2022-01-09: News Headlines

Editor2 (2022-01-09). Wet'suwet'en Water Protectors Vow to Continue Struggle after Announcing Strategic Retreat. orinocotribune.com By Anish R M — Jan 6, 2021 | In the face of another crackdown by the RCMP, anti-pipeline Wet'suwet'en protesters have retreated from Coyote Camp | In an announcement on January 4, the activists of the Indigenous Wet'suwet'en tribe in British Columbia, Canada, have stated they are staging a "strategic retreat". Water protectors who have been resisting the construction of the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline and staging an occupation and blockade at the drillsite near Camp Coyote have retreated to evade arrests and another violent police crackdown. | Earlier this week, Wet'suwet'en chiefs and activists had been…

WSWS (2022-01-08). Pioneering African-American actor Sidney Poitier dead at 94. wsws.org The Oscar-winning Sidney Poitier was one of the most popular leading actors in Hollywood in the 1960s at the height of the struggle for civil rights in the US.

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