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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

Written by: Michelle Gomez, News Team Member  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. The details for the Facebook event notes “UNIST'OT'EN WET’SUWET’EN peoples are being arrested on their own land as corporations use RCMP to protect their old world interests in oil, gas and fracking. Resource extraction is dirty and affects us all. Lets [sic] stand for our future and today.” Once a small crowd assembled,…

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