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Seattle Activists Protest Arrests at Wet’suwet’en Camp in British Columbia

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January 8th, 2019

At least 40 activists gathered outside the lobby of the Canadian Consulate in Seattle to protest the arrests of water protectors and activists at the Gidumt’en checkpoint on land belonging to the Wet’suwet’en Nation. The land is under threat from Coastal GasLink, a project of TransCanada Corporation, who has been constructing a 670-kilometer fracked gas pipeline that will carry fracked gas from Dawson Creek, B.C. to the coastal town of Kitimat, where LNG Canada’s processing plant would be located.

The consulate doors locked remotely as the activists walked into the lobby.
A consulate representative asked that the group quiet down.
A consulate official explains that they have received the petition, but that the group needs to leave the building.
Security is called, and the demand to exit the building is re-issued. Activists were determined to stay for two more songs. SPD never arrived and no arrests were made.

“In response to the call for a solidarity action on Tuesday, January 8, 2019 responding to the International Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Day of Action. This action will take place on unceded Duwamish & Coast Salish land at the Canadian consulate @ 1501 4th Ave Seattle WA.

Calling on all drummers and prayer warriors to show up in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en territories and all land defenders at the access point on Gidumt’en territory.
This will be a prayerful action. Please bring your drums, songs, copal, signs, etc.”

Facebook event page – https://www.facebook.com/events/2489982587683263/

You can read more about this issue here…”https://lastrealindians.com/heavily-armed-rcmp-tactical-unit-and-military-forces-confronting-un-armed-indigenous-land-defenders/mattremle/“

Multiple Activists Arrested After Blocking Street In Protest of Chase Bank

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Seattle, WA – May 7th, 2018

Activists erect “tarpees”, structures originally designed for Standing Rock, in the middle of 2nd Ave between Union St. and University St. in downtown Seattle. Their protest of Chase Bank and it’s continued investment in climate change brought a large response from both Seattle police and fire.

14 activists were arrested, 10 at street level, 4 sitting on tarpees.

From the Facebook event page…

“We’ll be honest — we’re angry. For over a year we have been calling on JPMorgan Chase to stop financing new tar sands pipelines. We’ve held huge protests, made front page news, delivered a petition signed by 152,000 people. We even met with their Pacific Northwest management.

And now… now we have learned that since Trump took office, JPMorgan Chase has quadrupled its investments in tar sands and increased its financing of coal by 2,100%. Yeah, the hurricanes may be brewing and the wildfires raging, but the 1% gotta make some more money, right.

And it gets worse: Chase is currently trying to block its own shareholders from introducing and voting on a resolution that would force it to complete a study into its tar sands investments.

We have no other option — on May 7th we are going to #ShutDownChase all over again.

We’ll be meeting at Westlake Park for a brief rally with speakers before traveling to visit a nearby bank, where we will meet with others.

What: #ShutDownChase – Rally & March
When: May 7th, April 30th, 9:30 AM
Where: Westlake Park, 401 Pine Street, Seattle

May 7th will be a major National Day of Action targeting JPMorgan Chase. There will be actions in at least a dozen cities across the county, including San Francisco, New York, Dallas and, of course, Seattle. The Day of Action comes a week before Chase’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) and it is the perfect time to make sure that its shareholders hear about its tar sands investments. To make this happen, we’re going to need a lot of help.

We hope that you can join us.

#ShutDownChase”

– https://www.facebook.com/events/584000771959994/