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#Elsipogtog
By David Ng
Photo credit: Ossie Michelin, APTN reporter
Elsipogtog, New Brunswick has been in the international spotlight recently, due to the increasing tensions between police and protestors who are resisting the seismic testing for natural gas extraction in the area by SWN Resources Canada. The brutal treatment of protesters by the police, comes coincidentally days after the Throne Speech, where Governer General David Johnston stated that "[Pioneers] forged an independent country where none would have otherwise existed.”, and emphasized the importance of exploiting Canada's "vast natural resources".
Governments protecting corporations and supporting corporate greed is unfortunately not new. The corporate form is designed to pursue profit at any expense. Backed by free market neoliberalism and a history of colonization, our governments clamour to protect this pursuit of profit, at any cost in order to "protect the economy".
The blockade in Rexton suggests some of the ways that colonization and corporate greed are linked. By denying the rights of indigenous people to protect their unceded lands, the government of Canada actively seeks to protect corporations at any costs.
The Idle No More movement, and the Elsipogtog resistance against SWN Resources Canada and the government, are some of the most relevant movements against colonization today, which is supported by corporate hegemony. Colonization and corporate greed are connected!
"Solidarity over division, truth over corporate media, life over profit." - Harsha Walia (Canadian activist)
Tag(s): Aboriginal, Activism & Protests, Corporate Personhood
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