radlibs.
I regularly dive into .world threads to debatebro, but it just wastes my time so I'm taking an extended break from that. The users I tagged had @'d me in the last mega, that's all
after over a year of applying for jobs I finally got an in person interview. they hired me on the spot because I know how to talk to people, have an education, have lots of different work experience but FUCK it was hard just to get an interview.
This year I'm voting red.
I mean PSL, NOT republican. NOT REPUBLICAN!
I am very pleasantly surprised lol. Its a bit of a complicated pattern so fucking up is easier but so far so good. I did seriously fuck up one time and I had to go in reverse to fix it yesterday which left a bit of a mess, but thats not visible in this pic.
This made me realize I know absolutely nothing about weaving and it is a hell of a rabbit hole
I love it, its like knwoing a secret code. Ive actually been reading a bunch of tablet weaving theory from a book I illegally downloaded. I like finding finished belts and reverse engineering their patterns by eye.
This pattern I actually reverse engineered from a belt texture I found in ac valhalla just to see if it was real.
This pattern actually would work a lot better with 6 hole cards, but I dont have those so I had to mess around with the draft a lot to get it to work in 4 hole.
For reference heres the 4 hole draft
The 4 hole has 4 spots where the card is turned 3 times to make the pattern work. Though on the actual belt the pattern looks a lot neater than on the draft.
Itll be at least 1.5 meters long so itll probably be a belt. Everything I make is a belt, though I suppose you could cut one off early and sew it into a bracelet.
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This and the Kamala “no one should be in jail for marijuana” post is gonna make me snap
People five years older got to establish their independence before the pandemic and are functional adults. People five years younger get to learn how to accept themselves and feel their feelings.
I might be the worst age
all my peers stopped masking and socially distancing 3 years ago. I live the life of completely isolated and just observing as everyone else lives their lives. It's hell.
People five years younger get to learn how to accept themselves and feel their feelings.
i'm in my mid 30s and have semi-recently started doing this a lot more, never give up
Similar thing happened to me during the great recession. My older brothers already had their degrees and just started working when it hit. Their employers laid off the high earning boomers and promoted them without raises. I was still in college and the job placement metrics at my school were abysmal by the time I was getting close to finishing. It's such bullshit because nearly everyone who benefitted by this phenomenon denies it.
People five years younger get to learn how to accept themselves and feel their feelings.
Nah I didn't get this one, many people don't. I can agree that it gets better when you're older though, something to look forward to at least.
Which is great, nowt but love in my heart for the kids who get to experiment and discover young like this. It's still not universal though, it takes everyone different amounts of time to come out. Some people don't do it until their 30s or 40s! You've still started your questioning very young, in the grand scheme.
I didn't transition until my mid 30s, I knew I was trans around 8 years old.
Get a good/better job
Like is this even possible anymore? It feels like at the rate everything enshittifies there's just no escape from the grind. My current job should be easy. It was easy. But then nothing can ever stay that way. So fucking tired.
FIGURED OUT MY HALOWEEN COSTUME! IM GONNA BE AI GENERATED!
Dollar store has a bunch of fake plastic body parts for Halloween decorations, including fingers. Gonna glue a few to my hand. Hold a sign that says "itmy births day " and either dress like Jesus or a soldier