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Wet’suwet’en Student Walkout draws crowd of around 100 to Convocation Mall

Gabrielle McLaren March 9, 2020

Students gathered in Convocation Mall on the afternoon of March 4 to listen to Indigenous speakers, singers, and drummers during a Student Walkout in support of the Wet’suwet’en nation.  As the Walkout’s media advisory described, “The nation-wide student walkout is a peaceful, decentralized action of solidarity. Students across the country stand firmly in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and will continue to do so until their demands have been fully met. Our academic institutions are complicit in this violent violation of Wet’suwet’en sovereignty. Many institutions have declined to make a statement, and maintain Foundation and pension investments in TC…

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Students block Gaglardi in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en

Gabrielle McLaren March 9, 2020

Following a rally in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation at Convocation Mall, a group of Indigenous and settler students marched down Burnaby Mountain to block part of the intersection at Gaglardi Way and University Drive East. SFU students joined others…

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SFU students organize silent protest of RCMP at event in Saywell Hall

Harvin Bhathal February 17, 2020

Two SFU students, Miri Abel and Iulia Zgreaban, held a silent protest in front of an RCMP display at SFU Burnaby Campus on Thursday, February 6.  The event, titled “Behind the Badge,” was hosted by SFU’s Criminology Student Association. As…

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Student walkout organized in support of Wet’suwet’en First Nation

Paige Riding February 3, 2020

On Monday January 27 at 10:00 a.m., SFU students and community members participated in a walkout in support of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. They gathered in Convocation Mall before joining a larger protest at City Hall.  The Facebook event page…

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You can’t take United We Roll seriously when it serves as a platform for hate and climate change denial

Gabrielle McLaren March 2, 2019

The Sparknotes version of United We Roll’s story is that a convoy of trucks traveled from Red Deer to Ottawa in the hopes of raising concerns over Alberta’s economic development with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. They essentially wanted him to…

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SFU walkout in support of the Unist’ot’en and Wet’suwet’en peoples results in march to President Petter’s office

Michelle Gomez January 24, 2019

At 12 p.m. on January 18, a group of SFU students and other community members participated in a walkout in support of the Hereditary Chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in light of recent protests against the Trans Mountain Pipeline System.…

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Students demand that “SFU Freeze Tuition Now!” as the university plans fee hikes

Srijani Datta November 5, 2018

  SFU is proposing an increase in tuition fees, but students are not happy. On October 23, SFU administration emailed students to invite them to a consultation session on their proposed tuition hikes, which would be held from 10 a.m.…

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ChangeSFU protests against government bailout of Kinder Morgan pipeline

Srijani Datta May 25, 2018

On May 8, SFU’s student-run environmental activism group, ChangeSFU, organized a casserole rally at the constituency office of Terry Beech — the MP for Burnaby North-Seymour — to demonstrate opposition to a Kinder Morgan bailout. The post on their Facebook…

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Local residents stage anti-Kinder Morgan protest at public safety office

Aliocha Perriard-Abdoh October 24, 2017

Local residents rallied against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain tank farm yesterday at the base of Burnaby Mountain in front of a local branch of the federal public safety office. The protest called a ‘die-in’ featured members…

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Protesters rally against the Trans Mountain pipeline in Burnaby

EIC May 29, 2017

Westridge Park at the base of Burnaby Mountain saw the conclusion of a pilgrimage of protesters against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline on May 28. The Walk for the Salish Sea started in Victoria, with hundreds…

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