FIRST READING: Decolonization activists get $300,000 to block pipelines with dogs |
Vancouver Foundation gives six-figure grant to illegal pipeline encampment filled with dogs
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In one of the more bizarre examples of Canadian paid protest, the Vancouver Foundation just revealed it gave $300,000 to decolonization activists seeking to block pipelines with stray dogs.
The non-profit Vancouver Foundation is one of B.C.’s oldest charitable contributors, and in its most recently updated list of grant recipients, it lists a $300,000 grant for a “Decolonial Dog Sanctuary,” a project described as a “form of land-based re-occupation.”
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“The project is deeply embedded in cultural, legal, and territorial frameworks maintained through relational, hereditary authority rather than external or colonial agreements,” it reads.
Unmentioned is that the sanctuary was very explicitly established as an illegal forest blockade intended to hinder the construction of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline.
Known as Wilp Aasosxw, the sanctuary carries the motto “puppies not pipelines” and consists of a series of makeshift wooden structures and a........