Fight against Kinder Morgan isn’t over, despite arrests: protesters

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BURNABY (NEWS1130) – Many protestors are vowing to remain on Burnaby Mountain, even after a couple of dozen people were arrested yesterday.

We’re hearing there may be a rally of a couple of hundred protesters today, though police are downplaying that number.

One of the people who have said they’re not going anywhere is Squamish First Nation member, Clarissa Antone. She arrived to the site, singing and drumming, after the arrests began yesterday.

Antone was met with cheers from the other protesters.

“We are not leaving this peaceful land. We are the guardians of this Earth and all of us three bands are coming together,” she says.

She adds she’s expecting other First Nations members to come up to the protest site.

Maryam Adrangi has also been on the mountain, saying the fight isn’t over, despite what happens to the campsite. “People have been organizing around this for even longer than this camp has been here, so to say that it’s just going to end in one day, I don’t believe it.”

Three of the people arrested yesterday will be in court today for bail hearings.

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