THREAD: over the past month we’ve been covering the #Wetsuweten crisis from inside police lines, and across the country. In case you missed some of it, we’re highlighting a few of our favourite pieces. Our goal is to inform, but also contextualize. #cdnpoli #bcpoli
On Feb. 5th we published a context piece (or explainer) on how the oft-discussed ‘rule of law’ applies to the #Wetsuweten stand off with the Coastal GasLink pipeline. It’s our most popular article of the year. ricochet.media/en/2904/untang…
On Jan. 17, we published journalist @GitxsanJt’s first report from #Wetsuweten territory. It focused on the RCMP roadblock and how it was effecting Wet’suwet’en people, as well as media trying to report from the area. ricochet.media/en/2879/crossi…
On Jan. 19, we published Jerome Turner’s interview with Sabina Dennis. She became the face of last year’s RCMP raid after a picture of her went viral. She explained why she felt called to defend Wet’suwet’en territory. ricochet.media/en/2883/in-the…
On Jan. 20, we published a video report shot by Jerome Turner that showed what life was like in the #Wetsuweten sites, and interviewed one of the hereditary chiefs. ricochet.media/en/2884/that-b…
On Jan. 26, we published a report on RCMP restrictions on local helicopter companies. The force told us they had issued no restrictions, but conversations with multiple local companies found that the RCMP had instructed them not to fly into the area. ricochet.media/en/2888/rcmp-d…
On Feb. 6, as the raid on the camp at 39 km began, we published this video report from inside the #Unistoten Healing Centre. It showed daily life under threat of an RCMP raid, and interviewed matriarchs Freda Huson, Dr. Karla Tait and Brenda Michell. ricochet.media/en/2907/video-…
On Feb. 7, we lost contact with journalist @GitxsanJt soon after the raid on Gidimt’en checkpoint began. He was detained by the RCMP for eight hours, and unable to report back. But we had enough to write this breaking story on the raid. ricochet.media/en/2914/rcmp-b…
On Feb. 8, we published this story by @annabiancaroach from inside a rail blockade in Toronto. These solidarity actions have become a daily occurrence in the weeks since. ricochet.media/en/2918/toront…
On Feb. 7, Eight hours after losing contact with @GitxsanJt, we published this piece on his detention by the RCMP and what happened to him during the raid. ricochet.media/en/2919/ricoch…
After being detained and forced to leave the area by the RCMP, @GitxsanJt headed to New Hazelton, B.C. on Feb. 8, where he filed this report on a rail blockade set up by the Gitxsan Nation in solidarity with the #Wetsuweten. ricochet.media/en/2920/police…
Journalist Jerome Turner wasn’t allowed to be at #Unistoten for the RCMP raid on the healing centre on Feb. 10, but our whole team worked on this breaking news piece about that raid that put the information we had together with more context. ricochet.media/en/2924/rcmp-r…
Also on Feb. 10, we published this beautiful photo essay by @GitxsanJt documenting the RCMP raid on Gidimt’en checkpoint. ricochet.media/en/2922/the-da…
On Feb. 11, we covered the disruption of the B.C. Throne Speech by hundreds of protesters at the provincial legislature. ricochet.media/en/2925/bc-thr…
On Feb. 12, we published Jerome Turner’s harrowing 3,000 word first-person account of the RCMP raid on Gidimt’en checkpoint. It’s essential reading. ricochet.media/en/2927/detain…
On Feb. 13 we covered the protests planned for the next day at multiple government locations in Victoria. ricochet.media/en/2929/bc-shu…
On Feb. 16, we published this piece on the Wet’suwet’en bahlat, or feast, that had reaffirmed the demand that RCMP and Coastal GasLink leave their land. ricochet.media/en/2936/wetsuw…
On Feb. 20, we published a report on a scathing letter from the RCMP’s complaints commission that asserted the RCMP’s exclusion zone, warrantless stops and interference with media were all illegal. And, they wrote, they had told the RCMP so a year earlier. ricochet.media/en/2943/compla…
Twitter limits the length of a thread, so this leaves so much out. It’s just a taste of some of the content we’ve published in the last month. We want to thank @GitxsanJt, the cornerstone of our coverage, as well as @annabiancaroach in TO, @514jon in MTL & @ClayNikiforuk in VAN.
Our English edition editors, Erin Seatter, @derrickokeefe and @EthanCoxMtl have put in a lot of 18 hour days this month. And they’re all volunteers. We pay our journalists but not our editors, because our resources are limited. Something we hope to change soon.
If you value this coverage, if you think sending an Indigenous journalist behind police lines to get the story, and covering solidarity blockades across Canada, matters, then please help us fund this work. $5 a month builds better media. ricochet.media/en/registration #WetsuwetenStrong 
Finally, you may know we’re a crowdfunded outlet, but did you know we also have a distinct French edition? @ricochet_fr have been hard at work translating content like our explainer on the rule of law, to help readers in Quebec understand this story. ricochet.media/fr/2934/gazodu…
We do all this on an annual budget that’s probably smaller than your salary. So imagine what we could do with more monthly donors, and more resources to pay journalists like Jerome Turner? If we value good media, we need to fund it. ricochet.media/en/registration #WetsuwetenSolidarity
And we weren’t alone. Amazing journalists @photobracken, @amandajfollett & @jwints covered the other raids, and so much more. @pieglue and @smacdonald__ held it down outside police lines. Outlets like @TheTyee, @thenarwhalca, @vicecanada and the CBC are all doing great work.
