In this photo Maude Barlow chats with event organizer Shelley Young at the Elsipogtog Benefit Concert at the Mi’kmaq Native Friendship Centre in Halifax happening this evening. Maude also just gave a short speech and presented a $1500 cheque from the Council of Canadians to help with outdoor gear and shelter for those who continue to protect the land and water over the winter at the front-line camps and for legal funds for the Mi’kmaq warriors who have been arrested in this struggle.
Vice-chair Leo Broderick is also at the benefit, along with Atlantic organizer Angela Giles and former Board member Marion Moore.
Tomorrow, Barlow, Broderick, Giles and Saint John-based Board member Leticia Adair will visit the highways of Kent County where the popular resistance has been turning back the SWN Resources thumper trucks.
Over the past months, the Council of Canadians has provided material aid (including a generator, sleeping bags and tarps) to maintain the protest camps, helped provide training for non-violent civil disobedience, donated to the bail fund for those who have been arrested maintaining the blockade, while numerous chapter activists have been on the ground to provide daily support, and two of them have been arrested in non-violent protests attempting to stop the thumper trucks.
