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Camp Cloud vows to resist eviction
With court order approved, some are practising resisting the police Kelvin Gawley
kgawley@burnabynow.com
Pipeline protesters appear ready to put their bodies on the line to protect Camp Cloud from a court-ordered eviction. Spokesperson Kwitsel Tatel said camp members are determined to defy the B.C. Supreme Court ruling granting the City of Burnaby and local RCMP the power to remove the camp. “There have been exercises that Camp Cloud has applied in order to reject police brutality by tying ourselves down to the sacred fire and some of our structures,” she told the Canadian Press on Monday. “Bodies have been offered up to protect the sacred fire as of (Sunday.)” On Friday, the City of Burnaby’s lawyer successfully petitioned a judge for an order to enforce a July 18 eviction notice. Justice Geoffrey Gomery has given Camp Cloud residents 48 hours from the time they were served the order to take down all structures and leave the camp that has been set up on Shellmont Street. He authorized Burnaby to “remove and demolish structures.” But that deadline also passed without any moves from local authorities. Camp Cloud members have repeatedly told the NOW that they will not leave the site.The sacred fire has become a particular point of contention, with protesters saying they will never put it out. “Our camp is unified and centered around the sacred fire, which, since time im-
memorial, has been central to the governance of Indigenous peoples,” a press release from Tatel reads. “We are a peaceful coalition that is gravely concerned for the national interest, respect, dignity of public interest, public health and the protection of safe and clean water for all our generations to come on these sacred lands of so-called Canada.” Tatel asked for supporters to join Camp Cloud in solidarity this week. “We call upon Canadians and our global family to support our efforts both morally and financially, and to come and physically stand with us as we are facing threat of eviction,” she wrote. On Monday, Dipak Dattani, the city’s director of corporate services, would not say when enforcement might happen. “I can’t go into details, except to say that we are actively working with the RCMP about the next steps,” he said. “We also see the need to act on it sooner rather than later.” It will ultimately be up to the RCMP to determine when they enforce the order. RCMP haven’t responded to requests for comment. Dattani said precautions are being made to ensure everyone’s safety. “We continue to ask occupants of Camp Cloud and anyone concerned to act peacefully,” he said. “We are again asking to see if they can leave the site.We will also be looking at how to deal with the dismantling in a very safe way.” –With additional reporting by Cornelia Naylor
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