
The six-day blockade of an Enbridge construction site ended yesterday with heavy machinery and six arrests in total. Though what was intended to be an indefinite action ended early due to police intervention, Ontario activists organizing against Line 9 are not deterred—in fact, there’s already a new action happening now in North York.
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The entrance was a circle of camp chairs and board games. There was a volleyball court made of two metal rods and construction fencing. A kitchen with two propane stoves and piles of donated food. Lumber was stacked to make the dinner table. A portable, which the group had chosen not to use, propped up the media tent. The site had a secure internet connection thanks to a solar powered battery and a WiFi hotspot router.A massive hill of dirt provided a scenic lookout to the active farmland that surrounds the site—and provided a secluded area where a makeshift outhouse has been set up. (There’s a porta potty on site but the group didn’t want to overwhelm it.) Welcome to Dam Line 9’s home for the last six days.

Lana and I took a seat on “the couch” to talk. She was the designated media spokesperson for the day.“This was a coalition endeavour so there are groups from Toronto, from Guelph, from Kitchener-Waterloo, Hamilton—it was a joint effort between groups and individuals. Rising Tide Toronto was one of the groups that was involved,” she explained.
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