The Ontario Labor Federation, encompassing more than 1 million workers, took to the streets near Caledonia in solidarity with 1492 Land Back Lane, a Haudenosaunee/Iroquois #LandBack project. They demanded the end of attempted developments in the area, which have been fought back against by the indigenous peoples of the 6 Nations Reserve. The Ontario Labor Federation, encompassing more than 1 […]
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The Ontario Federation of Labor, encompassing over 1 million workers, marched in solidarity with 1492 Land Back Lane, condemning the invasion by the OPP into unceded indigenous land and the escalations including police firing rubber bullets and tasers at indigenous land defenders. The Ontario Federation of Labor, encompassing over 1 million workers, marched in solidarity with 1492 Land Back Lane, […]
Clashes continued to occur between the Onkwehonwe tribe and the OPP at 1492 Land Back Lane, with indigenous people hitting police cars and getting shot with rubber bullets and tasers after.
Protesters at the 1492 Land Back Lane camp clashed with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), with multiple roads blockaded and barricades set up in Caledonia, near the city of Ontario itself. Multiple protesters were injured and arrested, and courts ruled that setting up barricades is a punishable offence upon which charges can be mounted.
The protesters at the 1492 Land Back Lane camp destroyed a highway that was planned to go into virgin land controlled by Natives ancestrally, digging it up after clashes with police earlier in the day. The protesters at the 1492 Land Back Lane camp destroyed a highway that was planned to go into virgin land controlled by Natives ancestrally, digging […]